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Have you tried overclocking the everloving shit out of your current card? I mean throw everything at it, best thermal paste/pads, cooling, hardware mods. Genuin
by bserge 6y ago
Have you tried overclocking the everloving shit out of your current card? I mean throw everything at it, best thermal paste/pads, cooling, hardware mods. Genuine question, as that's what I do before deciding to buy a new, well, anything :D
Surprisingly, it works pretty well... A few burned out GPUs and motherboards over two decades seems like a good risk/reward ratio.
- kingosticks 6y agoBut if it goes (really) wrong, you have nothing until the supply issues are resolved. Sounds like a bad plan right now. Especially if there's a perfectly good Steam backlog to get through (when is there ever NOT a Steam backlog!).
- deadbunny 6y agoIt's literally impossible to kill hardware with standard overclocking these days.
- kingosticks 6y agoFor obvious reasons I have zero intention of trying to prove you wrong.
- gizmo385 6y agoIf you're _just_ overclocking, then I think that's safe to say. However, the OP was referring to things like installing new thermal pads and installing hardware mods. That sounds meaningfully more risky to the lifetime of your card :)
- bserge 6y agoAdmittedly I haven't tried anything newer than a GTX 1070, but on most cards you can softmod or hardmod the voltage to dangerous levels, enough to burn some VRM components or the GPU itself. It's quite fun :D
- theandrewbailey 6y agoA Radeon 7970 will only do so much. I'm not sure if it even has enough vram. If anything, I'd rather run it in potato mode before overclocking. > A few burned out GPUs and motherboards over two decades seems like a good risk/reward ratio. I'd rather keep my old equipment in working order to resell or donate.
- bserge 6y agoIt can go pretty damn far, though. 20-40% extra performance is noticeable. But yeah, memory size and throughput can be a serious bottleneck.