{"id":2991,"date":"2021-04-12T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/im-finally-happy-i-bought-an-old-graphics-card\/"},"modified":"2021-04-13T04:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:11:54","slug":"im-finally-happy-i-bought-an-old-graphics-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/im-finally-happy-i-bought-an-old-graphics-card\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Finally Happy I Bought An “Old” Graphics Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let me inform you about an emotional rollercoaster I\u2019ve been on for the previous eight months. It\u2019s a cautionary story, concerning the perils of obsessing over PC {hardware}, but additionally certainly one of celebration, a triumph in opposition to the percentages.<\/p>\n

In 2015, I bought an all-new, pre-built gaming PC\u2014the primary time I\u2019d ever carried out that\u2014and had such a implausible expertise with it that I swore I might by no means improve it, I\u2019d simply wait a number of years and when the time got here I\u2019d simply purchase one other new one over again. It was a great plan in concept, however by 2020 my timing was approach <\/em>off. <\/p>\n

The PC I\u2019d purchased in February 2015, which had seen me by way of all the things from The Witcher 3<\/em> by way of to Demise Stranding<\/em>, was by the center of 2020 beginning to actually<\/em> present its age, because it struggled not simply on newer PC video games (Horizon <\/em>particularly), however even on fundamental stuff like Photoshop.<\/p>\n

So five-and-a-half years after my previous PC, I bit the bullet and ordered a brand new one. I used to be barely nervous, largely due to the timing of my buy; Nvidia\u2019s 2000 sequence playing cards had been round for some time, and an all-new sequence of playing cards\u2014seemingly providing large efficiency boosts\u2014was certainly coming quickly.<\/p>\n

However I play nearly all my work video games on my PC, and with Cyberpunk <\/em>and a brand new Murderer\u2019s Creed<\/em> (and a great deal of different large vacation video games!) on the best way, I couldn\u2019t afford to attend round for some hypothetical new sequence of playing cards that will or might not have been coming quickly. You gotta draw a line within the sand someplace, and necessity dictated that line for me was to be drawn in August 2020.<\/p>\n

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I received\u2019t bore you with the complete particulars, however I ended up getting a system that included an RTX 2080 Tremendous, a card that wasn\u2019t the best possible on the time, however which was nonetheless an enormous enchancment over the 900-series GPU it was changing. I had a pleasant case, I used to be getting new PC stuff for the primary time in over 5 years, I used to be excited!<\/p>\n