| Shaunodon said: Doing my first full new build after over 10 years (I delayed a few years after buying a new smart TV). Nvidia was always a no-brainer for graphics cards (when I built this PC so was Intel for CPUs), but my God the market is like an alternate reality. $2000 NZD on average for a 5070 Ti. I'm pretty sure that was the price of a Titan way back when, and the 5070 Ti is a mid-range card with minimal improvements. Absurd. With the supposed MSRP of 9070 XT $100 USD less than a PS5 Pro which generally goes for around $1300 NZD, if I can simply get the 9070 XT for that or lower and not worry about cables burning they will have me. Unfortunately way down here we're destined to be an afterthought even if AMD manages to come through everywhere else. If the 9070 XT is also averaging near $2000 I'm just going to pay the extra for a 5080. I really only wanted to spend $4000 ideally for the overall build and maybe go to $5000 for a higher card if they seemed better value, but now that's closer to $6000 or $10000 if you want a flagship burn-your-savings graphics card. Yes, mainstream PC builds have hit 5 figures in our country. The prices all make me want to vomit, but my PC is inching towards Death's door every day so I can't really avoid it. Maybe I can just pray to make it another year or so since I don't need a PC for modern gaming right now. I just don't see when the market will actually improve. People can blame bad guy Nvidia all they like, and there's no excusing them. I just don't see much difference from this current scenario and the original launch of XSX and PS5 during Covid, with it being a scalper's haven and retailers marking up prices with a bunch of useless junk no one wanted. But that didn't stop the demand for the producs raging forward and consumers lapping them all up for years. The consumers are at least as culpable for feeding into the greed of Nvidia and these other multi-corps. They wouldn't keep pushing for these anti-consumer practices if they didn't believe they could get away with them. Only the consumers can prove them wrong, so it's on them now. |
You should be able to import from Australia really easily as we have free travel and trade between us, but not sure if the dollar conversion would ruin it?
The comparison will be with the 7900GRE which came in at about $800-$900 AUD.
If things aren't great market-wise on Kiwi island, hit me up and I can help organize something to be sent over... But no way would $2000 be appropriate (Your currency has typically been about 70cents to our dollar), you would be better tasked looking at something like the 7800XT.
And yes. These are nVidia TITAN levels of pricing or even more (Ignoring inflation), such is the reality of profit-growth when you can't grow a mature market.
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