Found a Geforce 6800 in my pile of cards, never used it before, it came with a Zalman aftermarket cooler, so it is rather fast, it was at that time rather high end and WTF!? That thing gets hot! So in the last 20 years not much actually has changed..
Yep. I'm running an AMD RX 580 8 GB card, got it for a hell of a deal about 3 years ago, and it's running fine, though I've had to do some maintenance on the fans. There's no way in hell I can afford graphics cards at their current price. Crypto mining fucked everyone over, and I'm hoping the prices continue to drop, because it's absurd what some of these cards cost, even for just a standard desktop graphics card.no it's gotten worse
Last year sales for graphics cards hit the lowest point since 2005.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low
I'm not sure that there's going to be a turn around anytime in the near future.
use of graphics cards for crypto mining drove up demand and prices and that little bubble has burst so that was one avenue driving sales.
another was pandemic restrictions so people were stuck at home and people would have upgraded to play games while stuck indoors but those restrictions have lifted.
Because people have upgraded in the past couple of years and paid a pretty penny to do so, they won't be keen to jump to a new card anytime soon.
Not sure how much of driver e-sports were for graphics card sales, but the gloss is coming off there and the down turn is noticable.
Finally you have combination of prices for the cards combined with the cost for electricity in Europe - people just can't accord to build and run systems pulling over 1kw of power that's not adding much to the their gaming experience.
True, and when I do get a new card, somewhere well down the line, it will be AMD, too.
Cheap, really fast but yeah, they were a bit fiddly, had to find the right mainboard for them, pity National Semiconductor killed off Cyrix, still have a 6x86 MX 200 running which is very close in speed to my Pentium 233 MMX.
Good choices!In the socket 7 days I often used Cyrix CPUs
After socket 7 I ran mainly AMD'S started with a Duron 700, then a Athlon XP 2200+ after that a Vienna core Athlon64 3200+, then dual cores 4450e which was the energy efficient version of the 4400, then a Phenom II 905e, 955BE, FX 8350 and now a Ryzen 2600X.
Yep, all forms of energy have equivalent mass - for potential energy in your example. The Wheeler-DeWitt equation suggests that the equation for the universe is a quantity (specifically the Hamiltonian constraint on the wave functional that describes the information content of the Universe's geometry and matter) that equals zero. It also implies that time is an emergent phenomenon.
Yep! I eventually replaced it a few months later with a 5400 HDD because you could hear it swishing very loudly. Sometimes it would ping.^^ For that price it really was awesome.
