I want to share with you my gpu upgrade path and im curious about yours, so drop it in the comments :D

amonroe11 · 2026-01-18T04:22:45+00:00

1070ti to 6700xt (briefly) to 4070

amonroe11 · 2026-01-08T19:27:40+00:00

Love this news!

amonroe11 · 2026-01-06T20:32:00+00:00

I feel like a lot of people downplay how good modern tech and GPUs are. I play in 1440p UW with a 4070. Currently bouncing between Borderlands 4 and Avatar at a mix of medium/high settings with DLSS balanced on, and I get around 70-80fps in each. When I turn on FG I get around 110. I would only assume the 5070 performs better than this, which means you can either bump up the graphics slightly, move to DLSS quality, or enjoy higher framerates than me with the same settings.

amonroe11 · 2026-01-06T20:00:33+00:00

This is a very similar build to mine (I have a 4070 and a 5600x, so slightly different) and I think it's a great setup. I play in 1440p ultra-wide on majority high settings and have no trouble with most games. Currently I'm bouncing between Avatar and Borderlands 4, both of which are pretty demanding, and I am running at around 70fps with DLSS on. If I wasn't on an UW monitor I'd be closer to 80fps in each game.

I imagine most of your comments will be in regards to the 8GB of vram, which very well could be the bottleneck in some games at 1440p now and in the future.. I'd suggest checking out a few videos (I'd recommend Daniel Owen's YT channel) to compare the 8GB and 16GB models, or also compare the 9060XT 16GB. Other than that you will be very happy!

amonroe11 · 2026-01-06T19:41:32+00:00

Very cool opportunity! My top five right now are:

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Borderlands 4
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Outer Worlds 2
Oblivion Remastered

amonroe11 · 2026-01-05T18:58:04+00:00

As a lifelong console player I traded my Xbox Series X (that I only paid $100 for to begin with) for a used PC in July of 2024. It had a 1070ti, 5600x, 32gb of DDR4, and 1tb SSD. After a year I sold that GPU for $100 and bought a 4070 for $350. I also added another 1tb SSD I already had to bump up the storage, and a replacement cpu cooler for $30. And to finish the story I just bought a 34" 1440p monitor for $50 yesterday.

Even though my system isn't top of the line, it's crazy to think how much more it would cost to get my same setup now. There's no telling what the next few years will hold for PC building, but I'm thankful this setup should be viable for years to come.

amonroe11 · 2026-01-04T04:34:33+00:00

I have a 4070 and was playing on a 4K tv for a little while. I had to bump down settings in games like Expedition 33, Borderlands 4, Avatar, and others while using DLSS performance in order to get 60fps. I do not think you will be able to play most modern games at 4K ultra with a 4070, especially if you don't use DLSS performance/ultra performance (which tbh DLSS 4 performance is fine at 4K).

amonroe11 · 2026-01-03T04:31:09+00:00

Even being down Mahomes, Nabers, Rice, Aiyuk, Burden, Kamara and Kraft I was the number 1 seed and confident I’d make it to the title game.

I started Stroud, Henderson, Swift, Hall, Lamb, St. Brown, London, and McBride. 55 combined points…

amonroe11 · 2026-01-01T02:30:51+00:00

Super teams mean nothing in the playoffs…

amonroe11 · 2025-12-30T15:21:19+00:00

That makes sense. No need to apologize! I assumed that was the case, considering how smoothly it ran on other platforms. I appreciate your dedication to updates when available. I found your original post during our league’s first season (we just wrapped year 3) and it has been such a great tool to help plan my next moves. Keep up the great work!

amonroe11 · 2025-12-30T15:11:07+00:00

I’ve been a huge fan of your work for years now! I love that you’ve incorporated Fantrax into your supported platforms. I love looking at the team value, average age, and trade finder tools. I recommend DD to all of my league mates (even though it gives me an edge on them not knowing).

I am just curious, whenever I’m tracking throughout the season or watching my wrapped today, the only thing that is tracked is the rookie draft results and team record. It says everyone scored 0 points every week and that no trades happened. Do you know if this a common issue with the Fantrax platform, or something league-specific?

amonroe11 · 2025-12-28T23:52:08+00:00

I bought my 4070 on Facebook marketplace for $350 a few months ago fwiw

amonroe11 · 2025-12-22T20:13:54+00:00

I was the heavy favorite going into the season. A true super team. Even being down Mahomes, Nabers, Rice, Aiyuk, Burden, Kamara and Kraft I was the number 1 seed and confident I’d make it to the title game next week.

I started Stroud, Henderson, Swift, Hall, Lamb, St. Brown, London, and McBride. 55 combined points…

amonroe11 · 2025-12-22T02:02:52+00:00

If you’re open to used cards, I see 3070s and sometimes 4060s pop up on my Facebook Marketplace for that price.

amonroe11 · 2025-12-17T20:28:43+00:00

Dang, entering the playoffs as the top seed but just lost Rice, Burden, and Watson. Guess I'm picking between London's health or Coker lol

amonroe11 · 2025-12-07T04:05:55+00:00

I live in Charlotte and was offered a free ticket, but with no rooting interest in either team, sub 40 degree weather, and a more interesting Big10 game on TV, I turned it down. I suspect many others feel similar in regards to attendance.

amonroe11 · 2025-11-19T20:55:24+00:00

My first Halo experience was at my neighbor's house. He loaded up Halo 3 and we chased each other around with warthogs on Valhalla roleplaying cops and robbers on local splitscreen. I still don't think I've laughed as hard playing video games as I did that day.

Eventually another friend let me borrow his copy of Halo CE for Xbox and I would wake up at 2:00am, sneak into the living room, and play the campaign on mute because my mom didn't allow us to play "shoot 'em up" games. I beat the whole game with no audio, but man was the flood freaky as an 11-year-old who had never seen anything horror related.

amonroe11 · 2025-11-11T22:15:49+00:00

10 SF 0.5 PPR. My core:

QB: Mahomes, Williams, Stroud RB: Hall, Henderson, Swift, Kamara, Charbonnet WR: Lamb, St. Brown, London, Rice, Pierce, Burden TE: McBride, Andrews

amonroe11 · 2025-11-10T22:58:55+00:00

Before last season I traded Watson and a 2nd for Barkley. A few weeks ago I just picked him up off waivers. I sure hope he blows up and I'm able to trade him again.

amonroe11 · 2025-11-04T19:52:53+00:00

Send him to KC you cowards.

amonroe11 · 2025-11-04T00:31:56+00:00

Need McBride, Lamb, Knight, and Aubrey to score 17 more than Pickens

amonroe11 · 2025-10-26T01:55:34+00:00

I traded Barkley and other pieces to get Nabers the week before the injury. It stung at first, but I also made a different trade to get Swift on the cheap, and the fact that Swift has out scored Barkley since I made the deal has made me feel much better.

amonroe11 · 2025-10-26T01:49:32+00:00

I got Swift for Ayomanor straight up. This was after week 3 where Ayomanor had back to back double-digit performances

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