Recent content by Tagrineth

Turing was poorly received on release for similar reasons to ADA, the price/perf was not really all that much better than Pascal, you were paying entirely for new features like DLSS and Raytracing that literally zero games used on launch. It took a while for Turing to catch on at all. The main...

tbqh if you're buying RDNA2 or Ampere, it really doesn't matter if they've been mined on. The cards are new enough that the wear and tear on the card is unlikely to mean anything at all. Linus demonstrated an even older card (I wanna say an RX5x0 series?) that had been mined on for many years...

It wouldn't solve the problem but it would help. Part of the issue is that the price/perf is entirely stagnant, the new GPUs are right in line with Ampere and RDNA2's price/perf which is a complete fucking joke.

Even before the Crypto crash started, as soon as the Ethereum Proof of Stake merge was announced, I called this. I knew ADA and RDNA3 were being engineered for a crypto mining-dominated market. I remember what happened to Turing when Nvidia priced themselves out of the market. I knew if crypto...

nah, it's more like "we see how power hungry Ampere's high end is getting, and Nvidia has thrown efficiency out the window before to maintain performance supremacy, so I don't trust Nvidia to focus on efficiency based on the information we have" we were proven wrong. kudos to nvidia, they defied...

that's fair. i've been around long enough, you'd think i'd know better than to just think in such simplistic terms huh?

So after all is said and done, I'm kindof intrigued. +30% cores, and in the end... +30% performance? What about all the other architectural changes? Did none of them functionally change anything? The XTX has like +40% memory bandwidth over last gen, is it not helping? Something's clearly gone...

To be fair 3dfx sorta cheated, the Voodoo2 was already a solid generational uplift and then you had the option of installing two of them 8) RIP 3dfx

The description of the account had "(parody account)" added to it shortly before the suspension, and started making obvious, unprofessional / trolly replies to people. They ruined the bit even before the suspension. I was sorely disappointed, not even by the fact that 3dfx wasn't actually...

Appliances refers to them making TVs. Which, yes, is still considered an appliance. lol. I feel like this is being spearheaded by someone who isn't personally super knowledgeable about the technology himself, and PCI probably *means* PCI-E. But hey, I'm optimistic. If nothing else, this is a...

Interesting... the plot thickens. 3dfx Voodoo 6 incoming?

Yes. Or they'll just say sorry but it's past end of life and there's nothing to replace it with because the product is considered 'dead' and unsupported.

honestly, i won't even be mad if nVidia is bringing back the 3dfx name to, for example, maybe rebrand their Founders Edition cards in a more exciting way I'm happy to see the logo again

that was from 2011 lmao.

again, "lifetime guarantee" implies life of product. I'm betting that 7900GS was probably RMA'd for the same card, btw. Not for a newer fucking card lmao.