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njsykora posted:Paying £18 a month to rent a 4080 isn't that interesting. Yeah I think I get it at $15 if I wanted. I saw the $20 price and I was like uh yeah I don’t think so. I pay $5 now and I’m perfectly happy with it on the smaller devices I use anyway.
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$15 to rent a gpu that will only work on a small subset of games, not allow you to install any meaningful mods in your games, only allow you to afk for a few minutes, constantly ask you to sign back into steam, and will randomly be unavailable for patches for hours at a time Oh and some games will get assigned terrible cpu resources I had a lot of hope for GeForce now, but it’s actually pretty terrible
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WilWheaton posted:$15 to rent a gpu that will only work on a small subset of games, not allow you to install any meaningful mods in your games, only allow you to afk for a few minutes, constantly ask you to sign back into steam, and will randomly be unavailable for patches for hours at a time The $5 tier is pretty awesome actually  That and GamePass have me covered for like a lot of my stuff.
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K8.0 posted:If you search 3080 -Ti and check "sold", you'll find plenty of them are selling for $500. I'm not very experienced at ebay but all I see selling at that price is either for parts only or was back in october/november. The prices aren't that low anymore. Honestly I'm kinda at a loss at what I wanna do at this point. My 1080 is really starting to struggle with new, graphically intensive games at 3440x1440, but since I'm not planning to upgrade my monitor until 4k OLED/HDR is priced a little more consumer friendly (which I assume is probably a year or two out) I really don't need a $1000+ tier graphics card. At the same time like I mentioned earlier it feels pretty lovely getting a used two year old card at only a very slight discount off mrsp (of course, mrsp 30 series cards don't exist anymore soooo). All in all feels like the shittiest time to be trying to upgrade my GPU. At at least equally lovely but in a different way than when I was trying to get a 3080 last year.
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Fuckin’ get ‘em, Steve.
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GruntyThrst posted:I'm not very experienced at ebay but all I see selling at that price is either for parts only or was back in october/november. The prices aren't that low anymore. Well you could rent a 4080 for $240 a year and be perfectly set! (if the games you play are on the service)
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i dont regret my 4090 after using a 1080ti for 5 years. i figure ill sit out the next generation or two again, except this time ill be able to rely on dlss probably
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thats not candy posted:i dont regret my 4090 after using a 1080ti for 5 years. i figure ill sit out the next generation or two again, except this time ill be able to rely on dlss probably See if I had a legit use case for all that power I'd be fine with getting a 4090! It's just so brutally overkill for my monitor that it seems like I'd be burning a lot of cash.
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I had it for a year when it launched and had the founders pricing. They lost me when they announced the paid upgrade for the 3080 video card tier since that seemed to just undermine the whole point of the platform
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GruntyThrst posted:See if I had a legit use case for all that power I'd be fine with getting a 4090! It's just so brutally overkill for my monitor that it seems like I'd be burning a lot of cash. im only using a 3440x1400@144 monitor too. so far its overkill with everything ive played except cyberpunk, but thats okay!
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Blugh. Guess I'll get the 4090 and save up for a 4k monitor next big sale.
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GPU Megat[H]read - Defend Your Purchase.
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Hughmoris posted:GPU Megat[H]read - Defending Your Purchase. - an Albert Brooks film
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Does it still count if I'm trying to convince myself?
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I bought a 4090 on launch week and I have yet to say to myself “I wish I’d bought a lesser card or kept using the previous one”. As long as you have no further questions, I think I’m done.
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Vadoc posted:Does it still count if I'm trying to convince myself? It me.  Edit: Oh hey, Steven's vid for the 4070Ti announcement is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9akXjZkITE 8-bit Miniboss fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jan 4, 2023 |
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My 3060Ti is in RMA right now and my ol' reliable RX 580 is wheezing so GFN has been a nice fallback
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Hughmoris posted:GPU Megat[H]read - Defend Your Purchase. Never understood why the Android thread had that tile for years, when the only purchase that needed defending was mobile game monetization.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:
loving  , also  This company deserves to be driven into the ground.
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I think it’s hilarious that Steve thinks Nvidia focusing console comparisons and GeForce Now could lead to a change in this industry wide push for streaming and subscriptions. If GeForce Now gets successful it’s only going to make that push worse since there’s now demonstrably money in the market at the high end so everyone can push their prices up. You’d think someone who’s followed the GPU industry for years would know that.
