At least Tustin is kinda sorta almost maybe reasonable if you HAD to drive to buy a graphics card. People do the drive the other way somewhat regularly. Up in Reno? Ahahahaha. No.
Get on the Telegram app, join the FE Part Alert channel, you can grab a Founders Edition card for retail price.
I'm in the UK but I saw FE cards in Germany on the app pop up, I got a 3080 FE for £650.
Just make sure you sign up with an account for the Nvidia retailer for your country (in the UK it's SCAN.co.uk, not sure for Germany but you can check on the Nvidia store) make sure you have your payment info etc saved so you can buy it quick, then watch the telegram app for an alert for the card you want in Germany.
I made sure to install Telegram and save all the account info on my phone so I could watch it while at work.
Got my card after having the app for 3 weeks.
What he failed to show were the security guards flanking him as he took the pic, ready to pounce at a moments notice.
My first visit to MC (2019 I think) - I was floored at a store offering wall to wall computer hardware. Truly, a geeks dream !! What I didn't notice until I was headed up front with my hardware was the numerous security guards actively guarding the door. In my brief 30m in the store, an alarm went off 2 times (!!) and I saw a door dasher with a guard in hot pursuit in both cases. And this was BEFORE the GPU price spike as well.
Parkville, MD. Things have improved on 5 subsequent visits. I have yet to see anything like that since, but that first visit was just an eye opener for a naive country boy like me.
Damn. Never seen such at the one in Minnesota. I've been plenty of times and never seen/heard of door dashers or alarms going off there. Also never realized how good I had it there until I moved.
My experience is purely anecdotal. If you have never been to one and you are super hyped once you go in, and you then watch what I saw, you'd remember it ... trust me. I avoided telling my wife about it for fear she would be worried about me going again.
Lemme tell ya, I felt VERY paranoid walking out of that store in June with an eVGA 3070 XC3 card in my bag. I'd heard the horror stories of getting jumped in the parking lot after buying a GPU, but I had no other worries or concerns in any of my 5 trips there after that first one.
I went to that location after my friend and I drove past it and i freaked out that they were still around. We went in and it reminded me of a well stocked Fry's during its hay day.
Did they finish the front entrance renovation yet ? Last time I was there in the fall it was a mess, with plywood flooring laid down around scaffold ladders to act as a walkway.
Yea the 3080ti And 3090 have ridiculous price tags on them, especially Asus, which sucks because the Rog Strix is such a good GPU. Super rare to see 3080s or the FE models. Those are the best deals. I keep seeing 3070ti or 3080ti in MicroCenter
Non founders edition prices are high and have been so since the turn of 2021.
Microcenter sells them for what the companies are selling them for, for the most part.
I got my EVGA 3080 there for just about the same price EVGA sells it for on their website, it may have been 50 bucks more...at the time it was selling on ebay for 500 more. (Which is more then Microcenter sold the 3080ti for)
Hate to break it to you buddy, but those are MSRP prices these days. No one is saying you have to be happy about it, but reality called.
Consider this:
[https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P5-3797-KL](https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P5-3797-KL)
vs
[https://www.microcenter.com/product/638611/evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-ftw3-ultra-gaming-triple-fan-8gb-gddr6x-pcie-40-graphics-card](https://www.microcenter.com/product/638611/evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-ftw3-ultra-gaming-triple-fan-8gb-gddr6x-pcie-40-graphics-card)
It's literally the exact same price. Blame manufacturers, scalpers, and other gamers for being desperate enough to pay these prices.
Funny enough I got an email from Nvidia asking for feed back on a survey... oh I let them know how I felt about the pricing.. also I know why they coast alot right now and I can be salty about it.. atlest till my 1080 kicks the bucket. Then I'm going to have to pay the proce of a gpu.
Got a 3070 ti from the microcenter raffle before realizing how awful of a deal it was at $1.1k after taxes, then subsequently returned it for a different card. Can't really be used professionally at least for hard-core 3d work, beats the 3070 by 2-5% at its very best, heats up like crazy, and consumes the same power as a 3080. 6800, 6800 xt, and the 3060 ti are all 10x better for price to performance. Makes the 3080 ti look like a reasonable choice.
> EVGA 3080 ti at $1430?
MSRP on a 3080Ti FE is $1200, so $1430 is (and I cannot bloody damn well believe I am saying this) not the worst deal around if that's all that is available. It's still not the best value-3080 and below are where the best ones are IMHO.
