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ah you know i love

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this shelf but

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kind of think of it when was the last time i actually bought

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a GPU i think it was i think it was during the last scrapyard wars

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you know maybe it's finally time to expand the

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collection you know i'm gonna go i'm gonna get

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caught up on street pricing here and get some new gpus

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wait i'm sorry what 1080s are going for

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850 to 1150 bucks

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1070 ti is at 730 to 975 vega 56s

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for just under to over a thousand dollars

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holy crap i mean there are cards out there going for

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almost a thousand canadian rubles that

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we declared not a great value at about

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half of that when they were released

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so thankfully i don't actually need a

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GPU that badly that whole thing was just a setup for this video well

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no but there are a lot of folks out there who

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do so for you we compiled a few tips and

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tricks to help you try and get a decent deal so you can get your game on

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speaking of a decent deal i fix it ifixit's protech toolkit gives you the

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so this video is going to be a little bit different from our standard fare no

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performance graphs no sexy b-roll i

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probably won't even drop anything except

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some mad truths we'll start our journey at the local

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level this is memory express whose website

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even has a special notice on it about a

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GPU and power supply shortage because

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believe it or not retailers have been frustrated by the lack of supply too

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with that said it's not all bad news there's a very recent update on their

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site about restrictions being lifted on graphics card purchases so there may be

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some light at the end of the tunnel if that's any indication

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and did anyone actually realize that there was an ongoing power supply shortage

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anyway this still doesn't tell us when prices will actually stabilize

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so if you don't want to wait weeks or potentially even months to upgrade your

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potato for a game of fortnite we may need some other options so if

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nothing else by looking at retail pricing we can get a baseline for

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what to look for when we compare the launch price with

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the lowest price available on pc part picker we see a couple of obvious

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patterns here the most expensive gpus have the biggest

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markup which we might expect but we also

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see something peculiar the GeForce gtx

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1080 is by far the closest to its msrp

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and i'd even go as far as to say if you can find one at about this pricing go

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ahead and buy retail if you can another while you can tip by the way is

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that sometimes vendors will sell directly at msrp take NVIDIA for example

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where you can buy founders edition cards for way less as long as you are

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diligently monitoring their site and you're quick on the draw

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next we've got used sites like craigslist which are currently

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overflowing with second-hand gpus and

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prices are trending downward overall

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which you know what let me see that thing

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actually forget it this is ridiculous

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you can get deals now yeah but scalpers like

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this are all over the place often asking

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close to or even more than retail for

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never used or lightly used cards so

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just make sure you keep your bs detectors cranked to 11 until this blows

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over but if buying directly at retail

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is expensive and current gen used cards

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are going to be a minefield for a while what else can we do

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well some retailers are actually offering combo deals with steep

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discounts for graphics cards that are usually bundled with some other

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component that gamers would want like a headset a high-end CPU or a motherboard

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that kind of thing and while our luck at newegg today wasn't great with just 10 to 20 savings

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being typical some vendors like micro center are doing in-store only discounts

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with limited quantities available with that said though maybe we're

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barking up the wrong tree maybe what we want isn't a specific

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graphics card but rather a specific performance level

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and i think i know how we can achieve that we're going to go where the miners

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aren't going we know that the gtx 1080 is in most

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cases about 25 faster than the previous

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generation 980 ti however if we look at the price for the

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980 ti somewhere like ebay it's cheaper than even the cheapest

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1070. i mean and compared to the 1080 i'm

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talking like just over half the price

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and the hbm equipped fury x can be had for a similar price too as long as four

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gigs is enough vram for you and you have the power supply to run it

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and so you know moving down in the pricing tiers a little bit if you were

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after an rx 580 or 570 the performance

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difference between the 480 and 470 is so

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minimal that the price difference here makes that a no-brainer as well and

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depending on your needs you can even go further back like a maxwell titan x or

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titan black or even as far back as a gtx

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680 or Radeon hd 7970 if your goal is

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1080p gaming those things are around 100 bucks today about half that of a 1050 ti

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with slightly better performance do note though that

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older high-end cards like the fury will

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draw more power and lack new features like HDMI 2.0 atvc HDR and they have no

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hope of playing back content protected by play ready 3.0 drm and you also don't

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get a warranty when you do this well not usually anyway so buyer beware there but

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games don't stop to wait for GPU prices to drop and if you need the horsepower

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this seems to be the best way to go until the whole industry regains its

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senses unplug and play what does that even mean

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i'll tell you it's Corsair's lineup of wireless gaming peripherals including

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their dark core RGB se mouse which features one millisecond 2.4 gigahertz

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and low latency bluetooth connectivity their k63 wireless gaming keyboard with

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the same low latency connection options and cherry mx red switches with a blue

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backlight and their mm1000 which is a

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wireless charging mouse pad though it should be noted that the wireless

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charging version of the mouse will work with any qi wireless charging pad not

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just theirs which is pretty cool and you can check out the whole lineup at the

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links below oh i made it

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