That is a lot of new cards launched recently! The RTX 5050, the RTX 5060, two versions of the RTX 5060 Ti, and two versions of the RX 9060 XT! Instead of checking each one out separately, let us take a look at them all in one fell swoop, with an eye toward deciding where/if […]
Back in January 2020, I crafted a neat little piece discussing the Logical Increments tier needed to enjoy each of the top games on Steam at the time. Fast forward to now, and oh, how the scene has shifted! Back around that period, we were seeing trade tariffs causing a good bump in prices for […]
In a world where visuals speak louder than words, video editing and animation have emerged as potent tools to tell compelling stories. For professionals venturing into the realms of cinematic or animated storytelling, the centrepiece of their tech arsenal is undeniably the graphics card. The graphical prowess doesn’t just define the quality of visuals but […]
Today we’re taking a look at used vs. new GPU prices, and whether buying a used graphics card is worth your while.
Greetings. This article was painful to write. Every section hurt, and every section gets progressively more painful. But the truth can hurt, so read on. The consumer PC world is headed down a bad path: There is a major focus by PC part manufacturers to produce extremely expensive and overpowered products, with the mid-tiers and […]
This is a double update: one CPU, one GPU. Let us begin with the section that contains (on balance) good news for PC builders!
At last! All modern GPUs are available for purchase, new, for MSRP. No more crying as you pay 2x or 3x the recommended price for a card. No more heartbreak as you buy a used card that has been sitting in a crypto farm for 2 years. No more sad checking on crypto prices, hoping […]
Did you feel that? Was it an earthquake? An avalanche? No, nVidia just decided to throw all caution to the wind and create the world’s most powerful consumer GPU, and that GPU is stomping! The new RTX 3090 Ti is an absolute monster that smashes all the metrics and establishes itself as the new king […]
How have you been? Better, I hope. Things have not been well for the last 1.5 years, due to… the circumstances being what they are. But at long last, we can see a ray of hope!
Let’s be fair: it would be more than a little presumptuous if we expected or even demanded improvements to the current hardware shortages. Even after a monumental vaccine rollout procedure in many countries, the pandemic is still having a huge global effect, and we as builders need to have patience. At this point, we are […]