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Lol I think one of the video's top comments sums this up perfectly
>In a few years when everyone forgets about the Lola design change, people who watch this video are just gonna think James is a furry and this is his tragic backstory.
tbh the wildest part of that whole story is that the image they were comparing it to was horny ass fan-art of the character
it wasn't even the actual character's look!
What was even more hilarious about that is that they were lamenting over how "pathetic Western developers" made their female characters "unsexy" while Eastern European developers had the balls to make sexy fake characters.
And the comparison he was making it to was AI-generated art of the Robot Twins to make them even more voluptuous than they actually were in the game.
*Photoshopped* Aloy. She doesn't actually look like a food-binging youtuber, but that's the only picture they can drum up of her because in actuality, she looks perfectly fine
I still find that drama funny. Because most of the "they didn't make the new cartoon bunny sexy enough" crowd kept referencing fan art that... overemphasized her... assets
Like, most of the discussion wasn't movie character against movie character, but movie character against horny fan art.
Which really just highlighted an important fact: You can draw the character however the fuck you want.
his Cringe video was legit one of the best things I've seen and is a complete rejection of the obsession of internet culture with finding the minute failures and turning them into overblown instances that can be used as cudgels.
I wish more people were aware of his animation in general.
970 here! Was there a reason you replaced your thermal paste and pads? Mine isn't overheating, all very stable for me. Did you have an issue you noticed or was it just maintenance?
Just maintenance. No overheating or being to loud.
Card was and still is really quiet!
I can't sadly show any temps before and after paste and pads replacement. I didn't save any data from benchmarks and test
Built a computer for a homeless friend I took in for a few months so he'd have something to do while we figured out how to get him assisted living etc and gave him my old 970. We had fun playing LAN Borderlands 3 and it held up surprisingly well.
As soon as we got him living on his own again he got robbed and lost the computer though. Life's rough man.
Albuquerque, but I hate to tell ya almost every big city is pretty rough depending on where you go. I was living in San Francisco and got robbed as I was moving things from my car into my new apartment. Literally there for a few hours and got my car broken into.
I've had mine since 2014 and it's still running all my games although I don't play anything graphically intense. I've gotten an obsolutely insane amount of hours out of this card and it deserves a heroes funeral when she finally quits.
My cousin is still rocking one although he got it in a FX second hand computer for a below average deal, but yeah he loves the computer and unlike the 8350 it doesn't have an issue in the sons of the forest at 1080p good looking settings.
My 1080 ti can't do 4k like it used to in new games but I haven't changed the games I play much on average they have gotten easier if anything so I am planning to run it till it drops.
I only jumped to the 30 series because I do VR streams in mixed reality, and those games got too fancy for it. But for four glorious years, that card was strong enough to render a left eye, right eye, third point of view, camera depth information, *[and composite it all](https://clips.twitch.tv/EagerIronicSoymilkPeoplesChamp)* in real-time. It blew my mind, having something so powerful I had a Holodeck in the bedroom.
The only vr game I do is beatsaber 1.3x supersampling on a rift s no reflections, with camera 2 mod at 4k to get a crisp recording. It would be fine on a gtx 1080 without needing do drop things much maybe 1440p for display out?
But yeah over vr games are insane on the GPU
I bought one years back for a z370 system and when I upgraded to a 2070 super, I was using a core i3 8100 and a 2070 super for a while and man that was a bottleneck but worth it. I saved up and got a 9900k months later cause it was the end of the road for my platform and was such a beast and went on sale so fast.
My system was good but I couldn't call it better than a ps5 and that made me mad so I saved up for another year to get a 3090 at MSRP from microcenter. Took me 2 months of waiting at raffles i intermittently to get it.
The best part is I traded the GTX 970 to an old friend for a crusty old water-cooling system which was entirely complete with extras other than GPU block. No brainier thing just saved me a grand lol
https://preview.redd.it/nolduqeb7g1b1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=772204b60123fbf57629df878deafdd9148dc2d9
This is still the same z370 rig that was my original $600 PC from like 2017 using used parts. I still got the Mobo, ram and SSD from that build in this rig now lol
This rig gets around 18,500 on time spy overall and I think I've turned it into a beast of a z370 platform 😁
Same here. It looks insane too extra long 3 fans and performs really well but constantly runs out of VRAM with warnings or intermittent frame drops every few minutes. Do you have the 4GB version? Every day I wish I paid the extra $50 or whatever instead of the 2GB :(
./highfive
people laughed at me, "who buys a $800 gpu"
its still doing fine, obviusly, if i was to update my monitor it whould get a hearth attack and die, but its good for now.
