NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Priced at $600

[kanecvr]

@kanecvr Tbh FX5000 series was probably Nvidia's greatest dud ever.
While I have been in the green camp for a long while (dating back to Linux support issues), I had no problems recommending ATI/AMD cards to friends when they made sense.

While the FX series did perform poorly vs radeon 9xxx, they were by no means bad cards. My 5700XT (Leadtek A360TD 128MB) allowed me to play almost any game I wanted up to 1280x1024 at solid framerates, and I got it cheaper than the competing 9600XT at the time. In fact it was priced close to the 9600se which had a 64 bit memory bus. The 9550 was not out yet or was not available in my country at the time. My Leadtek A360TD ran a 425Mhz core clock and 275MHz (550 effective) memory - and boy was it fast compared to the radeon 7500 I had before it. If I remember correctly I payed 70$ for the card and traded in my radeon 7500 (witch I now regret because I can't seem to find a working example for my collection). Not a bad deal, especially considering I was in high school and my only income was part time jobs.

I never cared (and still don't) about bragging rights, or who has the fastest cards - manufacturer X or Y - I always found this kind of argument childish - especially since none of my friends could afford the top-of-the-line models from any company. It's an argument akin to "my dad can bet up your dad". What I cared about is playing games, and hardware I could afford.

I belong on that "club". At the same time I worry about if one day a part, in this case, the GPU) dies, what would be a decent upgrade.

I'm going to stick to second hand hardware when that happens.

 

[64K]

Even if supplies are plentiful expect most retailers to tack on an additional $60 to $75. They got greedy during the mining boom and greediness is a hard to break habit.