Recent content by harmattan

Powercolor bought years of brand loyalty from me for doing me that solid. And better, they had them shipped to me in under a week which minimized the downtime in my mining at the time. I still really only buy their cards when I go AMD. Come to think of it, those 5870 LCSs were one of my...

Had two Powercolor LCSs in Crossfire at one point. I remember getting Dragon Age and Fallout NV to run in Eyefinity was finicky, but a marvel. They all started eventually producing artifacts due to bad VRAM. Still being in warranty, Powercolor NA did me a solid and replaced with two 6970s...

Half this thread are geezers like me with rose-colored glasses and/or trying to show off that they had early GPUs. I also once scored four touchdowns in one game at Polk High. My Voodoo3 was great in that it was a harbinger of things to come, but it certainly wasn't my favorite card.

You could have bought two 6800 vanillas for nearly the same cost, unlocked them to GTs, and put them in SLI. It's what I did. ~50% more performance for 20% more money. They got me back though next gen when I splurged on a late-cycle 7800 gtx 512mb, then they came out with 8800 gtx a few...

It was previously my ATI 9800, 295x2, and 1080 ti, but I think it may end it being my current 5090. It's so far beyond the power that I need, runs flawlessly and cool, and at this point, it will likely be my primary card until I'm dead. I could also sell it for nearly twice I bought it.

Just getting time this weekend from work to consider buying this or three other games that have come out recently. There's a lot to unpack. In a nutshell, is this Star Wars XCom?

No way I'm letting just the PCI-E slot carry the weight of my 5090. A $5 piece of metal can save a whole lotta heartache.

Downloaded Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided for another run through. I'd spun up MKD a few month back and had forgotten how fun these games were.

A shame. I fondly recall rocking three Galaxy 480 GTXs in SLI circa 2010. The Galaxy models were the only ones I could find in stock at launch. That rig was an absolute furnace, but extremely fun to play with. More recently, I had a Galax 4080 HOF that was a superb design.

The 5080 is not worth the money, in my view, when compared with what 9070 XT offers. However, if you have the money, and you value ray tracing and path tracing, it's a valid choice. The $400 difference in price is still enough to make even a rich man sick.

Same exact situation and assessment here. Performance above the 9070xt is right at the the precipice of diminishing returns. I love my 5090, but my 9070xt gave me 90% the same experience... for nearly 1/4 the cost. Conversely put, paying nearly 4x the price for a card that delivers 10%...

Definitely a 9/10 for me. I really enjoyed the first one, but KCD2 is bigger, better and tighter. It gets pretty much everything right for a 1st-person RPG. I don't have much more to state than you outline. It looks staggeringly good with everything cranked on my 5090. I've been to a few...

Agreed. I had five AM4 DDR4 builds with not a single issue. Of the three AM5 builds (different mobos)... Two had the long mem training cycle issue, the last completely inoperable. I've been building for 30+ years now and never saw memory compatibility issues like I've seen with DDR5. I would...

Noting both Styx 1 and 2 are free on Epic over next two weeks. Never played them myself but have been in my cart at times to buy.

I would need to bent cables considerably to fit the panel on -- not worth the risk. I've got a Corsair 4000D which I consider pretty big. I suppose I could get one of those fat-boy cases, but call me old fashioned, I think a proper desktop PC is rectangular, not square.