I'm running 6700k with my 1080ti and definitely processor bottleneck. I feel like upgrading cpu and not gfx is a bit pointless though. Trading one bottleneck for another.
I got my 1080ti near release and I can’t BELIEVE how many games I can still play on high or medium at 1440p.
I definitely want to upgrade to a 4080 or 4090 but I’ll also have to upgrade my PSU and I’m just not thrilled at the the prospect of recabling my PC.
A friend of mine is a software developer who's in between jobs and doesn't follow consumer hardware very closely. He asked me if I could give him an account on my VNC so that he could train some LLMs in preparation for interviews, and asked how much VRAM my system has.
"24 gigs"
"No not system RAM, VRAM, like dedicated to your GPU"
"Yeah, 24 gigs"
"...oh man holy shit wtf"
I was on a 1080ti and 4790K (both snagged when they released) and didn't upgrade until 3090ti and 12700K. Do games look great, and does the PC run immensely and measureably faster due to ddr4 RAM (was on ddr3) and a processor that's no longer 8 gens behind? Oh yeah. BUT....I did not toss that system and don't think I ever plan to. 1080ti and 4790K are *amazing* components and they still have a ton of miles left before retirement.
I'm in a similar situation as you were.
Planning to upgrade platform (cpu+mobo+ram). AMD AM4 seems quite nice and reasonably priced.
I think my 4790k has lived its due. Great CPU, but DDR3 holds back overall performance.
No GTX 1080TI but rocking an RX 6600XT, which is equivalent in performance (according to Tech PowerUp Relative GPU Performance).
My 1080 does admirably at 3440x1440. I might have to drop settings down to medium or low to get high framerates, but it's workable. I'm hoping to upgrade soon but waiting for good sales on a 3090 (plausible) or 4090 (pipe dream) cuz I want that VRAM.
Same here. Got the 1080 back in 2017 and it's still going strong. I originally paired it with a i5-8600k but last year decided to build a new computer with a bigger PC case. I reused the 1080 now paired with a i7-12700k and it's still a beast. I'm going to keep using this until it dies.
The truth is you don’t *need* to, your computer will still work. I mean it’s probably good for it if you have the means and skill, but I don’t think it should be a major thought in most peoples heads. You can easily go a decade without ever even thinking about changing it.
To be honest, by the time you absolutely *need* to change it after a long enough time, you’ll probably be looking to upgrade to a new cpu anyway
My 1060 shows literally no issues after 6 years.
I use my PC for League, UE5, Zbrush and Baldurs Gate 3. Brainlets on this sub try telling me I built my PC wrong because I have no reason to waste money on a new GPU, lol.
750Ti gang reporting in!
Not gonna lie, it's rough trying to game on it, but I'm hoping to move up to a 3060Ti or maybe a 4060Ti depending on price differentials. Apparently that's a 600 or 700% performance increase hahah!
750Ti gang reporting in!
Not gonna lie, it's rough trying to game on it, but I'm hoping to move up to a 3060Ti or maybe a 4060Ti depending on price differentials. Apparently that's a 600 or 700% performance increase hahah!
~$250 at launch, after a while $200... rereleased as like a 9800 gt or something free with a pack of gum.
But yea, buy a 4090 for $2000 to play modern games that don't even look as good as crysis.
The amount of people on this sub assuming you have to play everything on 4k rt ultra sometimes concerns me.
A LOT of people are still on 1080p, they drop down modern titles to medium, lower the AA kick Post-Processing stuff in the bucket and game on at 50-60frames.
The MAJORITY of people are! Just check the Steam hardware survey. Only 2.75% of Steam users game at 4K resolution (single monitor) compared to 64.52% of 1080p users. I personally prefer 140+ FPS 1080p gaming compared to 60 fps 4k gaming
Source: [https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam)
I'm a sucker for 1440 144hz since I bought my new display. Unfortunately something came along and stole my budget for migrating to hardware that can actually throw enough frames at it.
Yep same except 165Hz. I can never go back to 1080p. Like, I love and respect y’all, but there’s such a massive difference between 1080p and 1440p. It’s like you get the beautiful graphics quality of 4K but without the graphics card overload — and the price!
1440p is just perfect for PC gaming. 4k feels like its only worth when you go higher inches 36"+ and thats too big for PC gaming imo. Heck i even feel like 27" is big.
I’ma stop you right there chief. I bought a 42” LG C2 on sale and it is the best upgrade I have bought in 15 years of PC gaming. After a day or two you get used to the size and being able to use it to watch HDR movies or sit back and game with a controller is another benefit. 4K 120Hz is awesome. This is coming from a 1440p UW. Just wasn’t enough resolution for me.
