First post, by FFXIhealer
So I have a system running Windows 10 built in 2010. It has dual GTX 480 cards in SLI. HOT, I know, but I’m doing a custom water cooling loop to deal with 2x 250watt TDP cards. Anyway, not my point.
I just read on a website that Nvidia is transitioning the Fermi series (400/500) to Legacy support and after January 2019, will stop driver support altogether. My question is, since it’s now considered “legacy” by the original manufacturer, does that make these cards “retro” yet? 🤣. And if so... does that mean Windows 7 is going to be considered retro soon as well? I mean, my system has a Core i7-860 CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads and runs Windows 10 like a champ. And two GTX 480s together still has enough performance to push even modern games @1920x1080 close to 60 FPS at normal graphics settings. I think most people here wouldn’t call that retro. But the cards were released in 2010, so only 1.5 years to go before they’re 10 years old. What’s the cutoff standard for considering something retro? 10 years? An inability to handle current OSes? An inability to handle modern games?
Like, I’d consider anything Windows XP and older as “retro” now, but there’s a HUGE swath of graphics hardware that XP can handle. Is Windows Vista retro?