Graphics card upgrade anyone?

[dan]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223328101848

[Richard]

SLI? Is it 2006 again

[Matty]

Giving up on the gaming or just upgrading?

[dan]

Giving up on the gaming or just upgrading?

Upgrade / sideways step. Dual 980ti's will give close to the performance of a 1080, only I just found out that the rift doesn't support sli, so they're wasted on me.

[Jimmy Choo]

I upgraded my graphics card this week. Apparently, the previous card was bought in 2009 (ASUS GT9500 IIRC) so a 1050 is quite a jump.

[Beany]

I upgraded my graphics card this week. Apparently, the previous card was bought in 2009 (ASUS GT9500 IIRC) so a 1050 is quite a jump.

I've got an R280, which is just old enough to not support Vulkan on Linux, so I'm expecting a serious jump when I eventually pull my finger out and buy some mid-range card at some point soon.

R280 goes back to the 7900 series of AMDs if I recall correctly, which is...kinda old.

[Matty]

Are graphics cards getting insanely expensive or is it just me? It doesn't seem (or at least, feel) that long ago that £250 got you fairly cutting edge stuff, but the 2080Ti is £1200....1200!!

[integrale_evo]

Yeah, they're going silly, and the new ones being so expensive means older ones are still worth as much.

I was hoping all the new 20 series cards would mean I could pick up a second 'cheap' 1070ti to have a mess around with sli. Most of the secondhand ones are as expensive as the brand new one I bought about three months ago. Same with 1060s, still haven't seen a new 1060 6gb for less than I picked one up from amazon back in august for my step sons build.

Up until 6 months ago I was using a Core2duo with a gt610 which I think cost me £30 about 8 years ago. Decided I didn't want yet another console cluttering up the place so built a pc. The jump to modern games and graphics cards was pretty mind blowing!

[Beany]

Cryptomining is still keeping card prices high AFAIK.

And using as much power as Switzerland, globally, to churn out math.

No, really.

[integrale_evo]

Thought that had all but died in the last six months as cards are now back to rrp, and ram has dropped a fair bit too.

[JLv3.0]

Have a look at the evolution of Bitcoin's value and it will make sense that the interest in mining it has dropped a tad

[tim]

I've got a GTX680 2GB laying around now I've upgraded to a 1080Ti if anyone is interested in that? No idea what it's value is