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Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by cevn »

tenacious_tuna wrote: post #2

I'm still using a 1080ti in my main PC, though I don't play as many games as I used to. Control is the last title I picked up where I really felt like I was pushing the graphics capability of my rig. I remember when I built my PC I was surprised when I'd come across a post of someone running ancient (at the time) chips like the i7-870, and now I'm realizing I am one of those people. My 2700X and 1080ti do plenty of w…

I use it in my guest PC, it comfortably hits 165 fps in Rocket League at 1080p. Something about using the 1080 for 1080p feels poetic.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by WarOnPrivacy » 

    the legendary Core i7-8700K
This might be a unique assessment. My perspective is that Intel's strong lines were 4th gen and then 12th gen.

I see a number 4770 and 4790 still doing the job they were bought for. I expect the same for 12th gen when they're 13yo. Not so for anything between 4th and 12th.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by crest »

jandrese wrote: post #14
fishgoesblub wrote: post #5

It's amazing how great the 10 series was. The 1060, a budget card, had the same amount of VRAM as the previous generations top tier card (6GB) with the 1080Ti having 11GB ! the 5060 for example has only 8GB, the same as the GTX 1070 and 1080.

The RAM crunch has been a quiet victory for those older cards. I have a 10 year old video card in my rig that had at the time a decent but not chart topping 8GB of RAM. Developers are still targeting 8GB because so many of the cards released today still have that. Since I'm still using 1080p the performance is usually acceptable too. Surprisingly the biggest problem is becoming the CPU, with the i5-3570k lacking a fe…

SSE or AVX?

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by TacticalCoder »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #42

the legendary Core i7-8700K This might be a unique assessment. My perspective is that Intel's strong lines were 4th gen and then 12th gen. I see a number 4770 and 4790 still doing the job they were bought for. I expect the same for 12th gen when they're 13yo. Not so for anything between 4th and 12th.

> I see a number 4770 and 4790 still doing the job they were bought for. I expect the same for 12th gen when they're 13yo. Not so for anything between 4th and 12th.

What do you mean? My Core i7-6700K is still running strong on its Asus Z-170A mobo (TFA mention a Z370-A, mine's a bit older but was one of the first mobo to offer a M.2 NVMe slot). It even runs very modern games just fine on whatever not-so-powerful GPU that's in it: it's the PC my daughter uses to play (I did put PoP OS! and Steam on it but I'll swap to another distro if needed).

I switched to an AMD 3700X and then to an AMD7700X but I don't see anything wrong with my 6th gen Core i7.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by giantrobot »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #30
tenacious_tuna wrote: post #2

I'm still using a 1080ti in my main PC, though I don't play as many games as I used to. Control is the last title I picked up where I really felt like I was pushing the graphics capability of my rig. I remember when I built my PC I was surprised when I'd come across a post of someone running ancient (at the time) chips like the i7-870, and now I'm realizing I am one of those people. My 2700X and 1080ti do plenty of w…

I still run a 2014 Mac mini and a 2012 MacBook air

My 2011 Mac mini nods sagely. It runs even better today than when it was new because I put an SSD in it a few years ago.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by HenryMulligan »

leoqa wrote: post #23

I have 3 3090s, all in various gaming computers. I’m not sure what to do with them- the VRAM is only 24GB so doesn’t seem worth the power costs to run an open weight model. Any suggestions on how I can run them as some type of cluster? Is it worth exploring NVLink?

One RTX 3090 would allow you to run either Qwen 3.6 model with ~100k context at Q4_K_M quantization. Two would definitely allow full context and then some, or go for Q8 quantization. You can do quote a lot of LLM stuff with one or more 3090s. Or give them to me and I will happily put them to use!

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by HenryMulligan »

embedding-shape wrote: post #13
Argonaut998 wrote: post #11

Mine is still going strong, it can run Gemma 4 26b. It can still play all the games I care about at near max settings at 1440p at 60 FPS (like Elden Ring).# My PC did coincidentally die today (not GPU related) so I think it's time for an upgrade, what do you recommend?

> so I think it's time for an upgrade, what do you recommend? Without knowing what you'll use it for, probably a 9970x + RTX Pro 6000 would do the trick, YMMV.

I don't know about you, but most of us don't want to drop $10k+ on a GPU!

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by Schiendelman »

I bought two of these when they were new. I don't recall the price, but after mining some bitcoin in my electricty included apartment for a few months over the winter instead of running the heat, I think I ended up with ~.5 BTC.

Re: GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

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Post by citizenpaul »

tenacious_tuna wrote: post #2

I'm still using a 1080ti in my main PC, though I don't play as many games as I used to. Control is the last title I picked up where I really felt like I was pushing the graphics capability of my rig. I remember when I built my PC I was surprised when I'd come across a post of someone running ancient (at the time) chips like the i7-870, and now I'm realizing I am one of those people. My 2700X and 1080ti do plenty of w…

This is the first time Ive ever been concerned that my next PC will be a step down from my current due to costs.
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