How much are you ready to pay

[chili]

As above, curious as to just how much you are prepared to pay lets say for a 3080ti?
Are you prepared to sell your granny to the nearest organ farming facility to get that card you so desire, are you visiting the local sperm bank selling your deposit 2 or 3 times daily hoping for that card to be in stock after your 1000th tug? Do you feel your once go too computer supply chain are no better than the local scalpers, selling 3080ti's at £1799.99 is that the new norm or do we need to join the extinction rebellion protestors and super glue ourselves to the m25 or the Blackwall tunnel hoping that the prices will be lowered.
Who do we blame for our current predicament with the card shortage, do we blame Student's, Elon musk, Brexit, Lorry drivers, The BBC, Crypto miners (Is an Nvidia hash rate limiter the solution?) Certainly does not look that way, is there a global shortage of child labour?
AMD, has done even less to dissuade miners from buying GPUs. In a way, you can see why, the sales figures are estimated to be around 700,000 GPUs bought up by miners in the first quarter of this year, which equates to around $500 million in sales, then AMD and Nvidia may be pretty happy no matter who buys their GPUs. I am going to suggest that supplier's of computer component's will continue to fleece us of every penny they can before this bubble burst's.

Come with me granny, your in safe hand's

 

[Rroff]

Depends what I need - if I need an actual high end card I'll pay whatever as long as it is an actual high end card.

Most of the time I don't and won't pay silly prices for what for the most part are really quite mid-range hardware despite the model numbers, branding and advertising.

I'd rather go without than pay £800 odd for a 3070 and I certainly won't be paying the kind of money I spent on the 3070FE for anything less.

I don't particularly have any restraints on what I can afford in terms of the range of graphic card prices but I won't just open my wallet for someone else's benefit.

 

[Daytrader]

£900 max, and thats a lot for me, seeing as a 3080fe is like £650, so another £250 on top is about right.

 

[fordypaul]

Buy a FE from that retailer, then its a no brainer, not simple but given some have waited a year to find that they have nothing but a refund I would put the effort into that for this and future launches!

 

[Scougar]

"It depends".

Low end card.... Barely pay above msrp.
Mid.... Screw that, I'm not paying double.
High end... Hahahahaanananahahhahahhahhahahahaahhahaa. No.

I would pay upto 800 dollars in normal times. I'm not paying that to get robbed blind for half or even worse performance for the same money

 

[Dg834man]

I'd rather go without than pay £800 odd for a 3070 and I certainly won't be paying the kind of money I spent on the 3070FE for anything less.

I don't particularly have any restraints on what I can afford in terms of the range of graphic card prices but I won't just open my wallet for someone else's benefit.

Similar to me wouldn't have spent 3070 FE money for a 6600/3060, just by chance was on the nvidia shop linking a pal the 3090 that had been hanging around for hours when the 3070 had appeared in a second drop.

 

[flea.rider]

next gen for me .. i'll give the wife the 1700/vega 64 .. and drop 3-4k on a new system prob be my last one ...nearing 60 now ..lol

 

[g67575]

I'd never buy a RTX 3080 TI or RTX 3090, the cost per frame is much too high. I might if I really needed the extra VRAM, but it seems unlikely. Due to shortages, I think we are seeing more and more similar products, particularly at the high end, with diminishing returns. So, something like a RTX 3090 Super seems likely to be released, likely with around 15% greater performance than a RTX 3080.

There's also no real performance competitor yet from AMD for the RTX 3080 TI, which only inflates prices further.

They also both require quite a beefy power supply, which have experienced similar price inflation to graphics cards and are poor value currently. I'd probably want something like a Seasonic Prime 750w-850w, as I tend to think buying cheap power supplies is a false economy, due to higher failure rates.

In terms of energy costs during intensive tasks, you'd like get around 16% lower electricity usage out of a RTX 3070, compared to a RTX 3080 TI, link here:
https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-founders-edition/images/energy-efficiency.png

The RTX 3080 should be plenty for the vast majority of games at 4k, if not then what are features like DLSS for? I'd only buy a Founders Edition card, as these are much more likely to keep most of their value, when you come to replace it, maybe in just a year or 2.

Back to the real world though, getting hold of a RTX 3080 FE was and still is almost impossible for most of us, and there's no easy way to upgrade from 1 FE card to another.

