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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Jacky60 said:
As someone who's owned 295x2 quadfire I care because gaming just about doubles my electricity usage with just my current setup. It also means in the middle of summer I literally have to wear a wet T-shirt as my gaming room often will top 28-30C. Paying an extra £300+ per year for power to sit in a room that's like an oven for at least two months per year is something I really could do without.
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i've found someone as insane as me. I did the same with the 7990's in quadfire, i can really relate to your summers haha... i used to game in just my underpants in the summer but the good news was i never used my heating during the winter :D

i've always looked at it like this, i used to be a bit of a party animal, if im staying in gaming using more electricity i'm not out on the town spending £50 a night so it works out to be a cheaper lifestyle compared to my old younger self.

wow, i got old and boring.........
 
Jacky60 said:
As someone who's owned 295x2 quadfire I care because gaming just about doubles my electricity usage with just my current setup. It also means in the middle of summer I literally have to wear a wet T-shirt as my gaming room often will top 28-30C.
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LMFAO... I have never read anything quite like that (wearing a wet tshirt just to game) in all my years of gaming and forum use. It's extra funny because even though it's an extreme case, it's so believable, and living in a 3rd floor apartment I have also experienced heat like this when gaming in peak summer. I am picturing it in my head and laughing now... :D
 
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Richdog said:
LMFAO... I have never read anything like that in all my years of gaming and forum use. It's extra funny because even though it's an extreme case it's so believable. :D
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i can confirm it's legit. summers were a nightmare with those kinds of set ups


anyways isn't it time we started sticking some crazy rumours on here to see if Wccftech publish it (again)?:D
 
Richdog said:
LMFAO... I have never read anything quite like that (wearing a wet tshirt just to game) in all my years of gaming and forum use. It's extra funny because even though it's an extreme case, it's so believable, and living in a 3rd floor apartment I have also experienced heat like this when gaming in peak summer. I am picturing it in my head and laughing now... :D
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That's WITH a 24" pedestal fan blowing on full power from 4 feet away too, it's hot work!:eek::D
 
labbby said:
i've found someone as insane as me. I did the same with the 7990's in quadfire, i can really relate to your summers haha... i used to game in just my underpants in the summer but the good news was i never used my heating during the winter :D

i've always looked at it like this, i used to be a bit of a party animal, if im staying in gaming using more electricity i'm not out on the town spending £50 a night so it works out to be a cheaper lifestyle compared to my old younger self.

wow, i got old and boring.........
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Was not as insane on the crossfire setups guys, if I did it was on two mid range. Definitely relate to the hot summers in pants dreaming of air-con though lol.
 
beany_bot said:
no one is "just gaming" though. That is the problem with these charts.
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This is it. Even when I was younger I was using the PC for what its good at, productive work, media and regular comms (BB's, mail, IRC, programming etc). The whole point in Windows (GUI) was to start multi-tasking.

So yeah I will take a 3% hit in games if the other things I do get a ++% uplift over the intel setup.
 
Joxeon said:
There is no difference at 4K which is where these cards are aimed for, in fact you might see AMD ahead at this res as PCIe gen 4 seems to add a couple of FPS.
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May not have anything to do with PCI-E 4.0.

My 3950X system I tested with an old Titan V the other day on Timespy using PCI-E 3.0 and it managed the best graphics score I have got compared to any of my intel HEDT setups.

It is an easy thing to assume the 3950X is better because it comes with PCI-E 4.0 but from what I have seen Ryzen is very efficient regardless of whether it is using PCI-E 3.0 or 4.0.
 
Th0nt said:
You can explore my friend, there is also Linux.. but if you power on, launch steam, play game, shutdown - then we cant really comment on that.

Actually are you posting on here from this 'gaming' PC?
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Imagine not being able to google something about the game you are playing on the pc your are playing it on... damn.
 
Th0nt said:
You can explore my friend, there is also Linux.. but if you power on, launch steam, play game, shutdown - then we cant really comment on that.

Actually are you posting on here from this 'gaming' PC?
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I play games on my PC with windows(just finished playing dead matter).
My monitor is my 75 inch FALD 4K TV. I also use linux for other things in a dual boot ssd.

I post from which ever OS I am using at the time :)
 
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