When the Gpu's prices will go down ?

[MCFC_ANDY]

what program do you use for that ?

3dmark, furmark,etc and obviously hwinfo

 

[Raelgun]

I completely chucked pc gaming awhile before lockdown. My 980ti gave up the goat and my pc has remained untouched since then.

The price of GPUs is appalling. I think I paid 500-600 at the time for a 980ti, which was a lot I thought. Top of the range cards were pushing towards/at a grand.

What's a top of the range card now 2k? That means a 4080 is then 1200. Looking at the cards now I don't see anything worth buying under a 4080 but at 1200, they've got no chance I'll part with that. I decided to buy a PS5 at the end of lockdown for retail instead.

Unfortunately like everything these days company's have got greedier and greedier but people keep buying so its not changing. We can only hope that with the rise in interest rates that stock may sit. Let's face it we have always over paid in Britain. It's been called rip off Britain for a reason for a long time.

Surely the price of GPUs has a knock on effect for the whole industry. If they were more reasonably priced I would have bought one well before now and then been spending on upgrading other items and purchasing pc games also.

I can't see me buying a new one any time soon and if things don't change I'll never bother with PC Gaming again.

Don't worry, the new wave of pcmr that believes buying expensive GPUs to never deep dive into the options but to only use upscale tech to ruin their image quality will suck Jensen dck

 

[Zarax]

Don't worry, the new wave of pcmr that believes buying expensive GPUs to never deep dive into the options but to only use upscale tech to ruin their image quality will suck Jensen dck

Good thing that even last month the most popular card on Steam was... The GTX 1650!

 

[Neil79]

I want a 4070 TI but at those prices...

 

[str]

I completely chucked pc gaming awhile before lockdown. My 980ti gave up the goat and my pc has remained untouched since then.

The price of GPUs is appalling. I think I paid 500-600 at the time for a 980ti, which was a lot I thought. Top of the range cards were pushing towards/at a grand.

What's a top of the range card now 2k? That means a 4080 is then 1200. Looking at the cards now I don't see anything worth buying under a 4080 but at 1200, they've got no chance I'll part with that. I decided to buy a PS5 at the end of lockdown for retail instead.

Unfortunately like everything these days company's have got greedier and greedier but people keep buying so its not changing. We can only hope that with the rise in interest rates that stock may sit. Let's face it we have always over paid in Britain. It's been called rip off Britain for a reason for a long time.

Surely the price of GPUs has a knock on effect for the whole industry. If they were more reasonably priced I would have bought one well before now and then been spending on upgrading other items and purchasing pc games also.

I can't see me buying a new one any time soon and if things don't change I'll never bother with PC Gaming again.

The pricing issue exists for most PC items now. It's capitalism at it's worst or best depending on point of view.

The situation could be forced in favour of consumers and all is required is the hard work gathering all the evidence and lots of complaints about it to the CMA.

What happened to your 980TI? Some had a design flaw related to a couple of tiny components that could be replaced before it was too late.

 

[BUDFORCE]

The pricing issue exists for most PC items now. It's capitalism at it's worst or best depending on point of view.

Not sure I can agree.

Some motherboards got expensive, but I think in general most pc components are just in line with inflation/cost of everything.

 

[Raelgun]

The pricing issue exists for most PC items now. It's capitalism at it's worst or best depending on point of view.

The situation could be forced in favour of consumers and all is required is the hard work gathering all the evidence and lots of complaints about it to the CMA.

What happened to your 980TI? Some had a design flaw related to a couple of tiny components that could be replaced before it was too late.

Actually, only GPUs and motherboards are extortionate though cpus released high but not anymore for AMD at least.

Everything else is probably the cheapest it's ever been, ram, even ddr5 has crashed down, ssds are cheap, cases are much better value now, psu are back to normal in my eyes.

 

[str]

Yeah I know what you mean and when looking deeper it starts to make sense.

For SSDs it was fine to have a 512GB but now 2TB is probably more viable and the prices reflect that. I paid much more for a 2TB a few weeks ago than I did for a 512GB a couple of years ago.

