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Prices will only go up and up - the fomo in the pandemic proved that. now retail gets the scraps whilst *insert latest buzzword to blame* gets the lion share of the parts
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When the Gpu's prices will go down ?
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Settle for less, pay less. Shocking conclusion!Saw this:
XDA - "5 reasons I'm never buying a high-end GPU again and you shouldn't either"
5 reasons I'm never buying a high-end GPU again and you shouldn't either
High-end graphics cards don't justify the premium. I can save hundreds of dollars and still get a superb gaming experience with a mid-range card.www.xda-developers.com
)You can do the same with moonlight clients and sunshine host without having to pay a monthly fee. Superior streaming quality as well.This is why I don't bother any more and have a 'Geforce Now Ultimate' sub, still rocking my Vega64
I can now game on my iPad/Phone/PC/TV etc, for the 'casual' gaming I do it's more than enough!
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Sure, but then you have to own the host, with the outlay on hardware/electric + heat/noise etc.
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I understand it might not suite everybody but it works for me, a low latency connection is a must.
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What's your latency like?
also are you on the ultimate tier or lower,
I tried it again a couple of weeks ago for the 1st time in months,
and it was a noticeable visual drop off from playing locally.
Don't think I could make the permanent switch myself yet, but it's fine if I have no alternative.
Settle for adequate, pay adequately. Sensible conclusion!Settle for less, pay less. Shocking conclusion!
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Adequate is relative, but usually is less than the top it comperes - or high end in general. This isn't anything new.Settle for adequate, pay adequately. Sensible conclusion!
Adequate is also 1080@60fps and yet people want and buy 1440p and 4k, perhaps even high fps displays.
Well, I'd say adequate for most is 1440p @100fps+ with reasonable settings. A 4070S, for example, can do that for one third of the price of a 4090. That was the - correct - point he was making. I agree with him fully.
I'm streaming from my PC at 1440p 120fps HDR to both TVs upstairs and also my foldable phone and the quality is great at 150mbps HEVC.
Essentially I have a powerful rig on the move and bedrooms with all my games and progress synced. One of the many reasons I could never move away from PC gaming.
I've never tried GeForce experience but I'm fiercely against subscriptions unless absolutely necessary.
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What's the visual compression like, or you can't notice a loss on performance? will have to consider doing something like this for the laptop.
I'm quite picky when it comes to quality and I can tell you it is more than adequate. The viewing distance is also greater compared to sitting close to a monitor which helps a lot, the only artifact I notice is a bit of colour banding in some challenging scenes. The experience is definitely better than gaming on a PS5. I would never stream games to my desk setup but I'm amazed how well it works. Latency was bad when I tried to use Moonlight on some crappy firesticks but I had a couple of cheap Intel NUCs lying around and the latency with those is virtually non-existent.
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I understand that (although Steam says 1080p is by far the most used) and somewhat agree. But again, you pay less, get less. There's no magic in it, it's the same it always was as someone would consider best bang for the buck.
The only "magic" was back on the day when a r290/x was about equal to a Titan for roughly half the price. That was truly magic
I understand that (although Steam says 1080p is by far the most used) and somewhat agree. But again, you pay less, get less. There's no magic in it, it's the same it always was as someone would consider best bang for the buck.
The only "magic" was back on the day when a r290/x was about equal to a Titan for roughly half the price. That was truly magic
290x was a good card, but that god awful stock cooler.
Its basically a blessing those blower fans have been consigned to history more or less.
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Yeah, but custom ones were good. I had the sapphire trixx r290.290x was a good card, but that god awful stock cooler.
Problem was AMD got cheap with the first impression - loud and thortled back. They didn't know how to sell. And it kinda did it again with the cooler - aka the hotspot issue with the 7900 series.
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Ugh, I sold my 1080Ti back when prices spiked to crazy levels as needs must back then, been hobbling on with a 280x since then that couldn't really do anything modern except Halo MCC and stuff like that.
Thought I'd scored a FTW3 1080Ti on ebay for 140 quid (I think people are crazy asking 200+ for such an old card now). The seller said they'd accept the offer when they got home, but lo and behold it gets sniped right before they do for full price.
Sigh.
Thought I'd scored a FTW3 1080Ti on ebay for 140 quid (I think people are crazy asking 200+ for such an old card now). The seller said they'd accept the offer when they got home, but lo and behold it gets sniped right before they do for full price.
Sigh.
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Custom ones were good as long as they weren't the MSI Twin Frozr..
Reminds me of the members market. Someone lists something for a decent price, someone posts offering £1 less or something because they just have to get a deal, then another member just offers the fair asking price in the first place and the other loses out.
Edit: Just to clarify, not saying that's what happened in your case, just reminded me of the MM.
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That's why you just inflate the asking price so both people go away happy.
But on eBay they just have starting auctions at that stupid price of buy it nows without offers allowed.
Either way, absolutely gutted.