I have a RTX 3080 not being used and I'm not sure what to do, Need Advice

[Sharpstick68]

Ok I know the title sounds strange but I will explain - In april of 2021 I was able to purchase a 3070 through EVGA because I was on the waitlist for a bunch of models, and my turn in the queue finally came up, so I went ahead and bought one. I was upgrading from a GTX 980 TI That was giving me problems at the time so I was happy to be able to get a new card especially when everything was crazy. Then about 8 months later I got an e-mail saying my queue in the position was up, and this time it was for a 3080! I was saying to myself holy ###### what do I do? so I went ahead and bought it, with the intention on using the new 3080 in a future system I want to build. Fast-Forward to 2022, here we are in July and I still haven't built my new system yet, which I'm mostly waiting for the newer cpu's and stuff to come out..and I am just kind of freaking out, like what do I do...do I use the 3080 I got in my system I want to build? do I use my 3070 and sell the 3080? I'm just so confused and going crazy because I know it sounds like a weird problem to have...but I honestly just need some advice, as strange as this sounds.

[cacoe]

So you have 2x current gen gpu sat there and you're waiting for next gen cpu's to arrive to use them?

Take advantage of the low(er) prices and just build a system now. Keep the 3080 there's a nice performance bump over the 3070 and flip that.

[Sharpstick68]

On 22/07/2022 at 21:17, cacoe said:

So you have 2x current gen gpu sat there and you're waiting for next gen cpu's to arrive to use them?

Take advantage of the low(er) prices and just build a system now. Keep the 3080 there's a nice performance bump over the 3070 and flip that.

Yes I was going to wait to build a raptorlake based system, I just can't decide if I want to go with DDR5 or DDR4 based build because I want 64 GB of memory and the price of that would probabaly be insane compared to DDR4

[cacoe]

Just seems crazy to me to drop that kind of money for (at the time) the best tech availible, only to let it gather dust and put it into a system where it'll be the oldest part in there.

 

Not that it will be bad but if you'd just saved the money, you would have potentially been buying a 4xxx gpu with it.

[Sharpstick68]

On 22/07/2022 at 21:22, cacoe said:

Just seems crazy to me to drop that kind of money for (at the time) the best tech availible, only to let it gather dust and put it into a system where it'll be the oldest part in there.

 

Not that it will be bad but if you'd just saved the money, you would have potentially been buying a 4xxx gpu with it.

Well I mean it's not like I paid a scalper's price, I paid the retail price for it

[cacoe]

On 23/07/2022 at 02:26, Sharpstick68 said:

Well I mean it's not like I paid a scalper's price, I paid the retail price for it

Yeah but the value proposition is lowered over time by simply not using it, as better tech is released.