Why do you own an Nvidia video card?
>>52185130
Nvidia is what all games are made for AMD is more for word processing
Because I fell for all the shilling.
Because I work with 3D modelling and NVIDIA basically owns the market. Everything has CUDA acceleration and is optimized for NVIDIA cards.
>>52185130
Got a 970 because it was on sale at Microcenter plus it came with a game, got a second one for kicks and giggles.
Mainly because AMD drivers for linux suck.
>>52185130
because im a socialist and believe that everybody should have free money, even the shitty ones
>>52185282
THREE.FIVE
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It was sixty dollars on craigslist and I needed a faster card to upscale anime on my large monitor
>>52185240
AMD GPUs work with Cuda now
>>52185130
amd linux drivers r bad
My 6950 caught fire, I had to switch since then.
>>52185130
To render video game graphics.
>>52185130
I'm going to be getting one next year at the rate AMD is pissing me off with their cards. Fucking crimson drivers now giving me a BSOD and had to reinstall my lan drivers since somehow they were fucking taking up the same memory space as the crimson control panel after a fresh install using DDU. It worked fine for a few weeks, and now it's shit.
Because i allways buy the best
I don't
>>52185461
Doesn't matter. I had an AMD card and it had a lot of issues, specially with shaders and materials for Maya, since a lot of them are created using a NVIDIA tool. Also rendering with AMD is just shit.
Because I had a specific problem with a HD 4870 AND a HD 7870 and I decided to never buy ATI/AMD video cards again. I might take a look at them again this summer if they fix their power usage bullshit but probably not.
>>52185130
It's what my laptop came with
I got memed into buying one.
>>52185130
Because im not a cuck
>>52185130
Because the 970 was priced really well at launch before everyone knew about the 3.5 issue
>>52185734
>I had a specific problem with a HD 4870
just out of curiosity, what was the problem? I'm still using my 4870 in my current machine that was great when i built it like 6 years ago and still manages to be one-step-above-toaster-level to this day with anything that doesn't require dx11.
Because it is embedded on my laptop
>>52185819
>Owning an Nvidia card
>Not a cuck
Anon...
Because my Geforce 6600 would work as a primary GPU for Linux to pass my 380X to a VM.
>nVidia GPU for the sole purpose of utilizing 8 AMD cores and an AMD GPU.
>>52185507
Report your problem to them then.
I bought my R7 370 for $103. 83 after rebate.
Because I enjoy driver support.
>>52186237
I bought 3 gtx 970s for about 115 each
>>52186260
on black friday?
>>52186260
I don't believe you
>>52185461
Wait what?
I thought OpenCL was the AMD equivalent, but like nothing uses that and not CUDA
>>52186273
>>52186283
it was when microcenter was selling off the last of the acx 1.0 970s.
I went to office max or office depot and had them price match them. But what the employee didn't know was that I had the SSC acx 2.0 cards
>>52186304
That's kind of a one off thing, not something everyone can do.
>>52186397
everyone could do it. just not everyone chose to do it.
I was always more of an AMD and ATI guy before, but I switched over to Intel and Nvidia. It seemed more reliable from reading stuff. ATI cards used to be cheaper for pretty good performance but it went downhill.
Because, apart from this 980ti strix, I've never bought a card brand new and thus avoid the inflated RRPs and brand new tax, making nvidia far more tempting.
>>52185130
Same reason i use winblows
>>52185407
Oddly enough in GTA I max all settings out to see if it uses the full combined 8GB, now it's just an estimated usage, but i've honestly never had any performance detriment in any game i've played.
>>52185130
Nvidia fag here. I'm building a lan pc and i can either go with a 650, 560, 7790, or 7770. What does /g/ prefer?
>>52186534
>Full combined
SLi doubles the available VRAM? Did I miss a class in mirroring somwhere?
Because I wanted PhysX and smooth framerates in Metro 2033/LL.
Have since upgraded to the r9 290x housefire electricity bill doubler.
I will always buy Nvidia™ because I only play games The Way It's Meant to be Played™. Nvidia also pioneers innovative new technologies like PhysX™, Gameworks™ and the highest quality driver to ever grace Windows.
When I boot up with a brand new Nvidia™ Geforce™, I can experience the game just like it's mean to be played. Nvidia™ also delivers a far more silkysmooth experience.
