Noisiv:

No. It literally means what he said: you're doing something wrong. Although I disagree with him on that: plenty of great games can be played with 680. Your theory that he's showing off with 5 yr old midrange GPU makes no sense whatsoever 🙄

Could you elaborate? What is someone with an old GPU doing wrong?

heffeque:

Could you elaborate? What is someone with an old GPU doing wrong?

I guess exactly what you said: Holding on to Kepler that long. but without that "you poor people" crap. 680 was more expensive than 1070. makes no sense. All day long I see ppl drawing wrong conclusions LOL Now is it possible that he was a dick implying "you poor people"? YES. How likely? Not much, because there is nothing substantiating that. K?

I know support ended a little while back, but, I hope Nvidia closes this off by adding support for the GTX680M 4GB laptop card. Pretty please.

Stormyandcold:

I know support ended a little while back, but, I hope Nvidia closes this off by adding support for the GTX680M 4GB laptop card. Pretty please.

Mobile kepler support ended years ago. I wonder how long maxwell mobile has time left.

Noisiv:

I guess exactly what you said: Holding on to Kepler that long.

So you think that people that "hold on to Kepler" do it by choice and that they wouldn't want a newer GPU? People make the best use of their money as they can. Some people might have just bought a 2nd hand Kepler GPU because they can't afford a new GPU (nowadays this is even more relevant), or maybe it's a hand-me-down... You make it sound as if people who own Kepler GPUs desired to "hold on" to them, as if they had some kind of emotional bond towards the GPU, and not because they can't afford to buy a new GPU every 5-10 years.

heffeque:

So you think that people that "hold on to Kepler" do it by choice and that they wouldn't want a newer GPU? People make the best use of their money as they can. Some people might have just bought a 2nd hand Kepler GPU because they can't afford a new GPU (nowadays this is even more relevant), or maybe it's a hand-me-down... You make it sound as if people who own Kepler GPUs desired to "hold on" to them, as if they had some kind of emotional bond towards the GPU, and not because they can't afford to buy a new GPU every 5-10 years.

Are you lost in quotes and replies? I'm not the guy who said "you're doing something wrong holding on to Kepler that long". I'm the guy who said "plenty of great games can be played with 680." How are you reaching these conclusions?

heffeque:

So you think that people that "hold on to Kepler" do it by choice and that they wouldn't want a newer GPU? People make the best use of their money as they can. Some people might have just bought a 2nd hand Kepler GPU because they can't afford a new GPU (nowadays this is even more relevant), or maybe it's a hand-me-down... You make it sound as if people who own Kepler GPUs desired to "hold on" to them, as if they had some kind of emotional bond towards the GPU, and not because they can't afford to buy a new GPU every 5-10 years.

Or they buy the best card they can reasonably afford at a given time and use it until it is categorically obsolete. I was planning on replacing my 290X this year. But paying more than what I paid for my 290X, for a card that is only ~20% faster while being 4 generations newer is just silly. Besides I haven't come across a game I can't play satisfactorily yet.

Noisiv:

Are you lost in quotes and replies? I'm not the guy who said "you're doing something wrong holding on to Kepler that long". I'm the guy who said "plenty of great games can be played with 680." How are you reaching these conclusions?

Well, you were answering that "holding on to a Kepler" is a justification for "doing something wrong". I haven't read the rest of your comments here. Sorry about that.

Yogi:

Or they buy the best card they can reasonably afford at a given time and use it until it is categorically obsolete. I was planning on replacing my 290X this year. But paying more than what I paid for my 290X, for a card that is only ~20% faster while being 4 generations newer is just silly. Besides I haven't come across a game I can't play satisfactorily yet.

Agreed 100%. People aren't "doing something wrong", people get the best they can afford or whatever fits their priorities.

heffeque:

Could you elaborate? What is someone with an old GPU doing wrong?

Well, if i can throw in my two cents; If your main concern is about latest games not running well (or at all) on a 9 year old architecture, you are really doing it wrong. Other than that, it's not like your PC is suddenly a brick and you can't use it anymore.

The low end ones are still sold, and funnily enough some of the few video cards in stock. https://i.imgur.com/Rmf2mi2.jpg

TheDeeGee:

Holding on to Kepler that long... you're doing something wrong. I went from a 680 to 1070.

How are you doing something wrong if the card works for what you need it for? 😛 My 680 is performing every day gaming duty to this day in a friend's PC. Runs Killing Floor 2 and WoW just fine. Same with the i5 3570k and 16gig ddr3 that I sold it a long with. Runs these games just fine at 1080p.

