1y ago

Don't let go!

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A 1080TI still plays every release at medium or higher settings. /shrug
Unless you're worried about 4k or VR, I wouldn't upgrade anyway.
- If you care about refresh rate it matters, not a lot of people can stand 30-40fps with hard drops to single digits just to be able to play a game.
  
  I'm curious. What game do you think drops to single digits fps on medium settings with a 1080TI?
  I was playing Darktide on a 1060 with minimum 30fps recently, and that game is optimized like absolute trash.
  
  That's how I akways played games :(
- I do 4k and VR on my 1080Ti with no issues, on the highest settings, too. That said, I don't do a lot of AAA gaming, so take that as you will.
- I actually prefer the crisp edges without as much post-processing effects sometimes. Source engine games look great to me, just minimal crisp and clean geometry. I find a lot of modern graphics distracting, but it depends on the game. I do love really pushing graphics for a game like Skyrim.
  
  Modern game engines don't use the amazing SSAA (super sampling anti aliasing). Most have post processing anti aliasing like FXAA or TXAA which always makes edges look fuzzy. Source engine is one of those that still supports super sampling
- Have a 1060 for vr.actually works fine
- My 980ti is still a toss up between amazing or mediocre performance. The big issue is that I bought it for £600 which is a lot of money to me, and new GPUs are 3 times that, or more.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, when humanity is wiped out future species will find a Nokia on half battery and a fully working 1080Ti.

1070ti gang here. no problems playing anything on medium/high.
I don't do 4k though but VR is fine.
- I feel like I'd need a display that can do 4K before I upgrade
  
  Same, but I also don't really care about 4k; 1440 is just fine for me.
- I have a 3060, which is a bit faster overall, and it struggles sometimes with my reverb g2. It's a pretty high resolution headset though.
  
  yeah my VR headset is a couple years old as well and not the highest quality it's the Odyssey.
  I guess I practice good enough gaming lol.

1080ti is still a beast

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I have never felt more called out.

If my 1080 gives up in the near future, I'll probably just give up AAA gaming. BG3 is literally the only game in the last 5 years I have loved which would require more than a potato to run.
- Honestly I have a gtx1080 and I can run BG3 at close to ultra settings for around 30-60fps. I think my actual issue is my CPU I have an i7 3770 which came out in like 2012. And I have like ddr 3 ram from 10 years ago as well.
  
  Same here but with an i7 6700K. If I happen to find a decent deal on something like a 12th gen i5 or i7 and chuck in an extra 16gb ram then I think I'd be all set for another couple of years. Although I still don't desperately need an upgrade, everything works well enough except for maybe that one nightclub map in Ready or Not with more npcs than my cpu can keep up with.
  
  My SO upgraded to a Ryzen 5600 and 6600 GPU from a 1050TI and some integrated old CPU and saw massive improvements for BG3. I don't know the integrated CPU but I think that made the difference for this game. Loading in went from crashes or naked people to no issue at all.

They can pry my 1080 out of my cold dead 12fps hands!

me still running a 970
- My 960 runs Unity games like Overcooked at 4k, so I probably won't be upgrading any time soon. With a toddler I don't have time for AAA games anymore, but I'm guessing the frame rate would be painful.
- 970 here too. A true hero o7

1070 gang
- 1070 is comfy AF, been on one for so long now and I haven't seen any reasons to switch yet
- I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a 3060ti. I'll move the 1070 into a different PC.

Having to run -400mhz on the vram to prevent mine from crashing all the time but I'm hanging in there 🥲👍
- Oh that's a odd problem. What do you think caused that?
  
  I thought it was driver problems at first because it happened so infrequently, but it has gotten worse this year.
  It took ages to narrow it down to memory faults since I've been running stock settings forever. Stumbled upon this tool: https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan/
  Found a load of errors, which went away after the down clock and it's been stable since. It must be just age related degradation, temps were never high but I know the repeated temp changes have an impact.
- Same problem as mine! I thought I was the only one. I’m using msi afterburn and tuning down power usage to 90% sigh
  
  I bumped the power up on mine, I might be wrong but I assumed more power but less speed would allow it to keep stable and it seems to be working so far.
  https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan/ - was the tool I used to confirm the memory issues. Just need it to hold on till the 50xx series!

