betrayal at krondor/gpu market

so i have been using pcs for wayyyy too fucking long and like, i had a amd radeon like, rage pro or something way back in the day, maybe a rage 128, rage 2+ something like that.  hated it.  buggy drivers, always weird display artifacting and flickering.  crashing drivers.  etc.  also, oh, also, weird lag issues with your realtime audio -- big dpc latency spikes

previous to that, i had started with like a riva tnt, then a tnt2, then basically every iteration of nvidia card afer that lol.  i went back to nvidias and stayed there for a number of years.  now its been like easily 10 or 15 years since then and i recently had a 6700xt

it does the job i mean it shows graphics.  its pretty fast even without the scaling.  it was very affordable dollar to frame ratio

fsr3 isnt even BAD .. per se

until you compare it to dlss, and the nvidia frame generation.  and then the card, when i got it, i dunno if this is normal but it was running with a hotspot temp of like 100+c  

i did a bit of research and learned that amd made these reference 6700xts with a partner, i think asrock, who frankly sucks at making graphics card (love the asrock mb) and there was separation between the heatsink and die/cooling paste, uneven heatsink surface, missing thermal pads on back, cheap ass thermal pads on vram, and besides that, it just runs hotter than fuck

even after repasting and adding thermal pads the card still easily runs at 90+c under heavy load

AND

in both windows and linux the card exhibited artifacts and random flickering occasionally

and... get this... the card still produces the same latency spikes in windows AND linux

also to people telling you to wait and buy a gpu later, man, the prices are never going to come down, they never have.  'later' in this case  means next year so if you can wait that long, ok