Cheapest price for this asus 3070. 1% surcharge for Card & PayPal payments.
I bought one for my eGPU to use on my mac. Hopefully is a good boost over the rx580x
Includes redemption code for Marvels Midnight Suns https://www.asus.com/events/info/activity_Unleash_Your_Super…
And still twice the price I paid for my 8800GTS only 14 years ago. Next year will be better!
RTX 3070 Ti was $780 from PC Case Gear on Dec for almost a month including free postage. Seems price has gone up maybe due to COVID restriction in China.
You mean COVID case spike from ease of restriction in China?
Yeah just wait for CNY …
its the inverse of restriction, chaos is the word youre looking for
More likely NVIDIA profitstriction in Santa Clara.
Same price at umart for the last 2 weeks.
Are you using it on windows?
Yeah i will be.
Just curious, why are you using an eGPU on a Mac running in windows? Why not buy an AMD so you can use on both Mac and windows system?
The 6700xt is what i would buy but mac os doesnt support 67 series i either would have to go 6600xt or up to 6800 i would have gone to 6800 but the price is around $1000 anything above y800 is low on return with fps gain as tb3 limits transfer of information so gains are far lower
I do the same. I jump across to Boot Camp Windows for stuff that needs CUDA like the 3D scanner. Would like it even better if there were OSX Nvidia drivers but this is less likely than its ever been.
Consider this second hand mining 3070 for $483 with eBay plus: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/255782517490
Bought a similar 3070 Ti along with a lot of people from same seller and has been no issues: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/730278
Quite tempting. Getting very much over my current card and can't be bothered waiting another year for a replacement. Not interested in dropping $1k+ on something so this might be worth the risk
Read description before you buy though. Rust and oxidation. Make sure you are ok with it.
Just be careful with second hand. I know some if them will run well but with how theyve been used for mining etc they may not have that long of a life.
In sating that there a few gems amongst them
the pcb may last a while, but rusty and oxidized heat sink need to be replaced. forget the warranty, hence the 'cheap'
How would they have got oxidized anyway, pressure cleaned? 😄
@DemocracyManifest: humid area where they put all the mining rigs, not ventilated well, etc.
humidity rose quite high at night to early morning, if window kept open thru the night then you get rusty stuff.
I would rather take this, get a brand new heatsink from China for like around 80 bucks
have you purchased one, can you give any feedback?
thanks
Tempting but not yet coz it’s from taobao and I don’t know how to order yet.
@nelladream: The only time I ordered from TaoBao I had to ask my Chinese coworker to help with the order - my Google Translate voodoo didn't help.
@nelladream: Good price if it is still $80AUD
Aliexpress has it for around $140AUD.
keep me posted if you ever go down this path.
Cheers
Any links to heatsinks?
Is it possible to clean the rust and oxy off?
How did you get the price down to $483? Is there a secondary code, the only code I see doesn't decrease the price to $483.
If buying used mining cards there are also options from non-commercial sellers. Not nearly as convenient but you have the option to inspect the card if you're local or at least get pictures of your specific card even if you're not.
Sorry to say but this is not a good buy at this time.
I dont know if they will go back down its trending up.
ongoing war, taiwan future invasion, china covid, most likely keeps going up.
all GPUs come from china/taiwan.
Not if people don't buy them.
I mean it's cheapest on market but man does this price still suck. The thing that sucks though is amd seem to have entirely ended supply of the 6800/xt which allows NVIDIA to just bump these up or hold steady.
That was my dilemma. I waited but prices are going up again. I gave no idea if they will be going. Based on 3080 and 3090 they will be out of touch with pricing again.
I hear ya mate. I bailed long ago on a 6900 xt. You won't regret anything once you have it and enjoy it!
exactly, i bought 3060 ti preowned for what i deem a decent price, i didnt have $999 when 3080 reached it, and 3080 is now much more, waiting past mid-22 showed now benefits and i might even just go 4070 ti due horrible 3080/90 pricing even preowned
Hi I have a 6 core mac mini with woeful graphics have a spare 6600xt I can use I was wondering what enclosure you were using and also have you done it before I was a bit worried about everything reading in both oses etc
If you use an amd card it will be trickier on windows to setup.
