Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING PRO 10GB V1 Graphics Card - £629.98 with code (UK Mainland) @ eBay / ebuyer

Think I might finally bite. Don’t want to buy used. Might have gone for 4070 Ti but worse for VR

This or this: overclockers.co.uk/pow…tml ?

Are Amazon likely to match? Was about to order then I remembered the last [terrible] return experience I had with eBuyer. (edited)

wait for 300

Lol, a 2 year old GPU. These should be around £500-550 at the most now. GPU market is a shambles, if you’ve got a decent card (GTX 1080Ti and above) you’re better off waiting a month or two… I think the RTX 4080s will soon drop in price as well as the 7900XT / XTX

Please ignore comment above regarding warranty. In the UK and EU, warranty is exclusively handled by the retailer, not the manufacturer. In the UK there are a couple of manufacturers (EVGA, gigabyte and Asus, maybe more) that handle direct warranty, but only if the buyer cannot get hold of the retailer. It is not the case here as you are buying from ebuyer and chances are they will be in business for a while. 

palit are decent cards, but the warranty is only 2 years as opposed to gigabyte etc that are three. Some high end gigabyte models come with 4 years.


my biggest question here, is ‘why is this a deal’? 2.5years from release for RRP? 

I'm holding, it's a great deal if you need a high end GPU NOW but honestly:
Palit is a mediocre brand, I searched through some reddit threads and there's lots of owners who complain about fan quality on those, apparently it's loud.
Honestly, even if 3000 series was available at MSRP from day 1 these prices were greedy and absurd to begin with.
But still, it's 20 quid below MSRP for FE, they're selling it at a loss. Used and refurbished cards sell for 800 quid on Ebay, if you need a 3080 badly, go for it - it's a great deal and if my 1070 died today I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Palit warranty is non existent so i would avoid. My 2080Ti died just before christmas and they don't want to know.

4060ti is likely to have the same performance and 4070 be slightly ahead of this. Question is how much is it going to cost? (edited)

Considering a 3080 FE was £540 at release 2 years ago this is not a deal. Honestly if you want cheaper nVidia cards stop rewarding them for price gouging. (edited)

Where's a good place to sell a used graphics card these days without going down the Ebay route. Not keen on posting a 3090Ti.

After a couple of decades of eBaying, I've long learned not to buy high value items from private sellers. So I bought a used 3080 on on eBay for £550 from a private seller, genius. Despite repeated assurances of it being 'mint' and 'hardly used', obviously it looked like it had been in a washing machine with 10 grands worth of 50p pieces, used to mine several Lambos worth of crypto, spent an evening being interrogated by Tate's arresting officers and received a brutally accurate tweet from a teenage climate activist.

It performed as expected, crashing repeatedly, why did I break my own rules? IDK, perhaps I thought humanity might have changed its ways. But for this price I might as well pick one up new, cheapest used on online with a warranty right now is £560. They are amazing cards but the prices are just insane, my last card was a 980ti at £500 and that was beyond my extreme top end, £1,269 GBP for the 4080 is wild.

I was still a little on the fence on this but I may go for it tonight. Hesitated due to coming across some posts of people saying it's stupid to buy the 3080 now the 4070 Ti is out, but I don't get that argument, by that rationale it's stupid to buy the 4070ti because the 4090 exists... the 4070ti is £170 more than this, that's not a negligible jump in price.

Old tech for new tech prices, thought this was HOTukdeals...

I have ordered this for VR with an Oculus. Do think it will suffer with the 10 GB memory as opposed to 12GB available on some cards or if indeed this really matters for the forseeable future?

Also, do you think a 5600x would slightly bottleneck this GPU and I should try to get a 5700x or 5800x? (edited)