Who's still rocking a GTX 1080?

[Bullett00th]

Stumbled upon this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=516OexsGlO0

And it gave me extra appreciation of my GPU. Mine isn't TI, but at the same time it was very affordable for the performance, and soon to be 8 years old.


Alan Wake 2 is the first game that I can't afford to run at all, and that still has me raising an eyebrow given that I've comfortably played through Resident Evil 4 on close to max settings in 1080p, no RT of course.



I dread upgrading because money is tight and my i7-7700k would need replacing as well, along with the 650w PSU probably. Plus I just don't know what to replace it with. 3070 comes to mind, but how long will that last? I doubt that as long as my 1080 did.

[Crashed]

I sold mine alongside my 7700K a couple years ago, along with motherboard, RAM, cooler, and TPM 2.0 chip.

[plat]

Mine is now sitting in a box after having replaced it in April of this year. Since I've not had any problems so far with my new gpu, I'm now considering to sell it, provided there's a market for a 7 year old card.

It's kind of a gamble: do I sell? Do I keep? What if my new one dies suddenly and I have no backup? Woe is me.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by plat:

Mine is now sitting in a box after having replaced it in April of this year. Since I've not had any problems so far with my new gpu, I'm now considering to sell it, provided there's a market for a 7 year old card.

It's kind of a gamble: do I sell? Do I keep? What if my new one dies suddenly and I have no backup? Woe is me.

I have a non-F CPU so if my graphics card dies I have emergency display capability.

[Bullett00th]

Originally posted by plat:

Mine is now sitting in a box after having replaced it in April of this year. Since I've not had any problems so far with my new gpu, I'm now considering to sell it, provided there's a market for a 7 year old card.

It's kind of a gamble: do I sell? Do I keep? What if my new one dies suddenly and I have no backup? Woe is me.

I say sell it while you can, and yes there is a market for it still. What did you get as replacement? And what's your CPU?

[plat]

Well good to know there might still be a market for this older gpu (gtx 1080) I have onboard graphics also but it's so harsh--you get spoiled with discrete graphics.

OP, I still have my 650 watt psu and it's compatible with rtx 4070 and below Hopefully yours is still in good shape. You should not have an issue with an initial gpu upgrade like a 3070 but your cpu might hold it back a bit at higher load. I have the same problem with my i9 but it doesn't hinder much in my use case. You can look at some posts online: 7700K + rtx 3070.

If you're on Windows 10, you now have a little under 2 years to make more decisions and move forward without a hardware hassle.

[It's Chase]

I upgraded from one years ago. I was thinking about putting it in my HTPC, but i went with an RTX 3060 instead since it draws less power, and will have longer driver support.

I think the best upgrade right now would be a 4070ti, or 4080. You would have to upgrade your CPU, but you can do that later.

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

Stumbled upon this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=516OexsGlO0

And it gave me extra appreciation of my GPU. Mine isn't TI, but at the same time it was very affordable for the performance, and soon to be 8 years old.


Alan Wake 2 is the first game that I can't afford to run at all, and that still has me raising an eyebrow given that I've comfortably played through Resident Evil 4 on close to max settings in 1080p, no RT of course.



I dread upgrading because money is tight and my i7-7700k would need replacing as well, along with the 650w PSU probably. Plus I just don't know what to replace it with. 3070 comes to mind, but how long will that last? I doubt that as long as my 1080 did.

yep, im still running my asus rog strix 1080 a8g, still runs as great as it did when i bought it, not including keeping it clean, applying thermal paste when needed and keeping it running cool through the years.

i will likely keep using it as well, no reason for me to buy overpriced gpu's to replace my current already running great gpu, plus i dont need any of that rtx nonsense anyway.

[Bullett00th]

Originally posted by plat:

Well good to know there might still be a market for this older gpu (gtx 1080) :steamsunny: I have onboard graphics also but it's so harsh--you get spoiled with discrete graphics.

OP, I still have my 650 watt psu and it's compatible with rtx 4070 and below Hopefully yours is still in good shape. You should not have an issue with an initial gpu upgrade like a 3070 but your cpu might hold it back a bit at higher load. I have the same problem with my i9 but it doesn't hinder much in my use case. You can look at some posts online: 7700K + rtx 3070.

If you're on Windows 10, you now have a little under 2 years to make more decisions and move forward without a hardware hassle.

appreciated!

what about a 3060 if I leave the i7 cpu?

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

i will likely keep using it as well, no reason for me to buy overpriced gpu's to replace my current already running great gpu, plus i dont need any of that rtx nonsense anyway.

