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Something super is coming...

How low do you reckon regular RTX 2080 prices will fall, & how quickly?

500 pounds for a 2080 (non Super) when the RTX 2070 Super comes out is what I'm hoping for ... I wonder if the regular RTX 2080 might even be cheaper than the RTX 2070 Super for a few weeks as vendors try to get rid of their old stocks prior to the 2080 S release?

I'm looking at getting either a 2070 S or a regular 2080 .... I doubt I'd ever use the extra power a 2080 Super gives over a regular 2080.
 
FoxEye said:
The answer is simple.

The answer is prefaced by the condition "IF YOU WANT TO..."

The answer is: "Keep the same budget each generation and don't be prepared to spend ever-increasing amounts to get your fix."

The problem is that prices keep going up (way above inflation) and people keep raising their budgets to allow them to buy into it.

If that's what you want, great. If that ****** you off, but you buy into it anyway, then you're only hurting yourself. Because you help allow the trend to continue.
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Gaming on the PC now is cheaper than it's ever been, fact, building a budget system today gives you access to more games than ever and the performance to play them. I'm not sure how old you are but I think you may have forgotten how expensive PC gaming was back in the day, the constant need to upgrade to be able to play games adequately, in today's market you don't need the top spec CPU/GPU to play the latest games, and you don't need to upgrade nowhere near as often, this saves you a ton of money in the long run, I've spent less than £1000 on my rig in 8 years.





 
retailers try to spin the price gouge, fanboys defend it, end of the day an Ultra card used to cost £400 now we're being charged more than triple that....and most of you just play the same games and run the same benchmarks
 
Reality|Bites said:
retailers try to spin the price gouge, fanboys defend it, end of the day an Ultra card used to cost £400 now we're being charged more than triple that....and most of you just play the same games and run the same benchmarks
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this is true, but the games get faster and the bench marks higher! that's all people care about, why play an old game at 100fps when you can play it at 200fps and see no difference visually. its called I want the best syndrome no matter cost.
 
Things change I've changed said:
Gaming on the PC now is cheaper than it's ever been, fact, building a budget system today gives you access to more games than ever and the performance to play them. I'm not sure how old you are but I think you may have forgotten how expensive PC gaming was back in the day, the constant need to upgrade to be able to play games adequately, in today's market you don't need the top spec CPU/GPU to play the latest games, and you don't need to upgrade nowhere near as often, this saves you a ton of money in the long run, I've spent less than £1000 on my rig in 8 years.
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Nah my first high end PC was a fully specced out pre-build from dell. P4, 9800pro and came with a monitor all for £1200. If i had built it from parts would have cost less. If i wanted to replicate that now it would probably cost over £3k. No amount of spin makes PC gaming cheaper now than when i first started in 2001. Even my first build a bit later on was a 1900xtx with the latest dual core E6600, Raptor drives, high end psu and case cost around the same. My I7 920 build also cost similar money. My current build with 4k monitor was around £2400 but it never came with a high end card or would have been closer to 3k.

Basically todays equivalent of the 9800pro is the 2080ti which alone cost the same as my full build plus monitor in 2001.
 
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Things change I've changed said:
Gaming on the PC now is cheaper than it's ever been, fact, building a budget system today gives you access to more games than ever and the performance to play them. I'm not sure how old you are but I think you may have forgotten how expensive PC gaming was back in the day, the constant need to upgrade to be able to play games adequately, in today's market you don't need the top spec CPU/GPU to play the latest games, and you don't need to upgrade nowhere near as often, this saves you a ton of money in the long run, I've spent less than £1000 on my rig in 8 years.
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Lol, no. Demonstrably not true. I'm not sure who you're trying to kid.

It's probably true to say that back in the early 80s things were more expensive.

To say that today is the cheapest they've ever been? It's just obviously false. Most if not all of us here will know that both CPUs and GPUs were cheaper a decade or so ago.

And I'm talking mid-range. Because I'm a mid-range buyer. I don't even bother looking at top end prices.
 
FoxEye said:
Lol, no. Demonstrably not true. I'm not sure who you're trying to kid.

It's probably true to say that back in the early 80s things were more expensive.

To say that today is the cheapest they've ever been? It's just obviously false. Most if not all of us here will know that both CPUs and GPUs were cheaper a decade or so ago.

And I'm talking mid-range. Because I'm a mid-range buyer. I don't even bother looking at top end prices.
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I dont think anyone can deny its currently ridiculously cheap to build a basic rig, you can get a 570 for just over £100 which is still a great 1080p card and i recently purchased a first gen ryzen 1200 for £50 brand new, not the best but certainly adequate. 8gb ram can be had for £30 and SSD's are ludicrously cheap.
 
Entry-level PC for gaming with a monitor, it's quite affordable, TBH:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £604.49 (includes shipping: £19.62)​
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kazuya1337 said:
My top of the range 486DX system cost me about £700 back in the day
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I think some people here get off on spending £500 on a mid-range GPU. I really do.

They'd pay more if they could. Just look at all the ASUS sales, lol. People literally paying £100s more for an ASUS sticker on it. And normally the ASUS cards aren't even all that good.

Even my very first gaming PC in 1992 was ~£1200 (iirc). How he ended up paying £3500 is anyone's guess.

But I guess if it helps him to sleep after spending £500 on a 2060 S or £1200 on a 2080 Ti...
 
Illuminist said:
Ultra would have been a much nicer word, super is so 80s 90s and lame, like a super soaker
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They are bringing out an ultra 1 month after the super at the same price as the super...the super will drop in price and become EOL in 2 months then they bring out a ultra super for the same cost as the ultra for the same cost.
 
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