No issues here either and also know a couple of people IRL who also had no issues getting a 3080 FE. The retailer nvidia used for UK had slightly better anti bot measures in place such as changing the URL each time, captcha and limiting to 1 purchase. Certainly no chance of getting one if you just relied upon reading forums here, refreshing manually yourself but with the right setup/prep, definetly achievable and not just a case of having to use a bot yourself to secure one.
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No issues here either and also know a couple of people IRL who also had no issues getting a 3080 FE. The retailer nvidia used for UK had slightly better anti bot measures in place such as changing the URL each time, captcha and limiting to 1 purchase. Certainly no chance of getting one if you just relied upon reading forums here, refreshing manually yourself but with the right setup/prep, definetly achievable and not just a case of having to use a bot yourself to secure one.
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I got my RTX3060TI by seeing a random alert on HUKD, clicking through the deal and getting one. There was a big drop of cards during the summer just before the RX6600XT was released - think it was MLID or RGT which mentioned it beforehand so that was helpful.
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Am so pleased now that i couldn't get my hands on a 3090 on the times i tried as i wouldn't have a 4090 now
Yep. Huge difference in performance. The 3090 was so over priced for what it was.
Ampere would have been significantly better if Nvidia hadn't tried to cheap out with Samsung and gone with TSMC.
The reason 4090 looks so unreasonably powerful is because the 3090 was hamstrung by Samsung's node otherwise the leap would not have been so huge.
Pretty much, depending on the game, 3090 could see a larger uplift to about 15% but on average, the difference was/is like 5-10%, of course, you get that extremely beneficial 24gb vram which has very obviously been worth the extra £750....
Pretty much, depending on the game, 3090 could see a larger uplift to about 15% but on average, the difference was/is like 5-10%, of course, you get that extremely beneficial 24gb vram which has very obviously been worth the extra £750....
Small difference at 1080/1440, bigger difference at 4K, or least that’s what I found.
Tried to get a 4090FE on launch but they were sold out the instant the link went live. Setup a Telegram alert and picked one up at the first attempt on the second FE drop. Wondered what all the fuss was TBH as it was very easy as long as you were aware of the alert as soon as it pinged.
40 series are easy to get and no bots or scalpers. Not the same as the 30 series.
The few scalpers tried but failed with the 4080s..
Scalpers struggling to sell RTX 4080 cards, now 'graciously' offering them at MSRP - VideoCardz.com
When scalpers face the reality Scalpers are struggling to sell RTX 4080 GPUs, even at MSRP. It is not secret anymore that RTX 4080 is a poor sell. This overpriced high-end GPU has been met with cold response from the gaming community and even NVIDIA enthusiasts. Both equally tired of 2 years of...
videocardz.com
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Nvidia Is Manually Reviewing RTX 3080 Orders to Stop Scalpers
'To stop bots and scalpers on the Nvidia store, we’re doing everything humanly possible, including manually reviewing orders, to get these cards in the hands of legitimate customers,' Nvidia says.
Got better....
Even LHR cards didn't help... was Nvidia just pretending to care.
Cryptocurrency Miners: Nvidia's Lite Hash Rate Limiter Did Little to Stop Us
Nvidia tried to discourage cryptocurrency miners from buying RTX 3000 graphics cards by handicapping their Ethereum mining capabilities. But nearly a year later, miners say the effort was pointless.
Crypto miners reveal Nvidia's LHR solution to get GeForce RTX 30 series cards into gamers' hands was futile
An investigation into Nvidia’s Lite Hash Rate (LHR) solution to prevent GeForce RTX 30 series boards from being bought up en masse by crypto miners has revealed that many involved in the crypto craze were not discouraged by Team Green’s limiter. Third-party software is available to bypass the...
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Caporegime
Yeah whatever. I got one and sold it for £1620 to CEX after enjoying it for ages so you can believe it or not, I couldn't care less 
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I have never seen someone post a mic drop gif on their own post. Talk about inflated ego lol.
Went from mic drop to a flounce in like 2 posts.
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It kinda worked for Nvidia, they saw how much people were willing to spend on the "halo" card, regardless of how much more powerful it was to the next card in the stack.
Then took it one further with the laughable performance gap between the 80 and 90 series for the 4000 series, without bothering to alter the price of the 80 to reflect how far behind it was compared to the 90.
Then knocked another £200 off practically the same card 18 months later, still a terrible value card and loads of people saw it and said wow, what a great deal it is now.
Nvidia Is Manually Reviewing RTX 3080 Orders to Stop Scalpers
'To stop bots and scalpers on the Nvidia store, we’re doing everything humanly possible, including manually reviewing orders, to get these cards in the hands of legitimate customers,' Nvidia says.uk.pcmag.com
Got better....
Even LHR cards didn't help... was Nvidia just pretending to care.
Cryptocurrency Miners: Nvidia's Lite Hash Rate Limiter Did Little to Stop Us
Nvidia tried to discourage cryptocurrency miners from buying RTX 3000 graphics cards by handicapping their Ethereum mining capabilities. But nearly a year later, miners say the effort was pointless.
Crypto miners reveal Nvidia's LHR solution to get GeForce RTX 30 series cards into gamers' hands was futile
An investigation into Nvidia’s Lite Hash Rate (LHR) solution to prevent GeForce RTX 30 series boards from being bought up en masse by crypto miners has revealed that many involved in the crypto craze were not discouraged by Team Green’s limiter. Third-party software is available to bypass the...
That Jeremy Clarkson gif I imagine is the face Lisa Su does when Radeon division talks about RDNA RT performance
I wonder if scalping will be much of an issue this year especially for those that sell on ebay and other auctioning sites? Since the gov has announced sales over £2k i think, resale sites like ebay will need to send this information to HMRC. I cant remember the exact details but its something along those lines.
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£1740 iirc, bit random I know but was stated by eBay recently.
What a weird a** figure to settle on.
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Also they don't take inflation into consideration. So you could have bought an expensive item years ago,and with inflation technically lost money on it,but it would be classed as a profit.
UK Gov for you, robbing thieving...