NVIDIA Launches "Restocked & Reloaded" GPU Availability Campaign

[Cowboystrekk]

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And that's just few from last week drop. AMD drops are on Thursday, around 2PM GMT+1. Everyone enters queue, people are picked at random.

Nvidia founders cards are still a pipe dream though

 

[Chomiq]

Nvidia founders cards are still a pipe dream though

Clearly

 

[Cowboystrekk]

Clearly
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Where do you live? In Norway we have never had the option to order FE 30-series :/

 

[Chomiq]

Where do you live? In Norway we have never had the option to order FE 30-series :/

Poland, ordered directly from NBB (https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/ - Nvidia FE partner for DE, NL and AT) in Germany as B2B purchase back in December, so before the magical "restock".

Granted, regular 3080's are usually gone in 60 seconds. Same with 3060 Ti's.

 

[YYMC]

Chinese forums have a widely circulated sentence：You no buy，I no buy，GPU drops after tonight.
In fact, prie of RTX 30 series on Chinese E-commerce platform drops day by day.
But who want to buy miners' card?
Remember miners' RX 580 droped to 80$ two years ago.

 

[Vayra86]

I suppose I could concede a vague figure like it having a "large" impact (it most certainly is a major factor) but my point was merely it is not alone, or possibly even the majority. I haven't seen any good evidence to indicate otherwise. I feel it's at best, like quarter of the issue we are dealing with, but I fully admit that's just something I'm guessing at.

But that quarter is the quarter that was already missing in the regular marketplace, and the reason everything explodes quite a bit more than it should. You see, gamer demand was foreseen and yes you can have supply chain issues, but what we had lately was not that. It is a production capacity issue. Covid has its impact. But let's not forget either the fact that Ampere is built on Samsung, Samsung reportedly has pretty shitty yields... and AMD's RX line is produced on a highly contested TSMC node... it really is/was a perfect storm. Production numbers however, were at or quite close to regular levels, if we look at yearly units sold.

It all piles on, but I would certainly say mining is a big one in all of these issues. Not in the least because we already saw heavy price increases prior to the pandemic and global supply issues. Mining surges and dies all the time. Its completely unpredictable so capacity isn't bought to meet that demand.

My take on this is we will see improvement, and a big factor here is whether mining surges again or whether it won't, which is again related to global issues, such as the price of energy, inflation, and subsequently consumer buying power. That's not improving, and all GPU mfgrs will have to adjust towards that anyway. So will we see MSRP? We just might. The economy of 'up and up' is a fairy tale. What goes up must come down or it will implode. Perhaps down with a long term slow trend of up, sure, but that trend must keep pace with regular growth of economies. And guess what... projected economic growth is taking serious hits the world over. Still growth, but nothing major, and we have yet to see the full effects of Putin's war.

Consider even just the inflation we're going into now. 10% and more. That's enough to remove luxury items from the 'must buy' list in many households. In the Netherlands, we're likely going to be looking at an energy bill that doubles or triples this year. That's 3K euro's right there, if not more - a literal 10% of modal yearly incomes.

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Holy shit free shipping I'm ordering five.

j/k

 

[Chomiq]

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Holy shit free shipping I'm ordering five.

j/k

They playin'.

Still, people from Poland end up ordering their cards from mindfactory via re-shipping companies (€7 for shipping to Poland) because all cards available locally are almost €120+ more expensive than what's in stock there.

 

[chrcoluk]

Where do you live? In Norway we have never had the option to order FE 30-series :/

Feels bad man.

Luckily the UK has FE, and not only that they have out stocked all the AIB's who were supplying miners. They have been at MSRP all the way through the cycle as well.

Originally people from places like Norway could order FE from UK, Germany etc. but they clamped down on it early on due to the supply issues.

I managed to get one second drop attempt.

 

[haduJ]

Glad to see this response. Hopefully no actual real people buy them. Would be great if all the scum sucking scalpers ended up sitting on a mountain of product they will never be able to move. Then if professional miners had a heap of broken used up cards nobody will ever want. That would be sweet after all this horror show.

 

[Berfs1]

It took them a whole year and a half to announce that they are finally available for normal people to buy.

EDIT: Just checked the 3070 Tis on their list, only 1 is available in a microcenter in Missouri. So at this point, they are blatantly lying.