Recent content by jdempsey

Until I see them for $800 or less, I can't really justify it, mostly on principle, I still think that's the price they should have been to begin with. The reason I've waited this long to upgrade (and the reason I bought a second 1080ti, even after the 30 series release) is because of the pricing...

Haha, still 4070 super or ti super looks better for me, but it's an interesting release, makes me wonder if we're not going to see another iteration of the XTX as well, either way, I think I'll wait a few weeks to see what shakes up with pricing.

RX 7900 GRE just threw a wrench at this discussion, thoughts?

I'm sure you're right about DLSS, and I probably should have been a little more specific, it's mostly RT that I don't give a shit about, I know it's going to continue to become more prevalent in the future, and I know it gives some people a grand "tingle in their dingle" :dead: but while I find...

In thinking more about it, lets assume I don't have the 320w peak power limitation, still want best performance per watt, and still have a roughly $800 budget, but am fine with buying second hand, would you guys still choose the 4070 super? I've decided there's no reason for me to even bother...

Yeah I definitely am looking at matx/itx down the road, at the moment I've got a little money coming so I'm trying to knock the big expense, i.e. gpu upgrade out first, use it with the current older, but still reasonably capable MB/cpu, I expect to be cpu bound with the newer card for a bit...

I have a laptop, have 5 or 6, and it's what I use for non-gaming junk like replying here atm, but afaik with the exception of the few "laptops" that put full power GPUs in them, they don't offer the gaming performance I want. I have looked at SFF's with eGPUs but that's a whole bag of worms...

I have a good traditional PSU, 1000W platinum rated, *but* the issue is that I'd have to run it off the inverter, and I'm determined not too; the traditional switchmode PSUs we use, btw, have a maximum efficiency at a very specific wattage that isn't their peak wattage, nor is it consistent...

No the spike issue is a very valid concern, that I hadn't (but should have) considered, just hadn't seen any mention of it or numbers out there, thank you for mentioning it!

BTW, I don't have any delusions about 4k Ultra, I'm just using it as a loose metric (4k ultra at 60fps fwiw), to shoot for, since most of the gpu heirarchy charts out there use aggregate averages to differentiate models anyway. That said, I've been rocking a 1080ti since release (well, on my...

Appreciate all the replies guys, lots of food for thought. Funnily enough I had just about convinced myself to spend money on the 4070ti super, after looking at the average wattage consumption vs FPS on the current Tom's GPU recommendation article. Although, since I'm not that concerned with...

So we've had some abstract convos about this in the past, but I'm ready for a GPU upgrade (1080ti) finallly, and I'm hoping for either affirmation of my conclussion, or some input on an alternative if I'm missing something. Before I mention the conclussion I've come to; some backstory for...

Sorry for the semi thread hijack/derail OP. I will however happily buy this machine, if you, or anyone else can find me a thunderbolt flex io module that works in it, for a reasonable ($50ish) price somewhere legit. I haven't tried HP directly yet, but a cursory search of their site returned...

Yes, this is the part for sure, I just can't actually find one in stock. Is that showing in stock for you? Site shows status "unknown" when I hit the "check stock" button, which I assume means no stock.

wait so you're saying I can swap in a thunderbolt port module? edit: ok, I'm a bit mind-blown by this revelation, as it appears you *can* swap those optional modules, though the datasheet I read didn't remotely make that clear to me, big thanks bigddybn for chiming in, I'd have *never* guessed...