Sour Grapes

Like the fox who was unable to reach the grapes he wanted in Aesop's Fables, the last several months for me has been an exercise in futility. I've wasted a ton of time trying to obtain one of the new nvidia rtx 5000 series cards, specifically my ideal rtx 5080, only to end up in absolute failure. There are still people camping outside my local microcenter store awaiting the next shipment. I ultimately decided not to sink to this level of desperation and just buy another graphics card. I wanted something decent to get my by until 5080s became realistically available. I also wanted something with a sizable chunk of vram that would allow me to play games a 4k resolution if I so desired. The rest of the build was pieced together as basically a budget-focused construction that was good enough to not bottleneck a new card (like a 5080, which may or may not exist at this pont).

My current solution is an Intel B580, which has also been in demand but happened to be availble for me one day at microcenter. And now that I'm using it, you know what? I didn't want to spend that extra $800 anyway. This might have been a wiser choice in the end. Lets the games commence! (..but mostly at 1440p for now).