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How are you all coping with increasing PC hardware and tech prices around the world?

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Totally forgot I have a R9 270X, I'm really glad I didn't sell it years ago. It's a good backup in case this RX 480 dies. (hope not!)
 
Night said:
Totally forgot I have a R9 270X, I'm really glad I didn't sell it years ago. It's a good backup in case this RX 480 dies. (hope not!)
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That's a good point!
When I bought the RX 5700 XT, I moved the RX 580 to my other machine, replacing the very nice MSI GTX 960 which I then sold.
The moral here seems to be to hang on to your kit, for now anyway.
 
Splinterdog said:
That's a good point!
When I bought the RX 5700 XT, I moved the RX 580 to my other machine, replacing the very nice MSI GTX 960 which I then sold.
The moral here seems to be to hang on to your kit, for now anyway.
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Agreed I haven't been around here since 2013 or so, and my specs are outdated but I do have a 5600x with a RTX 2060 Super and the rig in my specs updated last time I was here has been sitting in a closet with a GTX 1050ti which is a nice backup. Take care of what you have.
 
A decent GPU is the only thing my PC is missing, I've gone over half a year without a decent GPU. In this time I've been console gaming. Got a huge backlog of console games.

Might build a Rocket Lake system next week just to have decent integrated graphics and access to a large amount of my PC library.

I've been more productive in this time though, learning a foreign language and exercising a lot more...
 
R-T-B said:
Not upgrading and praying the hardware holds together.
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Same here! I upgraded MB, RAM and CPU in Dec, 2019...back int he olden days when you could still buy hardware affordably, and found a decent used 2080Ti last summer. Should be set for awhile and just hoping it keeps working fine for probably 2 or more years.
 
by NOT purchasing anything new, blowing out or if need be repasting overheating hardware and finally hoping for no failures that cannot be recovered from...that's about it really
 
Apart from CPU and GPU which we may run into problems buying (due to high prices or availablity), I don't observe any significant increase in prices of other components. There is knock on impact where the lack of GPU, CPUs and SOCs are impacting the demand for things like RAM, storage, PSU, etc. While there are people just upgrading CPU and/or GPUs, most people actually buy a complete system.
But I feel this is a good time to slow down and stick with older hardware. The high prices will eventually take a toll on demand and I think most people who have not gotten a new CPU or GPU may have gone for alternatives or given up altogether (miners excluded). Now I think the problem is mostly supply. I feel big brands like Asus and MSI who recently announced another round of price increase is trying to stir up people's dying interest by increasing the urgency to get one.
 
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I had a quick look through the thread and I was just wondering what others have been experiencing, so I thought I'd chime up and let you know what I've been up to.

As most of you know I do love my hardware and to be honest, ironically, I've only really been buying GPUs whenever I have seen them at a slightly reasonable price. I do a bit of mining here and there and with all the cards I have previously bought and still own, I'm using them. They might not be the most efficient or effective when it comes to getting the best for the power used and all that jazz but they work and I'm able to help that along.

Thing is I'm dead set on prices that I will pay. I won't go stupid but that said, I was lucky/stupid to buy a MSI 3090 Gaming Trio X for £1900 from a company, not through Ebay.. First off I was very unsure on buying it, then I thought, %^£$ it and I bought it. I'm not going to lie, but it's been mining since I've had it, for sure it will help pay for itself but then I'm not going to go selling it off for another 50% on top which I believe they are currently going for either.. I'll just build something for the Mrs and throw it in. Cos you know, why not? If only she had a clue.... Still, that's another story and I digress.
I have also bought two 5700XT cards, which are the Powercolor Liquid Devil cards. These are just pure awesome and my two girls will have a rig each with one each of these in eventually :) They weren't so badly priced in the craziness, but I didn't pay over what I wanted to so I'm very happy with those purchases.

I've also been able to find over in the US a few cards, such as a 3080 and a 3090 Strix, my mate has also got the same cards. He's also found and had a few 5700XT's and up till recently, 6 5600XTs which he bought before it all went bat crap crazy... For the 3080s and the 3090 Strix, for me sending cash over to the US, because of the exchange rate, I actually paid about MSRP for the cards, so I'm very happy with that. The 3080s I've sold to my mate who will not pay a penny more than I have and he'll help with the import taxes as well. So all things considered, I don't believe we've done badly out of it at all.
Any card I buy will be mined on especially if its new because it's so much more efficient, plus it'll help pay for itself which I really don't believe is a bad thing.

