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[Arsic]

 

[Zathalus]

Pc gaming is fucking dead.

Nah, just another bump in the road. Other than the very high end (5090) I'd say every tier has great cards. The 9070 XT and 9060 XT are both pretty great cards for the money.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

I'm still getting great performance at 1080p(even on 1440p) with my 3060 Ti. I really want a non-xt 9070, but I'm hesitant about Amd. After years of using Nvidia without any issues, I don't want to give that up(rx580 era was ok though). Optiscaler also seemed complicated; with Nvidia inspector I just set it once and it was enough.

I really wish the 5070 had 16 GB option (the 5070 ti is almost twice the price where I live). I was waiting for supers but got the bad news last week. Damn. Maybe I will buy a 5070 idk.

Yeah bro I was eyeing up the 5070 before I saw my deal for the ti Great price right now just the lower GB and the fact it's worse than the 4070ti put me off.

You can't go wrong with the rx9070 it can be got for a great price I was going to buy it. Make sure you get the xt version it's way better and costs barely much more. There is no reason to buy the none xt version.

 

[Mister Wolf]

It's easy:

Thats like telling us to just eat McDonalds.

 

[Wildebeest]

I recommend just giving up gaming and start collecting books instead.

 

[Windom Earle]

Time to finally get that sweet sweet 5090, peons.

Also you don't need to be Warren Buffet to predict what will happen to the GPU market soon.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

To think I used to look up to Rich when he was the Editor of Sega Saturn Magazine.

 

[Zathalus]

It's easy:

Generally you spend money to upgrade not downgrade.

 

[kiphalfton]

I'm sure Nvidia will increase prices as much as they can get away with next gen, with a negligible increase in performance.

That being said, I would only buy an RTX 5000 series graphics card if you can get a discount on it.

Most stuff from RTX 3000/4000 series performs similarly enough to the RTX 5000 series, there's no real point of upgrading right this moment (even if RTX 5000 prices increase).

 

[Shadowstar39]

Nope, I upgraded from a 1060gtx in 2020 to a 2060 and got the step up to a 3060ti. I didn't get that card until mid 2021 due to shortages.

The 3060ti has served me extremely well. I play at 1080p and 60fps and nothing has come out, that I own, where this card doesn't max it.

Now I hope this takes care of itself eventually. Someone will need to cater to gamers if nvidia won't step up. The memory prices will have to drop too. Hopefully more gov gets involved to regulate price fixing, and shenanigans with Ai bullshit, or that bubble bursts sooner rather than later, as the mining craze was horrible trying to get any GPU.

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Trogdor1123]

Just get us the gabecube!

 

[Insane Metal]

Seriously though, the state of the hardware market right now really really sucks. And it's only going to get worse from here.

 

[Magic Carpet]

On Bestbuy page looking at an ibuypower prebuilt for 2449.99 has a RTX 5080 and a ryzen 9 7900x.
I thought the Ryzen 7800x3d was the one to get? Why use this other CPU?

 

[SoloCamo]

3090 user. If I were to grab an new GPU, it'll most likely be a 9070 xt. Nvidia can suck a big fat turd.

Just went from a 6900XT to a non XT 9070. Saved $100 and with my UV and mem oc I'm at 9070XT level performance at 250w. Saving 50w from my 6900XT which is considerably less power hungry than your 3090. My 11900k even with very tuned memory (32gb of cl14-14-14, dual rank 3733mhz) can be a bottleneck for titles below 4k though. Not sure which CPU you have but for $550 it was a good upgrade and I can easily get $300 for my 6900XT.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

I bought my 6800 XT when Infinite launched and so far it is still kicking.

if I wanted to get fake AI frames I would just use Lossless scanning that it might not be the same, but it is alot less expensive

 

[ChoosableOne]

Yeah bro I was eyeing up the 5070 before I saw my deal for the ti Great price right now just the lower GB and the fact it's worse than the 4070ti put me off.

You can't go wrong with the rx9070 it can be got for a great price I was going to buy it. Make sure you get the xt version it's way better and costs barely much more. There is no reason to buy the none xt version.

It's too big. I don't want to buy it in case it won't fit in the case. Besides, it probably wouldn't make a huge difference with a 9700k anyway.

 

[Darchaos]

Ok ty, ill wait a couple of years then

 

[Windle Poons]

But I haven't got 2.5K for a 5090.

Well, I have but that's beside the point.

 

[Quasicat]

They are not wrong. GPUs have been going up like crazy lately and it looks like ssds are going to start going up next year. I have been looking at a 4tb ssd for my PS5, I should probably got on that sooner rather than later than later.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Nah, just another bump in the road. Other than the very high end (5090) I'd say every tier has great cards. The 9070 XT and 9060 XT are both pretty great cards for the money.

Wait until there's no 16gb 5060 tis, even 8gb 3050s only 6gb.

It's just around the corner.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Human 2.0]

So glad I finished my 9800x3D/64GB/5090 build a couple of months ago, I'm set for the next few years.

 

[Stuart360]

Just bought a 4070ti last week. Wasnt planning to but i was in CEX and someone literally brought in a brand new unopened 4070ti to sell. They were building a new gaming PC bit by bit, and something came up so they needed to sell it.
Anyway even though it was brand new, CEX have to sell at used prices. So i got it for £430.

After testing the card over many games over the last few days, i expect the card to last me years. The advantage of playing on a 60hz tv.

 

[reinking]

I thought about it but decided to wait. I resubbed to Gamefly instead and will rely on consoles for the bigger budget titles.

I try to keep my gaming in a budget but have no problem spending or even overspending at times. I did not mind paying up to several hundred dollars in the past to import a game, but when most games are coming out at $70-$80, it no longer feels like a special purchase if that makes sense. Same goes for PC upgrades.

My hope is the Steam Machine gives me a reason to get excited but if not, I have plenty to play until prices stabilize again.