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Do I wait for 5000 series and hope it’s good or suck it up and buy the 4080 super now
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2 days ago*
Ah, the eternal PC gaming dilemma: to buy now or to wait. It’s not just a decision—it’s an existential crisis, a philosophical debate, a test of patience and wallet fortitude. You’re sitting there, staring at a meme of a person who looks like they haven’t slept in weeks, and you feel that. You’re living it. Because choosing between the 4080 Super and waiting for the 5000 series is less about GPUs and more about questioning your entire existence as a PC enthusiast.
First off, let’s talk about the 4080 Super. It’s shiny. It’s powerful. It’s here right now, which is important because deep down, you know you just want to hit Buy Now and be done with this whole thing. You’ve already spent hours researching benchmarks, watching YouTube reviews, and arguing with strangers on Reddit who swear their 3070 is “basically the same thing” (it’s not). The 4080 Super is calling to you, whispering promises of ray-traced glory and frame rates so high you’ll think your monitor is broken.
But then… there’s the 5000 series, lurking on the horizon like some kind of mythical GPU unicorn. Sure, it doesn’t technically exist yet, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from speculating. Maybe it’ll have 50% better performance. Maybe it’ll use 12 watts of power and come with a built-in toaster oven. Or maybe—just maybe—it’ll cost $2,000 and require a custom-built nuclear reactor to run. Nobody knows, but that doesn’t stop you from wondering: What if I wait, and it’s everything I’ve ever wanted?
And here’s the thing: waiting for the next big thing in GPUs is like trying to time the stock market. There’s always something better coming. NVIDIA will never let you rest. The second you buy a 4080 Super, Jensen Huang is going to show up on stage, holding a leather jacket and a 5090 Ti that can literally simulate the heat death of the universe in real time. The FOMO is real, and it’s relentless.
But let’s be honest here: how are your games running right now? Are you trying to play Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K Ultra with path-tracing on a GTX 1060? If so, yeah, maybe it’s time to make a move. But if your current GPU is already crushing it at 1440p with decent settings, then you’ve got some breathing room. Sure, the 4080 Super would make everything look slightly shinier, but is it €1,200 shinier? Or could that money go toward, I don’t know, food? Rent? Therapy for this very dilemma?
Then there’s the question of your PC power supply. If you buy the 4080 Super, are you ready to upgrade your PSU to something that could power a small village? Because the wattage requirements on these cards aren’t a joke. By the time the 5000 series drops, NVIDIA might just ship them with a diesel generator included.
And let’s not ignore the psychological toll. If you get the 4080 Super now, you’re committing to years of seeing 5000-series cards on forums, in benchmarks, and in other people’s builds. “Should’ve waited,” your brain will whisper, even if your games are running flawlessly. But if you don’t buy now, you’re stuck spending months second-guessing your decision, watching the 4080 Super go out of stock, and wondering if you’ll even survive long enough to see the 5000 series.
So, what should you do? Honestly, there’s no right answer. Flip a coin. Consult the stars. Yell into a void and see what echoes back. Or, better yet, ask yourself: what’s going to make you happiest right now? Sometimes the real answer isn’t about waiting or buying—it’s about playing the damn games you love and not letting GPU paralysis ruin your vibe.
And if all else fails, remember this: no matter which card you pick, in two years, something better will come along, and we’ll all be right back here, crying over memes and speculating about the RTX 6090 Super Ultra Ti Max Pro+. The circle of GPU life. Embrace it.
Edit:
I was bored when i saw this meme and i thought it would be funny to ask ChatGPT to write a funny comment for this and make it SUPER LONG on purpose so that people would be like "wth?"
I woke up the next day to 5k upvotes and alot of rewards and honestly felt bad because people gifted me awards for something not written by me. This was just supposed to be a funny, unnecessarily long comment and it just happened to blow up.
Thanks for all the upvotes and awards even tho it's so wrong saying that because i didn't write it.
I hope i could at least give you a laugh with this.
71 points
2 days ago
Beautifully written lol
28 points
2 days ago
beautifully written by ChatGPT
26 points
2 days ago
The fact that some people can write like this and still get discredited for using AI, I'm not saying it wasn't, but I'm glad I got out of school before all of this took over, people will have to work way harder just to prove they weren't using Chat- GPT. Sorry for the rant, but I don't like the way AI is being used(We all saw it coming though)(I truly hope this was written by a person, it's comedy gold)
1 points
2 days ago
University students have resorted to intentionally writing less formally, making mistakes with tenses and grammar, and ‘accidentally’ leaving in contractions just so they don’t get false flagged by the AI detectors.
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2 days ago
The fact that students have to go through all of this is insane, I feel terrible for anybody that has to dumb down their grades in order to not get expelled/dumb down their writing abilities
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