Man of Honour
Warning - pointless rambling ahead! 
I want a new toy to replace my Radeon 7950. I've certainly got my money's worth out of that card (I bought it used for ~£100 IIRC) but it's lacking in grunt nowadays even though I'm gaming at 1920x1080.
But the problem is what to replace it with. I'm balking at the current price of graphics cards. £400 for a high midrange card. £250 for 2.5 year old second hand cards not quite as good as those.
But then I look at a 1070...and think that a 1070ti isn't much more expensive...and then think that a 1080 isn't much more expensive...and then I'm looking at £500+ for a graphics card...and then I think that's really silly and my 7950 is still working and tolerable for 1080...and then I play my FO4 with my ludicrously elaborate settlements and ~150 mods and it's really quite sub par...and then I look at a 1070 and....you see how this goes.
I've looked at Vega56 and 64, but they're louder and more power-hungry (I have a good quality 600W PSU that should be enough, but I'd rather have it under lower load and thus quieter) and not cheaper or better so I'm leaning towards nVidia this time.
And now I've seen a decent quality 1070 Ti with a good cooler for £417 and that's a good price for a 1070 Ti that's silent when not gaming, quiet even under stress testing and boosts as high as ~1900MHz at stock settings at 1920x1080. It beats a stock 1080 in a couple of games at 1920x1080 because of how high it boosts at stock.
But...that's not pocket change. £417 seems like a hell of a lot for a graphics card to me.
The money isn't a hard constraint by itself. I've been lucky and I've become very prudent with money as I've got older and so I have accumulated some spare cash despite being a minimum wage flunkey. Not a lot, but more than enough for this without any trouble. It's just that, well, I've become very prudent with money. £400+ for a graphics card feels like too much.
Black Friday is being mentioned, but I doubt if graphics cards will have any actual reductions. I was looking at another site and they had some graphics cards with big reductions labelled on them, but that was blatant lying. The prices were the same - all they'd done was put some much higher prices next to the real prices and crossed out the higher prices. The usual price is 25% off this made up price! Bargain!
Maybe prices will go down after Christmas...and maybe it won't be all that long until the next gen comes out and maybe they'll be significantly better so I could buy a lower model for a much lower price and make do with my 7950 for a while longer...
And now I've talked myself out of it again I'm going to sleep on it.
I want a new toy to replace my Radeon 7950. I've certainly got my money's worth out of that card (I bought it used for ~£100 IIRC) but it's lacking in grunt nowadays even though I'm gaming at 1920x1080.
But the problem is what to replace it with. I'm balking at the current price of graphics cards. £400 for a high midrange card. £250 for 2.5 year old second hand cards not quite as good as those.
But then I look at a 1070...and think that a 1070ti isn't much more expensive...and then think that a 1080 isn't much more expensive...and then I'm looking at £500+ for a graphics card...and then I think that's really silly and my 7950 is still working and tolerable for 1080...and then I play my FO4 with my ludicrously elaborate settlements and ~150 mods and it's really quite sub par...and then I look at a 1070 and....you see how this goes.
I've looked at Vega56 and 64, but they're louder and more power-hungry (I have a good quality 600W PSU that should be enough, but I'd rather have it under lower load and thus quieter) and not cheaper or better so I'm leaning towards nVidia this time.
And now I've seen a decent quality 1070 Ti with a good cooler for £417 and that's a good price for a 1070 Ti that's silent when not gaming, quiet even under stress testing and boosts as high as ~1900MHz at stock settings at 1920x1080. It beats a stock 1080 in a couple of games at 1920x1080 because of how high it boosts at stock.
But...that's not pocket change. £417 seems like a hell of a lot for a graphics card to me.
The money isn't a hard constraint by itself. I've been lucky and I've become very prudent with money as I've got older and so I have accumulated some spare cash despite being a minimum wage flunkey. Not a lot, but more than enough for this without any trouble. It's just that, well, I've become very prudent with money. £400+ for a graphics card feels like too much.
Black Friday is being mentioned, but I doubt if graphics cards will have any actual reductions. I was looking at another site and they had some graphics cards with big reductions labelled on them, but that was blatant lying. The prices were the same - all they'd done was put some much higher prices next to the real prices and crossed out the higher prices. The usual price is 25% off this made up price! Bargain!
Maybe prices will go down after Christmas...and maybe it won't be all that long until the next gen comes out and maybe they'll be significantly better so I could buy a lower model for a much lower price and make do with my 7950 for a while longer...
And now I've talked myself out of it again
I'm going to sleep on it.
