FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY was able to grab one of 30-series graphics cards tonight after not being able to find any of them or the 6800-series AMD cards since they launched. I live relatively close to a Microcenter store and was stopping by for some soldering supplies. Of course I had to see if they had any 30-series or 6800-series GPUs while I was there, much less any graphics card. If you've been following the GPU market over the past 6-months it's an utter and complete shit show! Supply shortages and distribution issues, out of control demand for gaming and cryptocurrancy, and trade issues have made finding nearly any graphics cards pure hell. But I was completely and utterly shocked when I walked over to their GPU case and saw around a dozen MSI RTX 3070 Gaming Trio X cards in the case! I was speechless.
And for the record the 3070 was not my first choice for a graphics card, hell it's not even my second. I really wanted a 3080 (an Aorus Master specifically) or an AMD 6800XT, but considering you can't even come across any of the 20-series cards right now, beggers really can't be choosers. I was 95% certain I was going to buy one the minute I saw them, but still debated on holding off for one of the cards I really, really wanted. But the combination of the 3070s they had literally being the ONLY GPUs they had in stock combined with two of the 3070s literally selling in the 5-minutes I was thinking about all this pretty much made my mind up and I ended up dropping around $800 on one.
Supposedly Microcenter is getting a shipment in tomorrow morning with possibly some 3080 cards, and I'll be up bright and early to see if that ends up being true, but even if it isn't I am beyond happy to have any 30-series NVIDIA card right now! With that said, I'm going to try my luck tomorrow and probably hold off on opening the 3070 at least for a week in hopes lightening strikes twice and I'm able to get one of the cards I really, really want. But even if I don't I am more than happy with my 3070