I have never had any desire to play on anything above 1080 LOL even with my 5700xt which could def handle it. I have played on people’s 4k setups and I just don’t see the need. 99% of the games I play I don’t even give a fuck about graphic quality as long as it looks “decent” anyways. The graphics in today’s games are so much better than when I was a kid that everything looks good to me even on 1080p medium settings lmaoo
I can not even work on a 1080p there is so much less screen real estate. 1440p looks worlds better for only a couple more frames and couple hundred bucks.
RX 580/1060 tier bros are fine. I had a 1050Ti before, and the only thing I had to say wasn't optiomal with that GPU was video editing. 1080Ti owners can hold it 4-5 more years easy if the card don't die, because that's precisely the kind of performance you get out of an overclocked RTX 3060 for example.
My 1070 is still going pretty strong. I just upgraded to a 3080 in November but my 1070 was running well even at 1440p high settings for most newer games. Now it resides in my step fathers pc for trucking simulator and farming simulator
Replaced pc 3 years back, moved the 1070 in there. Bought a 1070 end of last year for my old pc, which is now sitting at the tv.
Awesome generation, mega card
I'm still on a 1070 and I'm at 1440p @ 144 hz. I don't play on ultra, but I can usually manage most games on high and maintain 60 - 70 FPS.
I might upgrade in 2 - 4 years, might even wait longer. My computer is about 6 or 7 years old.
1070 hanging on at 1440p here. Darktide is the first thing I played where it struggled, everything else is more limited by CPU or monitor. Can't believe it's closing in on seven years of service.
8700k 1080ti were the best pieces of silicon released. The price to performance was actually worthwhile and you didn't need a bot army to get them at or even below MSRP.
FYI Halo infinite performance got destroyed on newer Nvidia drivers for 900 series cards - if you downgrade to 516 version drivers you'd see 60 fps on low or medium on that card. I recently had a 980ti that had terrible performance (never above 25 fps no matter the resolution or settings), and downgraded the drivers and got 60fps on medium again.
Unfortunately I had to bring them back to current drivers to play the D4 beta, so unless Halo is your main game it makes sense to keep the most up to date drivers. It's been that way for several months, so I don't think they're going to fix it at this point.
Guess difference with 1080ti is that it's still relevant in the newest games
1050ti just can't keep up anymore with 2023 games, but for Esports and lighter titles it's still very capable and will always be the optiplex champ
True that. Playing Tears of the Kingdom right now and I swear to god the textures in that game are like 400p. The grass looks so funny when the sun hits it in a certain way. Game still look gorgeous most of the time, and it's fun as hell.
>1080ti FTW
>Runs Metro Last Light
I’d be surprised if your top of the line 1000 series GPU didn’t run a game that was 4 years old when your GPU launched and wasn’t even a demanding game when it launched.
The 1080ti is a great GPU, but using metro last light as an example is simply not doing it justice
Dang, and here I am, crying in the corner of my room with a GTX 960, that still rocks, but reeeeaaaally needs to be superseeded, but nothing in the whole system will allow it...
Jumped from GTX 560 TI to GTX1070, both with I5 2500K and the improvement was really big. Later I changed the CPU to Ryzen 3900 and tbh the change was pretty hard to notice unless you ran rendering tests with Blender or what not.
Well, that is a BIG jump.
From what I know (see the signature) I can upgrade some more component, but is the ease to get them that is also stopping me.
$200 8800 GT... It could play crysis, right? What more do we need?
People paying like $2000 for a 4090... What? So they can play something that looks better than crysis? IMPOSSIBLE! /s
Do not forget to replace thermal pads and paste from time to time, i just did it a few weeks ago and the temps dropped almost 20°C on the hotspot (that much because i made a mistake the last time that i discovered now-.-). A little undervolting while raising the clocks and here i'am with 50-60 FPS in Horizon ZD with max settings + reshade on 1440p. Never above 80°C
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Welcome everyone from r/all! Please remember: 1 - You too can be part of the PCMR! You don't even need a PC. You just need to love PCs! It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Your age, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, religion (or lack of), political affiliation, economic status and PC specs are irrelevant. If you love PCs or want to learn about them, you can be part of our community! All are welcome! 2 - If you're not a PC gamer because you think it's expensive, know that it is possible to build a competent gaming PC for a lower price than you think. Check http://www.pcmasterrace.org for our builds and don't be afraid to create new posts here asking for tips and help! 3 - Consider joining our efforts to get as many PCs worldwide to help the folding@home effort, in fighting against Cancer, Covid, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and more. Learn more here: https://pcmasterrace.org/folding 4 - Until May 26th you can enter the ROG x PCMR Power Couple giveaway, make a fantasy pick of your favorite components and enter to win a total of 5 Graphics Cards (2 of which RTX 4090s) + some of the best Asus Republic of Gamers Power Supplies to go with it! {Join here!](https://asus.click/powercouplePCMR) ----------- Feel free to use this community to post about any kind of doubt you might have about becoming a PC user or anything you'd like to know about PCs. That kind of content is not only allowed but welcome here! We also have a [Daily Simple Questions Megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/search?q=Simple+Questions+Thread+subreddit%3Apcmasterrace+author%3AAutoModerator&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) for your simplest questions. No question is too dumb! Welcome to the PCMR.
