I built right as the nVidia 3000 series came out, and when I wasn’t able to get one in the first month or two after release I said fuck it and bought one of the last new 2070 Supers I could find. Hooray for availability alerts.
I’ve been wanting to upgrade parts for like a year now, because it’s just starting to have issues with higher graphics settings on 1440p (had 1080p monitors when I bought it). Glad I went with 64GB RAM (DDR4, as was the standard of the time) and a little above mid range on the CPU. It’s absolutely fucking absurd to me that the parts that are still available (mobo, PSU, and GPU aren’t anymore) have effectively held their price point.
Yeah, I feel like I’ve kind of “won” that game. I bought a R5 2600 for 130 when the 3000 series came out, a 1050Ti for 170 when the first crypto craze ended (2018?) and then earlier last year I’ve got a second hand 3060 for 200 before the AI bubble went crazy (all prices in EUR).
Sadly, I barely play stuff any more, and for regular PC stuff, I use my laptop with a dock, as it uses half the power and created half the heat :(
I built right as the nVidia 3000 series came out, and when I wasn’t able to get one in the first month or two after release I said fuck it and bought one of the last new 2070 Supers I could find. Hooray for availability alerts.
I’ve been wanting to upgrade parts for like a year now, because it’s just starting to have issues with higher graphics settings on 1440p (had 1080p monitors when I bought it). Glad I went with 64GB RAM (DDR4, as was the standard of the time) and a little above mid range on the CPU. It’s absolutely fucking absurd to me that the parts that are still available (mobo, PSU, and GPU aren’t anymore) have effectively held their price point.
Yeah, I feel like I’ve kind of “won” that game. I bought a R5 2600 for 130 when the 3000 series came out, a 1050Ti for 170 when the first crypto craze ended (2018?) and then earlier last year I’ve got a second hand 3060 for 200 before the AI bubble went crazy (all prices in EUR).
Sadly, I barely play stuff any more, and for regular PC stuff, I use my laptop with a dock, as it uses half the power and created half the heat :(