Buggerlugz
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New mobo,cpu and ram pack arrived today, got my case,psu and a small M.2 drive for it on-route also. Next issue I'm having is graphics cards. It appears bitcoin and its brethren are responsible for a huge graphics card shortage. Any cards above 4gb are just currently stupid money. You could have literally spent £150 on a card last year and sell it on ebay for £300 this week! It don't look like things will improve this year either.
Just to give you some idea, I started with PC's back in 1994, So lived through "the golden age" of gaming, initially having a Pentium 2-233mhz and a4Mb ATI Rage pro (one of the first AGP cards), then upgrading to an additional 12Mb 3dfx voodoo2 and then a selection of Nvidia cards later as I built my own pc's and the years ticked by. Nothing has inspired me with PC gaming like the voodoo2 did (or ever since really) as the difference was utterly astounding back then, I doubt we'll ever see a leap like that again. God, seeing "unreal" in 3dfx glide for the first time brings a tear to my eye!
My last pc was a 2008 Dell I picked up cheap and have since canabalised the eyeballs out of it. So it's a little long in the tooth! The only original thing in it is the case and motherboard today.
In my old age I'm not a gamer by a long chalk (occasionally dabble, but lost the will to live with pc gaming 15 years ago tbh!), but ideally i'd like something to last me. RTX are completely out the window at this point, (I fancy a RTX2060 but may as well want a unicorn!) so I've been looking at Nvidia GTX 1050/1060's and the ATI RX 580 ( 4gb GDDR5 cards). On paper the RX seems to out perform the Nvidia, but i'd be interested if anyone has a RX580 card and what they think of it. These can be had for around £130 second hand currently.
Just to give you some idea, I started with PC's back in 1994, So lived through "the golden age" of gaming, initially having a Pentium 2-233mhz and a4Mb ATI Rage pro (one of the first AGP cards), then upgrading to an additional 12Mb 3dfx voodoo2 and then a selection of Nvidia cards later as I built my own pc's and the years ticked by. Nothing has inspired me with PC gaming like the voodoo2 did (or ever since really) as the difference was utterly astounding back then, I doubt we'll ever see a leap like that again. God, seeing "unreal" in 3dfx glide for the first time brings a tear to my eye!
My last pc was a 2008 Dell I picked up cheap and have since canabalised the eyeballs out of it. So it's a little long in the tooth! The only original thing in it is the case and motherboard today.
In my old age I'm not a gamer by a long chalk (occasionally dabble, but lost the will to live with pc gaming 15 years ago tbh!), but ideally i'd like something to last me. RTX are completely out the window at this point, (I fancy a RTX2060 but may as well want a unicorn!) so I've been looking at Nvidia GTX 1050/1060's and the ATI RX 580 ( 4gb GDDR5 cards). On paper the RX seems to out perform the Nvidia, but i'd be interested if anyone has a RX580 card and what they think of it. These can be had for around £130 second hand currently.























