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Overpriced junk not even worth $1000. Architecture 1.5 yrs old. That's outdated in tech world.
Overpriced junk not even worth $1000. Architecture 1.5 yrs old. That's outdated in tech world.
I wouldn't be that harsh. I'd say $2,000 is fair enough.
I wouldn't be that harsh. I'd say $2,000 is fair enough.
I would not. Unfortunately this is the world we live in but no $2k and especially $5k for a gaming card should not even be possible.
$5 is money some people spend on the car. I know I am lucky that I can pay way more but that is recent. And no freaking way I will pay $2k plus for a video card.
My gaming PC that was top of the range - had 1080ti in it... Cost me less then 2k on sale (before the pricing went mad)
Without raytracing but I otherwise a very capable card witj 11gb of memory (I think) that never strained under 2k load at high quality
I wouldn't be that harsh. I'd say $2,000 is fair enough.
I purchased RTX 3080 in Nov 2020 for ₹ 64,000 from Lamington Road. Retrospectively, it was the best decision ever. LoL. I wouldn't pay $2000 (₹ 1,50,000) for outdated card as 3090ti when 4000 series is just around the corner.
10 years ago, you can buy a decent GPU for about $100-$200, supplies were not scarce and were usable for the next 5+ years. Buying a GPU today is so complicated, overpriced, and it isn't worth anyone's money anymore. While GPU prices went over the roof, years of support also went shorter. *sigh*
10 years ago, you can buy a decent GPU for about $100-$200, supplies were not scarce and were usable for the next 5+ years. Buying a GPU today is so complicated, overpriced, and it isn't worth anyone's money anymore. While GPU prices went over the roof, years of support also went shorter. *sigh*
4ish years ago I bought my RX580 8GB for ~$320. I could now sell that well-used graphics card for triple the price I bought it for. It's insane.
I just wanted an RTX3080 for msrp but I know that's nothing more than a fantasy at this point.
4ish years ago I bought my RX580 8GB for ~$320. I could now sell that well-used graphics card for triple the price I bought it for. It's insane.
I just wanted an RTX3080 for msrp but I know that's nothing more than a fantasy at this point.
Someone offered me more money for my PC that I paid for almost 4 years ago...
I have to admit I thought it was a foolish waste of money to get his gaming PC. Apparently not. Because now you cannot buy anything close for similar money
10 years ago, you can buy a decent GPU for about $100-$200, supplies were not scarce and were usable for the next 5+ years. Buying a GPU today is so complicated, overpriced, and it isn't worth anyone's money anymore. While GPU prices went over the roof, years of support also went shorter. *sigh*
Hell, I would say you could get a decent GPU in that $100-200 range not even 10 years ago as I got my Geforce 1050 Ti 4GB, which at the time was decent (nothing special, but respectable for sure), for $135 in July 2017 (so not even 5 years ago), which might have been a slight deal at the time as I think it was often around $145-150 or so. but it seemed shortly after this all of that Bitcoin BS etc ruined everything.
but yeah, a decent GPU should not be any higher than $200-ish. even the somewhat higher end ones should not be more than around $300-ish besides those 'super high end' ones, which no one really cares about anyways besides those people with money to burn. but nowadays, it's like just getting something decent is probably 'at least' the 'somewhat higher end' class prices of old and that's even if you can find one and it just gets more insane from there. but given the prices of GPU's, hopefully NVIDIA is not quick to dump older hardware as anything decent they should support at least around 10 years from when it was initially released.
so for example... the Geforce 10 series appears to be first released in May 2016 as I think they should support that until at least around 2026 (maybe a bit more if GPU prices remain unreasonable), or at the bare minimum late 2024 to early 2025.