It's still a decent card, probably can still do well at 1080p max settings in most games. Very similar to a 3060 in terms of performance, which is the card I have.
- I'm playing D4 at 4K on medium settings. No complaints. This is on a 3yo laptop with 1080ti in an external enclosure hooked up via Thunderbolt.

1060 gang
- 1080 here, got to use for like 220, before the graphics card nightmare. I may be looking to try to get a 2080 or 2070. I wonder if I can do that on 550 at 600 watts

Depends on the games. My 980TI can still rock 3440x1440 in most of the games I play.
The fact that what I play is mostly metroidvania shouldn't be an issue, right? 😅
- My 980ti still holds up pretty well at 1920x1440 (high-end CRT monitors were beautiful things, restart production you cowards) for most 3d games I play on Linux, but it is starting to have performance issues in some games, and I'm getting real sick and tired of the dumb shit Nvidia keeps pulling with their Linux drivers. The current driver gives me horrible black flickering in a lot of games, and of course they arbitrarily lock me out maxing out my CRT monitor (which don't have a fixed resolution, only a balance of resolution vs refresh rate, and it keeps blocking me from a whole range of refresh rate/resolution combinations). So I confess I am starting to eye the higher-end AMD 6xxx GPUs, and I would definitely try and grab one as cheaply as I could if I ever got a 3440x1440 ultrawide.
  Incidentally, how are ultrawides for having two or three windows open side-by-side at the same time?
  
  Incidentally, how are ultrawides for having two or three windows open side-by-side at the same time?
  Awesome. For work (even if I am a Linux system engineer) I need to use W11 due to corporate policy. I have two 34" in landscape and a 27" in portrait. I split the screens with FancyZones.
  Time for my bad drawing skills, lol.
  
  In order:
  SSH
  SSH
  SSH
  Outlook
  Edge for work
  Teams
  Firefox with YouTube running. Firefox is the only browser that allows for in-window full screen.

Me and my 1060 ain't going anywhere
- I had a 1060 3G version and it just couldn't hack it anymore. Picked up a 20 series this year and it was such an improvement.
  
  1060 6g still flying
- Same here. Works great and does all I need it to. It would be nice to have a new GPU but I'm driving this one until the wheels fall off.
- I just upgraded from my 1060 6g. Got a 7800xt.

My 970 seems as old as the wheel if you read this kind of threads.
I really need to upgrade my rig…

Even the base 1080 is still a very capable card. I recently gave mine to a friend when I upgraded to a 3060. And looking at the market, the Pascal generation will remain the goat for the foreseeable future.

I'm actually considering upgrading to a 1070 (i have a 1050ti)
- I have a friend that's always "waiting for the next one" who finally got a 3080 and meanwhile I play games with him on my trusty 1050
- Just get 1080, trust me
  
  used 1070 are half the price of used 1080/ti and more than good enough for me
- I was considering upgrading to 1070ti but would probably go with the 2070super so I can use dlss (I also have a 1050ti)
- Check your regions rx6600(xt) pricing, both cards are much faster than a 1070.
  Source in the relative performance section: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1070.c2840
  
  oh actually, I'm so used to amd cards being ridiculously expensive (both used and new) in ukraine that i didn't even consider them. Prices are way more fair here in poland

I will replace my 1060 tomorrow for a 4060 ti. Really looking forward to it!
- Congratulations! My 1060 6gb was a trooper and my favorite card ever
- Same one I ordered for my new build, 4060 ti 16gb oc. Hope it can last as long as my current build I've had for over a decade with minimal upgrades.

This is how I've always felt, running on old second hand unstable rigs. But it's better than nothing.
- Haha, bold to assume new rigs are stable, speaking from a ryzen 7 7800x3d and 7900xtx. Thing can barely fucking boot everytime I power it on.
  
