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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?

FightingFirst said:
I've given up, I'm not paying the ludicrous prices either, they are way above the initial price. I just hope all this madness calms down as my 980ti is showing its age. I just hope the 3080ti launches at a normal price.
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I take your 980TI and raise you my HD7950 which I'm running alongside a 5600x (which I bought before I realised what was going on).
 
teh_captain said:
Well, all the 6800 and 3060 stock on OcUK have sold out, so whether they're being bought by a) miners, b) scalpers or c) actual gamers it seems there's no reason to lower prices yet, unfortunately.
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You do realise that a. b. and c. can and are easily, one and the same ;)

There isn't some magical initiation into one of these apparent separate groups, when anyone with a credit card will likely do all of the above.

All of these gamers selling on their old GPUs for more than they paid for them to other gamers, miners, gamer miners or gamer miner scalpers are also just part of the scalping merry-go-round.
 
The nvidia 3060 and 3070 cards still seem to be selling well, I wonder how many miners are buying ahead of the LHR cards. It will be interesting to see how well the LHR cards sell and at what price.
 
FoxEye said:
It was super expensive in the 80s, but by the 90s it wasn't anymore.

My first GPU was only £100 iirc (if), Guillemot Maxi Gamer3D from Virgin Megastores.

Also in the 90s you had the rise of Cyrix and AMD and Intel's prices were falling.
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I had the same card, 3dfx Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D, £90 from Game. And I had a Cyrix CPU (which was terrible for gaming) as well. But that was late 90s; early-mid 90s PC gaming was still expensive because you needed a high end CPU, when the Pentium came out it was like $900 which allowing for inflation would be the equivalent of $1500 today. RAM was also really expensive, a CDROM drive was like £150 (equivalent of £250 today) or whatever.

Also you had to upgrade regularly back in the day to handle the newer games coming out, it's not like modern computers where you can run the same mobo and cpu for 5+ years, graphics cards for 3+ years etc. So even in the late 90s you'd buy a PC, then you'd need a RAM upgrade and a 3d accelerator card, then within 2 years you'd really need another GPU, but that would be cpu limited so you needed a new CPU, which inevitably meant a new motherboard and sometimes RAM as well. All the while needing to add more storage as games moved from floppies to CDROM to multiple CDs to DVD (at which point you need a DVDROM drive).

I've spent far less on PC upgrades in the last decade than I did in the previous one, not counting peripherals like Monitors and mice. Some of the individual components might have crept up in price, but you don't need them as frequently.
 
HangTime said:
I had the same card, 3dfx Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D, £90 from Game. And I had a Cyrix CPU (which was terrible for gaming) as well. But that was late 90s; early-mid 90s PC gaming was still expensive because you needed a high end CPU, when the Pentium came out it was like $900 which allowing for inflation would be the equivalent of $1500 today. RAM was also really expensive, a CDROM drive was like £150 (equivalent of £250 today) or whatever.

Also you had to upgrade regularly back in the day to handle the newer games coming out, it's not like modern computers where you can run the same mobo and cpu for 5+ years, graphics cards for 3+ years etc. So even in the late 90s you'd buy a PC, then you'd need a RAM upgrade and a 3d accelerator card, then within 2 years you'd really need another GPU, but that would be cpu limited so you needed a new CPU, which inevitably meant a new motherboard and sometimes RAM as well. All the while needing to add more storage as games moved from floppies to CDROM to multiple CDs to DVD (at which point you need a DVDROM drive).

I've spent far less on PC upgrades in the last decade than I did in the previous one, not counting peripherals like Monitors and mice. Some of the individual components might have crept up in price, but you don't need them as frequently.
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Yes in the late 90's PC gaming was far too expensive for me. It wasn't until the Athlons came along that I could afford to build something. It's definitely cheaper to have a functioning PC now. If you want all the AAA bells and whistles turned on it's still expensive, and then you have £250-500 consoles.
 
I'd assume prices are still through the roof and on the increase ( on ebay the 3060ti FE is going for nearly £1,000 now !! )

Are they even harder to source in the USA ? On TechSource nobody seems to have the 3x series GPUs
 
I would say that supply is probably worse in the USA at the moment. So even though prices are high here and some cards like the 6700xt are now staying in stock the prices will not be coming down much (if at all) while the AIB partners can sell to other countries for more than they can get in the UK
 
Just seen an interesting advert from a catalogue, 3060ti for retail prices which are less than the 3060 prices others are selling... about bloody time...

Lasted 10 minutes, nice to see some people got them....hopefully not bloody scalpers
 
Doctord said:
Just seen an interesting advert from a catalogue, 3060ti for retail prices which are less than the 3060 prices others are selling... about bloody time...

Lasted 10 minutes, nice to see some people got them....hopefully not bloody scalpers
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I also saw 3070's for sale for around £800. I don't understand how that is possible as owners of other sites... have said the £1200 price is barely making profit.
 
I'd give my left monicle to get even a 6700xt but I really can't justify the price hike - great and encouraging they're in stock but my 770gtx (I did have 970 that died and just about to upgrade before the world went mad) will just have to keep plodding on #prayforme
 
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