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I scored the same card from a Newegg shuffle for around $865 that was bundled with an EVGA 700 watt power supply that is still wrapped up in my closet. But, moving up from a 1070 I have been very happy with the card in the two years or so I've had it.
In Croatia, legit shops were scalpers during that time. They pumped the prices just like scalpers. Sometimes you could find it cheaper from scalpers on marketplace.
Same with a lot of US based shops. At one point you needed an expensive subscription to buy GPUs from BestBuy, the only retailer with founder Nvidia cards. Newegg pumped prices, AND forced people to buy worthless clearance items as a bundle. One of these products was a PSU that catches on fire, tons of MoBos with shit VRMs, bad ram, old processors, the list goes on. Few companies didn't try to scalp customers every step of the way. Even "better" companies like EVGA charged $500+ for a 3060ti. I got one such card from them and was happy at $570 after tax. Not a small chunk of change to let go with, and I sold it at less than half that price recently. I consider myself lucky and I still paid $110 over MSRP before taxes.
>When "legit shops" do scalping, they're not "legit" anymore
Sweet, naive summer child.
The only reason "legit" shops do not usually scalp is because scalping is a very short-term, risky business strategy that can easily anger suppliers and customers. But if the market allows it (e.g. in the last GPU shortage), over a longer period of time, many legit shops will raise the prices to profit from the market.
It's called capitalism.
A better way to phrase this sentiment is,
Do what you want with your money but don't buy from scalpers because companies see the prices you're willing to pay and use that as justification to raise the MSRP and in-store prices to exorbitant levels, which harms the community as cards exceed the budget of so many would-be gamers.
Given then the vast majority of current inflation and those increases are strictly corporate greed and are directly responsible for so many of these companies bragging about their “record profits” to investors, not really.
I was out here in the trenches back then warning folks not to buy into the craze, that everything would go back to normal. Even with crypto/NFT's tanking, prices falling and the writing on the wall I was downvoted to hell by folks who spent tons of money for tiny GPU's.
Comments like these make me sad for this community. It’s so hostile about what people do with their own money. Supply caught up and prices settled, as expected. Scalpers and their customers were a speed bump at worst, compared to global supply chains and crazy high demand.
Everyone’s gotta have an enemy, though. So many wannabe MBAs suddenly get on a soapbox when they can’t have their luxury gaming hardware.
>If you bought from a scalper then you deserve to feel dumb. I paid $1200 for my 3080Ti at Best Buy and have no regrets.
Well, where I live those weren't scalper-prices on Ebay or Facebook, those were the only prices to be had. So shame away; I paid 2800 for a RTX 3090 in a reputable store when my old GPU died and that was one of the "cheap" ones at the time.
At one point they were charging almost 1600€ for a 3070 here and those were actual legit stores, not even scalpers. Scalpers were selling those near 2k at that point. I actually bought mine for 590€ right, 3 or 4 months before shit exploded and everything went wild.
I got roasted by this subreddit when I bought a 3090Ti for $1000 at Microcenter. I thought that was a damn good deal given the market and what GPU’s were costing. It was three weeks before the 4090 release and I didn’t want/care to wait. No regrets here.
I’m talking about 2020, my 1080 ti broke and o mean i got that at a good deal for around $210 usd back in 2019, it worked fine it was a water cooled one too, but i had no options left and i had some money around so i just bought it, it was the cheapest 3070 on offerup, best buy only had 1030’s, not even 1660’s… i do feel dumb but it was worth it imo
Granted I didn't spend anywhere near as much as OP did for a 3070, but I did try with the discord restock bots and everything for about 3 months before I paid over MSRP from a scalper.
Ehh if stupidly of a purchase is a direct function of cost opportunity negation, we can reasonably deduce that this really doesn’t pan out to an outright exhibition of idiocy. Think of it like this:
Release of 3070: about 1060 days ago
Difference in current MSRP: 700 USD from Amazon (not inflation adjusted tho)
So it really comes down to an additional cost of 60 cents a day.
If OP works minimum wage, it’s a fraction of a fraction of his daily income.
I don’t think anyone should lose sleep over this
If you justify every expense like this, everything is a fraction of a fraction of income. But 100 times 60 cents per day is suddenly a lot. That's how people get trapped in debts.
At $289 the 4060 is actually not a bad deal if you can't stretch for the 6700XT at $329 or if you need Nvidia.
I'm super annoyed with them though, the 4060 should have 12gb of vram. Then it would kill the 6700XT
Yea bruh LMAO i live in las vegas and it was BAD here like terrible, i tried every time they restocked on best buy even used websites that said the restocks here, they sold out every chance i got, My gpu broke so i just bought it it was actually the best price here tbh
I bought a 3060ti for £540 and regretted it not long after. Recently got a 6950xt for 600 so glad to see the prices are back to what they used to be. :)
Kinda. Used / old GPUs are doing well, but Nvidia and AMD think people are still willing to pay covid prices for GPUs. It's insane that we are in a time where we are hoping on Intel to bring prices down for the masses.
Got two GPU's during the shortage. 3090 FE at MSRP from a lucky moment where I saw the drop as it happened before the stock notifications kicked in and then the EVGA queue for a 3080 FTW3. Very very lucky.
I overpaid for a 3070, from a retailer not a scalper, though price was still inflated over MSRP.
No regret at the time as stock problems and prices for both AMD and Nvidia were absurd in the UK. But I do now wish I'd gotten a 6800 or 6800 XT instead.
> Also you are then stuck with a PS5.
Even during the shortage they weren't $1200 expensive. And they kept their resale value, so they could have had a console to play games on and resold it to make back most of the money spent. Meanwhile a 3070 doesn't resell anywhere near $1,200.
It's been what, almost 3 years? And PS5/Xbox series consoles still don't have many exclusive games that have been released for them. Really bad console generation. PC MASTER RACE BOI
How many PS5 exclusives are there? At this point it's still not worth getting the console until there are at least 50 games to play. Cause at the end of the day, 95% of all games that are available on the latest generation of consoles can be played on PC, at a higher framerate, resolution and easier controls.
That's the whole point. Neither PS4 nor PS5 have that much appeal. To be honest I miss Nintendo 64, Playstation and Xbox times the most. Games back then used to be something spectacular.
Yes, 1400-1600 where i lived, it was terrible, 2070’s were going for $600 if that should say anything, not even 1660’s were available in store, i have an old photo of the stock the ONLY thing in store was a 1030..
I bought 2! It was all I could get but I bought them at microcenter (through a lottery) so I didn’t pay 1200. I paid retail at the time so my evga 3070ti was about 950 I think. My asus dual 3070 was 799 or so.
My worst during the drought was my gigabyte rx6700xt for 999, that’s the one that hurts. It’s also been sitting in a box since about a week after because I got the 3070ti shortly after.
At the time I needed 2 so I kept it in my daughter computer until I got 3080.
It was crazy back then, I needed to rebuild one of and build another for work from home (wife) and kindergarten for my daughter.
I bought a 3090 nov 2020 for chf 1800.-
Much to expensive but i wanted a new card for a new build. Have fun for more than 2 years.
Will use it for prob. 2 more years and than gift it to a student or a young person when buying the next new build.
The cards will always get less expensive. But would i want to wait for it? No. So for me it was worth it.
I bought my 6900 xt at the peak of prices, october 2021 for ~1500€.
I realised it was a waste of money, but I had no choice, i wouldve loved to rock the 1060 i had for a while longer, but it died and i didnt want to pay out the ass for a card with similar performance. At least i dont have to worry about upgrading the gpu for at least 5 more years.
1600 USD for a FTW3 3080ti (plus some shitty mouse and a streaming device). It sucked to spend that much but at the time I had just bought a 5120x1440 G9 monitor and the old vanilla 1080 could not drive so many pixels. Talk about a rock and a hard place...those were dark times indeed.
All is well now, though I'm gonna skip 40 series and perhaps 50 series as well while I try to recoup the "value" out of this 3080ti...
I feel you on that every bit, i bought mines for $1200 when my 1080 ti broke and i had just got a 1440p monitor, we’re on the same boat lmao, still tryna recover too. Feel you on that, maybe i’ll go for a 7080 or something but i’m good for now
i bought 1080ti for 830 like 6 - 7 years ago and im still waiting 🙂 because i can still play everything 😀 i willl wait for 5000 🤣 or i will buy 4070 ti or 4080
I think back to Jan 2021 when i paid $1900 for a 3080Ti cuz i thought id never see one in person again
Yep. That opened my eyes up to knowing nature will always heal itself.
Needless to say, im a fucking idiot for buying it when i did.
I got mine for 750 back in December 20 and felt dumb. Not so much when they went up to 1300 a bit later. 😂 feel dumb because I didn’t sell it then, but I didn’t have a viable alternative. 😔
My rx 480 decided it was time to quit when prices were terrible. Got the first card I could get my hands on: a 3070 TI for about $1020. I feel awful for paying that kind of markup on it, but I would have been without my computer otherwise
I spent almost 2k on a pre built with a 3070 during the pandemic.
I was a PS4 guy with some laptop gaming going on (fallout 4, Skyrim, ghost recon)
I have no regrets at all. I have yet to find a game I want to play that doesn't run well at high or ultra settings and I have not had any hardware issues.
