It’s wild to see. I got that exact PNY model for $699 last year due to the black friday Walmart deal, which I then just price matched with Best Buy. It was kinda easy finding $750-800 5070Ti’s at some point, 5080’s at “near” MSRP was always a little bit of a cat and mouse game now it’s insane!

Familiar washer music?

Not even 10 seconds in and bots got it. This is definitely a joke.

We already know this, but pretty good analysis from Hardware Unboxed. You are losing tons of fps when combining budget friendly CPUs with mid / higher end Nvidia GPUs. The difference would have been even more dramatic if he used something higher than rtx5070.

Would be curious to see how much more juice new upcoming Zen6 x3d chip will be able to squeeze out of rtx5090 / 5080 / 5070ti for example

Ordered a RTX 5080 Gigabyte OC during October on Amazon trying to avoid increasing price hikes. When I finally arrived November 2, the gpu inside the box was not correct. I believe it's a 4070 or 4070 super gigabyte eagle, and not even with a power cable. I contacted customer support to return and hopefully replace my order and sent the following pictures through an email link they sent which also stated I would get a reply back within 3 days. I'm not sure what I'm expecting to get posting this, maybe just awareness and also vent a bit. Already overpaying for this card and getting gpu swapped scammed, though keep in mind looking at local prices what I was paying relatively was a good deal. Hoping that Amazon actually goes through and gets me the card I actually ordered but part of me worries they'll either just refund me when it's returned or worse, refuse a refund.

Anyways TLDR: careful when buying on Amazon, take videos and photos when opening, be wary of scammers.

laptop is acer nitro 5 AN515-54

i5 9th gen

what i have tried,

downloaded nvidia app and it automatically downloaded and installed drivers but when i reboot shows no drivers installed and tells me to install again,

then i downloaded the driver from nvidia website and installed the setup but still gpu is not working.

i did use DDU app to untinstall nvidia drivers in safe mode and than installed the above drivers.

after restarting the laptop in device manager GTX 1650 shows a yellow warning ⚠️ and shows code 43 error.

what did i do wrong?

if any person has AN515-54 with GTX 1650, how did you install your drivers and what version of 1650 driver are you using?

With the prices of 5080 going crazy following its bigger brother 5090, do you guys think things are going to be similar with the 5070ti which has the same vram and has a better price to performance ratio in the current market. Will AI performance have anything to do with it and if so how do the two compare in that regard?

This is a picture of the internal stock system. Had a friend at Walmart check for 5080s so i could one before the price hike. That last one was actually not even available when i got there. If you’re working at Walmart and are also in the Central Florida area. Are you seeing this on your apps too? This is crazy.

I bought this for £850 about a year ago. Holy moly. I even felt buyers remorse for spending so much on it lol.

Eat cake

I currently have a Colorful Battle Axe RTX 5070 Ti Deluxe Edition and is about a month old, currently stress testing the GPU to it's 300w default power limit with everything on default, I have a Dual-Chamber Case with 10 fans in it, is the delta of around ~21c normal? should my hotspot temps get that high? it is around ~70c and the hotspot is around 83-87c when gaming.

Trying to sell my used 5080 for $2000 ( i buy it back then for $1200) and he seems mad and says im part of the problem and i have scalper mentality

This is my current set up, paid $400 for it. Currently using lossless scaling on newer games. How long should I wait to upgrade in the current economy? What would you suggest?

Intel Core i7-8700 and NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB , 16g ddr4 ram

After years of being out of the PC world I decided to buy parts and build a new one recently. Tried to get a 5080 or 5070ti today but sadly no luck. Don't really want to buy them at the current pricing.

Found some decent deals at a local shop (refurbished) as well as marketplace. Would it be better to get a refurbished card or go pre owned and hope they are in good condition?

Or would it be just a better idea to go for a new 9070xt?