Any tips on bagging a 3080?

[Padcontrol]

Meh, 3080 is old now. Not worth it.

Wait for a 3080 Ti at the end of Feb.

3080 ti has been postponed indefinitely.

EDIT: some news on the 3080 Ti
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-...-launch-rumor/

[QQmoo]

3080 is rare as hell tbh, managed to get a rx6800xt which is 200 quid over MSRP from an UK established retailer but this seems to be the norm these days.

[PsyPill]

Subscribe to a few Discord channels where you can see drops.
Login to Scan and Paypal in advance so you can check-out as soon as possible.
Alternatively, you can save your Card in your account and remove it after the purchase.

[ik9000]

Subscribe to a few Discord channels where you can see drops.
Login to Scan and Paypal in advance so you can check-out as soon as possible.
Alternatively, you can save your Card in your account and remove it after the purchase.

no point on Scan atm if you want a 3080. They're still working through the backlog of pre-orders. Some 3070 came out last week, I managed to get one, but 3080 won't be available from Scan for a good few weeks yet.

[PsyPill]

no point on Scan atm if you want a 3080. They're still working through the backlog of pre-orders. Some 3070 came out last week, I managed to get one, but 3080 won't be available from Scan for a good few weeks yet.

I was referring to FE cards only.

[Tea1023]

3080 ti has been postponed indefinitely.

EDIT: some news on the 3080 Ti
wccftech

I've been out of the scene for a while now, but has wccftech rumours become reliable since then?

[BattleBadger]

I've been out of the scene for a while now, but has wccftech rumours become reliable since then?

not sure but gamers nexus posted a vid about it in jan, they are usually pretty spot on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUvd...el=GamersNexus

[kalniel]

I've been out of the scene for a while now, but has wccftech rumours become reliable since then?

They just pass on whatever they can without much vetting, so no, just by being posted there it's not more reliable, but look up what their source is and make a call on that. That said, it sounds like nVidia do change around quite a bit so something might have been accurate at the time that has since altered.

[atemporal]

Any tips on bagging a 3080?

Bit weird, but if that's your thing tape it up out the way and careful with your swing so you don't catch youself on any of the metal fins. That'd be parallel paper cuts you wouldn't want.

[Tea1023]

They just pass on whatever they can without much vetting, so no, just by being posted there it's not more reliable, but look up what their source is and make a call on that. That said, it sounds like nVidia do change around quite a bit so something might have been accurate at the time that has since altered.

Yeah so nothing new then? They weren't trustworthy 5 years ago and by the sound of it still not worth their weight now. It's easy to report on rumours when you never have to back it up or get called on it when it's false. Throw mud and see what's sticks. Thanks tho.

[Ryan5Delta]

Tips? Yeah, camp out on the nvidia page and spam your f5 key. Other than that, lube up and bend over, coz you're gunna get royally shafted on the price.

Take it easy on the F5 spamming. It looks like you can get an IP ban if you bombard the website with refresh requests.

[NonLinearLines]

Some retailers have said 3080 supply is going to be awful for the next while. With the added delays due to Chinese New Year, it might be a while before we get a decent number of 3080s in the UK.

[Ryan5Delta]

Some retailers have said 3080 supply is going to be awful for the next while. With the added delays due to Chinese New Year, it might be a while before we get a decent number of 3080s in the UK.

Just to be clear, delays from Chinese New Year would be the 7 days of public holiday from 11 - 17 February 2021. Do I understand that correctly?

[Pob255]

yep, not just that but manufacturing tends to ramp down before hand and slowly start to ramp up again after.
best way atm is to say it, walk away and come back in 6 months, maybe a year.

[Caimbeul2000]

Been after a 3080 for 6 weeks now to complete my sons Christmas build. I'm using discord for stock notifications but haven't bagged one yet.

My advice if wanting one any time soon is pay scalper prices. Either that or plently of patience and stick with it.

please dont pay scalper prices, it will only fuel the situation and help keep supply to genuine gamers at almost nil and fill the pockets of greedy selfish and immoral scalpers...

[Ryan5Delta]

please dont pay scalper prices, it will only fuel the situation and help keep supply to genuine gamers at almost nil and fill the pockets of greedy selfish and immoral scalpers...

It's an awful time to be buying a GPU at the moment. Any GPU at all. New or used. Current gen or previous gen.