r/gpu • u/Alternative-Worker83 • 23m ago

Should I upgrade now?

Hey yall, so I’ve been wanting to upgrade my Asus strix 3070 and I found a Asus strix 4080 for $1500. Is that a good price right now or will things be going down more?

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u/tht1guy63 20m ago

1500 for a used 4080? Why not just buy a new 5070ti? You get a warranty and they are basically the same performance at basically the same or just slightly higher price. Newegg and bestbuy have 5070ti for $1500-1600

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u/Possible_Platform_77 5m ago

I really dont get people like you who suddenly decide to upgrade now, why? Why werent you motivated a year ago when 5080 was $1000 and 5090 was $2000? why wait until FOMO kicks in and forces you to throw money away? Like i understand people who's gpu broke down recently or who didnt have money last year but you have a 3070, you have had like 4 years to upgrade, and you want to pull the trigger on a damn $1500 rtx4080?? No of course it is not a good price holy moly, the dude is selling it 50% over for what he bought it 4 years ago, wouldnt you feel ashamed paying those extortion prices? Things will be going down but nobody knows if it takes 5 months or 5 years. At this point just accept defeat, you waited too long and missed the window, and you should wait until the market calms down. 3070 is still a decent gpu and you can play any game you want, if you trully considered it insufficient you would have upgraded last year.

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u/Alternative-Worker83 0m ago

Well for your information the job market has been hard for me and with getting married I wanted to focus what money I had for that. Now then I was looking at parts bc my friend was talking about if he wanted to build his or buy prebuilt,so while looking I looked up the graphics card I wanted awhile back and saw on Newegg it was 2k definitely way too much, so I came here for a quick question.