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[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For me, I haven't bought a new graphics card in a long time. I have a RX 580 that I bought used for $200 CAD. My next upgrade will be my motherboard since I'm still using a 1150 socket and I'm stuck using DDR3 RAM and an outdated CPU (Intel i5-4460).

I can still play newish games at low settings and that's fine for me right now. I'm not buying a GPU at current retail price, fuck that. It's crazy that the best time to build a PC was 2015.

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Same, I rocked a second hand GTx 680 from 2012-2013, which I upgraded to a second hand RTX 3060 12GB for a fantastic price, in 2024. Still rocking a DDR3 platform with the intel i7 4400K. And that's more than enough for most games with nice graphics on 1680x1050 :) (display probably 15 years old too). Eventually, I will be looking for some other second hand components to upgrade the rest of the system, but it does everything more than well enough.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

$200 CAD is about double the price of a used 580

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Well, it is now. They're running an i5-4460, though, so they probably didn't buy the 580 recently.

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 1 day ago

...Looking at my specs, do you really believe that I paid it recently? This was many years ago.