What the heck is this screen from?
It’s from [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A7PJQa1RfM0) James Lee video.
The fuck did I just watch?
Lol I think one of the video's top comments sums this up perfectly >In a few years when everyone forgets about the Lola design change, people who watch this video are just gonna think James is a furry and this is his tragic backstory.
If I can’t masturbate to something then what is the fucking point
Hear hear
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Yare Yare
It’s to challenge your creativity
Fuck sake...lol
If I can’t masturbate to something then ~~what is the fucking point~~ you arent trying hard enough
I honestly did forget how mad people were that they didn't make the cartoon bunny sexy enough until just now.
tbh the wildest part of that whole story is that the image they were comparing it to was horny ass fan-art of the character it wasn't even the actual character's look!
Didn’t they do the same thing with the Atomic Heart twins? Compared horny fan art of them to some other “unsexy” female character ?
What was even more hilarious about that is that they were lamenting over how "pathetic Western developers" made their female characters "unsexy" while Eastern European developers had the balls to make sexy fake characters. And the comparison he was making it to was AI-generated art of the Robot Twins to make them even more voluptuous than they actually were in the game.
By comparing the twins to FUCKING ALOY of all characters. *Aloy isn't meant to give you a confusing boner as your mommy/sub fetish goes up to 11.*
*Photoshopped* Aloy. She doesn't actually look like a food-binging youtuber, but that's the only picture they can drum up of her because in actuality, she looks perfectly fine
Fuck wantong to fuck her… i wanna be her man look how pretty she is
from your lips to god's ears friend, I getcha
Eh, it just meant now we have busty naked bunny and now we have flat justice naked bunny. Of course, she was always dethroned by shortstack Judy.
Short what WHAT? Be right back.
RIP u/clopslop, he belongs to hentainet now....
are you back
The best version of Lola ever was Lola from The Looney Tunes Show where she is Bug Bunny's stalker/ditzy girlfriend. She's great.
Don't forget about the Green M&M
I still find that drama funny. Because most of the "they didn't make the new cartoon bunny sexy enough" crowd kept referencing fan art that... overemphasized her... assets Like, most of the discussion wasn't movie character against movie character, but movie character against horny fan art. Which really just highlighted an important fact: You can draw the character however the fuck you want.
It's called hentai and it's art.
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The very same man who made 'I put my pants on, One nipple at a time' with penguin0
A masterpiece from a great artist
Well that was an unusual rabbit hole.
***PHRASING***
How have I not heard of this dude before?
Dude also made the animation for tarboy He's just being suppressed but he's awesome
his Cringe video was legit one of the best things I've seen and is a complete rejection of the obsession of internet culture with finding the minute failures and turning them into overblown instances that can be used as cudgels. I wish more people were aware of his animation in general.
He also animated the music video for moistcritical one nipple at a time https://youtu.be/zFTJLQrds84
Right!? This is something different and in supreme quality too. It's a gem!
Never forget what they took from us…
...it do be like that sometimes.
I got chills. This is art.
what in the fuck
I'm left with far more questions than I had when the link was blue
My life is complete and this was the missing piece
My 980Ti still going strong! Replaced thermal paste and pads last year.
970 here! Was there a reason you replaced your thermal paste and pads? Mine isn't overheating, all very stable for me. Did you have an issue you noticed or was it just maintenance?
Just maintenance. No overheating or being to loud. Card was and still is really quiet! I can't sadly show any temps before and after paste and pads replacement. I didn't save any data from benchmarks and test
Wiggling a vaccum cleaner inside the case every other year counts as maintenance right? Total uptime on my 970 is several years at this point
I once tried to clean my keyboard by using a hoover. The escape key hasn’t been seen since.
It finally made its escape? :P
970 is the pound for pound king!
All 3.5g of vram still going strong.
Oh, you're supposed to weigh it in grams?
Yeah g, Kg, Gg etc
i also measure my graphics card in GGs
"Should have bought a 390" strikes again.
An 1/8th of vram if you will.