Not sure what all the fuss is about. Kepler still works as well as it has always done but switches to the yearly or so long term maintenance releases. How is that so different to what we have at the moment? Are you really telling me Nvidia was putting in kepler specific optimisations for the latest games in their current drivers?

wb85:

Well, if i can throw in my two cents; If your main concern is about latest games not running well (or at all) on a 9 year old architecture, you are really doing it wrong. Other than that, it's not like your PC is suddenly a brick and you can't use it anymore.

Someone: ...you're doing something wrong Me: Could you elaborate? You: Yes, you are really doing it wrong. Your "it" is very elaborate! Much better than "something"! All clear now! K thanks!

If it was not for banner lord since i mostly play poe and civ most likely i would have been still fine on my gtx770 😛 but alas my 770 died in 2018 . Civ 6 .... I can live with 30 fps all day 😛

Venix:

If it was not for banner lord since i mostly play poe and civ most likely i would have been still fine on my gtx770 😛 but alas my 770 died in 2018 . Civ 6 .... I can live with 30 fps all day 😛

My first serious and allegedly the world's first GPU - GeForce 256, was doing ~30 FPS in Unreal Tournament back then. I thought it was both beautiful and smooth 🙂

RIP* 660gtx I dont use, that my dad computers uses that he dont use o_O

Have a GTX 780 in my threadripper setup. Used for game streaming. Does very well at 900p but it struggles to maintain 60fps at 1080p. Im not mad at this at all. Kepler is old asf.

Noisiv:

My first serious and allegedly the world's first GPU - GeForce 256, was doing ~30 FPS in Unreal Tournament back then. I thought it was both beautiful and smooth 🙂

The first unreal tournament From 99? I remember playing that what i was considering at the time "smooth" on a pentium 3 667 320mb ram and a voodoo 3 2000 16mb on 1024x768 16bit high details must have been at least 25 fps a geforce 256 i can not see it doing bellow 60 on ut99 ...if you talk about ut 2003 then yeah 30 seems right.

AlmondMan:

How are you doing something wrong if the card works for what you need it for? 😛 My 680 is performing every day gaming duty to this day in a friend's PC. Runs Killing Floor 2 and WoW just fine. Same with the i5 3570k and 16gig ddr3 that I sold it a long with. Runs these games just fine at 1080p.

^^^^ Exactly. If one is using some old gen GPU but that one is still performing fine for its needs why the hell throwing money on faster and more expencive GPU if it's gonna do the same job? Some people are clearly wasting money on stuff they actually don't really need. Upgrade when you're in real need for something better/faster, you have a benefit of using something like this and of course have the money to buy. With curent prices atm it's not the right moment to waste the money on anything tech related (CPU, GPU, SSD, smartphone...) if the previous one you're using is performing just fine for your needs, especially latest GPUs with prices 2x MSRP to 4x MSRP. Guess for some having the latest and greatest is some kind of status symbol to show off on Instagram, Facebook... but if you're acting like that why not doing the same in every aspect of your life? It's really mind boggling but I know more then few people here where I am and they are using the smartphone they've paid 1000-1500€, wearing 300 to 400€ expencive sneakers, jeans 300€ to 500€ (for fcking jeans ffs!?)... but at the gas pump they tank gasoline for 10€, walls inside of their houses weren't refreshed/repainted for 10, 15 years, with their (God knows last time they were bath) dogs/cats inside house stinks like landfill... but hey, on Instagram they show off only the "best of their lifes" ahahahaha.

CrazY_Milojko:

^^^^ Exactly. If one is using some old gen GPU but that one is still performing fine for its needs why the hell throwing money on faster and more expencive GPU if it's gonna do the same job? Some people are clearly wasting money on stuff they actually don't really need. Upgrade when you're in real need for something better/faster, you have a benefit of using something like this and of course have the money to buy. With curent prices atm it's not the right moment to waste the money on anything tech related (CPU, GPU, SSD, smartphone...) if the previous one you're using is performing just fine for your needs, especially latest GPUs with prices 2x MSRP to 4x MSRP. Guess for some having the latest and greatest is some kind of status symbol to show off on Instagram, Facebook... but if you're acting like that why not doing the same in every aspect of your life? It's really mind boggling but I know more then few people here where I am and they are using the smartphone they've paid 1000-1500€, wearing 300 to 400€ expencive sneakers, jeans 300€ to 500€ (for fcking jeans ffs!?)... but at the gas pump they tank gasoline for 10€, walls inside of their houses weren't refreshed/repainted for 10, 15 years, with their (God knows last time they were bath) dogs/cats inside house stinks like landfill... but hey, on Instagram they show off only the "best of their lifes" ahahahaha.

Priorities, mate. Each have their own! Who are we to judge... though we do anyway 😛