GPU: Buy Now or Wait Forever?

[Legal Planet]

After 8 years of excruciating pain I've decided to start parting ways with my current 'rig'.  For those of you who may be wonder what this rig may be picture an Intel i3, motherboard, 4 sticks of 1.5GB ram, a low end power supply, and an HDD.  Now that you've practically envisioned a naked Optimums Prime in his toaster stage let me propose my bigger issue.  You see I'd bought a Ryzen 2700x, 2x8 3200 DDR4, 250GB Samsung SSD, 1TB HDD, X470 Aorus ULTRA GAMING Motherboard ('Ultra Gaming' in title to get gamers' gibblets rocking), Evea 650w bronze supply, and you guessed it from the title....... no GPU.  After being upper cut by the current RAM prices I don't know if I could take another blow by the disgustingly overpriced graphics cards on the market.  I've already crossed the point of insanity by paying $100 more for RAM.  Would I be just as insane to spend another $100 more for a GPU?  I may be sane enough to say yes.  The RX 580 8GB is meant to be sold at $230-$250 but is currently lingering at $340.  With the massive increase of used/fried GPUs on the market from retiring miners I'm not sure that newer GPU prices will be swayed to decrease.  One might think that a surplus of cards would decrease prices but the majority of miners seem to think their toasty GPUs still hold more value than what a new ones would have.  Some of you may have heard the news of a 40% decrease in GPU shipments which favors price drops (unless your Samsung producing RAM, then milk it dry).  But again I digress since there's still a handful of die hard Minecoiners out there waiting to snag any cheap cards out there by the handful, making sites such as eBay and Amazon horrible places to snag a deal.  So where are we left at now and what's to expect?  Will GPUs plateau as card companies follow the RAM business model or will we continue seeing this resent decrease slam into the ground?  Do you predict the load of fried GPUs on the market to have a positive or negative effect on new card prices?  What's your favorite cat's name?  Will the future generation of GPUs have more to offer in terms of price or will they take a hike with the current gen cards?  I'd like to hear what you guys have to say.  *Take anything I've said with a grain of salt considering I'm 2 weeks new into the computer community*

[Canada EH]

If you wait, you will always be waiting so buy now! Just put it on your credit card and profit.

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Spend the extra $100 as its no big deal really.

[Legal Planet]

4 hours ago, Canada EH said:

If you wait, you will always be waiting so buy now! Just put it on your credit card and profit.

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Spend the extra $100 as its no big deal really.

My concern is will a week be the difference in a $50 bill or are we going to see an everlasting decrease in price?  This seems to be quite promising.  

[TurtleZero]

Don't know if this is something you're comfortable with, but here's what I did.  I was able to find a GTX 980 for $300 right at the height of the GPU BS. However it was used, but I knew that I would  have to take that risk if I wanted at least a semi-reasonable price. So basically here's my advice: try to find a used GTX 980 - 980 Ti you could probably find around $200-300 now and will offer even better performance than the RX 580 you mentioned.

 

Even if you think this is terrible idea (it probably is, who am I to say after all) I would still recommend just going for it. Otherwise you'll end up waiting forever.

 

[xentropa]

Wait forever.  

[knightslugger]

or find a Pascal card used from a manufacturer that has a rockstar class transferable warranty. My 1080ti was from a dude who mined it, and evga gave me a 3 year warranty from date of manufacture. has run 100% as expected.

 

The warranty is what you want. make sure it's transferable and at least 3 years.

[dizmo]

All of that's rather daunting to read, so I'll just say this: The 1100 series Nvidia products are right around the corner. Wait for them to release, and you'll either get cheaper 900 series/1000 series on the used market, or a very good product in the 1150/1160.

[AntonChigurh]

I can't offer a very educated opinion on the current GPU market, but I bought my 1050Ti after the price increase, and it was like $200. Prices are expected to go down in Q3 of this year, so I'd say wait.

 

 

 

And my favorite cat's name is a tie between my cat Abby and my friend's cats Lily and Titus

[TheSLSAMG]

16 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

or find a Pascal card used from a manufacturer that has a rockstar class transferable warranty. My 1080ti was from a dude who mined it, and evga gave me a 3 year warranty from date of manufacture. has run 100% as expected.

 

The warranty is what you want. make sure it's transferable and at least 3 years.

I second this idea. A good warranty will at least make sure that if the card wasn't treated the best (some miners optimize their configurations to run under the power limit at low temps, some do not) you will still be okay.

 

And for the cat's name, I'd have to go with my cat Ryder. Or as I call him, Mr. Big (because he's 20lb).

[LienusLateTips]

Waitwaitwait just to make sure

 

is that psu the EVGA 650 B3

 

return it

 

it'll produce a fireworks show if it's overloaded since it has broken protections