**The Expensive World of High-Performance Graphics Cards**

It's no secret that high-performance graphics cards can be pricey, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is no exception. In fact, it's one of the most expensive options on the market, with a price tag that's sure to make even the most seasoned gamers do a double take. $1,600 is a significant amount of money, especially when you consider that it's not just for tech enthusiasts and rich people. Anyone who wants to play the latest games at high settings can save up their money and afford one.

However, as impressive as the 4090 is, it's worth noting that it's not exactly the most affordable option out there. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti was a good card, and even after adjusting for inflation, it's still more reasonably priced than the 4090. Similarly, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT with 12 gigs of VRAM offers incredible performance at an affordable price point under $400. These options show that you don't need to break the bank to get high-quality gaming performance.

**The Challenges of Finding a Graphics Card**

One of the biggest challenges in buying a graphics card is finding one when you want it. The 4090 has been particularly hard to come by, with many retailers struggling to keep them in stock. In fact, Nvidia's website often shows the card as "out of stock" or "unavailable," despite some retailers reporting that they do have stock available for a short time. This can be frustrating for buyers who are eager to get their hands on one.

To mitigate this issue, many tech enthusiasts and gamers use online tools like saved searches on Amazon and Nvidia's website to monitor the availability of the card. Some even report checking every couple of days to see if the card becomes available again. While it may not be the most reliable or consistent experience, these methods can help buyers find a graphics card when they need one.

**Comfort and Ergonomics: Ewin Gaming Chairs**

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**The Division 2: A Benchmarking Experience**

When it comes to benchmarking, some games are more demanding than others. The Division 2, in particular, offers an interesting testing ground for graphics card performance. With its open-world design and multiplayer features, the game provides a challenging environment that pushes even the most powerful hardware to its limits.

In our experience, playing The Division 2 on a high-end system with a strong CPU is essential for smooth performance. We found that running around taking over control points and engaging in combat required the full power of our system, including all 16 cores on our Ryzen 9 3950X. However, for solo story mode, the game is more than capable of delivering butter-smooth performance.

The Division 2 offers a great gaming experience, and we highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys open-world games with a strong multiplayer component. If you're interested in seeing more gameplay footage or want to know more about The Division 2's performance on different hardware configurations, be sure to check out our playlist featuring other gaming videos.

**Conclusion**

The world of high-performance graphics cards can be expensive and challenging to navigate. However, options like the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT offer incredible value for gamers who don't need the absolute latest and greatest technology. Finding a graphics card when you want it can be tricky, but online tools and saved searches can help mitigate this issue.

For comfort and ergonomics, Ewin Gaming Chairs are an excellent choice, offering stylish designs and supportive features that will keep you comfortable during long gaming sessions. Finally, The Division 2 provides a great benchmarking experience for graphics card performance, showcasing the importance of powerful hardware in achieving smooth gameplay.

Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just starting out, there's never been a better time to invest in your gaming setup and take your gaming experience to the next level.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to Tech deals our four core machines obsolete in 2023 no of course not and I'm about to show you a game that plays very well on this with an asterisk and a caveat after that this is the fifteen hundred dollar Cadillac build that I did in 2017 featuring the i7 7700k 4 cores eight threads and the RTX 2070 which is not what it was built with because this didn't exist in 2017 but I replaced the 1070 it was built with with a 2070 at some point otherwise this machine is very similar to the way it was built there's a playlist in the video description below I did a standalone recent update video on this machine I'm doing several game videos like this that are single game dedicated videos so I can spend more time showing you live gameplay footage the division 2 has a built-in Benchmark it is great for testing graphics cards it is not great for testing whole system configurations and especially CPUs in my opinion canned benchmarks don't do a great job showing CPU performance at times sometimes they do sometimes they don't they almost always do a good job showing graphics card differences if you want to see 1070 20 70 30 70 40 70 levels of performance the can Benchmark will do that just fine because you're looking for a frame rate here we are looking for frame times we are looking for smoothness of frame rate we're looking for one percent lows and we're looking to see how playable the game is overall spoiler alert it's very playable now the division two came out in 2018 but it's received a lot of patches and updates then since then season pass DLC and expansion it's gotten a lot of attention and sometimes games that get a lot of patches and updates don't run the same way they did when they were brand new this is worth covering to find out did the game become less playable over time on a four core chip because it's been patched updated dlc'd and changed since launch or has it actually become easier to play because Windows has been updated the video card drivers have been updated the game has been optimized patches fixes Etc so it can go both ways sometimes games get harder sometimes they get easier now this is like I said the live gameplay I am going to be narrating this I'm not just going to put music over it I'm going to talk about the experience of playing it I have extensive play time in the division two I have featured this many many times on the channel so I can talk about how well this runs on this Hardware at an fx 8300 and the 9900k and a bunch of other things 1440p Ultra detail which for a 2018 title on an RTX 2070 at 1440p is pretty reasonable yeah it plays fine if you want to play at 4K get a 30 70. if you want to play a 1080p the 1070 be just fine and without any further Ado grab a drink grab a snack and let's get into this today's video was brought to you by ewin racing the best source for gaming chairs and deaths for those long gaming sessions we have a playlist of our ewin chair and desk videos Linked In the video description below save 30 off of everything using the discount code Tech deals more details at the end of the video the division two where do I start this is an interesting game it is an excellent follow-up to the original division fixing some of the minor issues of that original game expanding the storyline changing the setting But ultimately fundamentally being the same game now if you look at the upper left-hand corner of the screen you will notice that we are using all four of our CPU cores and then somewhere into hyper threading here and the graphics card is being 100 utilized we are playing at 1440p Ultra detail with vsync manually turned off but otherwise all the standard settings of ultra are selected and we have a very nice smooth frame rate if you look at the frame time graph it's pretty butter smooth there's a couple of spikes here and there but nothing substantial if you just want the tldr version of this entire experience there's zero issues whatsoever with playing this game in the single player story mode on an i7 7700k even at 1440p Ultra it is worth noting that that can change in multiplayer now I've shown videos in the past of multiplayer in fact I've got a video somewhere on the Channel showing a ryzen 9 5950x 16 core 32 thread processor and I was in that particular battle grouped with another real person and we were engaged with three other enemy groups there were drones flying there were Hunter Seeker Minds going smoke grenades were going off we were defending a position against attacks from three different directions it was insane all the cores were being utilized in fact the CPU usage hit 75 at times however the frame time graph was butter smooth I was genuinely shocked at how unbelievably smooth it was because I had never seen it that smooth on my I9 9900k at home which only has a course and the minute you really load the machine up it definitely starts to fall off but wow in certain situations 16 cores absolutely positively makes a difference however you don't need 16 cores it's just nice to have and it makes the game smooth and of course lets you multitask if you're not doing quite such demand in combat this game is a tale of two stories because the single player mode which is what you're watching right here now I'm in the open world but I'm just fighting Bots basically I'm just fighting the open world enemies I'm by myself I'm not grouped with anybody else I'm only engaging one group at a time this isn't that bad it is using all the CPU in fact we just hit 75 percent they're on the usage which brings me back to an important comment about CPU usage