Ram goes up and down and always has. Ram has had a cycle of extortionately pricing for decades.

Cases are reasonable value but perhaps they haven't grasped how much more extortionate they can be yet?

As for PSUs, there are reasonable reduced price offers available due to the ATX3.0 spec causing pre-ATX3.0 to be dumped but relatively speaking the prices have gone up significantly over the last year.

I'm stupidly loyal at times and I've been around here on/off for a very long time. I wanted to buy a new PSU from OcUK. I wanted something reasonably decent to power my new system for a couple of years and one option I found was a 1650W tier 2 model from Thermalright. It was £50 overpriced and some competitors were overcharging by up to £90 for it.

Instead I've combined two "cheap" repurposed SFX SF750s.

 

[str]

Also I have 128GB 3600MHz DDR4 after I saw a good deal. I realise it's a stupid amount of ram to most people. Based on current discounted DDR4 prices mine cost 35% more but I've had it for over a year.

How much is 128GB DDR5? Currently it is more than double what I paid for my DDR4. Why? Capitalism. And complaining is futile.

Is it even viable to run four high performance DDR5 memory modules yet? I have no idea, I prefer not to afford to overpay for most latest gen technology.

I recently bought an old X299 setup, I upgraded the BIOS and my DDR4 works great in it. I could even buy another 4 sticks for 256GB for relatively not much money. Why? Capitalism has moved on from the technology I can still find a use for.

 

[DeathStorm]

I completely chucked pc gaming awhile before lockdown. My 980ti gave up the goat and my pc has remained untouched since then.

I can't see me buying a new one any time soon and if things don't change I'll never bother with PC Gaming again.

Lockdowns started 3 years ago, regardless of price do you really care at this point?

 

[Freddie1980]

Not sure I can agree.

Some motherboards got expensive, but I think in general most pc components are just in line with inflation/cost of everything.

I noticed the AM5 boards have really expensive especially at launch and some lines when compared to AM4 looked like they 1.7x more expensive in some cases (when comparing the B650 vs b550 MSI Tomahawk). In some cases I can understand it as AM5 has introduced a load of new technology, PCI 5.0, the AM5 socket and DDR5 and these all require new VRM design's, tighter signaling and putting the CPU pins on the board complicates it as well. The biggest reason for the higher prices though is generally the lack of competition and partners can get away with it, Intel struggles to compete and people want to buy into the Zen ecosystem.

 

[MCFC_ANDY]

amd shot themselves in the foot with early high am5 prices, i know plenty of folk that switched to intel, all of a suddenl intel were seen as the value proposition, who would have thought

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I noticed the AM5 boards have really expensive especially at launch and some lines when compared to AM4 looked like they 1.7x more expensive in some cases (when comparing the B650 vs b550 MSI Tomahawk). In some cases I can understand it as AM5 has introduced a load of new technology, PCI 5.0, the AM5 socket and DDR5 and these all require new VRM design's, tighter signaling and putting the CPU pins on the board complicates it as well. The biggest reason for the higher prices though is generally the lack of competition and partners can get away with it, Intel struggles to compete and people want to buy into the Zen ecosystem.

amd shot themselves in the foot with early high am5 prices, i know plenty of folk that switched to intel, all of a suddenl intel were seen as the value proposition, who would have thought

The AMD AM5 mini-ITX motherboards are ridiculously priced,and a number of Intel motherboards have PCI-E 5.0 main graphics slots and cost less money.

The cheapest AM5 mini-ITX motherboard is entirely PCI-E 4.0 and costs around £250,and you can get B550 mini-ITX motherboards for half that price. You also can get B760/Z790 mini-ITX motherboards for £50~£70 less.

 

[Raelgun]

amd shot themselves in the foot with early high am5 prices, i know plenty of folk that switched to intel, all of a suddenl intel were seen as the value proposition, who would have thought

For me I will go Intel again as they have much better USB connectivity which AMD just did a bad job on, where is USB 4.

