Originally Posted by HardDrive

I would expect the 4080 and 7xxx releases to move old GPU prices more, most GPUs have dropped pretty far out of the price bracket of the 4090 anyway

Scalper prices are insane, and inflation has caught up with computer parts.

NGFM and I timed it correctly.

The rest of you should be afraid.

Originally Posted by Plasmatic

Scalper prices are insane, and inflation has caught up with computer parts.

NGFM and I timed it correctly.

The rest of you should be afraid.

lulz nah

all good on this end

what i have now will hold me for a while np

ya im p happy wit my 3080ti buy at 1100 and it was a higher end one too...

4090 looks decent so far but not for over 2k. and i cant tell if most benchmarks i see involve dlss or no

I bought my 3700x/3060ti PC in early 2021 and am still stoked about it

How often do u nerds upgrade this ****?

bout every 5 yrs or so for me...

only reason i even upgraded to the 3080 was cuz i got 4k 120hz mon and the 1080ti i had b4 couldnt support alot of the features over hdmi. if the mon had displayport i wouldnt upgrade.

i mainly play fun indie games not AAA normi trash so i dont need epic fps.

so i guess by the time i have to upgrade the COMBOOBER GPU i will also undoubtedly need a new motherboard and processor

Originally Posted by HaPpY

bout every 5 yrs or so for me...

only reason i even upgraded to the 3080 was cuz i got 4k 120hz mon and the 1080ti i had b4 couldnt support alot of the features over hdmi. if the mon had displayport i wouldnt upgrade.

i mainly play fun indie games not AAA normi trash so i dont need epic fps.

which monitor?

https://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-oled42c2pua

Originally Posted by amRam

I bought my 3700x/3060ti PC in early 2021 and am still stoked about it

How often do u nerds upgrade this ****?

My last major build was 11 years ago, 2011
Ridicule my computer by Plasmatic - TribalWar Forums
Put a 750ti in it 2014
Ridicule my computer by Plasmatic - Page 6 - TribalWar Forums

Apr 24, 2017 I put in a 1050ti
Amazon.com: EVGA GeForce 04G-P4-6253-KR, GTX 1050 Ti SC GAMING, 4GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) Graphics Card : Everything Else
I paid $125.89, and now it's $243.12 for the same exact model.

Eventually the ****ty old CPU becomes a bottleneck tho right? And I assume after years go by, the architecture changes so you can't even just slap a new CPU on the old motherboard

Originally Posted by Fool

My CPU fan decided it didn't need to turn on today. I got it running again but I think my comp might be end of life.

will you repair, replace?

It hasn't died again so for now I'm just researching what I might want to replace my rig with. I don't game like I used to, so I don't feel obligated to drop 3k on some beast when 1500 will probably suit my needs, but it's always a case of "well this component only costs 15 bucks more so why not?".

The dell GPUs are garbage, don't waste your money.

Old thread, I see.
Still not worth it.

Originally Posted by amRam

Eventually the ****ty old CPU becomes a bottleneck tho right? And I assume after years go by, the architecture changes so you can't even just slap a new CPU on the old motherboard

ive never not upgraded cpu and mobo... and ram together

I bought a used Dell G5 with extra warranty for my dad's flight sim rig... i7+3060ti

The factory cooling was ****ing *garbage*... it wouldn't run flight sim for more than 30 seconds before severe throttling and it was loud as ****.

Bought and installed this stuff:



Absolute beast of an upgrade for that PC. I can't believe people buy these ****ing Dells and expect to game on them from the factory, its absolutely pitiful.

In the end it cost me less than $1000CDN or about $725US. Worth it.

wouldnt it be cheaper+better to just build ground up

who knows what other ghetto crap is in there... bad mobo, bad mem... etc + the dell markup

yea linus techtips did a vid where they bought a 'gaming' pc from every big company to compare and Dell was by faaaaar the worst and most expensive

i dont think u can even replace the power supplies anymore, even if u could find ones that would fit in their form factors it uses it's own stupid non standard pinouts

Originally Posted by amRam

Eventually the ****ty old CPU becomes a bottleneck tho right? And I assume after years go by, the architecture changes so you can't even just slap a new CPU on the old motherboard

More so the motherboard and features it supports.

And there's a sweet spot where last generation hardware gets cheap before it goes back up again, usually a few years. That's where most the value is if you're upgrading or building new. After that it makes upgrades more expensive for less improvement.

At some point it's cheaper to build new.

For example, I had an i5 2500 Upgrade would have been a i7 2600 currently selling for for $131, the 12th gen I ended up with was $125. But then there's memory bandwidth limits, old ssd architecture and other bottlenecks.

I actually put a new 3080ti in the old system just to see how it would do. It wasn't good.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/53835770
The new system
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/53977809

What I hate is just not knowing which component is the best bang for my buck and missing out on a significant performance boost over 20 bucks.