For those who have waited since Zen 2 or older, why wouldn't you wait for Black Friday deals and order after another month and a half of falling prices, unless your PC is literally falling apart or you have a time-sensitive task?
Cards like the RX 6600 need sub-$200 prices such as $180, the current price of $250 is too high. Personally, if I see cards like the RX 6700 XT dropping from $420 to $300, I would jump on that.
Let's not ignore Alchemist GPUs completely. They could be quite good mid-range cards if the drivers...
Just stick your head in the sand until a week before Thanksgiving. Then give your an early Christmas present. Or decide firmly that you will wait for the Zen 4 X3D variant in early 2023.
Ouch, sorry to hear about your problems with that GPU. This is why I avoid used cards with a vengeance, I don't have the patience to root through the whole troubleshooting process.
Does she care about the environment? Tell her it is better for energy efficiency. Or you can say that it will let you do your work and your "work" faster so you get to spend more time with her (risky option).
Is she a more analytical mindset? Show her the total budget for the 2030 build and how...
It kind of depends on what PC you already have. If you have a Zen 1 PC, the Zen 3 CPUs are not as compelling as the Zen 4 CPUs, although I personally would not upgrade for such high platform costs.
My PC is a Haswell i5-4670K (never overclocked). These days in modern games, it feels as slow as...
I feel your pain. I too was speaking from experience although I wasted less money than I could have because I spent months agonizing over what build to make. For my next build, I am just going to match the best consoles' CPU power and core count (so nothing above 8 cores), determine what monitor...
OP, I think your approach is definitely the right way to think about this. Optimize your cost of ownership, and upgrade more often over the years with the same exact budget. Futureproofing has always been a shifty idea but when progress is happening faster with very fast I/O like PCI-E 5.0, very...
I wonder if there is a marketing opening here for AMD. "With Radeon, you get real FPS, no gimmicks, the lowest input lag, and the lowest frame latency on the planet. No fake frames, no uncanny valley, truth in graphics."
Maybe even come up with a corny label like "HyperFrame Technology".
Thanks for the explanation and sample math, this makes much more sense now. So my next question (to Nvidia) is: Why would I not just turn on Reflex with DLSS 2.0 and ignore DLSS 3.0 completely for the lowest frame latency?
Because the reason I want to move from a old PC that gives me sub-30 FPS...
Half a frame of latency means what exactly?
0.5 frames of latency per second? That's negligible.
0.5 frames of latency per set of keyframes processed? That's horrific latency.
Someone tell CERN about these new anti-gravity brackets! I am sure the next market for GPUs will be particle beam steering in the Future Circular Collider (FCC aka LHC 2.0).
I am far more pessimistic than you are. Most if not all media outlets will eventually get lazy/uninformed/lax about their reporting and start using DLSS3 interpolated frames as raw FPS within a few years. It will be the rare gem in the pile of horse feces that actually continues to report...
But but how is Jensen supposed to sell a "premium" feature for megabucks if all the die space is spent on regular cache to boost rasterization performance? I can't even disagree with the approach, specialized hardware acceleraters might be the long-term path that everyone is going to go down...
I will strongly disagree. There are a lot of people who can handle a lot of cognitive dissonance by creating alternative facts and selectively accepting information that preserves their preexisting beliefs. Just look at religion, politics, etc, etc. It is all over the place and it always has...
Well yes, it is more expensive than it should be, but the converse is that the 6600 is cheaper than it should be based strictly on performance level in the current market.
f the fan mindshare favors one company just because of the brand, I will gladly forego paying the brand premium and get...
Well that and the fact that developers (outside of the handful of AAA titles that have direct Nvidia support) rarely target features that only a very small percentage of gamers have hardware support for. By the time DLSS 3.0 is in the hands of a sufficient minority of gamers and there are more...
And do you want a "next-gen" card that doesn't even have DP 2.0? I don't know what Nvidia was thinking here, at least pretend to future-proof your new cards.
What exactly is the non-RT, non-DLSS 3.0 pure rasterization performance improvement vs Amphere? I see a small mention of 2x in some articles but there is no emphasis on this number.
It's the curse of success (and also due to the Innovator's Dilemma). Many successful dominating companies have died to this hubris and willing blindness to the future.
Just wait a few weeks for next-gen cards to come out and for the flood of Ethereum mining cards to arrive in full force. I suspect you will see 6700XTs for $300-$320 soon enough with rebates (currently $380). It is a meaningful performance jump over the 6600s.
Stupid? Yes it is.
But Intel has a bad habit of over-emphasizing what would make investors happy and not enough on what its long-term vision will be. Even with Pat as CEO, who has done a good job advocating for a long-term vision, you still see hints of the classic Intel that will sacrifice...
God, anyone remember the complete fail purchase of McAfee by Intel for $7.5 billion back in 2011? That money could have been used to better effect in almost any other product field. Imagine if Intel had slowly and steadily developed a dGPU business for datacenters with that money. Imagine if it...
I would go for Ryzen at this point if just because the next gen consoles (PS4, next Xbox) coming in a few years will be using some form of Ryzen CPU. Having those extra cores and threads will help for games that are coded with those consoles in mind.
Anyone who does not have this game should get it just for the eyes.
Seriously, Bloodlines has some of the most realistic and/or unsettling eyes in any game I have ever seen. Slightly reflective and glistening, with good facial movements in the eyebrows and cheeks.
I will be buying a laptop for my parents. It will replace a Core 2 Duo P7570 @ 2.26GHz. There are a lot of great laptops out there but all of the laptops that could drive a 4KTV seem to lack wired gigabit Ethernet or HDMI 2.0 ports. Which laptop can be used as a ad-hoc HTPC and also has wired...
You could try Minitool's Partition Wizard. I had a secondary data drive that lost its partition table due to a power failure. Partition Wizard managed to get the partition working again.
If you are ok with Google Fi and a budget phone, there are great deals on Moto X4s. $250 per Moto X4 and $249 in Fi credit if you buy two phones on a single account. Which works out to about 5 months of free service for a two-user account.
So after buying a 4K OLED TV, and wanting to test out HDR, I am in the market for a laptop to serve as a HTPC to connect to my NAS. (I also need a new laptop). The TV is LG OLED65B7A Series B7.
I had decided on the Acer Aspire E 15 E5-576G-5762 for its Kabylake CPU and MX150 GPU. Then it...
The implication is that the dude is related to some very powerful political people and so
I read it as developer criticism of parts of Japanese society, which indeed is quite backwards.
The difference is that in those older titles, Denuvo was not totally cracked and you had to rely on messy hacks and installers and shady warez groups to get past the DRM (like with Just Cause 3). ROTTR seems to be the first crack that is like the older pre-Denuvo DRM cracks where the install...
The problem the games industry faces with Denuvo getting cracked and all forms of DRM really is the same problem that any proprietary software faces with free/open/reputation-based software groups. As long as there is programmers willing to work in groups that make free/open/reputation-based...
One problem that has always bugged me with Windows is that the file copier in the OS will give copied files new "Date Created" and "Date Modified" metadata. For example, if I copy a file originally created/modified in 01/01/1999 at 12:00PM and the time right now is 08/15/2016 at 12:00PM, the...
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