ah you know i love
this shelf but
kind of think of it when was the last time i actually bought
a GPU i think it was i think it was during the last scrapyard wars
you know maybe it's finally time to expand the
collection you know i'm gonna go i'm gonna get
caught up on street pricing here and get some new gpus
wait i'm sorry what 1080s are going for
850 to 1150 bucks
1070 ti is at 730 to 975 vega 56s
for just under to over a thousand dollars
holy crap i mean there are cards out there going for
almost a thousand canadian rubles that
we declared not a great value at about
half of that when they were released
so thankfully i don't actually need a
GPU that badly that whole thing was just a setup for this video well
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so this video is going to be a little bit different from our standard fare no
performance graphs no sexy b-roll i
probably won't even drop anything except
some mad truths we'll start our journey at the local
level this is memory express whose website
even has a special notice on it about a
GPU and power supply shortage because
believe it or not retailers have been frustrated by the lack of supply too
with that said it's not all bad news there's a very recent update on their
site about restrictions being lifted on graphics card purchases so there may be
some light at the end of the tunnel if that's any indication
and did anyone actually realize that there was an ongoing power supply shortage
anyway this still doesn't tell us when prices will actually stabilize
so if you don't want to wait weeks or potentially even months to upgrade your
potato for a game of fortnite we may need some other options so if
nothing else by looking at retail pricing we can get a baseline for
what to look for when we compare the launch price with
the lowest price available on pc part picker we see a couple of obvious
patterns here the most expensive gpus have the biggest
markup which we might expect but we also
see something peculiar the GeForce gtx
1080 is by far the closest to its msrp
and i'd even go as far as to say if you can find one at about this pricing go
ahead and buy retail if you can another while you can tip by the way is
that sometimes vendors will sell directly at msrp take NVIDIA for example
where you can buy founders edition cards for way less as long as you are
diligently monitoring their site and you're quick on the draw
next we've got used sites like craigslist which are currently
overflowing with second-hand gpus and
prices are trending downward overall
which you know what let me see that thing
actually forget it this is ridiculous
you can get deals now yeah but scalpers like
this are all over the place often asking
close to or even more than retail for
never used or lightly used cards so
just make sure you keep your bs detectors cranked to 11 until this blows
over but if buying directly at retail
is expensive and current gen used cards
are going to be a minefield for a while what else can we do
well some retailers are actually offering combo deals with steep
discounts for graphics cards that are usually bundled with some other
component that gamers would want like a headset a high-end CPU or a motherboard
that kind of thing and while our luck at newegg today wasn't great with just 10 to 20 savings
being typical some vendors like micro center are doing in-store only discounts
with limited quantities available with that said though maybe we're
barking up the wrong tree maybe what we want isn't a specific
graphics card but rather a specific performance level
and i think i know how we can achieve that we're going to go where the miners
aren't going we know that the gtx 1080 is in most
cases about 25 faster than the previous
generation 980 ti however if we look at the price for the
980 ti somewhere like ebay it's cheaper than even the cheapest
1070. i mean and compared to the 1080 i'm
talking like just over half the price
and the hbm equipped fury x can be had for a similar price too as long as four
gigs is enough vram for you and you have the power supply to run it
and so you know moving down in the pricing tiers a little bit if you were
after an rx 580 or 570 the performance
difference between the 480 and 470 is so
minimal that the price difference here makes that a no-brainer as well and
depending on your needs you can even go further back like a maxwell titan x or
titan black or even as far back as a gtx
680 or Radeon hd 7970 if your goal is
1080p gaming those things are around 100 bucks today about half that of a 1050 ti
with slightly better performance do note though that
older high-end cards like the fury will
draw more power and lack new features like HDMI 2.0 atvc HDR and they have no
hope of playing back content protected by play ready 3.0 drm and you also don't
get a warranty when you do this well not usually anyway so buyer beware there but
games don't stop to wait for GPU prices to drop and if you need the horsepower
this seems to be the best way to go until the whole industry regains its
senses unplug and play what does that even mean
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wireless charging mouse pad though it should be noted that the wireless
charging version of the mouse will work with any qi wireless charging pad not
just theirs which is pretty cool and you can check out the whole lineup at the
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