BigBadBeef
Active Member
I started, once again, actively tracking advances in pc hardware about a year ago, when my pc started showing signs of no longer being up to the task for my needs. I am appaled on how low things have fallen. Graphics cards are overpriced, oversized, unreliable, and cable-busting hungry.
My old gtx 980 was the second best card you could possibly buy on the market, and it was 600€ retail. The best I could hope for in the present, an equal second best on the market, if AMD's chiplet tech pulls through, is 50% more expensive... FIFTY PERCENT! And that is before retail markup. They are also notoriously unreliable, failed gpus, half the age of mine, are flooding repair shops, from having shitty ancillary cooling induced fried VRM's to straight up busted video memory chips. nvidia has also turned out to be misleading, lying, sacks of shit.
These are dark times for gpu shopping. Feels like a choice of having only different grits of sand paper to wipe your butt with, after having an already irritated hole from the caustic chilli you ate all day. Ouch!
Is there any hope left for buying high end quasi-gaming pc's that will actually survive the 7+ years and pay for themselves solely from not needing constant hardware updates through all these years?
My old gtx 980 was the second best card you could possibly buy on the market, and it was 600€ retail. The best I could hope for in the present, an equal second best on the market, if AMD's chiplet tech pulls through, is 50% more expensive... FIFTY PERCENT! And that is before retail markup. They are also notoriously unreliable, failed gpus, half the age of mine, are flooding repair shops, from having shitty ancillary cooling induced fried VRM's to straight up busted video memory chips. nvidia has also turned out to be misleading, lying, sacks of shit.
These are dark times for gpu shopping. Feels like a choice of having only different grits of sand paper to wipe your butt with, after having an already irritated hole from the caustic chilli you ate all day. Ouch!
Is there any hope left for buying high end quasi-gaming pc's that will actually survive the 7+ years and pay for themselves solely from not needing constant hardware updates through all these years?