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Shaocaholica posted:Nah doesn’t have to be period correct. I already have a vega56 from another project I could harvest. It's doubtful, but the higher the res the more GPU you need before the CPU becomes an issue.
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i don't follow gaming laptop tech much and lolled when i saw contemporary laptops are selling with 300hz screens. can laptop GPUs push anywhere close to that much FPS?
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shrike82 posted:i don't follow gaming laptop tech much and lolled when i saw contemporary laptops are selling with 300hz screens. Sure if you're playing really simple games. Plus you get better sync on lower frame rates with the higher temporal resolution so it's probably mainly for that and they just advertise the bigger number because people like big number.
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shrike82 posted:i don't follow gaming laptop tech much and lolled when i saw contemporary laptops are selling with 300hz screens. No, but the general user experience overall (except battery life) is enhanced by the experience of a high-refresh rate monitor. Everything feels snappier, even if you never even fire up so much as Solitaire. And frankly, at least a high refresh laptop panel makes more sense than a sub-15-inch 4K display.
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Jun 16, 2020 00:23
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Asciana posted:I dont mind really dropping down a graphical quality notch for a while I guess. Just need to prepare to commit to getting that 30xx card when they come out! Would a 2060S be a bad choice at this time? I considered a 2060S, and it might meet your needs just fine. I decided to go for the 2070S because I was in a place where I could afford the price difference and I felt it really completed my new build. I'd been running the 1060 6GB for 4 years - I don't tend to upgrade often. My old system was built in 2010, and so when I finally upgraded it then it felt like I needed a GPU to match. After comparing the two I went for the 2070S mostly because it is a bit more powerful, better equipped for raytracing, and since I don't tend to upgrade often I felt more likely to keep up with the games I play a bit longer. Honestly, with how bad the supply issues have been I debated between 2060S and 2070S for a week or two before finally making up my mind. The whole waiting for the 30xx cards to drop is a bit of wildcard, too. I decided I wasn't going to wait and went for a card I expect to be good for my use for a couple of years, but that's just me. For your purposes a lower-end card for now and waiting the next gen to drop might work better - it's really a matter of personal preference.
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Shaocaholica posted:
Cursed? Blessed? No! Reanimator!
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Shaocaholica posted:Nah doesn’t have to be period correct. I already have a vega56 from another project I could harvest. Generally no. If your running like a QX9770 or something certain games they may no boot at all, but for games that aren't generally CPU bound you'd be fine. I'd expect it'd probably run like a low-end modern i3? I wouldn't pair a 1660S or anything with it, god no. A 570 is a good suggestion, or if you have a Vega56 sitting around that would still probably leave you CPU bottlenecked most of the time, but probably ok. I don't know how much a 1060 usually goes for, but that might also be a good bet if you don't want to re-purpose that Vega. I wouldn't spend any real money on a box featuring a CPU that old though.
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Shaocaholica posted:
FX5800 Multiple Points of Failure Edition.
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Extremely relevant to the thread: The very specific horror of old graphics card packaging art
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gradenko_2000 posted:Extremely relevant to the thread: The very specific horror of old graphics card packaging art So little effort I want a deep dive.
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Lol pny cyborg bringing back memories
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3Dfx was probably the most tasteful during that period. e: nope!
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As soon as I saw the one on the right I went "oh poo poo, that looks like a Matrox Mystique". Probably remember that from those 400-page issues of PC Gamer when I was a kid.
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Shaocaholica posted:So little effort I want a deep dive. As do I. I want to know who, and why
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Palit robofrog is my spirit animal
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Extremely strange box art for video cards and video games is something I dearly miss.
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I just looked at the box for my 2070 Super and it's pretty mundane. Same picture as on this one, just for the Windforce 3X OC: 
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I pledge my permanent loyalty to any brand willing to go all out and give me a box with a tattooed sexy alien frog fairy in a mech suit.
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Lockback posted:Generally no. If your running like a QX9770 or something certain games they may no boot at all, but for games that aren't generally CPU bound you'd be fine. I'd expect it'd probably run like a low-end modern i3? Hmm 580 might be in the cards here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkllrXrKNeQ
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Looking back, it's loving weird how GPUs were basically bad travelling carnival art It's not so bad today but every once in a while one of the third party vendors unleash their inner carny
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gradenko_2000 posted:Extremely relevant to the thread: The very specific horror of old graphics card packaging art Disappointed they didn't include the fake Radeon Bathroom one.
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Man, I was so embarrassed on Christmas morning in high school when I took the wrapping paper of my FX5200. The box art was pretty bad, too.
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Geemer posted:Disappointed they didn't include the fake Radeon Bathroom one. What is this? I can’t find it with “Radeon bathroom”
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Shaocaholica posted:What is this? I can’t find it with “Radeon bathroom” I think I have it bookmarked at home, give me several hours if someone doesn't link it first. For whatever reason the image no longer appears in this thread.
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Shaocaholica posted:What is this? I can’t find it with “Radeon bathroom” https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3819901&pagenumber=168&perpage=40#post492921243 e: before you ask, no those are not renders
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"I'm the joker, baby!"
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that is exceptionally bad box art great find
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A simpler time. I can't even make fun of it. These days all semblance of creativity and personality is snuffed out super early in the corporate process. I should know, I'm in tech marketing. These boxes make me yearn for those times again. Everything was so much easier and less of a hassle. Say what you want about the gross Joker box, someone actually had creative freedom to make that happen. These days your final product goes through 20 different people with the specific intent of sterilizing the gently caress out of it.
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Why would you want to try to sell your 1080ti with something that looks like a model from a cancelled Deus Ex spin-off for PS2 though?
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No reason, really. There's no reason that such a box would or should exist. But maybe that's part of the fun? Corporate America is so stale. Sure, allowing creative freedom gets you that box art. But, sometimes, it gets you something more special that you could never get through the normal creative snuffing that is modern marketing. And that's kind of neat. That's closer to the world I want to live in, even if it's loving weird sometimes. 
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 yes plz gently caress should've got the 12MB model
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Zero VGS posted:"I'm the joker, baby!" the dream still lives
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Taima posted:No reason, really. There's no reason that such a box would or should exist. But maybe that's part of the fun? Corporate America is so stale. Sure, allowing creative freedom gets you that box art. But, sometimes, it gets you something more special that you could never get through the normal creative snuffing that is modern marketing. And that's kind of neat. That's closer to the world I want to live in, even if it's loving weird sometimes. That’s not even proper weird, though. Like, I can tell the thought process that went into that (“it’s the joker with the serial numbers filed off”), whereas stuff like mech frog or things that look like they came off the side of a van are weird and wonderful and a complete mystery to me.
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rolling four custom dice with words instead of numbers for inspiration on my next GPU box cover art. FROG MECH WIZARD CYBORG BIKINI KNIGHT LASER FAIRY
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Truga posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3819901&pagenumber=168&perpage=40#post492921243 Been giggling all night at this "did Mike Dawson's mom explode in this bathroom?"
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:celestial tier box art as recently as the 1080ti They even got sued for the company name of "Galaxy" so their marketing dept went for a true Galax Brain move.
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K8.0 posted:I pledge my permanent loyalty to any brand willing to go all out and give me a box with a tattooed sexy alien frog fairy in a mech suit. How about the Radeon X800 Zebra Dominatrix Furiosa edition? 
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That’s not even proper weird, though. Like, I can tell the thought process that went into that (“it’s the joker with the serial numbers filed off”), whereas stuff like mech frog or things that look like they came off the side of a van are weird and wonderful and a complete mystery to me. Hah. 100% fair 
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That bathroom lmao Every time
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