GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

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ZMOT said:
can't recommend specific brands, but as something that will be used and abused like an office chair, I wouldn't cheap out.
luckily the sim community is autistic as fuck (and not big enough to shill), so looking in the right places should net some good recommendations.
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I'll have to poke around more. The flight sim people seem to have more of a forum presence than the driving people... the driving people probably get laid more so they have other stuff to do.

Oh I just thought about the truck sim people. They probably spend a lot of time online.
 
Is it bad that I'm looking at the 5070 Ti starting to be in stock for under $1000 and 5080 for under $1400 and considering getting one of them.
 
I've yet to encounter a laptop that gets better battery life than my M2 MBP. Work gave me a newish chinkpad without a dGPU and it's still not even in the same zip code as my Macbook in terms of battery life.

DavidS877 said:
Is it bad that I'm looking at the 5070 Ti starting to be in stock for under $1000 and 5080 for under $1400 and considering getting one of them.
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900 dollars is as high as I would go for a 5070 Ti as it's roughly comparable to a 4080 and that's what that tier of GPU was going for last gen. I wouldn't buy right now unless you absolutely need a new GPU and you probably don't.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
ASUS GeForce RTX 50 ROG Astral GPUs feature built-in gyroscope and accelerometer to detect GPU Sag

Modern problems require modern solutions
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I think I know how to solve it faster and cheaper:
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Just put these into the shroud. Problem solved.
 
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DavidS877 said:
Is it bad that I'm looking at the 5070 Ti starting to be in stock for under $1000 and 5080 for under $1400 and considering getting one of them.
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Yes. I wouldn't be able to justify paying that much above what they're supposed to be for sale as. The 5070Ti and 5080 are 25% and 40% over their MSRP respectively. $800 and $1100 would be as high as I would pay.

If you wanna risk it there are second-hand 4080's for under $1000 on Ebay. The performance difference between the 4080 and 5080 is barely noticeable.

Unless what you have now isn't running anything you want to play, just stick with what you have and keep watching the prices drop.
 
Betonhaus said:
I'd probably just get a decent OEM system on sale at this rate.
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My problem with a lot of prebuilds is they cut down some components too much in order to hit a target price. They'll stick in a good GPU/CPU but with a piece of shit power supply, cooler, or motherboard.

The ones that don't charge a pretty hefty build fee over DIY.
 
Betonhaus said:
Is this a good one? $850CAD is $612USD
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>listed a year ago
I wouldn't bet your life on that still being up. Anyway it's a very dated CPU, PSU is barely powerful enough for the system so good luck upgrading it and the NVMe SSD is stupidly small at 256 GB.

What are your requirements anyway? If this is for playing Minecraft then it's no issue.
 
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Is this a good one? $850CAD is $612USD
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I wouldn't say so.

Doesn't say the exact motherboard other than it's a B560.
Intel 10th Gen is a dead platform.
Some games use more than 16GB of RAM now.
3060 12GB is still fine for 1080p or older games at 1440p.
A 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD is horrible. If you put games on the HDD expect very long load times.
I'm surprised a 400W power supply even runs that hardware.

The 3060 alone is worth half the value new.

The real question really is how much you want to spend, and what you want to use it for. A low-end system with brand new parts from Canadian retailers is around $1600 if you get a current-gen CPU.
 
Flaming Dumpster said:
>listed a year ago
I wouldn't bet your life on that still being up. Anyway it's a very dated CPU, PSU is barely powerful enough for the system so good luck upgrading it and the NVMe SSD is stupidly small at 256 GB.

What are your requirements anyway? If this is for playing Minecraft then it's no issue.
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Bogan said:
I wouldn't say so.

Doesn't say the exact motherboard other than it's a B560.
Intel 10th Gen is a dead platform.
Some games use more than 16GB of RAM now.
3060 12GB is still fine for 1080p or older games at 1440p.
A 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD is horrible. If you put games on the HDD expect very long load times.
I'm surprised a 400W power supply even runs that hardware.

The 3060 alone is worth half the value new.

The real question really is how much you want to spend, and what you want to use it for. A low-end system with brand new parts from Canadian retailers is around $1600 if you get a current-gen CPU.
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I currently have a MSI Trident 3 with a 1650 super and 10th gen i5, generally I would like something just a bit more powerful than it, ideally with an and or Intel GPU so that there's no proprietary drivers, and an inexpensive mini system I can fuck behind my monitor or something like I do with the Trident. I'm fine with something used and I've been mostly happy with the Tridents power level for gaming. I'm pretty much completely uninterested in games that need a very powerful system as almost all of them have been woke slop or has other bullshit
 
Betonhaus said:
I currently have a MSI Trident 3 with a 1650 super and 10th gen i5, generally I would like something just a bit more powerful than it, ideally with an and or Intel GPU so that there's no proprietary drivers, and an inexpensive mini system I can fuck behind my monitor or something like I do with the Trident. I'm fine with something used and I've been mostly happy with the Tridents power level for gaming. I'm pretty much completely uninterested in games that need a very powerful system as almost all of them have been woke slop or has other bullshit
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Are you still streaming games from your server with the Tesla
 
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seri0us said:
Are you still streaming games from your server with the Tesla
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I gave up on that. It's technically possible but a bit of a PITA to set up and use. Granted just putting a 3060 in the server would be cheaper and I can deal with the hassle. Most of the hassle was with the Quadro GPU not being supported by Steam for Linux
 
Betonhaus said:
Granted just putting a 3060 in the server would be cheaper
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Were you able to claim your money back on the cheap 3060?

Anyway, the recent:ish Nvidia drivers have been a total disaster for me, in general. I've mentioned getting a couple of BSODs over the last couple of months but tonight I started playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I could go 3-6 minutes between BSODs. The game autosaves so I got stuck at 03:34 minutes, right after the introduction cinematic and I couldn't get to the next auto-save in the intro/tutorial. Rolling back to the latest 2024 driver solved that and I've played it for a an hour or two with no issues. Nice game.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Were you able to claim your money back on the cheap 3060?

Anyway, the recent:ish Nvidia drivers have been a total disaster for me, in general. I've mentioned getting a couple of BSODs over the last couple of months but tonight I started playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I could go 3-6 minutes between BSODs. The game autosaves so I got stuck at 03:34 minutes, right after the introduction cinematic and I couldn't get to the next auto-save in the intro/tutorial. Rolling back to the latest 2024 driver solved that and I've played it for a an hour or two with no issues. Nice game.
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I managed to get a refund.

Come to think of it, the issue i had with the Trident where it would hang on sleep returned, which I believe is sure to the Nvidia card. it even hung on shutdown one time which was weird as fuck. Sat on this screen until I forced the computer off
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