Nvidia Geforce™ is also very power efficient. A graphic card is the most power hungry device in your house. Refrigerators, air conditioners, water heaters, dish washers, lights, etc all use significantly less power than a graphic card. Which is why Nvidia™ puts gamers first by ensuring that their gaming experience is of the highest quality while looking out for gamers by giving them the most value in their electrical bill.
At this point in time, there's really no reasons to consider an AMD graphic card at all. I tried one one time, it caused so much heat that it exploded. It also consumed so much power that it gave on an EMP and destroyed the rest of my computer.
Nvidia™ also pioneered how useless GPGPU is with CUDA™. Years ago, everyone thought GPGPU, CUDA™, and OpenCL were the future. Now, Nvidia™ has removed those useless features from their GPUs and increased efficiency. Now you can save thousands a year in electricity thanks to Nvidia™ ensuring that useless features like GPGPU are "optimized" for gamers.
It's quite clear that OP's an AMD shill trying to convince you to settle on something less than The Way It's Mean to be Played™. Nvidia™ is the only real way to play games. We have seen recently that they offer incredible libraries for software developers like Nvidia Gameworks. He is probably too poor to afford the Nvidia Geforce Experience and can not afford to play any games The Way It's Mean To be Played™.
Don't be a poor gamer with bad drivers and a huge power bill. Play games with the Geforce™ Experience™: The Way It's Mean To Be Played™
>>52185130
Because i didn't want a card that has been rebranded. Twice.
>>52185130
I gave amd a chance with the fury x. I waited for it despite the 980 ti being out two weeks ahead.
It was pure disappointment.
>>52186627
They all do it. There really is ever one or two new chips each series.
$200* GTX 970.
>Nvidia thread
>no proper Dawn wallpaper
>let me fix that
Here ya go.
I saw the Dawn demo live when it was first shown way back at COMDEX 2002 over at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Was an invite-only affair with a lot of true eggheads and basically when they fired up the system to demo the Geforce and Dawn appeared, there wasn't a limp dick in the place.
I prefer Nvidia cards because ATI/AMD just can't make drivers to save their lives, and because I only use Quadro hardware I know I'll have support from Nvidia in case I actually need it with superior performance and support over the Geforce consumer level bullshit.
Simple.
my father gave me a 570 1.2gb for bday, I really liked it so I found 2 more on criagslists.
I found two 570 hd 2.5gb cards for $150
had 3-way sli for a bit till a card died. It had warranty with 3 days remaining. (fuck yea)
sent in one 570 with info on my setup and they sent back a 970 ftw.
evga has some great customer service.
>>52186596
Well it reports that it has 8GB instead of 4 being mirrored.
>>52186734
Also, the revamped Dawn demo in some super duper ultra-hella resolutions:
http://joumxyzptlk.de/nvidia_new_dawn.html
Personally I think the original Dawn is still superior in most every respect but that's just me. Luna was awesome as well, pic relevant.
I mean really, look at that, it's amazing whether you believe it or not. Can't wait to get a 4K monitor this year so I can ratchet up the demo resolution.
Yeah, you know what I'm talkin' about, don't you?
>>52185130
this: >>52185346
>>52185130
Shadowplay
>>52186734
>>52186818
While we're on the topic,
Ruby
>>52185130
Because my PSU is not capable enough of handling an AMD card of the same (or superior, whatever the meme calls for) type, and the combined cost of a newer, higher voltage PSU and an AMD card would greatly exceed what little money I spent towards an Nvidia card.
>>52187049
Looks like some sjw whore, fitting for amd cucks
>>52187065
wut
>>52187077
I'm assuming they went with red hair since it fit the ati logo. does AMD care about ruby since they acquired ati?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QCNS7BRFrc
at least they have some sort of story and fight thing for their demo
>>52185130
I don't
>>52187049
I mean, I like redheads, but Ruby is just boring, always has been but ATI/AMD has no god damned imagination anyway. Dawn/Luna, hell even Medusa rules.
>>52186818
>tfw stuttering playback on the 4K vid
>>52187173
Imagine playing the 10GB one at the highest resolution, good lord.
Wtf is nvidia filled with perverts? Women don't look like that
>>52187168
>>52187077
>>52187273
You must now come up with a joke SJW themed "progressive" demo. Start.
>>52187311
Kill yourself on twitch and we'll use that.
