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| System Name | Homemade |
|---|---|
| Processor | Ryzen 9 5900x |
| Motherboard | GIgabyte X570s Master |
| Cooling | NZXT Kraken 73 + 8 Case Fans |
| Memory | 32 GB DDR4 Crucial Ballistix @ 3633Mhz |
| Video Card(s) | Nvidia 3090ti Founder's Edition |
| Storage | 1TB Samsung Evo Pro 980 + 500GB Samsung Evo 970 + 2TB Seagate Barracuda Hybrid + 500GB HD |
| Display(s) | 2x Dell S2721DGF |
| Case | Lian Li |
| Audio Device(s) | Realtek HiDef Audio + TEAC Surround |
| Power Supply | Corsair HMx @ 1000 Watt |
| Mouse | Lenovo M500 |
| Keyboard | Red Dragon Mechanical |
The funny thing is that no, I really didn't buy the card for anywhere close to $2000.
On 30 series launch day I was somehow able to get a 3080FE for $699 at 11:15 AM, like minutes before the Nvidia site was DDOSed into oblivion. I kept it for nearly a year, mining here and there and being totally content with it, because I realized I had been unbelievably lucky to even get one in Sept 2020. I followed the news and noticed something: during the peak of the mining craze, people were trading 3080tis for 3080FEs EVERYWHERE. So, having already mined the $699 back over the summer, I saw the writing on the wall with ETH 2.0 on the very near horizon.
I recognized that I had a brief window to get a newer card with more vram. So that is what I did. I traded my OG 3080FE for a sealed in box 3080ti FE to a dude on the reddit /r/hardwareswap. He wanted it for mining but he only had 3080ti's, so we literally did a straight trade. I mean he even paid the goddamn shipping.
So another couple of months go buy and two weeks ago I noticed that best buy had 3090ti Founder's Edition's and were selling them with a price cut of $900 dollars. So I went on ebay, listed my 3080ti, and 7 days later it had sold at auction for $1025. Then I went to best buy and bought a 3090Ti. End of story.
The TLDR is that I magically timed my leapfrogging all the way up the SKUs. After mining back the 699 MSRP, I ended up making money and getting a 3090ti at what my napkin math says is very close to like $175 dollars (which is mostly the enormous eBay fee from the 3080ti).
That's how insane the market has been/was.
Sorry mods! I didn't realize that my edits would look like me flooding messages, (I'm assuming that is what happened). I just kept wanting to make sure I had my details correct.
As for the rest of your post I agree. RTX and just lighting in general are where the power still lags behind. I also fully understand that my situation was essentially pure luck mixed with good timing, and that a 3090ti is ridiculous overkill for 75% of what I do day to day. I just couldn't look at what was happening and not take the opportunity.
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