Blackwell gpus

[eeii]

Hopefully they have learned from the last release and sorted out the coil whine problems. I know some of the guys went through a lot of cards to get the one.

 

[heatonpkmassive]

Hopefully they have learned from the last release

That would seem to imply that they're open to learning how to please their customers as opposed to learning how much money they can make from them

 

[SimonRigga]

Hopefully they have learned from the last release and sorted out the coil whine problems. I know some of the guys went through a lot of cards to get the one.

because they really struggled to sell GPU's?

 

[harmattan]

"Ancient gameplays" on YouTube has a good 6950xt undervolting video. I applied that and saved a tonne of Watts and heat. Well worth a look!

Watched, but jeez that guy is the Lebron James of stringing out a video for what could be explained in all of a minute a half LOL. In any case, I'm stable at 1030mv with temps reduced ~4c under load -- looking good.

Feeling better and better about selling my 4090 and picking up this interim 6950xt as I'll have some downtime now to RDNA4 and Blackwell release. Heck, I may sit on this card for a minute until the next gen line up evens out.

 

[kieran_read]

Did you buy a card in the end as you were looking to upgrade a few months/year ago?

No I didn't, I kept my 1080ti in the end. TBH I haven't really bought any new games in the last couple of years, the 1 game I play a lot that could do with a new GPU would be Hell Let Loose, but other than that, all I have is CP2077 which for me was a Day 1 and a buggy mess so I stopped playing i need to go back and play that again.

I would have got the 7900xtx if it launched at 1000, but then it was out of stock and being sold for 1300 plus, that killed my hype and then when I really thought about it, i don't "Need" it. I do have a 4k 144hz but nothing I play religiously requires it, HLL I play on 1440p and still get over 80fps on low, and as I havn't been able to put it on full settings I don't feel like i'm losing out as it's just what i'm used to. In the end I think Samsung ended up with a deal on a 4TB M.2 for £220 so I ended up getting a new hard drive. Today I picked up a 2nd 4k monitor as a secondary screen (only cost me £15 as my last monitor broke and was covered under warrenty)

This time i'm either going to get the 5080 (depending on the price) or the AMD 8800xt i'm more keen on the AMD at the moment as I feel they may just pull another RX380 on us, (we can hope) but only a month to wait.

With GTAVI coming out i'm wanting to upgrade 100% this time, and it makes more sense to do it earlier on, because if it's anything like this gen, i'm going to be waiting a year or more for any price drops if the cycles go the same way at which point my brain just tells me to wait for the next gen.

I would say I do regret not picking up a 6950xt when that was going for 500 hindsight that was an incredible buy and nothing came close to that value since imo (at least until now the cards are being cleared for the new gen.