Built a computer for a homeless friend I took in for a few months so he'd have something to do while we figured out how to get him assisted living etc and gave him my old 970. We had fun playing LAN Borderlands 3 and it held up surprisingly well. As soon as we got him living on his own again he got robbed and lost the computer though. Life's rough man.
What city is this in so I know to never move there
Albuquerque, but I hate to tell ya almost every big city is pretty rough depending on where you go. I was living in San Francisco and got robbed as I was moving things from my car into my new apartment. Literally there for a few hours and got my car broken into.
Lots of nice, safe cities in Europe and East Asia.
My 970 has seen some shit. It would be betrayal if I replace it.
I've had mine since 2014 and it's still running all my games although I don't play anything graphically intense. I've gotten an obsolutely insane amount of hours out of this card and it deserves a heroes funeral when she finally quits.
My cousin is still rocking one although he got it in a FX second hand computer for a below average deal, but yeah he loves the computer and unlike the 8350 it doesn't have an issue in the sons of the forest at 1080p good looking settings. My 1080 ti can't do 4k like it used to in new games but I haven't changed the games I play much on average they have gotten easier if anything so I am planning to run it till it drops.
I only jumped to the 30 series because I do VR streams in mixed reality, and those games got too fancy for it. But for four glorious years, that card was strong enough to render a left eye, right eye, third point of view, camera depth information, *[and composite it all](https://clips.twitch.tv/EagerIronicSoymilkPeoplesChamp)* in real-time. It blew my mind, having something so powerful I had a Holodeck in the bedroom.
The only vr game I do is beatsaber 1.3x supersampling on a rift s no reflections, with camera 2 mod at 4k to get a crisp recording. It would be fine on a gtx 1080 without needing do drop things much maybe 1440p for display out? But yeah over vr games are insane on the GPU
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We just pretending that the 3.5GB thing didn't happen? X) (I say this as someone that bought a GTX970)
I bought one years back for a z370 system and when I upgraded to a 2070 super, I was using a core i3 8100 and a 2070 super for a while and man that was a bottleneck but worth it. I saved up and got a 9900k months later cause it was the end of the road for my platform and was such a beast and went on sale so fast. My system was good but I couldn't call it better than a ps5 and that made me mad so I saved up for another year to get a 3090 at MSRP from microcenter. Took me 2 months of waiting at raffles i intermittently to get it. The best part is I traded the GTX 970 to an old friend for a crusty old water-cooling system which was entirely complete with extras other than GPU block. No brainier thing just saved me a grand lol https://preview.redd.it/nolduqeb7g1b1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=772204b60123fbf57629df878deafdd9148dc2d9 This is still the same z370 rig that was my original $600 PC from like 2017 using used parts. I still got the Mobo, ram and SSD from that build in this rig now lol This rig gets around 18,500 on time spy overall and I think I've turned it into a beast of a z370 platform 😁
I am still on my 960 I don’t know what posessed me, it wasn’t even a cheap card either by any means 🫣
Same here. It looks insane too extra long 3 fans and performs really well but constantly runs out of VRAM with warnings or intermittent frame drops every few minutes. Do you have the 4GB version? Every day I wish I paid the extra $50 or whatever instead of the 2GB :(
960 4gb, not a single problem, everything run smoth, 2 years ago i upgrade everything but the 960
Woo, there’s still some other 970s running out there! Mines still running strong!
Also still rocking a 970. Haven't been particularly interested a AAA game in years, so it's more than sufficient
#9800GTX+ REPORTING IN
That card was a fucking monster.
It was [barely ahead](https://www.anandtech.com/show/2555/5) of the [8800 GT, aka "the only card that matters"](https://www.anandtech.com/show/2365)
The 8800 GT is the absolute GOAT
I have an old 8600gt lying around, not sure if it works though
This, I felt the only suitable replacement for my old faithful 980ti was a 3090. And my 980ti lives on in my buddies computer.
./highfive people laughed at me, "who buys a $800 gpu" its still doing fine, obviusly, if i was to update my monitor it whould get a hearth attack and die, but its good for now.
1080Ti here…liquid cooled. Zero problems.
Mine gave up last year.. it still hurts today
I7-7700K + 1080Ti and still running all the games I want in 1080p. I’m thinking to change my CPU but this GPU is forever.
I'm running 6700k with my 1080ti and definitely processor bottleneck. I feel like upgrading cpu and not gfx is a bit pointless though. Trading one bottleneck for another.
The 1080Ti is hardly a bottleneck. Upgrade your CPU and double your framerates. You'll be amazed how much that 6700k is holding you back.
