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I know but i think you recommended that monitor in another thread me thinks.
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Poll: Poll: Will you be buying a 2080Ti/2080/2070?
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I know but i think you recommended that monitor in another thread me thinks.
Caporegime
This!ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!!
May not actually be true.....
I bet I could drink anyone on here under the table though
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Because you paid £1200 for a graphics card
Because this....
I'd love to see the BOM cost of these cards, they're probably £50 higher than 2014 releases due to memory chips going up, the rest is sheer profit.
I had money sitting aside for an upgrade but this is just ridiculous, nvidia need to get off their high horse. PC gaming has always been more expensive but not this bad. Back in 2014 you could build the best part of an entire high end machine for that price.
I've always had high end PC's but was sat playing God Of War on a borrowed from a mate PS4 Pro on my 4K TV last night struggling to wonder why anyone in their right mind would pay £1200 for essentially the same thing with more frames that'll in reality, will make very little to the overall experience.
Then again Apple did this for years and the iSheep kept on following, paying hundreds every year for essentially no improvement....guess nvidia have taken a leaf out of their book!
Soldato
I'd totally be buying 2080ti if I had savings but I spent it all on the deposit for my house so as soon as I can amass £1000 or so including the sale of my 1080ti I'll be going 2080ti. It'll be 6 months or so.
Caporegime
Well you have clearly justified your reasoning to yourself on why you won't be purchasing a 2080Ti. Not sure if I am brain dead or stupid with money, so will let all the others here decide!Because you paid £1200 for a graphics card
Because this....
I'd love to see the BOM cost of these cards, they're probably £50 higher than 2014 releases due to memory chips going up, the rest is sheer profit.
I had money sitting aside for an upgrade but this is just ridiculous, nvidia need to get off their high horse. PC gaming has always been more expensive but not this bad. Back in 2014 you could build the best part of an entire high end machine for that price.
I've always had high end PC's but was sat playing God Of War on a borrowed from a mate PS4 Pro on my 4K TV last night struggling to wonder why anyone in their right mind would pay £1200 for essentially the same thing with more frames that'll in reality, will make very little to the overall experience.
Then again Apple did this for years and the iSheep kept on following, paying hundreds every year for essentially no improvement....guess nvidia have taken a leaf out of their book!
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This!
My favourite evening tipple used to be a 1ltr bottle of Baileys and a bottle of Whiskey (mixed about 60/40, gives the baileys a good kick) with ice. I fancy a go at that m8.....if I still drank spirits
Caporegime
I am off to Rotterdam on Saturday with a few mates/family and we start drinking at 7:30 in the morning and generally finish about 1am. I couldn't do what you do though, so you are not allowed to playMy favourite evening tipple used to be a 1ltr bottle of Baileys and a bottle of Whiskey (mixed about 60/40, gives the baileys a good kick) with ice. I fancy a go at that m8.....if I still drank spirits
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I certainly will and at my ripe old age and working environment, it would take a lot more than these herberts to phase me
Hey Greg, long time no speak! How's you?
Quote in bold: I think we're witnessing that people have limits, and rightfully so. It's us that cannot grasp that the very few condone such prices and fear that it'll get worse next time (and it will) because buyers show Nvidia that they can get away with it. The amount of "negative" (positive from my perspective) comments prove how outrageous the pricing situation is.
I have to agree with some peeps here that one cannot have made an informed decision since we know nothing about the performance. An informed decision, by default, requires all information to be present.
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I am off to Rotterdam on Saturday with a few mates/family and we start drinking at 7:30 in the morning and generally finish about 1am. I couldn't do what you do though, so you are not allowed to play
I'm the same m8, can drink beer til it comes out of my ears as it just doesn't go in fast enough
When you start mixing stuff up then it becomes a PAARRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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I am disinclined to acquiesce to their current pricing model.
TL;DR - NO!
Stoner81.
TL;DR - NO!
Stoner81.
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Same for the £1k iPhone. I'd not want to pay that for something I could break so easily, and also for such a small screen device. I still find phones a PITA to use. For many however it's the centre of their life
. Some will think insurance will cover breakages but insurance is yet more money to pay (and a waste of money too for most)I hope nobody complaining about GPU pricing owns one of those £1k phones
Don
Doesn't matter what 4K performance is like then, because you can upscale with Tensor corez!
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Doesn't matter what 4K performance is like then, because you can upscale with Tensor corez!
Realised that the game needs to support DLSS, can't be used otherwise. Gutted
Caporegime
I am good bro cheers and you?
I have been around hardware since the days of the pet, spectrum,c64 and always been into gaming and tinkering. The Amiga days were my favourite and some great titles back then and demo's were amazing. The scene used to do some amazing gfx with some amazing music and these would blow my mind but the one thing I wanted to see more of was RayTracing, as when I first saw what was possible, it blew everything out of the water. Motion capture, roto scaping, parallex scrolling, I have seen them all and it has driven the gaming industry forward. I agree that the price is insane and I can appreciate why people are angry but at the same time, don't direct the anger at those who have purchased. As for my informed decision, I base it on a knowledge of what is what with a GPU and whilst I can only come up with general figures that are/will be inaccurate, I do have a rough understanding. And even then, it is the fact of RT that I have purchased this card. I want to see real time rayracing in games and it is a big thing for me.
You can download the Quake II demo with ray tracing here: http://amietia.com/Quake 2 GPU Pathtracer + Q2Demo.zip
Yup. Unfortunately there are plenty of idiots out there willing to pay silly money for them.
Soldato
Quake 2??is that a typo? That's fully a 20 year old game. I hope that's not an indication of what we need to be playing to get decent frames.
Caporegime
Will have a play cheers
What alternative do we have? This is extremely cheap compared to the alternative RT cards. For those of use that use RT this new card not only saves a large amount of money, it will save a massive amount of time as well. Why are we idiots for saving money and saving time?