Recent content by obiwansotti

Don't listen to the FUD in this thread. Do the upgrade for the 3080, then re-evaluate. Even then your best bet for max gaming perf will be to wait until after Zen 3 is launched. A 4790K v a 9900K could not be a 40fps to 100fps jump. I don't doubt someone experienced that, but I would guess...

I booted into safe mode to run a few of the benchmarks, and got "normal" results, so it must have been something with my windows install. Blanked the drive and reinstalled and it's working well now. Somthing must have been running in the background.

Yes I have, the initial results from booting with defaults were also below expected values, I didn't try running the AIDA64 at stock, but cinebench r15 was giving me a singlethreaded score of like 189. Eveywhere I look says cinebench R15 should be in the 210-220 range even at stock speed.

So some of those are blanked out since I have a trial version (above image is my machine), and my mem latency and bandwidth seem really low compared to what this CPU is suppose to do. Performance is low too, I'm only getting 206 single threaded in R15. I've looked at the review over at guru3d...

TR uses a much larger package. TR3 will likely be able to support 4 chiplets. It will be interesting to see if Zen 3x00 will support 2 chiplets for up to 16 cores. My gut says yes, but we'll have to wait and see.

News flash 9900K is an 8core. But AMD being withing 1% is crazy good news. Now the long wait for the actual product. Also the short time it will be available before Intel will have their 10nm desktop chips out. Such a bummer it's not Q1/Q2 availability but more like early Q3. I doubt you'll...

What a bummer, 2080 performance at 2080 prices without the 2080 feature set. Only people who would really be interested in such a card are the people who need the 16GB of ram.

People are angry because they are angry, who cares. Rage is the new normal, I couldn't care less. The 2060 out performs the 1070ti for $100 less so there is that. The 2070/80/ti don't render a value, and if you were in the market for an upgrade you should've bought a 10x0 card when they were...

I've been burned by assuming the quoted specs are the real thing before. Hell I've been burned by believing the on stage demo fo the product is realistic (5ghz on air for haswell?). But yes release dates, msrp, official clocks and core counts. Very exciting stuff.

AMD keynote is tomorrow at 9am, that's when we get the business. While AMD's moments on top have been few and far between, the situation here could not be more ripe for them to pull ahead. If they deliver I may seriously be looking at my first AMD build since 2004 (Opteron 165 FTW).

Seems a little hard on nVidia. They are trying to push forward and sell something besides resolution and framerate. Ray tracing is the first real image quality improvement technology we've seen since shaders debuted. I know running Destiny 2 at 165fps locked on my 1440p monitor wouldn't do...

Sure but they'll be faster than my 1080ti by a really significant as opposed to this little bump in raster performance the 20x0 cards have. There will also be actual ray tracing games to play. I don't think this first round of games is enough content to really push me to spend money on these cards.

Voodoo 2 12mb was only $300

When you look at the core count v clock speed for the 20x0 v 10x0 these cards look like 10-30% bumps + the new RTX stuff. I think I'll wait for the 30x0 gen cards with actual games in the wild I'm trying to run.

As a gamer this is great news, hopefully card prices will be returning to sanity.