NVIDIA has done an amazing job at minimizing my FOMO for this generation of cards. Proper anti-consumerism stuff, you gotta respect it.
I fell for it last gen. Once I was done shoehorning (and I mean shoehorning) an oversized power supply, a video card that’s the size of a bus terminal, and all those stupid splitter cables, I swore any further purchases off.
Everything is just way too expensive, the gains are marginal, and it’s a lot of fuss all to just largely play re-rereleases of games that are 30+ years old, and other horribly optimized games that will take 2 years to sort out and in the meantime the computer you are using is irrelevant because it’s just going to run like shit no matter what. The hardware itself is questionably optimized too.
I’m running this setup into the ground and when it comes to gaming, I’m a console guy going forward.
Alas, the only thing I can think of at this point when someone mentions nVidia:
Nothing about these cards catching on fire is surprising.
Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.
The front fell off.
Hot damn am I glad that I got a reliable 4080 Super last year. Looks like I’ll be hanging onto it for quite some time.
You should anyway. Upgrading every generation is a huge waste of money.
My 7800 XT is also a true hero, enabling 4k with raytracing in a lot of games and actually running with my old 500W PSU
You’re not safe. Regularly inspect your gear.
Buildzoid reckons it’s a blown power stage rather than a capacitor as claimed in the article.
Good thing I bought a 7900 XTX a few months ago
I desperately wanted one of those a couple years ago, but no dice. It was largely a paper launch in Canada. Still don’t see them very often either.
