• metaStatic@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    remember when they just plugged into the motherboard and didn’t need multiple external power connections?

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        3 months ago

        Hey, I had ATI 6990… those were the times

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          3 months ago

          HELL YES ATI CLAN REPRESENT!

          My 5990 mined me SO much early bitcoin (now if I had just saved any)

          the *990 series were BEASTS, literally had to cut out metal in my drive bays just to fit it in.

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      3 months ago

      I built a PC out of some spare parts recently, and was marveling at not having to plug a power cable into the graphics card (a 1050 Ti). The sacrifices we make for graphics quality…