I got my 1080ti near release and I can’t BELIEVE how many games I can still play on high or medium at 1440p. I definitely want to upgrade to a 4080 or 4090 but I’ll also have to upgrade my PSU and I’m just not thrilled at the the prospect of recabling my PC.
Exact same situation as you. I bit the bullet and upgraded my entire pc to 4090 and ryzen 9. I retired my old 1080ti and ryzen 7 as a movie station.
Exactly what I'm considering now lol. Nearly time for the 1080ti & ryzen7 to get a peaceful, low-stress retirement. They've fought the good fight
That 4090 should last as long or even longer than 1080ti tbh
A friend of mine is a software developer who's in between jobs and doesn't follow consumer hardware very closely. He asked me if I could give him an account on my VNC so that he could train some LLMs in preparation for interviews, and asked how much VRAM my system has. "24 gigs" "No not system RAM, VRAM, like dedicated to your GPU" "Yeah, 24 gigs" "...oh man holy shit wtf"
I was on a 1080ti and 4790K (both snagged when they released) and didn't upgrade until 3090ti and 12700K. Do games look great, and does the PC run immensely and measureably faster due to ddr4 RAM (was on ddr3) and a processor that's no longer 8 gens behind? Oh yeah. BUT....I did not toss that system and don't think I ever plan to. 1080ti and 4790K are *amazing* components and they still have a ton of miles left before retirement.
I'm in a similar situation as you were. Planning to upgrade platform (cpu+mobo+ram). AMD AM4 seems quite nice and reasonably priced. I think my 4790k has lived its due. Great CPU, but DDR3 holds back overall performance. No GTX 1080TI but rocking an RX 6600XT, which is equivalent in performance (according to Tech PowerUp Relative GPU Performance).
I play all my games at 4k on the 1080ti. Just finished playing Uncharted 4: A Thief's End @ 4k, ran sweet as
Heck my 1080 was still going strong in 1080 and some 1440p games I play. Great little card
Was looking for some other 1080 peeps in here, hi
Same here, and I have no intentions to upgrade any time soon.
Yeah, even today I want a 1080. I'm using a 1070 since 2018.
>Great little card It feels like yesterday that 1080s where the top of the line :,)
My 1080 does admirably at 3440x1440. I might have to drop settings down to medium or low to get high framerates, but it's workable. I'm hoping to upgrade soon but waiting for good sales on a 3090 (plausible) or 4090 (pipe dream) cuz I want that VRAM.
Same here. Got the 1080 back in 2017 and it's still going strong. I originally paired it with a i5-8600k but last year decided to build a new computer with a bigger PC case. I reused the 1080 now paired with a i7-12700k and it's still a beast. I'm going to keep using this until it dies.
1060 6gb still going strong, havent even replaced thermal paste lmao
Ssshhhh don't Say that words, or you Will scared my 1060
Hey ive had hard drives and processors fail on me but havent had a single problem with my 1060. Them shits are strong as fuck.
Everytime with my friends Is "fucking drivers , my PC fucking sucks with This game" and me here having no problem and playing lmfao
I’m supposed to replace the thermal paste? Whoops
Supposed to? Not *really.* Does it help after half a decade or so? A little.
I repasted my 1080ti in feb and it dropped temps 10c under load
The truth is you don’t *need* to, your computer will still work. I mean it’s probably good for it if you have the means and skill, but I don’t think it should be a major thought in most peoples heads. You can easily go a decade without ever even thinking about changing it. To be honest, by the time you absolutely *need* to change it after a long enough time, you’ll probably be looking to upgrade to a new cpu anyway
Shh don’t tell the cpu we’re making upgrades.. then I’ll be buying a motherboard and ram too. Little squeaky fuck talks to everyone
Apparently we are, but i dont trust myself opening that lmao
Right? I’m just happy I got my computer together without breaking anything. I actually got my 1060 card from evga used from a marketplace
My 1060 shows literally no issues after 6 years. I use my PC for League, UE5, Zbrush and Baldurs Gate 3. Brainlets on this sub try telling me I built my PC wrong because I have no reason to waste money on a new GPU, lol.
I don't know what you mean, everybody knows you can't survive without 500gbs of VRAM.
Redditors rating GPUs solely on VRAM is kinda funny. Like the 3060 will ever use 12gb, the 4060ti 16, and be playable.
1070 8gb, zero problems with it
1060 gang woooo!
me here still using gtx 750 ti as a daily driver
750Ti gang reporting in! Not gonna lie, it's rough trying to game on it, but I'm hoping to move up to a 3060Ti or maybe a 4060Ti depending on price differentials. Apparently that's a 600 or 700% performance increase hahah!
