Sludig
Potato del Grande
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5070 not a consideration. Though those small leaps apply to every card, 5080 is only like 15% better than the ti.
NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you
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Prodigal
Shitlord, Offender of the Universe
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I picked up a 5080 from Best Buy when they had Cyber Monday “sale” - replaced my 5070Ti since I was moving to a 4K monitor. 5070Ti was solid for my 1440p screen.
Debating whether to sell my 5070ti and also the 3080ti it replaced - probably just sell the 5070ti and have the other for back up.
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Punko
Macho Ma'am
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Cyberpunk looks amazing on my 4080.
A while ago I looked into optimizing the settings, which only made things look better and improved performance.
Might be worthwhile for you.
Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
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100% keep one for a backup. It would suck to have a card die and have to shell out $1-3k for a quick replacement.
jayrebb
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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Had GPU cables fail and wouldn't have been able to determine the problem and fix it myself if I didn't have a backup GPU to affirm the problem.
For that reason I'm not big on selling old cards. It can take longer to diagnose something otherwise-- and even with Microcenter when my CPU failed, I had to guide them through their own troubleshooting because "They couldn't take a customers word for it" (which I understand). I put 20+ hours into diagnosing the CPU failure and it paid off as I steered the repair team toward CPU failure throughout their extensive diagnostic process via texting back and forth. I saved them a lot of time steering them away from RAM issues and GPU issues. Only thing I couldn't 100% eliminate as a possible problem was the motherboard which was the most frustrating aspect of it. So I had to say CPU/Mobo. I don't consider myself ultra computer literate, but my tenacious days long googlefu outperformed their whole team and I only brought the rig in when I was positive I had it narrowed down to CPU failure. Initial symptom was memory corruptions in Windows.
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Hekotat
FoH nuclear response team
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I always keep my old card since prices went insane, I know it'll fail at a bad time. I kept my 7900XTX even though I should sell it.
Get one of those emulator retro console things with 30k+ games or whatever, or start hitting Facebook marketplace for consoles and games that dont require online components to work.
I used to think downloading games would be an exciting future, but with the idea that you rent and never own, games can be delisted and cant be played if not connected online, vid cards being rented and having an hour limit...etc...may very well just go back to the Genesis, SNES up to PS4 era and look for.
$3k+ for cards now, fuck that. Dont care how much I like gaming, Ill never support it.
Grabbit Allworth
Confirmed J6 Insurrectionist
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Two of the most common, preventable reasons that a card dies are:
1. Not being supported. Please, for the love of everything, use the support bracket that comes with the card and if it doesn't, find something that can prop that front right corner (assuming standard build) up.
2. Running them on old and/or underpowered PSUs. If you do this, your card is going to get a lot hotter than it should and the constant flex of heating up and cooling down pushes it beyond its spec limits and dies early. Easily avoidable by buying a PSU that is rated 10-20% higher than what your system requires. E.g. Need 750, buy an 850.
If you do have a dead card, don't toss it. A lot of them can be repaired and with how expensive they're getting, the $150-$400 repair costs are a lot better than buying a new one.
1. Not being supported. Please, for the love of everything, use the support bracket that comes with the card and if it doesn't, find something that can prop that front right corner (assuming standard build) up.
2. Running them on old and/or underpowered PSUs. If you do this, your card is going to get a lot hotter than it should and the constant flex of heating up and cooling down pushes it beyond its spec limits and dies early. Easily avoidable by buying a PSU that is rated 10-20% higher than what your system requires. E.g. Need 750, buy an 850.
If you do have a dead card, don't toss it. A lot of them can be repaired and with how expensive they're getting, the $150-$400 repair costs are a lot better than buying a new one.