As someone whose gaming PC is now over six years old, I am very nervous that my GPU is going to crap out on me, because I won't be able to afford to replace it.

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encrypted_bird 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I feel your pain. I run an RTX 2060 that I bought just before the Plague, and although it still works great on any game I own (I don't really play modern AAA games), I'm worried that I won't be able to afford a replacement if it randomly craps out on me one of these months... Especially since I make less money now than I did when I bought the components.

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charlieyu1 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I replaced my 11 year old PC earlier this year, with a new 5070 on discount and only 16GB RAM. I thought it was expensive. Now prices surged like 40% since then and I regreted not getting more RAM.

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prmoustache 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

<8GB gpus and below can be found at decent price. While the price are higher than they used to be a year ago for older / lower end levels it is not crazier than the price during the covid/crypto miner period for example which is probably when you built that pc.

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bovermyer 4 days ago | parent [-]

My current GPU is a 10 GB RTX 3080. To replace it with something that isn't a downgrade, I would have to shell out at least $1,000 CAD.

	▲	prmoustache 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I see them at a little less than 400€ in the second hand market. So expensive for their age but not hard to replace if you were willing to pay 600-700 for it in 2020.

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salomonk_mur 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same boat here. I'm stuck with my 1070ti.

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jasomill 4 days ago | parent [-]

That's an 8GB card. For gaming (DLSS, etc.), you can still get newer 8GB cards like the 3070 which represent solid upgrades over the 1070 Ti on the used market for under $300. Still not great since similar cards were available at similar prices new a couple years ago, but at least not trading at multiples of MSRP like higher-end cards.

	▲	latentsea 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Even 8GB cards might start going up. I recently bought a cheap one so I can auxiliary models on it (think smaller LLMs for memory consolidation / decision models etc). Locally, multi-gpu is pretty cool. You can essentially have one GPU drive the others and do increasingly powerful things when you combine them.

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gaws 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You should bite the bullet now and buy a decent card on the secondhand market, before more people figure out what they have and double, even triple, the price.