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How many have sold up or gone GPU'less?

The best thing that could happen is a super efficient mining GPU comes out that isn't good for gaming. This will force the miners with way more disposable income to buy and sell up the old cards flooding the second hand market dropping the prices there. That will be great for everyone, miners, gamers and GPU companies.

Probably the easiest answer is to just increase production and have longer product cycles there will come a point where miners have enough GPU's just like the mobile phone market.
 
Gregster said:
Spot on. I love my PC and when I had younger children, I couldn't afford to buy the top end gear, so quite happily turned down settings to play. Not sure what is going on with people but they seem to feel they have the right to buy the bestest gear going for some reason.
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Agreed, too many people needing to upgrade at every chance they get from 1080-1080Ti to TXP to 2080 or cpu to cpu etc etc. I used to be a bit like that but have long since realised it's just not worth it in the slightest.

I certainly wouldn't be owning a 1080Ti if they were these prices at launch.

For me personally my current Ti is going to last me a fair while at both 1440 and 4k. Still suprises me at how well it copes. I'm hoping to upgrade when the next Ti arrives if it's worth it and prices have dropped by then.

One thing I've been looking at recently is 980Tis which are still rather quick and cheap at around £300 used. So the perf is there if people want it.
 
Cooper said:
So many miners in these threads, who've caused the problem with their parasite like greed, having a go at people being angry about things.
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LOL sad attempt, really. First, I don't mine. Don't think String does either or Vintage. Second, PC gaming isn't dying, it's actually growing.

And weren't you blaming people for paying high prices for video cards long before mining.

I guess this was you trying to get back at me for the other thread, Epic Fail on your part.
 
tyler_jrb said:
Agreed, too many people needing to upgrade at every chance they get from 1080-1080Ti to TXP to 2080 or cpu to cpu etc etc. I used to be a bit like that but have long since realised it's just not worth it in the slightest.

I certainly wouldn't be owning a 1080Ti if they were these prices at launch.

For me personally my current Ti is going to last me a fair while at both 1440 and 4k. Still suprises me at how well it copes. I'm hoping to upgrade when the next Ti arrives if it's worth it and prices have dropped by then.

One thing I've been looking at recently is 980Tis which are still rather quick and cheap at around £300 used. So the perf is there if people want it.
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I agree as well, constant upgrading would cause consumer burnout.

Skip a couple of generations to see a real benefit when upgrading. Also gives you time to enjoy other things in life, rather than tearing down and rebuilding every 6 months.
 
I was planing a full upgrade before Christmas . Cpu,gpu,mb and monitor(1440) . I had two grand in mind to spend,but with all the crazy prices my 2500K and r 390 @1080 will be staying for the forseable ... Money spent already on a new ecu and remap for the car ... So alls good!!!!!
 
rallyslag said:
I was planing a full upgrade before Christmas . Cpu,gpu,mb and monitor(1440) . I had two grand in mind to spend,but with all the crazy prices my 2500K and r 390 @1080 will be staying for the forseable ... Money spent already on a new ecu and remap for the car ... So alls good!!!!!
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8700k, mb and 16gb memory. Talking £750 there. £750 for the new LG 32" 1440p G-sync 165hz monitor.

Then you have £500 for the remainder which should bag you a GTX 1080 used if you shop around.
 
Yep, sold my 2016 Titan X for £850 in January, only losing £150 on the card in year and a half is worth it. Now the wait until April and buy direct from Nvidia as their prices are not over inflated like here or every other shop.
 
I won't be selling up, but I won't be selling my GTX 980 until £400 gets me at least double the performance. I'm hoping either the next GTX xx70 cards or a price drop on the GTX 1080 gets me there. I'm still at 1080@60 at the moment so I'm in zero rush to upgrade.
 
jigger said:
A few years and most people will all be using APU's of some type.
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If mining stays profitable then APUs are pretty much the only thing that budget PC gamers will be using.

Sadly today they are still arse; even the Vega APUs don't match a 1050/570 for gfx performance. You're looking at 720p and even then < 60FPS.

Hopefully "a few years time" is sometime before I become a geriatric old fool :p Or (less likely) mining implodes.
 
I sold my cards last year.

Have only used the PC for work. And new cards are just comically expensive.

Unfortunately the sheep will pay.
 
rallyslag said:
I was planing a full upgrade before Christmas . Cpu,gpu,mb and monitor(1440) . I had two grand in mind to spend,but with all the crazy prices my 2500K and r 390 @1080 will be staying for the forseable ... Money spent already on a new ecu and remap for the car ... So alls good!!!!!
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So you instead decided to buy a computer, for you car... :p
 
Princey said:
I won't be selling up, but I won't be selling my GTX 980 until £400 gets me at least double the performance. I'm hoping either the next GTX xx70 cards or a price drop on the GTX 1080 gets me there. I'm still at 1080@60 at the moment so I'm in zero rush to upgrade.
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Exactly same boat as me, waiting for a big increase in performance for around £400-£500 before I sell up my Evga Hybrid 980. I don't have the itch to upgrade as the card is working fine for me on PUBG (the only game i play at the moment).
 
I'd argue that the only thing at midrange besides the obvious GPU if you go AMD is the DDR4 and the can be picked up at more reasonable prices if you shop around. My GPU died a couple of weeks back so rather than pay the insane prices for something more than a budget card I picked up a bargain 770 second hand out of curiousity as have always gone AMD on the GPU side. Even though I have had to dial back some settings everything is still playable but probably helps that I never left 1080 for higher resolution monitors. So depending on what the next couple of months hold with the news on the new cards and whether they are overpriced will probably decide whether I continue to just coast along going forward with cheap cards a generation or two behind or whether I buy something new. I've still got hundreds of games in my steam queue to work through and this system will play almost all without too much of an issue. It also means that if console only releases like the new red dead happen I can just buy the top console for less than a midrange GPU that I can play on the TV in 4k. I think the writing is on the wall long term for the PC gaming market to become an increasingly niche market if the cost of getting involved is only going to skyrocket due to external forces. I mean look at the number of indie games making it to console these days where it seems the PC release is becoming the afterthought. In the case of deliverance kingdom come which historically would be pc only this was released on console first.
 
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