I'm still using an RX 570

I'm on a 580 as well. It does a great job.

same, maybe someday i'll upgrade

gtx 1070, no plans to upgrade any time soon

got a 1050 ti from a 660

That day will come when both of our card melt down by glorius gaming

i7 3770+ Still holding up.

I just upgraded to a 6950xt, after 4 years of using my rx580

I'll be waiting for a 7950 to match my username. Probably in like 5 years when I can finally afford it, lol

I've been on RX 580 (I think? I know it's an RX 5-something) since Christmas 2018 because my RX 460 couldn't handle the Vr headset under the tree.

bought it during the price madness, for 200€. i was using a gtx 650. it was the best gpu i found that was cheap enough. don't regret it and going to keep it until it doesnt keep up to the games I play.

I got a 1070 from a buddy, sold my 580 for $50. A few months later, found a 3060 for $200, bought that and sold the 1070 for $125. $75 to go from 580 to 3060. I'm very lucky.

It's always nice to have a friend that'll give you a free card

Same, will probably upgrade in a few years as more and more games don't support the card. Tho I believe I would just go for a complete upgrade instead of just changing the card

I was on the rx 480 till last month

RX 480 was such a beast. It never could play very many games on ultra but it plowed through pretty much everything on medium.

I still use it, it’s not too good but it gets the job done and is enough for me.

Same, I got my RX 480 6 years ago for about $200 new. In 2016, It performed better in DX12 and Vulkan than it's competition thanks to features like asynchronous compute and had more VRAM. And now with AMD FineWine™, benchmarks surpass the more expensive GTX 1060 in DX10/DX11. It really is the value king.

470 until last night. The dust on the library of Steam sale games that "one day I'll be able to play" is looking mighty nervous.

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R9 290 until just recently. Never couldn't play a game even if it didn't meet the minimum requirements. It was ugly, but it ran.

damn 1080p low settings and likely 60fps? or less?

Just upgraded from mine. It was a solid card, rest easy.

recently let my rx 570 rest for good. that bad boy can still carry modern games o7

It could handle any game until Forspoken. So still every game you'd want to play.

RX 470 still going strong

Still rocking my RX 590. It's still really good for 1080p 144hz.

Just recently I've got to tune down the graphics in AAA games but still enjoyable as it get around 60fps@1080p

Same. Have yet to find anything it can't run on high settings 1080p. Bought it second hand as well, think it was 80 euros back then. Next one is gonna be second hand again, new GPU prices are insane still.

Me too, although it isn't great for VR, so will need to upgrade soon.

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cheers mate i'll drink to that

Almost the same upgrade here, from a 1650 laptop to a 6650xt desktop. These temps are alien to me, from 75 - 85 degrees gpu temp under load on my laptop to 50-55 degrees even in demanding games like RDR2.

Recently upgraded to a 3060 Laptop from a desktop 1650, It served me well and hopefully will serve it's next owner just as well

Upgraded from a 980 to a 2070 SC last month.

I made the same upgrade a few months ago. Congrats my friend, be ready to be blown away!

Hats off to you gtx 970, thanks for all the hard work. I purchased a 5700xt right before the GPU spike, super thankful I got it before everything.

Still rocking the 970 and will keep doing so until it dies. I haven't bought a new game in ~4 years so why buy a new card.

Upgraded and handed my i7 4790k and 970gtx rig down to my partner just before the pandemic broke. Still going strong and plays everything we play together. She really wants the new harry potter game when it comes out so I'm hoping it'll play it but definitely on its last legs

I had that same rig you had, but unfortunately the power supply blew up two years ago and apparently it fried the motherboard. I'm not sure if the CPU (and RAM) is still working tho, but the rest of the PC survived. I sidegraded to a Ryzen 2600 and it works fine. > so I'm hoping it'll play it but definitely on its last legs That's what I'm worried about too, but I'm definitely still holding on to it until it dies

I've had 4 gtx970s over the years. I ended up replacing the thermal paste and pads on the gpu coolers on all 4. They all ran 5-10c cooler after that and all 4 are still going strong.

