New graphics card - will they ever be affordable again?

[Unholyground]

Crypto currency craze will die down and then you will see 1000$ cards on ebay and newegg for peanuts. That is all I am waiting for haha.

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that'll be all the cpu intensive stuff.. i hope they add a CPU/GPU tag on each setting sometime soon to help clear up this confusion.


anyway as someone has already said, a 970 will likely be more than fine for bfa. save your pennies for now and see what the future brings
honestly unless your graphics card suddenly implodes, that 970 will last another couple years. or unless you really need those ultra high mega graphics in whatever other games you are playing at a render scale of 300%

also, yeah, phew. i am glad i got my 1070 for £300 last summer!

Even a gtx 660 is fine. Mine STILL runs games on high if I turn shadows down.

[Jtbrig7390]

7 is the old 10 and honestly anything above that really isn't drastically better looking or worth it.

On top of this anything above it runs like shit as well for no good reason.

[Qnubi]

When I upgraded from my AMD r9 280x to a Nvidia 1070 I was surprised WoW still suggested "7", I cranked it up to 10 and it wasn't running that well and still looked samey, so I put it back to 7 and hope the Blizz devs utilize GPU more in the future.

[pansertjald]

I bought this Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8GB 1 month ago for 630EU and now only 1 month later it is up at 760EU at the shops who has it in stock.

It's insane that it has gone up in price by 130EU in just 1 month. Non of the other shops has a date for when it will come in stock again.

My old Gigabyte gtx 1070 wich i got for 470EU now cost 580EU and no one has it in stock and date for stock is 7/3-2018, but only one shop has this date. The rest don't have a date

[Piesor]

970 is totally fine. Analyse the other parts from your PC if you feel like there is a bottleneck regarding performance.

[Deleted]

I thought £380 for a 1070 fe just after launch was expensive

[druenos]

life is all about priorities.
you say paying "this" amount of money on a graphic card is too much while i say "hey man, buying snacks and smoking cigars, drinking alcohol and buying lottery tickets is a waste of money. buying a house? nice car? having kids? who needs these kind of stuff"

you get my drift?

It's not the reason I won't buy at that price, I just won't pay double what something is worth. if that's the new price for the forseeable future then I will either go back to console gaming or find another hobby, in the end it will harm the whole industry because whats the point in upgrading any other part of a PC if your graphics card gets more and more out of date. Most people don't buy 1080's because they just don't spend that kind of money on what is essentially a hobby or entertainment. If 1070's are now the price of the old 1080's not many people will buy them and 1060's will be the new norm. How long will it be till a 1060 can't play new games, so more and more people will give up gaming. your average Joe just doesn't spend £600 on a graphics card.

[Kagthul]

When I upgraded from my AMD r9 280x to a Nvidia 1070 I was surprised WoW still suggested "7", I cranked it up to 10 and it wasn't running that well and still looked samey, so I put it back to 7 and hope the Blizz devs utilize GPU more in the future.

Because its not a GPU limitation. News at 11: WoW is CPU bound.

[Deleted]

Bought my super jet stream 1070 for £400 in Aug 16.
Sold same card for £400 in Feb 18.
1.5 years of “free” card use.
Happy with my £90 gtx 960 until new cards released later this year.

[Drusin]

Price will likely drop eventually. A lot of the big PC sellers near where I am has a Limit of 2 GPU's per person, per address limit.

I always thought that was silly, anyone with friends can get around that.

[Super Kami Dende]

I always thought that was silly, anyone with friends can get around that.

Sure, to get maybe a few extra cards, but getting them in the number that miners do it limits them a bit. Any limitation is better than no limitation.

[Drusin]

Any limitation is better than no limitation.

True words Sir Meat Rubber

[Kuntantee]

I think nvidia blocked usage of consumer grade cards, i.e., GeForce series, in data centers through their SDK. Assuming this is indeed the case, I think they can also block hash calculation and provide an alternative series of cards that are more suitable for hash calculation. This would mean more potential costumers for nvidia, and normalized prices for gaming cards. As far as I know, they'll be releasing a new line of cards for cryptocurrencies. Hopefully, soon.

[Schalde]

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidi...rough-q3-2018/

Suck my onions.. miners Guess i wont be playing Farcry 5 anytime soon. refuse to buy the prices now to then see it being half the price 4-5 month later

[DJ117]

So much price discrimination. Retailers in Denmark are not allowed to charge absurd amounts to reflect demand.

[pansertjald]

So much price discrimination. Retailers in Denmark are not allowed to charge absurd amounts to reflect demand.

It's only gonna get worse here in Denmark.

Just look at the card i got for 630EU a little over a month ago. it now cost 780EU. it just keeps going up in price
https://www.computersalg.dk/i/178395...1080-g1-gaming

[DrStiglit]

Check some local places. Friend found a shop offloading their 1060 and 1070 stock as they prepare for the 2070/2080 and Volta coming most likely Mid-2018.
He snagged a 1080 for $600.

Just avoid anything that is refurbished, used, or a "Great impossible deal". They've been used for bitcoin mining and are gonna break/be crap.

No graphics cads have been used for bitcoin mining...

Also, a card that has been mined on is likely still in fine condition. They are always undervolted to reduce power usage so they are not getting as hot as cards used to game on. Additionally it’s better for than cards fans to be going at a consistent speed rather than variable revving the fans do while gaming. Essentially the undervolted 100% use buts similar strain on the card that overclocking and gaming does. The 100% usage will degrade the overall components a little faster but not by any significant amount.

[Dsc]

The main reason cards were/are expensive is the crypto mining.

Bitcoin was $19,086.64

right now its $9,746.39

As the crypto market corrects, there will be tons of 1080tis ect on the market for resale.

[Bryntrollian]

I am currently using a GTX 970. For Legion it's more than enough, but some time before BfA comes out I would like to upgrade to the GTX 1070 but they are double, maybe even triple what you should be paying for them. On Amazon the average price is about £600. I hear it's because everybody is buying cards so they can mine for cryptocurrency, but if that's the case will they ever come down in price. If that's the price now for graphics's cards I can see the whole computer industry collapsing because I'm fucked if I would ever pay that price for a mid range card, my 970 will have to last for the next 10 years lol.

A few months ago I would have suggested you go for a 980TI (faster than 1070 but cheaper) but even those seem to be really high priced right now, and I doubt GPU prices will be getting better any time soon with the way ram shortages are going. Thankfully your 970 should see you well in 1080p for a little while longer.

[Mifuyne]

Aren't miners changing their hardware into specific mining-hardware?
As in, the usual GPUs aren't as good as the mining-GPUs?