NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series

Pros

• Or Nvidia's GPUs from the RTX 40 series onwards with, at least, 12GB of VRAM or more.
• just upgrade your old pc core i7 gen13 cpu + 64gb ram ddr5 + 1tb gen5 m.2 ssd 9100 pro + 16gb vram nvidia rtx 4000/5000 gpu
• RTX 40 series within your budget (like a 4080).
• GPU, i'd say go for a bit older gen RX7000, RTX4000/3000, imo leave this one for last till ya build yer pc so can test your GPU when time come to get it.

Cons

• For 40 series and 50 series, they are more of a rectangular brick with sharp corners which looks so bad(take a look at strix 4090, astral 5090, they are just boxes with fans) .
• I think you misunderstand the market dynamics. The RTX 40 series has been out of production for about 18 months. There is very little new supply on the market and prices are heavily inflated. RTX 50 series prices have already settled. Th...
• So you could plug the RTX 4000 into the third slot down but it'll only use 4 lanes, and it's a x16 lane card, so you won't get the proper performance from the card. Even then it's sharing chipset lanes with everything except the 5090 and...
• The RTX 40 series is mostly out of stock and prices on remaining stock are heavily inflated. So, the cost meta for RTX 40 series is really bad right now.
• The RTX 40 series has been out of production for over a year and the prices are inflated.