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I've been looking to upgrade my six-year old graphics card for almost two years now, but the pricing has been consistently bad and even worsened over that time
by blattimwind 9y ago
I've been looking to upgrade my six-year old graphics card for almost two years now, but the pricing has been consistently bad and even worsened over that time span —— I simply can't justify buying new card:
- If I spend the same amount of money I have roughly spend before for my graphics cards (~200 €), I can't, because that price point does not exist. I could drop 100-150 € on something that's pretty much the same (+-10 %) as my current card, though.
- If I want a significant upgrade, I'd have to at least spend twice as much as I want to, likely more (400-500 € range).
The price range that most gamers (at least those I know) buy their cards at simply does not exist for the time being.
That's true regardless of vendor. Even if I wanted to buy nVidia, the exact same thing applies to their lineup. There are cards <150 €, and then there are cards >>300 €.
I used to joke a few years back why there were so many models of everything; why would they need a dozen or more models to cover the price range from 50-xxxx € in 30 € steps? That "complaint" seems ironic in retrospect...