Is there any reason to upgrade from an 8800 GTX?
nope
it's the last good graphics card
>>53843868
driver incompability??
Your financial situation is such that you can pay to have a music video made about you just burning $ bills for the entirety of said music video and beyond that you literally can't think of anything else to do with your money as it collects dust in a bank account.
>>53843868
Yes, it's a legacy product and is unsupported in drivers
It's a 10 year old card and even entry level cards are orders of magnitudes faster
It doesn't even support DX10
>>53843995
So fucking what it still works.
>>53843995
also, it's not very energy efficient compared to new cards.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3473
>>53844006
For what exactly? I doubt you could even play HD youtube on it.
>>53844022
Not sure if you're serious.
>>53844022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njN9m4KwMI4
>>53843995
You're a moron, 8800 GTX is a DX10 generation hardware
>>53844022
I can play at least FHD video on my shitty raedon hd 3650 that has 256mb of ddr2 vram.
That thing can definitely play HD video much better than my crap hardware.
>>53844052
Looks like dogshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo
8800 GTX and GTS 640(G80 GPU) can't decode H.264, it doesn't have VP2 hardware decoder like 8800 GT & GTS 512(G92 GPU)
>>53843918
Nah.
>>53844095
Even a fucking smartphone can handle h.264 software decoding who cares if you don't have hardware decoding.
>>53844120
You're a dumb moron, smartphones have H.264 hardware decoding for lowest CPU usage and longest battery life
I have a 9800gt I use sometimes, and aside from super heavy tasks like madvr and modern gaymes, there is no discernable difference from my 290.
>>53844141
Your point being? You realize players like MX Player allow you to switch between HW and SW decoding on the fly, right?
>>53844141
then it's a good thing you plug a desktop pc into AC power
>>53844159
I believe the various 200 series card were G80s on steroids.
>>53844180
r9 290
>>53844180
No, GT200 cards supported features that was not on G80
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0e3hV-t51E
It depends what you do man.
If you don't game, and just browse the web or some shit, than no.
You can still actually game decently with it.
>>53844106
Suddenly this comes to mind.
http://wccftech.com/nvidias-latest-game-ready-driver-allegedly-killing-gpus-plagued-issues/
>>53844313
Fake and gay
Nvidia drivers don't kill cards like AMD's recent card killing drivers
Those cards made baking a thing again.
>>53844346
Whatever you say boss.
http://modcrash.com/nvidia-display-driver-damaging-gpus/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/warning-nvidia-196-75-drivers-can-kill-your-graphics-card/
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/windows-10-is-killing-nvidia-graphics-cards-720443
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/862417/geforce-drivers/windows-10-geforce-drivers-are-killing-samsung-and-lg-notebook-lcd-display-panels/
