you write, we respond
LETTERS
WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON...
> Mismatched Modul
> Sitting on the periphe
> Almighty AMD
Sale of the century
In your console killer feature (August 2022 issue), you used the Asus RTX 3070Ti TUF GPU with a street price of $900. I just got that very same card from Best Buy on a Prime Day sale for nearly half that, at $499!
Also, on Sam’s Build It in the same issue (Page 66), he had a Ryzen 9 CPU along with an RX 6650 XT GPU—that’s quite some mismatch. I understand the logistics issues you face right now, but perhaps when you do these builds, a word about the mismatch might be appropriate. I remember previous editors screaming about such mismatches... all in all, a great issue though.
–R. Matlow
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, GUY COCKER, RESPONDS: I, for one, cannot wait for the day when we can finally drop the ‘street price’ columns from our Specifications tables! Not only from a formatting perspective—I’m a stickler for a clean spreadsheet—but also from a mathematical perspective so we no longer need to calculate both a ‘retail’ and ‘real world’ price for our builds.
As you noted with your RTX graphics card purchase, we’re pretty much back to RRP price territory now and with sale events, you can even go under that—unheard of just a few months ago. We’re subject to lead times here on Maximum PC so there’s a little catching up to do—I’m writing this at the beginning of August, but you won’t read it until mid-September, although subscribers do get their issues earlier (just one good reason to subscribe, check out page 42).