Brian McKee

Temps more have to do with the efficiency of the cooler design. A lot of 3000 series cards have better coolers because of the higher power output. The only guarantee is more heat will be pumped into your room. Conversely your 1070 is aging at this point, a simple replacement of the old thermal compound on the chip would lower temps by allowing for better contact with the die.

Why exactly? The heat numbers has to do more with thermal design of the coolers and less about the chip. Put a blower style cooler on a 3080 and it'll hit over 100 degrees. But high power is high power. 100% of that will be pumped out as waste heat into your room. I also don't exactly buy this. People weren't exactly clamoring to buy stuff like the gtx 790 or r9 295x even when support for dual gpus was reasonable. I think there has absolutely been an attitude shift.

I'm going to wager that 1-5% of owners did that to their 1600s. Most people leave their stuff stock.

Does power consumption matter for one component but not the other? Just wondering. I mean let's ignore how the comparing of tflops between architectures isn't good practice and look at the fact that the 1080ti somehow maintained the same power target as the 480 and was 500% faster on average. And has 11 teraflops. It's almost like changes in architectures and nodes should allow for substantially more performance at the same power target. The 3070 compared to the 1080ti despite having double the teraflops is not double performance obviously. Not even close. And for fun when you compare similar generation gaps from the past. The 1070 to 780ti has a similar performance difference but the 1070 was a 150 watt card, not over 200.

Because power consumption matters. You wouldn't accept a 400 watt cpu for 50% gains would you? Hard to call it progress when the power targets are literally doubling. Nvidia would have been literally buried if Maxwell/Pascal were like this after the very unexceptional Fermi and Kepler.

With the 4000 series cards around the corner and rumored wattages of over 400 watts at what point do we just find this completely unacceptable? I've had microwave ovens close to this wattage in the past. Ampere already has been compared to the infamous Fermi line of cards but what people fail to remember is that Fermi topped out at 250 watts. Looking at the old reviews https://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580/17 the TOTAL SYSTEM POWERDRAW with a 480 was at around 410-420~ watts not just a single component. One of the most insane gpus in ever released the R9 295x2, a card so hot it had to be released with a closed loop water block and widely considered impractical for use was 500 watts and that was 2 290xs stapled together. Nvidia has been getting away with murder for a few years now with no sign of slowing down with some of the worst cards ever produced. At what point is enough enough with this? Or are we accepting literal spaceheaters so nvidia can maintain their "rightful" place on top of the performance charts?

Make sure you have a proper 1200 watt psu if you go for any mid range/high end 4000 series card and good air conditioning as it turns your room into a sauna while gaming.

Bahahaha. You may have been right before this generation but nvidia has felt the burn when the 6000 series dropped. Why do you think nvidia is pushing 400 watts on their cards these days? It's just to remain the performance kings at all costs. Ampere was never meant to be pushed this hard, it's a pretty terrible architecture and Nvidia knows it. It's so bad right now in fact they can't even release a new Titan because they can't get a competitive card at 250-280 watts. Instead opting for "titan class performance" sold to you at a mere doubling of the last Titan's power draw. Nvidia compared to AMD does have the mindshare advantage sure. But how long can that be maintained when releasing pure vitriol? The 4000 series shaping up to be just as bad if not worse. The longer time goes on the more I think Maxwell and Pascal were pure flukes and that Nvidia just can't keep up the expectations.

You'd want to more intentionally use it by disassembling the switch and using a brush. You might drown the poor things. But as long as it doesn't interact poorly with plastics I don't see why you couldn't use it.

I've had non omron switch mice die just as fast. This is confirmation bias.

I think this means they're a bad product.

Yah watercooled ones /s

700 series support was recently dropped, 900 series is next on the chopping block. 10 series will be a ways off from being dead end in terms of driver updates even if the card isn't faster.

I find critical sharpness unimportant for panned action shots. More blur on the subject can be desirable actually. I like this shot I've always been bad at this technique. Quick macro of a quadro RTX 5000 die on a laptop gpu I'm selling.

I think GPU manufacturers are seeing the writing on the wall. We're steadily approaching a "post framerate" kind of state with graphics cards where most people can happily game on lower end or older gpus. I mean just look at the xbox series x, why should I buy a 1000 dollar gpu when I can just buy what is essentially a 500 dollar computer and game on my tv at 4k 60fps... Realistically I think at the end of the day the consumers still maintain control over this. Don't buy new gpus. Don't accept garbage like this 1630 even existing.

When reassembling the card be careful with how much torque you use on the screws around the die. Usually gpus don't have stops to tell you when you're done tightening and if you overdo it you risk cracking the die.

A true waste of sand.

Pretty much every usb capture device doesn't work with the analog systems I'm capturing. I've spent a while picking this device and it's pcie only.

I feel like people usually don't want tv size monitors. But hey I've been out of touch before.

Now that's a strange looking monitor. Kind of upsetting that it has LG's nano IPS tech but DOESN'T go above 60 hz.

To record vintage consoles for archival purposes on the go.

I'm not talking about a GPU enclosure, I just need something for a lower powered capture card to work with my laptop on the go. This device can easily be powered by thunderbolt 3 alone so no extra psu is needed.

Believe me, I've played with plenty of 4k 16:9 monitors, and I've played with the high res 16:10 laptop screens. I know what I prefer, I'd rather not invest in a system I'm not thrilled with but at the end of the day I may have no choice.

No you're right. Only exception being high color accuracy displays.

If it's affordable to you right now it's a good time. I wouldn't wait for new GPUs.