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At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?

I would say that £600-700 is my absolute max, and it would need to be a very impressive performance and package offering. It's why I'm eyeballing the 5070TI and look forward to reviews, but time will tell in that regard, hopefully it doesn't disappoint.

Do I like spending that much for a upper mid/lower high end card? Absolutely not, but I enjoy the hobby enough that it's worthwhile to me.

Ideally no more than £400-500, frankly if the 5070ti doesn't work out I'm half tempted to sell my current 4070 (vanilla, not Super or TI etc) and try my luck with a second hand 4080S.

For reference, this is for mixed resolution usage with modern games, I play a fair amount at both 4K and 3440x1440 as I use both a 4K 65" tv and a 34" ultrawide.
 
Felt bad paying £650 for a GPU, would probably up my limit to around £700 now and still feel bad, but no higher.

But only if I had a need to upgrade, I certainly wouldn't do it unless I was struggling in a number of games.
 
Nothing is inherently too expensive. It depends on how much disposable income I have at a given moment.

If my buying power right now (for example) is 3x of what it was two years ago, then suddenly 2k on a GPU is just fine.

It's not like I have an alternative if I want to max out my most anticipated game (Silent Hill 2).
 
~£700 to play the games I want to in my back catalogue, going forward probably less as games that are getting made appeal less and less to me. Dont know if the games have changed or I have but no online game in the last five years has peaked my interest and single player games I can play at much lower FPS so don't need a fancy cutting edge GPU.
 
I purchased my 6700XT for £309 on a OCUK special but I would go up to £450. I'm still on a 1080p display but aiming to get a new display to move up to 1440p. A 9070, 9060 XT or possibly a 5060TI would probably be my aim depending on their prices.
 
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