>>231810Nah you never had a chance. Technically right now you could go up to LGA1700 aka mf intel cpu :DDD aka kgs cpu with the DDR4 kit you have now (which would be a tremendous uplift in performance).
Accelerator chips themselves are decreasing in price in an orderly manner, no matter we talking cpu or gpu. Even the newest gpus like AMD 9070XTs are dropping in price.
You are part of the third worlder dirty underbelly of pc gaming which runs on hopes and dreams and piracy and it's this strata of "gamers" that are running with the outrage on pc part prices the most.
First worlder pc gamers who have 32 gigs of ram and 16 gigs of vram got nothing to worry about.
Just dropping some cold hard redpill for the morning