Not only that, but aluminum is very soft compared to steel and scratches pretty easily. Customer machines that were made of aluminum back in the day were always scratched to shit.
Easily. It has nothing to do with the games beyond them being demanding enough to cause the GPU to draw a ton of power super quick. Many PSU's can't handle that near instant ramp up and their overcurrent protection kicks in shutting the unit down.
I've never cared for the whole standing desk thing, but honestly I probably should get one that allows me to do that. I'm simply on computers far more than is remotely healthy. I work out and what not but I don't really do enough walking or cardio.
Agreed. The differences between the K and KS models has never been "worth it" from any type of value perspective. This is Intel essentially doing what Silicon Lottery used to do by binning chips for the buyers. You would pay a premium for a CPU that was tested and verified to reach XYZ clock speeds.
GPU and CPU prices have never been indicative of one another. You are comparing Apples and VW Jetta's. The fact is, this is a premium part priced accordingly. Value is not really something that factors into parts like this a whole lot. The people who buy this stuff don't care. In fact, if you've...
It really hasn't even been that low key. It's a game with absolutely no romance options or anything like that and yet, they shoe horned a gay romance between two characters and made another a lesbian for no reason at all. It was completely unnecessary for the romance and felt forced because none...
It's doubtful. Not many people have had a chance to get their hands on one yet. Usually in a review, you don't have enough time prior to the embargo date being lifted to test every possible scenario. Undervolting being one of them you typically just don't have time for.
I actually had a Cirrus Logic 2MB VGA adapter back then. I also had an ATi 512k adapter at one point and a TSeng Labs ET4000. I recall my pre-GPU cards as well. :)
My list of previously owned GPU's would go back to the dawn of the GPU itself and pretty much encompasses almost every generation of NVIDIA card (usually in pairs for SLI) and has a few ATi and AMD cards sprinkled in for variety. That list is in another thread somewhere and I'm too lazy to find...
This pretty much sums up my opinions on the matter. I've used both, I just prefer using matte screens most of the time. I don't have to worry nearly as much about where I place my desk/monitor in relation to windows, etc. I still tend to place things where the windows don't allow light to hit...
Save file issues are why I quit playing it as well. Mine would take 10+ minutes to load. There were fixes that would sometimes work for brief periods, but the next gaming session the issue always reappeared.
I think this is a fair assessment. With costs for almost everything going up at almost a record pace, I think offloading more tasks to AI is the only real solution to this in the short term. Of course, companies will want to use it for everything which will be disastrous at first but there are...
That's the same kind of advice you get about TV and monitor sizes. People calculate optimal size based on room size and distance from the display. None of it is really all that accurate. None of that is a substitute for actual hands on experience.
Well said. This echoes my thoughts and experiences as well. If indie games were all that was available to me one day, I'd probably stop buying new games and allow my PC to pass into total obsolescence and spend my money elsewhere.
In my situation it wasn't about total power consumption but rather a sudden spike in power draw from the GPU that caused the power supply to shut off. 4080's and 4090's aren't as bad as 3090's are in this regard but that's what your issue seems like to me. A lot of power supplies can't handle...
Well, there are quality laser printers that do a great job. Xerox Phaser units back in the day could do better quality than any inkjet of the time. (I supported an actual print shop back then.) Unfortunately, the quality laser printers that can do decent photos aren't the cheap ones. You also...
I used to work in a service center repairing printers in the late 1990's and early 2000's. The fact is, the decline was already in full swing back then. We saw a sharp decline compared to the units of the late 1990's. Regardless, Inkjet was always a flawed technology whos only benefit was low...
I used to repair printers back in the 1990's and early 2000's. I've got news for you, most printers were crap back in those days. Inkjet printers were certainly much better than they are today, but they were still garbage. It's a garbage technology. It's only benefit is that its cheap. The...
That's where I'm at, but I have a lot of friends that play this so I decided to give it a try. I'm really enjoying it. I've played a lot of extraction type shooters over the years and this is one of the best I've ever played.
To be fair, my comments could just add easily be applied to Arkham Origins and WB Montreal as well. While not the best game in the series it was still pretty good.
In my case, the shutdowns wouldn't usually occur until I'd been playing awhile. I don't know if the unit had to get hot enough or what was going on there but it didn't do it every time at first and then the intervals between crashes got shorter and shorter. The units also worked fine in machines...
I've had this exact same problem now a couple of times on my PC and once on someone else's. In each case it was due to the power supply no longer being able to handle the sudden power draw of the GPU. I'd almost bet money that if you run a GPU-Z log and cause the crash you'll find that in each...
At the top, Bethesda largely has. In my opinion, that's actually the problem over there but that's another topic. Towards the lower rung of the ladders studios do not retain talent. They are all basically contractors. That's how that business typically works. We actually know the score with...
No.
A 1Gb connection will always show as such. While its a bi-directional connection that can theoretically send and receive the full gigabit each direction, it never happens in reality. Even if it did, that's not how these connections are shown in the OS and that's not how they are rated.
Full duplex means that the connection is bi-directional. Meaning you can send and receive at the same time. It's still only 1Gb each direction. Not a combined 2Gb.
I think we are a long way off from having to worry about this. That said, the industry is using the tools available today to cut costs and crank out content faster. So far that kind of thing hasn't been particularly well received but we may reach a point where we can't tell its even being done...
No need to apologize to me. I read and respond to so many posts on this forum that it usually has to be something either stunningly brilliant or absolutely absurd for me to remember it. Things like the Yaris as a sports car, revenge fucking your ex girlfriends brother, 10k desks, or keeping a...