dohpaz42 81 points 3 years ago

$71.99/mo for 12 months ($863.88) for the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL White OC Edition, when it retails for around $600. SIGN ME UP!

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wholeofthemoon 33 points 3 years ago

"Yes but the upgrade to the next gen model is basically free because I'm paying the same price anyway" /s

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ICastFist 32 points 3 years ago

Boy, I can't wait to pay a grand total of ~1700 dollars to get a FREE upgrade when the next gen arrives! Totally worth it!!

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SinningStromgald 54 points 3 years ago

I thought for sure this was fake but it sadly isn't. Really should take up smoking and drinking again to get off this ride sooner.

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schema 37 points 3 years ago

Buying alcohol and cigarettes is dumb. For just $99.99 a month we'll give you 30 whole cigarettes and a six pack of beer 100% for free.

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SmoochPooch 8 points 3 years ago

The Addiction Plus subscription

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chaos 3 points 3 years ago

Where I live that might actually be a good deal on the cigarettes. Haven't bought one in a while though so I'm not sure.

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 14 points 3 years ago

Don't do that to yourself. Not only are you worth more than that, but doing so would only bond you to two more hypercapitalist shitboots than you already are.

Stay strong. Spite is a wonderful motivator, if nothing else.

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DragonTypeWyvern 8 points 3 years ago

Something something don't die for your depression, makes redacted by law

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zer0nix 14 points 3 years ago

To be fair some of these rentals are cheap enough to be worth it.

The last time I checked, it would cost me about 15 dollars to rent a vr headset for a month!

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BluesF 8 points 3 years ago

Definitely worth renting VR headsets because a looot of people abandon them after a while.

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zakobjoa 1 point 3 years ago

Seconded, friend gave me his Vive after upgrading, I used the thing for about two months and now maybe once a year if someone wants to try VR for the first time.

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GladiusB 1 point 3 years ago

I might just do this to see if I like them. 500 to 1000 is a bit steep to see if you even want to invest.

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gravitywell 12 points 3 years ago

I always wonder how these places don't get ripped off left and right by people just making the first payment and bailing with the hardware but i suppose they probably just make up for it from the handful of suckers that actually keep paying for stuff.

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NewNewAccount 5 points 3 years ago

Is it worth long term damage to your credit for a $700 piece of hardware? For many, probably not.

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gravitywell 1 point 3 years ago

these types of "rent-a-center" businesses don't exactly target people with credit scores that can be damaged much (it can only go so low), these are the kind of places people who are extremely irresponsible with their money go to get things because they literally have no other option.

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bandario 0 points 3 years ago

A good GPU hasn't been $700 for a very long time.

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Klaymore 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, nowadays you can get a good gpu for under $350 (6700 xt)

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tal 5 points 3 years ago

I suppose if you could put custom firmware on the card, you could have host-side software that talks to something remote and to the card and has to activate the GPU each session.

I think that the issue here is less the technical barriers and more "the financial side doesn't seem to make a lot of sense".

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tal 9 points 3 years ago

I doubt that leasing physical possession of a GPU makes much sense unless there's a serious market for secondhand GPUs. Then the leasing party can transfer the thing to someone else who wants it down the line, and you can derive benefit from that reuse. But that demand doesn't really exist today. Maybe if the rate of increase of performance on GPUs stagnates.

It can make sense to do something today like vast.ai, where one buys access to a remote GPU, if one has "bursty" needs. Like, maybe someone needs access to a high-end GPU for AI stuff, but only on a sporadic basis.

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CookieJarObserver 8 points 3 years ago

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MyFriendGodzilla 7 points 3 years ago

What fresh hell is this?

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EatMyDick 5 points 3 years ago

I would love to lease if it brought more value but as currently structured it's trash. EVGA step up was good for this buyer.

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SmoochPooch 5 points 3 years ago

LaaS: Life as a Service

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 4 points 3 years ago

If you lease something, you make periodic payments; i.e. it isn't free.

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hungprocess 3 points 3 years ago

So we've come full circle and reinvented eMachines?

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WhyIDie 1 point 3 years ago

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CeruleanRuin 1 point 3 years ago

I'm actually the target audience for this - or I would be if I had the money for it. I get tired of having to buy and configure new hardware every couple of years just to keep up with new software.

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sirlington 3 points 3 years ago

Good news, Moore's law and dennard scaling is pretty much over. We could (in a better system) buy for the next decade. Unfortunately this is not profitable so it won't happen

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