Nvidia RTX Series

[Humanoid]

At least the art, unlike RGB bling, doesn't increase the system power consumption. Even if it is only by a couple of watts.

[Bartimaeus]

4 hours ago, Humanoid said:

At least the art, unlike RGB bling, doesn't increase the system power consumption. Even if it is only by a couple of watts.

Oh no, luckily, it has that as well. Random system I found with aforementioned Sakura card:

10 hours ago, Zoraptor said:

I'd unironically buy a Yeston card because of the 'art'.

Uh...thoughts and prayers?

[majestic]

1 hour ago, Bartimaeus said:

Oh no, luckily, it has that as well. Random system I found with aforementioned Sakura card:

 

"Random system", as if that is not a shot of your rig.  

[Humanoid]

That one RGB-less Noctua fan sitting right in the middle of the RGB extravaganza must be feeling very confused.

[Gorgon]

Does anybody know if you can get a specialized case that supports alternate GPU placement. I'm thinking with a riser cable.  Given that 3+ slot GPUs are a thing, I can't be the only one that still uses the PCIe slots these things block off. 

[Gorgon]

Iike GPU IO sticking out of the top rather than the back ?

[Humanoid]

In a cruel irony, the type of case with funky PCI-E risers and funky GPU placement tend to be mini-ITX cases, meaning there are no slots to block in the first place.

[Gorgon]

It's kind of ridiculous though, I could cut two blocks of wood that would do the job along with a riser cable, and there are no commercial options to reclaim PCIe slots. 

[Keyrock]

I don't know about risers, but I believe that there are adapters that will allow you to mount the GPU turned different ways. The problem is that GPUs are so gargantuan these days that they're going to cover up otherwise usable space no matter which way you turn them.

[Gorgon]

Vertical mounting brackets are just to show off the RGB bling on the GPU. They make the problem worse, not better. Supposedly they also generate worse airflow. 

[Gorgon]

They look cool in a glass case though

[majestic]

The 40XX is such bad value at the moment that it's not worth losing your head over, just get a 30XX, or at the very least wait for the new AMD cards to appear. That's got to force some price movement on nVidia's end. Well, at least, I hope it will.

[Pidesco]

A reminder that 30XX cards and AMD cards are still horribly priced, they just look good next to the pricing catastrophe that is the 40XX series.

[Bartimaeus]

Continuing to rock my crappy GTX 1060...continuing to not feel any pressure to upgrade. I guess it helps if you've completely given up on all AAA gaming and thus really have no need to upgrade. I'll probably buy a moderately priced AMD card at some point within the next couple of years assumin' the piece of crap works with current emulators, which was the key issue last time when neither the PS3 or Wii U emulators wanted to work with them.

Edited November 30, 2022 by Bartimaeus

[Sarex]

21 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

Continuing to rock my crappy GTX 1060...continuing to not feel any pressure to upgrade. I guess it helps if you've completely given up on all AAA gaming and thus really have no need to upgrade. I'll probably buy a moderately priced AMD card at some point within the next couple of years assumin' the piece of crap works with current emulators, which was the key issue last time when neither the PS3 or Wii U emulators wanted to work with them.

970 here, what will force me eventually is the driver support. When the next gen comes out they will drop the driver support for the 9xx series. But at that point I'll just pick up some second hand crap that's out there.

[Pidesco]

My ultrawide was simultaneously my worst and my best purchase precisely because of the pressure to upgrade GPU. Especially now that pricing went to hell in a handbasket.

[Azdeus]

3 hours ago, Pidesco said:

A reminder that 30XX cards and AMD cards are still horribly priced, they just look good next to the pricing catastrophe that is the 40XX series.

nVidias masterplan is working then

[Humanoid]

So these new 8GB 3060s eh? Almost feels like the counterpart of the 4080, in that making them so horrifically bad (and confusing) would make the products above them sell better for fear of them being discontinued and missing out. The 4080 may have accelerated the sales of the 3080 and 3090 series, and indeed those seem to be in relatively short supply now, but there looks to be still plenty of 3060-3070 class cards around.

The most insane part of this is that if they had gone for 6GB instead and retained the 192-bit bus, it'd probably be a far, far better product than this monstrosity of a 128-bit card we ended up with. Disgraceful.

[Gorgon]

it kinda looks like there would be room for a riser cable under this vertical mount. It would be a bit messy. but it's just a WIFI card that i need for VR.  

[Gorgon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Cnht8b9cY

[ComradeYellow]

I still don't know why people don't just settle with laptops.  I mean you can pick up a 3070TiM, which is miles better than the RX 6800m and priced about the same with the equivalent 'other' specs (16gb DDR5, 1TB NvE SSD) for roughly $1-1.5k, seems like a no-brainer these days where glitzing out on glowing boxes and teh latest cement block of a GPU will cripple ya well and good.

JUST THROWING THAT OUT THERE

Edited December 14, 2022 by ComradeYellow

[majestic]

I get the feeling Steve is not very happy with the RTX 4070 Ti. Going to be interesting to see for how much these things are going to go in stores here. If it actually ends up being cheaper than the 7900 XTs, the value in terms of performance gain vs. cost over the performance of an RTX 3070 (Ti) isn't as bad as US MSRPs suggest (still not good, mind you), and as long as 7900 XTXs cost 1600€, well, never mind...

Also, uh, good job making the 7900 XT look good.

Edit: all that said, hard pass on this generation.

Edited January 4, 2023 by majestic

[Bartimaeus]

1 hour ago, majestic said:

Edit: all that said, hard pass on this generation.

Another generation, another...uh, generation that I skip. Man, my crappy GTX 1060 is getting a little lean in the years...

Although there could be a great mid-end card that I could eventually be persuaded by, regardless of how poor value the enthusiast products are.

Edited January 4, 2023 by Bartimaeus

[Sarex]

My 970 is spinning up a storm running Pathfinder WotR.

[Bartimaeus]

3 minutes ago, Sarex said:

My 970 is spinning up a storm running Pathfinder WotR.

Yeah, if I was doing anything that needed or really even encouraged me to upgrade, I'd probably find the motivation to do so. But gaming isn't really a major hobby for me anymore (and hasn't been for maybe seven years now), and even when I am inclined, it's by and large either retro-styled or straight up emulated crap that doesn't need it, so...

Edited January 4, 2023 by Bartimaeus