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      1 year ago

      I would nominate the Gtx1080 (actually the 1060 6gb too) as the best of the best GPU ever made.

      The price/performance ratio at their launch was insane and even 7 years later, they’re still valid options for budget gamers.

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          My 4S became unusable after the … iOS 6? 7? update; nothing would remain running in the background and apps took several seconds to start.

          Switched to Android and never looked back.

          Edit: looked up a few dates and I think it must have been iOS 8.

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            Oh yeah, I’m not saying the 4S is a good phone nowadays, but I still consider it the best phone of all time when you consider when it came out, what its competitors were, etc. Similar to the Nvidia 1080 GPU.

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              What I’m saying is that Apple made sure to turn it into a bad phone three years after its release, while the 1080 is still a decent GPU several years later.

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      A year or two ago, I needed a newer graphics card because my R9 390 couldn’t handle the resolution of my new ultrawide monitor. This was when prices were crazy, everything was out of stock, and second-hand cards were selling for higher than the retail prices of brand new cards.

      I got a 1080Ti for free from someone at my workplace because they hadn’t used it for a while and would have felt bad selling it while prices were ridiculously high. He didn’t want to take advantage of anyone. Good guy.

      To pay it forward, when I upgraded my PC I gave away all the old parts (PSU, motherboard, RAM, CPU) for free. I posted about it, waited a day or two, and picked someone randomly for each item.

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      1 year ago

      Be an absolute irresponsible moron and finance one like I did :) who cares about debt when you have FRAMES am I right?.. right…?

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      Bought a laptop with a 1050ti back in 2018, still use it to this day. Though I don’t game on it as much as I used to. I’ve upgraded everything else in it that I could