Calling them 3D printers is a nice FU to bots whilst being close enough to the truth to amuse me. However those prices are laughable. A 6800 for £700 - jog on.
Oh, I wouldn't pay that either - they were asking 3080 money for 3070s and 3070 money for 3060s too, but they are, by far, not the worst prices out there and they do get regular stock.
I bought a 6800 Pulse and yes i paid £698 which is about £100 OTT ... However i got a 5600XT which i think i paid £255 for some time back , but had a free upgrade to a 5700xt for the 5600xt as i done some work on a build for someone so i will Ebay it and see what the offset deficit will be. Unfortunately if we want the new toys now we have to pay the greed tax.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-396-sp.html which i made a trade for a Pulse 5700 XT with .. just a week ago , the trade was payment for a build i did for a friend. But given the stupid stupid prices people are willing to pay on Evil Bay this could stand me just a couple hundred £ for the 6800 ... its all relative . As much as i im well aware im paying OTT the ofset cost is something that also needs to be considered if i intend to out the 5700 .. which i am , cos i cannot afford £700 for a GPU and for the other to sit on the shelf!!
Unfortunately a £200 - 300 premium for the RX 6900 XT is almost a bargain compared to the £400+ premium most shops want for the RTX 3090.
I was reading about the shortage of GPU's and it got me curious enough to look on fleabay to see what the crack was. Prices are off the scale for GPUs. I bought a Powercolor RX5600 XT Red Dragon back in December, paid £265 for it. People are paying upwards of £400 for them second hand. So I listed mine, put it on at best offer and auction with a reserve. Within 2 hours of listing it I'd received 7 offers, with the highest being £350. I never accepted but the current bid is at £350 with a few days left to go. I've got an Nvidia GTX960 that'll do me until stocks come back and I can bag an RTX 3060 or 3060 TI. I know it's a case of supply and demand but it does feel a bit underhand and these scalpers are making a killing too.
Just before the 30XX series launched last year I sold £5,000 worth of GPUs I'd been using for folding, just as used RTX prices hit their lowest point ever. It pains me to think I'd have made closer to (if not over) twice that if my car hadn't gone wrong and forced me to sell up. I'd have gladly bought an 04-plate Fiesta for £500 knowing that putting up with it for a few months would net me an extra 4.5 bags. If someone invents a time-travelling hindsight machine they need testing, hit me up.
Just be thankful this isn't you saying "I sold my bitcoin for 8 dollars back in 2011" or whatever... Hindsight is a mighty thing aye!
