I wonder how far we are from having real-time raytracing in games.
I feel like unless there's a major breakthrough, it'll be about 10 years at least, if we even get there, engineers and developers love to stall at "good enough".
Handling cash has costs associated with it too, just less "upfront". The people counting it and transporting it aren't doing it for free, also cash is easier to steal and to counterfeit (places that do lots of small cash transactions get screwed on fake bills being passed, especially bars and...
AFAIK the claim is that the tiny evil haxor chips were added at some point *after* the boards left the factory, so no board design elements were ever there to facilitate them.
Basically it's really frigging unlikely this is a thing :p
I'm not a motherboard engineer/designer, but I'm super skeptical that you can just put a chip on a board and have it do even simple things that a chip in that position on the board wasn't intended to do.
I mean, I'd maybe get if an actual existing controller was cloned, and extra functionality...
2020 seems optimistic, but it's hard to know where they are starting from.
They've been making GPUs the whole time, just integrated, so they aren't starting from 0 in terms of either hardware or software knowledge and processes internally, and they've been getting better (slowly).
If they are...
Pretty much all 3d rendering for games is a bucket workarounds for trying to achieve something visually similar to raytracing in the absence of the computational power to do the real thing in real time.
I'm super glad to see some green shoots on getting there, but unless there's been some big...
I moved from a 2600k to a 3770k about 5 years ago or thereabouts, and there wasn't much improvement, until the latest round of cpus I haven't felt like there was enough of a boost to be worth considering, even now when looking at the 8700k Im thinking "I'd kind of like an m2 socket on my...
I'm curious to see how quickly intel can respond to this, as in, release products without the hardware fault. Depending on it's exact nature and where they are in development of their current pipeline of products, it could be quite a while.
They are probably boned if they don't have something...
I have already basically decided this is my next board, I've been on the M-ITX train for a few years, and this will be replacing my P8Z77-I Deluxe, looking forward to the review.
A thing I've wondered with more recent boards though is: Does a heatsink really help an M.2 SSD? if so, why does...
*mathematically* I believe that death is inevitable on a long enough timeline, because even within a normal 80 year timeline people die from a lot of shit that isn't age related, and if you extend that lifespan you also increase the opportunities for random other shit to kill you.
But when it...
It's time for me to upgrade my 3770k, I was holding on for Coffee Lake in the hopes there'd be an actual performance increase for normal users, but once again it's just: "MASSIVE 15% performance increase! ... for the tiny slice of the PC market that just encodes video all day and/or run 70...