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How much WILL you pay for a graphics card?
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Im always curious how 'new gamers' get into PC gaming now.
When my friends and I where starting to play, a £500 PC was all you needed to play the games we wanted. A Top end PC was about £1k.
Sure you needed peripherals too, but the cost difference between a console and PC didnt seem as massive as it is now.
Choosing between a £500 next-gen console or a £1500+ PC seems a hard choice to make in favour of the PC. That choice would have been made for me when I was young.
When my friends and I where starting to play, a £500 PC was all you needed to play the games we wanted. A Top end PC was about £1k.
Sure you needed peripherals too, but the cost difference between a console and PC didnt seem as massive as it is now.
Choosing between a £500 next-gen console or a £1500+ PC seems a hard choice to make in favour of the PC. That choice would have been made for me when I was young.
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At most £400,but realistically £150~£300.
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I'm hoping for a 3060ti at Msrp, which means an FE.
Not keen on spending more than £250, to be honest, but prices are silly, so I have little choice.
If it gets to Christmas and prices/ availability remain the same, I may well go console. A new console for the price of a (not high end!) Graphics card alone is becoming increasingly tempting.
Not keen on spending more than £250, to be honest, but prices are silly, so I have little choice.
If it gets to Christmas and prices/ availability remain the same, I may well go console. A new console for the price of a (not high end!) Graphics card alone is becoming increasingly tempting.
Most new gamers get a laptop and game with the laptop GPU as long as it will give them acceptable performance...
If all you do is game, console is the way to go as games cost almost the same now using key sites and they use less space/power.
I planed to get a 6800XT for rrp but could not so ended up getting a 6900XT. I could not pay a large amount for a mid-range GPU, I would be wanting to upgrade before I got it installed. I did pay more than I wanted but will not want to upgrade now for 2 years.
Same. Not more than MSRP and not more than £400.
That's still more than is ideal for a mid-range card, but it is what it is.
Also this. I don't really want to spend £400
Group hug for us mid-range buyers
The 3060 TI FE is possible - even I managed it
And my luck is abysmal.Shame the same can't be said on AMD's side.
I'd class the 6800XT as high end as its not far off a 6900XT tbf.
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The issue is, you have £700, cash, in your hand, a wad of £20 notes. You go to the shop and you hand over the money for a graphics card. You have seen with your own eyes the money sitting stacked up in front of you. Now think about an electronic transaction, no physical connection to the money, the way that shops WANT you to be. Having no real thoughts about spending the money, they just want you to give it to them. Have no thoughts about what it really is as yo don't have it in front of you.
If you have the actual cash in your hand, you've got that physical connection to it and there's always then a bit of, remorse is the wrong word, more of "pensive thoughts" when you hand over so much cash....and for what, to have some grass rendered faster on a screen.
If everyone had to pay cash for a graphics card, shops wouldn't sell as many of them. That's the thing, electronic money makes you disconnected from the true value of money.
If you have the actual cash in your hand, you've got that physical connection to it and there's always then a bit of, remorse is the wrong word, more of "pensive thoughts" when you hand over so much cash....and for what, to have some grass rendered faster on a screen.
If everyone had to pay cash for a graphics card, shops wouldn't sell as many of them. That's the thing, electronic money makes you disconnected from the true value of money.
My current card cost me £480 which included a game (the most I've spent on a GPU) about six years ago, and although I've often based the absolute limit around the £6-700 mark,
(for a long time this seemed to be the price for the top-end card until the first Titan showed up, IIRC), I do intend to obtain my next graphics card for no more than the £480 I paid before, and preferably less, if possible.
However, that may not turn out to be at all realistic, so the ceiling of 6-700 might be more likely this time. That said, I'll still wait it out as long as I can, and ideally, I'd like to bag something in the 360Ti/6700XT - 3080/6800XT segment.
I might consider the slower 3060 12GB but there's no way I'm paying well over £500 for one of those. IMO, a more reasonable price would be something ~£300 though I appreciate that's pie in the sky in the current climate.
To answer the question: a max of £545.86 - but much preferably less!
(for a long time this seemed to be the price for the top-end card until the first Titan showed up, IIRC), I do intend to obtain my next graphics card for no more than the £480 I paid before, and preferably less, if possible.
However, that may not turn out to be at all realistic, so the ceiling of 6-700 might be more likely this time. That said, I'll still wait it out as long as I can, and ideally, I'd like to bag something in the 360Ti/6700XT - 3080/6800XT segment.
I might consider the slower 3060 12GB but there's no way I'm paying well over £500 for one of those. IMO, a more reasonable price would be something ~£300 though I appreciate that's pie in the sky in the current climate.
To answer the question: a max of £545.86 - but much preferably less!
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As much as I bulk as the idea of having to pay £500+ for a graphics card it may help to put it into context that a iPhone 12 Pro Max costs £1,100 and has a fraction of the compute power a modern GPU. Granted this is comparing Apples and Oranges but both are essentially just compute devices all be one fits into your pocket.
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just dont buy and wait.
Realistically though, how many people are prepared to go and burn £1,100 outright on a mobile phone? I'm most probably out of touch here and I don't see the attraction of having a phone like that in the first place but a purchase like that would never even flash into the realms of possibility to me. There's just no way I'd spend that on a phone, ever. I guess a small difference would be that the Iphone 12 pro max is top of the line whereas at the moment £500 is getting you mid range gpu's if you're lucky.
Long term lurker, first time poster so this is my first post but I used to spend between £70 and £100 on a GPU during the days when a HD4670 (that thing was a bargain) could play most games at decent setting. Now maybe £150 max. £250 if and when I graduate.
I think I maybe in the minority here as those aren't exactly enthusiast prices, but I do love a bargain.
I think I maybe in the minority here as those aren't exactly enthusiast prices, but I do love a bargain.
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