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OS: CachyOS GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Board: MPG B550 GAMING PLUS CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 4.43 GHz Memory: 31.26 GiB

i try to keep it short: i have issues with some games (like the witcher 3) and often hear that its an issue with nvidia drivers etc..

So my question is: would a switch / small upgrade to a AMD Radeon 6800 be worth it?

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I guess we're only going to invent the microchip once.

In any case now that I'm... you know, not a kid and can look at 90s tech with some historical data, it wasn't quite as straightforward as we remember. But then it also didn't have memory prices spiking by 300% overnight because everybody knows a fake AI bubble is going to pop so they want to sell them a bunch of crap before all the money evaporates but not ramp up production because that money is clearly going to evaporate.

That's 21st century through and through. 20th century tech would just keep slapping the same Z80 and Motorola 68000 chips on things for a decade. Z80 too slow as your CPU? Maybe it can be your sound chip now. Listen, we have warehouses of these, we'll keep selling you new ones well into the 2000s, it's barely a clump of wires held together with chewing gum.

Did you know the 68000 was 10 years old by the time it made it to the Genesis/Megadrive as a CPU? That'd be like the PS5 launching with a single core 2GHz Athlon from 2005. I didn't know that as a kid.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

But then it also didn’t have memory prices spiking by 300% overnight because everybody knows a fake AI bubble is going to pop so they want to sell them a bunch of crap before all the money evaporates but not ramp up production because that money is clearly going to evaporate.

The money is going to evaporate because the money never really existed. Its just a handful of megacorps passing the same few hundred billion dollars around in circles over and over again to create the illusion of value. Its literally the same thing crypto currencies do. Pumping up the value before dumping for massive profit.

and while 7 people are circle jerking their way to trillions of dollars, right wing hate machines across the world are obsessing over AI because it finally lets them create a imaginary world that justifies persecution fetish.

That’s 21st century through and through. 20th century tech would just keep slapping the same Z80 and Motorola 68000 chips on things for a decade. Z80 too slow as your CPU? Maybe it can be your sound chip now. Listen, we have warehouses of these, we’ll keep selling you new ones well into the 2000s, it’s barely a clump of wires held together with chewing gum.

The Z80 only stopped production last year because thats how great of a CPU it was, lol, still useful 50 years later.