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    For those of you 50 years old and up what was your first multiplayer game and what year?

    I played Duke Nukem 3D with a friend across dial up modems. I can't remember anymore how we had that set up, but it worked. Didn't do anything else until Unreal Tournament, Tribes, and Descent.
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    Borderlands 4

    Out of 20 hours of gameplay I've seen something like 5-10 frametime spikes. So not 100% stutter free, but not enough to affect gameplay. I keep a frametime graph running in the overlay, so I would know if there were smaller spikes I just wasn't feeling. I did set the shader cache to...
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    Borderlands 4

    Are there actually day/night cycles in the game? I've got 11 hours of playtime and it's been daylight the entire time.
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    RTX 5090 4K Gaming build - Core Ultra 265K tuned vs 9800X3D - Talk me out of or for returning my 265K parts and getting 9800X3D parts at microcenter

    Jedi Survivor isn't CPU dependent anymore even with a 5090, not in 4k native anyway. Since I can get 100+ fps anyway, I wouldn't use upscaling and my monitor is 120hz. I think it was more CPU dependent at launch, but back then AMD only had the 7800x3D which never seemed to be faster than my...
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    Borderlands 4

    No there's no difference in performance. I think it's just a matter of which way you prefer the game to look.
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    Borderlands 4

    Yes, you can add it to the games ini file here, C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\Borderlands 4\Saved\Config\Windows\GameUserSettings.ini You can also add an "engine.ini" file one level higher ("config" directory) with those options. The engine.ini file has to be marked as read only...
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    Borderlands 4

    I'm running it in 4k Badass DLSS Performance. Trying it with hardware RT on. Looks quite a bit different. No more crashes so far too after asdjusting the GPU OC. Haven't been getting any significant stutters since setting the shader cache to infinite either. Generally pretty smooth...
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    Borderlands 4

    Tough to know sometimes other than reverting to defaults and putting in a few hours of gameplay. But since it was a driver crash, I suspect it was my config.
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    Borderlands 4

    I ran into this too. What was odd is it ran without a crash for the first 2 or 3 hours and then crashed the driver twice after the last update dropped. Maybe it was just the area I was in though. Hard to know. My card is shunt/volt modded so I bumped my voltage some and just maintained the...
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    Borderlands 4

    I bought the game thinking I'd refund it most likely but I do really like the gameplay. I know shocking, but I never played the other Boderlands games, so it's 100% new to me. That's the good. The bad of course is the relatively poor performance. Even with a shunt modded 5090 at 3.3Ghz, I...
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    Looking for the present king

    Current budget king for all around performance has to be the 265k/kf. https://www.microcenter.com/product/685301/intel-core-ultra-7-265k-arrow-lake-twenty-core-lga-1851-boxed-processor-heatsink-not-included Even AMDUnboxed admitted it was competitive with the 9700x. LOL...
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    RTX 5090 Benchmarks

    No, just chilled water (5-6C).
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    RTX 5090 Benchmarks

    Nice boost in PR too. No improvement for me in SN, but close to 576.28 which is waaaay better than recent drivers. talon95 is my old old username.
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    580.88

    This seems like a good driver, assuming they didn't break anything. So far seems ok but haven't used it much yet. Marginally faster than 576.80 in Doom DA and CP2077. Everyone gaining several hundred points in Port Royal and close to 576.28 in Steel Nomad. Maybe finally a solid driver?
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    Star Wars Outlaws - Now on Steam

    I really enjoyed it. Could not care less if other people didn't or if it made money or not.
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    576.88

    I didn't get any crashes, etc... It's just slooowwww in Doom DA which I'm playing right now. I have a 5090 FWIW.
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    576.88

    This driver sucks. It was 5% slower in Doom DA than 576.80. Nvidia you suck.
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    The 285k is embarrassing

    I thought this review was more interesting since the 265k is so cheap now. https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Core-Ultra-7-265K-CPU-280895/Specials/Test-Gaming-Benchmark-vs-9800X3D-1471332/
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    Yea I saw a comment from a person that is testing for Asrock saying that the best build of Win11 is one that's in the pre-release channel. Makes me wonder what the review sites are using though for Thursday if there's a significant difference in performance.
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    That's terrible unless it was GPU bound. Settings suggest it shouldn't be though. Here's what I get with my lowly 5800x3D.
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    No, it's soldered I think. der8aur talks about it in the link below. Thermal paste wouldn't require heating for delidding due to too much force on the die. "The delidding will require heat this time. There is no way around it. Any direct force might damage the chip permanently. As you know...
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    Well Asus sent this guy an 8200 CUDIMM kit for testing and all he has are 4 dimm boards so we'll see I guess. https://youtu.be/utCVlzw3QCk?si=V1j0gmjgo7xCBi2B&t=265
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    13th / 14th Gen RMAs

