Recent content by Sharps97

Good quality streaming is nearly visually indistinguishable from blu-ray, even 4k UHD. There have been lots of side-by side quality comparisons, and anything modern (Netflix, Prime, VUDU, and even Apple) provides incredible visual quality. If you are sitting at normal viewing distances, you...

False. 7 nm Ryzen will be out on the desktop in the first half of next year with both IPC and clock speed boosts.

1. NVidia's actions are shitty and they are consumer hostile 2. Without competition, NVidia has every right (and corporate imperative) to maximize prices to meet demand 3. Prices are out of line with delivered performance (using history as a guide), and therefore consumers would be strongly...

If AMD ignores Ray Tracing with Navi and invests all available die space to conventional rasterization, they have a unique opportunity to leapfrog Nvidia in performance by quite a margin. Almost nothing will perform well with RTX features (save the new AA option) so there is a golden opportunity...

This looks pretty good - already seems to have more polish vs. the first one. Seems to be running on a modified Doom engine, so should get good performance and high quality visuals.

Possible that AMD traded FPS for more stable frame-time and a better overall experience? Or does the measurement just show too much noise that isn't really felt in game play? In general, I'd think I'd prefer more consistent frame times vs. absolute FPS. Good write up!

I think the key take away is that they are leveraging engineering talent that brought us the CPU Zen architecture to provide support to pull off something similar on the GPU side. It makes sense to try to get some synergy going now that they are generating healthy cash flow from the CPU side of...

What a terrible “article”. Didn’t expect to see trolling as an official article on this site...

Well, it is interesting that AMD has gotten it's driver "mojo" back, having better "Game Ready" day-one drivers than NVidia on a couple of key releases. That has not happened in some time and suggests that NVidia is literally asleep at the wheel at this point when it comes to driver releases...

Very cool review, thanks for investing the time to show something like this!

Was excited. Then realized my perfectly fine 4K monitor does not support HDCP 2.2. No longer excited, simply annoyed. The only ones punished are those who try to do the right thing by the right's holders...

I've used it once. The boards are much nicer to browse. Potentially could use it again. It's one thing to have a different opinion, but something else entirely to be so persistently abrasive that someone sucks the life out of every thread.

No doubt that there is plenty of opportunity for better audio, but Creative is not the solution and no one who has any familiarity with their history should support them. They are a textbook example of how to not only become a monopoly, but to essentially fail at it at the same time. I think...

Creative killed it. Full stop. I remember getting so pissed at them over a decade ago because of shitty drivers and forced obselence that I vowed never to buy another product from them again. And I haven't. They've been sitting on essential patents for over a decade now and have done nothing...

I've found the best program for beating the snot out of your CPU is to run some folding. That tends to trip your system pretty quickly given the extreme stresses it puts on the entire system.