Can't help but think that these prices with current GPUs (and projected prices going forward) is going to all but kill the PC gaming market and push people onto consoles. I've been an avid PC gamer for over 20 years but I'm struggling to justify paying these prices to game. Last GPU I bought was a 2080ti for about £1200 and that was enough to be honest, doubt I'm going to pay these sort of prices anymore, just can't afford it
Can't help but think that these prices with current GPUs (and projected prices going forward) is going to all but kill the PC gaming market and push people onto consoles. I've been an avid PC gamer for over 20 years but I'm struggling to justify paying these prices to game. Last GPU I bought was a 2080ti for about £1200 and that was enough to be honest, doubt I'm going to pay these sort of prices anymore, just can't afford it
Yeah, I worry about this as well. But I haven't ever been able to afford top line cards even when the market was sane, so I stick to 1080p nowadays. Though now even the "budget" cards have gone nuts.
The upside is that there is such a huge catalog of games on PC that you can game on older or mediocre cards still. Plus thankfully many of the popular games don't really need a high end card, unless you're just a really hard-core gamer and HAVE to have some crazy high resolutions and all the fancy eye candy.
Of course, you can buy pre-built gaming PCs with decent cards, so I think this is more an issue for those like me that like to build their PCs themselves.
That's my two cents.
Can't help but think that these prices with current GPUs (and projected prices going forward) is going to all but kill the PC gaming market and push people onto consoles. I've been an avid PC gamer for over 20 years but I'm struggling to justify paying these prices to game. Last GPU I bought was a 2080ti for about £1200 and that was enough to be honest, doubt I'm going to pay these sort of prices anymore, just can't afford it
I'm worried about the same. I was very fortunate, and pre-ordered an Asus RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC, that I got at MSRP, and even 15% discount since I had a store discount code for 15% that I used. So I ended up paying about $650 for it right after launch.
At todays prices though, I would _NEVER_ even considered buying the same card or similar cards for the price the cards go for. I actually felt the that $650 was too much already, my limit has usually always been 400-500 MAX.
If the prices continues like this going forward, and stays like this by the time I need an upgrade, I will definitely not upgrade or build a new PC. I can afford it, I have a good job and income enough to afford it, but it is simply not worth that much to me. I've been in to PC gaming since I was 14 years old, and I'm now 42, so yeah... Been building my own PC's for a while. But I also have a PS5 and Xbox Series X (that I also got at MSRP, I would never buy from a scalper or inflated store prices), and honestly, playing most games on those consoles on a 4K OLED is almost a better experience to me than sitting in front of my PC.
Granted, I do work as an IT professional and sit infront of a PC all day every day at work, so the idea of going home to do the same is kinda... meh... Which almost wants me to want to use the consoles more.
Todays prices and the idea that they would become "the normal" going forward also prevents me from buying more games on PC (Steam). It makes me buy more games on consoles, where I know gaming will be affordable. Xbox PlayAnywhere games bought in the Microsoft store also works across PC and Xbox consoles, which is a big plus. But nothing on Steam or Epic works on anything else than a PC, so I've stopped buying titles there until I know how the pricing is gonna end up going forward in the next years.
Anyone paying todays GPU prices is simply enabling this sh*t to continue. An RTX 3080 or similar is NOT WORTH $1000+ AT ALL. All these buyers will be furious and feel so f*cked over the day that the chip shortage ends and hopefully prices go down to a more normal level.
Can't help but think that these prices with current GPUs (and projected prices going forward) is going to all but kill the PC gaming market and push people onto consoles. I've been an avid PC gamer for over 20 years but I'm struggling to justify paying these prices to game. Last GPU I bought was a 2080ti for about £1200 and that was enough to be honest, doubt I'm going to pay these sort of prices anymore, just can't afford it
Agreed!! Just imagine what would happen if consoles added full keyboard/mouse support. That would seal the deal for many.
I'm worried about the same. I was very fortunate, and pre-ordered an Asus RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC, that I got at MSRP, and even 15% discount since I had a store discount code for 15% that I used. So I ended up paying about $650 for it right after launch.