>>52185644
Same here, I use the rig for gaming and my SO uses it for Sketchup rendering.
>>52185130
because i haven't sold my old computer yet.
i remember when dawn came out and folks tried to make it work on ati cards. they eventually did, and made her nude too. she had some nice tits, and it ran perfectly on ati cards with a couple modded files.
>>52185130
nvidia could never pass that butterfly bitch off in this day and age, the sjw's would have a field day.
gone are the good ol' days of hope. now we stagnate.
>>52187497
I find it hilarious to be reminded his name is Heimlich.
>>52185130
CUDA
>>52185130
Because my gtx 670 was by far the most power efficient card available at the time and outperformed all mid ranged AMD cards when I bought it
Even if it was more expensive I've probably saved the cash difference in power bills
>>52188877
> 670
HAHAHA, fell for that power consumption bullshit. That card was an overpriced and under powered piece of garbage. Even today the 7970/7950 can provide an adequate gameplay experience at 1080p while that green pile of shit can't run most games cause of Vram bottlenecks.
Face it, Nvidia are masters of advertising and they get hordes of people to spend money on inferior hardware time and time again.
7970 is superior to 680
290x is superior to 780/ titan/ 780 ti
only decent card Nvidia has made in recent times is the 980 Ti. Everything else is overpriced garbage and you'd be better off buying red.
>>52186734
>>52187049
ati fails at marketing
![nalu00-big[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mEhi74t.jpg "nalu00-big[1].jpg")
Ya'll niggas don't remember Nalu?
>>52188946
My brother has a 7950 and it works well enough but my computer clearly tuns smoother while we see gaming together
>>52185461
No they don't. AMD are building a framework which eases porting of CUDA code to their hardware, but it won't run existing compiled CUDA binaries.
And they haven't even released it yet.
>>52185130
Because i wanted Shadowplay and i heard it was a little better than AMD Rptr. I was wrong, the drivers ave been terrible for my card, and on top of that, shadowplay has been working terrible since 3 months ago.
>>52186818
>wasn't a limp dick in the place
your post really made me laugh
Because I have no brand loyalty and went for whatever high-end, graphics card gave me the best value for money when I was shopping for one.
because i am poor and found a secondhand great pc with a 660ti for very very cheap
>>52189126
>Not being loyal to superior Nvidia
It's like you don't WANT to get whatever high-end graphics card that gives you the best value for your money.
>>52188946
Fucking this, nvidrones had literally donated money to nvidia to let them make a decent card after years of REAL housefires, overly-advertised meme cards (like 560ti and 460) and overall inferiority regarding price/performance ratio. The consequence now is that the only concurrence that keeps prices low risks bankrupt because they can't make money even with good cards. Get ready to have your anus raped by a giant green cock as soon as AMD fails, you fags deserve it
AMD FAGS BTFO
Nvidia stock is almost at the highest it has ever been. Pascal will be the final nudge.
Because everyone said AMD cards overheated back when I bought my laptop, five years ago.
>>52189489
Meanwhile AMD
LO
LOL
>>52189521
AMD stock price doubled in the last 4 months. It's expected to double again next year.
>>52189521
S U I C I D E W A T C H
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>>52189620
>expected
shits more dangerous than playing with fire no idiot would hold onto amd stock for a year and pray to earn two dollars when they can do that in ten minutes with nvidia with zero risk you're fucking idiot
>>52189739
Nvidia is already overbought. It will not go any higher.
AMD has potential to go to $5 or even $10 next year.
It's "buy low, sell high", not "buy high and hope it will go higher"
>>52185130
I guess I bought this jew gpu because someone recommended it for me few years ago.
>>52189620
If AMDs stock price doubles they'll still have a quarter of nVidias market cap, despite being in two markets instead of one.
It's over, AMD is finished.
>>52189821
look at that pe ratio you dumb piece of shit you got info right in front of your face and you're ignoring it and making up bullshit it save your fragile little ego. you know fucking nothing. that pe ratio is fucking amazing because the market is anticipating massive growth and you know why amd doesn't have a pe ratio? because they're fucking worthless and losing money as we speak and nobody is expecting SHIT from them.
go kill you self faggot you haven't traded a single piece of stock in your life .
I don't.
270X was cheaper than the nVidia equivalent.
Also came with a free $60 game that I actually wanted.
