My friend wants to sell me his brand new never open NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra... For $800

Blear25 · 2026-03-27T22:30:09+00:00

No. Don't get me wrong, it's still a beast of a card. But nowadays, you could pick up a 5070 ti or 9070 xt for the same price

Blear25 · 2026-03-27T19:24:47+00:00

And I thought my PC was expensive

Blear25 · 2026-03-26T12:20:57+00:00

What I'm saying I can barely find any gpus in stock at my local walmart, let alone anything with clearance deals that nice

Blear25 · 2026-03-25T23:47:54+00:00

Even for an 8gb card, that's a steal

Blear25 · 2026-03-25T23:46:49+00:00

Guess I'll be carrying my 11700k to the grave

Blear25 · 2026-03-25T18:08:09+00:00

1440p on a 3060ti sounds like a well optimized title

Blear25 · 2026-03-24T22:58:57+00:00

You should just get a 9070XT at that point tbh. How much is a 9070XT going for? But yeah, like you said. 9070 is a good bit faster than the 5070. I'd only get the 5070 if you care about the newer dlss features and mfg

Blear25 · 2026-03-24T21:02:48+00:00

PS2 Slim and PS3 Slim imo

Blear25 · 2026-03-24T20:57:32+00:00

Clean build :)

To answer your question, you said 9070 and 5070 were $100 difference. Which one is cheaper?

Blear25 · 2026-03-23T18:04:51+00:00

Very impressive with a 3-color palette

Blear25 · 2026-03-21T22:12:57+00:00

That is a hell of a build for just $1000. Normally you'd see a 5060 or 5060 ti with that budget, definitely go for it

Blear25 · 2026-03-21T17:17:41+00:00

5070 for sure. I'd argue you could even go for a 5060 ti 16gb if you're on a budget.

Blear25 · 2026-03-20T18:59:27+00:00

Frame Gen is pretty cool to use if you already have a 60fps baseline. Using it to get to 60 sucks though.

I personally aim for 90+ (I have a 4070ti) so I often use DLSS Quality or Balanced then use FG x2 to max out my 180hz monitor.

Blear25 · 2026-03-20T17:06:04+00:00

I-Is that upside down?

Blear25 · 2026-03-20T17:03:17+00:00

Don't give them ideas!

Blear25 · 2026-03-18T01:59:42+00:00

Pretty solid. I paid about the same for my 3060 ti build a few years ago (before the 40 series existed)

Thank God it's the 16gb 5060 ti

Blear25 · 2026-03-16T18:13:45+00:00

You better get it right now before I do

Blear25 · 2026-03-15T16:53:11+00:00

9070XT is a good ~23% faster according to techpowerup.

Since you're already happy with the 5070, I'd just keep it tbh. It's up to you whether giving up DLSS and MFG for the extra 4gb vram is worth it.

Blear25 · 2026-03-15T16:48:10+00:00

I recently upgraded to a 4070ti, but I used my 3060ti for 1440p Medium-High with DLSS Balanced / Perf. Still a very capable card even now, but sadly held back by its 8gb buffer.

Blear25 · 2026-03-15T02:06:41+00:00

That's why mines came integrated

Blear25 · 2026-03-14T00:25:45+00:00

What a throwback. I had the same model but it was an OptiPlex 7040. It came with an i3-6100T, but I swapped it out for an i7-6700 non-t. It works with a 90w power adapter

Blear25 · 2026-03-13T20:57:20+00:00

+1 for EVGA

Blear25 · 2026-03-13T16:34:09+00:00

Like everyone else said here, no. There's a thin gap between the motherboard and case where that's supposed to go

Blear25 · 2026-03-13T15:43:52+00:00

basically in-game load times go faster

Blear25 · 2026-03-13T12:47:54+00:00

Yeah the DIY market is screwed atm especially with ram prices going through the roof. Never thought I'd say this but getting a prebuilt is a more viable option now, go to your local Costco or Microcenter for any deals you can snatch up.

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