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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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TheKbob said:
I'm too cheap old fed-up with this nonsense. The gains are less, kind of to be expected, but the price keeps going up on cards.

Wish devs just made less graphically intensive games if they're going to price out their audience to just people with $700+ cards.
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I'm all three: cheap, old, and fed-up w/ this nonsense too.
Especially when it ain't optimized and esp. when on that super-demanding UE5.

I'll stick to my backlog and my 8gb RTX 3070-based desktop, for now.

EDIT - Not everybody want to jump aboard the AMD GPU or Intel Arc freight trains either.

EDIT 2 - I dunno, $400 wasn't spectacular for that GPU when I bought it (with the rest of the PC at the same time, did it all at once), but today's prices are way more ridiculous for NV's xx70 class.
 
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TheKbob said:
I'm too cheap old fed-up with this nonsense. The gains are less, kind of to be expected, but the price keeps going up on cards.

Wish devs just made less graphically intensive games if they're going to price out their audience to just people with $700+ cards.
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My most fondly remembered games of the last two years on PC/deck did not require anything fancy from my GPU. Probably because I'm too cheap fed-up old and play mostly puzzle and card games now.

The fact that GPUs have crept up in price again as the $750 --> $829 5070ti's have now drifted up to $850 has me stumped, especially since there is more stock now than ever. I can only assume they'll just price the rumored 5080 Super at INT_MAX and be done with it.
 
elessar123 said:
Blame Unreal Engine 5? Also, the recommended is like a $300 card right now.

And a 7 year old card.
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The used market is ripe with potentially abused hardware from crypto miners. Making that the leading option just further shows how screwed up the market is right now.

And that recommended card was MSRP $999. The equivalent now, I assume something like the RTX 5070, is essentially $700 unless you want the Founders Edition with the meh cooler.

Its busted. Better off just playing it on PS5 or something. Or better, just ignore it.
 
There has been a ridiculous number of demos rolling out lately, so I'll try some out and give my impressions. I have a few impressions I did before but haven't posted. Will be trying Undermine 2 and Date Everything demos for sure, so look forward to it.
 
TheKbob said:
And that recommended card was MSRP $999. The equivalent now, I assume something like the RTX 5070, is essentially $700 unless you want the Founders Edition with the meh cooler.
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Ok, but a 5070 MSRP is $550, not $700. OC in recent gens aren't worth it. Paying $100+ to squeeze out 10-50 MHz with a 2000+ MHz clock is a waste of money.

Edit: I'm not trying to defend it. It's obviously a poorly optimized UE5 game, but it's not like Crysis level of requirements.
Edit2: Crysis's minimum requirements was a $500+ card ($800 adjusted for inflation). Not even recommended.
 
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Well, to be fair that recommended rx 6750xt was $300-350 just about two years ago. But that is just proof that the new $70+ video games need more than the 8GB cards that are $300-400 right now. Next week the $350 (msrp but I doubt it stays that way) rx 9060xt comes out with 16gb of ram. Demand is pent up for "reasonable" priced cards so I expect the market price to be higher. Along with people fed up with nvidia's issues and pricing it may be priced higher than a 5060ti 16gb variant at $429. Either way, gaming industry is not helping itself with unoptimized overpriced dreck products.
 
elessar123 said:
Ok, but a 5070 MSRP is $550, not $700. OC in recent gens aren't worth it. Paying $100+ to squeeze out 10-50 MHz with a 2000+ MHz clock is a waste of money.

Edit: I'm not trying to defend it. It's obviously a poorly optimized UE5 game, but it's not like Crysis level of requirements.
Edit2: Crysis's minimum requirements was a $500+ card ($800 adjusted for inflation). Not even recommended.
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It's not about OC, it's about not having a noisier heatsink/fan combo that NVIDIA slaps on the Founders cards. Also, you're not finding stuff at MSRP, at least not in my area after checking all the major retail chains including a local MicroCenter.
 
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