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At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?
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£600
I'm wondering how many people who didn't buy a 4090 because it was too expensive when it was £1500, will now buy a 5080 for almost the same price. Even though it won't perform as well as the 4090 does and they could have enjoyed that level of performance for the last 12 months
Not this sports almanac stuff again… nobody makes (or decides to not make) purchases based on information that they couldn’t possibly know.
Besides, the price difference is about 50% more for the 4090. The 5080 is significantly cheaper, which puts it in the hands of people that would have found the 4090 a stretch at that time.
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We will see how much cheaper they are. I bet that only the FE will be 50% cheaper than the 4090s were when they were £1500 and a lot of them will be very close to that price with some being even higher
Yes let’s see. I expect most AIB 5080s to be £1000 - 1200, maybe subject to inflated launch pricing at first.
Apart from Asus which will be £1600
Ha I think they ought to be mindful that anybody with >£1.5k to spend will probably be thinking of making the push for a 5090.
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Issue there being they could still be £1k off depending on the model
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Just work 161 hours in a week then you can spend the time off playing games.
How long was it useable though? If games were ok on it for 3 or 4 years it wasnt too bad a price
£6-700 is usually about my limit. I paid £600 for my used 6900 XT when 3080s and 6800 XTs were selling for upwards of £1,000 (I needed a whole PC and got a good discount buying a whole PC) and earlier this year I picked up a used 7900 XTX for £560 and used the 6900 XT to build a dedicated PC for my sim rig.
£1,600 for a 4090 was already far too expensive for my tastes so £2,000 for a 5090 is an automatic nope from me. I'd probably push my budget to £7-750 for 4090 performance, but £1,000 and up is simply too much money on a GPU, especially given I haven't really played enough modern AAA titles to justify the XTX yet.
I game at 4K120 but am happy with high settings, RT off, etc. so will probably wait out a couple of generations now.
£1,600 for a 4090 was already far too expensive for my tastes so £2,000 for a 5090 is an automatic nope from me. I'd probably push my budget to £7-750 for 4090 performance, but £1,000 and up is simply too much money on a GPU, especially given I haven't really played enough modern AAA titles to justify the XTX yet.
I game at 4K120 but am happy with high settings, RT off, etc. so will probably wait out a couple of generations now.
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2k is ridiculous. About £500 is my limit, and I'd expect a good innings from it.
At these prices we need mining to make a comeback to make it worth it. I paid £1800 or £1900 for my 3090 tuf and it paid for itself. I'd never have bought such a high end GPU if I couldn't recoup some of the great expense.
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I never realized they was so expensive, i picked up a second hand FE for like £600
There were some going over £2000 at the time. I paid £1130 for a 10gb 3080 too
I'm still using it
. It still works and there hasn't been a game I play that needs anything better. I just think GPUs are excessively priced, period.
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