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This makes me wonder if the increasing costs of GPUs due to crypto mining has led some consumers to purchase a console when they would have otherwise bought a P
by 333c 9y ago
This makes me wonder if the increasing costs of GPUs due to crypto mining has led some consumers to purchase a console when they would have otherwise bought a PC.
- phil248 9y agoYou can still get a video card that can play 90% of current games at max settings for around $200-$250, same as 10 years ago. But the upper end does seem to have expanded and become more expensive.
- dogma1138 9y agoTry finding a 1060 6gb, 1070 or a 580 in stock at anywhere near MSRP.
- phil248 9y agoI stand corrected. I've been buying a new video card every 2-4 years for 20+ years and I have never seen these kind of markups or out of stock items.
- croon 9y agoEveryone and their aunt are buying them for the last couple of months out of the crypto craze, for mining. Whether it's worth it I don't know, but it's annoying for the rest of us who want to get one.
- rosege 9y agoI bought a 1070 almost exactly a year ago for $460 from Amazon - now I see its not sold by Amazon anymore and the few resellers have it priced at $1100. Evga themselves have it at $540 with a limit of 1 per customer.
- huckyaus 9y agoWhether a game can run smoothly on max settings is heavily resolution dependent; the difference in GPU power required to run a game at 1080p vs 1440p is quite substantial.
- GlennS 9y agoI reckon most people choose PC or console (or both) based on 1) what their friends have 2) what games they like to play 3) backward compatability with existing games and 3) how much they value the convenience of consoles. I mean, surely it's not affecting the sort of GPU which would go into most computers? I think it's only quite a small proportion of people who'd spend more than a couple of hundred quid because they have a massive screen or want to turn everything up to ultra. I seem to be able to play quite a lot of modern games acceptably at 1080p on my work laptop which an Intel integrated graphics thingy, for example.
- k__ 9y agoThis. I have a huge Steam library and many PC gamer friends. Also, I'm into indie games. Besides the PSX, I never had a console.
- ben-schaaf 9y agoFor "a couple hundred quid", especially when you want to save on a free-sync display, the RX 570 and RX 580's are right in that price range. If sold at MSRP. But now these 170-250usd cards cost 2-3 times as much. I hear its a similar situation now with mid-range nvidia cards.