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Gray2233 said:
Suffice it to say, I've never been happier to have bought into a 5800X3D on AM4, because I'm sure as hell not spending my own money on any current DDR5 platforms.
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haha, i bought into two 7800x3d chips for both my systems at the right time :D
sold both my 5800x3d chips a bit too early, but thankfully, the cost to change was negligible so not much regrets (was actually quids in for my secondary itx system)
 
tamzzy said:
love a good bargain :cry:

my main rig cost me £1200 (7800x3d/32gb/4080 super/4tb ssd)
my secondary cost me £900 (7800x3d/32gb/9070/1tb ssd)
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@Gray2233 :D

(well...a bit of an older post as my secondary now has a 2tb ssd for no cost to upgrade, so the costs of the build still stands :D )
 
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tamzzy said:
haha, i bought into two 7800x3d chips for both my systems at the right time :D
sold both my 5800x3d chips a bit too early, but thankfully, the cost to change was negligible so not much regrets (was actually quids in for my secondary itx system)
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I was on the fence so many times, but how much I game and with what kinda put a hold on it. I've mentioned this before, but I run a 34" ultrawide + 4K 65" tv for couch gaming.

The games I play while sat at the monitor were already fine, the games on my TV wouldn't have benefited from a more powerful CPU. The state of the 5000 series annoyed me so damned hard due to that, because I legit hoped/expected a 5070ti pushing 4080 Super + 20%, and more again for a 5080.

Frankly the worst generation of Nvidia GPU's to ever exist par none as far as I'm concerned, utter *****.
 
tamzzy said:
i can think of the geforce fx and fermi to add to the list :cry:


in at the right time :cry:
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Hey, the 5800U coupled as a leaf blower and the 5200U was surprisingly not poo given the rest of the range. There were also bargains with the 5900 series in that regard, 5900SE being able to mod into fully functioning 5950's.

Luckily for me I already had a Nvidia Geforce 4 4400, and a 9500 modded into a 9700 Pro for a fraction of the cost back then.

The current 5000/Blackwell series literally offered no real improvement at added cost outside of the 4090 to 5090, and the 5090 is still bloody slower than the 4090 in a bunch of modern games when you ignore the averages. (CoD, SM2, there's more)

I would be more forgiving if it was a refresh of the 4000/Ada but it bloody isn't.
 
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Gray2233 said:
I would be more forgiving if it was a refresh of the 4000/Ada but it bloody isn't.
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i mean, i said so even before release :cry:

tamzzy said:
same, i don't expect the 5070 to be much faster than the 4070 super in rasterisation
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should've bought the 4090 when they announced the 5070 :cry:
dang missed it. was going for a grand at the lowest. seems like a steal nowadays
 
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tamzzy said:
i mean, i said so even before release :cry:



should've bought the 4090 when they announced the 5070 :cry:
dang missed it. was going for a grand at the lowest. seems like a steal nowadays
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You do generally speaking expect architectural benefits between generations even when there's similar specs, Nvidia pumped them into AI as proven by the fact the 5090 is slower than the 4090 in some instances.

At worst we deserved a little more VRAM and actual performance uplift shy of the halo product, maybe if they had the magical AI trickery in place from the get go but they did not, at least not in a functioning way and still do not.
 
Rob_B said:
Do you get free Haribo with that though?

On topic - Just buy the 5080 (and PSU if you need it) and call it a day. Upgrade your platform when you feel it's showing it's age, which will probably be a while for you.
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His 3080ti is still very good though.

I'd just spend it elseware, motorbike, speakers, av system, teacakes etc etc
 
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