At todays prices though, I would _NEVER_ even considered buying the same card or similar cards for the price the cards go for. I actually felt the that $650 was too much already, my limit has usually always been 400-500 MAX.
If the prices continues like this going forward, and stays like this by the time I need an upgrade, I will definitely not upgrade or build a new PC. I can afford it, I have a good job and income enough to afford it, but it is simply not worth that much to me. I've been in to PC gaming since I was 14 years old, and I'm now 42, so yeah... Been building my own PC's for a while. But I also have a PS5 and Xbox Series X (that I also got at MSRP, I would never buy from a scalper or inflated store prices), and honestly, playing most games on those consoles on a 4K OLED is almost a better experience to me than sitting in front of my PC.
Granted, I do work as an IT professional and sit infront of a PC all day every day at work, so the idea of going home to do the same is kinda... meh... Which almost wants me to want to use the consoles more.
Todays prices and the idea that they would become "the normal" going forward also prevents me from buying more games on PC (Steam). It makes me buy more games on consoles, where I know gaming will be affordable. Xbox PlayAnywhere games bought in the Microsoft store also works across PC and Xbox consoles, which is a big plus. But nothing on Steam or Epic works on anything else than a PC, so I've stopped buying titles there until I know how the pricing is gonna end up going forward in the next years.
Anyone paying todays GPU prices is simply enabling this sh*t to continue. An RTX 3080 or similar is NOT WORTH $1000+ AT ALL. All these buyers will be furious and feel so f*cked over the day that the chip shortage ends and hopefully prices go down to a more normal level.
Same here,
I probably need a new GPU, I have a GTX1070 and it's OK at the moment, but paired with a 12700K it's a bit lopsided.
I can 'afford' to by a £800 GPU, but I'm not willing to
£400, maybe £500 tops.
Likewise I have a PS5 and XSX, both bought at retail price from retail stores and it's getting to the point where a single even mid-range GPU costs more than BOTH of those together.
I've been playing games on PCs since the 386 days of the early 90s, and I've had loads of cards over the years some of them the best of their day 8800GTX, GTX285, GTX580 none of which cost more than £500, then I had a few which were a little bit down the ladder - 660Ti, 970, 1070 - again all of which were around the £300 mark - which is fine.
I'd like a RTX3060Ti or RTX3070 - and the MSRP on those would be in my bracket, but now they're double that.
Hell I can sell my 1070 for more than I paid for it! - It's 5(6?) years old, it's not worth £300.....
I've been building my own boxes for nearly 30 years, and I am beginning to wonder if the one I've just built will be my last.....
I can't see the financial benefit of huge development costs to bring a game to the PC market when only a very few people will have the hardware to play it - if this continues I suspect there will be less games that come to the PC.
Can't help but think that these prices with current GPUs (and projected prices going forward) is going to all but kill the PC gaming market and push people onto consoles. I've been an avid PC gamer for over 20 years but I'm struggling to justify paying these prices to game. Last GPU I bought was a 2080ti for about £1200 and that was enough to be honest, doubt I'm going to pay these sort of prices anymore, just can't afford it
Not really a gamer at all, but have never seen the sense in gaming on a PC when any console blows away what most PC's can do. With the price of these gpu's, you may as well buy a brand new, fully spec'd out console anyway.
PC gaming is dead for long time and Digital currency did this... %90 of my friends quit their jobs long ago and bought mining rigs and ASICs mining all day for years its their 24/7 jobs now.
PC gaming is dead for long time and Digital currency did this... %90 of my friends quit their jobs long ago and bought mining rigs and ASICs mining all day for years its their 24/7 jobs now.
I'd love to see their books... how much are they really making in the end
Besides the gouging that is going on, i think the yields on the quality silicon has been super poor, hence the availability of low cost cards with super cut down features and other crap.
Ouch! Typically, I don't mind paying a company for their flagships products, even if they are a little overpriced. However, over $5,500 is at the insane level for me personally.
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