Shooting for a 3080, but if I have to settle for a 3090 that's alright, alright, alright.

[JefeB]

I live less than five minutes from a microcenter and the guys I know in BYO are already talking about people asking for permission to camp outside the store overnight 16th-17th to get their 3080. I'm not that crazy, I'll show up an hour or two before the doors open and hope for the best. BUT if they sell out of 3080s because I don't feel like camping, I'll just come back on the 24th and pick up a 3090; I'd bet there will be much less of a line for that (kind of like when they opened early for the release of Threadripper and literally no one was waiting).

 

Do I need it? No, of course not. Very few people outside of professional settings will (Even Linus set his new workstations up with Threadrippers and 2080Tis, not Titans) actually do. I'd much rather spend my money on the next generation Ryzen CPU release, but if people are gonna go Black Friday for the 3080; not being a part of that alone is well worth the ~2x in price. I'm not a people person and I literally think that spending the extra money not to have to wait in crazy lines while people push, pull, ignore social distancing, and act like fools... well, that's well worth the price.

 

If I do get a 3080, though; I've already justified spending $1500. Why not go full Zoidberg on it with a new sTRX4 board and 24 cores? It's an investment in future proofing. Right? 

Plus I can always donate my current internals to the local high school's eSports team; so not only is it the right thing to do for me, but it'll help out the children. The poor children. They needs it! And it's a tax write-off!

 

                                   Shit, did I just Smeagol/Gollum myself into spending even more of too much money for meager reasons? I thinks we did. 

 

With that said, I really hope the line for the 3080 isn't too bad because the 3090 will just corrupt me and send me down a path of severe debt and excellent framerates. The end.

[Potatocell]

Don't go into debt over pc parts lol 

[jaslion]

Or you just wait for them to go mass production like a couple weeks later? You already have a 2080 super it's not like waiting would mean you'd have a bad time gaming then.

 

Also threadripper for gaming is just worse. Games are not gonna start using more than 16 threads during the next console generation.

 

It's just a computer not worth going into debt for some dumb games.

[JefeB]

Just now, Potatocell said:

dont go into debit over pc parts lol 

If I didn't want to do that, I wouldn't have got me one of them MicroCenter Credit Cards. The trick is to only buy over $250 at a time, always select 6 months deferred interest, and pay that bitch off ASAP. Compounded interest is the devil!

[VeganJoy]

2 minutes ago, JefeB said:

If I do get a 3080, though; I've already justified spending $1500. Why not go full Zoidberg on it with a new sTRX4 board and 24 cores? It's an investment in future proofing. Right? 

futureproofing with less than 64 cores? what are you, a filthy pleb? if youre springing for a threadripper you might as well just get an epyc or something, while youre at it see if nvidia will sell you an a100 or two. i mean you might as well just ask google for one of their datacenters at this point, think of all the games you could play on that. maybe even crysis at low settings 240p

[JefeB]

2 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Or you just wait for them to go mass production like a couple weeks later? You already have a 2080 super it's not like waiting would mean you'd have a bad time gaming then.

 

Also threadripper for gaming is just worse. Games are not gonna start using more than 16 threads during the next console generation.

 

It's just a computer not worth going into debt for some dumb games.

True, but I use it for productivity as well. My current setup is higher-end, but more for show than anything else. A blacked-out sleeper bequiet! type build is more my personal style, but since I'm freelancing, gotta pop them tail feathers. It's great to game on, don't get me wrong... it's just too "busy". I really like the simplicity and style of the 3000 series reference cards and keeping my rig set to "Blackout" without company.

[Action_Johnson]

2 hours ago, Potatocell said:

Don't go into debt over pc parts lol

Seriously.

2 hours ago, JefeB said:

If I didn't want to do that, I wouldn't have got me one of them MicroCenter Credit Cards. The trick is to only buy over $250 at a time, always select 6 months deferred interest, and pay that bitch off ASAP. Compounded interest is the devil!

Never heard of anyone getting wealthy, or getting ahead financially by trying to play games with credit cards.

[JefeB]

12 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

Seriously.

Never heard of anyone getting wealthy, or getting ahead financially by trying to play games with credit cards.

I have!

 

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/mint-closes-loophole-ends-credit-card-coin-sales-frequent-flyer-flier-miles-1263/

 

Not that that's in line with what I'm doing, but when used responsibly credit cards are an invaluable financial tool

 

[jaslion]

5 hours ago, JefeB said:

I have!

 

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/mint-closes-loophole-ends-credit-card-coin-sales-frequent-flyer-flier-miles-1263/

 

Not that that's in line with what I'm doing, but when used responsibly credit cards are an invaluable financial tool

 

I'd just wait either way. They'll "sell out" day one and suddenly be available in abundance very shortly after just like every gpu launch ever.

[Action_Johnson]

16 hours ago, JefeB said:

I have!

 

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/mint-closes-loophole-ends-credit-card-coin-sales-frequent-flyer-flier-miles-1263/

 

Not that that's in line with what I'm doing, but when used responsibly credit cards are an invaluable financial tool

 

That's a 1-time fringe case. Not a long-game strategy

[JefeB]

On 9/6/2020 at 5:50 AM, jaslion said:

I'd just wait either way. They'll "sell out" day one and suddenly be available in abundance very shortly after just like every gpu launch ever.

That's true, I was just being hyperbolic. I probably won't even have to wait for the 3090 launch for 3080s to line the shelves again. 

[JefeB]

15 hours ago, Action_Johnson said:

That's a 1-time fringe case. Not a long-game strategy

I know you're right, of course. t's like gambling; the house always wins. I was being hyperbolic.