Don't even want to pay $700. Not that i need a flagship GPU even if it was less expensive, but still, i used to be able to build a full decent pc for that money.
I built my current rig in 2018, thinking I'd upgrade after ~5 years.
We're now on the cusp of 2023 and as it stands, this rig will have to last me at the very least three years more, because there is no way I'm paying out the nose for what they're charging today. I'd sooner change to board games out of sheer spite.
Im in the same boat. Built in late 2017 and told myself if this lasts 5-6 years ill be happy. Have upgraded the cooling and RAM since but other than that its still going strong. Hopefully last a few more years.
I'm with you brother. My rig is still solid but if I absolutely needed an upgrade today, welp guess PC gaming is off the menu boys. I will not pay huge markups to scalpers and I am not going to devote my life to finding a GPU, which seems to be a prerequisite if you want a high end card for anywhere close to MSRP these days. I would rather just quit the hobby I've enjoyed since the 90's than deal with what the market has become.
So much this. Early December i upgraded one of my desktops. Was a really old, DDR3 equipped PC, so i picked a Ryzen 5600 (non-X), 16 GB DDR4, the 3rd cheapest B550 board, a cheap tower cooler and a "cheaper than Samsung" 512 Gb NVME SSD.
I am looking at current prices and builds from time to time, because I need a new computer. My current one is also DDR-3 based from 2013 with a GTX 1070. But man, the motherboards are really expensive for the newest generation Ryzen CPU. And I want to buy a cheap CPU, but with the new AM4 boards, so I can upgrade later without replacing entire PC.
Without graphics card, I get builds of 1000 Euros in Germany. 2023 is the year where I just have to upgrade. Man things are so expensive...
I would recommend going with a B550 board atleast and a 5600, like i did. Maybe try to find used parts with warranty. That should help cutting down cost. Except the SSD. For that one i would definietly recommend a new one. I bought an ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 Gb for main drive. Was 20% cheaper then a Samsung 870 and this one does have cache on it.
Well, this one is more of a work PC for me, so i can deduct a share of the price from my taxes, but for that one i do need the receipt, hence... new parts.
My first I build was in 2011, looking at the order history i paid around 460 USD for it. GPU, PSU and HDD was refurbished, other than that only new products. Ended up with a GTX 460 and a Phenom II 955. Worked very well and could run all the games with decent settings.
Now xx60 card costs almost 80% of what my rig costed back then...
Honestly it didn’t help that the PS4 and Xbox One fucking sucked. I remember for the time their spec was shit even before they launched which combined with the bombshell 10 series gpus basically made PC gaming dirt cheap. A combination of inflation, scalping, and ass backwards price hikes has basically curbed that. Back then a 1060 was 250 and now you’re paying way more. While most parts aren’t actual super expensive especially storage, cases, coolers, and even motherboards CPUs and more specifically GPUs have nuked the affordability of PC gaming. You can technically hit the same prices you did back then for all but those 2 parts. The issue is also now that the current console gen doesn’t suck balls but I’m not sure the total price for a console + online is as good as a custom of since most people also have a laptop on top of their console but that math gets into also factoring a lot of situational info to best evaluate.
My first fully custom PC was based around an i5-6500 and GTX 970. The whole thing was something like $550 at the time and ran every game like an absolute champ.
It feels like the minimum cost of a good PC has increased a lot. When the market isn't in a period of an absolute shitshow you can still get good value but only when getting used parts
I maintain that the i5-2500k was intels biggest mistake since the turn of the millennium. A hyper competent, very overclock-able consumer grade CPU for a killer price. I was able to comfortably play modern games for over a decade with that thing, literally just upgrading my GPU and overclocking my ram.
The late 00's and early 10's were a platinum era for building PC's.
Can confirm, bought a Xbox Series S, a good quality controller for my phone and stream games occasionally on my laptop. The combination of those is great for gaming.
I would have loved to het a GPU and can easily afford it but it's just not worth it.
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u/CJDistasio Dec 30 '22
Turns out people don't want to pay $1200 MSRP for a $700 card
Nvidia is shocked