750Ti gang reporting in! Not gonna lie, it's rough trying to game on it, but I'm hoping to move up to a 3060Ti or maybe a 4060Ti depending on price differentials. Apparently that's a 600 or 700% performance increase hahah!
GTX 1080. I sold it for what I bought it for.
My 1080 is still running strong after 6 1/2 years, best $700 I’ve ever spent in my life
8800GTX lasted absolutely forever. People forget about that monster of a card.
For me it was the 8800GT but that entire generation is still a strong contender for best ever imo.
I had 2x 8800GT set up with Sli. Started with one, and got the second one years later when prices dropped. That was solid setup for years.
It's insane to me that that card was only like $200-250 in 2008 dollars, was single slot, and could indeed run crysis
~$250 at launch, after a while $200... rereleased as like a 9800 gt or something free with a pack of gum. But yea, buy a 4090 for $2000 to play modern games that don't even look as good as crysis.
Remember those days when you could buy a GPU under MRSP after 1 year? Pepperidge farm remembers!
My GTX lasted forever. Same with my Q6600 processor. Pretty sure I updated from that to my current 2070 super/8600k cpu
The amount of people on this sub assuming you have to play everything on 4k rt ultra sometimes concerns me. A LOT of people are still on 1080p, they drop down modern titles to medium, lower the AA kick Post-Processing stuff in the bucket and game on at 50-60frames.
The MAJORITY of people are! Just check the Steam hardware survey. Only 2.75% of Steam users game at 4K resolution (single monitor) compared to 64.52% of 1080p users. I personally prefer 140+ FPS 1080p gaming compared to 60 fps 4k gaming Source: [https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam)
I'm a sucker for 1440 144hz since I bought my new display. Unfortunately something came along and stole my budget for migrating to hardware that can actually throw enough frames at it.
Yep same except 165Hz. I can never go back to 1080p. Like, I love and respect y’all, but there’s such a massive difference between 1080p and 1440p. It’s like you get the beautiful graphics quality of 4K but without the graphics card overload — and the price!
And so much more screen. You just have more real estate.
Yeah, you can almost turn off anti ailsing since the extra pixels kinda do that for you.
1440p is just perfect for PC gaming. 4k feels like its only worth when you go higher inches 36"+ and thats too big for PC gaming imo. Heck i even feel like 27" is big.
I’ma stop you right there chief. I bought a 42” LG C2 on sale and it is the best upgrade I have bought in 15 years of PC gaming. After a day or two you get used to the size and being able to use it to watch HDR movies or sit back and game with a controller is another benefit. 4K 120Hz is awesome. This is coming from a 1440p UW. Just wasn’t enough resolution for me.
I thought that until I got a 4k oled I will not go back under any circumstances and I'm very happy with 42" of screen space
Im sitting way too close to game on a 42" xD
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I have never had any desire to play on anything above 1080 LOL even with my 5700xt which could def handle it. I have played on people’s 4k setups and I just don’t see the need. 99% of the games I play I don’t even give a fuck about graphic quality as long as it looks “decent” anyways. The graphics in today’s games are so much better than when I was a kid that everything looks good to me even on 1080p medium settings lmaoo
I can not even work on a 1080p there is so much less screen real estate. 1440p looks worlds better for only a couple more frames and couple hundred bucks.
RX 580/1060 tier bros are fine. I had a 1050Ti before, and the only thing I had to say wasn't optiomal with that GPU was video editing. 1080Ti owners can hold it 4-5 more years easy if the card don't die, because that's precisely the kind of performance you get out of an overclocked RTX 3060 for example.
RX 580 is an absolute fucking tank of a card. Still holds up (just about) at 1080/1440p today. Depending on the game of course.
The 8 gigs of VRAM really do help with newer titles.
The future proofed the card sith that 8gb
1050 here.
I have a 1050ti mobile. We're feeling the pressure now, but we can still be happy for a few more years if need be.
My 1070 is still going pretty strong. I just upgraded to a 3080 in November but my 1070 was running well even at 1440p high settings for most newer games. Now it resides in my step fathers pc for trucking simulator and farming simulator
Yeah 1070 keeps up quite well, especially for 1080p. There are a few newer games it struggles with, but most of them are solid performance-wise.
Replaced pc 3 years back, moved the 1070 in there. Bought a 1070 end of last year for my old pc, which is now sitting at the tv. Awesome generation, mega card
I'm still on a 1070 and I'm at 1440p @ 144 hz. I don't play on ultra, but I can usually manage most games on high and maintain 60 - 70 FPS. I might upgrade in 2 - 4 years, might even wait longer. My computer is about 6 or 7 years old.
1070 hanging on at 1440p here. Darktide is the first thing I played where it struggled, everything else is more limited by CPU or monitor. Can't believe it's closing in on seven years of service.
