Why would the name have any bearing on the laws that govern what can, and can’t be done there?

This is so freaking dumb I can’t even.

I support this.

But we should probably at least have a conversation with Mexico about it, since something like half of their country borders it. IDK, I failed geography.

You mean West coast?

I mean, if I’m facing south, the left coast is the East coast.

This is super dumb.

How are these morons so offended about the name of a body of water?

Their fragile ego is so completely shattered because Mexico “has a Gulf” and they “don’t”? Little men with too much power.

Yeah, the gifted card I’m using is a 2080 Ti. My friend that gifted it, went from a dual 2080 ti SLI setup to a 4090 IIRC, he kept one for his old system so it’s still useful, but gave me one of the two since SLI is dead and he doesn’t need the extra card in a system he’s not frequently using.

11G of memory is an odd choice, but it was a huge uplift from the 3G I was using before then. I had a super budget GTX 1060 3G (I think it was made by palit?) before.

I still have to play on modest settings for anything modern, but my only real challenge has been feeding it with fresh air. My PC case puts the GPU on a riser with front to back airflow and very little space front-back and top/bottom. The card uses a side intake, which is fairly typical for GPUs, which is basically starved for air if I install the card normally. For now, I’ve got it on a riser, sitting on top of the system with the cover off, so my GPU is in open air. Not ideal. I need to work on a better solution… But it works great otherwise.

I have a 20 series card, albeit one of the higher tier ones, and I probably won’t be upgrading this year. I probably also won’t be playing any new AAA titles either.

It’s fine to have an older card, but nobody in that position should be expecting to play the latest and greatest games at reasonable framerates, if at all.

It is the way of things.

I am personally rather miffed about the fact that if you want any performance from a GPU, you basically need to spend $800+. Even though some cards are saying they’re available for less, they almost never are, either due to scalping or greed (which are kind of the same thing), or something else like idiotic tariffs. I don’t have nearly a grand I can burn every year to upgrade my GPU the last GPU I bought was a 1060, and my current card was a gift. I haven’t had a budget for a decent GPU in many, many years.

When I upgrade, I’m likely going Intel arc, because the value proposition makes sense to me. I can actually spend less than $600 and get a card that will have some reasonable level of performance.

Earlier than they thought?

How long did they think it would take before RT was a requirement? It was introduced with the GeForce 20 series more than six years ago.

For technology, six years is vintage.

The only people this should affect is people still using GTX 10 and 16 series cards. I dunno what’s happening with AMD/Radeon. Since they were purchased by AMD the banking schemes have gotten to be more and more nonsensical, so I always have a hard time knowing WTF generation a card is from by the model number.

In any case. Yeah, people using 5+ year old tech are going to be unable to play the latest AAA games. And?

Has there ever been a time when a 5+ year old system can reasonably play a modern AAA title without it being a slide show?

In marketing, this would be considered an awareness campaign. The problem is, that everyone knows.

IMO, this is akin to Google advertising that their search engine exists, it’s pretty good, and you should try it. Alternatively, it would be apple informing people that they make electronics like computers and cellphones… (Not a specific one, just… In general). Or Nike running ads to say that they make shoes.

Thanks, everyone knows that (household name) does (the thing it does), this is not helpful.

It will cancel out the cancer from smoking. /s