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I know gfx cards are egregious now but why dont folks just get pre mades? I was thinking of finally getting a desktop since my laptop has. 2070 and it shows with newer shyt. Saw a lot of pre builts on amazon with 3xxx for 1500-2000. Whats the issue with these?
Im against prebuilt myself but it looks like Sky Gaming n Corsair dont slack on their PSUs n MOBOs. Worth a look.:ld:
 

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I know gfx cards are egregious now but why dont folks just get pre mades? I was thinking of finally getting a desktop since my laptop has. 2070 and it shows with newer shyt. Saw a lot of pre builts on amazon with 3xxx for 1500-2000. Whats the issue with these?

Most people typically just wan the gpu. Although you could take it apart and sell each part individually. Friend of mine did this with a system he bought only cause it came with a 3080. Sold everything else for around 800 dollars.
 

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Got my wife an HP Omen from bestbuy with a 3080 in it. She’s gonna be helping me out from time to time. Probably start her out with some photo editing and then some light video editing later down the line with me still doing the bulk of the heavy lifting until she gets the experience to rock on her own.
 
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Most people typically just wan the gpu. Although you could take it apart and sell each part individually. Friend of mine did this with a system he bought only cause it came with a 3080. Sold everything else for around 800 dollars.

The 40 series is coming out in september the 30 series prices will go down and the crypto mining craze is over

The release date and prices with specs leaked, and they blow away the 30 series, the 4060 will equal the 3070ti at 429 msrp but it has no release date

these cards will release sept 22

The 4080 will have 40 percent performance increase of the 3090 at 899 MSRP

The 4080ti will have 60 percent performance increase over the 3090 at 1300 msrp

and the 4090 will be a beast of a GPU with an 80 percent performance increase over the 3090 at the msrp between 1800-2k
 

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The 40 series is coming out in september the 30 series prices will go down
everyone always expects that, but it never really happens. there's generally no reason to buy a (new) last gen card when the new cards drop. and with the way things are now, there probably won't be any 3000 series cards left when the 4000 series releases
 
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everyone always expects that, but it never really happens. there's generally no reason to buy a (new) last gen card when the new cards drop. and with the way things are now, there probably won't be any 3000 series cards left when the 4000 series releases

All 30 series cards on online retailer stores right now just marked up prices, best buy is only place you can buy the cards at msrp and they are sold out, but I have plenty of AMD cards

the retailers will be forced to lower their prices before the 40 series comes out, all those cards will be sold before the launch
 

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All 30 series cards on online retailer stores right now just marked up prices, best buy is only place you can buy the cards at msrp and they are sold out, but I have plenty of AMD cards

the retailers will be forced to lower their prices before the 40 series comes out, all those cards will be sold before the launch
why would they be forced to lower their prices, when they gonna sell out for whatever they charging? it ain't like retailers are sitting on cards now
 

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Who gotta upgrade their psu?
 
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why would they be forced to lower their prices, when they gonna sell out for whatever they charging? it ain't like retailers are sitting on cards now

They not selling out now, the third party retailers have the GPUs in stock they just have them at marked up prices

Best Buy has every AMD GPU as the msrp, unless you got the reference cards you were paying mark up anyway

So nobody's buying these cards the people who already wanted them already brought them, the launch is still far away and the 3090ti is about to be released next month or something, prices already have went down a hundred dollars, so by summer time they should be few hundred more
 

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Just bought a lian li 011 air mini case, corsair rmx 850w psu, and some 16gb ddr4 ram. My 17 year old niece who I built a pc for last year is taking her computer with her to college after summer. Her younger sister, my 15 year old niece wants a computer too so im making one for her 16th birthday in june.

Gonna go with an i5 12600k, z690 ddr4 mobo. Gpu gonna be hard. Not getting anything high end. Prolly a 6600xt or rtx 3060.
 
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