On Newegg CS: My 5700XT was defective, and I knew their return policy about restocking fees and such. I opened a chat and asked if I could get store credit instead of a refund, as I was buying a 2060super with the money. They said no problem, and it was smooth and painless.
On Amazon CS: The problem with many of the complaints is that they are not looking at the merchant they are dealing with. Amazon may be backing them, but it is not Amazon themselves nerfing many of these orders the complaints are about. Long time member here just made that mistake with a motherboard, so anyone can get confused if they don't pay attention carefully.
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As they say here. You're asking answers.Same prices on those cards at Microcenter. The $490 card is a triple fan Asus which is basically the same cooler they offer on their 3090 Strix and extremally overkill. Before we gather our pitch forks and burn down Newegg, look at their 3050 prices and you will see that they are no different than the other retailers. If anything, I would be asking why Asus is putting a solution that can handle 450w of cooling on a 3050 just to double the price.
When I bought the 5700XT Newegg's policy was replacement for the same card only, at least for my model. Otherwise you were subject to a 15% restocking fee. Which is why it was generous of them to allow me to do a store credit.Newegg does not charge restocking on defective items, and they pay return shipping as well. Every time for me.
/conspiracy mode onIf anything, I would be asking why Asus is putting a solution that can handle 450w of cooling on a 3050 just to double the price.
To be fair there was a crypto dip around 3050 launch, which has somewhat recovered since afaik.Something I've noticed is now that the 3050 exists the NewEgg Shuffles seem to be worse garbage before. I am passing on whole shuffles more than I have been in months.
Before the 3050, you'd see ~$430 3060s, mostly with bundles.
Now I am seeing more $380-$450 3050's and the 3060s are up a notch. I think that consumers are seeing an option in that $300 space and, from a merchandising standpoint, it appears to make higher priced 3060s seem like better "deals".
Just my interpretation, I think the 3050's are filling the role that nvidia wanted them too, but I preferred the 3060 being the retail baseline.
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Igor seems to think the 3050 with GA107 is coming soon.
....and here it is: the cut-down 3050 with the 107 die! With 4GB of memory goodness!
- If the 107 die 4GB 3050 performs similarly to the full fat 8gb 3050 it will be interesting to see how this will reflect in pricing.
It probably wouldn't since they'd likely cut it slightly too. I'd be surprised if they do 4 GB, given that surely the price gap between 1 GB and 2 GB chips is nowhere near the extra money AIBs could charge.
Adding an RTX 3050 to a Q6600 rig. Runs actually pretty well.
lol at that single sata to 8-pin.
I don't know if I'd put it quite like that. If the current is high enough that's a literal fire hazard.
At least it's only a 3050.
As long as the user does not daisy chain off the SATA power connectors, typically nothing awful happens. Even exceeding the rating by 2x or so seems to have no ill effect in my experience.
I would suggest using the cheapo specials within their power ratings yields problems. So you are certainly correct with that.Of course 99.999999% of the time nothing bad will happen. If, however, you have a bad, flakey or just cheapo adaptor one of those SATA pins might suddenly be carrying an awful lot of current. I don't think they're rated for much past 2-3A per pin. If you suddenly send 15-20A though, there might be magic smoke.