Welcome to a thread of bargaining and despair.
Here you may find legitimate users who work with video effects at high resolutions. Someone out there at Amazon surely would like to render and scrub Homelander's eyebeams 30% faster. Maybe that effects editor can finally have dinner with the family at 8:15 PM instead of 9:30 PM. That mac and cheese was getting cold.
There are some users that think that 24 GB of VRAM will matter in games before 2025, and that someone in the market to pay $1,500 or more for a 3090 will definitely also be keeping that card through multiple GPU generations before games finally justify that amount of VRAM. And of course, anything less than 11 GB VRAM is just unacceptable. It's 1 less than the 2080 Ti. That's just math - any number minus 1 is just objectively worse.
And some users just want to pay about an $800 premium for 10-20% gains over the paltry 3080. These users are prepared to pay the price of two 3080s for the power of one 3080 that went on and off to the gym for 90 days but definitely made sure to never skip the protein shakes.
But the rest of us - we're here because of dumb hope. We have crawled the seven stages of grief as if the chart were Candy Land, all just to get to this point. We're here because buying a 3080 over the last week has been like grabbing at smoke. And in our endeavor defy the scalpers that ruined everything, we will show the world just what we think of overpaying that much for that video card by trying to overpay for another video card. But at least no scalper will never see the cash, and that each of us will have a fat honking beast of a card within our case. The bragging rights and pictures have value - and perhaps if we squint or drink, we can convince ourselves that that value is approximately $800. We have stepped beyond the realm of reason. We are prospective 3090 buyers because we will take what we can get like the garbage-eating consumers that we are. What really is a credit card, after all? Only something to worry about later. We don't need DoorDash for a few months. We don't need that new oven. We don't need those college textbooks - we'll find someone and just ask to scan their pages or something. Whatever - worry about all that later. It's time to spend about $1,500.
Of course, the cosmic irony is that - after all this self justification - we will all soon find that buying a 3090 is even more difficult than buying a 3080. The stock is undoubtedly smaller compared to the 3080, and the demand might as well be just as ravenous. The bots will not care nor hesitate.
Only pain awaits you here, but you have gotten this far and you're going to try anyway. If you do happen to get this card, then at least post some pictures so that some of us can live through you.
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The Geforce RTX 3090 officially releases at 2:00 PM BST / 6:00 AM PT / 9:00 AM ET on Thursday September 24th. The Founders Edition (FE) of the 3090 retails for $1,499.00.
Before buying the 3090, first verify that you can power and fit the 3090. It is a big, hungry card. AIB cards will differ in terms of size, but here's what you need for the 3090 FE:
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Some UK Retailers carrying the 3090:
Some US Retailers carrying the 3090:
Era folk can join us in the PC Hardware Watch Era Discord for anguish, up-to-date links, and campfire songs about dreams that will only ever be dreams.
Good luck you dumbfucks.
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