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When in doubt, DDU it. :ROFLMAO:

EDIT: found.

Soooo tempting... But I know a friend who needs a new PC. This would be perfect for him. Bump for looking

I finally bit the bullet and opened one of my GTX 295 cards up for some PM. It's a lot less scary than I thought to do once I found some instructions on disassembly, but still took forever to do - making sure not to rush a single step. The stock Shin-Etsu paste was strong (and thick) with this...

You mean the card with SM2 vertex shaders but SM1.3 pixel shaders and with price/performance that basically made it dead-on-arrival? Yes. Also, surround gaming with CRTs and dongles! https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/attack-blind-spot,482.html Matrox had some innovative stuff here and...

It would not at all surprise me if that were the case.

I bet working with Crossfire dongles wasn't fun, either...

That's pretty sick... Always wanted to play around with 8800 GTX cards but never bothered... I should rectify that in the future.

That's amazing if these numbers are true. It'd definitely push me over the edge to do an upgrade. It certainly doesn't hurt that I already have someone I can sell my existing platform to, as well.

I kinda get it... Unboxing my *used* nVIDIA GPUs from the Titan X Pascal on have been a treat. The RTX 3080 FE I have now definitely has that "premium feel" in your hands. For as much as nVIDIA charged for it, though, it had god damn well better...

I may have posted this system 3 years ago but I didn't get a whole lot of time to play around with it. Today, I remedy that. Just need to figure out where I put the optical drives for it and install drive cables...

The GeForce 9800 GX2, yes. There was also a 7900 GX2 that was OEM only, and a consumer 7950 GX2 as well. The card that followed the 9800 GX2 is behind it: the GeForce GTX 295. :cool:

My personal favorite? The nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. It was the first GPU that allowed me to turn everything to max settings in the shader model 3 era. And it was the last enthusiast grade single-slot GPU from nVIDIA. Apologies if I've already posted. Disregard the old one if I have.

I don't need a top tier CPU, no, considering my GPU is a 3080 FE (which is listed in my signature) - and later this year I'll be swapping it for a 3080 Ti FE. I'll be doing a good deal of video encoding and 3D modeling in addition to gaming and streaming, so the extra cores will come in handy...

From what I've seen in the leaks 16 core CCDs will only be a thing on Epyc CPUs. On desktop it's still staying at 8 cores per CCD die.

A dual v-cache part is something I would love to see. That way I don't have to worry about which CCD a thread gets assigned to because they all have access to v-cache. I'm happy with my 5900X as is, but I'd be lying if I said the extra performance of even current gen parts wasn't alluring to me.

Same here. Karl Jobst can be a bit grating, anyways. Still, it's bullshit what Milly Bitchell is doing to him.

I won't lie, I was disappointed with the results. But it's still faster than the non v-cache parts by a margin as bobzdar pointed out. And since I do much more than just game on my PC the 7800X3D isn't the best fit. AMD needs to drop the price on the vanilla 7800X, 7900X, and 7950X. There's...

It's why I ignored Intel and went AMD for my current build. I didn't want to deal with that P/E core crap, either. EDIT: at least, for now.

And see... I do not just game, but I do a fair bit of video encoding, streaming, and I'm going to start on the long road to learning Blender soon and start doing some 3D modeling. Saying that I wouldn't prefer the 7950X3D would be a lie, but the reality is to someone like me that extra $180 is...

The point was, pre-price drop, I understand why everyone just went for the 7950X3D or 7800X3D instead based on some of the results where the 7900X3D was falling a bit behind the other two X3D parts. But you're right, coming in third counts for something.

I'm certain that it was the GTX 980 that launched in November/December 2014 at an equivalent of $719 in today's money. $799 IMO is a reasonable price for the 4080 vanilla if all was said and done. But no, nVIDIA charged $1,200 for an 80 series card this generation. 50% more expensive? It's...

Hardware Unboxed did a review of the Ryzen 9 7900X3D after a year of the part being out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu12QOQiUUI In the past, I expressed the desire to get one here on the forums. However, I was advised it'd act like a 6-core X3D part in gaming. Well... Guess what? LOL...

Isn't it? 10 years ago an 80 class card cost you between $500-600. Now it's literally double that. I'm reasonably sure inflation hasn't been quite that bad.

Great. Another vulnerability that requires software mitigations that may impact performance. As if we didn't have enough of them already... I'll be glad if I'm wrong about that, though.

Interesting that the most notorious DRM today is playing catch-up. That shouldn't be hilarious but it is I'm certain there is a degree of overlap of it being poorly implemented or on titles that are shit, so you're not wrong lol

Tracemark sounds like fucking cancer. As if Denuvo wasn't malignant enough on it's own... Way to be, punishing the legitimate customer. Sounds like this could be abused to take down "Let's Play" or fair use video uploaders as well.

Definitely the Last of Us. Also Arkham Knight a few years before. It was a choppy, stuttering mess at launch. I may be remembering wrong as you said...

I thought it was Iron Galaxy that did the port and Guerilla had to come in after them?

How was that? I've read in steam reviews that it's... not good... EDIT: Sorry for the sidebar, guys... Just a one and done question.

Fair enough. I really can't argue where you're coming from, having dived into a few muffs myself. :p

Welp, there goes my interest in even completing the first game...

I also remember... I was like T&L sounds great... Same for the very basic per-pixel stuff it could do. In the end I was like "where's the games that support this?" and went about my business...

If I remember right the Rage Fury MAXX had really bad frame pacing issues due to it using alternate frame rendering instead of scan line interleaving like 3dfx...

I hope they include the option to turn on texture filtering, unlike with System Shock. Know there's a mod for the latter, but it doesn't work for your weapon/hand model still... If you're going to go the lo-fi retro look, go all the way. Point sampled texture maps don't do the rest of the...

Or with all the problems surrounding the original Phenom launch... Just like with FX; too little, too late. 65nm was too ambitious for a monolithic die for Barcelona, and the lack of L3 cache didn't help (I think it had 2MB), either. It was hot, slow, and late. Faildozer on the other hand...

Fair enough.

I didn't have enough caffeine before posting that. Whoopsie! :p Moving on... I wonder if they'll eventually do a dual v-cache part on mainstream desktop? I know AMD messed around with such a part internally for AM4, but for some reason decided against releasing one...

That's super...

While my Ryzen 9 5900X is still going strong, saying I'm not tempted by the performance improvements of even the current 7000 series would be a lie. A few things I do/play would benefit from the clock and IPC increase. I might have to jump to a 9900X or 9900X3D if the numbers are that much...