I can see some 5080s in the same picture. They can gtfo with those ridiculous prices. I got my 9070xt at close to MSRP, little more than 1/3 of local 5080 prices for 85-90% of the performance (and day one support for open source drivers…)
Man, I snagged a 7900 XTX for $900 out the door last year and I feel very clever for not waiting to see how the 50 series turned out. I cannot believe there are GPUs on sale for damn near $4k, it’s insanity.
Xtx for 900$ last year is a helluva good deal. You’re not missing out, with the added bonus you can load some hefty LLMs with that massive VRAM for consumer GPU standards, while paying a fraction of the only other worthy competitor, the 4090. Kudos
Thanks! It was my first “dream” PC build (I got a 9800 X3D in there too), so this follows a period of great anxiety about making such a huge purchase with all the techtubers saying “do not buy!” even back then. The relief I’m feeling at having made a defensible decision is honestly palpable 😅
I got a 9070XT for $600, but then ended up spending a couple hundred extra bucks anyway because the time pressure caused me to accidentally pick the wrong one that was too thick to fit in my case. It spiraled into basically a new SFF build with case, SFX PSU, ditching my 500GB M.2 + 3.5" drive for a 4TB M.2 drive, etc. 🙃
I feel your pain fellow SFF enthusiast. I did my homework this time though, and that’s why I paid a bit above MSRP but it did take a bit of attention and careful planning, including dedication to snatch a fitting model from the claws of the scalpers. All in all I paid roughly 110% MSRP for a nice custom model. Also, the Louqe Raw S1 is just an absolutely amazing sff if you don’t have special requirements for storage space.
The sad thing is, the only card that would have fit my original case (a true two-slot card) was the PowerColor “Reaper,” which was also a $599 card (and which would have actually cost me $599, as I was at Microcenter). I just overlooked it in the damn spec sheet as I was frantically trying to pick a card while standing in line with the employee handing out vouchers bearing down on me.
Don’t get me wrong, the Gigabyte “Gaming OC” I ended up with has a longer warranty and a slightly higher clock speed (and probably a better cooler, since it’s thicker), so it’s certainly not bad. It’s just that those aren’t the specs that really mattered to me in retrospect. I’m still kicking myself about the cascade of upgrades it caused, and also that it’s 2xDP/2xHDMI instead of 3xDP like the “Reaper” card, which means one of my three monitors behaves slightly differently than the other two. It’s an annoying reminder of my mistake.
I’m so glad we’re going to war with Taiwan
As they should.
