Yes, the sites that gray out the cart/buy button when out of stock don’t help things.
Call it a “post-order” as opposed to preorder. I put in my info and they charge me when they get it in stock and it ships.
I’m glad I haven’t needed to upgrade my card for non-VR 1080p gaming as this is a bad time for it, but I was planning on getting one around the time the “4070” or whatever it will be called comes out. I just hope things are better by then, but if not I will have to do like many of you did and hop on the release day click spam train to get it while it’s still at MSRP.
Well the term in this case is backorder and most if not all E-commerce platforms would have the option to administratively allow or disable them globally, and even potentially at the per-item level.
I guess as long as they make it clear you are placing a backorder and there is no ETA at that time for stock, that might be OK. However from a business side, tracking and managing communications on backorders is a major pain so they probably opt to avoid the headache. The backorders list for GPU’s would be a mile long.
I’m curious to see what those Ether mining ASICs will do for the market. And apparently Ethereum could move from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake by as soon as the end of the year.
I’ve read a (superficial) bit about TSMCs latest advances in photolithography and apparently the more recent nodes improved mainly the transistor density but didn’t do much in terms of efficiency. This would explain why we’ve seen such an increase in TDP in the last two GPU generations. More transistors at higher frequency without increased efficiency equals a lot more current.
The consequence is the running temps for the 30 cards. Mine idles at 41ish in a 16C room with my case fan curve at max but run DCS or similar and the card quickly shoots up to 67 now I fixed my exhaust fan. Any higher temps and the GPU throttles. which is kinda self defeating.
I also read something about 600 bucks for a 3070ti.
Might be more of an option but I haven’t looked up the specs yet. But the xx70 cards of all previous series were pretty good bang for their buck.
(I have a 2070S)