    Well you're an Intel hater that has an axe to grind by actively encouraging everyone to RMA CPUs whether they are defective or not in an effort to punish Intel with no regard as to whether that's in the best interest of the CPU owners.
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    13th / 14th Gen RMAs

    Still wrong.
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    13th / 14th Gen RMAs

    Well I am going to comment when you are giving bad advice.
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    13th / 14th Gen RMAs

    You just proved my point. You don't understand that statement. It's not saying the CPU will increase vMin automatically, they are talking about the required vMin voltage for stability. The only way the voltage will be increased is by the user changing it in the bios manually. CPU's become...
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    13th / 14th Gen RMAs

    This thread is totally crapped up by exactly 2 people. LOL Don't bother, they are people you can't reason with. 1) A CPU will never increase voltage to compensate for degradation. It has no ability to measure this. The notion that it does just shows a complete lack of understanding of how...
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    13th / 14th Gen RMAs

    OMG, no they do not request more voltage for degradation. The CPU has no idea it has degraded. LOL So it was working fine and you RMA'ed it anyway? Did you thoroughly stress test it with tests like yCruncher/OCCT/etc... to verify it was 100% stable at default settings? And if you did, why...
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    13th / 14th Gen RMAs

    I doubt they have a way of determining if a CPU is damaged if it's still stable at defaults, any more than we can. The only way to know for sure is to set a baseline vMin when it's new like I did with my 14900k, then retest to see if vMin has increased or not over time. Even that's difficult...
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    13th / 14th Gen RMAs

    I have to disagree with the other comment. If it's been stable this long, it's probably fine. They don't all degrade, only a subset of them. I ran a 13900k for a year without any degradation (I tested vMin occasionally, so 100% certain it did not). But I now have a 14900k that has degraded...
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    Is Anyone Playing Games On A i9 13900k/kf or i9 14900k/kf Without the Microcode update?

    Yea it's a giant PITA to suddenly have apps/games crashing out of nowhere and then have to deal with an RMA. And most/all boards completely wipe settings when flashed. Pretty much have to as it can lead to issues otherwise. Same reason why you never should load an old profile even if you can...
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    13900K - Out of Video Memory or BSOD during shader compilation in two UE5 games

    Yea but you know that 13700k result is wrong. It's even ahead of the 14700k and equal to the 14900k on the older bios. Only really good thing he did in that video was this plot. I did think that was interesting.
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    Star Wars Outlaws

    Yea that'll be the first time a AAA release was poorly optimized on launch. Just feel lucky if they actually fix it. LOL
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    Star Wars Outlaws

    It just depends on what you want. If you're just super excited to play a new game and willing to put up with it being less than optimal, nothing wrong with that. I've done both. Played games day 1 that were poorly optimized (but still enjoyed them) and I've also waited. I'm mean, who really...
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    Ghost of Tsushima (Confirmed)

    There is one coming, but who knows if it'll be good. https://www.gamesradar.com/terminator-survivors-guide/
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    13900K - Out of Video Memory or BSOD during shader compilation in two UE5 games

    No, it wasn't even stable at 320w/400a. Had to go all the way down to 253w PL1/PL2 to get it to something at least close to stable. And then it was running at insane voltage. I saw 1.5v during gameplay part of the time. Couldn't undervolt it much at all either, even at 253w. Reality is that...
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    13900K - Out of Video Memory or BSOD during shader compilation in two UE5 games

    Yea I have a 14900ks that has these stability issues at bios defaults. I RMA'ed it and am getting a refund from Intel as they do not have any replacements on hand right now. But I've run a 12900k, 13900k, and 14900k without any issues though. Just the 14900ks that has issues.
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    Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

    DF also leaves out the fact that the worst of the stutter is on Koboh in the open map section with Pylon's etc... I saw very little stutter on the other planets or even some of the other quest areas on Koboh, there was some on Coruscant. I thoroughly enjoyed the game despite it's issues. I do...
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    RTX 4090 [H] Owner's Official 3DMark Time Spy Scores

    Made another run. This is basically a run to maximize graphics score just for fun and 3DMark HOF has a category for just the graphics score. Anyway, this was using the Elmor EVC2 to bump core voltage to 1.15v resulting in 700-750w of power. (yep, that much) reBar forced and only 8 e cores...
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    EVGA 3090 FTW3 limited to 400w on any BIOS, shunt mod?

    Even this bios limits to 400w? https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/235868/evga-rtx3090-24576-210329-1 I'd run that before trying to hardware mod.
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