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OK I had no idea of that but still, yeah it's iffy BECAUSE it's a higher price, when it should have been the same as the previous generation.

Look at the cost of cards pre-crypto. All cards from the same tier had the same MSRP or in the rough ballpark. The "if i improve i am going to recoup my money" is bullshit - you recoup it from the sales anyway anything else is just corporate bullshit and excuses to squeeze out the consumer for the last penny

The logic is that if the 7900 XT is supposed to replace the 6800 then it should be at the same MSRP as the 6800 (and even then nowadays it would still be a bad price as the 6800 MSRP was ballooned by the crypto bubble to all hell to begin with)

How is that a deal? New tech should be better performance for same price as last gen (like-for-like) and even still $630 for a 6900XT is way over the top, it should be a $450-500 card AT MOST

I'm glad he also brought to light that the x80 cards use their midrange chips, I was shat on too for pointing out the 1080, 2080 etc are actually midrange cards.

The 2048 SP isn't an issue, as it's right there in the name, there's no way to confuse it with a regular 480. The GTX 1060 thing is so much worse though, as the 3GB was basically a 1050 TI they wanted to sell at 1060 prices. The 1050 ti they actually gave us would be considered a "1050 super" by today's naming scheme.

I never intended on upgrading, since I had my RX 580 holding me very well since 2019 when the first crypto wave settled down, and I later sold it in 2021 for a profit which paid 75% of the price of my current 6700 XT which I got for $400 back in November 2022.

AdoredTV was right in calling it Maxwell on steroids. Pascal was an amazing generation.

Adrenalin software can NOT tweak more than afterburner. Afterburner so far is the be-all-end-all solution, it is the most granular and advanced way to tune your card. The only thing radeon software can do is auto oc / auto undervolt but those tend to be weak and dont beat a manual oc / undervolt. Also what radeon software does with the clocks is that you set a "maximum" clock speed which will most likely never reach unlike in afterburner.

So I should just sit there and take it like the "good consumer puppy" I am, meanwhile having to shell out more and more and more and more and more money each year if I want to get the performance range I want? Then again, I think I'm too cynical about this as the performance delta between the tiers is still big enough to warrant segmentation. It would also be in their interest to not water down the whole stack so you only get 1% better performance per tier increase. Like even though it's a midrange chip, the performance on x70 cards is still good enough compared to older x70 cards before the titan was introduced.

Yeah, he should get a monitor upgrade first at least a 1440p 165hz and see where it takes him from there.

Nah bro it's the same situation as the 1060 3GB. It was a 1050 ti and i will die on this hill. The 1050 ti they actually gave us would be classified as a 1050 super by today's standards. Looking at the specs it's a 4060 through and through. The AD-104 chip has no place in a x70 class card (this is also an issue with the 1070 and 970 don't get me wrong). Ever since the first titan came out they shifted the stack so x70 and x80 have become midrange but are still being sold at high end prices.

Tell nvidia thats a 4060 and to refund you the difference

This is a very obscure problem I also used to have. Are you using any video adapters?

He never said he dual channels mismatched sticks...

Usually motherboards (at least mine) has a pair of "best slots" that support the higher speeds, then the other two slots being much weaker. For instance I think my Tomahawk supports 3200 on A1 B1, but only something like 2800 on A2 B2, so that's what might be happening to you.

Im a dumbass

It really is a scam though the 4070 ti isnt even a 4070, its a 4060 at best but named 4070 to sell it at 4070 prices, just like with the 1060 3gb which was nothing more than what the 1050 ti should have been.

Oh man this whole AI sentience topic is a huge theme in the talos principle. Amazing game I recommend it to whoever can handle it (its kind of a heavy game)

I think you mean the left hand side, because that os the right of the case since it's facing towards you not away from you. "Always the patient's right"

I was talking to this dude (yes TO because it was like talking to a brick wall) who was complaining about nvidias high prices; I suggested he should probably encourage the competition himself by buying and amd or intel card, the he bitched and moaned that "durrhurrdidurr i only want the highest performance possible" - for what? A video setting that barely does anything and cuts your performance in half?? Dude, you have no idea what cards are capable of or what being smart about your video settings can do. I am just amazed at how well my card handles 1440p165hz

So like using a normal card? What would be the point? AMD doesnt have intel's issues (yet for some reason people still flock to intel cards instead of giving amd a chance)

So for a first phase I ran Prime95 alongside Furmark for an extreme worst case scenario and the rounded up power draw was about 300W I believe, so I don't think I'm having any power draw issues, and furmark also had the artifact scanner running and didn't find anything so yeah it could very well be the mod itself.

It adds new puzzle elements such as some purple orbs that destroy energy pellets on touch, green energy pellets with infinite life (but only as long as you keep the button pressed), cube cradles that hold the cube at a certain angle for redirecting the energy pellets. And yeah, looking at it, the new stuff has loads of graphics stuff going on, I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually the culprit especially since it's all made by one guy. I am willing to bet they would have caused serious performance issues for video cards of Portal's time.

I will try that, now that I think about it, it's not that uncommon for even 15 year old games to suddenly chug down power once modded.