Because they're the only affordable Nvidia cards that aren't ancient trash like the 1030 and people have been somewhat tricked into thinking they need an Nvidia card by marketing. It's like how the most popular Apple laptops are the cheapest ones despite those often being horrible value even by Apple standards. Remember in 2015 when they STILL were selling the 2012 13" base model MBP for $1100? A few hundred extra could have gotten a much better much newer Retina 13" but people don't want to spend more or do research to get something that's actually good for more than a couple years.
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Microcenter is now selling on Amazon and they are selling CPU-MB bundles. I nearly fell over when I saw that. I was going to check prices on Amazon and Microcenter bundles popped up. I do not know why they are selling there and the prices are quite a bit better in store than on Amazon. Example: Ryzen 9900X + MSI Tomahawk 870 + G-Skill 32 GB RAM is $600 at Microcenter in-store. On Amazon, they have the CPU + MB at $630. You have to add the RAM yourself.
I also noticed that Newegg is selling on Amazon now too.
I checked bundle prices on Newegg and Best Buy and it's just a huge mess. Best Buy has bundles for old CPUs and Motherboards over $1,000 so it looks like they added them a long time ago and never took them off. At the moment, MicroCenter is beating out everyone else.
I also noticed that Newegg is selling on Amazon now too.
I checked bundle prices on Newegg and Best Buy and it's just a huge mess. Best Buy has bundles for old CPUs and Motherboards over $1,000 so it looks like they added them a long time ago and never took them off. At the moment, MicroCenter is beating out everyone else.
It's kind of a question of affordability and how much I lose by going with the 4060 over the 4080 when I bought mine over two years ago. VRAM wasn't as big of a deal and the RTX 4060 was the sweet spot when accounting for wattage.
That said, if I had to replace my Acer Predator Helios Neo 16" RTX 4060, I would definitely opt for a 4080 or 5080 (whatever I can get with 16GB VRAM) for future-proofing. VRAM is becoming a real thing, supposedly.
I would probably wait for a sweet deal from HP on their MAX gaming laptop...they have been going on sale pretty routinely.
When I bought my 7800XT, I chose the AMD over nvidia simply because it was excellent at rasterization and had plenty of vram. I'm not worked up over ray tracing, so the lower performance of RT in the AMD cards didn't bother me. Nvidia eventually came out with a handful of variants with more vram, but at the time of my purchase, that was not the case.
Yeah, I am honestly hoping I get another year or two out of my RTX 4060 and will deal with whatever is out by then. Maybe Nvidia will up the VRAM on the entire line. Or maybe I end up going with AMD. I used to go AMD for Hackintosh reasons...so I am used to them as well.
I was browsing through my past orders on Amazon, and I noticed this was my first dedicated Graphics Card for my first self-built PC. Pretty sure it was stupid expensive at the time 
RIP Evga.I was browsing through my past orders on Amazon, and I noticed this was my first dedicated Graphics Card for my first self-built PC. Pretty sure it was stupid expensive at the time
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Ordered the Lenovo Yoga 2-in-1, Intel 258, 32 GB, 1 TB, 4k display.
$1,829.99
Cart Threshold Savings: $50.00
eCoupon Savings: $183.00
Senior Savings: $83.25
Net $1,514.64
What's crazy is that I got different pricing on different Macs that I used. I got an MSRP over $2K on my iMac Pro and MacBook Pro but got the lower price on my Mac Studio. It sounds like they play the crazy game of pricing based on what they think that they know about you. I would not be surprised if there are additional discounts to be had but these three were sufficient for me.
I'm going to skip the motherboard/CPU/RAM upgrade on my desktop now.
$1,829.99
Cart Threshold Savings: $50.00
eCoupon Savings: $183.00
Senior Savings: $83.25
Net $1,514.64
What's crazy is that I got different pricing on different Macs that I used. I got an MSRP over $2K on my iMac Pro and MacBook Pro but got the lower price on my Mac Studio. It sounds like they play the crazy game of pricing based on what they think that they know about you. I would not be surprised if there are additional discounts to be had but these three were sufficient for me.
I'm going to skip the motherboard/CPU/RAM upgrade on my desktop now.
If you want the best price from that kind of websites with variable pricing, you should use Firefox on a free Linux distribution. You'll be surprised of the price difference!
👍[edit] Forgot: This even often works for amazon!
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If you want the best price from that kind of websites with variable pricing, you should use Firefox on a free Linux distribution. You'll be surprised of the price difference!
I'll build a Linux VM on my PC and give it a try. The 128 GB is useful for running virtual machines.
Yeah, Lenovo is funny, where they have one price, but no one really ever pays "sticker" Black Friday is a time that you'll see huge savings. I think July is also a time where they also discount for students
I installed Ubuntu on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro (it was surprisingly fast) and tried out Firefox and it gave me the same price as the lowest I got. I couldn't go all of the way as one of my coupons was one-time-use only.
They have the category discount: students, teachers, military, medical and seniors. I suppose I could have asked our son to order it for the medical discount or maybe it's already set up at his workplace. Shopping Windows stuff is definitely different from buying Apple gear as there are usually only a few, fairly well-known ways to get Apple discounts.