one of the most frequently misunderstood points from commenters on prior videos is Tech what are you talking about you say the CPU is fully utilized I don't see the CPU at 100 and you would be correct because on hyper threaded CPUs the only time the CPU will hit 100 is if every core and every thread is fully tasked there are exceedingly few games that will properly make use of hyper threading the real advantage to hyper threading in gaming is to smooth out the one percent lows and to allow background tasks to not really chug the machine to really slam the CPU pull a threat away excuse me pull a core away from the game and cause some nasty hitching although we are definitely using a lot right there so we're halfway into the hyper threading we're basically using six threads at the moment the easy way to think of it is this take your total thread count not your core count your thread count take 100 and divide into it if you had an i5 7600k 4 core 4 thread chip every core represents 25 percent if you load up some task that only uses One Core and one thread then your CPU would be at 25 percent if you move that exact same workload to an i7 7700k then you will be at 12 and a half percent because one hundred percent divided by 8 is 12.5 not 15. and of course if you double that again an 8 core 16 thread CPU every thread is 6.25 rather than 5. 12.5 percent and of course obviously 32 and 64 thread CPUs are even further down eventually we'll have a hundred thread CPU and then you can say every one percent is a thread but we're a ways off from that from the consumer point of view another Point worth considering and probably one that I should have benchmarked and shown but it's beyond the scope of this video is higher frame rates need more CPU power we are currently graphics card bound here our graphics card stuck at 100 we are after all running at 1440p Ultra detail beautiful open world game the graphics are awesome and that means that our RTX 2070 is the limit now if we had a 30 70 or a 40 70 then the frame rate would be noticeably higher if we turn the detail down then our frame rate would also be noticeably higher except it wouldn't because the CPU is already basically tasked to capacity we're basically at our limit now many of you may say well we're at 73 frames per second right now we're currently averaging 69 frames per second side note the three white numbers on the screen the leftmost one is the real time frame rate the middle one is the rolling average frame rate and the right one is the rolling one percent low average okay that sounds funny it's the average of the one percent low frame rates rolling over time the longer you play the less those numbers will move because it is basically taking the entire Benchmark and running a continuous average so they were very jumpy at the beginning of the recording but they're smoothing out and they're not going to vary by tons in fact the final numbers was an average of 72 frames per second with a one percent low of 55. so both of those numbers will get a little bit better towards the end but we're almost already at the final answer so the point of all this is if you have a 60 hertz monitor you turn on vsync and you're running at 60 frames per second you're fine if you have a 144 Hertz monitor you are not going to get 144 frames per second in this game on an i7 700k it doesn't have enough CPU power you need a faster CPU to do that not only do you need more cores which this game will absolutely use them all but a higher clock speed wouldn't hurt either a 99 9900k will do 144 frames per second in this game if your graphics card or resolution to detail setting are appropriate now as a further side note if you take a look at the RAM usage you'll see we've got 32 gigabytes of RAM installed and we're using about 13 gigabytes of it now that is the active use of RAM for the game and everything that's needed here at the moment this doesn't include cached memory for example assets on the disk that are being loaded and unloaded as we travel around this game will play in 16 gigabytes of RAM if you have a decent SSD that it's installed on and your boot Drive is a decent SSD and your swap file is of course a good SSD it won't be a big deal unless you're multitasking unless you have stuff in the background remember this is a clean test bench there is nothing else running no test trays nothing and this is being recorded on a separate computer so this machine doesn't even know it's being recorded the only two things open on this machine are MSI afterburner which takes a trivial amount of memory it is not memory demanding and then the game itself and of course ubisoft's launcher but it's just sitting in the background not doing anything it's not like steam's open battle.net's open epic games none of that stuff's open and then if we look at vram you'll see that we're using 6.3 gigabytes of vram eight gigabyte cards are still fine for 2018 games at 1440p Ultra eight gigabyte cards really aren't fun anymore for this detail setting and resolution for brand new games I mean yes they'll run texture compression is the thing games a lot of games are designed to just use the vram that's available and they'll swap in and out of main Ram as pot as as necessary after all game developers want to be able to sell their games to as many people as possible but people confuse will run with will run well I personally believe that eight gigabytes of RAM for 1440p has had its day this game is four years old actually a little more than four years old now because it's 20 23. it's four and a half years old eight gigs of RAM is fine at 1440p but if you want to play current modern games at 1440p with the detail settings cranked up and that's an important point if you turn the detail to medium at 1440p well fine Hogwarts Legacy