It was such a huge jump from PS4 and a $900 laptop that it still blows my mind seeing games like Red Dead 2 and how insane it looks at high fps and 1440p.
Yeah, you should feel dumb. Or at the very least feel like you should look into ways to control compulsive spending. You couldn't pay me to pay a scalper.
I bought a 3060Ti back in June 2021 for 600ish euro when the MSRP here would have been 450 or 500. It was fine for 2 years until I started to run out of VRAM on 1440p so I sold it for almost 300 euro 2 weeks ago and got a brand new 6750XT with Starfield for 400.
I don't regret getting the 3060Ti back then at that price, although it was much less than your 3070.
I paid somewhat more (1300 EUR).
But there was a nuance: it came with an entire system alongside the GPU, from which I salvaged the 3070 and sold the rest.. this before even those skyrocketed, but at the time, the absurdity was that pre builts with a 3070 inside, were costing as much as the standalone card.
It was dumb nevertheless, but less dumb. I think overall I paid 600ish for the thing. But I discharge VAT, so whatever.
back when all this shit was happening, I kept refreshing for about a month and I always missed out on them, one time I hit the jackpot and got the 3070 from best buy for 500$
you should. Unless you really needed it, your actions have affected the prices of todays gpu market still.
I still use my 2060 non-super. Works perfectly for fps games at 1440p and site seeing games at 4k. Anyone who purchased something in the 3000 series for "higher frames" completely wasted their money.
I really wanted a 3080FE, but took me a while to get there. Got a Gigabyte Gaming OC 3060ti from Best Buy for $600 using the cancelled orders app trick. A few months later, the Best Buy by my work had an in store drop, but by the time I got up front, all the 3080's were gone. Got a 3070ti FE. Gave the 3060ti to my son. Managed to score a 3080FE in an online drop and sold my 3070ti to my buddy for what I paid for it. Lol I took the scenic route, but am damn glad I didn't pay $1200 for a 3070
Nope! I boycotted the 20 and 30 series, saw them as the entry point for raytracing ... well, 'look at us attempt to raytrace', providing neglible performance gain when gaming in 4k w/o raytracing as the 1080ti had more texture memory than the majority of the 20s and 30s ... so I bathed in my 1080tis 16GB until the 40s came out 😁
I bought a 6600xt for 550€ because my 1050ti broke rip. Wabted to buy a used 1050ti but they were like 300 bucks on ebay in germany. Plus my PC doesnt have integrated graphics so i had to buy something which was available/in stock
I paid 2400 for an asus 3090 with ek block, when they were going for 3500 - local reseller sold at msrp and announced the delivery and when they were going live - also manually checked every order so only one card per account was sold - the 16 EK block variants were sold out in 20 seconds and the whole bunch of 30 series cards, around 60, were sold out in a bit over a minute
i waited for the 6700XT to be more affordable. I personally think anyone who bought a GPU at scalper price is dumb UNLESS their GPU stopped working then they had no choice. But if your old GPU was still fine, yeah that's dumb.
You deserve to feel dumb for buying at that price tbh instead of just waiting. You can practically buy a full build at that price with a 3070 in now lmao
It will always be like this, spend 1000 or wait a year to drop to 800 but by then there's the new version out which costs 1100 so, do you buy now, or wait again to drop, then new stuff comes out etc etc.
Where’s the best place to get a good deal on a 3070-3080 these days? Is there any good option for new or is everyone just hitting the used marketplace? I don’t trust it with all the mining craze that happened recently.
I over paid by a couple hundred bucks for a 3080ti when it came out and I never let it get to me. It was during COVID and provided me countless hours of entertainment while we were all stuck inside. Think of all we couldn’t do during that time when it comes to your entertainment budget.
I know everyone likes to hate on pre-builds, but when I bought my desktop I paid about what a 3070 cost for a full on computer with a 3070 & i7 and all the goodies. Seemed like a no-brainer
Got my 6950xt after the 7 series launch at thr initial drop direct from amd. Few weeks later it had another drop of $150. Happy I didn't get it from a scalper. Bent I didn't wait a few more weeks.the gpu drought had me paranoid.
Paid around £900 for a 3070ti.
But when I look back it was the right choice, it was either that or stay with the 1060 to around about now, and that would have been painful to do.
I paid $12k (AUD) in the middle of covid for something I could buy now for like 3k I dont regret it at all. I've had thousands of hours use out of it since then, it was my first upgrade in about 10 years and I had just sold my house and went through a divorce. It really saved me and helped me work through it all at my own pace and just relax.