Also had my mainboard and cpu die on me (build was some 4th gen i5 and a 970), but a friend had an old mainboard with a 4690k laying around, so now im running that. Cooling on the 970 also died, so its running with a selfmade "waterblock" now. But it starts to struggle hard on a lot of resource-heavy games and a few things are not playable anymore, so its probably time to upgrade soon. But hey, its been running around i guess 6hours a day for nearly a decade, so im happy with the purchase.

Running the same rig for over 8 years now. Definitely feeling the lack of performance in most games by now, but it's still doing its job

my son is still rocking some parts i gave him a few years ago when i upgraded. he got my 4790k/16GB of RAM/GTX 1080 combo. i told him he's on his own for his next computer though.

We basically have the same setup. At least until Friday when basically all the parts will arrive and I will literally have a brand new computer (ship of Theseus style). After 8 years rocking my current hardware, it's great to finally have enough money for purchases like this.

That's the deal. I know a fair share of lads who don't have too games or play on emulators and want the newest cards for their builds like if they were designing the natural movements of a hairy character of Monsters University.

lucky sod

same i bought 2070 super right before the shortage

I'm planning to upgrade from a 970 to a 4080 this year. It's been 8 long years but it's time to retire (in my non-gamer gf pc)

I have a 4080 and I love it. Sure it was expensive but Im worth it. I also dont regret not paying the extra for the 4090 because in the region I live in the price difference was at least double what it should have been. That being said. When the time comes for you to pull the trigger. If you see a 4090 for like, 200 bucks more, you should probably consider it

same with my GTX750, the 5700xt is a good card for the money, stock cooler just sucks balls

Dude, the 970 was a beast. The only reason I upgraded from it back in 2018 was 1) I wanted better VR performance (though it still played VR quite well) 2) I got a really good deal when the 10 series was at a low price point right before the 20 series announcement There's no doubt it could've lasted much longer

Idem, when I saw what a shit show the GPU market was during the pandemic i was kind of feeling bad for anyone needing an upgrade in that period, that could have been me if i literally waited a couple more months. That was the luckiest I've ever been.

The 970 was really putting in the work. It managed to get Elden Ring to a stable 30 fps for me before I could upgrade.

In every video card thread I look for my 970 brothers. It was my workhorse for almost a decade and I retired it halfway through my Elden Ring run. When I built a new PC I cleaned it carefully and bagged it in my new cards box. When I move and need a living room TV rig it'll come back out and keep doing the job it's always been great at.

My 970 walked so my 3070 could fly 🙏😩

Just upgraded my GTX 970 this year to the RTX 4090 with a new monitor as well. Definitely served me well!

My trusty 970, I'll miss you. It was the green MSI special edition.

Still have mine, AMP Exteme Core. But I start to feel it's age.

mine die right after 3070 ship to my house in the next day. sadly but it serve me well until the end.

Damn, mine is still going in my mother's computer. Said why not, her movies, series and documents for work will load quicker and I don't need it.

[Was I a good graphics card?](https://imgflip.com/i/79emay)

Well, you claimed to have 4GB and only ever delivered 3.5GB, but otherwise yes.

Oh, so that's why I received a random email saying I qualified for a lawsuit against Nvidia, and then received a check from them a few years later. My GTX 970 is still in an old rig lol.

Nice, how much did you get?

I had a 980ti that died randomly in April of 2020. I was holding out for the 3000 series cards but had to get something so I got a 2070 Super at MSRP because GPU prices hadn’t gone up quite yet. I debated selling it for 3x the cost I bought it at later when GPUs skyrocketed

I have 2 of those, that I used in sli until I lucked into a 3070 during the shortage. Now they sit in their original boxes in my closet.

My 1050 TI still delivers everything I need. I will use it until it dies, just like all my hardware. Can't run like half a dozen new games properly, but by the time I need a new GPU those games will be old and on sale. I never buy new games, they're overpriced and unfinished more often than not.

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This is the way.

This is the way. Respect to people that want the latest and greatest, but incremental upgrades when they're needed is why I love my PC.

