AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Gaming Performance CPU Review

Man Igor I gotta admit it you're deeper into it than I am. lol. I kind of stopped worrying about overclocking after the days of the candy bar Celeron and just but the best I can afford and run with it.

though I do keep looking at the 5090's and at current prices it's still a no.
 
Grimlakin said:
though I do keep looking at the 5090's and at current prices it's still a no.
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If people don't stop being dumb and keep making the case for these high prices by buying these GPUs, prices will never come down. Remember the good old days when the high end GPUs were $300 at most?
 
igor_kavinski said:
Remember the good old days when the high end GPUs were $300 at most?
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My Opteron 165 was about that much. Insaaaane overclocker with the stock cooler. I got the thing from 1.8 GHz to 2.4 GHz, and didn't feel like going higher cuz that required f*cking around with voltages. Two of my friends got theirs to 2.7 GHz doing that.

EDIT: I misread and thought you wrote "CPUs" not "GPUs". But yes I sorely miss when GPUs cost that much too. I got a GeForce 2 Pro 64MB as a Christmas present back in the late 90s, and I heard the cost was about $320. During the days of the Radeon 9000 vs GeForce 5/FX generation, my friend got a Radeon 9700 Pro and it costs him $400 and my brain almost exploded, cuz that price was insane to me (I had gotten a 9500 Pro for around $200). It wouldn't be until another friend got a job at Microsoft and bought his first super-expensive flagship card, a GeForce 6800 Ultra that cost him $600, did I see that price topped. And that one made me weak in the knees. I almost fell over like a southerne belle who "got the vapors" and fainted in the hot summer heat of the Georgia plantation.
 
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DrezKill said:
a GeForce 6800 Ultra that cost him $600, did I see that price topped. And that one made me weak in the knees. I almost fell over like a southerne belle who "got the vapors" and fainted in the hot summer heat of the Georgia plantation.
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I had an online only friend (I think he was quite a bit younger) in a far away city and we would chat a lot about gaming. He was talking about his Geforce 6600 (I think) and I remarked, "would be nice to try it out" and he was like, sure, I'll send it to you by courier and you can test it out for a few days. I was ecstatic! Received the card in a few days and I was barely able to play Riddick with max settings with frames ranging from 20 to 25 fps. That game looked insane compared to Doom 3, so much that it made me angry that Doom 3 had gotten hyped so much yet no one I knew was talking about this game. So anyway, he called me on the phone for the first time asking how it was going and it was an awkward conversation coz I'm not much of a talker and he had a difficult to understand accent so that didn't help either. I sent the card back to him with a bunch of CDs of my favorite games and he liked almost none of them. That was the end of that friendship (mostly from his side) but that experience led to me spending the most money I ever had on the Radeon 9500 (or was it 9600). Weirdly, I don't remember which game I enjoyed playing with that but do remember that I was absolutely blown away by the Radeon DX9 demos.

By the way, that Geforce 6600 was smashed against the wall by that dude in a fit of rage. I was happy that I didn't know him in real life. Would've been an ugly confrontation (how could you do that to such an expensive and lovely card????).
 
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