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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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lakers714 said:
On a used product? Did it have a warranty?
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No, I sent them pictures of the case, pics of the original box barcodes, and an invoice from the Ebay purchase when they asked for documentation. They responded and extended me a one-time courtesy RMA replacement. That's some pretty good (non-)customer service.

My case came out to only $76 total so that's great. I've always loved Corsair products, well the affordable ones at least. I won't do anything like the crazy $180 keyboards but for reasonable stuff they have a customer for life in me. The H100i Pro liquid cooler is next on the wishlist.

 
Syntax Error said:
Nvidia just unveiled its 24GB RTX Titan for a mere $2,500

Bet you guys who bought 1060s and 580s feel stupid now.
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Given how Ray-Tracing currently performs on 20xx cards and how many light sources & reflections it's trying to work with here on games like BF5 - until they optimize things like crazy, to hit 60fps or more, probably gonna need every bit of VRAM they can come up with right now to hit and/or surpass that.

See this demo of BF5 on 20xx cards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJznsmQtwVI

 
Syntax Error said:
Nvidia just unveiled its 24GB RTX Titan for a mere $2,500

Bet you guys who bought 1060s and 580s feel stupid now.
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Not at all.

At 1080p in most games with my G-Sync monitor(s), my "4GB" 970 on my desktop is holding up well; and so is my 6gb 1060 on my laptop. I can easily get 60fps to around 120fps in most games on my laptop; and my desktop is doing anywhere from 60fps to 150fps in many titles...except GR: Wildlands.

GR: Wildlands is a tough one. It does decently on my laptop w/ the 6GB 1060 card; I can do around 50-75 fps regularly on that. On my desktop, forget it - it don't really do so great, so I often cap at 40fps for that one; it just is a tough game to run solidly on my 970.

 
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MysterD said:
Given how Ray-Tracing currently performs on 20xx cards and how many light sources & reflections it's trying to work with here on games like BF5 - until they optimize things like crazy, to hit 60fps or more, probably gonna need every bit of VRAM they can come up with right now to hit and/or surpass that.

See this demo of BF5 on 20xx cards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJznsmQtwVI
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Sasquatch shops at the same MicroCenter as White50Cent.

 
I can now TOTALLY see why an RTX card is worth cutting your fps by 2/3 and costs so fuck ing much: jaggy reflections of buildings in windows. Thanks grey dude on youtube!

 
RTX certainly looks amazing and all - but right now, it really so ain't worth both the ridiculous price-tag and insane performance hits. Call me in a few years, when the tech's optimized as can be and when it's actually affordable.

 
MysterD said:
Not at all.

At 1080p in most games with my G-Sync monitor(s), my "4GB" 970 on my desktop is holding up well; and so is my 6gb 1060 on my laptop. I can easily get 60fps to around 120fps in most games on my laptop; and my desktop is doing anywhere from 60fps to 150fps in many titles...except GR: Wildlands.

GR: Wildlands is a tough one. It does decently on my laptop w/ the 6GB 1060 card; I can do around 50-75 fps regularly on that. On my desktop, forget it - it don't really do so great, so I often cap at 40fps for that one; it just is a tough game to run solidly on my 970.
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Until they reveal the recommended specs for whatever it'll take to run Cyberpunk 2077 maxed and in 4K with ALL the frames, my poor little puny 1080 will have to do.

The first step to my CP2077 setup was when I upgraded my mobo/RAM/CPU over Black Friday weekend. Didn't know until I got home that a copy of CoD BO4 came with my i7 and I'm glad it was free because after a couple hours of all of the obnoxious jump-proning and recycled maps from old CoD games, I can't see myself actually spending money for the experience. Blackout is just like all the other Battle Royale games out there: lots of looking for weapons/ammo/armor, running from the decreasing circle on the map and then getting quick-scope killed by some asshole I didn't even see.