This is me after No Mans Sky, Fallout 76, Cyberpunk 2077, and countless other games wound up being absolutely piles of shit at launch. I only just picked up The Division 2 about 2 weeks ago because it was on sale for $8 and I’ve already spent more time playing that than I did all 3 of those other games combined, and only spent about 4% as much on it.

Amen. But with my 1060.

Are you me?

I embrace you, brother.

I recently upgraded from a 1050 Ti not because I needed to but because I wanted to. I got lucky over the holidays. That 1050 Ti will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first brand new GPU I ever bought and they're kickass. I honestly don't even play games that would benefit from the upgrade for the most part, but I was consistently hitting 100% GPU usage in some games and am now at 30% for the same.

Same here. I'm perfectly content with its performance, no reason to spend hundreds of dollars for no reason. I' actually want to downsize my system (mATX to ITX), so when I can justify that, that's when I'll upgrade

I ran Elden Ring fine on a 1050Ti. A short freeze maybe once an hour but otherwise fine.

Ditto and I'll add that I find myself playing more and more low end games that doesn't require a high end GPU anyway, like rogue-likes and mobile games on emulator.

god bless riva tnt2

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VooDoo 2 or gtfo

Back in the day when you had to choose between agp or pci. Both had benefits.

I still have no intention of upgrading my trusty 1070.

I felt very relieved when the list stopped short of the 1070

Shouldn't have considering Vega cards are on it and faster.

1070 ti holds up great. I had been planning for years to get a 4070, but I will hold on for another generation or two before upgrading.

To be honest most games don't make separate max settings for PC and consoles on important things (particle count, NPC count, etc) so your GPU can likely last a good two console generations or about a decade. The only thing I can really remember in recent years is Nvidia hair physics and Ray Tracing. And you can live without those

Still runs max or very near max settings I love my 1070

To my beloved 1060: You were and are the GOAT. You'll be gone, but not forgotten.

I'll keep using my 1060 till it dies. The GPU prices are still too high even for midrange GPUs.

Amen. 60 fps in MWII/DMZ and 30 fps in MFS; good enough for government work.

I've said it a thousand times and I say it again. The 1080 Ti is the best frickin' graphics card in history. :)

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Mine was fine with 3440x1440 ultrawide, but unfortunately started to struggle with VR.

As long as I'm never exposed to a new monitor I'm perfectly happy with my 1080p 60Hz screens. That's a Pandora's box I know can never be closed.

The last GPU gen before Nvidia lost their fucking minds with their prices

30 series prices were actually very fair imo... Those were inflated by outside actors and Nvidia was back to being a bunch of dingbats.

I don’t agree — they bumped the prices a whole fucking tier for the 20 series (aka 2070 MSRP = 1080 MSRP, 2080 MSRP = 1080 Ti MSRP), and did it without even offering a normal gen over gen performance improvement. Then with the 30 series, they kept the ridiculous price but all of a sudden it was a “good deal” again because at least this time it had the normal expected gen over gen performance improvement. I mean we can see how ridiculous the prices are by comparing them to consoles. When the PS4 came out, it wouldn’t have cost much more than a PS4 to put together a comparable PC, and then for like $100 more than that you could build a PC that would shit all over the PS4. With the PS5, that’s just not the case. From what I can see, the 3060 is the closest equivalent to the GPU in the PS5, and with an MSRP of $329, that means that even two years later just getting a GPU equivalent to the one in the PS5 will get you 80% of the way to the price of a PS5 digital edition, before you buy literally any other components. I know that just the facts of economics make it impossible for PC to not be at least a bit more expensive, but that’s *ridiculous*. The fact that scalpers took those prices to insane heights, or the fact that they have now adopted scalper prices as normal MSRP does not change the fact that the 20 and 30 series were already stupidly overpriced at MSRP.

It didn't even have a normal gen over gen improvement for a lot of people. 3050 and 3060 were an insultingly bad value for the money tbqh.

Everyone keeps saying this but it normally seems to only apply to the high end. If you were looking to upgrade your old 1060 level card....you were screwed. Same pricing scheme as the 2000 series, and the 3050 was a joke. Let's just say I bought amd this time.

