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https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/gtx-1050-ti-relaunched

wtf

Next year I am planning to get a new card - I really hope all of this craziness dies down and I can actually get one !

Meanwhile I am praying my existing 970 does not go south on me.

A few of the tech commentators I follow have been saying that they don't expect this crazy situation to be rectified by the end of the year. It's not just PC components; silicone production is causing significant slowdown in any industry that uses it. There are cars sitting in factories almost entirely finished, but still waiting for the chips they need for the onboard computers that operate everything.

Console companies, phone companies, pc component companies, they're all waiting on production time at the extremely limited number of facilities capable of producing this stuff. There are apparently only two companies in the world that can manufacture the cutting edge chips in say nvidia's 3000 series, so I'm guessing that nvidia is falling back on their older models because they've been able to manufacture them elsewhere. The price is presumably just explained by the demand.

There's now such a backlog that I've seen comments that this is likely to be the longest product cycle for the current top-end CPUs and GPUs in ages. I feel a little better at paying the extra £50-100 I paid for my 3080 at the end of last year, because I doubt I'd get a card this year otherwise.

Superb analysis. That is what I am afraid of. This is getting nuts. I really do not want to buy from a scalper.

According to Linus we should expect normality in supply/demand sometime in 2023

I wonder what the bottleneck is in silicone production? I can't imagine it's simply the cost of setting up new factories, else mega-corps would surely have cornered the market. Is it a lack of people with the required skills? Natural resource shortages?

EDIT - The video does give a pretty good explanation. Cheers AE!

So these do exist other than on paper, but jesus that price...



They had anothe 2 3090's inside too, Gigabyte and Zotac but with almost identical pricing.

I'm surprised you made it inside. Every CEX I've ever been in are rotten with the stench of stale piss and mutant strains of B.O.

Back when I was trying to buy my 3080, 3090s were actually coming into stock and staying in stock for several hours, occasionally even days. The price to performance increase over the 3080 made them a bit undesirable at the time. Now though? I reckon people would be climbing over one another to get one at RRP.

https://gamerant.com/cryptocurrency-min ... pus-cheap/

Tables have turned!

Dang.

That said, the type of games I'm tending to play these days aren't the most graphically intensive, so I'm not crying out for one just yet anyway.

https://www.pcgamer.com/rtx-2060-revival-rumours-2021/

They make it sound like a 2060 is a bad choice but a lot of people will be upgrading from a 950 or a 970, so anything above 1080 will feel like a good upgrade.

I'd be tempted, price dependent. I was going to give my 970 another year or so because it still surprises me with what it can do. That is but for the lack of freesync which only came to nvidia on 10 series and up as far as I know. In Siege vsync really kills my FPS but the tearing is really quite bad if I dont. I can still get a solid 60fps at 1440 with vsync but what if it was 120



Unless anyone knows any hack drivers that somehow force freesync to work with cards that are only gsync?

Out of curiosity I tried out a recent Unreal engine game (Tales of Arise) on my gaming laptop with a 970 and it’s giving me a solid 60fps all the way through. Kinda wonder if the average PC gamer even needs the high end stuff just yet.
Anyway I’m happy with the 2060 in my desktop PC. It’s the little card that can just do it.