My PC is overdue an upgrade hence why I was looking. The other option is to do the opposite and upgrade the rest of the system but stick with my GTX 1080 for a while in the hope that some sanity will return to the GPU market.
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How much WILL you pay for a graphics card?
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My PC is overdue an upgrade hence why I was looking. The other option is to do the opposite and upgrade the rest of the system but stick with my GTX 1080 for a while in the hope that some sanity will return to the GPU market.
I was waiting with everyone else for a 3080 for a long time - but recently just spent £440 on a 3060TI. It should be arriving next week and I have to say, I'm pleased I managed to suppress the inner nerd and spend less this time around, even if my hand was forced.
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You must be feeling very pleased with your purchase especially after reading those disappointed RX 6600 XT reviews (I know I would be given I have 1440p monitor).
i think a lot of people ended up with a card that was not their first choice, i ended up with a 3070 Ti and that was 3rd on my list after a 3070 or 3060 Ti but the 3070 Ti dropped first. Annoyingly the 3070 dropped later that day and i was refused a swap even though they had not picked or packed the 3070 Ti yet
Would be a very good idea to sell the 1080 now since they are fetching good prices and get a founders edition 30 series. Skip the 4000 series totally and get the 5000
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Tbf I was one of the lucky ones who managed to get an order in Day 1 for my Palit 3080. I paid £700 inc delivery from OC. But I did have to wait till December to actually get the card, think it was Dec 20th so almost as if OC gave me a Christmas present.
Im glad I managed to get in there when I did and waited the 3 months for it to be delivered, I would not have paid the £1500 some people are asking for 3080's. Mental.
Im glad I managed to get in there when I did and waited the 3 months for it to be delivered, I would not have paid the £1500 some people are asking for 3080's. Mental.
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one way to look at it is the longer you wait the more value you extract from your existing GPU. So you can legitimately spend more if you upgrade less frequently and not suffer financially
but yeah 4000 series and RDNA 3 are going to be expensive...
Maybe Intel will actually launch something between now and then and save us all. Intel being well known for their generosity and low pricing of course.one way to look at it is the longer you wait the more value you extract from your existing GPU. So you can legitimately spend more if you upgrade less frequently and not suffer financially
but yeah 4000 series and RDNA 3 are going to be expensive...
I have now upped my limit to 3.5k based on that lol.
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I that situation id definitely say go for a prebuilt now rather than upgrading the rest of your system, you'll see a lot bigger upgrade getting a recent GPU especially as you need a full system upgrade anyway
I don't like the look of pre-built PCs. All the builds I have seen don't give many details aside from the typical GPU, CPU, RAM and storage. They can then cheap out on PSU, motherboard and anything else really. Much rather build my own from the bottom up. It's not that hard to get a GPU nowadays with stock easing, especially when OCUK are dropping decent priced RTX 3000 series AIBs.
The situation is different to the past though - in this situation Intel would be trying to break into a new market in which the existing players are charging very high prices. Maybe Intel will see it as an opportunity to gain a large amount of market share in a market in which they currently have no share at all. If Intel is fully committed to entering the discrete GPU market and/or graphics card market, undercutting AMD and nvidia on price with a comparable performance and with stock available would serve Intel's purpose very well. It seems possible that Intel could enter the gaming-orientated dGPU market with competitive products from budget to midrange. No halo product to grab attention, but competitive in the bulk of the market. So they could start small, earn a reputation as a viable alternative and gradually gain market share. Or they could try to exploit the current circumstances, if they can. If Intel could supply gaming-orientated dGPUs and have enough cards built to meet demand and have those cards be genuinely competitive at budget and midrange (or even just budget) and price them under comparable cards with AMD or nvidia GPUs by a non-trivial amount, Intel would become a major player in the market within days. They wouldn't need a halo product to grab attention - they'd get all the attention in the world. Say, for example, Intel brought a card to market that was on a par with a 3070 card, sold for £350 and was actually available to buy to every customer who wanted one. That would give Intel a larger amount of positive publicity than could be bought with a billion dollars of advertising and it wouldn't cost them anything. Intel wouldn't even have to advertise at all - every hardware site and forum and channel would be doing it for them. Intel would gain the majority market share of new sales in weeks if not days, would be lauded to high heaven and would establish themselves in a new (to them) market for the foreseeable future. For selling a midrange graphics card at £350, which isn't even a low price for a midrange graphics card.
Maybe it could happen. It wouldn't rely on Intel pricing low out of generosity. Thankfully.
Agree, what's the fun in a pre built PC? They're also highly overpriced. I even put my office pc together myself. If it's a gaming PC - Hell no. Seeing videos like this don't fill me with confidence either.
Yeah, I doubt I could be convinced to buy pre built. I'd rather save money and enjoy building it myself. Win win
Why does that kind of thinking make you happy. MSRP is an arbitrary number.
AMD has launched a 1080p card with a MSRP of $379 and for the UK market you just swap in a £ symbol because reasons. Seems to still be in stock around that figure on this day after launch, maybe it's a realistic MSRP?
Nvidia has competitors in the 3060 and 3060 Ti and sells a small amount of cards at a lower MSRP almost certainly for marketing reasons but the vast majority are sold well above MSRP so I think it's fair to say the MSRP is complete BS since it's not what you can expect to pay.
historically it atleast acted as a yard stick and AIBs tended to get "close enough" to it not to be a big issue, in a world where everything is selling for "over list" though, I'm simply avoiding buying things unless I absolutely need it (cue 1070ti going bang i guess).
just a shame it means all those involved will now take this as "new normal" and will chage an arm and a leg going forward even if the silicon shortage gets resolved.
just a shame it means all those involved will now take this as "new normal" and will chage an arm and a leg going forward even if the silicon shortage gets resolved.