So far the drivers have given me 0 problems (I didn't upgrade to Crimson yet though, is that thing still frying cards every once in a blue moon?)
Also Mantle was a plus back when I bought it, and while it's basically ded now the 270X has DX12 support.
I don't have anything against nVidia, however. If they're the better choice next time I'm looking to buy a card, I'll go with them.
>>52189620
>doubles
Yeah when you're stock is worthless it's pretty easy to double....
>>52189951
>high p/e ratio
>in a shrinking industry
>good
Now is the time to sell, boy
>>52185130
I don't
Why does this thread exist?
>>52185130
cus AMD was a company founded on theft
>>52187513
heh heh, me too anon
>>52185130
I bounce between the cards depending on what the machine is for, if I'm building a cheap machine to do a specific thing then it's probably going to be AMD all the way.
For my gaming PC, Intel and Nvidia have the best numbers so they go in the machine.
Brand loyalty, "teams", or how the companies in question behave don't factor into my hardware choices. I just buy the thing I need for what I want to do.
People who buy Nvidia/Intel for everything are just retarded fanboys, and people who do the same for AMD are retarded fanboys with a hint of special snowflake.
>>52186734
Wait fuck, that was 2002?
Youngefag here, fuck me sideways.
>>52185130
Cause electricity cost and heat is high in my country.
Nvidia is just right for my situation
Gamewerks
it just werks
'Cause I bought two used towers from my local college that were optimized for design and CAD, and I just sort of crammed them together.
GTX 670 master race.
>>52186734
>>52190730
It's a big shame that Dawn is associated with the GeForce FX - the worst series of cards ever released by Nvidia.
Even in retrospect, FX makes Fermi seem like a resounding success.
Fermi may have been a housefire and expensive but at least it had pretty good performance.
Geforce FX combined high price, low performance and housefire in the one package.
>>52185130
Drivers
>>52185130
AMD has cheesy box art.
>>52185130
No viable alternitives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI1_quVr_3w
>>52185130
I don't own my own nucular reactor to power the jokes that AMD try to sell.
GameReady drivers
TXAA/MFAA
Shadowplay
>>52186534
It doesn't double the amount of Vram you have dumbass. Even if it did, it would then be 7 useable gigs on your part.
First to have HDMI 2.0 in 2014
First to have HEVC hardware decoding in 2015
First to have VP9 hardware decoding in 2015
my xfire 270x's weren't enough for triple 1080p
and game-stream to the moonlight client
so I bought a 980 for $390
>>52185159
Lol.
>>52186596
Not the guy, but it doesn't? What does sli do then? I thought the whole point was to 2x everything.
>>52186879
This
I choose Nvidia for their Linux support.
Could anyone who's more familiar with graphics card options tell me whether buying the card I'm thinking of is a terrible mistake?
I'm looking at this: GeForce GT 730 Silent BRK 1GB
It's the "1GB" part that worries me. It's inexpensive, it's in stock locally, it doesn't have a fan to break down, and it should work with my computer, so I want it. But it has half the memory of what's common in other low-end video cards.
Is the 1GB model a trap? Or is 1GB plenty on a low-end card?
Waiting for Pascal to upgrade from my piece of shit 7850
>>52186159
What vm software, what host, and what client?
AFAIK you had to do some magic manual boring stuff with your kernel to support the bypass.
>>52191604
I doubt that a 730 GT can ever be bottlenecked by 1gb ram.
>>52191655
Thanks. I know it's low end, but I'm still running a 9500 GT from 2008, with 16, count 'em, 16 stream processors.
>>52191566
Please source for any benchmark where the performance in SLI is 2x, or even 1.5x
>>52185130
I fapped to Dawn's nude patch
>>52185623
mein negro
>>52185130
It just works.
>>52185282
May I have your second free game please?
>>52189620
double one penny is only two pennies
>>52185841
Both cards would give me a black screen when coming back from sleep at completely random intervals.
AMD for racers
Nvidia for shooters
Intel for moba
Learn to game
>>52192313
That's interesting. Why do you say they're each better for those things?
>>52192781
he has severe brain damage and his dad raped him as a child
>>52192313
Hee hee ha ha
>>52191823
Hey, me too! [spoiler] except I had to jump through more hoops to get it to run because I have an AMD :( [/spoiler]
Because AMD literally doesn't work in this configuration on Linux.
