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The 10 series is near immortal. My 10 year old ex-miner 1080 is still my gaming card. I don't play anything crazy, but it still does well on new games with high settings. I don't think they make them like that anymore.
Idk if you've seen but KingPin, himself, started a YT Channel, and as his first(?) Video, he did an Unboxing from wait for it.. ASUS!, He received intel board and ryzen board with binned chips and a 5090 Astral. He even suggested that there might be a Asus Kingpin collab IF Asus is up for it.
Im also hoping for a Kingpin AMD GPU, especially with the Launch of the UDNA Architecture would be a massive W. But Realistically, BEcause Nvidia dominates the market, it's more sensible to go with Nvvidia GPU's over AMD's. Personally, I would love to see EVGA Get back into the GpU game and launch EVGA gpu's with the AMD UDNA Launch. That would be totally EPIC.
I played Monster Hunter Wilds first beta with my 1070ti. That poor gpu was struggling so bad. With min settings i got like 15fps. Decided to check how well it runs with max settings.If it werent bolted and strapped to the table, it would have flown away.
Now my old rig is chilling in a royal shelf, unless my new rig breaks and i need to take it out from its retirement home.
I played with OC for a while and was able to push it hard.
However with GPU prices being what they are now I turned it back to default clocks and run it there to try and preserve the lifespan. Plus tbh I don't really feel the need to OC it to enjoy the games I play. Even star citizen runs well on its default clocks.
Could have needed one, working with substance designer & painter, blender, unreal engine, while running the game in tests on the side. My 2080's drivers were always crashing, due to VRAM being way too less. But yeah... Was not seeing it paying 2k+ for the 5090 back then, just to have an AI bloated less performant card in its current generation, neither 5k+ now.
I know I have to do it as well, but my rig has a custom water loop and I just didn’t want to disassemble it all. I never thought it would last this long to be worried about this!
Custom loops are for the love of the game, not efficiency.
I slowly worked my way up through water cooling when younger and ended up with a full hardline loop. It was glorious.
Nowadays my shits all air cooled because taking the entire thing apart to swap an NVME or upgrade GPU (not that I've been doing that much with prices) is way too much work. I did it once, dont regret it, but god never again.
Oh wow a 3080ti that thing is ancient I'm not sure how you're still running on that but honestly good for you. It's nice to see you guys reusing your very old and ancient hardware
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u/PhayzonPentium III-S 1.26GHz, GeForce3 64MB, 256MB PC-133, SB AWE6416h ago
On the one hand this sub acts like hardware should continue to improve as rapidly as it did in the early 2000s, on the other people get upset when a 6 year old GPU is treated as old.
That's part of the reason why GPU prices have been trending up so hard: Because the improvements in raw silicon and therefore the performance gains in GPUs have slowed down so much, it has become much more sensible for people to buy high-end GPUs.
An $800+ GPU used to become outdated in 3 years just like any other, so it made more sense to buy lower to mid tier GPUs and replace them somewhat frequently. But in a world where generations release slowly and offer more limited performance gains, GPUs are expected to have 6-10 year life spans, so buying a cheap one can mean to be stuck with low performance for a decade.
So the market has shifted towards the higher end in response. The 80 and 90 tier cards have sold crazy numbers for their price points because of that.
You’re spot on. I got a 970 in 2014, replaced in 2021. By 2019 it felt old. But the replacement 6900XT isn’t feeling outdated yet, nor is it struggling with new games.
I will never sell my 1080ti. NEVER. It has been an absolute monster of a GPU since day one and is still usable. IMO, that was the pinnacle of Nvidia innovation and quality. After that they became complacent and greedy.
I bought my 3080ti in 2021? When mining was getting real big. Had to stand outside in a line at Microcenter to get one. That sucker has another 5+ years to serve.
same here, I wanted to upgrade but then the prices spiked and stayed up there.
I will take care of my 1080, I will pray to it, I will burn incense to make sure it runs smoothly, because I can't take out a mortgage just to upgrade my rig
You are gonna feel a hell of a difference when and if you upgrade. Those Intel chips got throttled by security patches so those CPUs literally aren't as fast as they used to be. I jumped from 4th gen to 14th gen and the difference was absolutely staggering. The tech has changed a lot in those 10 years!
It can play Doom The Dark Ages at 2k resolution, I think I can squeeze another 5 years out of it at the minimum unless it just zeros itself before then.
Yeah I didn't buy it, an engineer who was a friend of my mom gave it to me when I was rebuilding my PC like 7 or 8 years ago because he didn't need it anymore.
Or he was trying to win points with my mom because he, for some reason, had no idea how to file his taxes and hadn't done so in 12 years and wanted my mom to do the paperwork for his back taxes lmao
Five years is too low. I used my 2014 Alienware 17R2 with GtX 970M till 2026. Now Ive built my pc with 5070Ti. I would have run 3080Ti for at least 10 years minimum.
I ain't letting my RX 570 go, that's for sure. I don't think I'll be upgrading for a few years. Still runs most of my favorite games anyway (and is somehow still alive).
Yep thats my 1080ti, in an optiplex with a i7 9700
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u/ChoPTi7 12700k | RTX 3080ti FE | 32gb DDR5 560016h ago
My 3080ti is actually driving my 5k2k monitor at acceptable graphics/performance thanks to DLSS. Preset K and performance mode (1080p internal) works and performs pretty well in most games. In some games, I use Preset E in balanced mode instead.
my 1060 3gb oc I got for free staring at me inside the free PC which I got everything in for free (a surprisingly balanced PC to be fair, 8gb DDR3, i5-4570, and an old fast HDD
My 1060 is on my display shelf as the best purchase I ever made.
My 2080S is in my spare parts computer that is occasionally pulled out for friends and family to borrow.
My 3080ti is currently in my main computer frozen in time with my 9900K and 64GB of DDR4 waiting for either catastrophic failure or prices to come down.
I have a 970 around here as a backup. Still works great. Sold it to a friend years ago, then while cleaning house he came across it again. Said it wasn't worth much so he asked if I wanted it, I said "Of fucking course I want it! That thing can still rip!"
Used to have a 1080 that I gave to my friend on the condition I get the corpse when it dies, that thing is still going strong so I might be waiting a while.
Sometimes I think about getting with the times and buying a 50 series card. I am not prepared to spend nearly $1500AU to buy a 5070, $2500AU for a 5080, or a whole $10,500AU for a 5090 though.
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