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    how many guys in this forum are IT pros?

    spent the first twenty years of my life building /supporting everything, but now that i have huntington's, i no-longer trust myself with hardware swaps more complex than usb, and even software engineering has gotten impossible now, i have to make a very dangerous career4 change in the middle of...
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    Who here likes big displays as their PC monitor? 40inch plus gang chime in

    when we upgraded, the wife insisted on 65, as she couldn't see details on something as sharp as 55. I was insistent on replacing the slow response of va, LCD while avoiding , ips glow from my current set, but have been running htoc with large screen since 2011 when I replace my current...
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    Made in the U.S.A.

    probably early 80sn -before consolidated chip sets on all motherboards /expansion cards first appeared
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    Remembering the disaster that was crypto mining and it's detrimental affects on GPU prices.

    as long as AI training effects improve noticeably every year, there will continue to be ai demand for new gpus AI models are the reason we're seeing the largest increment in vram size in two decades! oh, for those still lost in the 1920s of GPU mining .you do know most mining software that...
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    ATI Radeon HD 4870 and HD 4850 GPUs were released 15 years ago

    my 4850 was my last ati card. later, once more-programmable generations hit, there was always a bum-rush on value-priced ati cards for bitcoin; I'm not dealing with 50 over msrp for a 5850, , so I grabbed an GTX 460, and easily overclocked it 20 percent
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    AMD at CES 2023: 7950X3D, 7900X3D, 7800X3D - VCache Party In Here

    I'm excited for this stuff to get cheaper (zen 4 3d in the discount bin)
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    Who else is waiting on Zen 4 x3D before upgrading?

    yeah my gaming PC has a 4790k, and I only encode new movies into my HTPC once every few weeks (already have a large collection)! Current games will mostly peak at 16 threads (thanks Zen 2 APU), so also waiting for the fastest single thread I can (Zen 4 8-core 3d for gaming)
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    They really all came crawlin' back to Steam, didn't they?

    yeah, and also the worst part of pre-steam PC gaming: storing your disc somewhere, and waiting for the same ancient install to finish ten years later...and finding all the patches again, and restarting the game from the beginning!
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    What are you nerds playing this weekend?

    going to pick this up for my pre-chrismas gaming; reality: the control scheme ruins it for me, so 'im getting a refund!
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    The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt: Official Thread

    when I find the base story boring and the quest completion system broken,the vast availability of prettifying moods does nothing without a Total Conversion option in the mix it been eight years since release, and still no options for new content
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    Does anyone else miss [H]ard reviews?

    the only thing I recall them bring good at in the last decade was psu reviews. there are so many other sites that also tear-down motherboards, and once Kyle gave up on "best settings for each video card" reviews (thus making him identical to tech power up, except without the same massive card...
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    Portal with RTX

    to me, it has more replay value than quake 2 did - way higher-quality textures, and way more fun key search!
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    42" OLED MASTER THREAD

    i told you folks that, given the fact that clearance cx48 panels hit 800, it was only a matter of waiting a year+ to get this down to 600-700 wait 3-6 more months, and you're there!
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    Forspoken

    reminds me of oblivion running on a 360
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    DDR5-8000 coming soon to an Intel server near you

    Well on servers you will actually notice the difference - on desktops, its hard enough to notice the difference on Raptor lake ddr4 vs ddr5 Someone did a gaming review, and this was the lone exception (20% higher minimum): full review (starting at games)...
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