• frezik@midwest.social
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      1 month ago

      You can buy them new for somewhat reasonable prices. What people should really look at is used 1080ti's on ebay. They're going for less than $150 and still play plenty of games perfectly fine. It's the budget PC gaming deal of the century.

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          1 month ago

          Lot of those games are also hot garbage. Baldur's Gate 3 may be the only standout title of late where you don't have to qualify what you like about it.

          I think the recent layoffs in the industry also portend things hitting a wall; games aren't going to push limits as much as they used to. Combine that with the Steam Deck-likes becoming popular. Those could easily become the new baseline standard performance that games will target. If so, a 1080ti could be a very good card for a long time to come.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        not in my country lol. getting used cards were already the norm before, for a while you could literally only get used ones for a good price on aliexpress.

        and now our gvmnt imposed 100% tax on anything from china, so its really just not affordable.

  • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    All of this to run a program that is essentially typing a question into Google and adding “Reddit” at the end of it.

    They spent so much time disconnected from reality and trying to create artificial intelligence that they forgot regular intelligence exists