So anyone that doesnt share your unpopular view to boycott nvidia is dumb? Intetesting
Also, for the record, your opinion is just that. It doesnt make u smarter than everyone. Just because you have issues understanding, i guess your lashing out.
Your post is mostly made up and full of it.
Personally, i know many people who bought 8800gt, 8600gt, etc. I know
of several still in use today. My brother has two 8800gt gpus, both still in use daily. I know a guy with 8500 gt sli in his athlon 6400 x2 rig. I just recently met a lady when a took my son to a birthday party, she was playing Sims2 with an 8600 gt on an emachine.
There are countless used 8800 gt cards on ebay and all over the net. What your claiming, there shouldnt be a single one.
We have heard your opinion on nvidia a million times. Every time you try to pass off purely made up stuff as fact. It is all your opinion, which the largest majority of all people who still buy PCs simply do not share.
You call my post made up and provided no rebuttal to my arguments at all, instead of making up facts yourself such as me boycotting NV. I haven't boycotted NV at all for life, I simply chose to spend $0 with AMD. You call that bias, I call that financial savvy. 4890, 6950, GTX470s, many 7970s, all paid for by mining, with thousands of dollars left over to buy anything I want.
Free GPU upgrades from 2008 + 5 figures from mining vs. Spending $ on every NV upgrade and $0. Ya, I call that being smarter than the average gamer. If I wanted to I could now buy every flagship NV gen for 30 years and not spend any of my actual $. Can an Nv user do that? There are thousands of miners who made far more than me, far more.
1) Bumpgate is a historical fact. So dreadful that it affects original PS3. Go look up YouTube on RSX GPU solder fix and it's clearly explained that cheap NV solder caused failures by people who understand what causes the failure. On Apple forums there is a thread about failed 2011 MacBook Pro laptops with AMD GPUs but there is no major failure associated with other 2011 AMD laptops, suggesting it was poor Apple chassis design and cooling system. However, in contrast, Bumpgate affected every GPU made during those NV geneations because the flawed solder is in all of them. Yet now you can read on Apple forums of some users never wanting to buy an AMD powered Apple and these same people are oblivious to Bumpgate.
"The defective parts appear to consist of the entire line-up of Nvidia parts on 65nm and 55nm processes, no exceptions. The question is not whether or not these parts are defective, it is simply the failure rates of each line, with field reports on specific parts hitting up to 40% early life failures. This is obviously not acceptable."
https://semiaccurate.com/2010/07/11/why-nvidias-chips-are-defective/
It doesn't mean that all GF8 will fail in 5 years but all are defective and can fail any time. Those people you mentioned with Athlon X2 and so on running GF8 are obviously not heavy modern gamers. Witg light gaming such cards would last longer. Doesn't mean that Bumpgate didn't affect thousands of failed cards. When was the last time so many AMD/ATI cards failed? Never.
2) I also said with NV you often get crippled with VRAM cards. All facts:
GTX 570-580 1.28-1.5GB of VRAM vs. HD6950-6970 2GB, with 3GB 570/580 costing $100 more!
GTX670/680 2GB vs. 7950/7970 3GB, with 670-680 4GB costing $100 more!
GTX780 3GB/780Ti vs. 290/290X with 4GB.
This wouldn't be a problem if Nv cards cost less, but no they cost substantially more in all of those cases and each of those NV cards has ran into VRAM bottlenecks, essentially making high rez gaming on 500 and 600 series worthless with AA.
3) You also said I made up facts about NV rip-off prices:
$650 280 and $400 260, embarrassed by a $300 4870.
$650 780 and $1000 Titan, embarrassed by a $400 290.
$450 770 4GB vs. 300 280X. Ridiculous.
The 970 is crazy hyped but it barely undercut a 290 by $70. In historical terms to how AMD undercut NV, 970 is frankly a joke. 680 only undercut 7970 by $50 for 2.5 months and then the faster 7970Ghz undercut 680 4GB by $100. 7970Ghz still cost less than the now worthless 680 2GB.
These prices were typical for months:
- 770 4GB SLI was $200-300 more expensive than 280X CF.
- 6950s unlocked for $450-500 vs. $650-700 for 570 SLI or $1000 for 580 SLI.
- 7970Ghz SLI for $600-800 vs. 680 2-4GB for $800-1100. To make matters worse, an overclocked 7950 for $280 was as fast as a $450-550 max overclocked 680 2GB-4GB. I remember this clearly as OCN users with 7950s were posting benchmarks and going crazy over the value proposition.
- Of course 290s and 290Xs now massively undercutting 970/980SLI, with 290X CF actually providing a smoother high rez gaming experience.
There are plenty more examples for lower end and mid-range cards. Every generation with NV you are forced to spend $100-300 more. Repeat every 2 years and in 10 years it's a lot of $ that could have been spent on games.
You view my posts as critical of NV, but it's only common sense since I never advocate wasting $ for brand name. We have deals of after-market 290 going for $200-250, which means a gamer can put together a 290 CF setup for $400-500 vs. $600-700 for 970 SLI. There are countless other things to talk about like GeForce 5's horrible trilinear texture filtering IQ, non-existent DX9 performance and NV's inferior AA all the way up to GeForce 7 as well as GeForce 7's hopelessness in DX9-10 shader intensive titles. All of those forgiven and forgotten by NV users.
What about the constant focus on reference AMD after-market cards and ignorance of cool and quiet after-market versions? It is all marketing and perception. To reiterate, I never said to boycott NV but ignoring Bitcoin as most NV users did was dumb. They object to the idea of buying AMD so much that they missed on thousands of profits that they could have now used for NV cards. How often do you see NV cheerleaders hoping AMD stomps NV and forces major price drops on NV, so that they could purchase their next NV card for less?
For me I want the next NV or AMD card to smoke the last AMD or Nv card so more performance becomes more affordable regardless of the brand.
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