  Really? Wow. I've assumed new rigs to be more stable. Guess I was wrong then.

I am still holding on to my 1060 6gb, and honestly, if not for AI stuff, I wouldn't even consider upgrading.

I remember when the 1080ti was top of the line. Good times.

Im going to switch my 1060 only becuz of wayland
- Literally the same thing I did, switched from 1060 6gb to rx 6600 just for wayland.
  It's not worth it tbh
- Did the same thing. 1080ti to 6700xt. No regrets whatsoever, loving the Wayland experience.
- Is it not possible to run Wayland?
  
  Wayland doesn't play well with proprietary Nvidia drivers.
  Manjaro stuck with X11, and people complain about it on the forums alot. I run Nvidia, and X11 while dead works just fine for me.
  
  50% chance it will be ok. It worked perfectly on arch linux with hyprland, but the same set up on NixOS is having some troubles
  
  It does run, but not as fine as it would on AMD or Intel

I just went from a 3770k with a vega 64 to a 7800x3d with 7900xtx. Pretty big jump!
- I still have a i7 3770 from 2012 and a GTX 1080. What does it feel like now to upgrade?
  
  Running Cyberpunk with Ray tracing on high settings was pretty neat. I could only get medium at best before. The 3770 is still pretty solid for a medium teir hpu even after a decade. But will bottleneck pretty much most cards over the 1080.

My 660ti is finally showing its age...
- Still got life in her yet
- I have a 670. Beat you by three months!
  In all seriousness, they perform about the same. But I can't really play any recent titles bar Indie games.

Did they remake Lolo Rabbit?
- This is a screenshot taken from James Lee’s YouTube channel.
  His animation style and subjects are wild.
- Fan art. I'm curious about the top panel though.
  
  source of both

My 1050ti wont ever leave my side. I am going to die with that card beside my death bed.
- I gifted that card to my SO mid scalping days to relieve their integrated CPU some work and it held the entire time (3 years). They got a great deal on a CPU and GPU and accessories for like 400 USD this year. Ryzen 5600 and the AMD equivalent of a 3060 (6600?) and with some PC building tools on top of it. BG3 went from a mess at act 3 to buttery smooth. i think it went from low to high settings as well. Great card all in all. The CPU made the difference in this case (I think).

Gave up my 980ti for a 6700xt and am very glad. My i7 2600 (non-k) will be used till it truly shits the bed, going to frame it
- I spent more time with my 2600k than I did with my threadeipper 1950x.
  I remember when a new generation came out (I forgot which) and I just overclocked the 2600k till it matched the stock benchmarks for the new chip. It truly was a monster.
  
  I overvolted it a few times, but that ain't pretty. Wish I had the k version

My old 1080 still handles a stream now and again.

My 690 still works for many games. 🥲

Still loving my 1070!
- Same, it works perfectly fine still! My only gripe is the Nvidia drivers on Linux + Wayland :/

I’m expecting some good build opportunities in Spring 2024. Plan is to build two desktops, one AMD-heavy with the Arch-based Steam OS and another Nvidia desktop with Nobara and space for windows 12.
Storage on a self repairing raid array on a PCIx16 adapter is looking amazing, but hardware raid configurations are still preferable to software configs and I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.
- SteamOS is debian based
  
  Not any more. 3.0 is Arch based.

My 1080TI is still running fine
My original cpu I installed in high-school, well...

Why is no one talking about FSR3 and frame generation here?
- Idk fam FSR doesnt even look that great to me. Upscaling is OK but meh. Im on 1080P though, yet. Theres other cool tech though like sub-surface scattering, and its nice to finally be able to let all models load in a scene.
  
