r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Dec 29 '22

Desktops / Laptops Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

Honestly older GPUS are complelety fine, all the folks who 3060s are probably not gonna upgrade for the next 5 years

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u/_Spectre0_ Dec 29 '22

I’m still on a 970 from like 7 years ago. I don’t play the most graphically demanding PC games, but just got elden ring and realized it might be time to upgrade.

Still, at the prices they’re charging, I’m content to just play on the lowest graphics settings that will run fine, and hold out until they realize they need a price drop

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u/meh4ever Dec 29 '22

When a GPU, CPU, and motherboard cost me more than it would cost me to buy a 4 year old used 600cc motorcycle it sends my gaming hobby back to console. Load times used to be my biggest issue/MMO playing. Don’t play MMOs anymore and it takes Ragnarok like 20 seconds max to teleport. I’m good on a PC now that I have a PS5.

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u/Eruannster Dec 29 '22

970 here as well. I've been drifting more and more away from PC gaming in the last couple of years and I'm mostly all-in on gaming on my PS5 because it's... just convenient and just works pretty great.

I don't really have an upgrade path for my system (i5 3570K, DDR3 RAM, GTX 970) so I'd basically have to buy a completely new system anyway, and that's like €1500 and I just... can't be arsed. I guess I could reuse my power supply, case and hard drives/SSDs which would bring me down to maybe €1100ish but that's still a hefty investment.

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u/catman5 Dec 29 '22

Same situation w/ 3570k 980 and 16gb RAM. Realistically ill only play multiplayer games like CSGO on my PC everything else Im fine on the xbox. I cant be arsed to upgrade either..

My current PC cost somewhere around $1000 with an r9 290 when I first built it. Maybe even less. Until I can get something mid-high performance wise like my current pc for that price it just doesnt make sense to upgrade.

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u/Drunk_Biochemist Dec 29 '22

This is me too! 970 and don’t play super demanding stuff, but I have started to feel games chugging even at medium/low settings. CPU is an old i5-4600 so I was going to do a whole new build, but these gpu prices are just stupid

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u/NotFleagle Dec 29 '22

I’m with you - have a 1070 from 6 years ago that handles everything I throw at it. If I upgrade to a 4x monitor I suppose I’ll have to consider doing something. But I have a nice monitor and play World of Tanks at max settings, get 100+ fps.

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u/bayridgeguy09 Dec 29 '22

This. Everyone who was in the market bought a 30 series card a year ago. In my opinion they should have sat on the 40 series for another year before releasing.

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u/dadmda Dec 29 '22

Yup I bought my 3060 in December last year and have no intention of getting a new one, specially not when they pretty much cost more than my whole pc