Anyone own a PC with an RTX 3080/3070? How much did you spend?

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I spent about $900 on everything excluding the graphics card. I will get an RTX 30 series at some point. It's surprisingly easy to put together your own PC.
 
About 2200 to have it built with a 3080
 
I bought a prebuilt with a 3070 from Newegg about a month ago for ~$1950, the same build DIY would have cost around $1600 if GPU's were actually available at MSRP.
 
3070 build from iBuyPower for $1650. I priced a nearly identical build at $2000 a week later after the sales I used ended. I got lucky as far as price goes. I got unlucky with a bad GPU that had to be RMA'ed. After everything was said and done, it took a little over 10 weeks for me to have a functional PC.
 
Law Talkin’ Guy said:
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pretty much this.


thehighking said:
I spent about $900 on everything excluding the graphics card. I will get an RTX 30 series at some point. It's surprisingly easy to put together your own PC.
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sure, if you have a friend to give you a gpu. haha

3070s seem to be pretty easy to find, but they're obviously still marked up. i'm seeing 5600x-5900x with a 3070 for 2200-2600. (immediately available, like... can walk in/out with it)

3080s, though...
 
Dell has one with a 3060 Ti (which is a better choice than the 3070) for $1699.
 
Yuval Levy said:
Just pricing up for a new PC
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I'll give you the moon to shoot for.

Absolute best sale I've seen since the launch of the new GPUs was a custom built iBuyPower, but factoring in internet anecdotal feedback, particularly that of Sherdoggers who chanced it to seize the opportunity for one of the new GPUs, the custom builds appear to have quality control issues more often than prebuilts (even from the custom builders themselves). As I've said before, that makes sense, because it's much easier to build the same one thing many times than to build many different things just once.

Best Custom Build: iBuyPower (Jan-11-2021)
$1152 w/deferred shipping
*$1330 for the RTX 3070 version-- an inferior value; additional upgrades to the [Case: Lian Li LANCOOL II Mesh w/3x120mm RGB fans] + [Cooler: 240mm Deepcool Gamerstorm Captain EX liquid cooler] cost just +$51 together
  • CPU: R5-5600X
  • Cooler: Deepcool Gammax GT ARGB
  • GPU: RTX 2080 Super*
  • MoBo: Asus TUF Gaming B550-Plus
  • RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200MHz CAS16 ADATA Spectrix D41 RGB
  • SSD: Intel 665p 1TB SSD
  • PSU: 750W High Power Gold
  • Case: iBuyPower Slate 4 ATX incl 4x120mm ARGB fans
  • WiFi: None
  • OS: None [must install yourself or purchase separately]

Best Prebuilt: Skytech Azure (Nov-26-2020)
$999

Those aren't realistic, though, especially now. If you want to browse the sales that have been attracting gamers:
3070: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/search/?q=prebuilt 3070&restrict_sr=1&t=year&sort=top
3080: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/search/?q=prebuilt 3080&restrict_sr=1&t=year&sort=top
My Spot said:
Dell has one with a 3060 Ti (which is a better choice than the 3070) for $1699.
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???

3070 > 3060 Ti across the board.
 
3070 laptop, $1700
 
My Spot said:
Costs 25% more for an extra 2-3 FPS at 1440p.
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Oh, gotcha, I would have gleaned this if you'd invoked the term "value". I didn't see the Dell 3070 price mentioned to infer this was the basis for comparison.

Although you are understating the difference. The 3070 is ~25% more powerful. The advantage is steeper than a 2-3 fps. It's comes in at ~10-13% more frames at 1440p:
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Madmick said:
Oh, gotcha, I would have gleaned this if you'd invoked the term "value". I didn't see the Dell 3070 price mentioned to infer this was the basis for comparison.

Although you are understating the difference. The 3070 is ~25% more powerful. The advantage is steeper than a 2-3 fps. It's comes in at ~10-13% more frames at 1440p:
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My Spot said:
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Do you comprehend what you're reading? That chart shows a 9.7% advantage for the RTX 3070. That's nearly identical to the Techspot roundup.

Focusing on OC figures only makes sense if your intent is to aggressively OC, and one card has much more OC overhead than another (ex. RX 5700 with an unlocked power limit vs. RX 5700 XT). That isn't the case with the 3060 Ti vs. 3070:
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Because otherwise you aren't comparing apples to apples. I'm aware Tom's Hardware managed a better OC with the 3060 Ti vs. the 3070, but that's an outlier. On a more practical level, this is easily observed enough from actual aftermarket AICs, because it demonstrates what these manufacturers have discovered the binned cards will actually do; particularly what is promised without voiding warranty. The most aggressively clocked turbo on any 3060 Ti is 1830 MHz (+165), and most of the more aggressively overclocked variants come in between 1755MHz-1800MHz (+90 - +135). Meanwhile, the most aggressively clocked turbo on any 3070 is 1935 MHz (+210), and most of the more aggressively clocked variants come in between 1815 MHz - 1845 MHz (+90 - +120).

As usual, the median score quoted by 3DMark for Time Spy gives you a reliable indicator of performance:
13,748 = RTX 3070
11,856 = RTX 3060 Ti
 
Madmick said:
Do you comprehend what you're reading? That chart shows a 9.7% advantage for the RTX 3070. That's nearly identical to the Techspot roundup.

Focusing on OC figures only makes sense if your intent is to aggressively OC, and one card has much more OC overhead than another (ex. RX 5700 with an unlocked power limit vs. RX 5700 XT). That isn't the case with the 3060 Ti vs. 3070:
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Because otherwise you aren't comparing apples to apples. I'm aware Tom's Hardware managed a better OC with the 3060 Ti vs. the 3070, but that's an outlier. On a more practical level, this is easily observed enough from actual aftermarket AICs, because it demonstrates what these manufacturers have discovered the binned cards will actually do; particularly what is promised without voiding warranty. The most aggressively clocked turbo on any 3060 Ti is 1830 MHz (+165), and most of the more aggressively overclocked variants come in between 1755MHz-1800MHz (+90 - +135). Meanwhile, the most aggressively clocked turbo on any 3070 is 1935 MHz (+210), and most of the more aggressively clocked variants come in between 1815 MHz - 1845 MHz (+90 - +120).

As usual, the median score quoted by 3DMark for Time Spy gives you a reliable indicator of performance:
13,748 = RTX 3070
11,856 = RTX 3060 Ti
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I mean, if an extra 2-3 FPS is worth an extra $200, well...

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My Spot said:
I mean, if an extra 2-3 FPS is worth an extra $200, well...

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That's what I'm telling you. It's not an extra 2-3 fps. It's an extra +10.8 fps (+9.7%) average across their 9 tested games. This is the difference between 60fps vs. 54fps, or 144fps vs. 131fps.

I wouldn't dispute that the 3060 Ti is a better value, though there are many ways to evaluate that, and the $300-$400 cards almost always offer the best bang-for-your-buck. I leave that to the buyer to assess for himself. I'm simply pointing out one should inform that decision with an accurate comparison of relative power.
 
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