Re: What graphics card(s) do you have a sentimental attachment to?
Posted: May 2nd, '26, 10:19
I'll forever kick myself in the face SCREAMING for not salvaging my RX 580
Oh wow I didn't even know that other cards had a similar memory issue. I'll admit I told myself I would not buy new cards again, only used after I got burned by the 970 fiasco way back when. Like, only get a card that has been around for a couple of years so any 'oopsie poopsies' are discovered by then. I mostly play boomer shooters and other ancient games anyways. excuse me while I grab my prune juice and walker lolWhiteSnake9191 wrote: Apr 30th, '26, 21:51yeah it was a shame with the whole 3.5gb 970 thing, I actually chose the 8gb RX 480 over it at the time just due to more memory and I was only on 1080p too.Deadhand wrote: Apr 30th, '26, 02:30 The regular 970 for me. Was the first graphics card I bought, saved hard for it (worked a crappy kitchen job at the time) only to find out I could never use the card to it's full potential because of a stupid flaw that only allowed me to use a 3.5gb of the vram which I worked so hard to save every nickel and dime for hahaha :_)
Sapphire HD 7950 Boost was my first gpu at the time when I finally built a gaming pc at the end of 2012, was the 2nd best AMD gpu at the time behind the 7970, people at the time acted like saving the bit of money with the 7950 Boost (which was a bit better than the regular 7950) was the way smarter choice so I did.
It ended up being finicky at times and possibly had a fault in it, grabbed a regular 2gb 660 cheap and rocked that for awhile (that....I actually found out from some deep diving that the 660/660ti could only use 1.5gb, just back then it didn't make nearly as much news as the 3.5gb 970 stuff)
Got the RX 480 8gb when it was finally in stock in 2016 and used that for 5 years until I got the 3070 in 2021 that I still have, despite the doom and gloom online about more than 8gb vram being needed, it's honestly played anything on 1440p high settings with DLSS that I've cared to try that's modern, and obviously ultra in older games. I bought the ~$5 Lossless Scaling app on steam awhile back to toy around with frame gen to help the card age better. I just genuinely can't justify much for a card these days. I kept hearing stories a year or two ago about people finding super cheap $200 4070/5070's in person at walmarts way marked down for some reason, wished I could have come across one of those deals lol.
If my 3070 died I'd probably try and grab another used at a good price from a good seller online and rock it, I wouldn't be outright against the similar 6700XT, but, I did have my share of driver woes with the RX 480 requiring DDU (the whole process is burned into my mind's memory haha), although I did hear the AMD drivers massively improved a couple years ago starting with the 6000 series
