When will high end cards start looking like this again? much

>>55668154
>Caring about a piece of plastic that you only have to look at when you open up your pc.

>>55668187
High end cars have nice looking engines without a stupid plastic cover, and we hardly ever see those things, a sleek card is always nice, Anon.

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>>55668154
look like cheap shit?

there are completely black cards with blocky coolers that look nothing like gayming

you're just being a little bitch

>>55668228
you never see the cards anyway. why would anyone care?

>>55668154
When the majority of pc gaymers are no longer 14 year old boys.

>caring about the look of a component that can't be seen unless you have a windowed case, which is inherently gaymer

>>55668187

>Not having a nice pc case that has a window so you can admire your rig

plebian detected

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>>55668686
This, my PC isn't even that great but I'd love to stare at my HD7750 when bored.

>>55668154
Never, Nvidia and AMD probably won't ever go back down to TDPs low enough to be cooled with a single slot cooler unless you buy some low-end part.

>>55668154
Pretty stupid question, obviously, as soon as the people who design the cards believe they will make more money by designing them with a minimalist theme.

>>55668784
Optiplex?

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>>55669080
It is, a 745 with a Q6600, still a strong machine that won't quit on me.

>>55669132
I had a 741 until the psu fried the whole pc.

Never get a prebuilt guys

>>55669132
q6600 will never die

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>>55669181
Sadly I gotta agree, I recently swapped all my parts into another optiplex because the other one had blown capacitors, still worked fine though.

>>55669202
i have a q6600 on my drawer right now, mb "died" 4 days ago, now the pu is collecting dust.

Sad times

>>55669208
This is me >>55669211.

Dude I literally have almost exactly the same motherboard. When I boot up my PC, it goes to memory check and after that it throws a blue window on middle of the screen saying "smart card authetication, smart card reader not plugged in".

I have absolutely no idea what the fuck that is. I cant even get into BIOS because this appears before bios boots up.

I tried clearing cmos using the dedicated button on the motherboard, pulling the battery out and cables over night, nothing working.

Any ideas lmao?

>>55668784
>>55669132

I'm cuming.

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>>55668154
>Mynigga.jpg

I'd still be using it if the thermal tape wasn't shit and it wasn't a house fire now.
Gonna snag a 1060 soon I think.

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>>55668154
But they already do, at least if by "high-end" you mean the Quadro line of cards.

Problem is that this card has a core merely equivalent to a 970 in speed, which still gets toasty with this cooler on. There is only so much you can do with a single-slot cooler.

High-end cards used to look like this simply because they didn't put out all that much heat, early 3D cards had a tiny fan attached right on the chip itself and the very first accelerators didn't even have heatsinks at all.

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>>55669132
I got two of them from a college for 20 bucks

>>55669266
HP smartcard keyboard. I have a ton of them I got from a school.

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>>55669301
Based xfx

>>55668784
Hey it's your Dell buddy ;)

>>55669899
Hi guy.

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I had this lying around. Paid about 7 grams for it in 2009

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>>55670117
Get a 4670 AGP for maximum douchbaggery.

(pic is not 4670)

>>55670298
I was thinking, what if I got another and did crossfire? Would be cool for an old gaymen pc. Regretfully I trashed my Dell in 2012 because I wanted to try to become a person again. It didn't happen. Sad!

>>55670433
Not likely, even if you had one of those rather weird boards that had both AGP and PCI-E, as the AGP radeon 4000 series cards did not have the crossfire finger on the cards.

>>55670594
Right, I should have taken that into account.
I didn't know shit about computers other than the having a video card meme. My Dell was really shitty when it came to playing most games as it was from early 2005 and only came with I wanna say a 128MB GPU and 512MB RAM. 3GHz P4/HT was nice though, for awhile. And it came with a remote and stereo, but $1300 was way too fucking much for that shit as I look back.

>>55670117
Terrifying

>>55670298
I think i have pretty much the same card as IGPU.

>>55670117
My parent's pc still runs on an hd3650.

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Most cards look alright now, like pic related.

Single slot coolers on mid-level GPUs ended years ago after the 9800GT. After that, pretty much every card except the really low end stuff used double slot coolers.