Ahhh....
You know, I love this shelf. (We all do,Linus)
But, come to think of it
When was the last time I actually bought a GPU? I think it was I think it was during the last Scrapyard wars.
You know...
Maybe it's finally time to expand the collection
You know..I'm gonna go I'm gonna get caught up on street pricing here and get some new GPUs
Wait, I'm sorry what?
1080s are going for
850 to 1150 bucks? 1070TI is at
730
TO
975 ? Vega 56s for just under to over a 1000$?
Holy crap I mean
There are cards out there
Going for almost a thousand Canadian rubles that we declared
Not a great value at about half of that when they were released.. *Exhales*
So thankfully, I don't actually need a GPU that badly that whole thing was just a setup for this video. Well
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So this video is gonna be a little bit different from our standard fare. No performance graphs. No sexy b-roll
I probably won't even drop anything
except some mad truths
We'll start our journey at the local level. This is memory Express whose website
Even has a special notice on it about a GPU and power supply shortage because believe it or not
retailers have been frustrated by the lack of supply too.
With that said it's not all bad news. There's a very recent update on their site about restrictions being lifted on graphics card purchases
so there may be some light at the end of the tunnel if that's any indication and
Did anyone actually realise that there was an ongoing power supply shortage?
Anyway, this still doesn't tell us when prices will actually stabilize, so if you don't want to wait weeks or
Potentially even months to upgrade your potato for a game of fortnite,
We may need some other options.
So if nothing else by looking at retail pricing we can get a baseline for what to look for
When we compare the launch price with the lowest price available on PC Part picker, We see a couple of obvious patterns here
The most expensive GPUs have the biggest markup, which we might expect
but we also see something peculiar. The GeForce GTX 1080 is by far the
closest to its MSRP
And I'd even go as far as to say if you can find one at about this pricing
Go ahead and buy retail if you can
Another while you can tip by the way is that sometimes vendors will sell
Directly at MSRP take Nvidia for example where you can buy
Founders edition cards for way less as long as you are diligently monitoring their site and
You're quick on the draw.
Next, We've got used sites like Craigslist which are currently
overflowing with second-hand GPUs and
Prices are trending downward overall
Which
You know what let me see that thing
Actually forget it. This is ridiculous.
You can get deals now
Yeah
But scalpers like this,are all over the place. Often asking close to or even more than retail for
"Never used" or "lightly used" cards
So, just make sure you keep your BS detectors cranked to 11 until this blows over
but if buying directly at retail is expensive and
Current-gen used cards are going to be a minefield for a while... What else can we do?
Well some retailers are actually offering combo deals with steep discounts for graphics cards that are usually
bundled with some other component that gamers would want. Like a headset, a high-end CPU or motherboard that kind of thing and
While our luck at Newegg today wasn't great with just 10 to $20 savings being typical, Some vendors like
Microcenter are doing in store only discounts with limited quantities available
With that said though, maybe we're barking up the wrong tree
Maybe what we want isn't a specific graphics card, but rather a specific performance level
And I think I know how we can achieve that. We're gonna go where the miners aren't going
We know that the GTX 1080 is in most cases about 25 percent faster than the previous generation
980ti
However, if we look at the price for the 980ti somewhere like eBay
It's cheaper then even the cheapest
1070
I mean, and compared to the 1080
I'm talking like just over half the price
And The HBM equipped FURY X can be had for a similar price to - as long as 4 gigs is enough VRAM for you and you
Have the power supply to run it.
And so you know, Moving down in the pricing tiers a little bit if you were after an rx 580 or
570, the performance difference between the 480 and or 70 is so minimal that the price difference here makes that a
no-brainer as well. And depending on your needs you can even go further back like a
Maxwell Titan X or Titan black or even as far back as a GTX 680 or Radeon HD 7970
if your goal is
1080p gaming. Those things are around a hundred bucks today about half that of a 1050 TI with slightly better performance
Do note though that
older high-end cards like The Fury will draw more power and lack new features like HDMI 2.0 a
HEVC,
HDR, and they have no hope of playing back content protected by PlayReady 3.0
DRM and you also don't get a warranty when you do this well, not usually anyway so buyer beware there, but
Games don't stop to wait for GPU prices to drop and if you need the horsepower this seems to be the best way to go
until the whole industry regains its senses
Unplug and play what does that even mean?
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K63 wireless gaming keyboard with the same low latency connection options and Cherry MX red switches with a blue
Backlight and their mm. 1000. Which is a wireless charging mouse pad though,
It should be noted that the wireless charging version of the mouse will work with any qi wireless charging pad
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