 
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Well, finished my new PC build. I even decided to be EXTRA fancy and not house the internals into a greasy pizza box. But sadly, despite salvaging everything but the motherboard and cpu, even cloning my old C drive onto a nvme drive, I just can't get it to activate. Signed in with my microsoft account with a digital license. Even tried to troubleshoot and told it I changed hardware recently.  That site that sells keys for $10-15 hasn't had stock in a while it seems so I guess I'm playing the waiting game with the watermark until they get more stock in. No way in hell I'm paying $200 for a stupid key.

 
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Well, finished my new PC build. I even decided to be EXTRA fancy and not house the internals into a greasy pizza box. But sadly, despite salvaging everything but the motherboard and cpu, even cloning my old C drive onto a nvme drive, I just can't get it to activate. Signed in with my microsoft account with a digital license. Even tried to troubleshoot and told it I changed hardware recently. That site that sells keys for $10-15 hasn't had stock in a while it seems so I guess I'm playing the waiting game with the watermark until they get more stock in. No way in hell I'm paying $200 for a stupid key.
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Have you tried calling them?
 
EPIC GAMES ANNOUNCES EPIC GAME STORE

https://gematsu.com/2018/12/epic-games-announces-epic-games-store

Essentially Epic Games is going to be launching their own game store next year, and they're only going to be taking a 12% fee (as well as waive their 5% Unreal Engine fee for games that use it).  Compared to Steam's 30% fee I can see some AAA companies making their Unreal Engine games exclusive/timed-exclusive to the Unreal Store if it gets them that much extra profit.  Same goes with indie developers who will pay less fees and get more exposure on the Unreal Store.

Hopefully Steam has an answer to this.  I know they recently announced lowering their fee, but it really only applies to AAA companies who make tens of millions of dollars per game and even then I believe it only cut it down to 20-25% or so, which doesn't help indie or AA game companies.

 
INMATEofARKHAM said:
Unless that discount gets comes my way I don't care... If it's a handful of precentage points I won't care either.
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Their graph shows end user price staying same.

Even if they didn't enforce this, publishers surely would keep it.

If they allow keys, it also means reseller sites can't afford to offer discounts. 12% is really low.

It's so low, that If Steam dropped to 12% they would be sued by everyone for anti-competitive practice.

 
If Valve, possibly the most stubborn company in gaming, made a move to preemptively appease AAA publishers and dissuade them from releasing titles on their own or other non-Steam platforms, then Valve must be at least a little bit concerned about a slowly developing migration from their platform.

Steam obviously isn't going anywhere but it's been shown that the "no Steam, no buy" attitude of yesteryear doesn't apply anymore. People will follow the games they want to play to whatever platforms. So, maybe it's good for Valve to have a fire lit under their butts. What they really need to do is roll out the big Steam client update. That is long overdue.

 
I started playing Darkest Dungeon last night and it is really good.  It's totally my type of game; wish I had started it sooner.  I love the foreboding atmosphere and grim overtone, the voice overs, and the micromanagement so far.  The battle system is excellent.  Everything should scale quite easily.  There are so many character classes, each hero only comes with 4 of the 7 class abilities unlocked, and those abilities are randomized.  So it's fun to run the dungeons and see which classes are good, which ones synergize well together.   The game punishes you but it's not unfair.   The first several hours are excellent so far.   If Darkest Dungeon has been on your radar, and it's a wishlist game that you think you'd like, you will probably enjoy it.   

 
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BMXJouster said:
EPIC GAMES ANNOUNCES EPIC GAME STORE

https://gematsu.com/2018/12/epic-games-announces-epic-games-store

Essentially Epic Games is going to be launching their own game store next year, and they're only going to be taking a 12% fee (as well as waive their 5% Unreal Engine fee for games that use it). Compared to Steam's 30% fee I can see some AAA companies making their Unreal Engine games exclusive/timed-exclusive to the Unreal Store if it gets them that much extra profit. Same goes with indie developers who will pay less fees and get more exposure on the Unreal Store.