>>52189162
It's whatever you call "superior"
>>52192898
>dust
okay
I don't. Nvidia is a blight on the industry
>Nvidia disables PhysX when Radeon cards are present:
>http://www.geeks3d.com/20090928/hardware-physx-acceleration-is-disabled-geforce-or-ageia-when-ati-gpu-is-present/
>Nvidia releases patch to reverse gravity if you forcibly re-enable PhysX when Radeon cards are present:
>http://www.geeks3d.com/20100422/hybrid-physx-patch-1-03-with-reverse-gravity-timebomb-fix/
>Nvidia hides failure rates of defective chips and sells them anyway:
>http://www.cnet.com/news/lawsuit-alleges-nvidia-hid-chip-defects/
>Linus Torvalds publicly states that Nvidia is the single worst company the Linux developer community has dealt with:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
>Nvidia creates fake cards to show off at tech conferences:
>http://semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/nvidia-fakes-fermi-boards-gtc/
>Nvidia falsely advertises 970 as having 4GB of RAM, then publicly states that they did it to "create the best GPU for you":
>http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/02/24/gtx-970/
>Nvidia stifles competition by pressuring developers into using proprietary APIs
>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/amd-says-nvidias-gameworks-completely-sabotaged-witcher-3-performance/
>New Nvidia cards restrict open source development by requiring signed microcode that they wont provide to the community
>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Unfriendly-OSS-Hardware
And the list goes on. If you buy an Nvidia product, you are harming the industry. Is it worth getting a few extra frames per second if you're helping them lock you into only using their products?
>>52185644
AMD BTFO, again
>>52193194
Nobody's very open about even halfway decent graphics hardware.
Nvidia's hostile to certain aspects of open source (like the signed microcode thing) because of their market segmentation. By using the same components in their consumer units and their professional supercomputer stuff, used for instance by SpaceX to model their rocket engines, they're able to provide higher performance at lower price, by dividing the cost of their technology between industry and consumers.
If you could reprogram their cards to perform like the industrial version, the revenue from their industrial pricing would vanish. They can't just absorb that loss. The consumers would get higher prices, lower performance, poorer drivers, etc.
The industrial market is key to understanding Nvidia. It's why their devices tend to be more power-hungry, and they put a greater emphasis on driver development: their hardware is more general-purpose, or derived from more general-purpose designs. Becoming fully supportive of open source would change the character of the company, possibly to the point that it couldn't survive.
>>52193433
>Nobody's very open about even halfway decent graphics hardware.
Bullshit. Intel is balls deep in open source video drivers. AMD is getting pretty close and will likely eventually replace their proprietary driver with the open source one. Nvidia on the other hand is openly hostile against open source.
>>52193194
don't forget gsync!
I had a GTS450 which came for free with the computer that i got as payment for building a new one for a friend but I got an R9 270 for a hundred bucks. The R9 obviously gives me better performance. So I'm, for the first time since I had a Radeon 9600, back in the AMD camp.
>>52193483
>>halfway decent graphics hardware.
>Intel
>>52194005
If you're not playing AAA games then Intel is pretty adequate for most games. They've come a long way in the past few years. Obviously it's no Fury X or 980 Ti, but their drivers are open source and just fucking work.
>>52185130
>had a new 390
>game crash with gta
>lag with firefox
>return my 390
>buy a 970
I want my games work
>>52194081
Thanks. Food for thought.
>>52191337
same man, waiting on that 1070.
Because it works.
>>52186734
Who is this semen demon?
My R9 390 idles at 30°C and plays Fallout 4 at 50°C. Everywhere else I've read that 390's run at around 80°C under load.
Am I doing something wrong?
>>52195741
try overclocking
>>52186734
>I prefer Nvidia cards because ATI/AMD just can't make drivers to save their lives
One thing about Nvidicucks, they cling to outdated memes like dumb bitches with Stockholm Syndrome cling to to their boyfriends.
>>52195741
I had the same temperatures with my XFX 390, it was pretty surprising. The rest of the system got had though, the heat still went somewhere.
>>52196270
> implying
>>52185407
At least attach the graphic you novice shitposter
>>52196331
>Loonix
A whole 2% of the desktop market!
>>52185130
I like Gameworks and Physx effects.
Had a 7870OC before my current Nvidia card and sure, not every title uses them - but when they do, I damn missed them.
