scott46953 As you see it's a Radeon and not Nvidia. This is like the Intel versus AMD. I'm old school yes, but back in the day if you had an AMD you was running slow, but if you had an Intel it was running much faster and smoother. Yes I've ran some ATI video stuff in the past however.. now I spend a little bit extra. I know in today's world that you may not be able to notice much difference between the two so a lot of people don't really have a preference nowadays. But I'm a firm believer in the past and I'm a firm believer that in the future regardless on how much more they expand, they're only doing it because until and Nvidia are way ahead of a ball game. Somebody probably was upset with the radio on car because of the frames per second and then they went with the newest Nvidia and was so happy they decided to be a smarty pants and dropped their Radeon card off at the back door at the Goodwill. Next thing you know it's on Tom's hardware picked up at Goodwill. How convenient… The same way the difference between roku, fire stick, which is downhill with their blocking, aftermarket Android boxes versus the Nvidia streaming box. I will never run another one because Nvidia streaming box runs so much smoother the ram is much faster, it has cuda cores and a nice happy AI video enhancer that makes my picture so much better than all the rest of the boxes. And I'm not trying to brag, I'm just old school and I can get tired of waiting and I get tired of crap like Amazon blocking apps. Next thing we know third-party firmware side load. See this is the difference between cheaper stuff and stuff to cost a little bit more money. Yes it cost a little bit more money, but it's worth it in the long run. Was it worth it for $4.99 at the Goodwill absolutely. I'll try to figure out why one Goodwill store would mark an item like this at 4.99 while the one here in my town they put price tags on stuff like that $49.99 and then it sits on the shelf but somebody still buys it. Goodwill really needs to come up with some kind of pricing scheme because some of their stores look up the prices online deductive percentage off of it and then Mark it and throw it on the shelf. The same way with a pair of house speakers I seen there one time $40 okay that sounds good, get it up to the front oh well the $40 a piece.. you can keep those no longer interested… $80?? For something they got free out the back door and they don't even look like $80 worth.. printers for $15 may or may not work.. fingers crossed hopefully you plug that card in and it does work make sure you save your receipt. Also hope that it's not shorted and burn something else up on your main board on the way. Maybe toss it in an older board that's not so precious to test it out. No sense of ruining your expensive good board and power supply. Then you can think that dirty little devil that dropped the damn thing off that knew that had a problem. Hopefully it wasn't used for mining and the memory in the board is still good. I'm on other forms but I just signed up for this one because it seems to bring a lot of my attention here lately. I figured was speech to text on my phone nowadays, might as well join. I'm an old school coder translator, programmer, builder, 30 years Hands-On electronic repair tech day job. If it wasn't for this blizzard outside, this post wouldn't be so long. I'm out, next Reply
BFG-9000 I can't tell what agenda they are trying to push in the non-premium tier news anymore. Is Amazon good or bad? One person got rocks, and another was told to keep a free RTX 5080. And at Goodwill one customer got the wrong GPU in a box, while others got a boxed RX 5700 XT, or an unboxed RTX 3060 12GB for $4.99. This funny old gif was from back when AMD didn't have the most stable drivers, Intel was slow but reliable, and nVidia burned out your big Tesla card (GTX 8800, 9800, 275/280/285/295) with a bad driver which disabled the fans coincidentally the same month that Fermi was released for sale: https://media1.tenor.com/m/EklBnsK4_VcAAAAd/amd-nvidia.gif Seems like nVidia has been working hard on getting their recent drivers as bad as those were since 576.02 similarly disabled fan control but only after waking from sleep, after which the temperature sensors no longer updated (NvAPI_GPU_GetThermalSettings), leading to a couple reportedly burned RTX 5090 cards from fans remaining at idle. On the bright side, not that many people tried them due to all the issues with drivers newer than 572 or 566 depending on the game, and it mostly just caused crashing problems from the overheating. So the modern user experience for nVidia is like the left panel except of course the bluescreen is now black, and for modern AMD it's now just a frozen blank screen Reply
USAFRet BFG-9000 said: I can't tell what agenda they are trying to push Maybe 'no agenda'…just…interesting. Reply
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