Poll: What is your upper limit for your next GPU purchase

[Dirk Diggler]

I thought it might be interesting to do a poll as most of the threads have talk of price & value for money; maybe we could keep the conversation in one place that disregards Nvidia/AMD/Console choice and focus purely on budget?

Could a mod add a poll, please?

£250
£500
£750
£1,000
£1,250
£1,500
£1,750
£2,000
No limit

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I paid around £750 for my GTX1080 I believe

That sounds a bit high, I paid that for my 1080ti.

I have a similar threshold, although I'm thinking if I paid £750 a couple of years ago then a little more would be an acceptable upper limit if the performance did merit it.

£1,000 is my personal threshold, although I'd be more inclined to shoot for between £500 - £750 if again performance was there.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I tend to buy previous gen second hand. I’m currently running a 1070 I paid £150 for about 16 months ago Planning to do the same again when Ampere is fully released and 20 series cards drop in price. I’d find it hard to justify paying more than about £250 for a graphics card.

I wish I could do this, but I need HDMI 2.1 this time round so previous gen is off the shopping list.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Don't think i ever bought any high end stuff and thought am getting good value for money
And that not just about high end PC stuff

Not all GPUs are high end (when if Nvidia want us to think they are).

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Op its actually
no no no no, no no there's no limit.
Musically the comma Is in the wrong place

I think you'll find it's;

No no. No n-no no. No n-no no. No n-there's no lim-mate.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

This is the perfect theme tune for the quintessential Nvidia "top of the range" connoisseur. It epitomises the era of the now middle aged, ex powder snorting, born again geek.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Extended EVGA warranty isn't transferable. I saw it on the EVGA site. Not sure if it's a new thing?

It's always been that way. I generally buy EVGA and always extend the warranty. I only sell on the MM here, so when my 1080ti gets sold someone will get it with 18 months warranty left, and at a fair price.

There's actually a couple of 980ti kicking about that I've sold on here and they still have warranty, I'd help out no issues if it was required. That's why MM is miles better than eBay etc.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

The problem I find with your poll @Dirk Diggler is that it offers no context, that is fair enough its ur poll etc but there is nothing there to say your Budget is XXXX if the performance is YYYY and tbh that is what I struggle with. I don't mind spending <a lot of cash> if its so far ahead of current gen that even next gen will simply match it. What I really mind is spending a lot of money for it to be de-valued very quickly by a refresh and new products plus the ludicrous buy in price cos of marketing and the wish for Nvidia & AMD to get more GP/margin for nothing

The poll is just a guide, mate... that's why we can post details throughout the thread, too. If the poll catered for every permutation, it would be as big as October's credit card bill.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I don't really concern myself with what's upcoming (something always is) when I need to upgrade.

I think when there's an announcement regarding a new generation due in literally a couple of days, then it's probably prudent to wait and see what it is.

It gets to the stage when you've skipped a generation or two that technology has moved on to the point where it's harder to avoid an upgrade, e.g. I'm generally happy with my 1080ti performance in terms of raw grunt, but could do with this new generation to get the most from my OLED (HDMI 2.1, Gsync, 4k@60+ etc..).