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GPU prices go boom
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Yeah good point i didnt really think that through. still seems strange you could get 5 years for cheating on a game but nothing for cheating on your wife. Sorry i gone of topic a bit
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Anecdote - I paid £711 for an Aorus Extreme 1080ti 7 days ago (competitor). I believe there were 2 or 3 in stock and they went in minutes. Keep searching and thee shall find.
Same goes for Quake Champions. Russian console developer, Saber. The game has gotten better with patches but it is still a mess.
In my oh so unscientific 980ti watch list sales
Ignoring the Titan X hybrid that went for £620
The last three 980ti's have gone for £410, £375, £365
So even if you wanted to get a cheap good card to get into gaming, the second hand market is as skewed as the sales market.
Ignoring the Titan X hybrid that went for £620
The last three 980ti's have gone for £410, £375, £365
So even if you wanted to get a cheap good card to get into gaming, the second hand market is as skewed as the sales market.
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$120 = @ £87, that doesn't justify £300 increases.
The flashy cars have to be paid somehow, big big bonus for just buying a few crates of graphics cards=easy big money
The flashy cars have to be paid somehow, big big bonus for just buying a few crates of graphics cards=easy big money
It's Lambo's only for Mining profits.....
In fairness, people can complain about the price of hardware all thy like but it's not that much worse than it was back in the day (accounting for inflation). The real thing killing PC gaming nowadays is the canceraids that is DLC, it's done far more damage than mining to the industryRIP PC gaming
Console has just as much DLC.In fairness, people can complain about the price of hardware all thy like but it's not that much worse than it was back in the day (accounting for inflation). The real thing killing PC gaming nowadays is the canceraids that is DLC, it's done far more damage than mining to the industry
RAM price, GPU price and online hackers are the cancer.
In fairness, people can complain about the price of hardware all thy like but it's not that much worse than it was back in the day (accounting for inflation). The real thing killing PC gaming nowadays is the canceraids that is DLC, it's done far more damage than mining to the industry
A barely mid-range performing card like the GTX1070 will currently set you back around £600, some days no stock of anything under £650 if you are unlucky :s
I'm almost tempted to sell mine and stick my old 780 on phase or something and see how long it lasts LOL... and I thought £350 was taking the mick for a 1070 at the time :s
Good find but I'm getting frickin exhausted checking the sites. And most times you find a reasonable price on one it's 'an error'. Or you go through to the checkout and get bounced out with 'stocking and price error. sorry' I actually saw a card I wanted in a small shop in Scotland, rang them up to do the sale and the guy said he would just check the price. At O.C! Then put £250 on the advertised price and said 'that's what they are going for these days'
Grrr!
Lol, oh come on, just because they haven't been forcing Nvidia's hand for three years doesn't mean they are out. When Ryzen launched it was the first time they had pushed Intel in nearly seven years lol.
They may be in a similar boat, but console gaming has always been a worse experience so their market is more used to getting overcharged for a lesser experience. Compare that to the PC market where games used to have playable demos or even an entire episode available as shareware, with free patches adding extra content over time and thousands of additional characters/skins to download for free. Now you pay an eye watering amount for a game that's nowhere as big as the old ones, you only get part of it, have to pay to unlock more, pay for extra characters/skins, etc.
PC gaming is complete garbage compared to what it used to be as these days 99% of PC games are designed primarily for console, the only difference is we get better controls. Don't get me wrong the price of hardware may be having an effect on the market (especially with younger gamers who have only known the cheap hardware of the last so many years) but the PC industry currently being in the toilet is just as bad if not worse.
I think gaming on pc is still the way to go. i bought dirt 3 complete edition for 70p this week and with the setting set to ultra and 4k resolution and some graphic enhancement mods it actually plays really well and graphic are amazing for a game released in 2011 none of that would be possible on a console.
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Back in the day, when prices were this high (the early 80s), PC gaming was new, and niche, and the market was small. Also the pace of progress hadn't slowed to a crawl, so you were getting massive jumps in performance each time you splurged 1k on a PC. Jumps the likes of which we may never see again.In fairness, people can complain about the price of hardware all thy like but it's not that much worse than it was back in the day (accounting for inflation). The real thing killing PC gaming nowadays is the canceraids that is DLC, it's done far more damage than mining to the industry
Asking a PC gamer to build a new 1k PC for a 25% jump in perf? Yeah, that's a hard sell for most of us.