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

my limit has always been £300, and only if i can get close to double the speed.
Ive done that for the last 25 years and its worked fine.
Maybe i will get close to £400 in the future, but i dont need it.

I had a 1070ti that i got for £250. Now i have a 3060ti that cost £240. I can wait, my games play fine.
 
keeping hold of my 1080 as long as possible, seems now though that games are appearing like the new Doom with manditor RTX requirements. i need it mostly for creator work so for me games are not the priority but also that kind of locks me into an expensive NVIDIA life.
 
I bought a 4070ti Super after falling into the clutches of the upgrade monster. Pointless really as my 3060ti did pretty much everything I needed it to. Seeing people saying they need the 32GB of vram is head scratching but I guess that's what AAA games are all about now , gone are the days of 30fps on a 15" monitor playing Dust 2 with a x800 Pro
 
A foot, maybe a lower leg. Not much more than that though as that would impair mobility just over the boundary of being comfortable.

But we must keep him in leather jackets, by whatever means possible.
 
aardvark said:
my limit has always been £300, and only if i can get close to double the speed.
Ive done that for the last 25 years and its worked fine.
Maybe i will get close to £400 in the future, but i dont need it.

I had a 1070ti that i got for £250. Now i have a 3060ti that cost £240. I can wait, my games play fine.
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Same, £300 price point. I did spend £330 on a 6600XT when the prices were still a bit nuts, but the RX750 4GB I had wasn't cutting it. I will wait this gen out I think, until there is a £300 GPU worth upgrading for. Our £300 now is probably £150 back then though
 
For me the boundaries are changing

Personal use
Used to be £300 but this appears to be now £500 (£750 at the very most which I did during the great chip drought of 2020)

Business use case
Try to stick to 4k but can go to 10k depending on project
 
I wouldnt really want to go over 500-600 but given the prices these days its hard not to.. but my absolute limit I would want to spent on the gpu would be 1k, but would avoid if possible
 
This is my only hobby which I enjoy immensely. I will never refuse to buy the top teir of what I can afford. Right now I am lucky enough to be able to afford the top teir GPU's.

Were they to double in price, I might not be able to afford them any longer, so I would buy the best I could.

At no point would I refuse though? Why would I refuse myself the pleasure of my hobby if I could afford it? What else will I do with my disposable income?

Life is for living.
 
BubbySoup said:
This is my only hobby which I enjoy immensely. I will never refuse to buy the top teir of what I can afford. Right now I am lucky enough to be able to afford the top teir GPU's.

Were they to double in price, I might not be able to afford them any longer, so I would buy the best I could.

At no point would I refuse though? Why would I refuse myself the pleasure of my hobby if I could afford it? What else will I do with my disposable income?

Life is for living.
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Fair. My golf clubs cost more than a high end PC. It's all relative to the enjoyment you extract. I still think high end GPUs are extortionate
 
I firmly believe there are 4090 owners who would buy a "gold edition" that's painted gold and gives say, 10% performance, for a 1000 dollar premium. So if nvidia releases a card for say, 3.8k USD that performs 10% better than the current flagship, people will buy it. Hell people bought the 3090ti

There was a dude posting here about his 4090 that he bought and never used. No real reason. He just bought it and never got around to it. I'm not hating. I'm jealous of being able to treat 3 grand the way I treat, like, 40 bucks.
 
Bassmansam said:
that is surprising. how much we talking for a high end golf club set.
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You can drop close to £2000 on top of the range irons, £800 for a Driver, £500 on a fairway wood you might need two, £600 for 3 wedges, £700 for a Scotty Putter. and stick them in a £500 bag.
Add some custom shafts and add a few more zeros
 
It's all about value right, I can afford a 2k card but to me it's horrendous value. My last GPU purchase was an rtx3080 off the mm, for just over £400 , for me that's the top I would pay, it's very much diminishing returns with high end cards, you can easily just dial down the pretty a smidge and get good frame rates, some people will, some won't, but that's my compromise.
 
thebandit said:
It's all about value right, I can afford a 2k card but to me it's horrendous value. My last GPU purchase was an rtx3080 off the mm, for just over £400 , for me that's the top I would pay, it's very much diminishing returns with high end cards, you can easily just dial down the pretty a smidge and get good frame rates, some people will, some won't, but that's my compromise.
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I actually agree, but there's some circumstances where you are actually in a fight for playability

1) VR - my problem - iracing is gorgeous in VR, but sometimes I feel like playing other games, and the struggle for clarity is real. When the assets are 1 MM from your eyeball, you really see just how ugly DLSS or subpar AA really is, and things are very noticeable. When a car turns into a blob when it gets 10 feet away, and you're struggling to maintain just like, 60 fps, you can't just turn down settings. VR in a lot of cases is an actual struggle for fidelity. Fortunately iracing is more than enough, so I'm content for the most part

2) path tracing - yea I mean I haven't even seen it outside of quake 2 RTX(I think that's pathtracing?) but if you want pathtracing on, every bit of GPU is going to help. Although I feel like this is a lot more frivolous compared to the battle for simple clarity that VR can be
 
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