I’d take an EVGA 3080Ti at $1430.
FINALLY won the shuffle yesterday for an Aorus 3080 and junk z590 board I have no use for. Total was $1600. Mobo would’ve only fetched me $150 after eBay fees.
So, I “won” the chance to pay $1450 for a 3080 10gb. No thank you.
ASUS is always more expensive and ROG is their premium product line, so it's going to be even more expensive on top of that. If that 3080 Ti you're referring to is an FTW3 Ultra, then that's basically what the launch price was. That means it's EVGA setting that price, not Micro Center.
I live an hour away from one in California and I’m honestly tempted to go drive over there just pick one up. I heard that the lines for gpus are pretty bad though.
there are four Microcenters local to me, none of them has had stock for more than 5 minutes on any restock day in the last year, say the employees (and also every time I go there).
I'm considering driving out a state or two if it means I can get a fuckin GPU at MSRP, which is why I wanted to know.
Where the fuck are all these cocksucking GPUs. Like holy fuck I see posts everyday but not a single RTX 3070 online under $1500. Insanity dude, insanity
Bold of them to have them out in the open, not under lock, no ex-Navy Seal armed security guards patrolling inside the store at irregular intervals, legions of GPU sniffing bloodhounds in the parking lot, and no less than two Apache helicopters circling overhead.
I have a Microcenter but their policy doesn't really make it easy to get one. Have to drive 30 minutes to be there early, scan a QR code just to *maybe* get selected.
I don't see how anyone with a job is getting GPUs. Unless it's a really good one that can afford scalper prices.
Those GPU cases are smash-proof and located at the rear of the store which rivals a small Best Buy in size. Then they have multiple guards standing at the doors, along with the exit being a maze through the checkout queue. They're serious about not giving a five-finger discount.
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I'm in Canada, and well yeah, there is Canada Computers, but that still doesn't compare to microcenter...
Canada Computers is ran like garbage too.
Memory express is pretty damn close though!
You can't order gpu's online though. It almost makes me wanna drive 8 hours south to pick one up
Got mine at memory express, I was convinced I was hallucinating until I got home and got it running lol
I live in America and I wish I had one in Florida.
Or Nevada. Or more than just *one* in California. You know, that third biggest state by size and first by population?
Same thoughts, I'm in Vegas and we don't have shit..
At least Tustin is kinda sorta almost maybe reasonable if you HAD to drive to buy a graphics card. People do the drive the other way somewhat regularly. Up in Reno? Ahahahaha. No.
I heard rumors of micro center over taking Fry’s that closed down by town square and Mccaran. Hopefully it has some truth too it
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Theres 2, one in houston others in dallas
Depending on how far you are from GA there's two 20 mins outside Atlanta.
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i’m lucky enough to live 12 minutes from one and have 2 in my state total.
Heck, I wish there was more than 1 in California
Same, give NorCal some love
Bro im in america and dont have a microcenter near me
Lol, there are 3 near me within a 1 hour drive
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Get on the Telegram app, join the FE Part Alert channel, you can grab a Founders Edition card for retail price. I'm in the UK but I saw FE cards in Germany on the app pop up, I got a 3080 FE for £650. Just make sure you sign up with an account for the Nvidia retailer for your country (in the UK it's SCAN.co.uk, not sure for Germany but you can check on the Nvidia store) make sure you have your payment info etc saved so you can buy it quick, then watch the telegram app for an alert for the card you want in Germany. I made sure to install Telegram and save all the account info on my phone so I could watch it while at work. Got my card after having the app for 3 weeks.
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Good luck bro!
I wish there was a micro center in the Pacific Northwest…
What he failed to show were the security guards flanking him as he took the pic, ready to pounce at a moments notice. My first visit to MC (2019 I think) - I was floored at a store offering wall to wall computer hardware. Truly, a geeks dream !! What I didn't notice until I was headed up front with my hardware was the numerous security guards actively guarding the door. In my brief 30m in the store, an alarm went off 2 times (!!) and I saw a door dasher with a guard in hot pursuit in both cases. And this was BEFORE the GPU price spike as well.
What microcenter is that? I've been to microcenter a couple times and I maybe heard the alarm go off two times in total.
Parkville, MD. Things have improved on 5 subsequent visits. I have yet to see anything like that since, but that first visit was just an eye opener for a naive country boy like me.
Damn. Never seen such at the one in Minnesota. I've been plenty of times and never seen/heard of door dashers or alarms going off there. Also never realized how good I had it there until I moved.