They look good, feel good.
CUDA is also cool.
I can also use FreeBSD and Linux without a hassle, because Nvidia can into drivers.
>>52196546
>post only the ''good'' one
>>52185130
I don't give a fuck about all the SJW thing, I want my ''game work''.
>>52186304
devious
>>52192140
What's your email?
>>52186737
thats cool. DESU it was probably a lot easier because they didnt have to go find parts or a replacement 570. And alot of their techs probably were unfamiliar with them
>>52185130
It was best option possible for my needs when i bought it.
>>52196713
Locoman1937@hotestofmails
>166 / 18 / 114 / 2
>all these nvidia users
And here I thought amd was full of amd poorfags. Just a vocal shitposting minority after all.
>>52196994
Nvidia is a semi monopoly
>>52185130
Because I want to kill the market. I love supporting moneyhatting, I love companies literally lying to their customers, false marketing, overpricing and selling your products with a 150 % list price. I love how they fuck up all games with terrible tessellation and plug-ins so AMD users can't play them without ridiclous FPS. So even a terrible 670 has more FPS than a 290, even though the latter has twice as many steam processors and RAM which makes it ridiculous, eh, awesome. See pic. I love how they side with Ubisoft and now Bethesda, literally the two most incompetent developers out there. I like how they support all the unpolished, disgusting Assassin's Creed games which are nearly unplayable and how they brought us Batman, the biggest mess in the history of PC ports. While AMD supported games like Alien, Just Cause 2 or Battlefield were perfectly playable for everyone back then.
And of course I love the braindead underage fanbase that just buy every nasty shit and prestige object, even a fucking PS4. Nvidia forever.
>>52197076
lol
The decision to use the same shit for the fourth year killed them.
Arctic islands will be gcn as well, just a die shrink.
>>52197076
>>52197087
> no drivers for Linux/BSD
The Catalyst driver sucks big time on Linux, and on BSD there is no driver.
Meanwhile I had SLI support on FreeBSD with two Geforce 7600.
With one fucking install command, they worked perfectly. On BSD.
> TressFX is the only "physx/gameworks killer" AMD introduced
And it looks like ass. It looks unnatural, weird.
If they can really develop similar looking effects and shit, do so.
But so far, they demonstrated absolutely nothing.
> open source meme
AMD started this open-source shit years ago when they released specs so people will have a fully featured driver on Linux.
This - of course - never happened.
The current 'open' Radeon driver is developed by one guy mainly, and it sucks big time.
Full of quirks, bugs. It's like "nv" for nvidia, provides a basic feature set.
>>52185130
Because I found my gtx 470 in a throw away computer at work
>>52185130
It was cheaper.
>>52197076
and it's worst with the gayming laptops...
>>52197412
>>open source meme
People who say amd is open source friendly doesn't use Linux.
>>52185130
Because I enjoy getting but fucked deeper and deeper after every driver update
>>52185130
Drivers
Infinitely better drivers on Linux and FreeBSD.
My r9 290 is a housefire.
It idles at 45-50 C in a full tower case....
The 960 isn't enough, the 970 is a complete meme and the 980 is way too much where I live.
Fuck AMD and fuck Nvidia.
>>52185130
Fury X is nowhere to be found but I can just walk in any hardware store and get a 980ti.
AMD really really needed to do better than this for non-US supply.
>>52185130
Because I am not poor
>>52185130
Oh boy! I forgot all about the fairy! Didn't she come out as a demo for the gforce2?
I was in university at the time. Damn I'm old......
>gtx 960 driver crashes on win10 dx12
>literally the only fix is to buy a different graphics card
to answer your question, OP: i am a god damned idiot
>>52185130
because i own an AMD cpu too.
>MSI Nvidia GPU's only
>Intel processors only
>WD hard drives only
>Intel solid state drives only
>TP-Link wireless solutions only
>Kingston RAM only
>Logitech, sorry, Logi mice and keyboards only
>Wacom tablets only
Because I am a mindless drone who stays loyal to brands that have always served me well.
>>52185130
Because I bought my card 5 years ago when Nvidia was the right choice.
Christmas sales.
Because the gtx 770 was a pretty good card when I built my latest PC. I was also tired of trying to get ATI/AMD cards to play nice with Linux.
Because the 980 Ti is the best card on the market.
>>52185130
Jokes on you. Intel HD graphics.
