7545

I have older CPUs than you, robc04, but I’m trying to hold out for a 3060 (non-Ti) or even a 3050 myself because I can’t replace everything else all at once either. While a 3060Ti sounds like an awesome card, it is still more powerful (and frankly, expensive) than I want for a 1080p system.

Of course if I do upgrade other parts ‘soonish’, I’m potentially handicapping myself (assuming the other parts are a significant enough upgrade). But if I don’t upgrade ‘soonish’, then I’m wasting the extra in a video card I can’t get everything out of now, and risk it being outdated by the time I do.

tl;dr - 3060Ti seems to absolutely be the best bang for the buck today. I think it depends what you might bump the CPU up to in the near future that determines if it is worth it though in the long run. If you end up going with a Ryzen 5800 or something, suddenly a 3060Ti is the weak point again.

7546

Thanks for the app suggestion

7547

If money is tight and you’re at 1080p, just stick with the 1070. It’s complete chaos out there anyway to try to get a card. Why struggle?

My initial impression of ray tracing is that it’s nice but it’s not critical. (I think the lighting improvements look better than the overdone reflections, personally.) DLSS is awesome but I’m not sure how valuable that is at 1080p.

7548

It’s not really a lot of work, when the app notifies you try to buy the thing. It’s just frustrating, is all.

7549

That’s relatively new. You should be fine CPU-wise I think. My CPU from 2009 has started having a lot of issues being the bottleneck all of a sudden in 2020, when it wasn’t an issue that games that came out in 2019 and earlier. But I think a 2016 CPU will be fine for a while.

With a used GTX 1070, you should be fine on most games. Like you said, you want to see the ray-tracing, and I think 3060Ti will be a good upgrade for that once you’re ready to get one.

7550

Yeah, not knowing when I can upgrade the CPU puts a wrinkle in it, and I am pleased with the jump from my 970 to 1070. So I can convince myself to be happy with what I have. Especially since my son’s mouth has been very expensive. Three years ago we had to spend $2500 on dental work for him, and last month he had braces put in for the tune of around $5500. That is spread over 2 years though. It’s always something, isn’t it :-)

That is what my brain is telling me :-) I’d like to move up to 1440 but I don’t see myself buying a new monitor soon. It looks like there will be a dean position opening up at my wife’s current school so I can wait and see what will happen with that one. She could find out about that in the spring and I think it starts in July. If she gets it than I can maybe think about a new system at 1440.

It’s kind of amazing how long hardware remains viable now. I used to buy a new system every couple of years when I was a software developer. Now there is no real need and I don’t think I would even if I still had that money.

7551

I think this is partly why stuff is so hard to find. This cycle we are seeing significant performance upgrades at reasonable prices and lots of folks that have been waiting are biting the bullet

7552

I put down 720 euros for the 3080 I’m now in place nr 153 to receive. Compare that to the 450 they’re asking for the 3060… not so bad.

7553

I actually meant ‘today’ meaning that the next cards to be revealed (from either nvidia or amd) could be a better bang for buck. I wasn’t really taking into account the non-MSRP scalping prices…

7554

Yeah, but “Cyberpunk 2077” will be released on 12/09, I can wait for one night, but not sure I can wait for another week… :P

7555

Ask dev’s to delay game again for 1 more week. ;)

7556

I just got a 3060 ti from Best Buy via HotStock’s alert. Thanks @stusser!

7557

Oh my… well, cross your fingers. Maybe it will be fine! Surely!

7558

Congrats! Another one down.

7559

I’ve gotten conflicting answers in various places, so I hope you wise ones here can answer what may be a stupid question. I’m nearly done with a new build which has a motherboard (GIGABYTE Z390) with only PCIe 3.0 x 16 slots. I originally thought I’d be looking for a RTX 20-something GPU, but it seems their prices are bloatedly near the RTX 30-somethings, so why not look into them, too (if you can find them)? But, they are all PCIe 4.0. Question: Would a 3080 with PCIe 4.0 work in a motherboard with only PCIe 3.0 slots? I would expect it might, but with reduced performance, and if performance is reduced, why spend the extra cash.

7560

It works but it makes just small difference, 5 percent at most, so it’s not really a factor in determining which card to buy.

7561

Thanks, Quaro! My search continues, getting HotStock now.

7562

Could also be because bitcoin is at an all time high.

7563

PC Gamer see supplies easing. More on the 5600/3070 levels but still…

7564

Yep not 5900X’s.