End of Year PC Build

I said MSRP. LoL

I am very satisfied with my RTX 2080 Super FTW 3 Ultra Gaming.   Beats my 1080 FTW 2 without breaking a circuit.  That being said if I had the opportunity to upgrade, I would upgrade to a 3080TI or even the 3090 FTW 3 Ultra Gaming........OR whatever else was newer and hotter, and actually on the shelves in stock.

I certainly hope so too. I could sell my GTX 1660TI for profit after two years of use. It's crazy.
That's not happening; it's a total pipe dream.

We are living in an age, where I have to hide the empty GPU cardboard boxes in my storage, lest someone think there's a card inside.

That empty box is kinda what you're getting right now with the 30 series.   It reminds me of the "Empty Box Campaign" that Kenner Toys did with their STAR WARS toy lines during Christmas of 76-77, because kids would receive a certificate in the mail as a 'proof of purchse' with a voucher that says "we owe you a toy and it will be shipped to your house on February xx"   And Kenner held true to their word and kids received their toys.

With this situation though companies aren't even saying "We owe you a card......."   Instead they're saying "you're schitt outta luck and up schitt's creek without a paddle.  We're sorry that you wasted your money, but we're not sorry we took your money from you.  But undoubtedly we are ontining to make advancements and will have something even newer on the market soon, especially considering the upcoming release of LGA 1700, DDR 5, PCIE 5 and PCIE 6.0......And don't forget Windows 10 21H3-- um, uh, we mean Windows 11."

Fellow forumites, I could use your input, please.

I just saw my local store's entire stock of 6600 XTs vanish overnight. I've heard rumours, that because of the low power consumption, the 6600 XT is actually a good card for mining.

So, do I panic buy a card from the other store I mentioned earlier? The card I'm hoping to get, is the Powercolor 6600 XT Red Devil with dual BIOS, currently selling for $700.

Or should I wait? What do you think?

You hesitate, you lose. As we would say in the GPU stock alert discord channels. Haha.

Sometimes you just gotta buy first and then think later. That's basically what I did and I ended up paying $3300 for two 3090s. Probably not the wisest decision but at least I can now play Honey Select 2 at 144 FPS. 

Apparently so. And so I did; I bought a card. It's an Asus RTX 3060. Yes, it's crap, but at least I can call it upgrading.

I hadn't noticed that ethereum has been rising steadily, so much in fact, that there's going to be another GPU shortage soon. Nothing seems to hinder mining very much, LHR or high prices.

So I paid $750 for a $350 card. Not happy, but now the build is advancing at least. BTW, my local store is out of EK's CPU blocks; water cooling is not looking very promising atm.

At least it beats the RTX 2060 Super.

Yeah, but the situations were vastly different back then.

We didn't have a GPU shortage.

Of course I can. Don't mind me, I'm just old.