As cheap as new raytracing go - RTX 3050 reviews

[porina]

10 hours ago, leadeater said:

You don't have to buy anything obviously and if you are in a position to wait then do so, things may well improve to some degree, even quite well, but we just don't know.

Not an indication of the wider market by any means, but a former work colleague who went into mining (peak capacity is in GH/s) is starting to sell some GPUs. For GPU miners where I am, there's a kinda perfect storm and I think he's getting out early. Energy costs are going up, crypto is going down. Ethereum is trying to go POS mid year, and we might see 40 series by end of year. So he's looking to move the Ampere cards and keeping RDNA2 ones as more power efficient. I declined the offer of the cards since he's asking ebay going rates. I suspect he paid over market to get his farm but still more than broke even.

[LAwLz]

37 minutes ago, mr moose said:

I just checked pccasegear and scorptec last night and they didn't have anything

 

EDIT: they literally must have only come online today.  Still it's a bugger that the cheapest one available is still $630

At least you have the option to buy one (if you had more money than senes).

Here is what the retailers in Sweden looks like.

"Meddela mig" = "message me" (aka, it's not in stock).

 

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The price on some of these seems alright but I doubt there will be more than a handful of the 2999 SEK version (about 320 USD) sold.

[Rauten]

26 minutes ago, porina said:

Ethereum is trying to go POS mid year.

Hopefully! How many times has it been delayed by now?

24 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

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Love that "NYHET!"  mini banner on the first picture. I assume it means "new", but I can't help but imagine a Russian guy yelling "NYET!" at me, as if saying "not for you!". Very apt.

 

Can anyone find them in Amazon, btw? Spanish Amazon is like "nope, this product doesn't exist, but hey, buy a 3070 instead!".

[porina]

46 minutes ago, Rauten said:

Hopefully! How many times has it been delayed by now?

I've not been counting, but certainly this isn't the first time they tried it. Hence my usage of "trying to".

[ouroesa]

On 1/28/2022 at 5:47 PM, Arika S said:

PCCaseGear, MWave and Scorptec all have 3050s in stock though

They didnt have at time of writing with ETA - see they start at $610-$700 (AUD), which is crazy for this thing. 

Unfortunatelly my future vision is not quite 20/20  I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.