NVIDIA HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT - GPU PRICE CUTS AT OcUK!

[Narj]

Just to remind everyone, there are tens of thousands of games for emulators and on abandonware. Also, GoG is justice. You don’t need an expensive GPU to have a very fulfilling gaming experience

Currently playing RRT2 and loving it.

Indie stuff like Axiom Verge is just superb too, props to the small devs.

 

[arknor]

Just to remind everyone, there are tens of thousands of games for emulators and on abandonware. Also, GoG is justice. You don’t need an expensive GPU to have a very fulfilling gaming experience

You don't anyway when everything is held back by consoles

 

[Narj]

You don't anyway when everything is held back by consoles

Well that goes without saying when people like me are still rocking a GTX970 and enjoying modern games at 1080p

Edit: Shockingly, Days Gone runs just fine on it.

I’m glad I broke out of that feeling that I “need” the latest tech. Absolute waste of money now.

I did have to buy a GPU recently for a family member but got a cheap used GTX1650 which runs what they need just fine.

 

[TNA]

Well that goes without saying when people like me are still rocking a GTX970 and enjoying modern games at 1080p

I’m glad I broke out of that feeling that I “need” the latest tech. Absolute waste of money now.

Doesn’t have to be if you buy and sell at the right time. Say you get a 4070 when it comes out. Use it for 18 months and sell it for what £50 to £100 loss? That’s a lot of fun for a small outlay imo. Basically it does not have to be only Nvidia having their cake and eating it, you can too.

 

[nomadd]

Well that goes without saying when people like me are still rocking a GTX970 and enjoying modern games at 1080p

Edit: Shockingly, Days Gone runs just fine on it.

I’m glad I broke out of that feeling that I “need” the latest tech. Absolute waste of money now.

I did have to buy a GPU recently for a family member but got a cheap used GTX1650 which runs what they need just fine.

Yep, played Spiderman on the old GTX970 just fine. Spent most of the Summer this year back on my old 3770k/GTX970 and it's been great. Yuzu and PPSSPP also run terrifically well.

 

[Oberon]

Are you having a giggle? The prices are static, and some have even gone up in prices! Price fixing needs to be investigated with the GPU market.

 

[V F]

Just to remind everyone, there are tens of thousands of games for emulators and on abandonware. Also, GoG is justice. You don’t need an expensive GPU to have a very fulfilling gaming experience

Currently playing RRT2 and loving it.

Indie stuff like Axiom Verge is just superb too, props to the small devs.

Well, Battle Royale killed gaming so.

 

[Mr G]

Price cuts? Where! I check prices from most online retailers almost daily, from what I can see the prices are steadily going up not down! Certain AMD cards are dropping slightly then going back up.

 

[diamount]

Price cuts? Where! I check prices from most online retailers almost daily, from what I can see the prices are steadily going up not down! Certain AMD cards are dropping slightly then going back up.

Discounted to MSRP

 

[Mr G]

Discounted to MSRP

Certain AMD cards are getting closer to MSRP but far from a discount 2 years on. A few more days and the bay will be flooded.

 

[gpuerrilla]

 

[Joxeon]

Coming to a vendor near you!

One owner, lightly used for gaming.

 

[Purgatory]

Coming to a vendor near you!

One owner, lightly used for gaming.

But But.... they will just be moving to a new coin soon if not then Nvidia and AMD should take a year break from selling GPUS if there is a flood of second hand cards from mining, but I don't see it happening and even if it does it won't effect the UK and EU market as most of these mining farms are in Asia and countries with cheap electricity not the UK or EU and most people in UK or EU that mined have for sure got rid of their inventory by now that had many and the many more on gaming rigs are not selling their only gpu they mined on part time.

Also expect Nvidia and AMD to pull the shortages on gpus again and cpus and motherboards etc etc this time and ddr5 ram will probably shoot up again too and ssds that have massively dropped now will shoot up again with all the new builds they are hoping for coming from AMD and intel.

I honestly think these huge farms are not going anywhere, maybe people with 20 cards or a garage mining outfit but these huge farms I don't see them selling up and they will move their gpus to another coin or other money making scheme.

 

[Journey]

I honestly think these huge farms are not going anywhere, maybe people with 20 cards or a garage mining outfit but these huge farms I don't see them selling up and they will move their gpus to another coin or other money making scheme.

Depends on what cards they are mining on now, and how much more efficient the new cards are in work done per watt of power used. If you are running RTX 3060 Ti's and a single RTX 4090 is the same work done as 4-5 of those, then they would likely sell as the power used will be a lot less, as well as heat generated for cooling needs, and actual real estate used. Assuming that there is something profitable to mine, e.g. A.N.Other coin.

You could see an actual real flood of cards if the new ones are a great deal faster and more efficient, and they can get enough supply of them. If they can do it with no outlay other that time used to swap the cards out, then they also now have a warranty etc that is new. So don't be sure that you won't see them selling up, they may just not shut down.

 

[Frenzy]

Coming to a vendor near you!

One owner, lightly used for gaming.

85% of the mining market still at it, 94 million gpus

 

[turbot1984]

The pound is around 15% weaker against the dollar than at the beginning of 2022.

 

[Alt0153]

The pound is around 15% weaker against the dollar than at the beginning of 2022.

cause the queen is dead and she was the only thing keeping the country going

 

[nomadd]

Coming to a vendor near you!

One owner, lightly used for gaming.

But can it run Crysis?

Oh, and 10TB of ram is not enough for modern games.

 

[gpuerrilla]

But But.... they will just be moving to a new coin soon if not then Nvidia and AMD should take a year break from selling GPUS if there is a flood of second hand cards from mining, but I don't see it happening and even if it does it won't effect the UK and EU market as most of these mining farms are in Asia and countries with cheap electricity not the UK or EU and most people in UK or EU that mined have for sure got rid of their inventory by now that had many and the many more on gaming rigs are not selling their only gpu they mined on part time.
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I honestly think these huge farms are not going anywhere, maybe people with 20 cards or a garage mining outfit but these huge farms I don't see them selling up and they will move their gpus to another coin or other money making scheme.

Don't forget most folk on here apparently wouldn't touch a used mining gpu with a barge pole, so that rules them out. Few will be buying new gpu's, few will be buying ex UK mined gpu's.

 

[Purgatory]

Don't forget most folk on here apparently wouldn't touch a used mining gpu with a barge pole, so that rules them out. Few will be buying new gpu's, few will be buying ex UK mined gpu's.

Exactly, I personally wouldn't touch a mined on gpu no matter how well they were looked after and most are now out of warranty anyways or have been opened up and no warranty on them now too. As miners modded their cards as we know, especially for the 30 series with their hot vram issues as many found out when mining on them as that work load was never designed for with such vram modules and cooling for the vram.