People use USB more then they will ever take advantage of pci exp 5.

 

[Joxeon]

The AMD AM5 mini-ITX motherboards are ridiculously priced,and a number of Intel motherboards have PCI-E 5.0 main graphics slots and cost less money.

The cheapest AM5 mini-ITX motherboard is entirely PCI-E 4.0 and costs around £250,and you can get B550 mini-ITX motherboards for half that price. You also can get B760/Z790 mini-ITX motherboards for £50~£70 less.

A big selling point of AM4 was being able to use multiple CPU generations even on a budget board but now with AM5 the "budget" boards cost double so while you may get to keep the board for a couple of generations your paying upfront for the cost of a new future board added on without actually getting a new board.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

For me I will go Intel again as they have much better USB connectivity which AMD just did a bad job on, where is USB 4.

People use USB more then they will ever take advantage of pci exp 5.

PCI-E 5.0 is going to be important as Nvidia/AMD cut down the PCI-E link on their mainstream dGPUs. Intel offers PCI-E 5.0 on cheaper motherboards than AMD as they divided the B650 into two versions,ie,B650 and B650E!

A big selling point of AM4 was being able to use multiple CPU generations even on a budget board but now with AM5 the "budget" boards cost double so while you may get to keep the board for a couple of generations your paying upfront for the cost of a new future board added on without actually getting a new board.

Exactly.

 

[Klo]

amd shot themselves in the foot with early high am5 prices, i know plenty of folk that switched to intel, all of a suddenl intel were seen as the value proposition, who would have thought

AMD don't make motherboards.

 

[Raelgun]

PCI-E 5.0 is going to be important as Nvidia/AMD cut down the PCI-E link on their mainstream dGPUs. Intel offers PCI-E 5.0 on cheaper motherboards than AMD as they divided the B650 into two versions,ie,B650 and B650E!


Exactly.

That doesn't sound like a solution other then creating a problem and offering a nonsense solution for more money.

 

[mahius]

Yep, 7900XT is now £799.99, ready for the 'sale' price back to £749.99.... Though I'm sure theres meant to be some type of law regarding this, eg the product has be have been at the increased price for a certain amount of time before being lowered to claim 'sale' price.

Unless I'm confusing this with something similar on Steam, I recall that for items to be considered on sale, the prices can't have gone up in the past 30 days or something. Though might be an EU law, might not apply here.

I feel you, I'm on a RX590

I completely chucked pc gaming awhile before lockdown. My 980ti gave up the goat and my pc has remained untouched since then.
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I can't see me buying a new one any time soon and if things don't change I'll never bother with PC Gaming again.

Same here. My 980ti (which admittedly I bought second-hand on MM here), died a couple years back and I downgraded back to the old 970. Since 970 can barely run bugger all with 3.5GB VRAM, especially at native 1440p, I've just not been playing PC games the past couple or so years. Only bit of gaming I did recently was new Zelda when my brother lent me his Nintendo Switch.

Apologies for veering off-topic a tad, its not just GPUs, if folks have seen recent videos from GamersNexus and JayZTwoCents, motherboard manufacturers are also taking the mickey and one reason why I refuse to upgrade from my 2015 build. To buy a new mobo with same features as my current one from back then would cost me triple or quadruple the price. Again, admittedly I bought on bundle with the CPU from here at OCUK of all places, all those years back, but that only saved me roughly 20 quid back then.

Depsite all the doom and gloom, I've seen/heard decent prices going for 6700xt recently and I know a lot of these reviewers are recommending folks buy those instead of new releases like RTX4060. Similarly previous gen CPUs and mobos are hitting decent sales too. Though GPUs are still overall putting me off from an upgrade.

 

[SpudMaster]

Unless I'm confusing this with something similar on Steam, I recall that for items to be considered on sale, the prices can't have gone up in the past 30 days or something. Though might be an EU law, might not apply here.

Yeah I think that is the case. I'm not saying OcUK are planning to do it, time will tell I guess but it hasn't stoppped retailers in general from going it in the past