I was looking up PC controller prices and found this... $136 off?! $136 WOULD BE TOO EXPENSIVE IF THAT WERE THE ENTIRE PRICE, LET ALONE $735.
I don't care if it's made of fucking unicorn farts, why the fuck should it be that expensive?
Also aparently xbox controllers are now like $250. Who the fuck is paying more than $50 for a controller lmao wtf has gaming become.
Fuck that noise, I don't care if it performs like shit, I'm buying a shitty ali express controller for $10 instead lmao.
Gamers delenda est. :gamer-gulag:
lol do software programs really need more than 8 GB of VRAM? I can play pretty modern games on my 5 year old computer with 8 (and 8 GB of normal RAM, although that's getting stretched even more), although it's definitely getting up there towards being full when playing a game. I don't use video editors or machine learning stuff though.
I think people tend to really exaggerate what they "need" in terms of computers. Computers are extremely fast. And software is designed to work with limited resources. I find that the biggest memory hogs are web applications because they're so poorly written and don't care about performance at all (and have to be single-threaded). Any desktop program other than a web app in the browser or Electron desktop application, will probably work fine. I have 8 GB of 2133 MHz main RAM (you can get upwards of 64 GB of 8000 MHz RAM now) and applications still work perfectly fine.
Yeah outside of really pushing things in blender, it's mostly a problem for AI. 12gb of VRAM will be mostly fine in 1440p gaming for the next few years. But AI eats VRAM like candy, it's actually more important than the speed of the GPU.
Since I'm probably not going to be upgrading for a very long time, I want to make sure I get enough VRAM so that I won't experience any problems at all for at least the next five to eight years. Hence why I'm considering a used 3090 with 24gb of VRAM over the faster 4080 with 16gb.
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I don't think resolution has anything to do with bandwidth of the PCIe connection. And a framebuffer for a 4k monitor will probably only take like 33 MB. Multiply that a couple times for all the different ones neeed, and that's not that much. And I can play games with Ultra textures and stuff still using only 8 GB VRAM.