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Right lets talk everyone - are we all just been psychologically tricked into "needing" new graphics cards?

Nobody ever has to upgrade for gaming, specially not if you've got what was a high end graphics card from 3 years ago. But hey, it's a hobby, it's fun to play with new gear.

For me I have strict rules about when it's worth upgrading, must have at least 150% performance increase over what I have now and must cost under my relatively low budget. At the moment the only new card who's price we know is under that budget is the 5070, and it does not look like it's performance will clear that barrier. So I hope the 9070xt offers better price to performance, otherwise it's gonna be another generation before I upgrade.
 
Combat squirrel said:
I'm 42, not 'geriatric' :cry:
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I'm 40, absolutely in geriatric territory as a very active guy.

Joking aside, I think you need a new optician, or you simply have different standards. I think your comparisons are extremely poor too tbh, car A being faster than B or having better handling are blatant even if you're blind as a bat. You're talking about a visual medium, there is nothing "crisp" or "pristine" about an image rendered via VRR/FSR at 3440 x 1440, but if you disagree why don't you post some screenshots?
 
Gray2233 said:
I'm 40, absolutely in geriatric territory as a very active guy.

Joking aside, I think you need a new optician, or you simply have different standards. I think your comparisons are extremely poor too tbh, car A being faster than B or having better handling are blatant even if you're blind as a bat. You're talking about a visual medium, there is nothing "crisp" or "pristine" about an image rendered via VRR/FSR at 3440 x 1440, but if you disagree why don't you post some screenshots?
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Its great image quality, 3840x1600 btw ;) - you must be failing fast if you think you're geriatric at 40!! Go to a docs :eek:

I think you're just being too picky & making out the IQ is enormously different just isn't true................... I work as a photographer too so I'm used to studying image quality!

Yeah sure as I've said there is a technical difference here, but it simply doesn't matter..........where do we draw the sensible line, there is no way image quality thats 'hard to tell unless you really try hard to look' is worth £2500 is there - hobby or not!

I can get some screen shots sure - but getting photos as it appears on my monitor is hard, as I'm running it HDR and obviously photographing a monitor = potato quality images. At best it would show the image looks 'clean enough' with nice clean lines etc but the colour & HDR wont work in a screen grab.
 
Combat squirrel said:
I can get some screen shots sure - but getting photos as it appears on my monitor is hard, as I'm running it HDR and obviously photographing a monitor = potato quality images. At best it would show the image looks 'clean enough' with nice clean lines etc but the colour & HDR wont work in a screen grab.
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I recently benched in the 140KG range, largely because I don't want to go over the top. Not bad for 40 I'd hope, but I absolutely am slowing down.

Please post, we'd all love to see them, image degradation is something most invested in these levels of hardware (on this forum at least, in terms of regulars) are well aware of.

The rest just comes across as excuses frankly.
 
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Gray2233 said:
I recently benched in the 140KG range, largely because I don't want to go over the top. Not bad for 40 I'd hope, but I absolutely am slowing down.

Please post, we'd all love to see them, imagine degradation is something most invested in these levels of hardware (on this forum at least, in terms of regulars) are well aware of.
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You changed your diet? That's had the biggest effect on improving me, look at us old men trying to stay young haha.

I think there is only 1 thing for it - whoever has a top end rig, 5090, 9800x3D, all the bells and whistles, I'll need to meet up, use the same monitor, and see how dramatic the difference is, in person, vs my now 'old' rig thats playing maxed settings at smooth frame rates........film the experience of gaming and post it! lol

Sure the newer system will be technically better, but to see first hand if its a total makeover, omg night and day difference or not, will be interesting.
 
Combat squirrel said:
Sure the newer system will be technically better, but to see first hand if its a total makeover, omg night and day difference or not, will be interesting.
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Depends what game your talking about really, path tracing can be a transformative experience but if it's just extra raster numbers yeah it ain't gonna make much difference
 
Bank it, spank it… it’s how the world works for some.

Do we need the latest and greatest Apple iPhone… nope, but they sure are good at making you want it haha.
 
None of us, "need" any of this lol. It's simply a passion and a hobby and some people like to spend there money on there passions. Even if it is a slight upgrade. It's no difference than phones. Most phones do the same things just slightly faster or better. I'm 40 now and life is short. None of us are guaranteed to even be here when the next lot of cards come out so enjoy it while we can lol.
 
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I'm not being tricked in to buying anything, as the only thing that'd make me upgrade just now would be a reasonably priced 24GB VRAM card. 5000 series isn't for me, and whatever AMD release also wont be.
On my A770, if I find something that doesn't run well in the near future, I'll turn the settings down. One of the joys of PC gaming, it that we can do that.
 
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