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I’ll probably end up with a cheap Cooler Master Q300L, or maybe one of those Fractal Design tower cases with the walnut strips on the front if I decide to spring for it.

The main thing is, though, that I didn’t want to have to buy a new case at all. I’m annoyed at having bought the wrong card because of the urgency of the situation and then not being able to easily fix my mistake.

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I mean this in the most polite way possible, but why did you need a new GPU so quickly? Did the old one conk out?

Maybe I’m lucky, but no used GPU I bought has ever died. Ironically, only a new 6850 I had ages ago was kinda funky.

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  I mean this in the most polite way possible, but why did you need a new GPU so quickly?
  
  7.5 years is “quickly?!” I’m replacing a Vega 56 from 2017.
  
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  - brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Then don’t buy on launch day? It pretty much always sucks, better just to go back a generation.
    
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    grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    No, you’ve got that backwards. Standing in line at a brick-and-mortar store on launch day is the best strategy to get a card at MSRP. Otherwise, you’re either having to constantly keep checking for months on end to snag a card during the brief windows when it’s in stock, or pay way over MSRP for the privilege of easy availability, or deal with all the risk and complexity associated with Craigslist/eBay sales of used stuff.
    
    Also, in this particular case, (a) a $600 9070 XT is a much better value than a $700+ 7900 XT with similar performance, and (b) this generation has tangible feature improvements (namely, decent ray tracing) that you just can’t get at all going back a generation.
    
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