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The price of mid-range and high-end GPUs are expected to increase in 2018
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AlienALX
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People just won't buy it dude. Kinda like in the 80s, when we were expected to spend £150 per year on a new computer to replace the one we had. Eventually companies like Acorn had a full warehouse and went bankrupt. Even though their kids were begging parents just simply made them use what they had (which for me was a Sinclair Spectrum 48k).
That is what is going to happen with phones. If people can not afford the very latest they will lose interest and just roll on with what they have. Thankfully this is not an affliction that I've been bitten with, so I am happy to rock my three year old BB Porsche with all of its missing apps and shortcomings. It does everything I need it to, and I never needed a phone past the needing point. I don't "want" a £1000 phone.
I did splash out on my rig in the summer. Broadwell E Xeon, new mobo, Titan XP and water cooling gear. I reckon 2017 I spent about ooo, £1300? compare that to years prior where I would spend everything on my PC which is about £5k per year. I no longer have the inclination. Yesterday I put 4x4gb Patriot DDR4 in my cart on Amazon and then just closed it out. I refused to pay £168, let alone anything higher than that.
My Titan XP turned out to be an enormous bargain too.
trawetSluaP
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I was tempted to grab another 1080Ti for SLI. Is it really as dead as people say? As the price hike won't help!
Unless you're doing 4K res with games you KNOW support SLI, I'm not sure it's worth the bother anymore, even though I've been SLIed / Xfired for the past several rigs I've built. Heck, now that I'm into water cooling, I'm almost doing SLI just for looks, since single GPU rigs look so empty to me now. 
AlienALX
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DX12 killed SLi and Crossfire X. So yes, SLi as we knew it really is 100% dead. No one is coding for it and no one is supporting it.
We/you need to wait for mGPU to start becoming a thing, and it could take a couple of years or more before we see a ground up DX12 title. Good games take years to make.
1080Ti/Titan Xp is a great buy right now.
trawetSluaP
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No point in me grabbing a second if it won't be supported.
AlienALX
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Nope. AMD's next big launch will be Navi, which is apparently multiple cores on one GPU die. Nvidia are also headed that way too, but not for a couple of years yet. Until that becomes a thing it's best to stay on one. I ran everything in pairs right up to the Fury X. That was when the party ended tbh.
AngryGoldfish
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SLI/Crossfire isn't necessary any more. Gone are the days of GTX 970 SLI vs 980Ti questions every few minutes on forums. A GTX 1070/Vega 56 is all you need for excellent 1080p gaming, a GTX 1080/Vega 64 is all you need for excellent 1440p gaming and VR, and a GTX 1080Ti/Vega... wait, no... is all you need for enjoyable 4k gaming and amazing VR.
trawetSluaP
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PC would look so much better with two but oh well, head over heart for this one haha.
AngryGoldfish
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You could always find a 'dead' one to use as a blank.
I agree that SLI/Crossfire looks excellent.
ImprovizoR
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That's a size thing. A full ATX build looks best with more than one PCI slot occupied. But an m-ATX build, for example, would look just as awesome with only one GPU in a decent m-ATX case.
As for this price increase, this could also have an impact on other segments of gaming market like the peripherals, liquid coolers, cases and flashy things like fans with RGB's etc. A lot of gamers might like the bling, but if they're on a budget they're not going to sacrifice a lot of performance for a bit of aesthetic appeal or for things like a mechanical keyboard etc.
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TheF34RChannel
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A market collapse is much needed at this point. 1000+ high end GPU anyone? Ugh!
AlienALX
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GTX 1080 Ti for PhysX.
haha that's even deader than SLi
used to be a great way to waste money that lmao.Similar threads