are run fine on an 8 gig card but if you want the detail at Ultra yeah 16 gigs is where it's at now for 1440p I know the RX 6700xt has been really popular I've recommended it many times and frankly for the 350 to 400 that it's costed over the past year or so I stand by that recommendation I mean there's been times it's been close to 350 dollars as I'm recording this in March of 2023 and a 12 gigabyte decent 1440p graphics card with you know for 350 dollars I don't have a problem with that on the other hand you can also get RX 6800 and 6800 XT cards for around 500 550 with 16 gigs of RAM and of course the new cards have more RAM as well not counting the ridiculous R RTX 4070 TI with really Nvidia 12 gigs of vram let's not make this a rant about Nvidia excuse me ingredientia uh releasing expensive cards with not nearly enough vram for the price I hate to say it but with the 40 series as it stands now now keep in mind as I'm recording this the 4070 non-ti has not launched yet we'll see where it comes out in price and everything else but as it stands now you have an 800 40 70 TI with 12 gigs of vram gag you have a 4080 with 16 gigs of vram for twelve hundred dollars okay sure and then you have a 24 gig vram RTX 4090 for sixteen hundred dollars don't yell at me all at once in the comments below but the 4090 is the deal among that list no it's not cheap yes it's expensive yes honestly it's expensive even for its amazing performance and it really is a step above but sixteen hundred dollars good Lord you know that's not rich person graphics card money because I mean normal people can save up their money and buy that it's not like a Ferrari but jeez I mean that's a lot of money even inflation adjusted that's a lot of money look it's a great card the 3090 was a good card the 40 90 is a good card but it's expensive and if you go back and you look at the 980 TI and 1080 TI new inflation adjust those forward to 2023 they were not relatively this expensive even taking into account post coveted inflation numbers having said that you still cannot buy a 40 90 reliably and I guess the 4080 and 470 TI have been in and out of stock and I think at this point they're probably much easier to find but the 4090 has been hard to find it's getting easier I've started to see it come back in stock it'll stay in stock for a few hours it'll go out of stock I've been watching every every couple of days I just I have a saved search on both Amazon and Nvidia and I just look at them just to see where does this when are these going to become reliably in stock they they have slowly started to drop in stock but not not consistently there is definitely the main at the top end for the very very best and of course there's a segment of the population that will just pay whatever to get mega performance allow me to bring you back to the RX 6700 XT with 12 gigs of vram for under 400 that's what I like to call a tech deal ewin racing has a wide selection of chairs to fit all shapes and sizes of Gamers ranging from petite to cuddly they have something for every type of gamer not just sizes but colors and material options as well including red blue purple pink orange and more plus cloth and leather choices we have over half a dozen chair and desk videos in a playlist down in the video description below we also have a very special offer just for Tech deals viewers save 30 off of everything using discount code Tech deals using our Link in the video description we have used e-win gaming chairs for three years in our office sitting on them for up to eight hour Marathon live streams they are very comfortable and we are happy to work with ewin to bring you this special discount and recommend ewin for all of your gaming chair and desk needs thank you so much for watching all the way to this part of the video a bonus gold star for you well the division two ran just fine couple of caveats we were playing single player open world which is more demanding than the instance world I've tested in the past but less demanding than the dark Zone when I want to play multiplayer combat with multiple groups of live people in a heavy engagement with lots of enemies in the later parts of this game no I have played this game on a 16 core chip and it will use all 16 cores but only in heavy engagement scenarios and in high frame rate scenarios I was genuinely shocked the first time I played the division two on a ryzen 9 3950x and then the ryzen 959 50x it does make a difference but only in very limited circumstances if you want to play the solo story mode this will do that just fine if you want over 100 frames per second if you want to play the dark Zone if you want to have butter smooth performance when you're playing with multiple real people and multiple groups of Engagement with NPCs at the same time you need a better CPU so it's very conditional but hopefully that information and feedback is useful to you because I got carried away and I played the division two longer than I needed to for this video because I was running around taking over uh control points and having a lot of fun I did forget I was benchmarking when I was playing this I was just having an absolute blast it's it's a lot of fun and if you like this kind of game if you like what you saw in the footage I would encourage you to pick up a copy it's been out for a long time now it's cheap you can get it on sale for a very low price like comment subscribe do all the YouTube things link to the playlist featuring the other games and other videos down below let me know in the comment section what you want to see do you want the video card change do you want a different CPU do you want different games tested do you like this format of video where I talk through this much live footage or would you prefer to see something else leave me