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njsykora posted:I think it’s hilarious that Steve thinks Nvidia focusing console comparisons and GeForce Now could lead to a change in this industry wide push for streaming and subscriptions. If GeForce Now gets successful it’s only going to make that push worse since there’s now demonstrably money in the market at the high end so everyone can push their prices up. You’d think someone who’s followed the GPU industry for years would know that. "You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy. What you want you’ll rent"
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Craptacular! posted:Never understood why the Android thread had that tile for years, when the only purchase that needed defending was mobile game monetization. Because all the thread regulars spend an insane amount of money to buy a new phone every year or even more frequently and any suggestion that such a move is silly is met with extreme hostility.
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MarcusSA posted:Ok now this is interesting no it isn't mfer my steam library is huge
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https://videocardz.com/newz/thousands-of-amd-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-reference-cards-could-be-affected-by-110c-gpu-hotspot-issuequote:Update: AMD has issued a short statement, finally admitting that there is a problem with reference cooling design:
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Yes, and yes. Even when the reference design is running as expected, the cooler is underwhelming and a decent bit louder than the non-reference AIB cards. But this isn't really a design flaw with the reference cooler at work here but a bad batch (or series of batches) where we believe that there may be insufficient liquid applied to the vapor chambers.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Yes, and yes. Even when the reference design is running as expected, the cooler is underwhelming and a decent bit louder than the non-reference AIB cards. But this isn't really a design flaw with the reference cooler at work here but a bad batch (or series of batches) where we believe that there may be insufficient liquid applied to the vapor chambers. I thought the unspoken rule was always to only buy reference designs if you want to be guaranteed water block availability. Looking back historically, blowers were always awful and it's only recently that nVidia FE cards have had absurdly over-engineered stock coolers, albeit with the caveat that they're never available to buy.
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4070 ti reviews are up and uh... lol if this had sold for $900
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remember way back when the top gpu gave you maybe 20% more perf than the $300 one? it's like that, but in reverse lmfao
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I see now why the 4070 Ti was promoted as a 1440p card. It drops a little more performance than it should at 4K, probably due to the slow memory bandwidth. It seems to take a small hit to RT performance because of this too, though DLSS helps bring it back to matching/barely beating the 3090 ti. the tl;dr of all the reviews seems to be that the 4070 ti represents a marginal price-to-performance improvement over the previous gen's high-end cards when comparing msrps, but it's still a joke that a 4070 ti is being sold for $800. This would be an excellent 1440p card at $500 - $600. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jan 4, 2023 |
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the GPU is bad but the content is tremendous
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this should make for a fun update when the 4070ti is added https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
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Today I learned by pure accident that my 6700XT will happily clock down its memory if I change framerate from 144 to 120 on my 1440p screen. I can even have two displays like this and it will clockdown (this was not possible before). At 144fps however it insists on a memory clock of 2k mhz (which will use 36W and temp goes up). I appreciate learning something new but with NV cards you barely know they are there.
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:Today I learned by pure accident that my 6700XT will happily clock down its memory if I change framerate from 144 to 120 on my 1440p screen. I can even have two displays like this and it will clockdown (this was not possible before). At 144fps however it insists on a memory clock of 2k mhz (which will use 36W and temp goes up). I appreciate learning something new but with NV cards you barely know they are there. nvidia cards do this too, especially with multiple monitors.
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Hmm well it doesn't seem to be terrible considering the market Nvidia/AMD is trying to create, but in normal terms  You're not even getting any more frames per $ than the 3070  (This is a 4k at MSRP, so add $100 for partner cards)
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Since gamestream will die and I can't find an alternative as good with Sunshine, Parsec, Steam Link, etc... I'm thinking of maybe building a second PC in the living room just for those couch games I liked to stream. I usually go with 1080p 60hz because my TV can't get more than 60hz and my eyes are too bad to actually see a difference between 1080p and 4k in the living room (both games and movies). I'm bugging a friend of mine who was big into mining. He has a few Asus Dual Mini Geforce 3060TI V2 OC Edition 8gb and I'm thinking that at 1080p 60fps in the living room, that could be a sweet spot since I'm used to my 3080TI at 1440p 144hz on my normal gaming rig. Feels like at 1080p60 I could pretty much max games and it would still be better than on consoles? Looks like he would let me have one for 360$Cnd. How does that sound?
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