Hopefully Steam has an answer to this. I know they recently announced lowering their fee, but it really only applies to AAA companies who make tens of millions of dollars per game and even then I believe it only cut it down to 20-25% or so, which doesn't help indie or AA game companies.
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I guess we can expect every launcher/client-service to launch a game store now.

First Battle.Net w/ Activision's games; now this w/ Epic Game Launcher expanding for their games...and now also others.

So, how long until Creative Assembly is forced by SEGA to take the Total War Launcher and make that a service for also SEGA's games?

 
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Nothing371 said:
I started playing Darkest Dungeon last night and it is really good. It's totally my type of game; wish I had started it sooner. I love the foreboding atmosphere and grim overtone, the voice overs, and the micromanagement so far. The battle system is excellent. Everything should scale quite easily. There are so many character classes, each hero only comes with 4 of the 7 class abilities unlocked, and those abilities are randomized. So it's fun to run the dungeons and see which classes are good, which ones synergize well together. The game punishes you but it's not unfair. The first several hours are excellent so far. If Darkest Dungeon has been on your radar, and it's a wishlist game that you think you'd like, you will probably enjoy it.
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You will later find out the charm wears off fast with the absurd RNG and repetitive nature of the game.

 
DD83 said:
Apt description of most rogue-like/lite/etc games.
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Lies. Dungeons of Dredmor was great (and like $5). Darkest Dungeon pulls people inn with the graphics and voiceover artist. The mechanics and gameplay become utterly forgettable after a few hours.

 
MysterD said:
I guess we can expect every launcher/client-service to launch a game store now.

First Battle.Net w/ Activision's games; now this w/ Epic Game Launcher expanding for their games...and now also others.

So, how long until Creative Assembly is forced by SEGA to take the Total War Launcher and make that a service for also SEGA's games?
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I'm looking forward to the Dagestan Technology game client.

 
Amazon has some Sennheiser stuff on sale again.  Game Zero headset and HD 598 (both closed and open back versions) are $129.95.   Game One is $119.95.  Think a few other models might have been on sale too.  *shrug*

 
weretable said:
Amazon has some Sennheiser stuff on sale again. Game Zero headset and HD 598 (both closed and open back versions) are $129.95. Game One is $119.95. Think a few other models might have been on sale too. *shrug*
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That's higher than BF pricing for the Game One, it was around $109. Not sure about the others, but I paid $110 for my HD 598 a year ago. Those are all good options though if you need a high quality headset/headphones.

 
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Yeah I don't need any more headphones so I wasn't watching pricing around BF, I just saw these today by chance and thought I'd mention it.  Not as great a deal if they were cheaper recently.  

Actually though, I see Massdrop has the 58X Jubilees again for another 14 hours or so, $149 and are comparable to 660s which rarely drop below $400 so if you want headphones and not a headset, go get these, WAY better deal.  

Edit:  Open headphones, they do not leak, they pour.  The sound coming out of them is a delight to your ears but if you are watching Himalayan goat porn, people on the other side of the room from you will hear every little goat moan which might not delight their ears.  

 
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I'm in need of a new power supply and kicking myself for not jumping on the EVGA 1300 deal from Black Friday at B&H.  I'm in the market for a 1200w or higher gold or better PS.  If you folks see a PS good deal, could you post it or msg me?

The long story:  I upgraded most of my PC last month and it's definitely drawing more power.  I currently have a Seasonic 850 gold PS, but it is many years old.  I'm getting random lockups in multiple games and since everything else seems to check out as OK, I believe it has to be either the power supply unable to deal with voltage spikes, or the vid card, which I got used.  I'm really hoping it's the PS, because the vid card is way more expensive and the wife will freak if I want to replace it again.  850 should have been enough to handle the power draw, but since it's more than 5 years old, I'm thinking it's simple not able to pull the full 850w any more.  I can use it in another PC I'm building with the old parts, so nothing lost.  So I am going with 1200-1300 to be on the safe side.  Plus, I understand the PS should be most efficient at about 50% load, so the overkill should work out to my benefit.

