Most graphics cards still sell well above MSRP, led by Nvidia's RTX 5080 and 5090
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Well, what else are we supposed to do? Our hands are tied. I live in the Seattle metro and for some insane reason we don’t have a single retail option for graphics cards. I wasn’t able to get one off Newegg on launch day before they were all gone to bots, so my only option was eBay.
I hate enabling scalpers but it was either that or risk paying 47’s stupid fucking tariffs. I had a narrow window to skip the tariffs upcharge and I took it. I would rather pay the extra $200 to an asshole scalper than to the federal government so they can spend it on their gestapo.
Oh I didn’t buy from a scalper. Well, not a third party scalper, to preempt the comments saying retail is scalping as well.
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You can pry my 1080 from my cold dead hands.
Same here, and I don’t see myself buying a new card anytime soon now that we have frame generation for games, not just vids and TV
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Same here, and I don’t see myself buying a new card anytime soon now that we have frame generation for games, not just vids and TV
Well, raytracing. I fucking love raytracing, but yeah. I’m still using a GTX 960 on one machine.
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I’ll confess, I’m part of the problem. I bought a 9070XT above MSRP.
Same. Hoping to not want or need a new gpu for at least 5 years, only reason i bought is because my 2080 TI was starting to go and i was not paying tariffs on top of already inflated GPU prices
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I’ll confess, I’m part of the problem. I bought a 9070XT above MSRP.
I also got a 9070 XT recently, but at MSRP. I’m done supporting NVidia.
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I also got a 9070 XT recently, but at MSRP. I’m done supporting NVidia.
Yeah that’s why I switched too. AMD is not perfect either but, lesser of two evils it felt like.
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It won’t go down by much either and then will magically disappear right before the next gen comes out making sure nobody gets a discount.
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Let’s also remember that average GPU price tripled from 2019 to 2021, and still hasn’t returned, even adjusting for inflation.
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I’ll confess, I’m part of the problem. I bought a 9070XT above MSRP.
I’m not a big believer in customer shaming. This shifts the blame from the root cause.
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This is key, I think, to Microsoft’s plan with the next gen Xbox. A consolized prebuilt pc with solid specs, no need to fuck with GPU shenanigans.
Sure as shit would flip the PC market on its head. That’s needed.