your comments and feedback below thank you very much for watching and we'll see all of you next time foreignhello and welcome to Tech deals our four core machines obsolete in 2023 no of course not and I'm about to show you a game that plays very well on this with an asterisk and a caveat after that this is the fifteen hundred dollar Cadillac build that I did in 2017 featuring the i7 7700k 4 cores eight threads and the RTX 2070 which is not what it was built with because this didn't exist in 2017 but I replaced the 1070 it was built with with a 2070 at some point otherwise this machine is very similar to the way it was built there's a playlist in the video description below I did a standalone recent update video on this machine I'm doing several game videos like this that are single game dedicated videos so I can spend more time showing you live gameplay footage the division 2 has a built-in Benchmark it is great for testing graphics cards it is not great for testing whole system configurations and especially CPUs in my opinion canned benchmarks don't do a great job showing CPU performance at times sometimes they do sometimes they don't they almost always do a good job showing graphics card differences if you want to see 1070 20 70 30 70 40 70 levels of performance the can Benchmark will do that just fine because you're looking for a frame rate here we are looking for frame times we are looking for smoothness of frame rate we're looking for one percent lows and we're looking to see how playable the game is overall spoiler alert it's very playable now the division two came out in 2018 but it's received a lot of patches and updates then since then season pass DLC and expansion it's gotten a lot of attention and sometimes games that get a lot of patches and updates don't run the same way they did when they were brand new this is worth covering to find out did the game become less playable over time on a four core chip because it's been patched updated dlc'd and changed since launch or has it actually become easier to play because Windows has been updated the video card drivers have been updated the game has been optimized patches fixes Etc so it can go both ways sometimes games get harder sometimes they get easier now this is like I said the live gameplay I am going to be narrating this I'm not just going to put music over it I'm going to talk about the experience of playing it I have extensive play time in the division two I have featured this many many times on the channel so I can talk about how well this runs on this Hardware at an fx 8300 and the 9900k and a bunch of other things 1440p Ultra detail which for a 2018 title on an RTX 2070 at 1440p is pretty reasonable yeah it plays fine if you want to play at 4K get a 30 70. if you want to play a 1080p the 1070 be just fine and without any further Ado grab a drink grab a snack and let's get into this today's video was brought to you by ewin racing the best source for gaming chairs and deaths for those long gaming sessions we have a playlist of our ewin chair and desk videos Linked In the video description below save 30 off of everything using the discount code Tech deals more details at the end of the video the division two where do I start this is an interesting game it is an excellent follow-up to the original division fixing some of the minor issues of that original game expanding the storyline changing the setting But ultimately fundamentally being the same game now if you look at the upper left-hand corner of the screen you will notice that we are using all four of our CPU cores and then somewhere into hyper threading here and the graphics card is being 100 utilized we are playing at 1440p Ultra detail with vsync manually turned off but otherwise all the standard settings of ultra are selected and we have a very nice smooth frame rate if you look at the frame time graph it's pretty butter smooth there's a couple of spikes here and there but nothing substantial if you just want the tldr version of this entire experience there's zero issues whatsoever with playing this game in the single player story mode on an i7 7700k even at 1440p Ultra it is worth noting that that can change in multiplayer now I've shown videos in the past of multiplayer in fact I've got a video somewhere on the Channel showing a ryzen 9 5950x 16 core 32 thread processor and I was in that particular battle grouped with another real person and we were engaged with three other enemy groups there were drones flying there were Hunter Seeker Minds going smoke grenades were going off we were defending a position against attacks from three different directions it was insane all the cores were being utilized in fact the CPU usage hit 75 at times however the frame time graph was butter smooth I was genuinely shocked at how unbelievably smooth it was because I had never seen it that smooth on my I9 9900k at home which only has a course and the minute you really load the machine up it definitely starts to fall off but wow in certain situations 16 cores absolutely positively makes a difference however you don't need 16 cores it's just nice to have and it makes the game smooth and of course lets you multitask if you're not doing quite such demand in combat this game is a tale of two stories because the single player mode which is what you're watching right here now I'm in the open world but I'm just fighting Bots basically I'm just fighting the open world enemies I'm by myself I'm not grouped with anybody else I'm only engaging one group at a time this isn't that bad it is using all the CPU in fact we just hit 75 percent they're on the usage which brings me back to an important comment about CPU usage one of the most frequently misunderstood points from commenters on prior videos is Tech what are you talking