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Chazore said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Same for me, the last AAA I bought were Dragon Age: Origins and Might & Magic X some 10 years ago. I could feel even back then that the industry was moving in a direction that didn't fit well with me in the slightest.

That being said, I still game on a 1050Ti, and it's getting limited even in indies now, so something new must come in. But something like a 3060Ti/RX 6700 would be amply enough for me and wouldn't overtax my power bill or overheat my room.

Ngl, the last AAA I truly enjoyed and felt like I got my monies worth was RDR 1, and that was 12yrs ago, and ever since then that's just slowly declined, to a point where I now just don't like how gimmicky and flashy AAA's have gotten, and yet with all the tech they have, so little substance.

Take for instance, Conan Exiles, yes it's another open world survival game, but it featured Nvidia's Sand technology. Where is that tech years later?, no one fucking knows, because no one us using it, and that malds me, because I thought it was so fucking cool to drag a corpse through the desert on a rope, and see my deep footprints on the sand, and seeing the corpse leave a trail that spanned nearly a mile, and I thought to myself "wow, this would be so fucking cool if AAA companies did this sort of interactivity", and here we are today and everyone and their execs are focused only on RT, no interactive water sources, sand, fire, dirt, etc, just how to make everything one big fucking shiny puddle (a puddle you can't even interact with to distort the reflection).

AAA is just all flash, little substance, and it sucks, because all the money that goes into them you'd think would involve higher player agency and interactivity, but no, it's wasted on a thing veil of pretend realism. 

Honestly, if my previous co-worker wasn't a douche and moved to the UK with my 980ti I lent to him, I would gladly hand it over to you free of charge, because it lasted me during the times of MGSV, up till 2017.

Also yeah, power bills atm are going up and even though my fan curve cannot be altered (I had to remove the middle broken fan of my 1080ti, so now the GPU outright ignores all custom fan curve modules and ramps up the fan speed to max when playing any intense 3D game), I've still had to undervolt my GPU, to not drain more energy. 

This. Also, they're pretty much paint-by-numbers and interchangeable.

And thanks a lot for the offer with the GPU, would really have been nice and I would have been really grateful for it. But I'll get by with my 1050Ti until I get to upgrade. If the 7600XT won't be too neutered, I think that's gonna be my next GPU, should last me a good half dozen years at least.

I had a similar experience with a broken fan, though it was on my CPU at the time. I couldn't get my cooler off my Phenom II (didn't know at the time that I should run the PC a bit to heat it up to ease removing of the cooler), so I basically had to cool my CPU passively. Undervolted and slightly underclocked (2.6 Ghz instead of 3 Ghz), it managed to run just fine passively in a well-ventilated big tower.