So, I went to my local tech shop Altex (biggest tech shop in my country Romania), and bought this LG UltraGear 27gs60qc-b, and I discovered this feature. Is this age bad?

I went from 640x480 to 800x600, 1680x1050 and now settle at 2560x1440. Looks like 1280x720 is waiting for me in the far horizon.

I am using this monitor for 3 months and already 2 RMA’S

Dont buy the Asus Rog strix XG27AQDMG 27” 240hz!!!!!

Bought a Gigabyte 4080 Super from an auction house, online listing only, as is condition. Thought it might just be broken components, but the whole damn core and vram are gone... Auction site said as is so no refunds...

Any ideas on what to do with it, other than try and sell it on ebay for parts, or as a very expensive decoration?

Waiting on 2 fittings to finish the loop, sick with anticipation to get this thing done. Had to get a little creative with the lower GPU runs, but they're dam near parallel, so I'm good with it, 😆

Started saving Monday. Bought a scratcher Thursday to speed the process. Managed to win 777$. Sold my ROG Ally for 450$, had 180$ in my bank account. And Memory Express had their 7900XTX's on sale for 1230$ instead of 1650$ regular. Monies in canuck dollars.

What a week.

These days, most people dismiss SLI as a dead technology that never really worked in the first place. The common take is that it was more of a gimmick than anything else, plagued by bad support and inconsistent results. But in reality, the technology itself wasn’t the problem — it was the implementation, the lack of developer support, and eventually Nvidia’s decision to phase it out that killed it. When you go back to some of the older titles that still supported SLI properly, it actually works incredibly well. For example, in Battlefront II I can still get a buttery-smooth experience with both cards ramping up to full usage, just like it was supposed to be all along.

My setup for this is a bit unconventional. I’m running two GTX 780s on an ASUS X370 Prime Pro motherboard, paired with a Ryzen 7 3700X and 16 gigabytes of RAM. What makes it even more unusual is that one of the two cards wasn’t even fully functional when I got it — I revived it myself with nothing more than a heat gun and some flux. This whole thing started as an experiment to see if I could bring a dead GPU back to life, and it spiraled into a project of squeezing as much performance as possible out of decade-old hardware.

Here’s where it gets really interesting. With an app called Lossless Scaling, I can set things up so that the second GPU is used entirely for frame generation. Unlike Nvidia’s modern AI-based Frame Generation, this doesn’t rely on tensor cores or any kind of artificial intelligence acceleration. These older GPUs are able to handle it just through raw raster performance. And because the second GPU is the one handling the generated frames, the base framerate remains intact and the added input delay is almost nonexistent. The only real overhead comes from the communication between the two cards over PCIe, which is surprisingly minimal.

This makes a huge difference in games where input delay is critical, especially in competitive shooters. Rainbow Six Siege is a great example. After the move to DirectX 12, the game no longer supports SLI at all, which means the classic scaling solution is completely gone. But with this method, I can still put both cards to work. By capping my base framerate at around 85 frames per second, I can get both GPUs running at about 80 percent usage, and then let the second card handle three-times frame generation. The end result is a final output of roughly 250 frames per second that feels smooth and responsive, even though the actual rendered frames are still at that 85 cap. It’s strange seeing decade-old GPUs doing frame generation without any AI tricks, and in some cases doing it in a way that is actually more practical for esports titles than Nvidia’s official Frame Gen solution, which often adds noticeable input lag.

Setting it up in Windows 11 isn’t even that complicated. The GPU in the top PCIe slot needs to be set as your primary rendering device in Windows. Your monitor cable, whether HDMI or DisplayPort, is then plugged into the second GPU instead of the first. This way, without even touching Lossless Scaling, the first card is still doing the rendering work, while the second card is handling the output. In the Lossless Scaling app, you just need to set the GPU in the second slot as the primary LSFG GPU, and then launch your game. At that point the first GPU handles the normal rendering, while the second GPU generates and outputs the additional frames.

This whole project started as a repair experiment, but it’s turned into a fun reminder of how much life is still left in older hardware when you get creative. One of these 780s was literally brought back from the dead with a heat gun and flux, and now it’s helping me push frame rates in 2025 in ways I never expected. It’s definitely not the most practical setup, but it’s pretty glorious watching so-called obsolete hardware pulling off tricks that still feel ahead of their time.

The first photo shows Rainbow Six Siege using this “botched modern SLI” method with frame generation. The second photo shows Battlefront II running standard AFR scaling the way SLI was originally designed. And the last photo is just a shot of the rig itself.

After months of planning, saving, and hunting for parts, my dream build is finally complete. I wanted a balance of performance, aesthetics, and that satisfying clean look, and I think I nailed it. (^{I ’m joking all I wanted was unicorn vomit)}

I’m super happy to finally be able to game on it, though I find myself staring at it for an uncomfortably long time. I sadly missed the BF6 beta, but there are plenty more memories to come on this machine, hopefully without my gpu burning down my house.

Currently taking applications for people to stare at it with me (^{bring snacks and compliments).}

So I just won an auction for this gently used 3070 on eBay and I was wondering on how it stilll holds up for other users in 2025? The monitor my friend was going to give me is only 1080p and as such, that will be my resolution limit for gameplay. If anyone has a user review on this gpu I would much appreciate hearing it!