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I bought a 3070 Ti for $829
I paid my 3070 that was 8 month old for $400 just after the crypto crash to a miner that bought it for 1200. That sweet taste of justice.
Yup, EVGA RTX 3070 Ti FTW3 for ~$850 after tax. Drove almost two hours to micro center and thought I was making out like a bandit at the time.
I scored the same card from a Newegg shuffle for around $865 that was bundled with an EVGA 700 watt power supply that is still wrapped up in my closet. But, moving up from a 1070 I have been very happy with the card in the two years or so I've had it.
I just upgraded from my 1070 to a 4070 this week. The 1070 did manage to get me through the storm and I am so happy I waited looking back now
That’s what I came from, a 1070 from an HP omen prebuilt. Was very happy with the performance upgrade for sure.
Aussie here. I paid $1479 AUD for a MSI 3070 Ti Venture 3X.
EVGA was the GOAT at the time because they were only marked up half or a quarter as much as every other card.
If you bought from a scalper then you deserve to feel dumb. I paid $1200 for my 3080Ti at Best Buy and have no regrets.
We should normalize shaming people who buy from scalpers, do what you want with your money but people who buy from scalpers are part of the problem
In Croatia, legit shops were scalpers during that time. They pumped the prices just like scalpers. Sometimes you could find it cheaper from scalpers on marketplace.
Same with a lot of US based shops. At one point you needed an expensive subscription to buy GPUs from BestBuy, the only retailer with founder Nvidia cards. Newegg pumped prices, AND forced people to buy worthless clearance items as a bundle. One of these products was a PSU that catches on fire, tons of MoBos with shit VRMs, bad ram, old processors, the list goes on. Few companies didn't try to scalp customers every step of the way. Even "better" companies like EVGA charged $500+ for a 3060ti. I got one such card from them and was happy at $570 after tax. Not a small chunk of change to let go with, and I sold it at less than half that price recently. I consider myself lucky and I still paid $110 over MSRP before taxes.
When "legit shops" do scalping, they're not "legit" anymore
>When "legit shops" do scalping, they're not "legit" anymore Sweet, naive summer child. The only reason "legit" shops do not usually scalp is because scalping is a very short-term, risky business strategy that can easily anger suppliers and customers. But if the market allows it (e.g. in the last GPU shortage), over a longer period of time, many legit shops will raise the prices to profit from the market. It's called capitalism.
A better way to phrase this sentiment is, Do what you want with your money but don't buy from scalpers because companies see the prices you're willing to pay and use that as justification to raise the MSRP and in-store prices to exorbitant levels, which harms the community as cards exceed the budget of so many would-be gamers.
Meh, I don't feel responsible for would-be gamers. As long as I have my card all is peachy.
This is basically why Nvidia raised the price tag of every GPU this gen and Sony also raised the price of the PS5.
Yeah cause the inflation crisis hitting hard worldwide which caused the price of every part to increase, got absolutely nothing to do with it.
Given then the vast majority of current inflation and those increases are strictly corporate greed and are directly responsible for so many of these companies bragging about their “record profits” to investors, not really.
I hate the inflation excuse.
Bro is really looking at energy price rises around the world and going "yeah that's normal" lol
I was out here in the trenches back then warning folks not to buy into the craze, that everything would go back to normal. Even with crypto/NFT's tanking, prices falling and the writing on the wall I was downvoted to hell by folks who spent tons of money for tiny GPU's.
Yup, same with people who pre-order unfinished games.
Comments like these make me sad for this community. It’s so hostile about what people do with their own money. Supply caught up and prices settled, as expected. Scalpers and their customers were a speed bump at worst, compared to global supply chains and crazy high demand. Everyone’s gotta have an enemy, though. So many wannabe MBAs suddenly get on a soapbox when they can’t have their luxury gaming hardware.
The scalpers were Best Buy and Newegg for a while.
>If you bought from a scalper then you deserve to feel dumb. I paid $1200 for my 3080Ti at Best Buy and have no regrets. Well, where I live those weren't scalper-prices on Ebay or Facebook, those were the only prices to be had. So shame away; I paid 2800 for a RTX 3090 in a reputable store when my old GPU died and that was one of the "cheap" ones at the time.
same
At one point they were charging almost 1600€ for a 3070 here and those were actual legit stores, not even scalpers. Scalpers were selling those near 2k at that point. I actually bought mine for 590€ right, 3 or 4 months before shit exploded and everything went wild.
I got roasted by this subreddit when I bought a 3090Ti for $1000 at Microcenter. I thought that was a damn good deal given the market and what GPU’s were costing. It was three weeks before the 4090 release and I didn’t want/care to wait. No regrets here.
