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    Electricity Prices Are Climbing More Than Twice as Fast as Inflation

    I went solar. Energy will be increasingly more expensive, no matter what. So I managed to get twelve 618Wp panels and a 5kW hybrid inverter and a 50kWh lithium battery, which generates around 700 kWh per month where I live. My total electricity average consumption sits around 550 kWh/month. Our...
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    4K monitors were out more than a decade ago but why is gaming at this resolution still such a big deal?

    Many people can't even see the difference from 4k to 1080p on smaller screens and many others use the big screen living room TV to play. There re also those who do not care about resolution, as long as it runs smoothly. That's why 4k, as a standard, still struggles. TV signals haven't all gotten...
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    Found a good deal on the i5 14600K + mobo combo.......Should I pull the trigger?

    13600k for 2 years here, solid rock. I use Intel's default parameters with latest BIOS update. You should be just fine.
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    Indiana Jones videogame teased by Bethesda

    I play it as is. No changes or optimizations on Adrenaline, just plain standard mode. In the game, I simply set it up to 1080p Supreme and bingo! It runs flawlessly, always 60-70'ish FPS with peaks of 85. The rare frame drops happen in some of the fast moving scenes, but they are barely...
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    Indiana Jones videogame teased by Bethesda

    How come I can play this thing at 1080p, butter smooth, with a mere 13600k, 32GB DDR5 and a humble 6700XT 12GB at Supreme settings? I guess the recommended specs they ask for on Steam are quite overrated.
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    Considering 14900k for 3D/Gaming rig, looking for most PCIe lanes.

    Not ALWAYS. I work with CLO3D, which is a 3D software for creating clothes that utilizes CPU and GPU rendering. In such scenario an I5 12400 takes 1 additional second to finish rendering in comparison with a 5800x3D, both 32GB 3200Mhz RAM and a 4080. Intel uses Z690 and AMD a B550. No big...
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    Please don't laugh, I need a new graphics card

    It's the new drivers that make Polaris go so hot now. My 580 Red Devil ramps up the fans to top speed in any game, but with older drivers, it doesn't happen. Problem is those older drivers won't support more modern games, so one must upgrade. I find Polaris a fantastic rig. However, I grabbed a...
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    What Is Your Personal Favorite Video Card of All Time?

    RX 580 Red Devil is my fine wine, with me since 2016, it still handles fine most games at full HD and even at 1440p in medium settings. It supports 12bit pixel YCbCr over HDMI to my Sony TV, which makes it unmatched in terms of video quality for the living room. Certainly a card that I'll recall...
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    Minimum recommended video ram for a new video card ?

    Pathetic FPS? There are players and players... Many of them, if not the most part, just want to run games at steady 60 FPS with Vsynch. I'd personally ditch the expensive 8GB 3070, that cannot even play all the games at 1080p maximum textures/quality, in favor of a 12GB 3060 that could do it...
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    PC Rebooting While Playing Diablo IV - Have checked everything I know of - HELP!

    I'd test processor and mobo and ram separately. There's gotta be some issue among one of those, they're not liking each other. That 1000w PSU is not causing this, that's for sure.
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    14900KS coming with new boards same 1700 socket TechYES video

    Will we see 14th gen running in the same previous 1700 socket but, actually, a "new" one, incompatible with the two previous gens, like 6th/7th and 8th/9th?
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    Minimum recommended video ram for a new video card ?

    I went with the 12GB 6700XT and haven't regret so far. It's plenty memory for most games of today in resolutions up to 1440p and it's cheap.
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    How many of you actually use ray tracing in the games you play?

    I use RT only if it's worth it. Control, for example, is a game that shows some quite better image quality with it. However, the game itself is a pain in the neck and I have no patience fot that, so I'd say most titles I play do not offer or take any real advantage of RT as of today. I hope...
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    New 13600KF Build with Asrock Z690 Steel Legend - High Temps Issue

    I used the 1700 mouting kit with my old Noctua C12P on the 13600k and it actually worked well in most situations! I mean, it's a 10 year old heatsink, but it still does the bare minimum while power limits are kept within the 125W range. However, as soon as I unleashed power limits, the old...
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    7800X3D will be an utter failure of a CPU

    Puny if compared to its own siblings, as I said. Unless you're a CS:GO player, where the 7800x3D is king, it won't be very wise to get that chip just to have about the same performance level of other AMD chips and even Intel cheaper chips, without paying 3D premium price. If I were to upgrade...
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