I am running a ryzen 7 1700x

I don't pretend to keep up with cutting edge, but a generation or two behind fits my budget.

Although I did cave in back in 2013 and buy a $1000 Geforce GTX Titan card.

Probably similar to a gtx 1050 now lel

I saw the 6 gigabytes of VRAM on it and lost my mind.

The 6 gigabyte model of the GTX 1060 is superior. The 1050 I think goes only up to 3 gigabytes.

Still, it has newer architecture.

True

The 20xx models with the new Turing architecture are amazing.

Fuck raytracing tho it's such a gimmick

But for those who can't afford discrete graphics cards, the graphics built-in with modern CPUs are more than sufficient to run at more modest settings.

And I see you mentioning such capabilities often in this thread.

No use for it as of now and performance will always be degradated on these cards. Ray tracing will for now be used only good in 720p and 1080p scenarios even know the cards can handle 1440p and 4k fine

But yeah AMD's new APUs are pretty decent

Intel is always improving the HD graphics on its CPUs, too.

But are still ass compared to AMD's integrated speeds

Like you are getting gt 1030 speeds on these integrated gpus

While intel is stuck before then

I heard that Battlefield 5 uses ray tracing.

But only in small places

And that it's noticeable even to a casual gamer.

I've not yet used an AMD CPU or GPU. I did have an ATI 2d card on my Pentium 120 MHz machine back in 1996.

My favorite AMD card that is a little dated as of now is the R9 fury those things have some power and are going cheap on ebay

And ATI got taken over by AMD in the mid-2000s.

They are just as fast as a gtx 1070

I usually find the r9 furys for around 120 dollars

gtx 980s are also another good choice

I bought a GTX 1070 in late 2016 only to learn within a month that it suffered an overheating issue that required physically installing a heatsink on it to rectify. The firmware update didn't help me.

I eventually had to RMA it after I noticed my machine overheating.

Now I'm running a GTX 1080 with 8 gigabytes of VRAM (same as on the 1070).

yeah I have a gtx 1080 as well

I got mine for 300

It is a trifan aorus card

Cool! I got mine with a system I purchased in 2017 from Best Buy. It was originally a Cyberpower PC with a 7700k and 32 gigabytes of system RAM, but that machine failed within a month (bad RAM was my educated guess), and Best Buy's Geek Squad apparently couldn't repair it, but they did offer a trade with an Alienware Aurora R6 they had in stock with slightly lower specs (7700 without the k, 16 gigabytes of system RAM, and an SSD with only 256 gigabytes of storage). I upgraded the RAM and SSD separately to 32 gigs and 512 gigs.

The Cyberpower PC had a window on the tower's left side, with a pulsating light that cycled through various colors.

*right side.

Gotcha

I'd read that Cyberpower machines often had poor construction, and that the company's customer service was often unsatisfactory, and in my case the former turned out to be true.

Nice tower and multi-monitor setup!

Yeah cyberpower are ass I told a friend that and he didn't believe me he was only listening to the specs lel

Thanks!

Cyberpower and Ibuypower (which I am convinced are the same company) have nice advertisements in the gaming magazines with very reasonable prices.

But I got a lemon, while the replacement Alienware machine has been running fine for nearly two years now.

So I guess Dell didn't entirely ruin Alienware after all.

Well they both used to be chinese companies before

They still sell chinese junk

Like nock-off keyboards etc

I'm using a Microsoft Sidewinder X6 keyboard that my brother gave me around 10 years ago. The detachable keypad can fit on either side!

Prior to that, the only Sidewinder product I'd ever owned was a gamepad (Playstation style) that connected to the parallel port.

hmmm

Found a 10 pack of thermal paste on ebay for 2 dollars

From china but still

https://www.ebay.com/itm/10pcs-Thermal-Grease-Paste-Compound-Silicone-Heatsink-syringe-For-CPU-VGA-GPU-HP/142175454518

I wonder if it is any good

@Deadly_Ramon But what I mean by old parts as well is the i5-2500k that thing has some serious power for only 40 dollars

That thing has the same speed as an i5-6600k overclocked

Which those go for 200 used

@Deadly_Ramon Fucking hell I just checked your steam you have 1000 games

I thought my 300 was a lot but damn

I thought that my size is biggest but damn, there's guy from Netherlands beats me by 2ft longer

Why tho

@Deleted User I've been a member of Steam since it started in 2003, though from memory I could have sworn that it started for me with Half Life 2, which required online activation through Steam and which sat on my shelf for several days as I awaited the activation.

@Deleted User I own even more games on GOG (https://www.gog.com/u/DeadlyRamon). Not all of them were purchased, certainly not all at full price, but many of them were gifts from another person or limited-time giveaways that I was able to permanently add to my library. Stick around on either such platform (or preferably both) and who knows how many games you will have after 15 years?

@djancak @Deadly_Ramon what do you think of this?

The conversation is over crossfire and sli on non supported sli/crossfire games

I am saying the performance is hindered and will be degradated because the game doesn't support it natively

@Deleted User Talisman appears to be talking out of his ass, and I'm more of a single card solution kind of guy. Back when I built my system with a first generation TITAN, a friend of mine built his new system with two such cards, but I think he got maybe a 20% performance boost from the extra $1,000 spent rather than a 100% boost.

yea i mean theoretically dual-carding should massively increase performance but it's just like how if you have 8 cores of a CPU if the programs aren't designed to specifically utilize it efficiently then you're realistically not going to see much/any improvement and sometimes it can actually cause a loss of performance

i haven't dual-carded in my life and based on benchmarks i've seen there's never been that much of a reason to do it

GG @djancak, you just advanced to level 7! View the leaderboard by typing !levels in any channel.

i've never been that into having fancy-schmancy graphics in the first place though

i want to do some 3d modelling stuff though i need to get a card for that

@djancak I would recommend an r9 fury or a gtx 980 as they both go for 120-150 on ebay

They are both 10fps slower than a 1070 but you can overclock to the same speed

yea

right now i don't even have a card that can decode hevc video lol

@GodEmperorGillan good ol' days

WAIT WHAT????

@gauravtee yes

On the ceiling

That’s how early 2000s worked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1D4PdpAmXA

Steam cloud service!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5AiUgq2Zg

I hate apple in general

I only indulge in apple for the jailbreak.

fuck everything else they stand for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_J22NcRfc

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254173702870

For those who want to run emulators or game on medium 720p I would look into getting this!

This system can run ps2 games at 1080p 60fps

For only 100 dollars ;)

Just got a free server rack!

She heavy bitch