re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

I don't understand what breed of retard nvidia thinks its target customer base is.

Does anyone else open Linus videos just to thumb down?

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All 3 died in less than 2 years of usage, and they weren't even being pushed

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Ok.

What cards? GTX 480s which ran super hot?

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That and NVidia's ridiculous pricing strategy, and I'll always stick to AMD for GPUs.

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This hasn't always been the case and there is more to it. You capitalize on your R&D while you can. I'm not defending them but this is how capitalism works, every company does it. The sad part no one bitches about AMD blowing up their GPU division by putting all R&D into Pile Driver and having that fail which then leads to a shtty GPU department 2yrs later.

As for your 3 cards which died. Please list cards and use case. IDK about this man. I've put cards through some shtt and have owned a ton of them over the years. If anything nVidia in the past had the better partners who made higher quality boards. In my experience its actually been the other way around.

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I'm trying to think if I had any card die on me before but don't think so. I thought some cards died on me before but turned out to be corrupted VBIOS. Reflashed and fixed the issue.

Have been several times where the MOBO died so it seemed like the GPU was dead. This has been pretty common for me. I've had a lot of different MOBO issues over the years, but at one point I was buying 15-20 MOBOs in a year for different builds. A lot of cheap MOBOs out there man, tons of em.

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HOLY shite, the fighting between nvidia and amd in here rivals the console wars.

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I neither hate or like either. I've had better experiences with AMD cards though and for the price/performance, I am perfectly fine with sticking with them.

I have nothing against Nvidia cards, and to be fair, I haven
't bought an Nvidia card in 6-7 years, so I can't speak to the quality of their recent product.

I think it was just a minor refresh of the same architecture in the 8800gt, but according to this: LINK, the 9800GT was fabricated using 55nm process while the 8800gt was using the 65 nm process.

I actually think the clocks were the same. The core was at 600 mhz I believe. I don't remember what the memory clock was, but I think it was the same.

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I'm trying to think if I had any card die on me before but don't think so.

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One brand new Radeon x800 for a customer build years ago, immediately started smoking upon power on. Radeon 7770 a few years ago, purchased used for an HTPC build randomly died one day.

So obviously AMD is bad


lel anecdotes.

If I have one regret it's using Adobe Premier to edit footage. shite has caused me a lot of problems. Should have used power pro.

I need to get on welfare or disability so I can game more if I am ever going to play all of the games in my library now.