If only... I'm worried even the new 3080ti's will be sold out before anyone can get their hands on them at retail even with their high price point. It would be weird to be able to just order a GPU at retail at this point. Feels like it will be a long time before that's possible again. Until then, good luck trying to snipe yourself one any way possible. I'll be trying myself alongside the rest of the herd.
I'm in ASIA, I can't source; Yes nothing is shipping to Africa or USA
This is going to get much worse before it gets better
Last time this happened prices fell like a rock, once the channels were filled. Last summer I could buy anything cheap.
This is a double-whammy, can't source components, and cards are sold-out; This could continue for years. If manufacturers can't source components, then no cards can be built.
Take care of your existing cards boyz, newbs you are SOL if you want to play
Obviously when ETH goes POS very soon, mining ETH will because obsolete, then its back to mining for par electricity costs, right now we're in the golden-age of GPU mining, but its NOT going to last.
The entire reason I asked this question, is just to see if anybody on earth had a source. Given the easy money right now, people with 30xx cards would have to be dumb or lazy to sell them
Of course the other wild-card if ETH plummets back to earth, because the crypto-scam falls out of favor, then the GPUS will once again be cheap-cheap and plentiful