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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) (2 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.

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[–] [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

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[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Accurate, my 970 lives on!

[–] EatYouWell 12 points 1 year ago

My 980 is still alive, but I replaced it because I thought it had a bad fan bearing. I had just forgotten to remove the protective plastic on the fan shroud, so it peeled off a bit and the fan was hitting it.

It lived in my wife's computer until the psu I put in burnt up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh if Maxwell/Pascal DX12 performance on Linux weren't permanently degraded, I'd likely still be using mine

[–] Mr_Blott 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HaVe yOu tRiED uSiNg WiNDowS?

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

I used to crossbridge them but then one gave out but it just keeps on pluggin.

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

It's the circle of life

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I sold my old parts on ebay when i built a new rig. Got about 100€ in total and paid 2000€ for the new one :|

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I hold on to everything. It's a problem.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's right, if RPGs had gamestops :D

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 1 year ago

eBay fucked me out of $40+ when I tried to sell a video card. Fuck eBay

[–] 7355608 13 points 1 year ago

Only in death does duty end.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I read it and was trying to understand why Death suddenly speaks German on 3rd panel xD

[–] ExfilBravo 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Amilo159 16 points 1 year ago

Get back in the rig 1080

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The niced GPU I own is a RX590

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

Radeon RX 580 until the VRAM dies to the idle @50°C temps or the support is removed from the kernel...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a degree sign for you to keep in your copy paste buffer: °

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

Superscript ^o^, nobody ever notices.

[–] Dicska 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought an RX480 6 years ago and while it probably can't run the most modern games, it's still a trusty work horse for the ones I still play.

At one point I realised that my games have been crashing with BSOD for a year because the cooling paste melted and spread all around the chip. Fixed it, started working with no issues.

Its right fan was so loud that I thought it was shredding some plastic part. I replaced it, was fine for a week, it's loud as hell again. But it's still working like nothing happened.

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

I'm considering to replace the TIM (repasting) + thermal pads at some point... The card is now ~5 years old, and if the paste goes bad that would be end of it. The dust that all boards accumulate overtime is also a risk factor of how long components last.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

2x RX580 go brrr

[–] Amilo159 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was? No, no you really sucked GTX770 and the only reason I kept you for 2 years in 2020s because there was no other option during the crazy time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I went from gtx 770 to a 1080ti when it was released. 5 years later I'm still using the same 1080ti with no plans to upgrade.

[–] ShitOnABrick 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gtx 770 is still a fairly decent gpu allbeit terrifically old

[–] quams69 4 points 1 year ago

Cue halo theme

[–] Pharmacokinetics 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The wife might need a hand me down as well

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

My notebook has two GTX 1080m sli. Still great for video editing and the light gaming I do occasionally.

[–] ShitOnABrick 3 points 1 year ago

amd radeon pro wx 2100 My beloved

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

There is a Kissinger joke here somewhere, I am sure.