It'll be nice to buy half decent cards at regular price. They're either unavailable or you get ripped off.

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It'll be nice to buy half decent cards at regular price. They're either unavailable or you get ripped off.

That's the new reality, thanks to COVID-19 and its domino effect of worldwide shipping and supply. That's why I'm pretty glad I'd jumped on a Nitro+ RX 6900 XT, though at that point in time when I'd paid about 1350USD for the card, I'd thought I was paying too much (even for a semi hardcore AMD fanboy). But, looking at prices of RX 6900 XT's now, I guess I'd made the right'ish choice by getting it at the time I did. Surprisingly, supply of the RX 6900 XT's (and the RTX 3090) here in my neck of the woods is pretty decent, it's the ever skyrocketing prices that's proving to be a formidable hurdle. The price of the RTX 3090 did stagnate somewhat because it'd started off ridiculously overpriced to be begin with....at about 2000-2300USD.

My GTX 1070 works when it wants to, and to get it working I found out is to unfortunately resort to physical abuse on the computer. Which I absolutely hate doing..... obviously. All UK sellers have no stock, and am buggered if am going on fleabay.

Hi, Thanks for the informative article! Can someone help me with a question please ? I'm planning to buy the $479 SWFT 309 Core Edition – No Overclock – 2.0 slot cooler –2321 Base, 2425MHz game, 2581MHz boost as apparently it's available here and the cheapest. What does the "2.0 slot cooler" mean? Thank you!