hurfery t1_j90ruwf wrote on February 18, 2023 at 10:15 AM

Reply to comment by Gargenville in Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming by redhatGizmo

Yes, lol. The window has been moved. By a lot. The mining craze, pandemic, supply crisis, scalping, Nvidia taking maximum advantage of it all... All this has normalized paying more than 500 for a gpu. People now go up to 2000+.

NuTeacher t1_j91y5o5 wrote on February 18, 2023 at 4:50 PM

I've also noticed that the window for acceptable in-game specs has changed too. It used to be that the target was 1080p and 60 fps which even the lowest end card can do now. But now people want to be able to play at 1440p 120+fps or even at 4k 60fps. The 1060 can generally get 50-60 fps at 1080p. We've seen a huge leap in power these last three generations and card prices are reflecting that.

hurfery t1_j92e4q8 wrote on February 18, 2023 at 6:38 PM

4k 120 fps is where it's at. 😎

Well yes but tech progress isn't really progress if you pay 3x more for 3x performance. New tech is supposed to give more performance per dollar compared to the old one.

Agreeable-Meat1 t1_j91rbhk wrote on February 18, 2023 at 4:02 PM

Meanwhile I bought an MSI laptop in 2018 on Black Friday and other than the case falling apart, there have been 0 issues.