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The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balance (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Just avoid nvidia. AMDs RX 9070 XT is still a solid deal. I bought one two weeks ago for under $700. This thing is fantastic, plays everything Ive tried and the open source drivers on Linux are a breath of fresh air compared to the nightmare of nvidias drivers

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If one is on Linux I’d urge to avoid NVidia like the plague. Replaced my 4070 Super with an AMD card and I’ve had zero problems since.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I've been slowly switching the family PCs I manage for exactly this reason. I've warned my family that if windows stops working, I'm installing Linux on their PCs and will sit down with them to train them how to use it rather than put up with Windows anymore. Someday I'll be windows free, except for the office but I don't have any control over company property.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I thankfully have two company laptops, one with NixOS on it. It's rare that I need to use the Windows one.

    My own computer runs on Tumbleweed. Every time there was an issue when doing a system upgrade, it was because of that fucking NVidia card. Thankfully with Tumbleweed you have Snapper functionality built in so rolling back is easy as hell, but there was a decent amount of time lost to troubleshooting and workarounds that I've just not experienced since switching from NVidia's garbage.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I've got one in my living room PC I use as a home theater PC and couch gaming system running Mint. It runs every game I've tried at 4K60 no problem. Definitely recommend as well. I think I paid $650~ at Microcenter for it.

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