02-01-2025, 03:28 PM
Just kind of a random item of note:
I was looking to update my gaming PC (really I want to move it back to an older and much better case and thought I might as well update some components while I'm at it).
You can't hardly get a new video card now. I wasn't planning on getting the Nvidia 5000 series anyway because they are crazy expensive but they also cannot be found for sale (except by scalpers). The 4070 and 4080 are also sold out everywhere I looked (except, again, for the occasional scalper -- anything you see on Amazon is almost certainly a 3rd party scalper with at least a 50% markup).
AMD cards are available (well, not the 7900 but the 7800 is) but I've always avoided AMD because any time there's some weird game crashing graphics bug in a game it has always been an AMD thing.
I'm not desperate because the 2080 I bought a few years back is still fine for what I play but I thought it was interesting how hard it was to find an up to date gaming graphics card for sale, even the previous model.
I was looking to update my gaming PC (really I want to move it back to an older and much better case and thought I might as well update some components while I'm at it).
You can't hardly get a new video card now. I wasn't planning on getting the Nvidia 5000 series anyway because they are crazy expensive but they also cannot be found for sale (except by scalpers). The 4070 and 4080 are also sold out everywhere I looked (except, again, for the occasional scalper -- anything you see on Amazon is almost certainly a 3rd party scalper with at least a 50% markup).
AMD cards are available (well, not the 7900 but the 7800 is) but I've always avoided AMD because any time there's some weird game crashing graphics bug in a game it has always been an AMD thing.
I'm not desperate because the 2080 I bought a few years back is still fine for what I play but I thought it was interesting how hard it was to find an up to date gaming graphics card for sale, even the previous model.