9248

As someone who still owns two Voodoo2 cards in the hopes of one day having the space to build a legacy gaming PC, that is NOT all. Sir. ;)

9250

Thanks for your comments. Supposedly my Dell 3007 has two native resolutions – 1280 x 800 and 2560 x 1600. Things do look sharper in either of those resolutions than in, say 1920 x 1200.

I wonder if I sit further from the screen than most users. My feet are typically up on a footrest, right under the monitor, but my head is at least six feet away.

9251

6 feet is pretty far away.

9252

They are the only GPUs they could find to put up for sale.

9253

They look terrible, I love it

9254

Noctua isn’t cool because its products are unapologetically ugly, it’s cool because they perform. If they manage to deliver a superior cooling solution, then great.

9255

Agreed, although they ARE unapologetically ugly, lol.

9256

RGB bling counter-culture!

I’m all for it. The RAM in my computer looks like something a 13 year old girl might wear.

9257

Who knew that a video card could have that fugly mid-70’s tan & brown two-tone energy?

9258

Nice now you can match your Noctua cpu cooler!

9259

Would be fun to make a build inside an old Apple ][+ case or something

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Matrox and S3 comin’ up!

The 90s were such an exciting time.

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9263

And just like that, dreams were crushed.

9264

But at least they were crushed without the jaggies.

9265

A bit late to reply on this, but hey, I was on vacation last week and no one else has.

I follow the Boston (Cambridge) Microcenter stock situation pretty closely (first to get my own, then out of habit), and it’s just demand vs the pricing/performance on the cards that are actually out there (i.e. non-reference boards).

6700xt, release price $480, pretty much always in stock for the last 3+ months at this point, prices run from $850 to $950. 3070, release price $500, EVGA at $640 and most of the others in the mid-$700s. So on average $200 more for less performance… and the demand line is somewhere in that gap. The 6800s are the only current AMD cards that have even a half-decent niche.

FWIW, Cambridge has probably averaged 80-100 Nvidia cards a week for 3-4 months now. Everything in the good part of the curve on price/performance (60ti through 80) still disappears immediately, with no end in sight for the demand at the current prices. Schools coming back in another month won’t help with that.

9266

I f’n busted a gut reading this post, hit me just the right way here on a slow, lazy Sunday at home. That was perfect.

9267

I read on a forum someone referred to a GPU as a Pixel Accelerator and now I cannot un-think it, the term GPU is dead to me.

9268

Well they used to be called 3D Accelerators back in the day. I think GPU only started being used when the original GeForce 256 came out.