I completely understand you. Alan Wake 2 is the first bell to ring though.

And while yeah rtx isn't a must, dlss is magic I tell you

[xSOSxHawkens]

Rocking the Vega-64 still, its the AMD comparable, sitting above the 1080 but below the 1080ti.

It had made it to retirement in the third rate bedroom PC for high settings 1080p/60hz gaming, but the Gigabyte GPU in my secondary rig the SO uses is now dead (again, for the 4th! time, omg). So the Vega is back into front-line use as a daily driver for her pushing 1440p/45-75Hz Freesync now and for the foreseeable future till a new GPU is acquired (still debating going through a 4th RMA and 5th Gigabyte GPU or just getting something new for her, she *really* likes the little novelty LCD screen on her card though :/ lol)

[pasa]

Money is tight then save it. GPUs after yours gained the spike problem, so if you get one over the basic level your psu will likely be a problem. And if you also want a new cpu (yours look okayish for the time) it's a completely new build. Save up for that.

I expect things like 4060 or 6650 would run no problem in your current pc, but it's not an interesting upgrade for short term and burning money in the long. Probably.

3070 is 220w nominal, I'd put it in fair risk category. But if you buy the PSU meant for your next build now, it's another story.

[River]

Originally posted by Crashed:

I sold mine alongside my 7700K a couple years ago, along with motherboard, RAM, cooler, and TPM 2.0 chip.

I sold my GTX 1080 ti a while ago too.

Just threw away my 7700k though. I know stupid.

[[cK] Hawkeye@--™]

Im using a NVIDIA Ge-force GTX 1060 6GB old-new stock card is old but its never been used. Just recently had to go this route.

[Iron Phoenix]

1080 you say?
Pfft.

1080p for me lol



I'm still using a ( non ti ) gtx 1070.
And a (non overclockable ) i5 6600 with 16 GB ram, on a 1080p display.

Bought that card new on release and its gone into several rebuilds and new cases over the years, the last card I had that lasted so long was a 6600GT cramped into one of those old cube shaped shuttle cases which eventually just ended its life transplanted into a media unit.


All this being said, the next upgrade is going to be a complete rebuild from scratch as its no longer genuinely feasible to upgrade individual components on my current rig.
There was a time when I was seriously considering the original rtx lineup for my setup but held off for a "seventy or ti flavoured version".

Of course that never happened and I got caught sitting on the fence waiting for each new development which of course there always will be and I know this.


So a fresh build became even more needed as time marched on, because obviously.
Esp with need of better monitor, cpu etc.


I'm not in a hurry to buy, just in case that has not became quite apparent from the age of my rig.

But it feels like a strange time for hardware right now, expense aside.
There is always new tech on the horizon - for a price however if i had to justify my waiting until the stars themselves burned out to build a new machine I would say that I am really just waiting to see how intels next effort works out after this "refresh" ...

... and maybe get a ( ha ha yeah right ) rtx 5000 in the future unless its ( quite likely ) silly money again like the initial release of the RTX 4000 series.


Realistically its going to prob be a refresh of the 4070 / 80 / 90 lineup in a supposed super version that I end up buying with a 1440p display etc - and of course im running windows 10 as my rig doesnt support tpm without faffing around officially (cough) but new os just depends when it comes together.


For all its flaws I could happily use 11 but might end up being 12 by the time the thing gets built or for general gaming and browsing it isn't so out there to imagine using some matured version of Steam OS or some Linux build depending on windows future directions.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

GTX 1080Ti user here and yes it is still rocking. :p

Still plays anything using epic settings which is great in my book.

Thank you.

[muckymucks]

Originally posted by Crashed:

I sold mine alongside my 7700K a couple years ago, along with motherboard, RAM, cooler, and TPM 2.0 chip.

Same. In 2022, actually. I'm unwilling to compromise on performance, I gotta get ultra or what's the point. Once my GTX 1080 started struggling with Borderlands 3 I knew it was time to upgrade. I could still play it on medium settings but what's the point of that. Same deal with Cyberpunk 2077; I wanted ray tracing and I needed a whole new setup. I upgraded to an i7-13700K and an RTX 3080 12GB and it ran Cyberpunk maxed out like it's nothing.

Originally posted by gamer:

Originally posted by Crashed:

I sold mine alongside my 7700K a couple years ago, along with motherboard, RAM, cooler, and TPM 2.0 chip.

Just threw away my 7700k though. I know stupid.

Dude, what? I sold my 7700K for $100. It paid for 1/3 of my new CPU. Must be nice, I guess.