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    The GPU Nvidia would rather forget – GeForce FX

    I would like to give an honorable mention to HD 4850/4870. The GTX 260/280 were another NVIDIA blunder from a price : performance standpoint and ATI made them pay. When was the last time NVIDIA had to reduce prices 23% just a couple weeks after launching a product? Those were the days! It's...
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    Remembering the Nvidia GeForce 256 – the first PC gaming GPU

    It was awesome, but at the time was severely starved of memory bandwidth (even with DDR). The GF2 opened the floodgates with crappy compression but was still starved. I think that's why it has more longevity but it's not like the GF3 didn't destroy the GF2 as well. We're talking about a time...
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    Remembering the Nvidia GeForce 256 – the first PC gaming GPU

    I was one of madmen who waited on the delayed DDR at launch. SDR pft. 🤣
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    Every GPU I owned since 2007 (Fun Topic)

    Pretty sure my 3080 will be my last ride given trends in GPU prices. Just being honest with myself given how slow my upgrade cycles are now. Thanks for the memories [H]. Guillemot Voodoo Banshee VisionTek GeForce256 DDR Creative GeForce2 GTS 64MB Creative GeForce2 Ultra VisionTek GeForce 3 Ti...
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    The Division 2

    TD2 is another example of art direction beating pixels. I wish more devs would take note. I walked away from this one yet again after the disappearing weapon bug hit me badly, but it's always been beautiful.
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    HP wants more of your money

    Gen Z doesn't even know what a printer is and this is HP's response? They are going to have to pay a generation to even use one soon. When I say I have a printer at home, I get lots of looks but at least it's not an HP.
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    Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th

    Once they started adding strings to all of the benefits that used to be premium, the clock was ticking for us. We canceled Prime and have started to lump our orders for $35+ for free shipping. They kick and scream and even try to trick you into signing back up for Prime on every order, or trick...
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    Kioxia reportedly kills off 30-year-old Plextor brand — icon of the optical drive days spins up its last SSD

    I owned several Plextor burners but never actually bought a Plextor. The trick was finding rebranded gems on the cheap after rebate (of course). RIP.
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    LG - 48" Class A2 Series OLED $550 at best buy

    Like with HDD->SSD, the leap to OLED itself is what matters. People get way too hung up on bells and whistles and Rtings feeds these insecurities.
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    Assassin’s Creed Mirage

    Got this for free with my A380 that's not being used for gaming. Not sure if it will make it out of the backlog if I'm being honest.
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    Too good to be true? 7900xt 639 on aliexpress

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/zw5l6l/rx_7900_xt_flickering/
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    AMD Ryzen 9 5950X - predicting bottom price for previous gen

    How much productivity are you losing waiting for a $400 price? I always thought if you need this many cores, you're making money from them.
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    Nvidia Says Native Resolution Gaming is Out, DLSS is Here to Stay

    Are you just going to continue to be the gatekeeper for this topic or would you mind letting everyone offer their opinion? I won't mind if you don't reply.
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    Nvidia Says Native Resolution Gaming is Out, DLSS is Here to Stay

    I'm sorry, but this is just depressing. Nearing the end of a hobby for me. What the industry is tell me is we're an afterthought now while this tech has better things to do at higher margins. It was a fun 25 years or so.
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    ReBarUEFI: A UEFI DXE driver to enable Resizable BAR on systems which don't support it officially (critical for Intel GPUs)

    Just wanted to drop this here in case anyone wants to add resizable bar to an older machine for Intel ARC GPUs: https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI I added it my X99 HTPC for use with an incoming A380. Was a little confusing, and there were gremlins, but I got it going. EDIT: My A380 just...
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