Thanks!

 
For everyone that just bought a new GPU:

https://wccftech.com/amd-rx-3080-3070-3060-navi-gpu-specs-prices-leaked-rtx-2070-gtx-1070-gtx-1060-challengers-at-249-199-129/

It's just a leak at this point so who knows how accurate the prices are, but if so, wow.

tl;dr

AMD Radeon RX 3080 – 7nm Navi 10 GPU, 8GB GDDR6 & RTX 2070 Class Performance at $249

AMD Radeon RX 3070 – 7nm Navi 12 GPU, 8GB GDDR6 & GTX 1070 Class Performance at $199

AMD Radeon RX 3060 – 7nm Navi 12 GPU, 4GB GDDR6 & GTX 1060 Class Performance at $129

 
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DrR0Ck said:
I'm in need of a new power supply and kicking myself for not jumping on the EVGA 1300 deal from Black Friday at B&H. I'm in the market for a 1200w or higher gold or better PS. If you folks see a PS good deal, could you post it or msg me?
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Are you overclocking? Do you use any programs to monitor temps? Can you run Prime 95 for any amount of time? When you say lockup do you mean you have to hard reboot your system or can you ctrl alt del out of it?

 
DrR0Ck said:
I'm in need of a new power supply and kicking myself for not jumping on the EVGA 1300 deal from Black Friday at B&H. I'm in the market for a 1200w or higher gold or better PS. If you folks see a PS good deal, could you post it or msg me?

The long story: I upgraded most of my PC last month and it's definitely drawing more power. I currently have a Seasonic 850 gold PS, but it is many years old. I'm getting random lockups in multiple games and since everything else seems to check out as OK, I believe it has to be either the power supply unable to deal with voltage spikes, or the vid card, which I got used. I'm really hoping it's the PS, because the vid card is way more expensive and the wife will freak if I want to replace it again. 850 should have been enough to handle the power draw, but since it's more than 5 years old, I'm thinking it's simple not able to pull the full 850w any more. I can use it in another PC I'm building with the old parts, so nothing lost. So I am going with 1200-1300 to be on the safe side. Plus, I understand the PS should be most efficient at about 50% load, so the overkill should work out to my benefit.

Thanks!
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What are your components? I really doubt that you need that big of a PSU. I forget what I'm running, but I don't think it's even a 850 and I have a power hungry 580, ryzen, like 8 HDDs, 10 rgb fans, rgb everywhere, etc.

ToddManG said:
For everyone that just bought a new GPU:

https://wccftech.com/amd-rx-3080-3070-3060-navi-gpu-specs-prices-leaked-rtx-2070-gtx-1070-gtx-1060-challengers-at-249-199-129/

It's just a leak at this point so who knows how accurate the prices are, but if so, wow.

tl;dr

AMD Radeon RX 3080 – 7nm Navi 10 GPU, 8GB GDDR6 & RTX 2070 Class Performance at $249

AMD Radeon RX 3070 – 7nm Navi 12 GPU, 8GB GDDR6 & GTX 1070 Class Performance at $199

AMD Radeon RX 3060 – 7nm Navi 12 GPU, 4GB GDDR6 & GTX 1060 Class Performance at $129
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I love AMD and if this is true then great, but I'm honestly having a hard time believing both the performance numbers and pricing. Vega 64 was barely competing with the 1080 so them competing with the 2070 just doesn't seem plausible. But who knows, maybe the 7nm architecture is just that much better. That pricing would be stupid too because they would be leaving money on the table. They could raise each of those $50-75 and still be beating Nvidia by a fair amount.

