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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

I payed less than 400 € for my GTX 1070 thanks to a Black Friday deal. Nowadays, I could only get, in theory, a 3060, although in practice it'd be more like a 3050 because of the f*cking crypto. And it looks like the new cards will only get even more expensive. It's insane.

I'll have to change my CPU soon (and I'll probably end going with Intel), but the GPU will stay the same for the time being. And when it dies... only God knows what will happen.

As for being able to find a console, I'm not in a hurry. I could buy a second hand PS4 for cheap and there are lots of used PS4 games fairly cheap as well.

I think we seen the biggest weakness of PC gaming which is the fact that due to it's openness, when a certain tech starts to boom really hard like Crypto, there isn't much anyone else can do to stop it. And considering the major governments are no longer considering banning crypto but instead, regulating it, it will be something that we will have to live with. Even mining is legal if you pay taxes...

With that being said, I do think that if you time it right, you can get a PC gaming GPU for a good price. Like we are almost at a point where GPUs are about to reach their 2020 MSRP and for $400, you can get a 3060 Ti which would last you an entire gen. The question then becomes, do you commit or wait and see for Lovelace? The theoretical performance uplift should be huge but unlike Ampere launch, a lot of people will be ready this time so it may be harder to get one. And those that won't be able to get one will remember what happened with Ampere and buy a 3000 GPU instead and those will be harder to get. Thus the cycle continues.

Personally speaking, if you are on Pascal or earlier and you can't commit to time to be that is required to find a new GPU, buying Ampere even when Lovelace is around the corner really isn't the worst thing in the world. Because while you might be able to get a better GPU for the same price if you are fast enough for Lovelace, it's also better to have a RTX GPU now than to have your GPU stop working at the worst time possible and pay scalper prices.

Just to be clear, when I wrote that you could only get a 3050 for that price, I meant it.

I did a quick search and right now, you can only get a 3050 for 400 € or slightly less here in Spain. The cheapest 3060 I've found is around 430 €, a Gainward Ghost card, and when it comes to the 3060Ti, it's impossible to find for less than 540 €. And the situation isn't any better with AMD.

If I have to wait until they reach MSRP, it will be the day before Ada/RDNA3 launch.