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paulca:

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--- Quote from: Berni on April 14, 2022, 10:36:35 am ---It is hard to avoid RGB lightning on PC parts these days.

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Really ? i must be looking in the wrong places. then. Supermicro motherboards , Smart Modular Tech and Micron technologies RAM , Samsung SSD's. no RGB in sight.

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I'm sorry but if you are buying your hardware purely because it DOESNT have RGB, you need to have a sit down and a talk with yourself, as that's just as bad as buying hardware BECAUSE it has RGB.

You can turn RGB off or just not connected it but you'll need to spend money to make a bad board good.

EDIT:
I looked at SuperMicro's gaming motherboards.  No RGB, but seriously underspeced as well and ... not cheap at ~£500.  It has half the capability in everything buy Mv.2 drives and 10Gbe.  4 fan headers supporting only 1 fan each.  No variable fan speed for DC fans.  Only 2 V3Gen2 ports, one 1 internal USB 3 header.  4 SATA ports, not 8.  and so on and so on.

Oh and they are in bed with Intel.  They don't list a single AMD board.  They also bullshit you that the MV.2 slots have to use Intel MV.2 drives.
themadhippy:

--- Quote ---My current GTX 1070 cost me 180€ about 3 years ago, i even downclock it since its plenty fast.
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But thats one component,my 6 year old machine id need at least a new motherboard and cpu if i wanted to play the latest releases at  the speed the console can ,and now microsoft own activision how long before win 11 becomes a requirement

--- Quote ---PC games can be had on sales for 10 bucks a piece,
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yea theirs cheap pc stuff available ,but here at least,its much easier to find second hand versions of the recent releases for consoles than it is for pc

--- Quote ---Steam
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no thanks ,i want the   physical media wherever possible
DavidAlfa:
The RGB CRAP has f*** computing.
Brands know that adding "RGB" to the box will sell a lot better than anythign else, they priorize that.
Thanks, Youtube/Twitch kids.
I wanted a simple CMOS reset switch and a led display for diagnosis, not even f** that under $400!

Before, you could get a decent mobo, good VRM, decent cooling, plenty of I/O expansions, dual bios, useful switches, diagnostic leds, and it wasn't crazy expensive, perhabs $150-$200.

An Asus MAXIMUS V EXTREME was the most crazy expensive shit for $400.
Not caused by the inflation at all, but to the semiconductor crysis and these stupid hyped kids buying anythything at any means, now for $200 you barely get an empty box.
Brands now know they can sell whatever at any price, as long the streaming crap keeps working.
paulca:
True, but things are changing. 

Nvidia are, for example, shipping LHR cards since last year or so.  (Low Hash Rate, not great for mining until they are hacked).  But also filling out the low end, like 3060, 3050.  These don't disappear to miners and so have lesser value.  So stocks have risen, supply is starting to meet demand.  Prices are holding RRP + 20% right now, but falling.

Also, deliberately devaluing scalped cards stockpiled by releasing at least 1 revision to the reference spec.  to improve stability.  So Rev 1 cards are devalued as soon as supply kicks back in, best hope scalpers don't have stock when that crashes. 

I didn't want to wait as I had promised a few weeks before the virus crap hit that I'd give my then current PC (2700X:1070Ti:16Gb) to my brother, also a gamer, who is disabled and has not been able to afford to upgrade his PC since 2016!  Next time I looked, stock = 0, prices = 250%.  I waited and waited and waited and while I still went in at 20% over MSRP for most things ... waiting till January sales 2023 would probably see MSRP and MSRP-20% on many things.

What did 1070Ti to 3080 get me?

The games that were "fine" with the 1070Ti with VSync on at 60Hz are still fine, it's just the video card doesn't make as much heat so the fans stay low or off entirely.

The games that were struggling, like DCS World were like night and day.  Going from barely 60fps  lagging down to 25-30fps frequently... was suddenly a solid 80 FPS dropping to 60fps on occasion.  That is AFTER going from "VR - LOW" to normal "HIGH" detail spec.  Smoother and far more detailed, far further into the distance.

Now it's time to upgrade the VR headset from a 2x1080p to something like the Reverb G2 at 2x2200p (ish?).
DavidAlfa:
Well, that 1070 was pretty old if you're a frequent gamer.
I had a GTX970 which I had bought in 2014-2015, used, for 220€, was a great performer.
At the start of 2021 I was recovering from a really hard sugery, barely could walk, on top of that the lockdown came in, so everyone was bored at home.
Me and my small brother started gaming again, found a KFA2 RTX2060 offer for 299€ and couldn't resist, buying two.
Then I auctioned my GTX970 on eBay, bid starting from 1€... someone paid 140€ for it. After 6 years. Crazy.

The boost clocks were not great, so I moded the shunt resistors and flashed a Asus Strix BIOS.
The damn thing never sees the power limit (50-60% at max load), made a proper fan profile in Afterburner, the boost clocks are 2010MHz 24/7.
 
So yeah, no RGB, no fancy, no shiny crap,  but a RTX2060 for 160€  :-DD
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