I’m OK with 2D but draw the line at pixel-art. Pun not intended.
Me modding the 2D pixel art game with ultra HD textures, shaders, reflections, realistic physics engine, ray tracing.
Me upgrading my computer to kick ass just so I can play Old School Runescape
Me going back to hollow knight, celeste, modded minecraft, and dead cells instead of buying new games
I bought ps5 specifically for aaa games, never been happier, pc is for indie and ps5 ps3 and Xbox 360 for aaa
Cries in STALKER 2
Why play expensive games when you can get addicted to Balatro
The cure is one of the jokers. Just keep playing Balatro, you’re close to finding a way to quit.
Balatro got me like…
What’s funny is that a new GPU alone will set ya back that amount already. I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch for 1k
I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch
why tho
Not OP but my GPU is a decade old, would be nice to have the latest for once.
You might be better off with a 4000 series, unless you got a new motherboard that won’t be bottlenecked much by the pcie version jump.
Unless you’re getting a 5090 the pcie bottleneck should be negligible compared to your CPU or other things.
On pcie 3 the 4090 gets about a 5% performance penalty. I’d assume the 5080 is about the same performance as the 4090 so the hit should be similar. Unless you’re like me with a 5800x3d on a garbage B450 motherboard your CPU is probably going to be holding you back so much more than the pcie version.
My guess is that if a 4090 is bottlenecked 5% on pcie 3.0 (although I think it’s closer to 10%). Also if pcie 4.0 is double the speed as 3.0, and pcie 5.0 is double 4.0. Then the bottleneck will be closer to 10% if running a 5080 on pcie 3.0.
Bethesda games aren’t gonna run themselves
Bethesda games need 5080?
Bethesda games aren’t gonna run
themselvesDid Starfield become a good game?
Depends if you like starfield
Why?? Just get something a few years old, it’ll do the same thing anyway
Used graphics card prices aren’t that much better than new.
The 4090 still has a VRAM advantage over the 5080 so it’s probably going to continue to hold it’s value pretty well. Especially since there’s a massive voice in pricing between the $1k 5080 and the $2k 5090.
Unless the 24gb ARC GPU comes out (or AI crashes) I see the 4090 just not depreciating a substantial amount. And that’s the only option that would compare to the 5080 since AMD isn’t even trying to make high end.
I was just going to say my new PC was $5000 and $1,200 of that was the GPU.
Just to game though?
My desktop is literally only used for gaming (I have a separate PC for everything else) and I spent probably 3-4k on it.
Buy a lot of high end NVMe storage and I could easily see it costing 5k.
I don’t see how a gaming only pc has $3800 of non-gpu costs. There has to be a threadripper equivalent cpu and/or a shit ton of storage/ram on there.
Motherboards aren’t cheap, nor is the top of the line CPUs. The 7950x3D is still $600 on amazon. X670e boards start at like $200 and go up over $500 easily. If you just say fuck it and buy the best you can easily hit that number, especially if you throw in some high end storage drives.
I’m looking to replace my CPU, mobo and ram and I’m looking at at least $1200 for that.
Wait for sales and you can spend half that. If you’re willing to settle for anything less than top of the line, you can go even lower. I picked up a 7900X3D under $450 CAD this summer. My Motherboard was under $200 CAD for an ITX board, and I got 32GB of 6000mHz RAM for $125 CAD.
I feel like kinda the main reasons to pick up a latest gen gpu nowadays are energy efficiency and a warranty (although 5000 series doesn’t look all that energy efficient, we’ll see i guess)
otherwise you can definitely get something better on ebay for cheaper
but if you live somewhere where energy is expensive, the difference might be significant. 500w is kinda a lot lol, any difference in performance/watt will add up
prices are going to drop when the new gpus come out and people need to get rid of their old ones, but currently with a little bit of looking i could find a ‘buy it now’ 7900 xt for $640, a 3090 for $775, and a 3090 ti for $850
honestly these aren’t great deals you could probably find better ones
I’ll always upvote a Chaeyoung meme
1000$ PC? No shit you need to play 2D indie games!
I’m happy with my legion go, it can handle most aaa games pretty well. And if I want to upgrade later on, I’ll get an eGpu. Modular gaming system ftw
Maybe I’m missing some important details, but isn’t an eGPU still limited to throughput of the thunderbolt connection?
Me but just playing free to play games. lol
I can’t give up the AAA quality. Hell I want a more powerful GPU just to push it
Holocure
lol. I don’t think I’d ever
It’d need to be a really pretty girl to get me in to that. lol
Seriously tho… The Finals
Normally me too, but then there’s always one game I want 60fps that I’m like wait I thought I maxed out my build pretty decently for my budget and it’s like, you can play on ultra sure but there will be so many 5 fps hiccups
DCSS in the browser requires top of the line graphics cards.
