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4070 will trash this thing in price vs performance and cost 500 bucks less
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So, we have not had a 70 series that will rival the top end card from the previous generation. The 2070 was not better than a 1080 TI. The 3070 was not better than the 2080 TI. They get close but you're waiting that much more time and there's always a premium when they first come out so a 4070 is likely to be $700 or so. This thing is $1,000 right now. Everything in electronics goes down over time. If you want to wait longer you'll get something close for your $700 or you can have this right now. It's not that difficult.
He will. There is no chip shortage anymore and ETH (ethereum) mining is over after the merge event in mid September. And all other altcoins are down horrendously. ETH miners have no alternative to move to, so they will have to sell their cards for very cheap, which means more people will buy the used cards and not the 4000s series. Also no miner will buy new 4000s cards, only real gamers and people working with graphics/designing. If any "shortage" occurs, it will be because of gamers rushing in the first hours of release or the companies releasing cards "slowly" to create the illusion of demand.
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I'll never buy another zotac GPU. The lighting on mine failed after a firmware update a month after I bought it and to fix it they wanted me to pay shipping to RMA it to them with an ETA of 8 weeks to fix it.
I'll never buy another zotac GPU. The lighting on mine failed after a firmware update a month after I bought it and to fix it they wanted me to pay shipping to RMA it to them with an ETA of 8 weeks to fix it.
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Sounds like a normal experience for just about any GPU company except for maybe EVGA.
I just bought the PNY 3090 for $1050. Seems to be on sale everywhere. I couldn't see any problems with it in reviews that suggested it should be $150 less than other cards.
I probably could wait to see how video card prices come down, but honestly reasonable prices are good enough for me at this point. I built my current PC with parts from 7 years ago, which were themselves 1- 2 years old, and performance / dollar optimized. And after working from home on it for 2 years I can say I desperately need more breathing room with the myriad things I do with my PC and how much of it I often have open concurrently.
I game at 1080p and I *might* switch to a 4k monitor and try gaming at native resolution. Maybe I'll be a convert once I get there, but I've had this feeling that beyond 1080p it's just too much resolution for me to appreciate. Probably flawed logic. Anyway, the 3090 is probably far more beastly a graphics card for the level at which I game than I need. But what I really want it for is the memory for creating AI generated images on my local machine. It looks like Stable Diffusion is coming out soon and it doesn't even need that much memory. But it was looking like I needed at least 16GB of memory in Disco Diffusion and there wasn't much in the way of options so it was go big or go home.
Here's hoping I bought a card that isn't going to give me any grief and won't depreciate another $500 in 6 months. But if it does, so be it.
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I probably could wait to see how video card prices come down, but honestly reasonable prices are good enough for me at this point. I built my current PC with parts from 7 years ago, which were themselves 1- 2 years old, and performance / dollar optimized. And after working from home on it for 2 years I can say I desperately need more breathing room with the myriad things I do with my PC and how much of it I often have open concurrently.
I game at 1080p and I *might* switch to a 4k monitor and try gaming at native resolution. Maybe I'll be a convert once I get there, but I've had this feeling that beyond 1080p it's just too much resolution for me to appreciate. Probably flawed logic. Anyway, the 3090 is probably far more beastly a graphics card for the level at which I game than I need. But what I really want it for is the memory for creating AI generated images on my local machine. It looks like Stable Diffusion is coming out soon and it doesn't even need that much memory. But it was looking like I needed at least 16GB of memory in Disco Diffusion and there wasn't much in the way of options so it was go big or go home.
Here's hoping I bought a card that isn't going to give me any grief and won't depreciate another $500 in 6 months. But if it does, so be it.
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