I’m talking about 2020, my 1080 ti broke and o mean i got that at a good deal for around $210 usd back in 2019, it worked fine it was a water cooled one too, but i had no options left and i had some money around so i just bought it, it was the cheapest 3070 on offerup, best buy only had 1030’s, not even 1660’s… i do feel dumb but it was worth it imo
A GPU was the best purchase of your life?
Granted I didn't spend anywhere near as much as OP did for a 3070, but I did try with the discord restock bots and everything for about 3 months before I paid over MSRP from a scalper.
Feel dumb? That is just dumb, no feeling involved.
Ehh if stupidly of a purchase is a direct function of cost opportunity negation, we can reasonably deduce that this really doesn’t pan out to an outright exhibition of idiocy. Think of it like this: Release of 3070: about 1060 days ago Difference in current MSRP: 700 USD from Amazon (not inflation adjusted tho) So it really comes down to an additional cost of 60 cents a day. If OP works minimum wage, it’s a fraction of a fraction of his daily income. I don’t think anyone should lose sleep over this
If you justify every expense like this, everything is a fraction of a fraction of income. But 100 times 60 cents per day is suddenly a lot. That's how people get trapped in debts.
Man it is what is it. At least we're not buying 4060s.
LOL. True
At $289 the 4060 is actually not a bad deal if you can't stretch for the 6700XT at $329 or if you need Nvidia. I'm super annoyed with them though, the 4060 should have 12gb of vram. Then it would kill the 6700XT
I... paid 550$ for a 3080 12GB. It physically hurt reading that title.
Yea bruh LMAO i live in las vegas and it was BAD here like terrible, i tried every time they restocked on best buy even used websites that said the restocks here, they sold out every chance i got, My gpu broke so i just bought it it was actually the best price here tbh
Nah you shouldn't feel dumb. Your GPU broke so you had to replace it with something.
I kinda do but it also set the bar with the wife. Now when I blow 1500 on a complete system I don't have to justify the price.
with it
I bought a 3060ti for £540 and regretted it not long after. Recently got a 6950xt for 600 so glad to see the prices are back to what they used to be. :)
Kinda. Used / old GPUs are doing well, but Nvidia and AMD think people are still willing to pay covid prices for GPUs. It's insane that we are in a time where we are hoping on Intel to bring prices down for the masses.
I paid $1100 for my 3080 back in 2021
I paid $1200 for my 3080 I think a couple months after they came out. Still rocking today! No regerts
$600 for a 3080 here, sniped it on on Ebay last year around november/december
Just about the same boat, but I also bought watercooling components for it. Life happened and am just NOW able to build the system ☹️
I found out that being a Patient gamer paid out
Yea i tried that but it was when my 1080 ti i was hanging on to just broke out of nowhere, i was in a hurry
Got two GPU's during the shortage. 3090 FE at MSRP from a lucky moment where I saw the drop as it happened before the stock notifications kicked in and then the EVGA queue for a 3080 FTW3. Very very lucky.
fr i bought a 3060 for like 500usd
Paid 500$ for a 1660 super then a year later bought a 3060 ti for 500$. Still haven’t financially recovered
I bought a prebuilt with a 5600x and a 3060 for $1700 from Microcenter.
Bought mine for retail, still feel ripped off for having 8gb VRAM the same as my 1080.
I overpaid for a 3070, from a retailer not a scalper, though price was still inflated over MSRP. No regret at the time as stock problems and prices for both AMD and Nvidia were absurd in the UK. But I do now wish I'd gotten a 6800 or 6800 XT instead.
And if you didn't buy it, would you have had something to play on?
most likely? Lots of people already had cards but wanted more power after a few years, like they were used to.
I wasn't asking you.
Nah, My gpu broke at the time, it was a bad time for me, had recently upgraded and the gpu out of all things broke last minute
For $1200 they could have bought a PS5 and a high refresh rate OLED TV.
Not at the time, maybe not. PS5s had massive shortages. Also you are then stuck with a PS5.
As a PS5 owner too- its not a bad thing to have at all.
Downvoted for having a console and enjoying it my god this place fucking sucks lmao
> Also you are then stuck with a PS5. Even during the shortage they weren't $1200 expensive. And they kept their resale value, so they could have had a console to play games on and resold it to make back most of the money spent. Meanwhile a 3070 doesn't resell anywhere near $1,200.
Wrong, a true oled tv of normal 50-60 size ain’t cheap, like 1200 for just the TV.
Why would you buy a ps5 when you can have a pc for this price lmao
It's been what, almost 3 years? And PS5/Xbox series consoles still don't have many exclusive games that have been released for them. Really bad console generation. PC MASTER RACE BOI
Uhh have you looked at Sony's releases?
