I'm not spending nearly $500 after taxes for a midrange years old card, I'm just not going to do it.
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Most has already been covered but semi conductor shortage, Nvidia owns the market, general inflation, both AI and crypto need it.
Edit: poorcells should go for 3060ti or 4060. Both will run most optimized games on high (not max) 60fps for the next 5 years if you build the rest correctly.
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240fps is the minimum for comfy gameplay
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240hz @240p
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I'm upgrading from a 144hz to a 240 as my present to myself this christmas
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I tried to watch this gif on my 60hz side monitor and it blew up
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Nvidia has had a lock on the market for so long they can afford to charge whatever the frick they want. AMD used to undercut, but they never gained marketshare, so they gave up. Now they just charge slightly under whatever Nvidia does.
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I'm so happy in the CongoFabrico 6mo ago #5388690 spent 0 currency on pingsAMD4LIFE
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As a Linux user, I couldn't agree more lol. Though I do hope Intel has a good 2nd generation of cards.
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I'm so happy in the CongoFabrico 6mo ago #5388727 spent 0 currency on pingsInshalla they will grind the closed-source Nvidians into dust
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coomers are using them for AI
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Can't be just that, even the AMD cards I'm looking at are like this
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markets don't work like that! if nvidia buys all production capacity and memory chips for ai , the price rises also for non ai gpu products.
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Demand from cryptotards kept prices high for years, now it's just plandemic and bidenflation.
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Get them preowned, I just sold my rtx 3060ti for like two hundred quid. Or just stop being poor
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It's not that I can't afford it, it's that I feel an almost physical pain when I pay premium prices for a mid-level product.
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these don't seem that bad? (it is open box but my experience with MC open box has been pretty good)
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I have trust issues
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they will put a brick into the box and say you did it when you try to return it
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30 day return policy, and they will probably test it for you if you ask nicely
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They'll probably just claim I damaged it, companies within a degree or two of gaming are usually scum with practices that would make headlines and federal investigations in any other industry
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AI companies are buying a lot of them now
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You're just poor
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I audibly cringed at buying used pc parts
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Just buy a pre-built. With half the cost being gpu they're unironically a better deal these days
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Chip shortage
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There has always been a chip shortage
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homosexuals have lots of spare income and must to play apex legends, the market found a balance
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I don't think they're that bad rn, capacity seems to have mostly caught up and they're at MSRP where I look.
The cards are really good now though, 1440p gaming is easy on this gen of cards.
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Get an RTX 3060 with 12GB for $300.
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What years old card is costing you $500¿
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You don't know shit you dumb motherlover this is literally MY SITE I am the mascot and everyone loves me and my posts are great.
GTFO you've just made an enemy of a very big dog around here and it's going to make your life very difficult. You are best off just making a new account now. Not that I won't know any alt you make but I might be merciful.
Seriously you clearly aren't rdrama material your powers of deduction are subpar, you aren't funny, you can't recognize funny, and you should k*lol yourself.
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