Question Buy now or wait?

[Sonikku]

I've been gaming from my couch at 4k 60fps on my 82" tv with a 3070 for three years now and it's reached its limit. It just gags on FF16 even with DLSS but even Dawntrail tends to hover at 40-45fps with judder that was simply not a thing when it could maintain a consistent 60fps a year ago back in Endwalker. I have held off on upgrading because it seemed like a bad deal to buy a gpu at the tail end of the generation when the next generation is right around the corner. But unfortunately, AMD bowing out of high end graphics altogether and Nvida raising prices and keeping Vram to a bare minimum appears to have created the perfect storm of problems that makes holding out seem less appealing than it would have been a generation ago. And that's assuming tarriffs aren't a thing either.

I have been eyeing the PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XT on Amazon for $620 and the ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT for $635 on Newegg and I'm wondering if biting the bullet now might be the lesser evil versus rolling the dice. They're both cards that would fit my white build as well, which usually otherwise carry a premium. Should I tough it out or take the BF deal now?

 

[Tech Junky]

Could probably save yourself some money by cleaning the drive instead.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I have been eyeing the PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XT on Amazon for $620

That's a great card for the money. I think Amazon is really lenient on reasons for returns, and you'd have until January 31st if something better becomes available.

 

[DaaQ]

I seen a push notification today that "certain" Power Color 7900XTXs were under 800, I want to say more like 750 give or take 20$ But since I opened it it's gone.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Yeah I'd buy now. Trump says he's going to slap a 60% tariff on things coming from China and this time he has no one who is going to push back against him in the white house.

 

[DaaQ]

This is why I thought the extra 30 for 9800x a cheap early adopter fee this time.

 

[Sonikku]

Pulled the trigger. I might have jumped on that XTX for $765 in spite of my corsair 850 PSU only barely being able to run it had it not sold out by the time I noticed. But who knows? Maybe I still will if another opportunity presents itself. The best part of going with the $620 XT now is that Amazon says that the return window extends all the way to Jan 31st! So if a better deal pops up on BF or in December, or if Nvidia offers a shockingly better value at CES than expected (ha ha), I'll have a fallback option.

 

[Sonikku]

And installed. Christ, no wonder ff16 gagged on my 8gb 3070. The game is already gulping over 17gb.