Should you upgrade to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 from the GTX 1080?

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WindowsCentral keeps running articles about the latest graphics cards, such as this one ("Should you upgrade to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 from the GTX 1080?"), but it hasn't had any articles about the fact that no one can get the latest graphics cards. All of the major retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, Micro Center, ...) are sold out of all of the latest cards (33060, 3070, 3080, 3090) from all of their manufacturers (Nvidia, Gigabyte, ASUS, EVGA, ...).

Seeing articles about how awesome the new cards are, and then not being able to actually get the cards, is kind of like rubbing salt in the wound.

I hope WindowsCentral runs an article talking about the production issues and the scalpers whose bots buy up all the cards within seconds of when they appear, and then who sell them on eBay for 2x-3x their MSRP. And I'd like to see some educated predictions about when this might clear up, too.