My Gigabyte Aorus RTX 3090 Extreme 24G was EUR2400. Really insane to ask that amount of money, but i am insane to pay it. I can afford it (corona-> no winter sports with the kids). Better framerate than my 2070, but still not 100% satisfied. Hm.

And maybe I will buy a 10850K plus motherboard.

Edited March 20, 20215 yr by Rene_Feijen

I've had a sneaking suspicion 3090K paired w/ my 9900K@5gHz would largely be underwhelming in terms of value, well insane is the word.  I would love to have a 3080 Ti w/ 12Gb which should be about right for this CPU in MSFS and P3D but those don't exist.  If I found a 3090 for retail price I'd do it though.

Edited March 21, 20215 yr by Noel

Useless DF video once again testing with a fps friendly aircraft on an external camera

So does anyone know where we can get one of these cards? They're sold out everywhere. I guess I'm new to the news but is it expected that these cards will be available before the heat death of the Observable Universe?

1 hour ago, WestAir said:

So does anyone know where we can get one of these cards? They're sold out everywhere. I guess I'm new to the news but is it expected that these cards will be available before the heat death of the Observable Universe?

ebay

2 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

ebay

my advice is hold out and don't whatever you do reward the scalpers who are trying make a fast buck on ebay

let them hang on to unsellable hardware that they bought in bulk at insane prices and watch their market crash

just wait for nVidia to get their act together later this year - MSFS and it's 3rd party ecosystem still has a long way to go before we actually need a 3000 series card, you can tweak the graphics down enough to get good performance while still looking 10 times better than P3D and XP

4 hours ago, WestAir said:

So does anyone know where we can get one of these cards? They're sold out everywhere. I guess I'm new to the news but is it expected that these cards will be available before the heat death of the Observable Universe?

No. I got lucky on Amazon over a month ago and paid a ridiculous $2100, now it's over $3000. It's not worth it atm. 

I have a 5800x and a 3080 FTW ultra. Came from a 1080 ti and a 3700x.  I probably gained about 10-15FPS avg @ 4k and mostly high settings. I wouldnt pay the cost to upgrade at this time. I got lucky and only paid 1200 for my 3080 which was a rip then and now its an even bigger rip. The sim is CPU bound and still requires heavy CPU horsepower, but that hopefully can be reduced with some optimizations. 

If you are going to pay the outrageous scalper prices and reward those that are causing the shortage and high prices to begin with, then why not just buy a new system? You can get new systems with 30 series cards in them that aren't marked up by scalpers for not much more and not reward the scalpers at the same time.

The problem has bled over onto fully built gaming PC's as well. That said, there are SOME options. You can get an HP with an RTX 2060 from for an ok price, just under $1500 total. The best deal I've seen is a CyberPower PC with an RTX 3060 (12GB version), but it seems this is vanilla RTX 3060 not the TI (big diff), but hard to tell.

Both those are ok, IF you actually need a new PC. However, if you don't, then it's waste of money either way. Any PC with 3070, AMD 6800 or higher is going to run well over $2,000 still (for the most part), usually $2,500+ once all is said and done.

 

 

Edited March 22, 20215 yr by Alpine Scenery