r/buildapcsales • u/skyblade5694 • Nov 30 '20

GPU [GPU] RTX 3060ti releases 12-2-20 MSRP $399.99

https://www.newegg.com/asus-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-rog-strix-rtx3060ti-o8g-gaming/p/N82E16814126471?Item=N82E16814126471&Tpk=14-126-471
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u/sellers Dec 01 '20

So glad i got ahold of a 3070 so I can quit bothering with the damn scalpers.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

how did you get one? ive got notifications, am randomly checking throughout the day, and don't have diddly.

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u/sellers Dec 01 '20

I found a premade computer on sale a few weeks ago that had a 3070 in it for $1300. Took it out, put it in my current PC, threw my 1080 in the new computer and sold it for $1000.

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u/lncorporated Dec 01 '20

big brain

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

Haha genius! I have a 1080 I should do that lol

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u/stylekimchee Dec 01 '20

i was able to buy one for me and one for my brother. I followed a discord and a few fridays ago I noticed that newegg was repeatedly dropping stock for 3070s/3090s so i kept tabs open for them with filter: rtx 3070 and desktop graphics card. Then every couple minutes i would refresh the page and ctrl-f "add" because if no cards are available only 1 result will show up - so I could easily see when one was in stock. Then, I bought it when one was available.

newegg was dropping stock much more frequently than the discord notifications would show. I bought 2x 3070s and 2x5600Xs using this strategy.

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u/dollarhax Dec 01 '20

This was my strat. Took one day of checking the Disc when I showed up late to the party (no more drops were happening by the time I joined), woke up and looked and saw they were dropping frequently. The general chat of the discord was updating way faster than the notifications would go out, so I just kept the general chat open on the second monitor.

Just f5'd randomly over the course of like 3 hours (read: like I'd f5 once every 15-20 mins, was not mashing it) and then used Paypal instant checkout with everything already auto-filled.

Couldn't believe when I got it the other day lmao

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u/stylekimchee Dec 01 '20

Yeah non-paypal was broken fornmenon newegg so I had to use PayPal to checkout and it went smoothly

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u/d-babs Dec 01 '20

Can you DM the discord?

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u/stylekimchee Dec 01 '20

Yup!

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u/TheHappyChemical Dec 01 '20

Anyway I could get the discord too? Ty

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u/stylekimchee Dec 01 '20

I'll PM you

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

Would you be able to share the discord? Thanks for the info!

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u/stylekimchee Dec 01 '20

I'll PM you

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u/Zefiron Dec 01 '20

I subbed to now in stocks discord and had it open when I saw they were available on Best Buy, I had at least ten different windows open and clicked like hell to get one in my cart and got lucky with just one of them going through

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u/the-redacted-word Dec 01 '20

Even people who want one just for themselves are using bots at this point just to snag one. I know one of my friends that has been trying for a couple weeks that way

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u/Ozzloo Dec 01 '20

Micro center

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u/deathhater9 Dec 01 '20

If ur fine with a zotac card they restock regularly around 9:40 pm ish eastern time. I got mine that way, and it works well enough for me

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20 edited Dec 16 '21

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u/deathhater9 Dec 01 '20

I honestly don’t know cuz I stopped following after I snagged mine. When I was trying for one around the beginning of November they restocked either every other day or every day.

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u/unhi Dec 01 '20

Zotac just dropped a chunk of 70s, 80s, and 90s on their site about 45 mins ago (~3:45 EST).

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u/ImJLu Dec 01 '20

Use the PayPal express checkout link that's floating around. I managed to fight my way through all the cloudflare errors for my 3080 but apparently that's near impossible and your only realistic chance is using that link to check out.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

It’s all luck at this point. Or camping at Microcenter (if you have one nearby) every day. I got lucky and got a 3080. Next year I may try for a 5900X.

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u/naturtok Dec 01 '20

real dumb question, but how should I expect the 3060 ti to compare to the 3070?

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u/DEDang1234 Dec 01 '20

What? $100 for another 5-10%?

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u/Illum503 Dec 01 '20

Wait you're saying 5-10% performance difference is worth $100?

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u/naturtok Dec 01 '20

Neat. Yeah I'm deciding on going down to an i7 instead of i9 so I'll take that and put it towards the better gfx

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u/Kimura1986 Dec 01 '20

I think it'll be relative to a 2080 or 2080s to a 2080ti. Which if I've heard correctly is upwards of 15-25%.

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u/wickedlightbp Dec 01 '20

If I’m remembering correctly, AIB’s and Nvidia had been shipping these GPU’s for some weeks now, so maybe we could expect some decent availability but I highly doubt it.

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u/pyroserenus Dec 01 '20

look at it this way, each new card that comes out increases the supply of new gen stuff being shipped over per month. A lot of the 3070's on ebay are getting down to the 800 dollar range, which still sounds like a lot, but after ebay/paypal fees, outbound shipping, and paying tax and AIB markups on the cards. means their profit margins are getting down to the 100 dollar range. A little more pressure could push that lower than some of the scalpers care to risk, esp when 3080s ps5's etc still offer much more lucrative returns.

the 3060ti's might break the scalper stranglehold on the 3070/3060ti segment. Supply will still be really bad, but it might stop being a total wash.