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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thing is: there is always the "next better thing" around the corner. That's what progress is about. The only thing you can do is choose the best available option for you when you need new hardware and be done with it until you need another upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Exactly. The best time to buy a graphics card is never

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

really my rule of thumb has always been when it's a significant upgrade.

for a long time i didn't really upgrade until it was a 4x increase over my old. certain exceptions were occasionally made. nowadays i'm a bit more opportunistic in my upgrades. but i still seek out 'meaningful' upgrades. upgrades that are a decent jump over the old. typically 50% improvement in performance, or upgrades i can get for really cheap.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

4x…? Even in older cards that’s more than a decade between cards.

A 4080 is only 2.5x as powerful as a 1080ti, those are 5 years apart.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What's wrong with upgrading once every 5-10 years? Not everyone plays the latest games on 4k Ultra

Admittedly 4x is a bit steep, more like 3-4x

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Starfield requires a minimum 1070ti to play. It’s not just about fidelity, you just wouldn’t be able to play any newer games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had a 1080ti and the only game that really gave me grief playing on high settings was Starfield. I’m not saying older cards won’t have problems playing newer games but I am saying all cards have problems playing Starfield.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dude, there's dozens of us!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It depends on what you need. I think usually you can get the best bang for buck by buying the now previous generation when the new one is released.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup just picked up a whole PC with rtx3090 for $800.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah eBay Canada, was a great deal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Best Buy has refurbished PC's with 4070s for under a grand right now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Graphics card. Not even once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Real gamers use ayahuasca.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's always that: "I want to buy the new shiny thing! But it's expensive, so I'll wait for a while for its price to come down." You wait for a while, the price comes down, you buy the new shiny thing and then comes out the newest shiny thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. There will always be "just wait N months and there will be the bestest thing that beats the old bestest thing". You are guaranteed to get buyers remorse when shopping for hardware. Just buy what best suits you or needs and budget at the time you decided is the best.time for you (or at the time your old component bites the dust) and then stop looking at any development on those components for at least a year. Just ignore any deals, new releases, whatever and be happy with the component you bought.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought a 1080 for my last PC build, downloaded the driver installer and ran the setup. There were ads in the setup for the 2k series that had launched the day before. FML

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yep. I bought a 4080 just a few weeks ago. Now there is ads for the refresh all over... Thing is: you card didn't get any worse. You thought the card was a good value proposition for you when you bought it and it hasn't lost any of that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

choose the best available option

"The" point. Which is the best available option?

The simplest answer would be "price per fps".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Not always. I'm doing a lot of rendering and such. So FPS aren't my primary concern.