I have the money spare to buy a 980 Ti.
I game on a 1366x768 television.
Will this be overkill, or will it be awesome?
Will I be able to max out every single game on the market and have them run at a completely rock solid 60fps?
>>52185130
Not to go off the topic of shitposting, but is there a site that allows you to compare graphics cards head to head under linux? Or just head to head in windows would even be useful. Like cpuboss is for CPUs.
>>52185130
Well amd cards are like oven.
Because its integrated into my lelnovo floptop
>>52185130
ATI/AMD cards are reasonably rare in OEM workstations
>>52199265
Who cares about idle temps? And since when is 45-50 too much?
Not even defending the brand, but that reply just gave me cancer.
>>52203142
On 1366? Hell yes.
But games also need CPU and RAM (black ops eats up 4gb easily).
So if you have other shit parts, do replace those as well.
>>52185130
Because it's in the best laptop I could find for my budget.
Obviously due to me buying one.
>>52185130
Because marketing works.
>>52207246
2500k at 4.2Ghz and 16GB of RAM.
>>52207465
Overkill.
Get a new monitor and call it a day
>>52207465
Should be fine.
It's a solid GPU with dx12 and all the fancy shit, so yeah it will be a good base for the next upgrade whenever that comes.
By the way I would still buy a big ass 1080p TV (40" or so) instead of tiny displays.
You can work on them, you can play on them, etc.
Most cheapo (not smart but LED/LCD) TVs have 120Hz refresh rate now on 1080p.
What's not to love?
Ps.: Don't try to play CS:GO ESL/ESEA on this, of course.
But for COD and pretty much any game, it works.
If you have the space.
>>52207549
Because my 1366x768 TV is mounted at the end of my bed, and with my glasses off, my eyesight isn't good enough for any resolution higher than that at that distance. I can see everything just fine at 1366x768. Any higher, and I'm struggling.
>>52207571
everything is fine then.
I have a 1080p panel in my laptop but I play on 1366 too because of muh FPS.
last time I bought a gaymen laptop.
sure they are stronk, compared to a laptop.
but meh, a simple GTX970 fitted PC would obliterate my laptop.
CPU is also weak as shit, and if it boosts, it's loud as fuck.
(had to set up a power profile to keep cpu at 99%, so no turbo that way.)
I use operating systems besides Windows and Linux, Nvidia provides official drivers for all the platforms I use.
>>52185159
Word processing with a 4GB - 8GB GPU.
Yes.
>>52207650
It's an AMD thing.
> new CPU design is weak, slow, outdated
Add moar coars!
> new GPU design is only a rename, it's housefire, it's slow
Add moar memory!
>>52185130
>2006
>was interested in Linux because of what I'd heard, the ideology (yes, yes, I'm a fag I know), and because I had used it a little on my brother-in-law's machine a while back
>installed Mandriva
>awww yiss, this gon' be gud
>shitty ATI drivers
>fuck this sucks!
>lots of reading and fiddling with things I had no idea about
>ok, fuck it, let's try Fedora Core
>oh wow, It Just Werks (tm)
>years later got an nvidia card based on the benchmarks and the promise that the Linux drivers were superior
>it was all true
>the nvidia card worked flawlessly and the drivers were trivial to install
>never looked back
tl;dr: ATI sucks and their drivers suck worse.
That's changing, but I'll consider ATI when their open-source drivers get good and with an absolutely (and I mean ABSO-fuckin'-LUTELY "sudo apt-get install ati-drivers") trivial install.
>>52208383
one big fucking issue I had with Linux and gaming is that I could not exit if the game crashed.
like Nexuiz froze, and I had a black screen, and stuck sound.
now on Windows, the game just crashes. or just stops, you can alt-tab, close it.
not on Linux, it just stayed there. since it grabbed my screen, and input both, there was no way out.
1) you can use the magic sysrq combination, but you will lose every work and shit
2) you can use ssh or something similar from your phone, but your xorg work will still disappear
... I mean it's fucking 2015+1 now.
I really hope Wayland and XWayland will fix this.
I owned a 6950 but wanted to upgrade and the GTX 970 has significantly lower power draw compared to the competition.
(electricity is quite expensive where i am tbqh)
FreeBSD doesn't support Intel or AMD GPUs well
When will the next gen of Nvidia cards be released?
