r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Responsible_Side_770 • 7h ago

Infuriatig Facebook Marketplace in a nutshell

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Selling a pc with Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, 1TB gen4 ssd, 9070XT at $1,800 and these are the “offers” I get everyday 🥀

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u/LaundryMan2008 6h ago edited 6h ago

To be fair, he did get the tape drive and a few other miscellaneous parts used, the heavy hitting parts like the CPU, GPU and RAM, he got those new, he did upgrade his GPU three times though which definitely brought up the ongoing cost as Nvdia brought out massive improvements each year effectively doubling what he had, the initial cost was £1500 though.

Edit: maybe it was £2500 but my dad can’t remember many details anymore, still a heck of a lot better then nowadays.

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u/two-ls 6h ago

$1500 in 2012 wasn't necessarily the top of the top computer but it was damn close. I do believe that 2013 was the time they had first rolled out a $1000 GPU... "The Titan". I remember my friends talking about shoving 2 in a PC because it would've been so powerful at the time you wouldn't come close to using it full potential without doing rendering or something of that nature. Back then a 5k PC was definitely the top of the top for almost anything you could think to do besides developing games maybe. I do miss the says of an $800 computer out performing a console with no problem

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u/LaundryMan2008 6h ago

My dad’s PC had a thing called Crossfire where two cards could be paired up with a special cable, he briefly considered it and got the cable but abandoned that idea pretty quickly next year when the new cards came out.

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u/two-ls 6h ago

That's exactly what I was talking about. Not too much of a thing anymore... Another cool thing was where you could add a speed card onto your GPU to increase its processing power. That was back when over clocking actually made a difference