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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I recently upgraded from a 1080ti to a 7800XT. Sold the 1080ti on ebay, so hopefully it will continue on with a new life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m expecting some good build opportunities in Spring 2024. Plan is to build two desktops, one AMD-heavy with the Arch-based Steam OS and another Nvidia desktop with Nobara and space for windows 12.
Storage on a self repairing raid array on a PCIx16 adapter is looking amazing, but hardware raid configurations are still preferable to software configs and I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew a guy at NVidia and got a screaming deal on a 980ti hybrid. Just replaced it with a used 2070 this year.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, I dont often play games, but my 2016 laptop handles them (not very well). It has an i5 cpu and a radeon r7 m440 gpu (that has no updates since 2years ago) and I can somewhat play fortnite (its probably the most demanding game ny laptop can play, pubg runs at like 10fps).

I would think a pc with a 1080 can probably play games kinda well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just ordered parts for my first build since 2011. I've had my Sandybridge i5 at 4.5ghz most of this time... until the fans died and it overheated, replaced the fans and it was fine, brought it to 5ghz somehow so it could live out its last days in glory, it's been two years. That'll do pig, that'll do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Only reason I recently moved from that very card was to play with stable diffusion, otherwise yeah the 'need' to boost things for games and whatnot just isn't there. Might be just that I''ve never been a major twitch type gamer though, more Civ/StarCraft style.

Edit: my dumb, was actually a 1650S I last switched from. Pretty sure the before that was a 760TI and probably mixed it up somewhere between them

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Me just now. Just got 7800 xt after all these great years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

980TI still going strong! I don't play anything too demanding anyway and Ive taken real good care of it so fingers crossed it'll keep going till I can afford a new rig!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also have a 980TI. I think mine might be dying though, sometimes my PC shuts off and sometimes it doesn't start up. One particular time I got it started again by removing my GPU. I just want it to last another year but we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I will never give up my rx480

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same but RX580 so a bit less behind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have one of these I ended up never using because I didn't realize my power supply wouldn't handle it. By the time I decided to build a whole new PC, I ended up having enough saved up to get an RTX 3080. Video cards were super hard to find at the time so I decided to hold on to the 1080 in case of emergency. Do graphics cards matter much in something like a dedicated Minecraft or 7 Days to Die server? If so, I might build one with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The 1080 is a spectacular card, one of the best valued cards Nvidia ever released. I have been using mine basically non stop since launch and it's still going strong.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My 1050ti is still working nicely for everything I play, but I would like some rendering speed improvements in blender so maybe I'll upgrade in some years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ha! Just ordered a few new components yesterday! So long, beloved 1080, you were da real MVP o/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

💀 what goshdarn movie is this from

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My 980 still plays anything I want fine

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