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The memory shortage is specifically linked to DDR6, which doesn't relate to the 32 gig you recently bought. This is the main reason for the short supply on new cards, and why NVidia also have stripped back how much is going to be on 3080 cards from there original design intention. The difference between 10 gig onboard vs 24 gig on board (plus better bandwidth) is a major plus for the 3090. Indeed a 3080 has less on board RAM than my current 2080 Ti, and is one of the main reasons why I'm not particularly considering it as increasing the supersampling ratio in VR eats VRAM, plus real world performance comparisons show a 17% performance increase with the 3080, vs 33% vs the 3090 over my 2080Ti, which isn't enough to warrant it imo for me, and I'm sure that it won't be enough for what I want to do personally re Reverb2. If it wasn't for VR I wouldn't even be considering an upgrade as my 2080Ti runs everything in 4K maxed out (nearly in DCS but everything else anyway) already. Ultimately, what a user is prepared to pay, comes down to there own disposable finances at that time, and why they want it, the same argument could be levelled at someone who buys a Ferrari as opposed to a Ford Focus, or indeed a cheap second hand car..... As to getting a 3080 for less than 1000 in the near future (within a year anyway), good luck with that, I hope you will be proved correct, but I sincerely doubt it. Of course we could all wait 3 years and buy a 4070, which will no doubt be better than a 3080 and a lot cheaper, tis the way of things....

I just equate it to if golf was my hobby.... membership fee's, clubs etc.... @DD_Arthurprices of top end cards had more than doubled in the space of a few years pre pandemic.

I don't really share that appraisal (hope to be wrong) or your optimism at all I'm afraid. It is definitely due to both (specifically ddr memory shortages), and crypto currency mining is only growing. Prices have gone up @400 pounds since release.

Nor me, that's why i might just bite the bullet. Besides, who knows what the price will eventually be if they keep going up!

So tempted to pre order lol, ▷ Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 Vision OC 24GB GDDR… | OcUK (overclockers.co.uk) Factory overclocked 3090....

Missiles, who needs missiles....

Jester being humorous,

Really happy that long term the Intruder is coming....

Can't bloody wait.

Relaxing landing in a Tomcat, heavy cloud, at night and in the rain.

I was testing uploading a 4k screenie, as until I asked Rog to work some magic a couple of days ago, you couldn't, it would resize to a lower res. As to the landing, you better ask Tom.

Nice article. Now I'll understand better how I broke my engine in future!

test,

Making it even harder than at night, some really shitty weather!!!

I have a sneaky suspicion its going to be nerfed somewhat as it gets more work, because its rather good at finding any moving vehicle out to 40 miles at the moment!!!! Good fun though!

Oh, and a very relaxing night carrier landing......🤪 And not a particularly pretty one at that!!!!

Using the new Air to Ground features in the Hornet, GBU strike at night.....

Squadron decals, the half glass full part of me is 'whoop whoop', the half glass empty part of me 'is about bloody time'!!!!! Seriously though, a small but cosmetically great addition.

I see what you did there.....🤣

Chris, given that my 2080ti outperforms a 3070 (not by huge amounts, but it does across every feature), and I'm looking to upgrade my 2080ti because of VR, read into that what you will. However, that said, it means that a 3070 will give you only marginally less quality in VR, than i have currently, which is still better than a lot of people on entry level, but not enough for me to use it consistently (I've ruined myself by having a 4k monitor for 3 years plus). As an aside, the new Ryzen is likely to get dethroned pretty quickly by the upcoming 11th gen intel chips arriving quarter 1 this year. Also, if you look at that spreadsheet crash linked, you'll see everyone is running there cpu's overclocked @ the 5ghz mark.....

m2 NVMe drives are between 5 to 7 times faster than a sata III ssd and even more quicker than that over sata II SSD's. Could you get away with, sure, will VR performance be better with m2 NVMe drives, yes. You could still use the old drives as well. Undoubtedly the new chips would push the price up! Regarding chips, I wouldn't be paying to much attention to stock core speeds, more to overclocked speeds easily attainable (easy to google), not all chip types overclock as well as others, and you will be wanting to overclock for VR. A good mobo here is really important, its something that a lot of people scrimp a bit on a new build, but there's no point trying to drop a v12 into a morris minor..... Liquid cooling is defiantly something i would recommend these days to.

16 gig is not enough, get 32 (I'm actually thinking about upgrading to 64). Check the mobo to see if it has at least 2 m2 SSD slots. Only use m2 SSD drives (other than having maybe a back up drive). You'll get the best VR performance by having windows on one m2, and your VR games on another. FYI, intels 11th gen chips are just around the corner, and look very promising.

Black magic,