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NVIDIA 4000 Series

Basically, the graphics card companies know of the desperation of gamers wanting a graphics card post-mining days and are capitalising on that as best they can. It's not personnal, it's just capitalism, that thing the whole of western civilisation is build upon.:)

Jensen basically said gamers are willing to spend $300+ extra than what they had before in his shareholder's presentation thing. Time will tell if he was right.
 
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If you wanna play 1440p there are SO many cards that can handle this that won’t set you back… people are obsessed with new launches which is fair but if you 1440p you can do so with 2 series and 3 series comfortably.

Hell I was playing some warzone the other day on my 5700xt itx pc and it was great.
 
Leww said:
If you wanna play 1440p there are SO many cards that can handle this that won’t set you back… people are obsessed with new launches which is fair but if you 1440p you can do so with 2 series and 3 series comfortably.

Hell I was playing some warzone the other day on my 5700xt itx pc and it was great.
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Yeah I read someone comment the other day they got a 4090 and yet still they are playing mainly Football Manager.
 
Leww said:
If you wanna play 1440p there are SO many cards that can handle this that won’t set you back… people are obsessed with new launches which is fair but if you 1440p you can do so with 2 series and 3 series comfortably.

Hell I was playing some warzone the other day on my 5700xt itx pc and it was great.
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People are seeing a benchmark and seeing a game run at 300 fps and thinking woah I need some of that, then forgetting the fact they are currently playing it at 200fps and have been perfectly happy with that for two years lol.
 
Noxia said:
Damn it. I didn't realise there was a rule that states I have to play demanding games if I buy a high-end graphics card. I'll send it back.
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Play demanding games? I just look at mine out the corner of my eye and don’t even bother switching it on.
 
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Consoles or for pc gaming 1440p a 3060ti class card and gaming will be great. 1080p I think is for laptop gaming now as even a 17" screen is a nice size for 1080p, they are coming back now this gen with 18" laptops and I see 1200p/1440p be the better resolution then for that size.
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1080p is good too. I have 3x27" @ 1080p and work great.
Probably the best fine wine so far is DLSS. Crazy how much "free" performance it brings. Fingers crossed it keeps on giving.
 
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I honestly think anyone buying a 4090 purely for gaming has lost their mind.

For the same money as a Founders Edition 4090 you could buy an Xbox Series X, a PS5, a Nintendo Switch OLED and a Meta Quest 2!
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Not necessarily, I think 4k users definitely have a use for a 4090.

I've done a little experiment. I have W10 (2 year old install cloned from a SATA drive) installed on one NVME drive and W11 clean installed a month ago on the other. Both OSs were installed with only the one target drive installed in the system so that they don't know about one another, I select OS through BIOS by hitting F11 when booting.

In W10 I have monitoring software installed that gives me temps, FPS, etc. I always used to have this running when gaming in W10. In W11 I have no monitoring software installed, so I can't look at it. W11 is a clean install so I think games would run better than my W10 build anyway, but all my games do run amazingly well on this system at 1440p using W11. Up and running with it in no time too, about 15 minutes to install and Steam, Origin, etc. have no issue sharing the same game libraries across both operating systems.

Not looking at figures in W11 is very nice, because everything seems to run just peachy with this latest Windows version on my system. But what the way I have it set it up really does is allow me to actually enjoy the game more, because I'm not focused on numbers at all. As a result, I don't really feel the need to upgrade while prices are this stupid.

The FOMO factor is significantly reduced if you ignore the numbers, but then almost all of you knew that.
 
lovelyhead said:
I honestly think anyone buying a 4090 purely for gaming has lost their mind.

For the same money as a Founders Edition 4090 you could buy an Xbox Series X, a PS5, a Nintendo Switch OLED and a Meta Quest 2!
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At least with the 4090 you get the best (currently) and you get reasonable spec hardware out of it - unlike the rest of the 4000 series so far where you still pay top money for very second best, really 3rd best as the specs of the hardware relative to the 4090 is a big drop.

If you are playing on a high resolution screen at high refresh rate then the 4090 has its merits, not so much the rest of the line up.
 
lovelyhead said:
I honestly think anyone buying a 4090 purely for gaming has lost their mind.

For the same money as a Founders Edition 4090 you could buy an Xbox Series X, a PS5, a Nintendo Switch OLED and a Meta Quest 2!
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I could have purchased 32 tons of potatoes instead, but those wouldn't run a full dedicated VR sim racing setup at 144hz either, no matter how hard I tried.
 
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