Maybe the Tis will see them put the price up to capture those sweet scalper profits.
They say that if you listen close on frigid, dark hardware launch nights out by the shuttered remnants of a CompUSA, you can still hear @lordkosc to this very day, clicking. . . clicking. . . always clicking.
I assume games wonât be able to count on 30XX disponibility for awhile, anyone making the new Crysis that requires one, itâs going to be tough.
stusser
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What kind of maniac would make a game that requires an $800 videocard in the first place? Crysis played OK (for the time) on $300 cards and it was probably the hungriest title upon release of all time. Well, unless you go back to the dawn of computing when a 386SX-25 cost $3000 or whatever.
antlers
7830
The PDP-9 on which I played Spacewar as a lad would like a word with youâŚ
stusser
7831
Yeah yeah, you got me there grey pubes!
Iâm not even going to ask how you know.
Iâll have you know that @antlers keeps things trimmed right prim and proper, nary a grey hair in sight!
First computer game I played was on whatever monstrosity lurked in the basement of one of buildings at Georgia Tech. We found some log in info on a bulletin boardâthe cork and pin kind, mind youâand borrowed it to play Multi-Trek, a multiplayer Star-Trek inspired space game where our moves were displayed onâŚline printers. We ate up a lot of paper that way. But mainframe gamin, yo, old school.
This was my first experience with computer games as well. A friend had a login to one of the mainframes at FSU that gave us access to a Star Trek game where each of your turns was printed out on line paper. It wasnât Multi-Trek, though. Each turn you had to guess which direction the enemy ship was going to maneuver and plug in coordinates to get your ship close enough to it to do damage with your phasers. Fun stuff. This was back in the mid 70s. Iâve been obsessed with computer games since that day.
I may be hazy on the exact name, but Multi-Trek is stuck in my brain. It was multiplayer, though, and there was this one guy who dialed in on an Apple computer using IIRC a 300 baud modem. For some reason, this game him a huge advantage, because his commands actually got to the computer faster than ours did from the terminals we had to use. The game did not account for stuff like that.
Yeah, this one was single player. There were a LOT of Star Trek game variations on mainframes back in the day.
Netrek, the queen of all early Star Trek UNIX games.
Www.Shopblt.com has preorders right now. 80s and 60Tis minimum. 70s too. 90s too. Looks like mostly Asus.
Apologies. I meant to say preorders.
They have all ryzen cpus too
Given your struggle with your new GPU does that mean you went from a 6700K to a 5950 or something with the same GPU? Did that do anything for Cyberpunk? Or anything else� I have the 6700K too.
If itâs accurate BLT give extremely transparent preorder numbers. Cool :)
stusser
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I went from a 6700K with a RTX3080 to a 5950X with a GTX1080. Gaming performance is much, much, much, much, much worse now. CPUs just donât matter a whole heck of a lot when it comes to gaming.
To tell you the truth, I havenât even tried Cyberpunk since the 3080 died. Too depressing.
Hopefully Gigabyte will get the 3080 back to me in a week or two. They have it at their service center, fixed the problem, and itâs been âwaiting to shipâ since last Friday.
But can you compare 6700/1080 to 5950/1080� Go on, fire up Cyberpunk :)
stusser
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Nah, too depressing. I made a pact with myself not to play it until DLSS and ray-tracing worked again.
Other games are vastly crappier on the GTX1080. Not to say itâs terrible, I have a 1440p monitor and the 1080 is OK at 1440p. But it isnât turn everything up to ultra and get 144fps either.
The only BLT 3080 preorder not currently oversubscribed is this one:
http://www.shopblt.com/item/msi-computer-rtx-3080-gaming-x/mstar_g3080gxt10.html
I donât think these ETAs (1/18) are guaranteed⌠but you never know :)