  I mean youtube is flooded with videos of 1080Tis and RX570s getting to 60-70 frames with frame generation
- Frame generation doesn't improve latency, that's why I don't care about it.

radeon rx 480 gang
- I'm still rocking my 380

My 1050ti is still working nicely for everything I play, but I would like some rendering speed improvements in blender so maybe I'll upgrade in some years

I have one of these I ended up never using because I didn't realize my power supply wouldn't handle it. By the time I decided to build a whole new PC, I ended up having enough saved up to get an RTX 3080. Video cards were super hard to find at the time so I decided to hold on to the 1080 in case of emergency. Do graphics cards matter much in something like a dedicated Minecraft or 7 Days to Die server? If so, I might build one with it.
- Sorry to say, it will do nothing at all for you in a server setup. You could run any game server without a graphics card at all and it would make no difference. Game servers would be better served by a good processor and lots of RAM.
  The only thing a graphics card could do for you in a server is if you host a media library (e.g. Plex or Jellyfin) and then need to transcode video for a device that can't natively play it (e.g. TV can't natively overlay subtitles, so the server has to burn them into the video that streams to the TV). Another instance could be running image processing on a security camera feed for example.
- Won't do you any good for regular hosting. But you can do AI stuff with it, stable diffusion and silly tavern work wonderfully on the 1080ti
- The 1080 is a spectacular card, one of the best valued cards Nvidia ever released. I have been using mine basically non stop since launch and it's still going strong.

I knew a guy at NVidia and got a screaming deal on a 980ti hybrid. Just replaced it with a used 2070 this year.
- I replaced my 980ti two years ago. It was heartbreaking…

I mean, I dont often play games, but my 2016 laptop handles them (not very well). It has an i5 cpu and a radeon r7 m440 gpu (that has no updates since 2years ago) and I can somewhat play fortnite (its probably the most demanding game ny laptop can play, pubg runs at like 10fps).
I would think a pc with a 1080 can probably play games kinda well.

I just ordered parts for my first build since 2011. I've had my Sandybridge i5 at 4.5ghz most of this time... until the fans died and it overheated, replaced the fans and it was fine, brought it to 5ghz somehow so it could live out its last days in glory, it's been two years. That'll do pig, that'll do.

Only reason I recently moved from that very card was to play with stable diffusion, otherwise yeah the 'need' to boost things for games and whatnot just isn't there. Might be just that I''ve never been a major twitch type gamer though, more Civ/StarCraft style.
Edit: my dumb, was actually a 1650S I last switched from. Pretty sure the before that was a 760TI and probably mixed it up somewhere between them
- So I've only used those tools on Linux and found it works quite well. Perhaps its a problem related to the windows environment?
  
  The setups I saw kept demanding 8GB of vram at the time, the card I had was only 4 so it would constantly give an out memory state.
- Yeah, I only have a 1080p monitor so the only times my 3060 feels limiting are with stable diffusion and in VR

Same but RX580 so a bit less behind.

Me just now. Just got 7800 xt after all these great years.

980TI still going strong! I don't play anything too demanding anyway and Ive taken real good care of it so fingers crossed it'll keep going till I can afford a new rig!
- I also have a 980TI. I think mine might be dying though, sometimes my PC shuts off and sometimes it doesn't start up. One particular time I got it started again by removing my GPU. I just want it to last another year but we'll see.

Ha! Just ordered a few new components yesterday! So long, beloved 1080, you were da real MVP o/
- Which one did you have?

I will never give up my rx480

I was running a 750ti until a few months ago.
Finally had to bid it adieu this year. Probably should have years ago, to be honest.
- What did you upgrade to? How are you liking it?
  
  I'm running a Radeon 6600 now. It does well enough, but my needs are modest.

You don't need more for d2r and it's the newest game anyone needs to be playing.

i have some 2009 ordi prebuilt, but i very recently got an ThinkPad T495 (2026 Linux will be installed on my laptop)

💀 what goshdarn movie is this from
- It's from a video by the brilliant James Lee: https://youtu.be/A7PJQa1RfM0?si=_AAwpY_rJC1o-j4P
  
  Kay

My 980 still plays anything I want fine

I was running a 1050 (it was a laptop, if I had a desktop I might have upgraded sooner) until a few months ago. I only wanted to upgrade if games just wouldn't run anymore even on low settings.

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