Nvidia seems to be more 'plug n play' than amd for windows.
In the mac os scene your amd should work easily.
Should be arriving next week i got the black friday razer core x for $169
macos hates nvidia
Yes hence why im using it in bootcamp on windows.
Not sure why this is getting negged but theres lots of info in the internet around how you have to do a workaround to get amd cards working on windows on a mac.
Where as nvidia process works fine on windows via bootcamp. Rather than negging go confirm the information . People are meant to be informed on the decision they make and negging this comment means they wont be aware of the potential issues. Also with amd you will need an older windows 10 build. https://egpu.io/boot-camp-egpu-setup-guide/
My 6600XT in MacOS is amazing (very stable compared to Windows), it's my favourite card in there. 6800/XT+ is leaving alot of performance on the table given the PCIe link bandwidth is only 4x and they fill up the eGPU's significantly.
I use a Razer Core X Chroma, but after learning more about these things, the USB hub/Network port in an eGPU is a bad idea (single cable dream over).
Obviously your use case is what matters most so different combinations might be better suited.
HODL'ing is going in the wrong direction. I thought there was supposed to be an unsold surplus of 3000 series last year, but prices are trending up…
On eBay as second hand but the boats sailed there too… With new cards being priced so high this is the new mid range pricing for cards years old now…
Yep this is the 3000 series launch all over again. Remember all the "ZOMG 3070 faster than your 2080 ti, offering 600 no more" on gumtree? Then the actual sale prices were revealed.
the 3000 at least ended up being a cluster due to the pandemic …this is actually manipulation from AMD and Nvidia to price the new cards a tier higher to make the older gen still viable… AMD could have gained market share by naming their cards 7900XT and 7800XT (and equivelant pricing) instead of the horse shit naming they have now…
on ebay now 3080 cost as much as 3090 preowned
HODL
After the disappointment 4070 TI gave. I decided to wait for 50 series, or a further discount from 30 series.
Yep the only solution is inter-generational HODL'ing
after the disappointment i decided to go preowned 30 series
Yep this is me too. I brought a 6900xt for $999 a few months back as a placeholder for this new gen, but it turns out that was great bang for buck.. I'm going to hold onto it now until next gen or massive price cuts
What's with the surcharge on card and PayPal payments? Seen a lot of these + surcharge deals lately for whatever reason.
Merchant fees have been going up so retailers are passing them on.
Grubs.
According to the table here, this is only $100 more and don't think I can be bothered waiting anymore for $100.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/743624
Ti good price yeah but don't think we'll see that soon.
I have the 3060 KO and from what I've gathered it's the same fans as the dual but with a larger/fancier shroud, initially intended as a special Korean edition, though somebody mentioned something about the PCB being the TUF PCB, for whatever that's worth.
Not sure if the huge price jump is worth it from the 3060, I paid $499 for mine months ago. The 12gb of vram has come in very useful for machine learning stuff too, whereas this seems a bit tight on vram.
I have the 3070 KO and that seems to be the case. While it has the "Dual" fans, the TUF PCB has the switch for the silent fan profile until a certain temp, which makes it quieter than the Dual at idle.
Quite happy with mine, but this isn't a great deal, sadly.
Oh I had no idea that was the reason for the fans being off until hitting a certain temperature. Very glad to have the KO now! The fans are currently off at 50 degrees, though I've never seen the card reach 60 degrees even when going at 99% CUDA and 99% vram on machine learning tasks, so they must ramp up somewhere between there.
KO knock out best deal
3070 is not much card. A measly 30% faster than 6600xt/1080ti for like 250% more price
still faster than 3060 Ti, isn't it? In your theory, 3060 Ti is even worse then
Yep, usually about 7%.
