What's crazy, is that the second hand 980 I bought 24 months ago for £100, is now 'worth' over £200. And it's not even a TI!
State of the Game
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I can get more money for my 2 year old 2080 now than I paid for it back then
I wanted to go Ryzen 5900/3080 or 3090 for my new build back in December last year but these prices....
No, now's not the time unless you really need it. The ten-fiddy is a perfectly good card. My kids love it, and they're fps'ers. It's not the card with EDO, it's the coding shambles.
Only reason I pulled the trigger is that I'm still running on a 2nd gen i5, it's not a bad MB, but it's long overdue for an upgrade so I decided to just upgrade everything else with it.
Tell me about it. The 970 I bought 8 YEARS ago now goes for $700-$1000. And I paid $350 or so for it back then.
Yes, of course, my question is more like : is current market "abusable" - can I count of buying a complete, new "leftover" PC with removed graphic card below the "sum of all parts" price, is it that hard to find a graphic card, that some may buy whole PCs just to get access to this part and sell the rest, with loss naturally.
Yeah, I was having a laugh when I realized that I could probably sell my used 2060 at a 100% profit margin.
I upgraded from a i5 3330 with a GTX 660 to the 980, and then ripped out the guts and upgraded to a Ryzen 3600. The difference was night and day, and it can, just about, run Odyssey, barring the low FPS dips - Concourse, Settlements, etc.
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Absolutely. But my modus operandi has always been to go with a solid CPU that lasts me a decade, then pick up MSI-style GPUs of the previous generation for next to nothing. I managed to replace my old i5-2500K (!) around xmas with a Ryzen 9 3900X, and that was enough to push Cyberpunk into extremely playable, but yeah, as you say, EDO is just something else...
In theory, I should be on a MSI GeForce 2070 that I'd have paid 200 quid at best, but no, I'm shtuck, like a CMDR in a Container.
I don't think so, but I could very well be wrong. The rest of the parts aren't really the bottle neck. they're pretty much at the same price they always were.
I doubt you'll find people 'dumping' the parts, but... Looking on eBay, FB Marketplace, etc. you can get some good bargains that you 'just' need to whack a GFX card in.
I have the A38 certificate of eligibility, the signed B15 form, and an imprint from the forehead of a completely unimportant person who signs everything for a beer that confirms that I am always here
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Yeah, sure, I'll second/confirm, whatever.
at this post rate we will have a "state of the game V2" thread before the months out.
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I heartily approve! It has a proper cat AND a "Meow" in it!at this post rate we will have a "state of the game V2" thread before the months out.
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Garycatat this post rate we will have a "state of the game V2" thread before the months out.
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Brilliant, that's the team spirit we need
#helping
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Some proper Polish "spirit" you can't handle anyway:
I like to use this to clean my circuit boardsI raise.
Some proper Polish "spirit" you can't handle anyway: