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My ancient r9 290x is still pushing 1440p games just fine. Bought it for $75 wayyy back.keep 1080p low settings for another 2 years.
Cards are still dropping at regular prices, but you need to be watching via discords, etc. I guess it depends how much effort you are willing to put into it, but also what will you compromise for them. For instance...there are combo deals available on asus right now.
https://shop.asus.com/us/store-only-products/ec-only-product/ec-only-category.html
Also ( i have not had any luck) there is Newegg shuffles...one starting again here in a few.
https://www.newegg.com/product-shuffle?Tpk=shuffle
EVGA is also having a que system starting today
https://www.evga.com/support/queue3/
Just some options if you are still looking.
I hear ya! I got lucky and got the cards i wanted last year but it was still a challenge. I am ready for the new tech to drop so all the scalpers are stuck with all that stock and/or have to sell for a loss.Coincidence that only Asus in stock are the $800+ options ? LOL yeah.. F this new normal. AS others mentioned... Go with Ryzen 5600g and sit this round out.. or give up gaming altogether
When demand = ∞ it's going to be a lot longer than that.When supply > demand, so if they ramp up the production 2023-24?
+1 and another +1.Also, Newegg can fuck.right off. Check out their return and rma issues. Completely beyond shady. Saying unopened gear has thermal paste on it etc. Not the company that they used to be.
I had a nephew buy a motherboard from Newegg a couple of years back, the board was DOA and so we RMAed the board waiting for a replacement. With no notice after 2 weeks get got the package and it was the SAME board, same serial number and the box was opened and so on. No note or anything in the box. When we contacted Newegg, after waiting a few days for a reply, we were told the RAM was refused because the SLI bridge cable that came with the board was not in the box. So I asked why not pull it from the box of the new board they could have sent as a replacement, or contact us to have us send the cable? No response. I told them we had the cable would put it in the box and send it back, they told us that because we had sent it back without the cable originally the warranty from then was void.Also, Newegg can fuck.right off. Check out their return and rma issues. Completely beyond shady. Saying unopened gear has thermal paste on it etc. Not the company that they used to be.
At this rate, maybe PC gaming will die after all. If I were chomping at the bit to pkay the latest games, I'd just buy a console
Wonder what the figures would look like though in 3 or 5 years time if most people can't afford to replace hardware that ages out or are stuck w GPUs and CPUs that can't power the latest game at anything but mid to low settings. Switching to console would be the easiest way to keep gaming mainstream/non-indie titles in that scenario.
How? New fabs take years and $$$ so it's not really an answer to current demand. Nvidia certainly can do whatever to secure more allocation, and RDNA2 is the lowest man on the totem pole for silicon in AMD's stack.When supply > demand, so if they ramp up the production 2023-24?
Thanks for the thoughtful replyI think it depend how popular custom PC gaming are versus prebuild one (laptop or desktop) because on the dell-hp desktop side, if you are ready to pay a bigger but not that ridiculous amount historically, it does not seem hard to have a good GPU at all for a good amount of time.
if the steam stats are somewhat real, at the planet level, 1080p, old GPU and simple to run games seem to always been the main things going on the PC side, where mouse-keyboard-twitch speed matter a bit.
The PC gaming because you have nicer graphic than on console do exist, but must be small and have to compete with the giant convenience on the console side, it is possible to almost reproduce it all of it on PC and steam made it easier to game than on console in some ways back in the day, but it require a first step.
Not sure what is meant by rate here (it there any variable trending down about PC gaming ?):
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-smash...nt-usersnearly-3-million-more-than-last-year/
Peaks reached each Jan:
Jan 2019: 17.6m
Jan 2020: 18.3m
Jan 2021: 25.4m
Jan 2022: 28.2m
At this rate, it will continue to become more and more popular around the world, no ?.
Top 10 played games:
Here are the 10 most played games for January 9:
Are played on PC instead of on a console for not soon to change reason I feel (and by players that do not care to play on an old 1060 or a gaming laptop).
- Counter Strike: Global Offensive
- Dota 2
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Apex Legends
- Grand Theft Auto 5
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- Rust
- Team Fortress 2
- Wallpaper Engine
- MIR4
For recent AAA games maybe, it will end up more and more being afterthought port from console and not the main target, but that is still up in the air, we just got Cyberpunk and Flight Sim after all.
Soon the mining cavalry will quote this and tell you how wrong you are. Although I and many other gamers agree this is a MAJOR part of the problem. I have no issue with mining, I just hope they figure out a way to do it with different hardware. I know why GPU’s are used currently, but there has to be an affordable alternative some day for miners that doesn’t take away cards from prospective gamers.Gpu prices will come down when mining is not profitable anymore. That's the main gpu shortage. Miners are grabbing up a t gpu they can get their hands on. Willing to pay whatever price is asked. The chip shortage is there but the gamers/work station computers will suffer when cards are going into mining. Please do not think I'm bashing mining. Think how many cards are in Miners hands instead of gamers? There are a good bit of cards that fold or run bionic as well but not the amount the Miners have. So when will gpu prices go down? Who knows but rest assured it will be when mining crashes.
You can't even join the wait list anymore.
Anyone that has any commen sense knows the miners are the reason behind the prices. Like I mentioned I have nothing against mining but one person with 10+ gous leaves 9 gamers without a card.Soon the mining cavalry will quote this and tell you how wrong you are. Although I and many other gamers agree this is a MAJOR part of the problem. I have no issue with mining, I just hope they figure out a way to do it with different hardware. I know why GPU’s are used currently, but there has to be an affordable alternative some day for miners that doesn’t take away cards from prospective gamers.
Soon the mining cavalry will quote this and tell you how wrong you are.
Anyone that has any commen sense knows the miners are the reason behind the prices. Like I mentioned I have nothing against mining but one person with 10+ gous leaves 9 gamers without a card.
Yes very true but I said 10 just as a point.While not funny to the gaming crowd... 10 GPU's are small time.. How many "regular joe's" out there have 20+, 30+ GPU's mining, while leaching off free electric in mommy's basement.. ..etc..etc..
Good question....not sure. I go there often as I am following a discord that drops all this insight to GPU availability and pretty much look at all the EVGA 30 series as well as B stock to see whats out there. I have a few friends that are still looking for GPUs sub $1k so i just stayed in the discord after I got mine.Thanks for the head's up on that. How do we get notified when a new product is going to show up in the queue?
I used to think bitcoin was cool and it was as great way to get used GPUs. I am over that now with mining farms buying all the GPUs. I am so tired of waiting for a new reasonably priced GPU to drop. I plan on mining on my home PC to supplement my house heater, but I am afraid to burn up my GTX1080.Anyone that has any commen sense knows the miners are the reason behind the prices. Like I mentioned I have nothing against mining but one person with 10+ gous leaves 9 gamers without a card.
My daughter has my hand me down 1080 in her PC. It does what she needs it.to do. She doesn't game intense games. My wife doesn't need anything to Facebook scroll. Lol. So she has no use for a 1060 3gb that's in hers. For my son? He is 23. So he is o. His own. He just picked up a laptop with a 3070 in it. Lol. I personally have a 2080ti KingPin in my rig. None of those are mined on. I do ha e 2 rigs with 5 gpu's that fold. So maybe I could be called part of the problem but I payed for my cards not got them from scalpers.I used to think bitcoin was cool and it was as great way to get used GPUs. I am over that now with mining farms buying all the GPUs. I am so tired of waiting for a new reasonably priced GPU to drop. I plan on mining on my home PC to supplement my house heater, but I am afraid to burn up my GTX1080.
It's not about me, I am happy with my 1080, but when I upgrade my wife and kids all get upgrades. My wife's 1060 3gb isn't keeping up with her game. Not to mention my son's 1050 2gb and my daughter's HD6870.
I bought a Power Color RX 580 8Gb with 2 free AAA games for $189 and my daughter is still using it today .