Your cards are yours and you can do whatever you want with them. After the mining has died down, I'll set them all up to do FAH so they'll be used for that (I'm hoping for some good things!!) and can then get the CPUs crunching away as well but as I don't have those cards with me at the moment as they are still over with my mate in the US. So whenever I can, I'll get them imported over and away I go over here :)



I just wished to check this that you bought a pre built rig for £1700, you sold everything but the graphics card for £400?? Surely the hardware in them was worth a heck of a lot more??

On other things I'm after, I'd like to try and get a few big SSDs for the girls, I've seen some Crucial and Samsung 2TB SSDs for £140 and £160 which I think are pretty decent as they are normally about the £200 mark each I think? Definitely thought it was worth a look but I'm trying to save up currently and have finally stopped buying GPUs, I probably will be able to :laugh:
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Nah its crap parts. 9600kf was the best in there. Single 8gb stick of ram, 1tb HDD etc.
 
Coping by not worrying about it. I gave up on the silly profit driven hardware race perpetuated by manufacturers long ago. Last new GPU purchase was a RX 480 and fine with it.

Don't need uber graphics to have fun. Plenty of great older titles out there. Saved near all my hardware bought in the the last 22 years. Pulled some out of storage and have been playing games with a Win98/voodoo4 system last several months. Only money spent has been on used period game CDs from Ebay. Most in the $5-$10 range.
 
By not buying any new hardware.
You don't need a 3070 to play games!
 
I think it now a great time to play some classic games now from the 2000s and before. Those are things that even an integrated gpu should be able to run well plus the benefit of being a "completed" game during release. I am shopping around some old ps3 console games for what is left.

Computers is more than gaming though I wonder how the WCG and folding at home people doing now with hardware being taken away from chip shortage and cryptocurrency. I thought I was set until the news of HDD shortage there goes my data hoarding hobby. My hdd supply could last me half a year at my current fill rates unless I just abandone this hobby.
 
Now that memory prices have started to jump up again ive decided to just kick my feet up and wait it out. My rig does everything i need it to. My upgraditis is under control now that ive grown bored with chasing 5900x/6800xt/3080 msrp for the last what? 4 or 5 months? Ive stopped keeping track. I may pick up another 9900k to put my extra z390, 2x8gb b-die and ssd to use but other than ill just play with my watercooling. Its summer here after all so plenty to do outside finally!
 
I renewed a few things in 2019 and 2020 but didn't spend much because most of the hardware was either at MSRP or on sale.

Since I got my B550 mobo a few weeks ago and have my 2070 Super the rest is pretty much meh. I have a stack of hardware that will see me right for years to come. Even that old EVGA 980Ti FTW sitting here has people foaming at the mouth because they can't get the latest GPU's. It's a mad world.
 
I wonder if this just 3rd party seller just taking advantage for big size hdd.....What is certain drives above 8TB is rather low in stock in places or adjusted to a higher price than it was a few months back. or even last month.




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Hemmingstamp said:
I renewed a few things in 2019 and 2020 but didn't spend much because most of the hardware was either at MSRP or on sale.

Since I got my B550 mobo a few weeks ago and have my 2070 Super the rest is pretty much meh. I have a stack of hardware that will see me right for years to come. Even that old EVGA 980Ti FTW sitting here has people foaming at the mouth because they can't get the latest GPU's. It's a mad world.
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Don't sell your 980ti short. It performs like a 1660, which isn't exactly "latest" yet still goes for over 500 bucks. Mad world, indeed.
 
MIRTAZAPINE said:
I wonder if this just 3rd party seller just taking advantage for big size hdd.....What is certain drives above 8TB is rather low in stock in places or adjusted to a higher price than it was a few months back. or even last month.




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It's usually $400 for those drives, now you can't get them.
Those ads are for stock that's unavailable. Instead of removing the ad and having to do it all over again they just hike the price and park it in case stock come in.
But I guess you knew that already.
 
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Man, I'm happy I got my 10 TB IronWolf when I did lol
 
80-watt Hamster said:
Don't sell your 980ti short. It performs like a 1660, which isn't exactly "latest" yet still goes for over 500 bucks. Mad world, indeed.
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I won't. I saw them vanish on eBay at nice prices but I can't stomach the Bays fees. I had a 1660 but sold it after only a months use to a guy on the Bay.
Not the best GPU but it chugged along and did what I needed it to do (Low end gaming)

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Man, I'm happy I got my 10 TB IronWolf when I did lol
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I use WD enterprise drives for backup. Never had one go belly up to date.
 
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I bought PS5 instead lol. Need a raffle to get it at MSRP but it's not super hard and where I live there are several such pre-orders each month.

Not gonna upgrade my PC when even mid range GPU is more expensive than marked up PS5. It's that stupid.

If my GPU died I think I will use the cheapest available option (why mainstream Ryzen doesn't have integrated GPU like sandybridge era?). It's not like there's killer game nowadays.
 
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