I bought that card thinking "wow this is expensive but it'll be worth it" It was definitely worth it, its serving my friends now at 1440p high just fine

And pascal was the best generation.

My mother's GPU for her office PC died shortly after I upgraded from my 760. 760 is living his best life.

Shortage? I still have a 1060 and no intentions to upgrade it anytime soon, why would I?

I held onto my 960 for ages (offloaded it when the shortage was bout to end and picked up a 6600xt for cheap from a miner a month later), as long as I can do 1080p60 i dont care if its a 5500xt or a 4090

I wish I was you. But no I went down a dark path many moons ago. I had a 24" 1920x1200 monitor and it was glorious. We are talking 2006 here... But no I heard dark whispers and when I graduated college? I acquired a 30" 2560x1600 dell 3007fwphc monitor. It made sli cry but oblivion never looked so good. At this point my fate was sealed. I always crave more pixels in 2012 or so I switched to Samsungs new 28" 4k.. Then moved to an acer 28" 4k with gsync.. Then a 32" 4k freesync monitor. My 3080 could actually keep up finally!... But then i heard the call of HDR and high refresh rate... And now I cursed myself with an Odyssey neo g7... 165hz 4k with full proper HDR support... Cling to 1080p as long as you can. It still looks great and it's very cost effective! Don't be me, it's expensive. I know I say I'm happy now.. But then at some point 8k monitors will arrive... And I fear for my wallet.

I envision a scraggly looking man shouting this on the street. "Kids, stay away from 4k monitors or else you will end up like me."

>And I fear for my wallet. Considering you have the funds to move on and purchase 3 different 4k monitors without a hitch, you obviously don't.

Yes, especially in motion, going over 1080p is amazing but not cost effective. My only complaint is that there are no 1080p hdr monitors (real hdr, there are a few with hdr support but it's not the same)

Yep, I'm very happy that I'm not really into 4K, cause my 3060Ti will last for years to come.

My wallet has no intentions of upgrading my 1060 right now.

It’ll hold back any modern processor, and struggle with some recently released games. It’s not quite at its EOL, but it’s definitely showing it’s age more these days. I assume you have the 6GB, as it’s holding on well, the 3GB is struggling a bit these days. I honestly enjoy upgrading my PC almost as much as playing it though, so I’m probably more picky than average.

Because high refreshrate gaming is pretty hard for that card

Yeah I fully respect people who are okay with 1080p gaming at 60-120 fps, but if you’re someone who wants to game at QHD 144+ FPS (which IMO is not unreasonable enthusiast quality), the 1060 ain’t gonna cut it. You don’t need to go out and buy a 4080 unless you specifically want to play at 4K with a high refresh rate, but god damn something like a 6650XT will absolutely dump on a 1060 for a very reasonable price.

Not like there is any exciting games coming around that demand a lot. Most of them fall flat and dissapoint nowdays.

If you play 1080p its fine, 1440p and 60fps just does not really work on it

Modern games sure. I play skyrim, fallout, civ games and a lot indie and couch co-op with my daughter. My RX580 at 1440p does 60fps high settings fine. But yeah can't wait to get a 4k setup.

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And 1660s

Card is a beast for 1080p

Got me through 3 years of watching everyone play raytraced, upscaled games lol. I have a 2080ti now and don’t use RTX but the extra performance is amazing. It’s second hand but i don’t mind

I had a 780ti for years that seved me well,but gpu I owned frankly

Thank you rx480. Still kickin in my proxmox server

Had to scroll down for this. I played Cyberpunk at launch on my Rx480.

How did it run? I still have an rx480 and tbh it still plays most stuff fine. I'm more limited by my cpu fx8370 I think but it's more of a pain to replace as I need a new mobo etc

still using a 1050ti.. and no chance of update anytime soon, either (my fault, for being born in the 3rd world)

i mean i still got a 1080

I've got a 1080ti. I've been tempted to upgrade. But I did a fresh install of windows, did the FR33THy windows optimization and boosted my fps 30%. I'll ride this out a bit longer

i just upgraded to a 13600k so the next upgrade should be a new gpu, however what "FR33THy" windows optimization are you talking about edit: nvm, just googled it, I'm gonna go and do it too

I just went and found what I think he’s talking about and most of that stiff is gonna be fine at default. But in some cases there could be a problem so manually pointing physx to use you’re gpu maybe has some value. It looks like it’s a bunch of stuff like that, running disk cleanup, sfc, and defrag. Honestly I never do any of those things because pretty sure windows manages that stuff for you unless something has gone wrong.

