Why?? Just get something a few years old, it’ll do the same thing anyway
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Graphy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What’s funny is that a new GPU alone will set ya back that amount already. I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch for 1k
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Used graphics card prices aren’t that much better than new.
The 4090 still has a VRAM advantage over the 5080 so it’s probably going to continue to hold it’s value pretty well. Especially since there’s a massive voice in pricing between the $1k 5080 and the $2k 5090.
Unless the 24gb ARC GPU comes out (or AI crashes) I see the 4090 just not depreciating a substantial amount. And that’s the only option that would compare to the 5080 since AMD isn’t even trying to make high end.
Graphy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s wild how many comments I got saying buy used when if you check HWS it’s full of 4080s clearing $900-$1000 used
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I was just going to say my new PC was $5000 and $1,200 of that was the GPU.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Just to game thought?
IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I don’t see how a gaming only pc has $3800 of non-gpu costs. There has to be a threadripper equivalent cpu and/or a shit ton of storage/ram on there.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Motherboards aren’t cheap, nor is the top of the line CPUs. The 7950x3D is still $600 on amazon. X670e boards start at like $200 and go up over $500 easily. If you just say fuck it and buy the best you can easily hit that number, especially if you throw in some high end storage drives.
I’m looking to replace my CPU, mobo and ram and I’m looking at at least $1200 for that.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Oh I totally see how you CAN do it. I’ve done it. A lot. Just nowadays i don’t see why you would need to. Maybe a true 4k multi monitor setup but a 7800xt is cheap and great for 1440p and you can build a 1500 dollar rig (minus the monitor) and be pretty damn ok.
I tend to weekend my money on homelab shit so my priorities have changed these pay few decades lol
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
My desktop is literally only used for gaming (I have a separate PC for everything else) and I spent probably 3-4k on it.
Buy a lot of high end NVMe storage and I could easily see it costing 5k.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I feel like kinda the main reasons to pick up a latest gen gpu nowadays are energy efficiency and a warranty (although 5000 series doesn’t look all that energy efficient, we’ll see i guess)
otherwise you can definitely get something better on ebay for cheaper
but if you live somewhere where energy is expensive, the difference might be significant. 500w is kinda a lot lol, any difference in performance/watt will add up
prices are going to drop when the new gpus come out and people need to get rid of their old ones, but currently with a little bit of looking i could find a ‘buy it now’ 7900 xt for $640, a 3090 for $775, and a 3090 ti for $850
honestly these aren’t great deals you could probably find better ones
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
why tho
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Bethesda games aren’t gonna run themselves
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Bethesda games aren’t gonna run
themselveshark@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Did Starfield become a good game?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Personally, I didn’t like it. A think a lot of it comes down to two things: Do you care about the writing and the world they’ve built? If so, how critical of it are you (or alternatively, have you seen the sci-fi tropes done well).
Starfield has some really bad world building. In particular, it doesn’t understand why we use sci-fi, and why it’s tropes are interesting. it’s to create an anologue of our world and to break it down, criticize, and point out it’s flaws and ways to fix them.
Starfield is the least critical writing I’ve ever seen I think. The Earth is destroyed, and instead of using this to discuss us destroying the planet right now, it’s just some technobable that has no parallels. Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.
Starfield doesn’t understand sci-fi. Fallout does a better job as a sci-fi series than Starfield does. If you’re still interested, the gameplay is also slow and boring and there’s almost no interesting stories or characters. Continue if you want, but I regret spending time on it for the price of $0.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I enjoyed it.
The criticisms are valid, but I still think it was a fun time.
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Depends if you like starfield
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Bethesda games need 5080?
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 week ago
For the pixel art.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Not OP but my GPU is a decade old, would be nice to have the latest for once.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 week ago
You might be better off with a 4000 series, unless you got a new motherboard that won’t be bottlenecked much by the pcie version jump.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Unless you’re getting a 5090 the pcie bottleneck should be negligible compared to your CPU or other things.
On pcie 3 the 4090 gets about a 5% performance penalty. I’d assume the 5080 is about the same performance as the 4090 so the hit should be similar. Unless you’re like me with a 5800x3d on a garbage B450 motherboard your CPU is probably going to be holding you back so much more than the pcie version.