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[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

1080’s going to be used until it dies. Don’t have a grand to spend on a card

[–] Amilo159 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would nominate the Gtx1080 (actually the 1060 6gb too) as the best of the best GPU ever made.

The price/performance ratio at their launch was insane and even 7 years later, they're still valid options for budget gamers.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 6 points 1 year ago

That’s one. 1080 GTX. And it’s been about 6 years dutifully chugging away

[–] Tier1BuildABear 5 points 1 year ago

Literally just replaced my 1080ti after about 5 years, absolutely loved it

[–] PP_BOY_ 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My 4S became unusable after the ... iOS 6? 7? update; nothing would remain running in the background and apps took several seconds to start.

Switched to Android and never looked back.

Edit: looked up a few dates and I think it must have been iOS 8.

[–] PP_BOY_ 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I'm not saying the 4S is a good phone nowadays, but I still consider it the best phone of all time when you consider when it came out, what its competitors were, etc. Similar to the Nvidia 1080 GPU.

[–] SpaceNoodle 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I'm saying is that Apple made sure to turn it into a bad phone three years after its release, while the 1080 is still a decent GPU several years later.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A year or two ago, I needed a newer graphics card because my R9 390 couldn't handle the resolution of my new ultrawide monitor. This was when prices were crazy, everything was out of stock, and second-hand cards were selling for higher than the retail prices of brand new cards.

I got a 1080Ti for free from someone at my workplace because they hadn't used it for a while and would have felt bad selling it while prices were ridiculously high. He didn't want to take advantage of anyone. Good guy.

To pay it forward, when I upgraded my PC I gave away all the old parts (PSU, motherboard, RAM, CPU) for free. I posted about it, waited a day or two, and picked someone randomly for each item.

[–] Retrograde 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be an absolute irresponsible moron and finance one like I did :) who cares about debt when you have FRAMES am I right?.. right..?

[–] RIP_Cheems 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please pay off your credit card debt.

[–] Retrograde 2 points 1 year ago

Oh don't worry, I have. In fact my credit rating rocks because of my irresponsible-ness - just the way capitalism intended

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 0 points 1 year ago

I want to laugh… but there’s a non zero chance I may be in that spot myself so I choose to defer my response for now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't need to. If you look at the relative performance table, you can get a feeling for a cheaper upgrade path (if you need it): https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1080-ti.c2877

[–] hangonasecond 4 points 1 year ago

This took me down a rabbit hole, thanks for the link. Time to start saving my dollars. I didn't realise just how much of an upgrade a new GPU would be for me.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 2 points 1 year ago

That’s handy. Thanks

[–] sharun 3 points 1 year ago

Bought a laptop with a 1050ti back in 2018, still use it to this day. Though I don't game on it as much as I used to. I've upgraded everything else in it that I could