I googled an RTX 2060 and got a link to a Finnish computer store selling it for about 300 euros. That's not the newest and most powerful card, sure, but the vast majority of PC gamers aren't using cutting edge hardware anyway
You're in decent luck then. MSRP on the latest card generation is insanely high but it's because the makers were chasing the crypto market, which ate shit so all the last gen cards that scalpers were holding are flooding the market, never mind all the hardware that's no longer crypto profitable.
I would assume American prices are cheaper too. The thing to remember here is that if you're targeting 1080p you don't really need a monster card anyway
Depending on what you're emulating you might not need all that much grunt from your GPU anyway. Upscaling PS3 and 360 games is still apparently quite demanding though
I thought video cards where a thousand dollars now for entry level cards thanks to the chip shortage or w/e
I googled an RTX 2060 and got a link to a Finnish computer store selling it for about 300 euros. That's not the newest and most powerful card, sure, but the vast majority of PC gamers aren't using cutting edge hardware anyway
An equivalent AMD card would probably be cheaper
Oh good, I actually want to build a new pc when I ever get a job and that's within a budget.
You're in decent luck then. MSRP on the latest card generation is insanely high but it's because the makers were chasing the crypto market, which ate shit so all the last gen cards that scalpers were holding are flooding the market, never mind all the hardware that's no longer crypto profitable.
I would assume American prices are cheaper too. The thing to remember here is that if you're targeting 1080p you don't really need a monster card anyway
I was actually thinking about doing the Ryzen cpu/gpu combo for what I do which is mostly emulation.
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Depending on what you're emulating you might not need all that much grunt from your GPU anyway. Upscaling PS3 and 360 games is still apparently quite demanding though
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The brand new ones are, but that is because typically because they launch the highest end cards first and then work their way down over the next year