It's a sad story to tell.
At the beginning of this year, Tony equipped a host, because he did not want to be a leek, so he chose to spend 650 yuan on idle fish to collect a second-hand GTX 960 graphics card to sit and wait for the price reduction of the 30 series graphics card, and the result was a year.
Of course, it is not that you have not seen a good price, but those graphics cards with suitable prices are either out of stock on a large scale, or they require you to rush to buy, and each time you rush to buy merchants, they only release a few single-digit monkey games.
Originally in July and August, the price of graphics cards has already had a wave of decline, and the result is coincidentally catching up with the aggravation of the epidemic abroad, the continuous shortage of chips, and the rise of Ethereum, etc., and soon the price will rise back.
Recently, Tony went to the e-commerce platform to see the price of graphics cards in various grades, and after reading it, I would like to say that in the matter of buying graphics cards, this year's wait party can really lose miserably...
Ka bar friends have given the profiteers a wave of disgust, but it is useless▼
Let's first tell you what the price of the graphics card is now.
The first is the RTX 3060, which is priced at 2499 yuan, which should be regarded as the most expressive of all 30 series graphics cards, with 12GB of large video memory, but its performance can only be equal to RTX 2070.
But even so, its price in the Jingdong self-operated flagship store is still more than a thousand yuan more than the starting price, and the money on this premium is enough for me to install a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro solid state for the computer:
Then there's the RTX 3060Ti, which is priced at 2999.
This card is the most cost-effective card in the 30 series, only 500 more expensive than the 3060, but the performance is more than one notch higher than the 3060, it is a veritable dessert card, currently priced at 5899, with a premium of more than two thousand:
RTX 3070 As a card that is very suitable for high-end players to choose, originally its cost performance is higher than the 3070Ti, it can be said that it is very fragrant, and the result is now up nearly two thousand, and the cost performance is nothing:
As for the RTX 3090, which is priced at 11999 yuan, I don't want to say anything more, and now the price of this top graphics card has risen to 17999, and the premium of six thousand is enough for you to buy a thin and light book, which is simply outrageous:
This is the case with the N card, and the A card is not much better on this side.
The original price of 2999, performance and the previous RTX 3060 in bozhong between the RX 6600XT, now also rose to 3899:
There is a saying that one, on its performance that can not be up, if the price of the graphics card has not risen that will, spend three thousand to buy it I am too expensive...
The RX 6700XT, which is positioned one notch higher than the RX 6600XT and has comprehensive performance between the RTX 3060Ti and RTX 3070, has now risen from the original price of 3699 to 5699:
As for the current consumer-grade strongest A card RX 6900XT, its price increase is much more restrained than the RTX 3090, but it has risen from the original price of 7999 to 9499, which is due to its mining power is not as good as N card~
One of the things that poor friends here need to pay attention to is that the prices I posted earlier are only first-line brand positioning or mid-range graphics cards.
If you want stronger heat dissipation and a better look, then the price of buying those flagship graphics cards will undoubtedly require more money.
A/N Graphics Card Model Positioning Chart ▼
But anyway, this year we want to wait for the graphics card price reduction is a proper no play.
If this trend continues, the price of graphics cards may not necessarily come down in the next few months, and the resulting sharp rise in installed costs is definitely not a good thing for people who just have this demand.
Is there any way to reduce the installed cost?
Of course, there is a way, and then Tony will tell you in detail about how to survive this wave of graphics card price increases in two situations.
The first situation is that you do not have a host, so instead of buying parts to assemble one yourself, it is actually better to buy a full machine with a warranty directly, which is because the cost of the manufacturer's graphics card can be much lower than yours.
Many brands of the whole machine often have activities from time to time, take the price of the 6699 machine that I suggested to a friend a while ago, it is equipped with a graphics card of RTX 3060:
The other configurations for this computer are as follows:
I dare say that if you form a computer with the same configuration yourself, the cost of the end cost will exceed 6699.
Rainbow RTX 3060 graphics card price 4399, Mingxuan Z690M D4 motherboard with Core i5 12600KF, board U set price is almost around 2600, just buy these two pieces of hardware alone to 6999:
Other solid-state drives, chassis, memory, power supply and heat dissipation and other hardware is almost equal to white, if you are not satisfied with some of the hardware, directly buy additional parts to replace it, the problem is not big.
The same is true for the whole machine of other configurations.
The second case is that you have already formed a computer, but you lack a graphics card, so you may wish to consider buying a transition card to use first.
Take the GTX 960 graphics card I bought at the beginning as an example, and this card is not impossible to play games with the lowest image quality and the lowest special:
It's a big deal to wait for the price increase of graphics cards to pass and then sell it for a new card, even if it drops to four hundred at that time, then I only lost two hundred and five.
Compared with buying those graphics cards with a premium of one or two thousand now, and waiting for them to drop the price sharply or restore the original price, the loss of money is almost negligible
Because those transition cards on the market are generally second-hand cards that have passed the warranty period, friends should pay special attention not to buy those second-hand mining cards when purchasing, otherwise they will lose a lot if they encounter problems with graphics cards.
The common popular mining cards are RX470, RX480, RX570, RX580, RX590, etc., which can be described as the existence of the mining industry elders, as early as the 17/18 mine tide period in the mine training.
Like GTX 680, GTX 750 Ti, GTX 770, GTX 960, GTX 1050Ti these cards, because they do not meet the mining conditions or the computing power is not high, so the probability is normal second-hand.
As for the performance of these graphics cards and how the game performs, there are generally many UP masters on the B station who have tested their performance and games, and the poor friends just need to choose according to their own needs.
In short, in Tony's view, anyway, we have been waiting for a year for the graphics card price reduction, and we don't care about waiting, it's a big deal not to play PC games, and it's not bad to switch to the 3A masterpiece on PS5 or XBX.
Of course, taking the money that was originally spent on configuring the host to enter the pit HiFi or the photography circle is not a good choice~
In any case, no matter how the price of the graphics card rises, the market will eventually tend to be balanced, and I hope that day can come sooner!
Author: Fat Tiger Editor: Face line
Images, sources:
JD.com, Taobao
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