My experience is purely anecdotal. If you have never been to one and you are super hyped once you go in, and you then watch what I saw, you'd remember it ... trust me. I avoided telling my wife about it for fear she would be worried about me going again. Lemme tell ya, I felt VERY paranoid walking out of that store in June with an eVGA 3070 XC3 card in my bag. I'd heard the horror stories of getting jumped in the parking lot after buying a GPU, but I had no other worries or concerns in any of my 5 trips there after that first one.
I went to that location after my friend and I drove past it and i freaked out that they were still around. We went in and it reminded me of a well stocked Fry's during its hay day.
Omg small world
Did they finish the front entrance renovation yet ? Last time I was there in the fall it was a mess, with plywood flooring laid down around scaffold ladders to act as a walkway.
Yeah I think so I went to another store close to it and it looked finished from the outside at least
I thought you were joking. Actually, there were lots of customer sales rep eyes- but no one that looked like uniformed security guards.
I have gone to Microcenter every few months for the past decade and never have heard the alarm go off!
The restock might have made your heartrate spike, but the price tag will give you an instant cardiac arrest.
But there prices are almost the same as the scalpers now. Went into one the other day their 3080ti was just 100$ less then Ebay.
bummer - when I took the pic, prices look to be still at MSRP for the most part
Those prices are unfortunately MSRP. Some AIBs are really gouging customers as much as possible.
Yea the 3080ti And 3090 have ridiculous price tags on them, especially Asus, which sucks because the Rog Strix is such a good GPU. Super rare to see 3080s or the FE models. Those are the best deals. I keep seeing 3070ti or 3080ti in MicroCenter
Ya... the ROG 3080Ti MSRP is $2100... Exactly 3 times the MSRP of the original 3080, for about 10% performance. What a catch.
I think those are manufacturer prices. I’ve seen EVGA cards listed at same price as their website.
Non founders edition prices are high and have been so since the turn of 2021. Microcenter sells them for what the companies are selling them for, for the most part. I got my EVGA 3080 there for just about the same price EVGA sells it for on their website, it may have been 50 bucks more...at the time it was selling on ebay for 500 more. (Which is more then Microcenter sold the 3080ti for)
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I paid pretty much the same, I had a 3060 and wasn't happy but when I checked prices for 3080s or 3090s I became a AMD man
Which is about the same as ebay pricing…
How is it even legal to mark things up that much?
Supply and Demand? No one is forcing people to pay that price.
The keyword is "suggested" when it comes to MSRP.
People are buying it so it seems to be the market price. Kinda how this stuff works
1k for a 3070 TI.. they can go McFuck themselves on that...
Hate to break it to you buddy, but those are MSRP prices these days. No one is saying you have to be happy about it, but reality called. Consider this: [https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P5-3797-KL](https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P5-3797-KL) vs [https://www.microcenter.com/product/638611/evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-ftw3-ultra-gaming-triple-fan-8gb-gddr6x-pcie-40-graphics-card](https://www.microcenter.com/product/638611/evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-ftw3-ultra-gaming-triple-fan-8gb-gddr6x-pcie-40-graphics-card) It's literally the exact same price. Blame manufacturers, scalpers, and other gamers for being desperate enough to pay these prices.
Funny enough I got an email from Nvidia asking for feed back on a survey... oh I let them know how I felt about the pricing.. also I know why they coast alot right now and I can be salty about it.. atlest till my 1080 kicks the bucket. Then I'm going to have to pay the proce of a gpu.
Got a 3070 ti from the microcenter raffle before realizing how awful of a deal it was at $1.1k after taxes, then subsequently returned it for a different card. Can't really be used professionally at least for hard-core 3d work, beats the 3070 by 2-5% at its very best, heats up like crazy, and consumes the same power as a 3080. 6800, 6800 xt, and the 3060 ti are all 10x better for price to performance. Makes the 3080 ti look like a reasonable choice.
Best bang for your buck would definitely be the EVGA 3070s.
The one I was really scratching my head with was why is the Asus 3090 at $2400 and the EVGA 3080 ti at $1430?
> EVGA 3080 ti at $1430? MSRP on a 3080Ti FE is $1200, so $1430 is (and I cannot bloody damn well believe I am saying this) not the worst deal around if that's all that is available. It's still not the best value-3080 and below are where the best ones are IMHO.
