mahinWhat was your last “impulse buy” and was it worth it?
Made a lateral upgrade from GTX 1080 to 6600XT. The performance is more or less the same but compatibility with Linux is much better for gaming. Games finally “just work” and was totally worth it for me
Mildly interesting, as I just did nearly the same, going from a GTX970 to a Radeon 8570. Did not have the same “it just works” experience however. But I blame that more on my lack of Linux knowledge than the video card.
I have a GTX970 but upgrading it would mean I have to upgrade the motherboard, the rams, etc etc etc
You dont really have to, but you would probably bottleneck a new card pretty badly if the cpu is from around the same timeframe as the 970
it was all pretty sweet back in 2013
No argument there! I also had a 970 back when it was new. Upgraded to a 2070 and I am still on that one. The 970 was pretty great, even got two of them at one point, then found out how useless SLI was and gave it to my mother lol.