In short, up to £600 for a 3070 TI, or £650 for a RTX 3080 FE, but only because of the silly money I could sell my RTX 3070 FE for.

 

[throwaway4372]

£500

 

[pastymuncher]

I paid the most I have ever paid for a GPU this time around, £600 for the Gigabyte RTX3070 Vision OC that Gibbo had on "offer" for forum members and that was only because of the shortage and price increases. Never again will I pay that much and future purchases will be at my normal maximum of £400. If these prices become the "norm" then this card will be run until it can't play games at decent fps any more and pc gaming will be dead to me. It's not only GPU prices though, Intels new upcoming CPU's are looking to new heights of stupid pricing and I fully expect AMD to follow suit with their future releases. Gaming on a pc is getting extremely expensive.

 

[g67575]

Hmm. I'm hoping people will be able to buy an 8 core (+ smaller cores) Alderlake CPU for around £300, maybe the 12700f or 12700KF. Probably won't be though, because the 5800X is still priced over £300.

 

[Jay-G25]

Hmm. I'm hoping people will be able to buy an 8 core (+ smaller cores) Alderlake CPU for around £300, maybe the 12700f or 12700KF. Probably won't be though, because the 5800X is still priced over £300.

it would be nice if the 12700K was £350ish but not looking like that at all if the leaks are to be believed


FR NL UK
Intel Core i5-12600KF €403.96 - -
Intel Core i5-12600K €321.16 €323.83 £311.41
Intel Core i7-12700KF €436.01 £397.13
Intel Core i7-12700K €636.08 €641.38 £550.16
Intel Core i9-12900KF €879.24 £753.30
Intel Core i9-12900K €919.88 €846.92 £791.16

 

[wozzizname]

I paid £650 for a 3080FE. I'd nearly bought a 6800XT when they were just under £800, but the price went up while I was trying to justify the cost to myself.
I can't see myself ever paying the prices top-end aio cards are going for now.

 

[Jay-G25]

it would be nice if the 12700K was £350ish but not looking like that at all if the leaks are to be believed


FR NL UK
Intel Core i5-12600KF €403.96 - -
Intel Core i5-12600K €321.16 €323.83 £311.41
Intel Core i7-12700KF €436.01 £397.13
Intel Core i7-12700K €636.08 €641.38 £550.16
Intel Core i9-12900KF €879.24 £753.30
Intel Core i9-12900K €919.88 €846.92 £791.16

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Amazo...ck-including-the-Core-i9-12900K.568739.0.html

 

[azazl187]

I would pay 1k for the strix. I can see it's double that atm so it won't be anytime soon

 

[HRL]

Ideally <£1K for a flagship card.

However, it was fairly obvious late last year that the prices and availability on components was about to go nuts so took the plunge on a 3090FE. Was hesitant at the time but nearly a year later I’m now very glad that I did.

 

[DarrenM343]

Worth remembering the 3*** series already approx halfway through lifecycle. Would be tempted to wait it out now for next gen if haven't got hands on something yet for a reasonable price, ie a FE

 

[AiiR]

I've never felt comfortable paying more than £300. As a result I've not had any brand new hardware for some time.

If an upgrade isn't available, then I'll just need to turn settings down.

 

[Hades]

Unless prices come down dramatically I am now permanently out of the new GPU business and by extension out of any future PC upgrades. I will stay with what I have and just move to a laptop eventually. The cost simply isn't worth it.

I am after a GPU for my son but again not at current prices. I will just buy a used one at some point.

It's sad as I love computers and it has been my hobby since 1981. But I am simply not prepared to be bent over without lube.

 

[mingey]

I managed to get my 3080 on release £719 plus water block, I wouldn't have paid anymore tbh that's about the price I paid for the 1080ti. But not enjoying gaming as much lately, not enough time may change now its getting cooler etc.

 

[Skynet5]

I've never felt comfortable paying more than £300. As a result I've not had any brand new hardware for some time.

If an upgrade isn't available, then I'll just need to turn settings down.

it was great when cards were priced reasonably. everyone has their own limits. my 3080FE was a tough pill to swallow at RRP but I absolutely could not justify to myself or my family spending such much for an AIB and I wanted the 10GB for a little bit of assurance.