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Parts.pdf was an efficient means of providing needed information while trimming all the useless marketing fluff (RTX this, RTX that). Also…

Bought one at $129 from PCByte 2 week ago. Did not expect the price to fall further or would have waited obviously. Experience so far: no…

DRAM mainly for sustained write. For most use cases including boot drive DRAM-less is fine. Can't even tell the difference without…

How's the reliability of these?

You'd have to be a fool to pay ~$500 for a used 1660 Super when the same money can get you a brand new 3050 with better performance and a…

A bit of undervolting can cut down power usage and heat output by at least 30% with no performance loss. This should make a single fan…

While faster than a 1080, it's not a whole lot faster and not much point in such an incremental upgrade. If you predominantly play games…

3060 is 40% faster on average without DLSS. Could be more than twice as fast with DLSS on. Whether you need the upgrade depends on the…

I would pay a bit more for the much better aesthetically pleasing Aorus Master. Thermals and noise are a bit better than the Gaming OC.…

There's no denying consoles offer more performance, substantially greater in fact, for the money. What they offer in performance for the…

I would discount ray tracing entirely as a feature until maybe 2-3 generations of hardware down the line. Ray tracing currently is…

Basically if you need Nvidia specific feature set then go for a Geforce otherwise Radeon makes more sense value wise. DLSS is a useful…

Some people actually care about how their PC looks.

There are people out there with more money than sense. Or people without a lot of money but even less sense. They're the kind of people who…

3050 is closer to a 1070ti in raw performance.

While I like your optimism, Intel hates consumers and will not hesitate to shaft you in its own interest. Fingers crossed though.

If you had a limited quantity of a given product that could still sell relatively quickly at a high price, would you price it any lower?…

1660S has the Turing encoder so its Nvenc capability is up to date.

Bad comparison. Consoles are locked eco systems with no flexibility which will cost more than a PC over its lifetime.

2060 also has DLSS other than that I agree. Saving a little bit of money to buy from someone who god knows how they had treated their card…

Everything is 50-100% more than RRP.

1660S going for around this price anyway. 3050 has slightly better performance, 2GB more VRAM, DLSS, DLDSR, better power efficiency. But…

To be fair on a good day you might win the lottery then you wouldn’t have to worry about overpriced GPUs.

Buying a cheap grey market key is something an individual might do. Any business caught doing that risks legal consequences.

You also have to factor in RTB warranty and time wasted by unsavvy customers who will summon customer support at the first instance for…

Not cheap and not particularly expensive. Parts cost roughly add up to the price. Upgradeable to i7 and i9? Would not put either of those…

Does that make everyone buying a graphics card in this market an idiot because they're paying twice as much as RRP?

Galax actually had a WTF line for some RTX 2000 cards.

Consoles are traps.

The main reason 6500XT can be bought at RRP is the negative sentiment killing demand for it. Sheep are always going to be sheep mindlessly…