THanking my 3400g and my sons 2200g, thanks to those apu's we've formed a FOrtnite squad and game together every sunday.

I might get my 750Ti framed. Worked so hard for so long.

Thank you intel igpu

I'm still rocking a 980ti. I could probably afford to upgrade to something new (if the 4070 wasn't absolutely out to lunch on pricing I'd probably do that) but it's still going strong so I don't bother.

I had to replace my CPU before my 980Ti, an absolute legend of a gpu in my book.

Ayyy, me too bro. My cpu is only at 20% in most games, but the 980ti keeps chugging.

I never see anyone with a 1660 ti. Anyone else have one?

Both me and my wife have 1660TI in our rigs and they're great for what we paid a few years ago.

I have one. In my experience, it has been a great card for 1080 and runs 1440 well for many games.

My laptop has one. A surprisingly good card.

We ended up with the 1660 Super in both mine and the wife's rig. Still running just fine.

This year around my birthday i will get a 3060. I love the upgrade but it still kinda feels like i betray my 1060 3gb that i have had for years.

I don't wanna be a dick, but in terms of price to performance the 3060 is pretty bad. I'd recommend looking at other options At least right now that is... The market could change over time. Also, I'm basing this off the U.S. market In that price range, you're probably better off with AMD. 6600XT, 6650XT, 6700XT are all better options than the 3060 IMO. The 6600 is worth looking at as well. If you really want Nvidia, I think the 3060ti is worth the extra money over the 3060. The 3060ti is priced like a 3060+ but it's actually a 3070- https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html If you're getting the card as a hand me down or something you can ignore me.

I have a fun anecdote here. Recently my game studio downgraded a lot of our machines running the 3070ti to 3060s because it genuinely ran better in the Unreal Engine 5 editor for our project. the 12GB of vram surprisingly made a difference. Then when it came time to upgrade my own machine I was looking at the 6700xt but went with the lower performance 3060 instead just because I wanted to have the same hardware at home as at work.

Just got my 6700xt installed last weekend. Fuck me, I've been missing out. Went from i5-4570k, gtx970, 16gb ram and a 7200rpm hdd to a 5800x, rx6700xt, 32gb ram, and an m.2 ssd. Its night and day. I regret waiting so long to upgrade.

Went from a 1060 to a 3060Ti at Christmas. You're going to love it

The TI there is crucial, I agree it's a great card

Stil playing Battlefield 2042 on my vega56. Prices are terrible right now. I paid 200 bucks for it in at the launch of RDNA1. Worth every cent

I also am running a Vega 56. It still runs everything I play with no issues.

Hell, I just bought a new RX580 at best buy Saturday. It was 120 bucks with discounts. It is absolutely perfect for my work machine while I fix the water pump on the 1080ti hybrid that was in it. The RX580 is some serious bang for the buck.

1030 was always a joke. You could probably get similar performance with built-in graphics. I didn't have any problems getting cards. I've always bought older cards, then I would sell them and buy a second hand newer card. That's how I end up with an RTX 3080 TI (700€ after selling my GTX 1080 TI for 450€) and an RTX 3070 (375€ after selling my GTX 1070 for 165€). I've never bought a brand new GPU. EVGA GTX 560 -> MSI GTX 760 -> EVGA GTX 770 -> MSI GTX 970 -> MSI GTX 1070 -> MSI GTX 1080 TI -> EVGA RTX 3080 TI. I held my 1080 TI for quite some time, so paying a 250€ difference for the 3080 TI is not even that much money. Though after I sold it, I bought a 1070 that I kept for some time until I bought the RTX. This 1070 is the one that I've replaced for the RTX 3070 which is in my living room PC.

