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sc94597 said:

JEMC said:

How come you went with a 4080? A 3090 also has 24GB of VRAM like the 4090, and I'd guess that it would be cheaper to get one of those second hand than a 4080.

But well, with the Lunar New Year causing most of assembly plants to stop in China for a month, it looks like you Cyran and Jizz/s friend will have a hard time getting one soon.

I got the 4080 as a Christmas gift from my partner in December 2022 when used RTX 3090's were still over-priced from the crypto mining wave ($850-$950 used, $1100 new) and the 4090 wasn't in stock regularly. My partner found a 4080 in stock at MSRP. Was upgrading from a 3080ti. So the upgrade was pretty substantial. Bought the 4090 last year when I needed more VRAM to test local LLMs for a project I was doing for work. 

Could've probably sold the 4080 and bought a 3090 (or even another 4090), but didn't feel like going through the bother.

If the GPUs were in stock, I would've probably just had got a 4090 in December 2024 and then maybe a used 3090 later on when the prices came down to $700ish. 

I see. Well, can't complain with that kind of gifts.

The 3090 could have been better with yout AI work, but once you put that 4080 through some games, I'm sure you'll appreciate the extra horse power it has.

Getting a 4090 last month would have been a waste of money more likely than not. With Nvidia stopping production back in September or Octobert to get rid of all the 4000 cards in retail (they sure knew the new ones wouldn't be well received and make sure to get rid of other options), the price for them skyrocketed to the point where a 5090 would be a much better investment.

Rhonin the wizard said:

More games have been removed from sale.

OlliOlli World
https://steamdb.info/app/1294420/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1190170/OlliOlli_World/

Rollerdrome
https://steamdb.info/app/1294420/
store.steampowered.com/app/1294420/Rollerdrome/

These two are probably linked to Take-Two closing down Roll7.

STAR WARS: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes
https://steamdb.info/app/32420/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/32420/STAR_WARS_The_Clone_Wars__Republic_Heroes/

This one can still be bought on GamersGate.

Good Lord, we're seeing lots of delistings in the last months. I don't recall having so many in prior years.

Anyway, thanks for sharing.