| Captain_Yuri said: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT with 2048 cores and 8GB G6 memory officially launches on August 11th at 379 USD |
Just sold a Radeon RX 580 for $700 AUD. More than twice that I originally paid for it... (Thanks miners!)
Tis' going to fund a 6600XT I think so I can do some overclocking and testing.
JEMC said:
And a living Hell in Summer. |
Times like these I am glad to be a firefighter.
| JEMC said: Crypto going up again? C'mon! That's not fair. Boo! On another note, I'm not sure if this is serious or a joke, but here comes some nostalgia: GPU Maker, 3dfx Interactive Teases A Comeback After 20 Years, Major Announcement Expected Next Week |
I still have my Voodoo 2's.
At the very least if they can drive up demand for retro gear... I will happily make a profit.
| Captain_Yuri said: We will see in a few months though but yea, the days of affordable PCs are over. I remember how back in highschool, I was able to build a really good gaming PC with highschool money. These days tho... That ain't happening... |
They can still be affordable.
Often I see people neglect to consider Zen2 CPU's because Zen3 is new and shiny... When in reality you could get the venerable Ryzen 5 3600, overclock the mc'shit out of it... And you are probably looking at a 20% performance difference from the stock 5600X at worst... And here you can get a Tray 3600 for $239 AUD verses the 5600X at $420... I don't know about you, but the 3600 makes far more sense.
DDR4 is cheapish... 32GB of DDR4 3600Mhz Ram for $260 AUD is about the same price I paid for DDR3 at it's lowest-price point over a decade ago.
SSD's are getting larger and cheaper, DRAM-less SSD's are not the same old rubbish they used to be with some that feature decent low-latency, high-speed SLC caches.
GPU's is where the shit gets spastic sadly... But if you play the market and sell your 2017 GPU's for a pretty penny, you can use those funds to purchase a new GPU to make the financial impact less severe.
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