Meanwhile Motherboard prices: have doubled

DDR5: too expensive

New processors: too expensive

Industry: why wouldn't anyone buy our products? Sad smiley

No, pixels cannot access satellites. They rely on mobile communication towers.

It's a good feature that can be a lifesaver when hiking/ in remote regions, so adding that is a good addition for a p8.

Too many moving parts for a simple tool, coil, cheap plastic, not forged... Wrong sub

PC gaming will slowly become an absolute niche, most gamers will flock to smartphone or consoles (SONY and Microsoft will continue to keep the hardware prices low in order to get market shares).

That's a sad truth, and I don't see AMD or NVIDIA do a thing to stop that from happening. Both have massively increased prices (Ryzen is no longer a good budget price/performance ratio product, instead it's an ultra-expensive luxury brand).

When they increased the prices massively from Ryzen 1000 to 5000, it became quite clear how the future would look like. There are no more cheap new 150-200 buck CPUs.

You don't have to play underdog anymore, when you have sizeable market shares.

At the end of day, AMD, NVIDIA and Intel will demand whatever prices they can get away with.

ASUS
Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 - 1.809,90 Euro
Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 OC - 1.829,90 Euro
Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4080 OC - 1.969,90 Euro
Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4080 - 1.959,90 Euro

Inno3D
Inno3D GeForce RTX 4080 X3 - 1.619,90 Euro
Inno3D GeForce RTX 4080 X3 OC - 1.669,90 Euro
Inno3D GeForce RTX 4080 iChill X3 - 1.749,90 Euro
Inno3D GeForce RTX 4080 iChill Black - 1.899,90 Euro
Inno3D GeForce RTX 4080 iChill Frostbite - 1.819,90 Euro

MSI
MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming Trio - 1.699,90 Euro
MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming X Trio - 1.769,90 Euro
MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Suprim X - 1.869,90 Eur
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(personal note)

Asus seems to have gone mad, I was already wondering why they priced the 4090 TUF and Strix extremely high, especially when comparing it to the Suprim X, but it seems that they have raised prices across the board.

That will probably also mean that the 7900 XTX Strix will cost somewhere in the 1400 € or more range (most US based companies have used the weak € (compared to Dollar, as of right now) as an excuse to raise prices by 20% compared to the US MSRP). That's disappointing for interested buyers.

lmao

They will probably rebrand it to a 3070 (since it is in fact a 70 card, maybe TI) and reduce the price, since the community feedback was overwhelmingly bad.