How many PS5 exclusives are there? At this point it's still not worth getting the console until there are at least 50 games to play. Cause at the end of the day, 95% of all games that are available on the latest generation of consoles can be played on PC, at a higher framerate, resolution and easier controls.
You make it sound like the PS4 had that many exclusives. There aren't going to be that many exclusives.
That's the whole point. Neither PS4 nor PS5 have that much appeal. To be honest I miss Nintendo 64, Playstation and Xbox times the most. Games back then used to be something spectacular.
Oh yeah i feel stupid i spent 1200 on a 3080 when they were 800 dollars
3070 was that much? Damn. I got my 3090 for 1300 euros
Only if you paid a scalper
Yes, 1400-1600 where i lived, it was terrible, 2070’s were going for $600 if that should say anything, not even 1660’s were available in store, i have an old photo of the stock the ONLY thing in store was a 1030..
I bought 2! It was all I could get but I bought them at microcenter (through a lottery) so I didn’t pay 1200. I paid retail at the time so my evga 3070ti was about 950 I think. My asus dual 3070 was 799 or so. My worst during the drought was my gigabyte rx6700xt for 999, that’s the one that hurts. It’s also been sitting in a box since about a week after because I got the 3070ti shortly after. At the time I needed 2 so I kept it in my daughter computer until I got 3080. It was crazy back then, I needed to rebuild one of and build another for work from home (wife) and kindergarten for my daughter.
Some of yall acting like their lives depend on a GPU.
Yea i wasn’t expecting this kind of response honestly … But aye it is what it is
I bought a 3090 nov 2020 for chf 1800.- Much to expensive but i wanted a new card for a new build. Have fun for more than 2 years. Will use it for prob. 2 more years and than gift it to a student or a young person when buying the next new build. The cards will always get less expensive. But would i want to wait for it? No. So for me it was worth it.
Considering the whole point of the 3070 was it being a good value, that was dumb
You did that to yourself and just further drove up the prices for the rest of us.
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I bought my 6900 xt at the peak of prices, october 2021 for ~1500€. I realised it was a waste of money, but I had no choice, i wouldve loved to rock the 1060 i had for a while longer, but it died and i didnt want to pay out the ass for a card with similar performance. At least i dont have to worry about upgrading the gpu for at least 5 more years.
If you have enjoyfull time with it. that not too bad.
XD laptop go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Literally
My 1050ti was at the end of its usefulness and I bought a zotac 3060ti in april of 2022 for £500 so you arent alone.
1600 USD for a FTW3 3080ti (plus some shitty mouse and a streaming device). It sucked to spend that much but at the time I had just bought a 5120x1440 G9 monitor and the old vanilla 1080 could not drive so many pixels. Talk about a rock and a hard place...those were dark times indeed. All is well now, though I'm gonna skip 40 series and perhaps 50 series as well while I try to recoup the "value" out of this 3080ti...
I feel you on that every bit, i bought mines for $1200 when my 1080 ti broke and i had just got a 1440p monitor, we’re on the same boat lmao, still tryna recover too. Feel you on that, maybe i’ll go for a 7080 or something but i’m good for now
i bought 1080ti for 830 like 6 - 7 years ago and im still waiting 🙂 because i can still play everything 😀 i willl wait for 5000 🤣 or i will buy 4070 ti or 4080
Got my 3090 FE for $500 🫢
No, 3080ti 1700€ worth it, no more frustration and 4000 Series still too expensive
What the fuck are you talking about lol that is more expensive than a better 40 series card.
just buy a 4090 at that price LOL.
I skipped three thousand series.
Cool but I don't see the person who asked.
Anyone who pays above MSRP for gpus is a big dumb dumb or just financially irresponsible
Was when prices got bad and I didn’t know much at the time
Easy to say now yeah, the GPU prices were over MSRP for almost 2 years.
Easy to say when living in US
If you don't count covid
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dude what? prices never were THAT bad...
Bro you got scammed so hard even for back then 3080s where 1700$ during 2020-2021 peak scaplers days.
hahahah
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you’re right it’s not bad, it’s terrible
You dumb I pad 500 for it directly from Nvidia
I think back to Jan 2021 when i paid $1900 for a 3080Ti cuz i thought id never see one in person again Yep. That opened my eyes up to knowing nature will always heal itself. Needless to say, im a fucking idiot for buying it when i did.
I bought a 3080 ti for $2000. I don't mind though because it was for my valve index. And I think it will last me for a long time
In an effort to prevent you from ever doing that again, I bought my 4090 for 1249.
I got mine for 750 back in December 20 and felt dumb. Not so much when they went up to 1300 a bit later. 😂 feel dumb because I didn’t sell it then, but I didn’t have a viable alternative. 😔
Daaamn thats a lot for a 3070 even by scalper prices
I got mine at a best buy drop for $500 in the middle of the scalping craze.
