I played games for years at 30 fps. Yeah more is better. But a GT 310m can only do so much and I wanted to play Battlefield 3.

I would have done the same right now as an adult.

I mean realistically there’s only one choice. And they’re going me too! to everything Nvidia does, but 10% less.

Intel cards are alright (on windows at least). But I don’t think they have anything that would be an upgrade from your 3080.

This meme gets crustier and crustier every time I see it. It’s amazing after all these years people still post this.

It’s been trending the opposite for a while. Intel has mostly stolen AMD’s market share. And AMD has largely gone “me too!” to Nvidia raking customers over the coal.

Only one affected AMD, forget which. But Intel knew about the vulnerabilities, but chose not to fix the hardware ahead of their release.

That’s the other thing. My new computer is a Mac Studio which takes up almost no space, and uses like 10-15 watts. Because I can just turn off my gaming computer when I’m not using it I’m saving significantly more power. Like just your CPU at idle uses more than the entire Mac actually doing things.

AMDs dual CCD CPUs tend to perform worse than their single ccd models in games. You can “fix” that by running the game only on one, and push everything else to the second. But I’d much rather not deal with that. A second computer is much easier.

Plus I can fuck with computer A when computer B is still doing other things without interrupting. That alone is worth it.

Also if you’re in a game and you have a video running that taking GPU horsepower. I’m not going to have a second GPU just to avoid that.

Performance. I’m a heavy multi tasker and I want nothing to get in the way of my frame rate.

For context my old second machine was a 2018 Mac mini with an 8th Gen. i5 and 32 gigs of ram. It wasn’t enough.

I have two computers at my main desk at home. One is exclusively used for gaming, the other is used for everything else. In theory Bazzite is perfect for me.

Ok. But this this is a post in a Linux community. So one might assume it’s targeted towards Linux users.

1st Gen. Ryzen had the worst memory controller known to man. What made it worse is that memory speed dramatically affected performance on those CPUs. Anything over 2133 was a blessing.

There’s no reason why a 32 gig stick of ram should be less stable than an 8. Your ram is defective. Ask for a replacement.

Nvidia has almost never given a shit about the low end market. They haven’t made a good low end GPU in like 20 years.

I hate to break it to ya, but that pictures from like 2010. And those are SLI connectors.

https://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images-new/c/268-pcb-front-large.jpg

https://forum.level1techs.com/uploads/default/original/3X/3/9/39945d4d78763a8a5c9525484d815f191d0a0fd5.jpg

If I saw that at a store I’d 100% pick it up.

Well if you want anything over 35 inches a TV is your only option. They don’t really make monitors bigger than that.

The 865 is 6 years old. That is very much old phone in a drawer category.

Almost all pcie versions are backwards and forwards compatible. You could put a pcie 5 video card in a pentium 4 machine and it should work.

https://youtu.be/9EHqoLSUl1M

Considering that they sell Pixels at normal stores, unlike the Nexus devices that came before them. It shouldn’t be any wonder that there’s a lot of normal people using them. Especially when only google was offering long software support for Android phones.