I've been looking at upgrading my PC from a secondhand 2060 I got in early 2021 for cheap. Right now, Newegg has a sale event this week where all sorts of things can be purchased at 10% off, including new GPUs. I already kinda regret not looking into this when they were being bundled with Wukong.
Right now, they're still being bundled with Star Wars: Outlaws. Been over a month now. I have no idea when they'll next bundle their cards with a game I actually want. And Outlaws is a game I really don't want.
What would you guys think in this situation?
AMD is supposed to release mid-range GPUs in January 2025.
After-Christmas sales migh be worth waiting.
I was looking to build a budget PC with a Ryzen 7600, but Amazon reviews for affordable B650 WiFi boards are full of horror stories rated 1 Star for all of them and I just don't want to have to bother with returning part, surprise shipping fees for exchanges, or arguing with warranty services.
Starwars Outlaws would require them paying me to accept their bundle whatever.
but there are times when there is a sweet spot for buying. The 10XX series cards stand out for their time or the cards 4 years before that.
The 1080 might be the best GPU I have ever owned. Fucker is almost a decade old at this point.
This is why you just buy stuff from one to two years back and be satisfied with teh upgrade because it still absolutely crushes the performance of your six year old card.
Fair enough. For many things in life.
Caught myself last week thinking ''I could have gotten this laptop with 16GB RAM instead of 8GB, with an equivalent processor and more storage if I had waited''.
Yeah, waited 18 months. I really like my laptop for the price I paied.
Same for a GPU if the price was good for the performance when bought.
Integrated graphics let me play stuff up to Deep Rock Galactic. FPS on the threshold of playable, but I never had a single problem with that laptop. ( Ideapad 3, Ryzen 5 5625U 8GB RAM ).
Crashed a grand total of 0 time. It's quiet when not running a game, and tolerable while it does that.
Previous bad experiences after buying a prebuilt PC ( a jet engine at idle ), then an ASUS laptop of shit quality with multiple problems. ASUS's bad reputation was acquired fairly.
''WTF is «quality control»?'' ~ ASUS
Was literally just on the receiving end of this when I attempted to upgrade my motherboard in September; opted for a partial refund because I didn't have the patience to do an RMA. Just got another board and called it a day.
Must have been very frustrating.
What board and components did you end up using, and how did it go?
From the reviews, sounds like with whatever brand and model, you'll be playing Russian Roulette. I'm too tired to stress with that.
The Ryzen 7600 X worked perfectly fine out of the box. The Gigabyte motherboard did not. Ended up going with an ASRock.
That thing runs sooooo good. Though, my previous ASRock and Intel i7 7700k combo was perfectly fine and worked (and continues to work) perfectly fine. However, the motherboard had a 32GB RAM cap, and in order to get a board that supported 64GB of RAM I needed a whole new mobo + CPU combination. Hence the silliness of wasting time and money on the DOA board. Though I may end messing around with it later to see if I can get it work if I ever feel like building out a spare system.