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In the 2000s and early 10s, I would tell friends that $1000 is all you need to spend for a complete tower of hardware - at least, a sweet spot of performance an
by unethical_ban 4y ago
In the 2000s and early 10s, I would tell friends that $1000 is all you need to spend for a complete tower of hardware - at least, a sweet spot of performance and value. $250 was /pricey/ for a GPU in 2005.
But to be fair, like cars from the 80s to now, they do a lot more these days. I never installed a Physx processor for Crysis but now that's on the GPU.
- helf 4y agoTbf, $1000 in 2005 money is hair over $1500 in 2022 money. That $250 GPU would be ~$380 going strictly off inflation.
- horsawlarway 4y agoEh... I build a new machine about every 4 years. $1000 is still a-ok as a price point. $1000 on a new machine will get you running basically any new release at 1080p 60fps with only a little tweaking in the settings. I usually do 4k @ 60fps with medium/high graphics on my now nearly 4 year old rig, and it's FINE. Don't buy these stupidly overpriced cards unless you have a really compelling use case (as in - you're using these commercially) or you're overflowing with cash.
- izacus 4y agoRight now a good higher end machine clocks out at 1500 which is very comparable if you consider inflation. And that will run games at 4K.