cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/22948152

OS: CachyOS GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Board: MPG B550 GAMING PLUS CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 4.43 GHz Memory: 31.26 GiB

i try to keep it short: i have issues with some games (like the witcher 3) and often hear that its an issue with nvidia drivers etc…

So my question is: would a switch / small upgrade to a AMD Radeon 6800 be worth it?

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Man, that’s a big lateral move. Honestly, my experience is spotty as well (using mostly Bazzite), and I’m sticking to dual booting for the foreseeable. I definitely would not change hardware for this reason. Especially because, having some installs on AMD-based hardware, my expectation that the issues would drop to zero is… very low.

    If you can’t try before you buy I’d only swap to get a meaningful upgrade. Of course when a “meaningful upgrade” will be affordable or accessible in the future is anybody’s guess. Because isn’t tech in the 21st century fun?

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Because isn’t tech in the 21st century fun?

      I miss tech in the 90s… at least every release saw massive increases in everything but price.

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        Well, I guess we’re only going to invent the microchip once.

        In any case now that I’m… you know, not a kid and can look at 90s tech with some historical data, it wasn’t quite as straightforward as we remember. But then it also didn’t have memory prices spiking by 300% overnight because everybody knows a fake AI bubble is going to pop so they want to sell them a bunch of crap before all the money evaporates but not ramp up production because that money is clearly going to evaporate.

        That’s 21st century through and through. 20th century tech would just keep slapping the same Z80 and Motorola 68000 chips on things for a decade. Z80 too slow as your CPU? Maybe it can be your sound chip now. Listen, we have warehouses of these, we’ll keep selling you new ones well into the 2000s, it’s barely a clump of wires held together with chewing gum.

        Did you know the 68000 was 10 years old by the time it made it to the Genesis/Megadrive as a CPU? That’d be like the PS5 launching with a single core 2GHz Athlon from 2005. I didn’t know that as a kid.

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          But then it also didn’t have memory prices spiking by 300% overnight because everybody knows a fake AI bubble is going to pop so they want to sell them a bunch of crap before all the money evaporates but not ramp up production because that money is clearly going to evaporate.

          The money is going to evaporate because the money never really existed. Its just a handful of megacorps passing the same few hundred billion dollars around in circles over and over again to create the illusion of value. Its literally the same thing crypto currencies do. Pumping up the value before dumping for massive profit.

          and while 7 people are circle jerking their way to trillions of dollars, right wing hate machines across the world are obsessing over AI because it finally lets them create a imaginary world that justifies persecution fetish.

          That’s 21st century through and through. 20th century tech would just keep slapping the same Z80 and Motorola 68000 chips on things for a decade. Z80 too slow as your CPU? Maybe it can be your sound chip now. Listen, we have warehouses of these, we’ll keep selling you new ones well into the 2000s, it’s barely a clump of wires held together with chewing gum.

          The Z80 only stopped production last year because thats how great of a CPU it was, lol, still useful 50 years later.

    • FuyuhikoDate@feddit.orgOP
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      Your last sentence made me chuckle and than a bit sad… Anyway i think @[email protected] made very good point in their posting and made me think about the fact that i could invest a lil bit more and have a decent upgrade for my VR.

      So I gonna out my old one on eBay and also have a good reason to buy a new one 😅