GPU prices go boom

C-Roy · 5 Mar 2018 at 23:05

wellibob said:
Graphics card pricing is in Crises. The situation is a crises for all PC gamers, as in the prices will continuously rise as the demand is high and profits are high. I expect my current gpu to last me till 2020 and I'll re visit gpu's then.

What do you have currently?

Vince · 6 Mar 2018 at 00:16

C-Roy said:
What do you have currently?

And can it play Crises? Ahem

willhub · 6 Mar 2018 at 08:50

Anyone buying a new GPU these days is a real mug, I'll probably make a profit from my brand new GTX1080.

Geck0 · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:17

I could sell my 56 for double what I paid for it, then have to spend that profit on buying a far less capable card and not enjoy the experience or spend the whole lot getting the same experience. Not remotely worth it.

Glad I got in before the trouble started.

Yaayuh! · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:34

Vince said:
And can it play Crises? Ahem

Haha! I wasn't gong to say anything about the spelling, but glad someone else did

pagepack · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:44

FoxEye said:
We shall see. The consensus seems to be that cryptomining is here to stay. Tbh, without crypto I would never have bought a PS4 Pro. I would have upgraded my GPU instead. The ridiculous cost of upgrading from a 290 to something better made my pick up a console.

Exactly the same as myself. Ive got a 290x, I can afford a 1k gpu, though I refuse to pay it. The stupidly inflated prices will slowly strangle PC gaming unless the manufactures can divide their card lines at a hardware level.

nocash168 · 6 Mar 2018 at 10:00

willhub said:
Anyone buying a new GPU these days is a real mug, I'll probably make a profit from my brand new GTX1080.

People like me who really want a gaming PC don't really have much choice unfortunately.

james.miller · 6 Mar 2018 at 10:11

andybird123 said:
james.miller said:

I'm sitting on a 970 because there isn't another card out there for 300 quid new that is significantly faster. So i haven't upgraded, but that's not through lack of wanting to. Im not buying a console either, I'm done with all that.

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Is that down to current prices though? I mean a 980ti or 1070 would be a decent upgrade from a 970 and has been available 2nd hand for 300ish over the last 2 years. If you are saying you need 1080ti performance, that was never going to be 300 this year anyway?

Not exclusively, no. It was a lack of upgrades for the price i was willing to pay, to start with. Current pricing has just made it much worse.

B1gbeard · 6 Mar 2018 at 10:34

pagepack said:
Exactly the same as myself. Ive got a 290x, I can afford a 1k gpu, though I refuse to pay it. The stupidly inflated prices will slowly strangle PC gaming unless the manufactures can divide their card lines at a hardware level.

That's essentially what it comes down to but also the retailer. If Nvidia and AMD release new GPU's and advertise them as gaming GPU's as per usual but they have a mining tax then many will say screw you. There doesn't need to be this tax and all of the this is a business and supply and demand stuff is rubbish. Someone somewhere, at AMD and Nvidia and the retailers have just decided to be greedy. It's short term gain for a potentially very damaging long term impact on their market depending on how mining goes.

They need to decide who they are targeting these at. Nvidia and AMD and even the retailers are essentially bull****ing us at the moment by how they are marketing them.

wellibob · 6 Mar 2018 at 11:15

Gtx 1080 3 weeks after launch I own in my main rig (got it for just over £400)

MooMoo444 · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:12

The mining craze makes it hard to buy 2nd hand. Too paranoid about getting a card that's been royally boned without lube for most of its life in a miner.

CapitalOne · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:17

In order to give some hope, and I know it can be a pain, but if you are looking hard enough you can find "deals".

On Sunday evening, just playing around I found a shop with a stock of 1080ti's (Palit "brown" ones) for £670 odd. I even put a couple in my basket but didn't go through with it (why bother, I've got enough cards and don't mine any more), I even got a reminder email come through an hour later to hurry me up. Obv. I can't mention where it was, but it wasn't a "specialist" PC shop like OCUK et al.

ETA - it was this tactic that got me an Auros Xtreme 1080ti for £711 a month or so ago.

Good hunting!

willhub · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:49

nocash168 said:
People like me who really want a gaming PC don't really have much choice unfortunately.

I'm in the same boat.

DELETED_195422 · 6 Mar 2018 at 14:47

Intel's Hades Canyon NUCs get released this spring and works out at around £750 for a barebones system with no RAM or storage. If you had the RAM/storage it would work out cheaper than buying a i7/1060 system.

This is where PC gaming is going, everything will get smaller and more integrated, but also more powerful. Desktop systems will become niche as will the purchasing of GPUs for some.

willhub · 6 Mar 2018 at 15:11

What are they called? GCPU or CGPU or something? Makes sense. As logical as it is with stuff getting smaller, I'll miss the days of PC towers with flashy lights and cool eye candy electronics inside.

DELETED_195422 · 6 Mar 2018 at 15:27

willhub said:
What are they called? GCPU or CGPU or something? Makes sense. As logical as it is with stuff getting smaller, I'll miss the days of PC towers with flashy lights and cool eye candy electronics inside.

Next Unit of Computing. I prefer to build systems myself too (love mITX systems). The tech shown on the Hades Canyon NUCs is nothing short of amazing for it's size. I mean, just look at the arse on that.

It's an obscene amount of I/O options for such a small device, plus it houses an i7 and a GPU equivalent of a 1060. Amazing stuff.

willhub · 6 Mar 2018 at 15:28

That is impressive, it's like the small thin clients at work except actually works!

4K8KW10 · 6 Mar 2018 at 15:35

Rock_n_Roll said:
Intel's Hades Canyon NUCs get released this spring and works out at around £750 for a barebones system with no RAM or storage. If you had the RAM/storage it would work out cheaper than buying a i7/1060 system.

This is where PC gaming is going, everything will get smaller and more integrated, but also more powerful. Desktop systems will become niche as will the purchasing of GPUs for some.

I see but these compact systems are very TDP limited.
In order to get better performance, you will always need higher TDP, better cooling and respectively more space.

DELETED_195422 · 6 Mar 2018 at 15:37

4K8KW10 said:
I see but these compact systems are very TDP limited.
In order to get better performance, you will always need higher TDP, better cooling and respectively more space.

Aye, they've got an OC model if that's your thing. Comes in at 100w, i believe. Baseline model draws 65w. But, if you're into OC then you aren't going to be buying one of these.

4K8KW10 · 6 Mar 2018 at 15:45

Rock_n_Roll said:
Aye, they've got an OC model if that's your thing. Comes in at 100w, i believe. Baseline model draws 65w. But, if you're into OC then you aren't going to be buying one of these.

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