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So my 1080ti is starting to give up the ghost I think.

Are there any upgrades out there worth the money? Just normal gaming on 1080p but I have been giving thought to upgrading monitors as well if I drop a bunch of money on a new gpu.
find a rtx 3060, ideally the 12gb variant, which is on par with it while being more energy efficient and offering newer support for games in the near future that may interest you (it should also handle 1440p stuff though i game at 1080p)
 
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So my 1080ti is starting to give up the ghost I think.

Are there any upgrades out there worth the money? Just normal gaming on 1080p but I have been giving thought to upgrading monitors as well if I drop a bunch of money on a new gpu.
buy a new 1080ti if your used market isn't absolute ass or just buy a prebuilt with a 3080 for the pci 4.0 things, speaking of monitors my monitor has one red line already after 10 years of valiant service, conveniently i found a ad for another monitor that was like 30$ today as the guy wanted to get rid of it, we tested and it's working fine but just gotta clean the little shit, lord knows what this used monitor went thru.
 
So my 1080ti is starting to give up the ghost I think.

Are there any upgrades out there worth the money? Just normal gaming on 1080p but I have been giving thought to upgrading monitors as well if I drop a bunch of money on a new gpu. It's fucking absurd that every single graphics card is selling at double the MSRP.
Do not buy another 10 series; NVIDIA is about to stop releasing driver updates. IMO the 5060 Ti 16 GB is a pretty good buy:
  • Currently going for about $500 and in stock
  • Healthy amount of VRAM
  • Won't be outdated for a long time, especially as more games use ray tracing
  • DLSS is still a little better than FSR4
  • 50 series GeForce is significantly better than 90 series Radeon at path tracing, which looks pretty neat.
Example:

(proper optimization would make this run at 240 fps on a Voodoo 2)
 
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I was looking at a RX 7900 XTX. Haven't run a Radeon since my 9800XT. Any thoughts on that card?
Priced about the same as a 5070 Ti
  1. Roughly equal rasterization performance
  2. Significantly worse raytracing performance
  3. FSR 3 is significantly worse than DLSS4
  4. Runs hotter
  5. More VRAM...which mainly benefits you when raytracing, or when rendering 4K native, which this card already can't really do in the latest games without sacrificing IQ, and the upscaler's shitty enough to not really compensate for it.
 
I was looking at a RX 7900 XTX. Haven't run a Radeon since my 9800XT. Any thoughts on that card?
what pretty much you can find on jewtube, especially with 24GB version.
also vex released another video, as usual he complaining like everyone else but props to him for not being a tomb raider fan like lecctron...
 
find a rtx 3060, ideally the 12gb variant, which is on par with it while being more energy efficient and offering newer support for games in the near future that may interest you (it should also handle 1440p stuff though i game at 1080p)
the 3060 12gb is basically a 1080 ti that performs worse in older games but better in newer games and does ray tracing. which i have hated every time i've tried it but hey it can do it
 
My new crackpot theory is people with high-end systems have less fun playing games than people with low-end systems.
That's cause most of the fun doesn't come from graphics but from the overall experience.

Some of the best gaming memories I have come from shitty internet cafes with barely functional mouse and keyboard as we yelled profanities at each other from across the room.
 
So my 1080ti is starting to give up the ghost I think.

Are there any upgrades out there worth the money? Just normal gaming on 1080p but I have been giving thought to upgrading monitors as well if I drop a bunch of money on a new gpu. It's fucking absurd that every single graphics card is selling at double the MSRP.
I would try the b580. 12gb of vram, somewhat cheap for a gpu and can handle just about everything. I personally have not had any issues with the drivers but it seems to still be a problem for some users, but I think intel has done a decent job fixing them. Mind you if you cpu is on the lower end of the spectrum then its probably not worth it unless you want to upgrade to at least a mid range option.
 
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im talking about QUALCOMM drivers for android/linux im not 100% sure about windows but if its like the situation on android/Linux then it sucks.
This is the first I've heard that Android developers struggle getting Qualcomm GPUs to work or don't have access to useful APIs.
That's cause most of the fun doesn't come from graphics but from the overall experience.
The fun actually comes from complaining on the internet about your experience.
 
This is the first I've heard that Android developers struggle getting Qualcomm GPUs to work or don't have access to useful APIs.
Dafuk? One of the biggest hurdles that AOSP developers have is that they don't have access to drivers that Qualcomm only gives OEM manufacturers the source code to. Anyone downstream just gets a binary blob that only works with the OEM version of Android for each respective device
 
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Dafuk? One of the biggest hurdles that AOSP developers have is that they don't have access to drivers that Qualcomm only gives OEM manufacturers the source code to. Anyone downstream just gets a binary blob that only works with the OEM version of Android for each respective device
lol nobody gives a shit about AOSP

I'm not just being a dick, but garage hobbyists who work for free on software nobody really uses just don't matter that much. Same way ROCm not working on most AMD gaming GPUs just doesn't matter. From the way @Stratos Sphere was talking, I was getting the impression that people who work on software for a living were having trouble getting their apps to work on Qualcomm devices, which I'd never heard of.
 
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So my 1080ti is starting to give up the ghost I think.

Are there any upgrades out there worth the money? Just normal gaming on 1080p but I have been giving thought to upgrading monitors as well if I drop a bunch of money on a new gpu. It's fucking absurd that every single graphics card is selling at double the MSRP.
If you're buying new, a 5060 Ti or 9060 XT (16 GB variants for both). Both of those also tend to stick around their MSRP.

If you're buying used, you can get 3080 12GB for pretty cheap.

It's a good time to upgrade from 1000-series anyway as Nvidia is discontinuing game ready driver support for them soon.
 
If you wanted to put android on an X elite laptop or tablet you're fucked
Yes, everyone who buys a Windows appliance and wants to jerry-rig a janky-ass FOSS version of Android that doesn't support Google Play services will be affected. Got to be dozens of those people worldwide.
 
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