The NOT Buying a Graphics Card Thread!!!

[Game]

I did get a graphics card

but looking at the ebay selling prices on the RX5700 I now feel bad about selling mine for £700-800 I should be happy but its based on the gloom of others

and worried if I sell it for less its just going to some knob who will them scalp others

 

[crazyDAJT]

I’m going to wait it out till AM5 and RTX4000 I think.

3900x and GTX1080 on a 1440p 140hz monitor are fine for me. Even if it is a VM on my unraid NAS.

 

[JonnyG1982]

On a side note I think it's terrible people here at OCUK forum are also buying to scalp. It's a vicious circle. Buy it for yourself and don't be part of the problem.

 

[jimbobaggies]

I stopped gaming about 6 odd years ago, through a messy divorce... my new wife is happy for me to get back into gaming, kids are adults so no suck on finances, and I have the money and wanted to build the system myself... but the state of the market it looks like unless I'm really lucky and happen onto one of the OCUK voucher deals, I don't think I could stomach paying more than 450 for a graphics card, so maybe a while longer before I can get back into gaming

 

[SirMX5Alot]

On a side note I think it's terrible people here at OCUK forum are also buying to scalp. It's a vicious circle. Buy it for yourself and don't be part of the problem.

People on OCUK forums are just people and you know what they're like...

 

[ljt]

I have completely given up now, probably until next year. I refuse to pay insane prices and spend half my life trying to get a new card, so I have decided to buy two new french doors for the house instead. Well, they cost a little more than a graphics card but at least they are easier to find!

Just wondering if anyone else has given up now and decided to spend the money on something else?

Yeah I gave up a while back now. I was after a 3080 @ £649 for the FE or I would have gone to £700 for a decent AIB model. Once I saw they weren't easily available at those prices I lost all interest. I'm not sitting waiting for alerts every minute of the day because it sucks all enjoyment of upgrading. I'm not interested until I can easily get hold of one at the prices I quoted, which by the looks of it means I probably wont at all.

So I bought a Xbox series X and a PS5 instead, and now my PC is relegated to playing my older games and back catalogue. Every game going forward that's available across all platforms will be bought for console instead, so my PC will see very little investment going forward because all fun has been sucked out of that hobby.

 

[ianbeany]

Wait for cards to appear in mm a d buy one assuming you have access

How many posts do you need to access mm?

 

[GloriousMess]

How many posts do you need to access mm?

1000. I doubt I'll ever achieve that but I appreciate the regulars who have. This forum isn't bad at all for discussing PC hardware and troubleshooting.

 

[ianbeany]

1000. I doubt I'll ever achieve that but I appreciate the regulars who have. This forum isn't bad at all for discussing PC hardware and troubleshooting.

Damn.

I've been here 7 years and haven't even reached free delivery yet

 

[chaparral]

so I have decided to buy two new french doors for the house instead. Well, they cost a little more than a graphics card but at least they are easier to find!

Can they run crysis ?

 

[d_brennen]

Yep, going to put up with peasant settings for a while longer.

Not paying inflated prices, over RRP or where the prices "should" be, so I guess 2022

 

[burtie]

Nope snagged a RTX 2080ti when the RTX 3080 was released, will snag a RTX 3080 when the next gen are released. Never buying new again, same with CPU's. The only thing I'll buy new is motherboards and ram.

 

[The_Arbiter]

In October-ish i bought a new PSU and gave myself the overhead for any future upgrades as i didn't know if i would go high end GPU. It was either a rx570 at £130, or 5700xt at £400. But in the end i just waited for RDNA2, and here we are.
Rolling on a ryzen 3600 and rx460(!), with a Focus 650w. Talk about a miss mash setup xD

I do a little video editing and mostly play old games so i can live until GPUs drop down into my price bracket.

 

[gary996]

I looked through overclockers.co.uk graphic cards and there was only one Palitt card in stock in the entire section, it's embarrassing

 

[Cyber-Mav]

only intel can save us now with xe graphics.

 

[Game]

I looked through overclockers.co.uk graphic cards and there was only one Palitt card in stock in the entire section, it's embarrassing

Its the same on every supplier

 

[Jeps]

Nope snagged a RTX 2080ti when the RTX 3080 was released, will snag a RTX 3080 when the next gen are released. Never buying new again, same with CPU's. The only thing I'll buy new is motherboards and ram.

Smart move right there. I've been in one of the 3080 queues since release and probably wont get the card at all it seems. Luckily I have a 1080ti which is doing OK for now but I'm missing out on the ray tracing features

 

[rallyslag]

I nabbed an RX 6800 when Overclockers sold their stash a couple of months ago. God knows when it actually was,every day is like the previous at the moment. But it seems like a couple of months. I sold my Vega 64 for over the odds, so it lessened the sting a bit. It seams they have all gone up another couple of hundred quid since then though,which is totally bonkers!!

 

[McPhee]

This is one of the best times ever to buy a graphics card, if you can get in on a deal (e.g. and Nvidia FE card, or one of OCUK's recent promos) and currently have a 10-Series or Vega card or later that you can sell. Used cards are fetching so much that you get a cheap, free, or even a profitable upgrade.

 

[Dunners]

I nabbed an RX 6800 when Overclockers sold their stash a couple of months ago. God knows when it actually was,every day is like the previous at the moment. But it seems like a couple of months. I sold my Vega 64 for over the odds, so it lessened the sting a bit. It seams they have all gone up another couple of hundred quid since then though,which is totally bonkers!!

Similar here - had to pay well over the odds and got lucky in the 3d printer section when some were being posted in there. Got a load back by selling my Vega64 for £400 (no doubt to a miner). Just seem the same Vega card I had go for £600. It seems to be getting worse!