Nice! How much did you pay for that, in total? I'm gonna guess the price was very reasonable, with those parts. Probably the Windows license was the most expensive thing. Totally get it re: the GPU, the prices are absolutely insane right now. I was looking at buying a new one for Elden Ring, but a) I wasn't ready to blow 400+ euros for a decent current gen card and b) turns out that my old GPU was perfectly capable of running that game smoothly. Who would have thought? It's a GTX1660 so slightly worse than yours...but seems like these cards are perfectly capable of running all but the newest games in decent resolutions.

In total I spent around $1500.The Windows license was like $160... the SSD and memory were about $400 each, so that's really where most of the money went. Eventually I want to bump up to 128GB of memory just because I can. Price per GB isn't terrible, but that's a lot of giggly bites.

AMD just announced their new processors. Assuming they do as well as they are advertised and can actually be purchased at reasonable prices, I may build an AMD-based system at the end of the year or toward the beginning of next year.

Looks like your next step should be replacing your GPU. Are the prices still as crazy or have they gone down to more normal levels again?

I need a new PC and/or a new phone and even though I don't urgently need either maybe I should it now before the world economy collapses even more and shit becomes even more expensive.

GPU prices are actually coming down. For a really long time you couldn't even buy them at all, even at massively inflated prices. I plan to get a new GPU when I build my next PC... this one will get moved to the living room as a dedicated VR box.

The 3080ti has an MSRP of $1,119. You can actually get some models on newegg for less than that now.

I still have a 1080p monitor so anything above xx60 doesn't make much sense.

Yea, that's fair. I've stepped up to a 1440p monitor for a while now, plus I just like running stuff that's newer. Oh, and Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition requires a gtx2070 or newer to run.

I ran it on vega 64. Which is slightly behind 2060.

This is the recommended: GEFORCE GTX 1070 | GEFORCE RTX 2060 | AMD RX VEGA 56

Not sure where you got the 2070 from.

Ok I checked the info, 20xx is for ray-tracing feature. It will still run on other stuff but no ray-tracing.

Oh, yea, it was on the recommended requirements for ray tracing. I could've run it on my 1080, but I thought I'd save it for when I build a new box. That way I have something to look forward to where I can really crank the graphics to the max.

I blame Putin for my small penis. I mean, expensive GPUs!

On a more serious note, I've been suffering some weird crashes lately and I was seriously considering investing in a new PC before everything gets insanely expensive again downstream from the Ukraine stuff. But I noticed that it only seemed to occur while my PC was not under GPU load, or right after I put it under some load. So I changed my GPU setting from economy mode to maximal performance and...no problems for a whole week! When I suffered a crash almost every day before. Very weird. Still, maybe I shouldn't wait until it starts also failing at the other stuff and jump the gun.

So it was failing on normal levels, but when you cranked up the power it stopped? That can't be a good sign.

Yeah it got even weirder....it stopped for a while when I cranked up the power, then it came back on a more or less daily basis. Then I was away from home for 2 weeks, came back and haven't had a single crash this week. I didn't change anything.

The only thing I could think of is ambient temperature but even that isn't different than 2-3 weeks ago. I give up. I hope it holds out until my next bonus and then i'll upgrade.

Actually this sounds like a bake-a-cake use case. Meaning you should strip the gpu and oven bake it. It sounds like some soldering connections have cracked from thermal heating and cooling.

Mmm I don't have an oven here but it's worth a try if it starts occuring again on the regular. Thanks for the tip.