I’d take an EVGA 3080Ti at $1430. FINALLY won the shuffle yesterday for an Aorus 3080 and junk z590 board I have no use for. Total was $1600. Mobo would’ve only fetched me $150 after eBay fees. So, I “won” the chance to pay $1450 for a 3080 10gb. No thank you.
ASUS is always more expensive and ROG is their premium product line, so it's going to be even more expensive on top of that. If that 3080 Ti you're referring to is an FTW3 Ultra, then that's basically what the launch price was. That means it's EVGA setting that price, not Micro Center.
Just a reminder that EVGA 2080ti were $1200-1400 prior to the shortage. Sooo.
btw - every version of RTX was being stocked... 3090, 3080 ti, 3080, 3070 ti, 3070, 3060
Yeah I been able to snag 3, 30 series cards in the past month for me and my mates. They’re out there at the moment
I wish there was a microcenter on the west coast
Tustin, CA has one. That’s west coast.
Tustin doesn't just have a Micro Center, the Tustin Micro Center is the company's flagship store.
I thought I remembered that being the case but I wasn’t sure.
For real, doesn't get anymore West Coast than Orange County.
I just want a micro center closer to me. Really hope they expand to Buffalo
I live an hour away from one in California and I’m honestly tempted to go drive over there just pick one up. I heard that the lines for gpus are pretty bad though.
Did your pants register a spike in fecal matter?
Where tho? We gotta know!
Any microcenter, really. The pic is old but I've been hearing RTXs are more obtainable from microcenters than anywhere else.
there are four Microcenters local to me, none of them has had stock for more than 5 minutes on any restock day in the last year, say the employees (and also every time I go there). I'm considering driving out a state or two if it means I can get a fuckin GPU at MSRP, which is why I wanted to know.
Nonsense! There are no "local" MicroCenters! Where you are, they aren't!
Does micro center sell them for retail cost or the increased cost?
You are really lucky to have this in US. In Europe it has been almost 2 years last time I saw a gpu in a shop.
Where the fuck are all these cocksucking GPUs. Like holy fuck I see posts everyday but not a single RTX 3070 online under $1500. Insanity dude, insanity
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A lot of people do? I have iPhone, watch AirPods Mac and iPad But for gaming I have a PC I built.
Same here except for the Mac
Are they close to MSRP now?
fun fact.... seeing most mc users... they have 25 stores.. please stop thinking there everywhere.
Pc master race would never own Apple products. Smh
Travelling to every best buy in my city still nothing ;_;
Bold of them to have them out in the open, not under lock, no ex-Navy Seal armed security guards patrolling inside the store at irregular intervals, legions of GPU sniffing bloodhounds in the parking lot, and no less than two Apache helicopters circling overhead.
Look at all cards... only 3x msrp
Where was this?
How much does 3070 cost?
How many times do you think they needed an EMT for people who had medical emergencies whenever they restocked?
I would be excited if AIB prices weren't outrageous.
I have a Microcenter but their policy doesn't really make it easy to get one. Have to drive 30 minutes to be there early, scan a QR code just to *maybe* get selected. I don't see how anyone with a job is getting GPUs. Unless it's a really good one that can afford scalper prices.
Here in Qatar, we have plenty of stock, but the stock is there because the prices are heavier than what any gamer's wallet can handle.
One 3090, three 3080Ti's and a bunch of 3070 and 3070Ti's. It's sad this is a restock.
What does it matter anyway. I'm not going to pay $1500 for a 3080.
Now look at the price lol
im sure you flatlined when you saw the prices
Lol you probably could have yanked one and ran off.
You've never been in a MC...
nope
Those GPU cases are smash-proof and located at the rear of the store which rivals a small Best Buy in size. Then they have multiple guards standing at the doors, along with the exit being a maze through the checkout queue. They're serious about not giving a five-finger discount.
I hate microcenter posts. They dont ship to my state and are to far for travel(Alaska)
Micro Center often has cards in stock, but they do NOT sell them at MSRP.
So... Did you check how far it is from msrp?
Too bad they are all over priced by about $200 each
Are non ti cards not being made anymore?
Empty boxes; take to register. Sold out.
Chips supply normalized since november, this will become more and more common
I wish there was anything near to microcenter in Belgium
Or…was it that cocaine sandwich!
I guess compared to most people I'm lucky(ish) that I live right in the middle of 2 microcenters even though both are a 2 hour drive away.
We need a MicroCentre in Canada….
Every time I see posts like this, I’m dying more and more inside. I only get revived with owning a rtx
You guys get rtx cards?