>TFW you bought a GTX 700 series card
fuck you and your gimping, Nvidia
>>54036419
i bought a 750ti when the 900 series came out. its not bad, somethimes i wish i'd gone with amd but it still werks. my drivers are 341 tho.
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>>54036419
>bought a 760 Phantom 2GB in summer 2013
>sold it in summer 2015 added 50€ extra for an upgrade to the 960 Phantom 4GB
life goes on
>>54036564
My gtx 460 lasted 4 years before it couldnt handle anything at 1080p
Have the Gtx 760 now and it cant even run fucking Dark Souls III
I bought a 770 for cheap, not a gimped card at all - as good as that particular silicon gets.
Sucks to be you if you bought an original Titan, though. Those people got cucked hard.
>>54036457
750 Ti is technically a 700 series card, but it'd be an 800 series card if Nvidia wasn't so retarded (early Maxwell). Doesn't count imo.
i'm biased towards radeon but many benchmarks show that nvidia hasn't gimped the 700 series but they don't optimize either.
Where does the "gimping" meme come from? Sure they could optimize a little better but most driver benchmarks show performance increasing over time for older games.
>>54036419
I bought a brand new 780 on the cheap last October and have been pretty happy with it famalam. Got a nice 35% overclock out of it and it performs at ~970 levels. Not sure what the problem is, other than it using a ton of power.
>>54036797
I run my 770 on older drivers based on benchmarks of the games I play. You don't have to cuck yourself out by getting the latest drivers, you know they're not optimizing any code at this point.
>>54036864
That's a result of AMD's drivers being complete shit at launch and slowly improving over time, whereas Nvidia launched a new architecture and stopped making optimizations for Kepler. The performance of the AMD cards has relatively improved since launch due to newer drivers. Kepler hasn't changed, so "gimped" is entirely the wrong word. "Abandoned" maybe, but then AMD would likely have abandoned GCN by now too had they come up with a new architecture. They dropped support for most TeraScale cards about six months before Windows 8 came out. I remember, because I owned a 4870 at the time and there was never an official Windows 8 driver for it, and the Windows 7 one was buggy as shit when force-installed.
>>54036943
I need dat vulkan support and ability to support newish xorg.
Nvidia optimizes their drivers more than AMD; their cards are almost reliant on the optimizations. So when Nvidia releases a new card, you can see the actual performance for a while. The truth is 960 isn't a lot more powerful than 760, maybe 5%.
But once new games come out nvidia just drop the optimization for old cards, resulting in a large leap in performance to the new cards. Of course they want you to buy a new card, but you know the same will happen the next generation.
AMD might be doing the same, but to a smaller extent where it's not as noticeable at all.
>bought a 780ti
>2 years later it gave me issues
>RMA
>got a 980 back
730 was the only safe card to buy, you guys fucked up
KEKVIDIA G A M E W O R K S™
>because fuck you AMD
>tfw I went from GTX280 -> GTX580 -> GTX980
Feels good to only buy the generations worth buying. The only one I didn't add was I got a 7800 right before the 8800 came out which held the market for years.
>>54037155
>tfw they just changed the stickers
>>54037682
Geforce 7600 GT > GTX 460 > GTX 980 here
Upgrading graphics cards is for chumps
Bought a 770 2GB version. I can see that I'm going to get fucked in the future.
Thank fuck I almost never play modern graphics intensive video games anymore.
>>54038077
I did exact same thing.
>>54036564
>Buy 750ti for 300
>sell for 225 a year later
>wait three months
>buy 960 for 200
So is Nvidia going to downgrade the god tier 970? Was thinking of getting it once Pascal comes out since itd be cheaper
>>54038707
>god tier
>3.5 GB
>>54039748
still better than no drivers
>>54039906
Since we are using old as fuck memes, enjoy your housefires and woodscrews.
My 760 is still running great.
No need to upgrade.
>>54036966
Wait, do they gimp as much on GNU/Linux?
>>54039906
I saw a post on reddit claiming AMD now has better drivers than nvidia.
Even reddit is more updated than you.
You should be ashamed for using such outdated memes.
>>54039921
wrecked
>>54036864
nice proof AMD shill
>>54039972
They dont really optimize for many GNU/Linux games to begin with, unless they are Opengl Games on windows, like serious sam 3.
Most "aaa" games on linux are shitty rushed ports from DX to opengl.
>>54040061
Most aren't even really ports, they use wrappers like eON, which is why they run like complete garbage.
>>54040232
>770
>bought witcher 2 for linux
>barely runs on medium
>meanwhile my brother can run it on near full (without AA) on a 670
>>54040270
oh and i forgot to mention... i use a 2700k, he uses a c2q
>>54036668
>HD7870 now outperforming the GTX770 in newer games
Y-yeah, best the silicon can do, r-right?
>>54036419
My gtx460 is bretty good desu senpai
>>54036957
They just released a driver for the 5870 about a week ago so baka desu senpai
>>54037682
>GT200
>worth buying
>GF100B
>worth buying
fan desu baka
>>54040353
I thought anything preGCN was legacy and not being any more updates?
My hd 5770 crossfire is Still working pretty good for not having drivers though, so props to AMD for that.
