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May 17, 2021 at 2:01 PM #23065May 17, 2021 at 2:49 PM #821561XBoxBoyParticipant
Hah, try and buy a top of the line graphics card today or a top of the line CPU. Lots of luck! Chip shortage has hit gaming computers really hard. I’ve been hoping to upgrade to a new PC for about 8 months now but can’t because I can’t get the parts I want. More than likely I won’t be able to for another 8 months, probably even longer. (Although I guess I could always break down and pay scalpers)
May 17, 2021 at 3:22 PM #821562gzzParticipantI’ve been hoping to upgrade to a new PC for about 8 months now but can’t because I can’t get the parts I want.
People are buying high end gaming PCs, stripping out the GPU, and then selling the gpu-stripped desktop as “New (other)” on ebay.
Any thoughts on them? Here’s one I bid on earlier and came in 2nd:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254974531256
My situation is I have an ancient 8 year old PC ready for replacement, plus the 1 year old GPU that’s amazingly worth $750 now.
If you search ebay for PC desktops that are both new and have “no gpu” you’ll find more than 100 like this. Some of them are PCs that cost $2000+ selling for $900.
May 17, 2021 at 3:28 PM #821563gzzParticipantI have no need for a high end PC, but I hate switching PCs and getting really high end ones in the past has served me well in getting very long useful lives from them.
I have first and third gen i7 desktops that still work really well and perfectly fast for most desktop tasks. They have added RAM and newer SSDs, but otherwise are stock $1500 gaming PCs from (if I remember right) 2009 and 2012.
The 2009 is now a media center, and the 2012 is in daily work use but ready to go out to pasture as light duty office server.
The most taxing tasks are doing OCR of 300 page scanned documents and light video editing.
May 17, 2021 at 4:38 PM #821567CoronitaParticipantmy ryzen 3900x is doing fine with its rx5500 series graphics card.
May 17, 2021 at 5:24 PM #821570XBoxBoyParticipant[quote=gzz]
People are buying high end gaming PCs, stripping out the GPU, and then selling the gpu-stripped desktop as “New (other)” on ebay.Any thoughts on them?[/quote]
It really just depends on what you are doing. I work as a programmer in 3D graphics for games and I’m looking for a machine with enough horse power to do ray tracing demos. That’s way more than most games at this point, and that’s even farther from what your average user needs. If these gpu-stripped desktops are decent you can get a decent graphics card and put it in. Cards under $500-$600 are readily available I believe. Just know that they won’t really work well with ray tracing. But for most people that’s a non-issue.
May 18, 2021 at 9:33 AM #821590gzzParticipantI ended up getting an HP Omen 25L with Ryzen 7 3700x and 16GB of ram, new other than the GPU was stripped out. I will add my 2060 RTX, and the most taxing thing I will probably do is use a USB cable to my Quest 2 to run VR games.
My girlfriend likes the Quest a lot more than me, especially BeatSaber which she plays until her arms are sore.
I was disappointed to see all the Oculus free apps like Google Earth that require a physical link, which in turn requires Windows 10 to run the Oculus windows app.
I’ve been looking forward to VR this good since like 1991 when my cousin had the awful Nintendo Virtual Boy. I think he ended up returning it since we only used it a couple times.
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