As if a deadly pandemic, rising sea levels, AND a botched Cyberpunk 2077 launch are not enough, today’s gaming-PC buyers are faced with an additional unpleasant situation: Product unavailability! When will it end?!
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AMD has released a new flagship graphics card, and it is good.
For more on the RX 6900 XT, and details concerning other GPU changes in our chart, read on.
If you missed this launch, it is perfectly understandable; the big stars from nVidia (xx80/xx90 cards) get the royal media treatment. But their mid-tier cards (xx60/xx50 cards) that launch with less fanfare are the ones that get the most sales.
Now, let us take a look at this new $400 card from nVidia.
Newegg’s 2020 Cyber Monday sales! These are Logical Increments’ picks for the best Cyber Monday 2020 deals from Newegg.
Our hunger for savings is not yet sated! As the wild fervor of Black Friday week (and ‘Black Friday weekend’) subsides, we set our sights on a new space for conquest: Cyber Monday! This list is a curated selection of the very best PC hardware deals Newegg is offering for Cyber Monday.
We’ve manually searched through the literal thousands of items discounted by Newegg to find these deals; they’re featured here because we think they’re worthwhile discounts on worthwhile parts. Now, go ahead and have a scroll through the PC components below… after all, Cyber Monday comes just once a year!
Please note: Some of the best deals are dependent on rebates. Such rebates are reliable, but only if you follow the instructions exactly and submit everything on time, so better be careful!
Extra note: We have found some sweet deals on heatsinks and RAM. Be sure to check for compatibility before you buy these!
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Newegg’s 2020 Black Friday ULTIMATE SALE deals! These are Logical Increments’ picks for the best Black Friday 2020 deals from Newegg. If you missed out on the ‘Black Friday week’ sales that were available the past few days, worry not: The deals listed on this page include Newegg’s biggest sales of the year, available in honor of the actual day of Black Friday. 2020 has been a very turbulent year, and many people are working from home these days. For those of us wanting to upgrade our PCs (or buy completely new ones), Black Friday and Cyber Monday represent the best times to get the best deals on PC hardware. And so, despite the turbulence, what does 2020 bring? Let’s take a look! Please note: Some of the best deals are dependent on rebates. Such rebates are reliable, but only if you follow the instructions exactly and submit everything on time, so better be careful! Extra note: We have found some very sweet deals on heatsinks, RAM, and motherboards. But be sure to check for compatibility before you buy these!
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Newegg’s 2020 Black Friday Week sales! These are Logical Increments’ picks for the best Black Friday Week 2020 deals from Newegg.
The year 2020 has been very turbulent, and many people are working from home these days. For those of us wanting to upgrade our PCs (or buy completely new ones), Black Friday and Cyber Monday represent the best times to get the best deals on PC hardware. What does 2020 bring? Let’s take a look!
Please note: Some of the best deals are dependent on rebates. Such rebates are reliable, but only if you follow the instructions exactly and submit everything on time, so better be careful!
Prices for various PC parts often have a huge range, depending on items quality, performance, and availability. Some CPUs are $100, some are $1000, and some cannot be bought for love or money. Some other items have a much smaller range of prices, and this can be seen when we look at PC memory and storage (including RAM and hard drives). Memory and storage are offered by a large number of sellers, and thus the options are competitively priced. Most options that are similar in speed and capacity tend to be close to each other in price, making it easy to track and compare.
With time, long-term and short-term computer memory always sees a downward trend in price, with the only exception being when a factory is burned or flooded or something. Once certain items (or capacities) can be reliably found for a particular price, we overhaul our memory recommendations to recommend better/larger components, for the same price.
Along those lines, let us take a look at some recently changed recommendations:
AMD makes both CPUs and GPUs. We have followed AMD’s CPU journey, from competitive, to underdog, and back to competitive. Now, with the launch of the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT, it looks like AMD wants to get back to being competitive with GPUs as well.
AMD and Intel have been the desktop CPU duopoly for as long as we can remember, with the mantle of “best CPU manufacturer” having been worn by both. From about 2005 to 2017, Intel was king. AMD’s Ryzen series began stealing the multi-threaded marketshare with the launch of a large number of high-core-count CPUs at a moderate price. These CPUs did not make AMD the “best CPU manufacturer” though, since single-threaded performance was still behind.
Numerically, 2017 was 3 years ago, but the numbers do not match the emotion: 2017 feels like it was in the Dark Ages. Many centuries have passed since the year 2017, and AMD has been improving. With each revision to the Ryzen family, AMD’s multi-threaded superiority was extended, and Intel’s single-threaded lead was diminished.
With Intel stubbornly refusing to abandon the 14nm process that has been (reportedly) in use since the times of Genghis Khan, this day had to come. Intel’s single-threaded dominance is over, for no king can rule forever.
Over the years, nVidia has gotten better and better at GPU launches. Each new card performs well, runs cool and quiet, and is better than what it replaces… and no exceptions to this come readily to mind.
nVidia’s sole (and rare) issue with modern launches is the pricing, which can sometimes feel like highway robbery: $1800 for a graphics card? Want my firstborn with that, too, nVidia? Or just an arm and a leg?
This year, though, it is a bit different.