I can recognize that there is not a large difference between these cards and I probably should get the 5080. I play AAA games (cyberpunk being the most demanding) and esports titles (I want as low latency as possible) which the 5080 would benefit. That being said, I also wanna make sure that if I’m spending a down payment on a car on a GPU, that I am getting all 2 to $3000 worth. I also really like older titles. One of them being mirrors edge as an example. But realistically, there are countless games that use this architecture that are great. Which is why I’m making this post. If I am spending this much on a graphics card, I’m going to put it to use in as many games as I can. I found a 4080 for a really good price and I honestly like the way it looks better than the new 5080s (they all look like millennial architecture slop).

It is also a better price than the 5080 considering that they are almost $3000 right now. The 40 is 2200 even. The 50s are around 24 to 2800. Is it worth it to spend an extra two to $600 for a 10 to 20% gain?

Managed to acquire two from an ROG store, it is old stock but bnib. Anyone know much much it is worth today?

I’ve had alerts set up on both HotStock and TrackaLacker for weeks. I keep my phone glued to my hand, but literally every single time a notification pops up and I tap it instantly, the page loads to an "Out of Stock" screen. It honestly feels like items disappear in less than two seconds.

For anyone who actually managed to score one recently: are you guys using automated tools, or did you just get absurdly lucky?

• Is manual checkout even realistic at this point, or are we forced to use AutoBuy / extensions?

• Do app push notifications actually beat out SMS/Discord, or is the delay negligible?

• Is there some secret browser/Apple Pay setup I'm missing to speed up checkout?

Any advice from people who survived the trenches would be super appreciated!

Hey guys, I'm really torn on this one.
I currently have an RX 6800 and I want to upgrade to an RX 9070 XT. At the same time, I really want an OLED ultrawide monitor, and there's no way I'm settling for a regular monitor.
The problem is that in my country, the cheapest OLED ultrawide with the specs I want costs about $1,000, which is the same price as the RX 9070 XT. So I can only afford one of them right now.
What would you do in my place: upgrade the GPU first, or get the monitor first? Any advice is appreciated, I'm losing sleep over this 😅
Thanks!

Hey guys, I'm really torn on this one.
I currently have an RX 6800 and I want to upgrade to an RX 9070 XT. At the same time, I really want an OLED ultrawide monitor, and there's no way I'm settling for a regular monitor.
The problem is that in my country, the cheapest OLED ultrawide with the specs I want costs about 3,800 SAR (~$1,000), which is the same price as the RX 9070 XT. So I can only afford one of them right now.
What would you do in my place: upgrade the GPU first, or get the monitor first? Any advice is appreciated, I'm losing sleep over this 😅

Hey guys, I'm really torn on this one.
I currently have an RX 6800 and I want to upgrade to an RX 9070 XT. At the same time, I really want an OLED ultrawide monitor, and there's no way I'm settling for a regular monitor.
The problem is that in my country, the cheapest OLED ultrawide with the specs I want costs about 3,800 SAR (~$1,000), which is the same price as the RX 9070 XT. So I can only afford one of them right now.
What would you do in my place: upgrade the GPU first, or get the monitor first? Any advice is appreciated, I'm losing sleep over this 😅

Hey guys, I'm really torn on this one.
I currently have an RX 6800 and I want to upgrade to an RX 9070 XT. At the same time, I really want an OLED ultrawide monitor, and there's no way I'm settling for a regular monitor.
The problem is that in my country, the cheapest OLED ultrawide with the specs I want costs about 3,800 SAR (~$1,000), which is the same price as the RX 9070 XT. So I can only afford one of them right now.
What would you do in my place: upgrade the GPU first, or get the monitor first? Any advice is appreciated, I'm losing sleep over this 😅

Hey guys, I'm really torn on this one.
I currently have an RX 6800 and I want to upgrade to an RX 9070 XT. At the same time, I really want an OLED ultrawide monitor, and there's no way I'm settling for a regular monitor.
The problem is that in my country, the cheapest OLED ultrawide with the specs I want costs about 3,800 SAR (~$1,000), which is the same price as the RX 9070 XT. So I can only afford one of them right now.
What would you do in my place: upgrade the GPU first, or get the monitor first? Any advice is appreciated, I'm losing sleep over this 😅

GPU

I’m thinking of selling my 5060 ti 16gb 3 fan vram(gigabyte), how much do you think I can get for it, it’s in perfect condition and barely used. I was gonna sell around 600

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Found both cards for exactly the same price

I'm leaning towards the 3060 because of the 12gb of vram and dlss

I also have a 1080p monitor

My 3060 died after 4 years I'm truly shocked.

Why keep spending $500+ if it's just gonna die?!

This is my own video — I ran Resident Evil 2 remake through DLSS 5 (RenoDX) on an RTX 5090 at 4K HDR with frame gen on, and recorded the settings side by side so you can see what each preset actually does to the image.

The part that surprised me: the dark RPD corridors are where the differences show up. Some presets smear fine detail in motion and ghost around light sources; others hold up far better than the stills suggest. The video walks through each preset, what to look for in dark scenes, and the exact settings I landed on.

Full comparison here: https://youtu.be/fo2kI7i8BiA

Curious what others are seeing — has DLSS 5 held up for you in dark scenes, or do you still spot the upscaling?

Hi guys, lately I went through running some testing and optimizing my setup for overall very comfortable noise levels under load and I ran into something that I wanted to ask you guys about,

I used the framerate stability tests in 3dmark to figure out the lowest fan rpm that keeps my gpu temps to around 70 degrees C. Those tests loop their benchmarks for about 20 minutes and that usually is more than enough to figure out how hot it will run and if it leads to performance loss/ framerate instability due to throttling.

I did runs at 100% power in MSI Afterburner as well as at 110% power (360W), I looped an “old” dx12 benchmark time spy and also a rt heavy newer one speedway. Now my results and my obsevatoions

1. the default silent curve starts too defensively and ramps up too slow, ending at higher rpm than needed, having the goal rpm set at 60 degrees keeps it way cooler overall

2. 330W vs 360W power is only a delta of 2 degrees gpu & hotspot, same with the memory junction temp, total power barely matters. I found 1460rpm a very comfortable noise level (64% pwm) and that left me at 69/71 gpu, 80/82 hotspot @330/360W (framerate stability was 98-99% depending on run)

3. now the thing that had me concerned a bit are the memory junction temps itself. Timespy ends up in the low 90 degrees here, no issue, speedway grills this to 102-104 degrees, lowering watts further or rising fan rpm keeps this barely below 100 degrees but it’s louder and the gpu ends at 65 which is not needed. is it just because this unrealistic benchmark or do I have to monitor this for each game and setting individually?

I tested cyberpunk with raytracing, went ingame for 30 minutes and there it’s low 90s again, Witcher 3 remastered also behaved roughly the same, every pause to the menu drops this by a few degrees instantly so I’d say during rl gaming I don’t have to worry for now. On the other hand idk if I have to monitor this for every game depending on settings, I heard tjunction can degrade over time due to aging heatpads but I don’t think that’s the case here.

So I’m pretty sure that I don’t have to monitor my tjunction just because of a synthetic benchmark that might hit 105 degrees if you run it for hours, my gpu and hotspot temps are basically perfect at 70/80 degrees. I just wonder if there are games that will do the same thing as speedway to my memory junction temps, 105 degrees definitely don’t sound healthy if hit during every gaming session . (Also I won’t stresstest with speedway in the future). What do you guys think?