Subj : Coming back to Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : Accession
Date : Sun Sep 07 2025 19:21:06

Hey Nightfox!

On Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:37:52 -0700, you wrote:

 > I think graphics cards prices have come down quite a bit, and sometimes
 > you can find a deal on monitors too.  About 11 months ago, I bought an
 > LG 4K 144Hz monitor during a sale on Amazon, and I also had some credit
 > card reward points built up which I used for that; I ended up paying
 > about $265 for the monitor. Before the reward points, the monitor was
 > $512.50 at the time.  Looks like the price for that monitor is about
 > $780 now though, and they even say that's discounted 13%.

I'm not sure what you mean by "graphics card prices have come down quite a bit", unless you mean that they've basically 'normalized' after they were gouging the crap out of their prices due to lack of availability when scalpers got the entire 20xx series of Nvidia cards sold out of stock. That seemed to last just about until the 30xx series cards came out.

I have an Asus 32" curved 165hz monitor. It's definitely good enough for me. As I said, I don't need to go the whole 4k route. Maybe over time when GPU prices come down and/or the next gen models offer decent 4k on their mid-grade models. Spending almost as much as you can build an entire PC for on a GPU is way out of my budget (self proclaimed - basically, I just draw the line at a certain point so as to not make stupid purchases), especially when I don't do heavy video editing, mine for crypto, or do anything with 4k or VR.

To each their own, though.

Regards,
Nick

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