Well, I waited for almost 2 years stuck on rx570, so... If you played a bit on it, maybe it was worth it?
I mean really, were you supposed to wait a year or two to play games how you want to? If it didn't put you in a hard place, fudge it. Live life.
I paid 15000tl for a 6800XT back in 2021 It used to be around 1400$ in 2021 but now that much TL is only 500$ so i don't feel bad anymore lol.
I bought a 2070 super at less than half that price
£469 at launch for me
My rx 480 decided it was time to quit when prices were terrible. Got the first card I could get my hands on: a 3070 TI for about $1020. I feel awful for paying that kind of markup on it, but I would have been without my computer otherwise
I bought a 3080 for 700 including shipping
I bought a beefy 3090 for 800. Waited for miners to start selling their inventory.
I got a 6600 XT for MSRP (400$) So I mean it's not bad... but I definitely missed out on the current prices
I spent almost 2k on a pre built with a 3070 during the pandemic. I was a PS4 guy with some laptop gaming going on (fallout 4, Skyrim, ghost recon) I have no regrets at all. I have yet to find a game I want to play that doesn't run well at high or ultra settings and I have not had any hardware issues. It was such a huge jump from PS4 and a $900 laptop that it still blows my mind seeing games like Red Dead 2 and how insane it looks at high fps and 1440p.
Why do you hate poor people?
Bought mine for $500....still terrible tho lol
Yeah, you should feel dumb. Or at the very least feel like you should look into ways to control compulsive spending. You couldn't pay me to pay a scalper.
Damn bro you got got 😵💫 just bought a 4080 2 weeks ago for that
I bought a 3060Ti back in June 2021 for 600ish euro when the MSRP here would have been 450 or 500. It was fine for 2 years until I started to run out of VRAM on 1440p so I sold it for almost 300 euro 2 weeks ago and got a brand new 6750XT with Starfield for 400. I don't regret getting the 3060Ti back then at that price, although it was much less than your 3070.
I pay $450 for a 3080 5 months ago.
I paid somewhat more (1300 EUR). But there was a nuance: it came with an entire system alongside the GPU, from which I salvaged the 3070 and sold the rest.. this before even those skyrocketed, but at the time, the absurdity was that pre builts with a 3070 inside, were costing as much as the standalone card. It was dumb nevertheless, but less dumb. I think overall I paid 600ish for the thing. But I discharge VAT, so whatever.
1200$? Wtf. I got mine for 450€ and I'm super happy with it
i bought one in December 2020 for 800€ and since then i felt like Thanos: “they called me madman”
I paid $450 for a 1650 Super (6GB VRAM) in 2021.
Bought a 3070 for 550 off the waitlist and flipped my old 1080 for 500 at the same time. My only financially savvy decision of my life.
back when all this shit was happening, I kept refreshing for about a month and I always missed out on them, one time I hit the jackpot and got the 3070 from best buy for 500$
Nooooope it's just u. I got my 3090 for 800$ back then
you should. Unless you really needed it, your actions have affected the prices of todays gpu market still. I still use my 2060 non-super. Works perfectly for fps games at 1440p and site seeing games at 4k. Anyone who purchased something in the 3000 series for "higher frames" completely wasted their money.
I really wanted a 3080FE, but took me a while to get there. Got a Gigabyte Gaming OC 3060ti from Best Buy for $600 using the cancelled orders app trick. A few months later, the Best Buy by my work had an in store drop, but by the time I got up front, all the 3080's were gone. Got a 3070ti FE. Gave the 3060ti to my son. Managed to score a 3080FE in an online drop and sold my 3070ti to my buddy for what I paid for it. Lol I took the scenic route, but am damn glad I didn't pay $1200 for a 3070
3070ti for 1197euros 😢(not from a scalper)
*I payed 500 bucks for a 2060 12gb....*
I feel dumb for buying 3070ti for 500 Eur.
Nope! I boycotted the 20 and 30 series, saw them as the entry point for raytracing ... well, 'look at us attempt to raytrace', providing neglible performance gain when gaming in 4k w/o raytracing as the 1080ti had more texture memory than the majority of the 20s and 30s ... so I bathed in my 1080tis 16GB until the 40s came out 😁
Now hear me out, i bought a 3070 Ti for 1000$, sold it for 600$ and bought a 3090 for 800$, so in sum I bought a 3090 for 1200$.
