From the community: User bot notifies you when new graphics cards are available
Source: Hardware Luxx added 24th Nov 2020The new graphics cards of the Radeon-RX – 6000 – series from AMD and the GeForce-RTX – 30 – Family from NVIDIA are on everyone’s lips even days and weeks after their official market launch, they were finally able to significantly increase the performance compared to the generations and still improve the efficiency.
A hot topic in the Hardwareluxx community is currently clearly their availability, because the great interest in the new player graphics cards, but of course the ongoing worldwide corona pandemic, ensure a low supply and high prices. While a street price of around 500 euros was actually targeted for the cheapest models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, you now have to go well over 600 Put euros on the virtual counter – if you are lucky and a model is actually available, of course.
Our forum moderator ” ralle_h “now wants to help interested buyers and significantly increase their chances of getting a new graphics card. For this reason, he has started a small project for the community in which numerous online shops and their APIs are automatically checked for the availability of new RTX and RX graphics cards. If there is sufficient storage capacity, this will be communicated immediately in a corresponding forum post so that interested users can strike.
A subscription with automatic email notification for new posts can be worthwhile. In order to keep any notifications as low as possible, we have closed the thread for comments. Discussions can of course take place in the corresponding availability threads.
Another little tip from the developer: Since many shops deliver their article pages cached in order to save traffic and accelerate the delivery of the website, it can happen that the shop API already marks a certain article as “available”, but the shop still marks this in the fronted as “not available” or “not available” and an order is not (yet) possible. In some shops this can sometimes take up to 40 minutes until the article pages are updated.
ralle_h therefore recommends either regularly updating the article pages manually or placing the article on the wish list or memo, depending on the online shop, in order to be automatically informed by the shop about the later availability. In addition, some Kaufbots are currently supposed to be up to mischief who buy up immediately available graphics cards. Of course, all information without prejudice.
A bit of luck with the purchase of an AMD Radeon RX 6800 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 remains so continue to exist.
We wish you a lot of fun shopping and good luck with your order! More such availability reporting threads for the Ryzen processors from AMD are planned in the coming days.