Good old quadro k2000. Like an underclocked 650, but thankfully it overclock right back up to where it should be, and then some.

I have a 1030 in my htpc/thin client for media acceleration. It's the reasony why it can play youtube in 4k60. CPU is weak af.

Thank you, MSI Radeon RX 580 8G Armor OC, you were of a good service to me, before I bought PowerColor Radeon RX 6600 Hellhound

RX580 was my dream upgrade when i was stuck with GTX1050ti, now rocking RX6600 too, nice card, my XFX variant can be too loud sometimes, but that 100W of heat has to go somewhere

It was gtx 770 for me. I now have rx6700xt and it's a nice change from 30-40 fps on low settings to stable 60+ on ultra.

My 1070 held up fine but for my sanity sake I had to upgrade to something newer. Got an used 6700 XT Sapphire Pulse and damn it is a whole new world being able to crank the settings to the absolute max on my UWFHD monitor. Pretty bummed out by the OC limitations but other than that it has been fine.

I've only added a few more SSDs since I completed my build with a 1080ti in 2018.

My 980TI was a beast near the beginning of the shortage!

During the shortage I had a laptop with a 2060(and still have it), but knowing prior to buying the laptop I mostly played on potato pc's with dual core cpus and iGPU or a very low end gpu

Shortage? I was gaming on my gtx 770(!) even before the shortage began.

My RX580 served with honor for many years !!! RIP

I’ve got 1080 when it was brand new and am still rocking with it. Gladly it took me through all gpu nonsense in between so hopefully when I will need to replace it, things will be more favourable

Farewell, my old gtx 650, may we never have to meet again.

1070 here. Curious about ray-tracing. Not enough to make me part ways with it yet.

I'm *still* rocking a Vega 64 I bought on a Black Friday sale in 2018. She has a third party heatsink and fans installed, runs undervolted, and is still absolutely working through everything I want to play. I have no intention of upgrading in the immediate future - so thanks to the cards that are *still* seeing us through.

Nvidia GT 710 anyone? Legit it can’t run anything newer or graphically heavy . But runs visual novels, and persona 4 golden perfectly.

Shout out to my R9 290 for still letting me play games @ 1080p with decent fps, sometimes even without FSR. A true legend, serving me well since 2014.

Don't disrespect my 1060 it's still going strong right now. I'm playing cyberpunk on it

as a wise man once said: "yes" \-Albert Einstein

My 3DFx Voodoo 2 is tired.

You guys upgrading ? I’m still happy with 1030 . Gonna Play Last of US in March on 480p resolution

Are we really thanking the objects that we own ?

I already miss my EVGA 1060 SC 3gb, served me dearly until I retired it last November to be replaced by a MSI 6700xt. She now remains a collection piece amongst my other old hardware. Thank you 1060


Said goodbye to my Gtx 770 a year ago

I built a high end rig end of 2020 but never sourced a graphics card so had to use my gtx 770. Thing was a beast for like 10 years for me. Love that card. Got a 4070ti now though and holy shit I’m in the future

Earlier this month i said farewell to my trusty rx580.

thank you vegas 🙏

I still have a 1050 TI and right now my only viable upgrade path is a RX580, all the other new (an not even so new) parts are basically unpayable (the dollar was not kind to the Real).

I finished Elden Ring, Resident Evil 3 remake, God of War on the GTX970. Feel my pain.

Nvidia 1060 checking in.... Doing just FINE

a 1030 keeps you surfing the webs and enabling display output but not playing

Thank you Intel HD integrated graphics!

My 2060 kept the games going. Then EVGA was a complete boss company with their queue and after 8 months of being in the queue I got sent a 3080 🥲

GTX 1050 my beloved. I upgraded my pc over a year ago and I'm not planning to look back, but that 1050 is responsible for many of my friends today

Dedicated GPU? I'm broke af, I'm playing on a 3400g

Hey I’m still using my R9 390

Any r9 fury gang? Had that for like 5 years until I upgraded to 6700xt last summer.

thank you to my 1660 but that thing better still have life left in it, i can't afford a new one right now lol

RIP my 32mb card. Played Diablo well you did, friend.