- Feb 22, 2022
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I'm in a tough spot as I have a full system (i5 12400F and 16 GBs of DDR4 3000, 144 Hz monitor) with a GT 710...
The pathetic card barely suffices for anything but old pre-2010 games or Minecraft with extensive performance-enhancing mods to reach my 120-144 FPS target with acceptable looks. The card surprisingly overclocks to a 25% performance improvement in games but that's not enough to make it usable for me.
I thought about waiting for prices to fall, but that's months of waiting, so I'd like to purchase a graphics card. I put aside a budget of around 450 USD (Or 400 Eur, give or take, I live in Europe) to search for one, which I assume is reasonable based on how much the rest of my system is worth. Before these supply shortages I was sure that this amount would suffice for even upper-mid range cards, but that's not the case as this is just about the price of a brand new RTX 3050, which is in my opinion pathetic as I previously had a GTX 1660 Super which performs about the same. What are your recommendations? Worth buying used (or even used for mining) cards? Previous-gen ones a better value?
The pathetic card barely suffices for anything but old pre-2010 games or Minecraft with extensive performance-enhancing mods to reach my 120-144 FPS target with acceptable looks. The card surprisingly overclocks to a 25% performance improvement in games but that's not enough to make it usable for me.
I thought about waiting for prices to fall, but that's months of waiting, so I'd like to purchase a graphics card. I put aside a budget of around 450 USD (Or 400 Eur, give or take, I live in Europe) to search for one, which I assume is reasonable based on how much the rest of my system is worth. Before these supply shortages I was sure that this amount would suffice for even upper-mid range cards, but that's not the case as this is just about the price of a brand new RTX 3050, which is in my opinion pathetic as I previously had a GTX 1660 Super which performs about the same. What are your recommendations? Worth buying used (or even used for mining) cards? Previous-gen ones a better value?