about you say the CPU is fully utilized I don't see the CPU at 100 and you would be correct because on hyper threaded CPUs the only time the CPU will hit 100 is if every core and every thread is fully tasked there are exceedingly few games that will properly make use of hyper threading the real advantage to hyper threading in gaming is to smooth out the one percent lows and to allow background tasks to not really chug the machine to really slam the CPU pull a threat away excuse me pull a core away from the game and cause some nasty hitching although we are definitely using a lot right there so we're halfway into the hyper threading we're basically using six threads at the moment the easy way to think of it is this take your total thread count not your core count your thread count take 100 and divide into it if you had an i5 7600k 4 core 4 thread chip every core represents 25 percent if you load up some task that only uses One Core and one thread then your CPU would be at 25 percent if you move that exact same workload to an i7 7700k then you will be at 12 and a half percent because one hundred percent divided by 8 is 12.5 not 15. and of course if you double that again an 8 core 16 thread CPU every thread is 6.25 rather than 5. 12.5 percent and of course obviously 32 and 64 thread CPUs are even further down eventually we'll have a hundred thread CPU and then you can say every one percent is a thread but we're a ways off from that from the consumer point of view another Point worth considering and probably one that I should have benchmarked and shown but it's beyond the scope of this video is higher frame rates need more CPU power we are currently graphics card bound here our graphics card stuck at 100 we are after all running at 1440p Ultra detail beautiful open world game the graphics are awesome and that means that our RTX 2070 is the limit now if we had a 30 70 or a 40 70 then the frame rate would be noticeably higher if we turn the detail down then our frame rate would also be noticeably higher except it wouldn't because the CPU is already basically tasked to capacity we're basically at our limit now many of you may say well we're at 73 frames per second right now we're currently averaging 69 frames per second side note the three white numbers on the screen the leftmost one is the real time frame rate the middle one is the rolling average frame rate and the right one is the rolling one percent low average okay that sounds funny it's the average of the one percent low frame rates rolling over time the longer you play the less those numbers will move because it is basically taking the entire Benchmark and running a continuous average so they were very jumpy at the beginning of the recording but they're smoothing out and they're not going to vary by tons in fact the final numbers was an average of 72 frames per second with a one percent low of 55. so both of those numbers will get a little bit better towards the end but we're almost already at the final answer so the point of all this is if you have a 60 hertz monitor you turn on vsync and you're running at 60 frames per second you're fine if you have a 144 Hertz monitor you are not going to get 144 frames per second in this game on an i7 700k it doesn't have enough CPU power you need a faster CPU to do that not only do you need more cores which this game will absolutely use them all but a higher clock speed wouldn't hurt either a 99 9900k will do 144 frames per second in this game if your graphics card or resolution to detail setting are appropriate now as a further side note if you take a look at the RAM usage you'll see we've got 32 gigabytes of RAM installed and we're using about 13 gigabytes of it now that is the active use of RAM for the game and everything that's needed here at the moment this doesn't include cached memory for example assets on the disk that are being loaded and unloaded as we travel around this game will play in 16 gigabytes of RAM if you have a decent SSD that it's installed on and your boot Drive is a decent SSD and your swap file is of course a good SSD it won't be a big deal unless you're multitasking unless you have stuff in the background remember this is a clean test bench there is nothing else running no test trays nothing and this is being recorded on a separate computer so this machine doesn't even know it's being recorded the only two things open on this machine are MSI afterburner which takes a trivial amount of memory it is not memory demanding and then the game itself and of course ubisoft's launcher but it's just sitting in the background not doing anything it's not like steam's open battle.net's open epic games none of that stuff's open and then if we look at vram you'll see that we're using 6.3 gigabytes of vram eight gigabyte cards are still fine for 2018 games at 1440p Ultra eight gigabyte cards really aren't fun anymore for this detail setting and resolution for brand new games I mean yes they'll run texture compression is the thing games a lot of games are designed to just use the vram that's available and they'll swap in and out of main Ram as pot as as necessary after all game developers want to be able to sell their games to as many people as possible but people confuse will run with will run well I personally believe that eight gigabytes of RAM for 1440p has had its day this game is four years old actually a little more than four years old now because it's 20 23. it's four and a half years old eight gigs of RAM is fine at 1440p but if you want to play current modern games at 1440p with the detail settings cranked up and that's an important point if you turn the detail to medium at 1440p well fine Hogwarts Legacy are run fine on an 8 gig card but if you want the detail at Ultra yeah 16 gigs is where it's at now for 1440p I