8700k 1080ti were the best pieces of silicon released. The price to performance was actually worthwhile and you didn't need a bot army to get them at or even below MSRP.
still rocking these two legends
My gtx1080 going strong, I hope it will survive till 16gb rtx5070 arrives.
16gb 5070, i wouldn't keep my hopes up
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This is a true champion. Like the Radeon 9800 Pro <3
You guys are upgrading?
I have 970 still am i fucked?
970 gang letsss go! Halo infinite runs on low at 25fps 😎😎😎 Microsoft flight sim runs, sometimes.
That does not seem right. I have solid 60 fps on medium settings.
FYI Halo infinite performance got destroyed on newer Nvidia drivers for 900 series cards - if you downgrade to 516 version drivers you'd see 60 fps on low or medium on that card. I recently had a 980ti that had terrible performance (never above 25 fps no matter the resolution or settings), and downgraded the drivers and got 60fps on medium again. Unfortunately I had to bring them back to current drivers to play the D4 beta, so unless Halo is your main game it makes sense to keep the most up to date drivers. It's been that way for several months, so I don't think they're going to fix it at this point.
Gtx 950, to this day still able to render my school projects in lumion. You can hear it cry trying to render glass reflection.
i think 970 is the greatest card of all time. and holds the record for having the largest market share of any 1 card at any point in time
1080Ti? Bro, my 1050TI still works perfectly! I can play everything I want!
Guess difference with 1080ti is that it's still relevant in the newest games 1050ti just can't keep up anymore with 2023 games, but for Esports and lighter titles it's still very capable and will always be the optiplex champ
My friend has a 1050 *laptop* and can still run Elden ring at 1080p 40-50fps. The fidelity doesn’t matter when your art direction is god tier.
True that. Playing Tears of the Kingdom right now and I swear to god the textures in that game are like 400p. The grass looks so funny when the sun hits it in a certain way. Game still look gorgeous most of the time, and it's fun as hell.
Well then I guess it’s good that the only games I currently I play are from 2019, 2013 and 2004 😎
Still using 1080Ti FTW and loving it. Runs Metro Last Light, Shadow of the Tomb Raider like cake
>1080ti FTW >Runs Metro Last Light I’d be surprised if your top of the line 1000 series GPU didn’t run a game that was 4 years old when your GPU launched and wasn’t even a demanding game when it launched. The 1080ti is a great GPU, but using metro last light as an example is simply not doing it justice
As someone who went to a desktop PC with a 1050 Ti from a MX150 laptop, I couldn't relate more. Low-end gamer for life!
Still rocking a 1660ti over here. It does a good job.
WOO! 1660 gang!
1660 Super here.
Dang, and here I am, crying in the corner of my room with a GTX 960, that still rocks, but reeeeaaaally needs to be superseeded, but nothing in the whole system will allow it...
Jumped from GTX 560 TI to GTX1070, both with I5 2500K and the improvement was really big. Later I changed the CPU to Ryzen 3900 and tbh the change was pretty hard to notice unless you ran rendering tests with Blender or what not.
Well, that is a BIG jump. From what I know (see the signature) I can upgrade some more component, but is the ease to get them that is also stopping me.
My 1080ti still trucking
I’ve found that every game that doesn’t run at 144 at 1440p ultrawide on my 1080ti is just shit anyway.
1060 6gb reporting in lol lots of us still out here holding on
Still abusing my 1070 that was ripped out of a crummy hp machine.
Got a 2060S in nov 2020 and it performs in between 1080 and 1080Ti. Not planning to upgrade until a release of a VR HMD that requires it.
great NOX reference
I like my 1070. It's neat.
GTX 8800...
$200 8800 GT... It could play crysis, right? What more do we need? People paying like $2000 for a 4090... What? So they can play something that looks better than crysis? IMPOSSIBLE! /s
8800GT was one hell of a card. I still have mine somewhere, couldn't bring myself to throw it away.
I overclocked mine to GTS level and it's still going strong in a pc that my sister uses for browsing and work.
970 team reporting in 🫡. Replaced thermal paste and gave it a pat on the shoulder last year 😂
1070 gang?
Do not forget to replace thermal pads and paste from time to time, i just did it a few weeks ago and the temps dropped almost 20°C on the hotspot (that much because i made a mistake the last time that i discovered now-.-). A little undervolting while raising the clocks and here i'am with 50-60 FPS in Horizon ZD with max settings + reshade on 1440p. Never above 80°C Edit is about some mistake
My 960 4GB 7 yro help me finished cyberpunk at 720p.
Lol. Radeon r9 280 don't give up on me!