I love the lga 1367 socket

And 1366

They still hold up amazingly in multicore

Now I'm running an i7 7700 at 3.60 GHz.

Single core less so

Ah cool!

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.