Still went all AMD when I built my PC a couple of months ago. Plug and play is what it was, plug and play. Nvidia won't get any money from me until all their shit is open source.
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I would love to buy an AMD, but I can't afford it, so I'm stuck with the Nvidia I have.
It. blows.
Find something used. If you have Facebook, see the market place. I don't have Facebook, my wife does, and I always find great deals on it. Bought me a Dell 27" 4 monitor for $80. That thing is used $275 used on Amazon. If no Facebook, then try eBay. Used is not that bad most of the time.
ebay seems to just be a place for scammers and people selling used items for new prices.
I've actually noticed that, too, but you can still run into good things, although very rarely.
No, seriously, when I say I can't afford it, I mean I really can't afford it. Like, seriously, my "Fun" budget for each month? 15 dollars. Lol. I'm brooooooooke as fuck, bruh.
Oh damn, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Well then do whatever gets you going.
Hey it's cool. Like you said, you didn't know.
And it'll be fine, one way or another. I do what I can. ¯\('_')/¯
I wish I could do this, but where I live I just can't find a laptop with a good amd gpu (I live in Brazil), so I'm locked to nvidia :/
Maybe a laptop with a very good CPU and an eGPU? You can get it from Aliexpress.
Some time ago I managed to sell my 3070 ti and buy a brand new RX 6800 for the same money. 99% of my desktop issues are now gone. Seriously, if you don’t need CUDA, don’t bother… Get rid of Nvidia it is not worth the hassle
I just sold my 3070 and bought a 7800XT for the same reasons.
I effectively did the same. While I’m happy NVIDIA is finally got their heads out of their butts and are acquiescing to this, it’s going to still be years before it’s on the same level as radeon in terms of stability and the just works factor.
sadly this beta seems to be pretty broken, at least on my setup with 4070tis. i cannot even boot to plasma with the open-dkms and with the propietary one plasma is pretty glitchy, so i reverted back to 555.
Really? Thanks for the heads up. I'm enjoying the relative stability of 555 so I'll hold my breath a bit longer.
Lols. :)
Nvidia programmers strike again...