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In many parts of the country, you don't want to use your HI policy unless it's a major major event, rates once raised seldom go back. If the insurance company thinks you are running a mini AI data center or crypto farm, a burnt 5090 is going to pale in comparison.
I’ll only use it for significant loss. Like a whole system with a 5090.
Yes some games have poor, but in general the Call of Duty and the others with a good team are optmization marvel....
Yes, and Nvidia did not quit gaming either from the switch 2, to cloud streaming gaming platform to discrete gpu and upcoming ARM-gpu gaming laptop (to be followed with Intel-Nvidia gaming SOC in x86 for pc gaming), the DLSS 5 effort is a vision of the future of PC gaming from Nvidia. AMD did not quit PC gaming, they will sell 9060-9070 to anyone that want to buy one, fill all the steam machine order they get and will have an RDNA 5 discrete GPU that has gaming in mind, large cache cpu that are especially good at game, they do put giant effort into the AI world but they keep some form of gaming division alive, will be my guess and when memory will make gamers demand match offer price, gaming hardware volume will back up.
That’s not a significant loss to most homeowners.
A full 5090 God build is looking at $15k and we used HI for that much when the roof got damaged in a hail storm.
On a 12GB card that's 4070 level of performance? Nah you have to turn things down. Path tracing is really a non-starter. I maybe could try it with ultra-performance upscaling but otherwise, it is a no-go. Also depending on the game 12GB gets limiting, textures and such and have to be turned down. It still looks really good, but it isn't getting the same visuals as the 5090 in games that support the highest end.
One thing to note with insurance is that they almost always will max pay out what you paid for something. Getting them to pay replacement price if the cost went up is pretty impossible, even with a specific rider. Not saying you shouldn't have tech coverage, I do, but be aware that they are likely to say "Well you only paid $3000 for the card so that's what you get, not the $15k it would cost to replace." Insurance is in the business of paying out as little as possible and they write their contracts as such.
Check into agreed value contracts/insurance. They're common for higher-value pieces of art, collectibles, and other items that more frequently increase in value than PC components. I already have a few pieces of art that are under agreed value insurance so adding my PC was not much time/effort.
I mean... bored maybe if the only part of it they like is getting new hardware. But if what you like is gaming, then a hardware freeze doesn't hurt that. That's the reality of console gaming throughout most of its history: A console gets released with a set spec, there is no way to expand that, so games are made for it. Doesn't mean the games aren't still fun.
Online ups ftw I have a 9px 8kw that feeds a sub panel that hits circuits for all my electronics throughout my house and then I have another smaller online for my PC that might help if a lighting strike comes over the ground or neutral. I feel this is about the best I can do in a home setting
I enjoy getting new hardware as much, if not more than gaming itself. I'm only kind of happy about the lack of hardware progress due to the costs of everything now.
For people like you then ya, the present sucks and the future is likely to suck in that the speed of progress is going to slow down, there's really nothing to be done about that.
I don't know you but form that repose right there I kinda don't think you belong at [H] with that attitude. We as a whole enjoy messing with computers as much as gaming as we wouldn't be here if we where normal people that didn't geek out on computer parts.
The massive price hikes also go way beyond inflation. It's a pretty shitty time to be a hardware enthusiast right now. Not only has technological progress slowed, but availability and pricing is out of control compared to what we are used to. Not to mention, overclocking is pretty much dead as well. I've been enjoying this hobby since about 1995 and in all that time, this has been the absolute worst I've seen things.
Availability absolutely has been a problem at times. I got my 5090 near launch and it was a bitch to get ahold of one. That was at $2,699. At current prices, they are available because most people can't afford to spend $5,000+ on a single PC component.
...the taxpayers will bail these companies out. Without getting too soapboxy, the AI boom is arguably the only thing propping up the otherwise dreary economy, and it will not be allowed to fail. At least that's my entirely cynical prognostication.
The "AI" boom is pretty small in comparison to the other investments taking place in the economy right now. When the rubber meets the road, sure there will be a hit to the economy, but it is still only about half the size as the dot com bubble, where companies were overvalued by a few magnitudes more than they are today.
It’s not cooked, but I believe even more what I believed a few years ago, and that is that x86 gaming PCs are basically deadend now. I see more future in ARM / Mac than anything x86 and discrete graphics cards. I think there is also a good chance next gen consoles will be all ARM based given the drive to make them portable like the Switch. It doesn’t help that windows is just going to complete shit since Microsoft cares more about cloud now versus a desktop OS.
Lol, not quite, blackwell 6000 pro prices will act as a ceiling, it has 3x vram and 10% more cores.
Probably more appropriate to start a thread 'preserving your 5090' in the Nvidia GPU subforum. But, my 4K display is limited to 120Hz, and power limiting my 5090 to 85% very rarely causes fps in the games I play to drop below that. FWIW, the only 'modern' or graphically-demanding game I play is Space Marine 2 with the 4K texture pack.
Just Stop. You are not going to have your 5090 for 10 years...Just stop
Let's debunk this one more time. $3,000 would get you a pretty top end rig in 1997. Fast forward to today, and that's about $6,200. For reference, I built the rig in my signature just shy of two years ago for about $6,500 give or take. However, at current prices that same machine would cost around $13,000.
Well of course if you use out of stock components with a few 3rd party scalpers, you're going to max the price. But right now you can buy a prebuilt 9800X3D / 32GB DDR5 / 2TB SSD / RTX 5080 system for $3k. I literally just searched "gaming PC" and this was the first hit.
they have not killed the 5090 but merely diverted it to a different market
Pre-built's are always cheaper due to the corners they cut. Do we really need to go there? Case is cheap shit, PSU is probably really cheap shit, RAM is going to be cheaper, slower and lower quality stuff. The motherboard is most certainly not of a premium variety. All of the money on that POS is spent on the GPU and CPU to make the specs look good on paper.