Maybe we should all stick to 1080ti, HODL, and never changed to a new card, ever
3070 is a 2080ti with lower memory bus and less ram. The only "new" cards are 3080>. Definitely should upgrade to at least 3080 from 1080ti
Different reason for going nvidia. It works better in bootcamp than AMD does. I would have wanted the 6700 xt but that is just not even supported by mac os at all
Not all frames are rated equal. Ones below 60/75/120 have far more value then say 60-70.
If you neeeeeed ray tracing then the 3070 seems to be the bare minimum card for it. Does one need RT? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
eh, useful for 3d
Yep, I need a bigger jump to justify replacing my 1080 that struggles getting 60fps with 1440p .
A 3080 or better would get me 4K gaming
Crazy to think the 4070TI is basically double this price. I think people almost need to give up on the new market and just buy second hand for a while.
Just don’t buy Nvidia at all for at least 12 months
The more people that don’t buy their products the more of a statement the community is making.
Prices should be
RTX3070 $499AU
RTX4070TI $799AU
RTX4080 $1099AU
RTX4090 $1399AU
yes, in year 2030 the prices will be that
We took the vaccine, brought into the fear and trembling, now pay the COVID tax to the elites.
4070 ti is actually cheaper/more available than 3090 atm while being more power efficient, and given the price predictions people have been having its anyones game
nobody in their right mind is paying retail price for 30 series cards atm. The 3090 sells for $1200AUD second hand atm, and does beat the 4070Ti in several titles.
@theriddick: $200 diff between preowned and new, while the 4070ti is more power efficient, is not really appealling.
i wanted a 3080 but now those preowned cost nearly as much as a 3090 preowned, so the 4070 ti just feels more appealing
Well the new AMD cards are also pretty extremely pricey and AMD is fooling everyone with that 7900 name, they should be all 7800's!
GPU price is insane, 6900XT that I skip was actually a real bargain few months back.
Yeah and it was basically that price back in December 2020. Good prices should appear within the next 6 months. Just keep an eye out for crypto, if that sparks up again buy the cheapest gpu at the time before they all go up.
yeah and if everyone buys a gpu at that point the prices will go up even further AND be out of stock. its september then its black friday then its boxing day etc…
Any bang for buck GPU alternatives at this point?
Techfast is about as good as you will get.
Any advice on the $1,789 RX 7900 XTX thats currently available? Seems like the best bang for bang current gen GPU.
Personally if you're going to spend that much I'd wait for a deal on a non reference 7900xtx to avoid the potential heat issues. Or get a 4080.
AMD did say they would fix any with that known issue but yes it would be a roll of the dice
Current advice is avoid the 7900 series for now as a potential recall is coming due to the design of the vapor cooler, If you really want one its best to either watercool or have it in a vertical position. This doesn't effect all cards but some people have brought up this issue even with xfx merc cards. Waiting for a non reference 7900 XTX myself and not throwing shade on AMD over Nvidia, Honestly they both suck at the moment.
I was leaning towards a 7900 XTX, but from what I can tell:
There are some expectation that the 7900XTX will improve further with driver updates, but I'm not sure how much I trust that.
I don't see the prices going down anytime soon, considering how much the 30 series cards are still going for.
4000 series rip offs pulling all the prices up. But this is 50% of the performance for 20% of the cost. Seems like a good deal anyway considering the shit show NVIDIA has laid out for us.
That's what they want you to believe. It's really a test of how weak peoples self discipline is when related to consumption . Personally I would rather stick with an old Gen card than conform to this new "Normal"
True, I'm invested into VR flight Sims at 4k, even my 3090 is lacking. For pancake games, a 3060 or 5600xt would be fine to power on at 1080p, anything more than that is wasted frames.
Blimey I paid $750 for a Vision 3070 6mo ago. Oh how disappointing nvidia has been.