>>54040389
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows+10+-+64
Works on 7 and 8 as well, explicit support for HD5's
>>54040465
Fuck that's awesome.
But I remember they said the crimson beta would be the final releaae last year?
I'm glad they're still updating it, probably just crossfire profiles and basic shit, but it's still something.
>tfw bought a 970
>it's literally slower than 290 now
>will soon be slower than a 280
WHY?!
>>54036668
the original titans price on ebay is still going up thanks to it's massive compute.
>>54040520
Anything before GCN hasn't been supported for almost half a year now. You're delusional.
>>54039921
>>54039980
Story time plz?
>>54041419
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Fermi
>tfw bought 4gb 770 a month before the 900 release because you guys were convinced that thee 970 would flop and the 980 would be sub-par for an extremely high price
and that was the day I learned never to listen to /g/
>tfw 680
>tfw it's still going strong
feels good
>>54036621
>Gtx 760
My 770 runs smooth as fuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g85S1hbKKoY
>>54036621
my 760 has no problems running dark souls 3 :^)
>>54041526
>tfw 7704gb
>tfw you bought a 4GB GTX 960
Guys since I don't play video games anymore should I sell my gtx 770 2gb and maybe my i7 4770k and buy a new powerful i7 with integrated graphics and use it instead?
Or just use this build until it becomes unbearable?
>>54041573
How is anyone supposed to answer this question when no one knows what the fuck you use your computer for ?
Fuck off to /sqt/ with your bullshit
>tfw you got a 4GB GTX 970 for free
I don't even play viyda
>>54041573
Sell it and buy an a8 7650k. They're really cheap now, quad core, and killer igpu.
50 aud cheaper than an i3 last time I checked.
>>54041564
>all that vram for a below mid tier card
>>54041779
Bait.
>>54041546
Did novidya fix the lighting issue though
>>54041771
That looks like a really potent processor for that price, and that power consumption - so low amazing - I'm considering making an Mini ATX build and this just serves for that.
Thank you man.
>>54041912
In aus, you can even get an a8 7600(no oc though) for as little as $110.
For comparison, the g3258 was selling for $90 and an i3 is $180(iirc). Haven't looked at prices in a while so I might be wrong. Helped my friend finish his build last month so these prices are from what I saw then
>>54041943
Well I've read reviews on oc and pretty much everyone can keep it 4 ghz with no problems, some got shittier silicon and have drops in frequency when they have high workloads in 4.2.. but 4 is more than what I need.
Any tip for a cheap cooler - considering I'll OC.
The shop I want to buy it from will give me a CPU Segotep Frozen Tower T2 Plus for free - but I don't know jack shit about that company - used Noctua until now and I'm very satisfied with what I got.
>>54041779
Well, since the 2GB and 4GB versions cost just about almost the same, there wasn't much reason to grab a 2GB one. May as well go with the one that can handle bigger textures better.
>tfw you bought a 390 the week of release because you knew DX12 would perform better on AMD cards
>>54041691
>4GB
>>54042063
>implying the human eye can see more than 3.5 gigamemes anyway
>>54041989
Gammax 300 is the cheapest decent one that comes to mind, but feel free to shop around.
A cheap cooler with 2 fans can be really effective, in using an a1-v10 I got for 30 aud and it's keeping my i7 870 below 80 degrees at 4.2GHz/1.4v. According to tomshardware that's a 240w tdp. (correct me if I'm wrong). My i7 goes up to around 77-78 degrees during Intel burn test.
One push, one pull, still yield amazing results.
>>54036621
Incredible it lasted 4 years since pretty much all 460 had shit tier VRM's that would shit themselves in a year or two
>>54042492
He probably didn't oc like a madman.
>>54036419
how are they gimping 700 series cards?
or are you too retarded to remember that they can improve performance as time goes on?
>>54042946
i've yet to see any proof other than a jpeg with no data
>>54037155
>RMA my little brother's 560 SE last year
>expect them to send a newer card, no way they have 560s in stock
>they send back a 560
Fuck.
>that feeling when exchanging your 760 Phantom 2GB by a 960 Phantom 4GB and all of a sudden you only need to plug in 1 PCIe x6 PIN for power supply
I was euphoric at that Moment. Having a GPU powerful enough for Crysis at 1080p with only 1 Power cord - fucking one Power cable, I repeat myself, I did not have this since the ATI Radeon HD 4850 so many years and cards ago..
>>54040353
Yes, and it'll be the last driver ever for pre-GCN cards and is a beta-quality release. The previous release, and the final non-beta, WHQL-certified driver for anything before GCN, is from July last year.
>As a courtesy to our valued supporters we are providing a final Beta driver together with the release of the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition. The AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta driver includes the redesigned user interface as well as some enhanced features. More information can be found in the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1 for Non GCN Products Release Notes. This driver is provided "as is" and will not be supported with further updates, upgrades or bug fixes.
They actually did the same thing when they dropped the 4000 series in 2012. Shoveled out a final beta driver that was buggy as shit and added nothing.
>>54040270
then get Windows 10 and Microsoft Toolkit, install it on a separate Drive/Partition and live on, it's like you WANT bad performance
>>54040534
isn't the easy solution just to rollback your gpu driver
