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When the Gpu's prices will go down ?

Johnny Silverhand said:
£54k is not so great when you factor in you have to drive all over the country and to France and back basically driving a train on wheels which has 10 gears and takes like 30 seconds to go from 0-60MPH.
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54k sounds great to me. You don't always really drive all over the country..nor abroad...it depends on who you drive for. General haulage yes maybe. But if you drive delivering for retail...then it's usually local-ish work. I worked for Drop it Hide it Lose it collecting for TK....Mx all over the country...then I drove for TK..Mx themselves delivering to stores....as for the ten gears...factor in the half gear splitter...that takes you to 18 gears in total....but a lot of trucks now have moved over to auto...

& @ angilion.....driving with a forty four foot trailer in urban places is better than long boring motorway miles...the amount of back street Manchester city centre roads I had to reverse into...etc...well you build up your skills & get used to it. Scuse adding to being off topic & lost my license due to retinal detachment surgery & kinda bringing back memories lol.
 
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Johnny Silverhand said:
That's really too bad because Autumn 2021 is looking like it will be one of the best periods in the history of gaming in terms of new games:

We have New World, Battlefield 2042, Farcry6, Back 4 Blood, Dying Light 2, Halo infinite, Age of Empires 4 etc
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So nothing worth playing..?? :p
 
4K8KW10 said:
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If AMD wants to enter the crypto currency mining business, why don't they simply start designing new chips specialised for this?
Why do they waste gaming silicon that doesn't work so well for mining on mining? WHY?! [..]
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Because it's massively profitable. More specialised chips would:

i) Cost money to develop
ii) Take time to develop
iii) Be less versatile

If crytocurrency was a stable market it would make business sense to make specialised chips for it, but cryptocurrency is very far from being a stable market. A more general purpose processor will be less efficient for any specific cryptocurrency but it will work well enough on a wide variety of cryptocurrencies including the many that haven't been made up yet. It also ensures that chip companies don't risk having stocks held and manufacturing set up for a specialised mining card that suddenly becomes worthless because it's designed for a cryptocurrency that isn't mined much any more. If burblecoin is the new big thing in cryptocurrency, you don't want your company to be geared up towards making and supplying specialised hardware for mining wibblecoin, last month's big thing in cryptcurrency.


Besides, a stack of dozens of current gen graphics cards is neither here nor there in terms of the shortage.
 
Cex is offering trade in of £1150 for the 3080fe.

Unbelievable. Too tempting for some I'm sure when they get one off the alerts.
 
I bit the bullet and got a Gigabyte 3070 Gaming OC yesterday for £680 (which is £140 over Gigabytes release date RRP of £540).

I've been trying to get a 3080FE for a year now as I play in 4k and I was so sick of scanning websites, missing telegram and Discord alerts etc I thought forget it.

Anyway I've been amazed how good the 3070 actually is, it's double the power of my old GTX1080 and boosts to 2000mhz even though its rated speed is only 1815mhz. Not even tried any overclocking yet. Yes a 3080 would have been better but nevertheless I am pleased with my purchase for the price
 
Maybe some time late 2022 but defiantly not in the next 12 months , The 3080 RRP is £650 its going for double that still so you would prob be looking at min of £800 over the next year or so but no lower.
 
It depends on when the mining bubble will burst.

It doesn't make sense that the whole gaming market including the consoles cannot be served well ,or at all, because some weird guys decided to be greedy..
 
rumple9 said:
I bit the bullet and got a Gigabyte 3070 Gaming OC yesterday for £680 (which is £140 over Gigabytes release date RRP of £540).

I've been trying to get a 3080FE for a year now as I play in 4k and I was so sick of scanning websites, missing telegram and Discord alerts etc I thought forget it.

Anyway I've been amazed how good the 3070 actually is, it's double the power of my old GTX1080 and boosts to 2000mhz even though its rated speed is only 1815mhz. Not even tried any overclocking yet. Yes a 3080 would have been better but nevertheless I am pleased with my purchase for the price
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I think you did the right thing mate. Getting the 3080 FE is very rare. Hence why you can flip them for 2.5x the price on the bay and almost double at CEX. Like winning the lottery.

I'm not entertaining any effort to do that..although if someone wanted to straight swop for a 3080Ti I'd consider it, but I aint going out looking for it. (having written that, it may look like I am actually hahaha)
 
Darujhistan said:
This is insane, the card I reluctantly overpaid for in December by about £60 is now another £200 more expensive, despite the tech itself being 10 months older...
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Be interested to see the 4000 range. At 1440 I struggle to see the need to upgrade to a bigger and better card.
 
GPU glut forecast to be in 2023.
In the meantime I just discovered that most of the games I use suck above 1080p (older games are not made for UHD) and my RX590 plays Shadow Warrior 2 at 1400p/60 just fine, allowing me to choose between that and 1080p/75 and I suspect Shadow Warrior 3 won't be much more demanding.

The only thing that still pushes me to try the GPU lottery is the fact that by 2023 my PC will be 11 years old, which tends to be a lot for the electronics.
 
Zarax said:
GPU glut forecast to be in 2023.
In the meantime I just discovered that most of the games I use suck above 1080p (older games are not made for UHD) and my RX590 plays Shadow Warrior 2 at 1400p/60 just fine, allowing me to choose between that and 1080p/75 and I suspect Shadow Warrior 3 won't be much more demanding.

The only thing that still pushes me to try the GPU lottery is the fact that by 2023 my PC will be 11 years old, which tends to be a lot for the electronics.
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From El Reg:
Chip glut might start in 2023, says IDC, and auto-chip traffic jam could clear this year • The Register
 
lnoton said:
Cex is offering trade in of £1150 for the 3080fe.

Unbelievable. Too tempting for some I'm sure when they get one off the alerts.
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shamus21 said:
If you are looking to sell a graphic card now may very well be the best time.
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They paid £1630 for my one a few months ago :D

Edit: That was money into my bank, not crappy vouchers.
 
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