What kind of giant desk will that fit under, though?
Itās actually pretty small overall, and the footprint is relatively tiny. Thatās a mini-ITX motherboard and it just fits in the upper section. Those 2 small radiators barely fit in the lower section, and the SFX power supply is tiny as well.
That picture was taken on a narrow kitchen bar ā not a desk.
Very nice. But personally I wouldnāt want a gaming laptop smaller than 17".
RIP Fermi / 32bit OS support.
I didnāt see my GTX260 (my oldest still in use card on my ancient basement PC) so thats a positive. :p
It makes sense. 32-bit only allows for 4GB of memory addressing, and most new cards eat up most, if not all, of that alone.
The OS move does, but some of the cards on that list can still run modern games. I understand the notion of diminishing returns, but I canāt help think this may be related to a perceived reluctance in owners upgrading due to the insanity of blockchain overpricing.
How to remove the login part from GeForce Experience: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/8b5nej/updated_remove_mandatory_login_of_geforce/
I got my GTX 1080ti! No thanks to Fedex, who did everything they could to prevent delivery. Dicks.
I was running Far Cry 5 at 4k on High-ish settings, with I think just shadows and water lowered to Medium. GTX 1080 benchmarked at about 43 FPS, but in the game world I would typically see about 45 FPS.
With the same settings the 1080ti bechmarked at 56 FPS. I raised shadows and water to High and the benchmark lowered to 54 FPS. But in the game world Iām seeing about 60 FPS.
So thatās cool.
This sucker is also loud. I quickly lowered the fan speed about 25% with MSI Afterburner. Itās running at 77/78 decgrees C. The GTX 1080 ran at 82C. The above benchmarks are with the reduced fan speed. I didnāt notice much if any FPS increase at the default fan speed.
Since you guys seem to have plenty of GPU knowledge, Iāll ask my question here: are they are any good gaming video cards that produce less heat? Iām using a R9 290 and it heats up my office pretty bad when Iām running intense games.
Or would a new GPU simply run cooler because it can produce the same graphics that as my 290 āeasierā (and will be undertaxed and stay cooler)?
If youāre running the same old games and you know itās the graphics card generating the heat (vs the CPU due to some BS DRM taxing it to death), then yes.
'Course, with the newer graphics card youāre going to want to turn up the shiny, the resolution etc. so thereās that to consider.
My understanding is that Nvidia does better than AMD in performance/watt.
What brand? My NVIDIA FE one is whisper quiet.
In general Nivida cards use less power than AMD, other things being more or less equal. So a GTX 1060 is about as powerful as a RX 480, but 1060 uses less power.
Heat really depends on both power AND cooling. If you got some super duper cooling system, both Nvidia and AMD cards wonāt heat your office up. However if your cooling is just ok, then Nvidia cards in general will warm your office less, other things being equal.
Way less power noise and heat on green team.
I mentioned upthread itās an nVidia Founderās Edition 1080ti.
Paying $700 for a video card is crazy enough, I certainly wasnāt about to pay $1100.
But, but, look at the pretty colors!
Iām in Florida so Iāve dealt with heat. My PC would sometimes shut down if things got too warm. My final, bestest solution was just to buy one of those $120 - $200 window AC units for my office. Iām so much more comfortable now. The alternative would be freezing the rest of the people who live in my houseā¦ Damn family, ruining everything.
Did you try water cooling solutions?
Meh AC is cheaper (maybe not year to year) and keeps me more comfortable too.
Iāve also heard a lot of people with bad water cooling stories who say ānever againā and I listen to those people.
I use a split system for this office because there are too many screens and electronics in here for the overall AC to keep up with. These systems are not cheap though.
I also came back to this topic hoping someone was going to tell me GPU prices are back in orbit again, nope.