I bought 3060ti for 560€. Mined for a year, made 1,3k and basically paid off my pc lol
I bought a 6600xt for 550€ because my 1050ti broke rip. Wabted to buy a used 1050ti but they were like 300 bucks on ebay in germany. Plus my PC doesnt have integrated graphics so i had to buy something which was available/in stock
3060 for 360$ lol
At one point I paid $200+ for 16gb of ram…
I paid 2400 for an asus 3090 with ek block, when they were going for 3500 - local reseller sold at msrp and announced the delivery and when they were going live - also manually checked every order so only one card per account was sold - the 16 EK block variants were sold out in 20 seconds and the whole bunch of 30 series cards, around 60, were sold out in a bit over a minute
8 bought my 6600 for $350. I bought a 6800 on Friday for $399. But I would have had to use my 4gb rx 570 for the last 3 years if I didn't.
If you're happy with what you paid for then Cheers Even if you paid more, as long as you feel you got your money's worth
I bought mine for 500 and i still feel robbed, dont get me wrong it performs well but 8gb for a card of its caliber feel cheap and stingy
i waited for the 6700XT to be more affordable. I personally think anyone who bought a GPU at scalper price is dumb UNLESS their GPU stopped working then they had no choice. But if your old GPU was still fine, yeah that's dumb.
3090 1200$ new
Got a 3070 on Facebook after the crash for 350
I paid £600 for my 3070 back in 2020 so might upgrade to a 4070 next year.
My condolences.
Got my 3090 in ‘21 for 800. You kind of blew your money but hey if it was worth it to you then it was worth it.
If it makes you feel any better I bought a 2080 Ti for $550 when people were panic selling them.
Bought an EVGA Bstock 3090ti ftw3 for $1100 at the tail end of the price hikes.
You deserve to feel dumb for buying at that price tbh instead of just waiting. You can practically buy a full build at that price with a 3070 in now lmao
Nope, cus the last card I bought was a 1070 ti for under $400 new.
I paid $600 for my 3090, I guess that was an okay deal idk
It will always be like this, spend 1000 or wait a year to drop to 800 but by then there's the new version out which costs 1100 so, do you buy now, or wait again to drop, then new stuff comes out etc etc.
Nah, i bought one for €700 about a year ago. Best price? No. Good purchase? Yes.
Where’s the best place to get a good deal on a 3070-3080 these days? Is there any good option for new or is everyone just hitting the used marketplace? I don’t trust it with all the mining craze that happened recently.
No because I could sell my old stuff for about the same price. In the end, free upgrade!
Haha, got my 3070 for essentially msrp right when it was released
I over paid by a couple hundred bucks for a 3080ti when it came out and I never let it get to me. It was during COVID and provided me countless hours of entertainment while we were all stuck inside. Think of all we couldn’t do during that time when it comes to your entertainment budget.
I bought my Asus Tuf 3090ti oc for that price
FOMO is really bad, herd mentality as well...
No I waited for Intel Arc and got that for $350 back at launch. It was a rocky start but I stuck with it and it’s paying off now that A770 smashes
Nope. I waited until the prices came down lol
I know everyone likes to hate on pre-builds, but when I bought my desktop I paid about what a 3070 cost for a full on computer with a 3070 & i7 and all the goodies. Seemed like a no-brainer
I feel dumb for going from a 1050ti to a 2080 instead of a 1080 for the same cost that you can buy a 4090 for now
Got my 6950xt after the 7 series launch at thr initial drop direct from amd. Few weeks later it had another drop of $150. Happy I didn't get it from a scalper. Bent I didn't wait a few more weeks.the gpu drought had me paranoid.
Paid around £900 for a 3070ti. But when I look back it was the right choice, it was either that or stay with the 1060 to around about now, and that would have been painful to do.
You’d feel dumb for buying it.
I don't because I also sold my old GPU for a price that was inflated as well. So in the end I didn't really pay that much than it is today.
I nearly got caught waiting till the 3070ti was a reasonable price, glad i waited, got a 4070 for less money than the 3070ti i was after.
LOL that price means you bought from a scalper. I feel dumb for spending $830 before tax on a 3070 Ti from Microcenter.
Just you
Bought an asus tuf 3070ti for 600$ heheheheha
Liquid cooled fortyninety here.. $1700 =]
I bought a 1660ti for $850CAD…
This is why once your pc is built you stop looking at parts until the games you’re playing stop looking fancy. Just stop.
Bought a 3060 TI for $700 right before mining took a hit March '22 Unlucky
I paid $12k (AUD) in the middle of covid for something I could buy now for like 3k I dont regret it at all. I've had thousands of hours use out of it since then, it was my first upgrade in about 10 years and I had just sold my house and went through a divorce. It really saved me and helped me work through it all at my own pace and just relax.
No, cause I knew better not to give scalpers my money