I had wanted to buy a Nvidia RTX 30 series graphics card since they were announced in late 2020. However, that has been fairly difficult with the supply chain problems and scalpers buying what they can and selling them at higher prices.
Speaking of which, any chance you're willing to sell your old GPU? (^_^)
You know it's bad when...my 1060 3GB can be sold *used* for double what I
Generally, I feel like PC upgrades aren't quite as exciting as they used to be. In the 80s and 90s, upgrading a computer processor, storage, RAM, etc. was significant because upgrades were usually a fairly big leap in what you gained with the upgrade. When running software, it was very
easy to tell that you had upgraded something because things would run noticeably faster in general, or there was some other significant
benefit (such as goign from a monochrome display to a color display). These days though, it's more difficult to notice the difference with an upgrade unless you're doing something that's fairly intensive (such as video processing, high-resolution gaming, etc.).
I had wanted to buy a Nvidia RTX 30 series graphics card since they were announced in late 2020. However, that has been fairly difficult with the supply chain problems and scalpers buying what they can and selling them at higher prices.
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noticeable. The difference between having 8 colours and 256 colours of a pallet of 256,000 is very noticeable. Going from having no digital sound to digital sound when I got my Sound Blaster Pro was a game changer, as was the first Hard Drive, the first Modem, Floppy Disk. Speed increases were significant because they made a big difference with what you could do, as did memory. Going from the C64 Vic chip to SVGA, huge difference.
My main desktop computer is over 12 years old, and while some games today look a lot more detailed, most monitors have the same resolution that mine currently has, and I wouldn't see any real difference in almost all my daily activities. I upgraded from a GTX 285 to a GTX 1030 graphics card and barely noticed any difference.
I think the bigger difference I've noticed is not from hardware, but software, using Linux to its full extent, using extensible software, doing things the "unix" way. Moving to FVWM, configuring it, setting up my system the way I like it, learning Emacs, these made more of a "productivity" improvement than uprading the hardware could ever do.
Yes, those kinds of upgrades were very significant. I was particularly happy with upgrading from monochrome to VGA graphics and adding a sound card to my PC. At the time, my PC was a hand-me-down PC when I was 12; when I saved up some money, I was excited about buying a Sound Blaster
16 to upgrade from the Sound Blaster Pro I had. Each new upgrade
through the 90s was a very noticeable increase in speed and capability. It was an exciting time.
Similar with me - Before I built my current desktop in 2019, I'd had my previous PC for about 8 years, and I probably could have kept using it
for longer. These days, I think PCs can last longer because newer upgrades just aren't quite as significant as they used to be.
I've used Linux quite a bit over the last 20 years, mainly in work situations, but some at home as well. I've considered switching to
Linux on my main desktop PC at home, but the thing that keeps me using Windows is the software I use. I think the main thing is I like playing PC games sometimes, and most PC games are developed for Windows first.
You know it's bad when...my 1060 3GB can be sold *used* for double whatI still have a 1070 8gb.
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