 
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Are you overclocking? Do you use any programs to monitor temps? Can you run Prime 95 for any amount of time? When you say lockup do you mean you have to hard reboot your system or can you ctrl alt del out of it?
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I'm not overclocking yet. But once I get things stabilized, I will likely kick the CPU up a bit.

I'm running an 8086k CPU and a Vega 64 GPU (liquid cooled) - This is the big power draw - at stock, it's pulling more than 350 watts and I think it's occasionally spiking. I'm trying to undervolt, but the lockups are confusing my ability to determine a stable voltage. In addition, I have three mechanical hard drives, an M.2, and two SATA SSD's.

I haven't tried to run Prime 95 since for the moment I'm running the CPU at stock. I have run some memtest runs on the memory and it seems fine. Chances of a CPU issue are really slim.

What happens is the screen will freeze up while gaming while I still hear sound for a bit. Then I will get a black screen with some graphic artifacts and then the system reboots- I have seen this same issue in multiple games and occasionally in benchmarking tools like Heaven or 3DMark. I have no issues outside of games or graphic benchmarks. I think it's power spikes because it seems kind of random.

So yeah, 850 should be enough, but if I'm getting power spikes and these are causing lockups, I want to throw more power at it. Again, since my power supply is older, it's probably not still capable of supplying the full 850, but I don't know how to tell what it is actually supplying - I don't have a way to measure draw at the wall.

And while 1200 may be more than I need, it will rule out power spikes as the culprit, and $80 for a 1300 watt gold PS was such a good deal, if I can get close to that, then why not?

EDIT - Tried to address Fox's questions as well.

 
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I'm not overclocking yet. But once I get things stabilized, I will likely kick the CPU up a bit.

I'm running an 8086k CPU and a Vega 64 GPU (liquid cooled) - This is the big power draw - at stock, it's pulling more than 350 watts and I think it's occasionally spiking. I'm trying to undervolt, but the lockups are confusing my ability to determine a stable voltage. In addition, I have three mechanical hard drives, an M.2, and two SATA SSD's.

I haven't tried to run Prime 95 since for the moment I'm running the CPU at stock. I have run some memtest runs on the memory and it seems fine. Chances of a CPU issue are really slim.

What happens is the screen will freeze up while gaming while I still hear sound for a bit. Then I will get a black screen with some graphic artifacts and then the system reboots- I have seen this same issue in multiple games and occasionally in benchmarking tools like Heaven or 3DMark. I have no issues outside of games or graphic benchmarks. I think it's power spikes because it seems kind of random.

So yeah, 850 should be enough, but if I'm getting power spikes and these are causing lockups, I want to throw more power at it. Again, since my power supply is older, it's probably not still capable of supplying the full 850, but I don't know how to tell what it is actually supplying - I don't have a way to measure draw at the wall.

And while 1200 may be more than I need, it will rule out power spikes as the culprit, and $80 for a 1300 watt gold PS was such a good deal, if I can get close to that, then why not?

EDIT - Tried to address Fox's questions as well.
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I agree entirely that never cheap out on a good PSW and even if after troubleshooting it isn't the problem I would still recommend it with the age of the previous one. That being said, I don't recall if you noted whether or not this is a new build (believe it is) but as Fox and Gospel mentioned does strike me as odd if your system really is drawing that much.

I think if it were me the first things I would do is

1. Ensure your temps are never spiking over recommended ranges and

2. (my gut instinct w/o knowing anything else) remove all but 1 of your memory dimms and test then remove that one and put another in test, so on so forth until all have been checked. Also check same stick in multiple dimm slots, to verify no error there as well.

From what you've said the only thing that is really giving me goosebumps is that you mention having graphical artifacts. That tends to be a video card memory issue. You don't happen to have a secondary card or onboard video that you can check do you?

Finally, check this site out https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator as it should give you an idea if your system is drawing as much as you believe it is. It won't rule out age of your current PSU but there are tests you can run under load to see if your voltage is dipping too much.

 
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