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NVIDIA 4000 Series
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Somebody that is in the situation to be able to buy a £1000 GPU is not likely to be struggling to pay the power bills ect though are they.
Soldato
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Of course. You can go on spending perhaps another 50%-100% on other stuff than the GPU. I wouldn't mind if the 4090ti would be $599, but those times seem to be gone...
Thanks for the replies I know I need to retire this PSU at some point as as I'm already limited on current hardware as this PSU has no dual 8pin only a 8 and a 6 for the GPU/CPU but its not like I'm trying to stick high end parts in it I'm being cautious with it but its obviously showing its age.
My finances are fine and I could makes jokes about smashing a 3090 with a hammer but I've been a budget gaming for so long I'm stuck in this weird mindset atm I think its called being a cheepskate when it comes to my own PC.
Well this is the guy stilll running the last version of a Western Digital Raptor (remember those) as a OS drive today, my case will proberly have to be changed also to accomodate a new psu and the bottom psu intake wont line up with a psu larger than mine as this one is tiny compared to modern ones and I'm not sure if one can fit a psu in mine upside down so the costs start to add up.
If something like a AMD 7600/XT is anything like a 6600 ( I may just pick up one of these but im ok to wait) which uses about 130w max which is crazy for the performance I could go with that.
I have an Enermax 525W power supply which is also pretty old, but it handled a R290 overclocked plus other stuff. If is a good power supply and you don't put a 200W CPU as well, a good ~ 550 PSU should be enough for a 250w GPU.
If you can afford an expensive car, surely you can afford the fuel, taxes, maintenance?
It doesn't, a GOOD power supply will handle a 250-270w graphics card just fine - as long as you don't run it with a top of the line, overclocked CPU.
Soldato
I dont know, I have not bought a case for a decade - my Corsair Carbide Air is doing a grand job as it was a long term investment. Are the latest fad of cases completely devoid of good airflow design I take it?
As others have pointed out too, the room temp will get uncomfortable unless you open a window and plan to play games in your underpants!
as god intended!play games in your underpants!
Soldato
You could be a student with static costs (sometimes free electric) that saved up/worked to afford it; or a person that lives with their parents so normal outgoings may not apply (house/rent), plenty of outliers that would break that assumption. Some people use stronger machines as they may do heavy workloads, graphics design, rendering - just because you have an expensive component doesn't mean your impervious to other factors.
Depends on what your hobby is for example, I know people that do fishing, cycling, golf and the obscene amount they pay on stuff or memberships would make your eyes water. In comparison a thousand pound graphics card in this context is a fraction of what other people spend on items. A PS5 is what £500 in one hit? Unfortunately it needs electricity to work, so when your supplier increases cost fourfold then it suddenly makes an impact with regular use.
Have you done the maths? Compared to the cost of a GPU the cost of the electricity to run it is indeed trivial by comparison - pennies per hour. Unless you're gaming all day every day then the electricity costs are indeed small. I'm on 26.57p per kw/h. I have a system that uses 600W. That's 15.4 pence per hour. I can game all evening for a pound. Let's say I game all evening 5 days a week - I don't - so £1 / day. That's £200 a year. My actual gaming usage is far less, perhaps 2 - 3 evenings a week for 3 - 4 hours at a time, so I'm spending maybe £50 per year on gaming electricity. PC (and console) gaming is very cheap entertainment once you're over the initial purchase cost. Looking at it another way, the amount I pay for electricity covers 6 weeks of my internet link.
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During summer you may need to add the cost of running air conditioning - and the cost of buying that.
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He didn't read the post above his where I mentioned gaming is relatively cheap in comparison to other hobbies: 
Electric was even cheaper before, seems to forget prices have tripled and the trend looks like up another 50% before we know the state of it.
Electric was even cheaper before, seems to forget prices have tripled and the trend looks like up another 50% before we know the state of it.
During summer you may need to add the cost of running air conditioning - and the cost of buying that.
I find that there are these things called windows and that it is very simple to open them.
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When it's 30*C + outside and high humidity... good luck! Especially if you're living in a town where all you have around is concrete and asphalt
On the other side, gaming intensively during Winter can help balance things out
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There's also stuff which lasts longer than a GPU.
Photography may be expensive, but glass doesn't lose performance over time and neither does a decent body. Investing 2-3k into photo gear, for instance, can last you for 8-10 years or even much more than that. Buying a new hardware (graphics card is just one thing), lasts you what... 2-3 years +/- if you want 4k and other high end res?
A decent bicycle is also relatively cheap.
Ah, yes, don't forget the cost of games.
It's only a couple of days a year. Or a couple of days a decade here in Aberdeen. That day it was supposed to get super-hot it was overcast here and we had rain.
it was a one off anyway.... people act like we never had 2 days of heat in the past decades. oh now it's suddenly a normal thing
Soldato
You obviously don't read some of the other posters on here who never put the heating on.
Just because you live in Aberdeen and game for a few hours @27p a kwh doesn't mean that everyone else has the same conditions.
Just because you live in Aberdeen and game for a few hours @27p a kwh doesn't mean that everyone else has the same conditions.
Caporegime
I told you before, we don't talk about that.
Soldato
I live in Florida. No. Just, no.
No way, the Gregster I knew would not go without having the latest shiny. At the very least get a 4080 which would easily beat even a 3090 Ti and be latest shiny tech. 3090 is old news now and lost its shine. Especially with all the mining a auction card you would be picking up would have done, would be covered in soot