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You 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 hav
by phil248 9y ago
You 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.