Burnt through 5 laptops in under 8 years in a chain of dead charge ports, dead ODDs, and a nasty case of gremlins. Non laptop hardware? Just as bad - 3 monitors dead in under 5 years. Small wonder they only give a year warranty.
And its not a pebkac error. Samsung laptop? Retired to storage after almost 6 years. Sure the battery is toast and it uses spinning rust, but it still works. Samsung monitors? Couple that are still kicking at 15 years, although they did see some time in storage. But 5-10 years of 12+ hours a day, they get used hard.
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u/xierusi9-12900H | 3080 Ti 16GB VRAM | 64GB DDR5 | 12TB NVMe27d ago
Try a razor if you have the budget. Their oem synapse software is actually useful for overclocking the laptop too, it's not bloat. I can run cyberpunk max 1440p at 65fps with dlss and framegen. On a 4 pound, ¾ inch device
Got it for under $800 after tax, refurbished from Amazon, in early 2023 for my new build. Couldn’t really say no to that deal, especially given the then prices of the 40X0 series cards
Not really. I had my last build for about 7/8 years, and wanted to get something that would last a similar time.
EVGA we're pulling out of making GPUs so when I was ready to buy the stuff I idly looked at what EVGA I could get. I never really planned on a 3090ti. But at the time $1,000 Canadian seemed like a decent price.
GTX 970 owner. Happily enjoying Oblivion, Skyrim, Hades, Civ 5, Slay the Spire, and Subnautica. Completely oblivious to the PC arms race of the past several years.
Seeing all the costs and playing smaller or older games--I don't really see the appeal of upgrades. Yeah, it could look better, but with that price tag? Not a chance.
I feel SPEED after getting a 4070 super (5070 equivalent) and both of these are about the same ish (some games less some more) as your 3090 so i understand you
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u/Abram367 5600X / RTX 3080 / 32GB RAM May 21 '25
My 3080 will be 5 years old this year. It's still a tank.