know the RX 6700xt has been really popular I've recommended it many times and frankly for the 350 to 400 that it's costed over the past year or so I stand by that recommendation I mean there's been times it's been close to 350 dollars as I'm recording this in March of 2023 and a 12 gigabyte decent 1440p graphics card with you know for 350 dollars I don't have a problem with that on the other hand you can also get RX 6800 and 6800 XT cards for around 500 550 with 16 gigs of RAM and of course the new cards have more RAM as well not counting the ridiculous R RTX 4070 TI with really Nvidia 12 gigs of vram let's not make this a rant about Nvidia excuse me ingredientia uh releasing expensive cards with not nearly enough vram for the price I hate to say it but with the 40 series as it stands now now keep in mind as I'm recording this the 4070 non-ti has not launched yet we'll see where it comes out in price and everything else but as it stands now you have an 800 40 70 TI with 12 gigs of vram gag you have a 4080 with 16 gigs of vram for twelve hundred dollars okay sure and then you have a 24 gig vram RTX 4090 for sixteen hundred dollars don't yell at me all at once in the comments below but the 4090 is the deal among that list no it's not cheap yes it's expensive yes honestly it's expensive even for its amazing performance and it really is a step above but sixteen hundred dollars good Lord you know that's not rich person graphics card money because I mean normal people can save up their money and buy that it's not like a Ferrari but jeez I mean that's a lot of money even inflation adjusted that's a lot of money look it's a great card the 3090 was a good card the 40 90 is a good card but it's expensive and if you go back and you look at the 980 TI and 1080 TI new inflation adjust those forward to 2023 they were not relatively this expensive even taking into account post coveted inflation numbers having said that you still cannot buy a 40 90 reliably and I guess the 4080 and 470 TI have been in and out of stock and I think at this point they're probably much easier to find but the 4090 has been hard to find it's getting easier I've started to see it come back in stock it'll stay in stock for a few hours it'll go out of stock I've been watching every every couple of days I just I have a saved search on both Amazon and Nvidia and I just look at them just to see where does this when are these going to become reliably in stock they they have slowly started to drop in stock but not not consistently there is definitely the main at the top end for the very very best and of course there's a segment of the population that will just pay whatever to get mega performance allow me to bring you back to the RX 6700 XT with 12 gigs of vram for under 400 that's what I like to call a tech deal ewin racing has a wide selection of chairs to fit all shapes and sizes of Gamers ranging from petite to cuddly they have something for every type of gamer not just sizes but colors and material options as well including red blue purple pink orange and more plus cloth and leather choices we have over half a dozen chair and desk videos in a playlist down in the video description below we also have a very special offer just for Tech deals viewers save 30 off of everything using discount code Tech deals using our Link in the video description we have used e-win gaming chairs for three years in our office sitting on them for up to eight hour Marathon live streams they are very comfortable and we are happy to work with ewin to bring you this special discount and recommend ewin for all of your gaming chair and desk needs thank you so much for watching all the way to this part of the video a bonus gold star for you well the division two ran just fine couple of caveats we were playing single player open world which is more demanding than the instance world I've tested in the past but less demanding than the dark Zone when I want to play multiplayer combat with multiple groups of live people in a heavy engagement with lots of enemies in the later parts of this game no I have played this game on a 16 core chip and it will use all 16 cores but only in heavy engagement scenarios and in high frame rate scenarios I was genuinely shocked the first time I played the division two on a ryzen 9 3950x and then the ryzen 959 50x it does make a difference but only in very limited circumstances if you want to play the solo story mode this will do that just fine if you want over 100 frames per second if you want to play the dark Zone if you want to have butter smooth performance when you're playing with multiple real people and multiple groups of Engagement with NPCs at the same time you need a better CPU so it's very conditional but hopefully that information and feedback is useful to you because I got carried away and I played the division two longer than I needed to for this video because I was running around taking over uh control points and having a lot of fun I did forget I was benchmarking when I was playing this I was just having an absolute blast it's it's a lot of fun and if you like this kind of game if you like what you saw in the footage I would encourage you to pick up a copy it's been out for a long time now it's cheap you can get it on sale for a very low price like comment subscribe do all the YouTube things link to the playlist featuring the other games and other videos down below let me know in the comment section what you want to see do you want the video card change do you want a different CPU do you want different games tested do you like this format of video where I talk through this much live footage or would you prefer to see something else leave me your comments and feedback below thank you very much for watching and we'll see all of you next time foreign\n"