EVGA Is Selling GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Graphics Cards for $1,000 Off

[Tempest]

Not quite sure how I feel about seeing "$1000 off" applied to consumer gaming cards, but OTOH, these are flagship cards and priced accordingly. Like most of you, I picked up a few of them for the spare parts bin. They're great for troubleshooting PCs without iGPUs.

Concerning bundles: I generally only like bundles that offer a discount from the combined purchase of items chosen by the customer; otherwise I hate them. I absolutely loathe "free" game bundles. They're never going to include games I'd actually want, and they complicate returns. I'd go so far as to say that customers should receive a discount on hardware bundled with Ubisoft games.

 

[Ditchinit]

Bummer on the 980 Ti. Fantastic cards and the fact it lasted this long is a testament to that. On the flip side, I'll be really surprised if you're not totally impressed with the new card. I have every intention of skipping the 40 series because of it. The keyboard, to me, is a bit on the cheap side but my wife loves it since she gets to use it for surfing/shopping on the internet on the laptop in my office space.

Edit: Just a heads up that these 3090Ti's usually need you to update to the latest NV driver before they fully install. I think it's the first time I've ever seen a GPU that was that picky but I've seen it happen in 2 different rigs now. Windows will install the basic to get the display up and running but I've had to download the latest to finish it. I found it odd since I'm usually not more than a few behind (although lately, I haven't been playing as newer of games that need them so I might've had some older than that). I'm pretty sure that Ghostwire is the newest game I've had to install a driver for in about six months. Before Ghostwire it was probably either one of the Crysis remasters or maybe RE feature updates.

I just went through similar but different GPU driver woes. About a week ago, Windows thought I should have updated video drivers, so it did the update automatically and only told me about it afterward ... all cheery like they did me a favor ("Hi, we updated your video drivers for you"). Unfortunately, I had a 660ti in as a secondary to my 980ti (I run a 20-30-20 in PLP - the 660ti ran the two 20s while the 980ti ran the 30) ... and the updated drivers caused Windows to not even detect the 660ti at all. I said a few dirty words. I've not ever experienced a driver update that forced obsolescence on a perfectly operable piece of hardware.

But thanks for the heads up. My standard practice is to download and update all drivers when I get my new system put together. Oh yes, I'm going all in on a new system now. I just have to finish selecting the other major parts. Maybe I'll draft up a "community project" to help spec one out in the General Computer forum. Seems this site's last complete build write up for high and mid range systems is a couple years out of date.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Windows thought I should have updated

That could be the introduction to many an IT horror movie.

Seems this site's last complete build write up for high and mid range systems is a couple years out of date

@David_Schroth, I'm not sure if we've got anyone doing those currently. With the next round of CPUs, and maybe GPUs, coming out could be a good idea.

 

[Grimlakin]

I just went through similar but different GPU driver woes. About a week ago, Windows thought I should have updated video drivers, so it did the update automatically and only told me about it afterward ... all cheery like they did me a favor ("Hi, we updated your video drivers for you"). Unfortunately, I had a 660ti in as a secondary to my 980ti (I run a 20-30-20 in PLP - the 660ti ran the two 20s while the 980ti ran the 30) ... and the updated drivers caused Windows to not even detect the 660ti at all. I said a few dirty words. I've not ever experienced a driver update that forced obsolescence on a perfectly operable piece of hardware.

But thanks for the heads up. My standard practice is to download and update all drivers when I get my new system put together. Oh yes, I'm going all in on a new system now. I just have to finish selecting the other major parts. Maybe I'll draft up a "community project" to help spec one out in the General Computer forum. Seems this site's last complete build write up for high and mid range systems is a couple years out of date.

So the questions are... what do you want? AMD or Intel, and how many cores are you looking for, OR do you just want peak gaming performance? Like I went with the 5900x. The 5800x3d is a better gaming CPU but I like the flexibility of more cores.

Then you have to select GPU. Thankfully availability isn't a thing... BUT considering WHEN you are doing this I would go EVGA, then you can do the steup-up to a like model 4000 series and call it done. The only thing you're going to miss the boat on a little bit is CPU. But like you I won't be upgrading my CPU this generation. the 1st generation on a new socket... just not for me yet. I'll wait for the 8000 series most likely with the newer chipset with whatever is out then. PCIE 4 is plenty for me.

 

[Ditchinit]

So the questions are... what do you want? AMD or Intel, and how many cores are you looking for, OR do you just want peak gaming performance? Like I went with the 5900x. The 5800x3d is a better gaming CPU but I like the flexibility of more cores.

Then you have to select GPU. Thankfully availability isn't a thing... BUT considering WHEN you are doing this I would go EVGA, then you can do the steup-up to a like model 4000 series and call it done. The only thing you're going to miss the boat on a little bit is CPU. But like you I won't be upgrading my CPU this generation. the 1st generation on a new socket... just not for me yet. I'll wait for the 8000 series most likely with the newer chipset with whatever is out then. PCIE 4 is plenty for me.

I got a little long winded and put up a post for gathering suggestions and feedback in the General Computing section.