Same here. If it means I give up PC gaming then so be it. I honestly think that people have completely lost their minds, the money they are spending on graphics cards. I just don't get it. Not only are they being hopelessly ripped off but they are setting themselves up to have this happen repeatedly in the future. Where is the hysteria coming from? Why are people losing their common over this? I just makes no sense to me at all. When the price of RAM goes up, buy a little less and "get by". When CPU prices go up they miss a generation. But when GPU prices double, triple, quadruple, then they are falling over themselves to get in the queue. Apart from anything else, the 3000 series is just not that special. The only thing that made the 3080 special was it's price! People now have it firmly implanted in their head that the 3000 series will solve all their problems and must be obtained at almost any price, even though we would normally be well on the way to the 4000 series. I am staggered by the level of, well, whatever it is that's driving people out of their minds.
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The "I might pay over £2k for GPU and here's why" self flagellation thread
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Same here. If it means I give up PC gaming then so be it. I honestly think that people have completely lost their minds, the money they are spending on graphics cards. I just don't get it. Not only are they being hopelessly ripped off but they are setting themselves up to have this happen repeatedly in the future. Where is the hysteria coming from? Why are people losing their common over this? I just makes no sense to me at all. When the price of RAM goes up, buy a little less and "get by". When CPU prices go up they miss a generation. But when GPU prices double, triple, quadruple, then they are falling over themselves to get in the queue. Apart from anything else, the 3000 series is just not that special. The only thing that made the 3080 special was it's price! People now have it firmly implanted in their head that the 3000 series will solve all their problems and must be obtained at almost any price, even though we would normally be well on the way to the 4000 series. I am staggered by the level of, well, whatever it is that's driving people out of their minds.
It's the FOMO since Gpus go out of stock so quickly people are just panic buying.
Caporegime
If i was as rich as Jeff Bezos, i still wouldn't buy a card at these prices, rediculous.
I think you are probably right. GPU's are the nerds toilet rolls.
Caporegime
If £2,000 was the sort of money i could lose on a bad bet and think little more than "Damn, oh well..." yeah i would buy an RTX 3090.
I can't even buy a 6700XT right now.
I can't even buy a 6700XT right now.
I think a lot of people at release thought they would wait it out and the stock situation would improve and cards would be at msrp in a couple of months but then with shortages worsening and the mining boom prices started going up which caused a lot of people to panic thinking if they didn't pay 1200 one week then it would be 1300 next etc so it became a snowball effect on prices.
We have passed the peak and will see a gradual decrease on prices now over the rest of the year.
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They are moving… as in lower prices overall, so it’s moving in the right direction.
Positive so far.