Oh brother. The 9060XT is the only part I’m missing in my build.
There goes, my hopes and dreams for 2027.
Those data centers are gonna make amazing paintball spots when they all start failing and become abandoned lol
They’ll make good data centers. As in - data storage and networking infrastructure, not the pollution and hallucination machines.
I’d wait for the bubble to burst
I’m on a 1080Ti and while still working fine, I start to feel the lack of performance in some games. Wardogs being the most recent example. Even if that is an issue with the devs (not optimized etc.) it still affects me. So the game looks like shit, worse than games 10, even 20 years ago. Crazy.
I was using a 1070 just a few years ago. I also felt the performance lack, but it wasn’t just the card. The entire PC was old, with old CPU and DDR-3. I wonder how the 1070 would hold up on my current DDR-5 based computer. I would have swapped out for testing purposes, but I don’t want to install and setup Nvidia driver. I’m on Linux and the modern Open Source drivers only support starting with RTX 20xx series.
Those Pascal series was the best graphics card I ever had.
This is my current issue
I have a 2080Super, which should be good for another couple years, but my CPU is an old i5-9600k and only 16 gigs of DDR4.
I can still run games but the last few years I’ve struggled to get a steady 60 frames.
CPUs have still a good price on the market, I don’t know about Motherboards. So you could eventually buy a new board that supports modern CPUs, but still support DDR4. Then just reuse the RAM. Everything else could be reused. That’s the only way forward I guess, if you don’t want spent too much money, but still want a modern CPU.
DDR4 boards have increased in price more than DDR5 boards (generally speaking) because of how expensive DDR5 is. Basically, consumers are buying DDR4 and not DDR5, causing a lot of the new old stock of DDR4 boards to rise in price.
It’s still less than DDR5 memory, obviously.
Even then you’d have to wait for production to come back, back then memory manufacturers reduced production to drive prices up, now with the war destroying key infrastructure you can’t even get parts if you are willing to pay
Got a 9070 in August. It’s already gone up 72%.
Got a 9070 xt in early august as well! Did they gone up so much?!
I bought an Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB for $1000 when it first came out. Sadly that’s a bargain these days for that much vram. They’re already up to $2000 now. It’s crazy how prices of things are still going up and you have to buy early to avoid the increase now. It’s the opposite of the early adopter tax people used to pay.
Thoss $ are backwards
It’s an ass backwards world
games are all shit now anyway, cheaters everywhere. only LAN is real competition, the rest is time gated fomo garbage.
Theres a whole world of gaming outside of the competitive gaming scene that’s doing great.
today is shit compared to 90’s split screen at your friends house, or hot seat single player games as a group, in the same room. or walking to the arcade to check out top scores and compete with others IN PERSON
sitting in a room by yourself clicking dopamine triggering feedback loops all day on a discord server with fellow addicts is a fucking LONERfest disguised as entertainment. these modern games are deisgned to extract as much profit as possible from the user and the user doesn’t even OWN the fucking game. how can you defend that? fucking shill?
were living through a time. in person group video gaming will come back one day. we almost had it with pokemon go in 2016 but Niantic shat the bed
Tell me you only play mainstream titles without telling me you only play mainstream titles.
You can’t be older than fucking 12 acting like this.
Its clear to me that you’re not really worth engaging with. But I’ll basically restate my point. There are a ton of really great games out there; you’re playing the wrong ones.
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It Takes Two and Split Fiction. Two excellent split screen games that came out from one studio within the last 5 years.
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Factorio. One of the best single player games I’ve ever played. There is multiplayer co-op but that’s not really the point of the game.
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Peak, RV There Yet, and other games in the “friend slop” category. They’re not the best games ever but they’re pretty enjoyable and I play some of these at home with my kids, steamdeck vs PC. They’re just fun games.
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Tape to Tape. I havent played it yet because it’s not quite my type of game, but it’s a roguelike hockey game that does local multiplayer (its not split screen if you don’t split the screen right?) or single player.
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Bopl battle. This is kind of an obscure oddity but my son was playing it for a while. Its sort of an arena battle game like smash bros but different (of course). Supports not local multiplayer (like smash bros) or online play.
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Battle Bit. It’s kind of semi-abandoned now which makes me sad, but it was a battlefield style shooter which was simply amazing for a brief period in time.
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Age of Empires II DE. I hesitate to put this in here, but Microsoft reworked the original game a while back so it runs properly on modern computers and gave it just a little bit of a graphics improvement without killing the spirit of the original.
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Minecraft. It’s still good even if it’s mostly seen as a kids game. Supports split screen still but that has always been on consoles only.
These are just the good games I’ve been playing over the last few years that come to mind. There is a lot of trash out there but there are also a lot of gems
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this comment pissed off a lot of loner gamerZ
HAHAHAHAH
fucking idiots, go TOUCH GRASS
ez block for shitty spam memes
Dude. Way to be unnecessarily dickish. Insulting peoples hobbies for no reason. Lonerfest? Shills? Chill out.
your upset because i told you to leave your little echo chamber and spend time with others?
fuck outta here
blocked.
and spend time with others?
People actually want to spend time with you?
blocked.
Way to make it even more obvious that you’re a miserable, pathetic coward
hahahaha for telling people to go outside!
HAHAHAHAHA
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leave your little echo chamber… (proceeds to block opinion that disagrees with their own)
LOL!
yeah, you gottem
petulant child. blocked.
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hahaha FUCK YOU
You need therapy.
Of course they’re shit, they’re online competitive games.
Shit is kind of their thing. It’s why all the tweene shit heads like them.You should try some different games made for grownups.
