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So I finally got around to buying a 4k player and a handful of movies. Movies were just a few things I picked out from what Amazon had for next day delivery. Dune 1 & 2, Oppenheimer, and a Lord of the Rings set. Then what do I do? Screw up and watch Dune 1 on regular Blu-Ray. Sat there the...

Lack of game support. All the NV app can do for game settings most of the time is just edit config files. I don't think this should be enabled by default. AI assisted performance tuning would be a nice feature for the clueless, but to really be useful the AI agent would have to be built into...

High end CWT unit. A bit cheaper than a Seasonic Prime TX-1600. $490 vs. $560 on Newegg. Should be good. Most of Corsair's good stuff is made by CWT.

My biggest beef with "no disc" doesn't have anything to do with games. Usually I play them once or twice, then forget about them. The thing that makes me mad about discs going away is the low quality replacement for Blu-Ray. Streaming bitrates stink. I think MS should include a disc drive on...

That's one thing I really wish AMD and Intel would do for gamers - stop tying the fastest clocks to the biggest chips. Why do we have to get "9" chip core counts to get max clocks? Just make a "gamer edition" or whatever "7" and/or "5" chip with max clocks and charge appropriately. And of...

+10 to that. I'm in a similar position. Back in late 2024 I was working on a new build while waiting for next gen cards to come out. New build would leave me short a vid card. Somehow Microcenter decided that to let people order ARC B580s for pickup on launch day. So I bought one. It was...

+1 and... Top mount or bust!

One up side with that is the extra cache should reduce the need to get higher clocked ram, at least for gaming. It'll make the big cache Intel chips act more like AMD X3D. So our 6400 CL32 won't be too bad. Sure faster would be nice, but how much do you want to pay for a few %?

TechSpot ran some performance tests on the remaster and got some interesting results. They ran their tests in Novigrad and noted that performance was a better outside the city. Looks like there's some sort of bottleneck with ray tracing and path tracing. PT tops out at about 60fps and RT just...

I voted no because I think the Steam name is more likely to stick around. I think it's unlikely either one of them will just disappear. Even if Valve or CD Projekt went bankrupt someone would probably buy their assets. Stores get merged and you still have your games. I think the Steam name...

Yeah, you need an i7 or a 1600 Xeon (single socket only) to do a multiplier OC on X79. Xeon 1680v2 is kinda the ultimate OC chip for that platform. 8 cores & you can use the multiplier. X79 boards can run 2600 series dual capable Xeons, but those are multiplier locked. Alas, 1600 only goes...

There's a series of "Post your Workstations" over in Cases & Case Modding > Case Mod Gallery 2026 version is here.

A couple years from now prices will either be worse or we'll have a massive AI crash, lots of spare HBM all over the place, the return of Vega (sort of - higher end gaming GPUs using HBM), and slow sales for gaming cards because there's a recession and people are broke? Personally I'm expecting...

That's pretty close to spot on. It's an enthusiast build. Custom build by a 48yo (at the time) software engineer. It's not new, and now I'm almost 50. The hole in the side fan cage is there to avoid putting too much strain on the 12V-2x6 cable. The cut sucks because I suck at using a...

No, it's not a big deal at all. I was asking That_Sound_Guy who builds a rig like this because he said he could pick out the type of person who builds a rig based on a picture. So I figured it'd be fun to post my rig and see what he comes up with.

Ok, I'll bite. Who builds something like this?:

Ah, well, at least we got that out there. I don't see anything in your original post about a particular budget or that you were thinking used. Got any guidance on a budget? I probably won't have any useful suggestions but it'd likely be helpful to anyone who does.

No idea what to suggest but they do make low end x86 NAS boxes. Not sure about getting 1x3.5" but a quick search brought up some 2 drive models. Some of them might actually be a little weak for occasional browsing. Like one had 4GB ram. Chrome would be displeased. Might be easier than...

Given the current situation I wish MS would let go of the TPM requirement for Win11. Just let older hardware run it officially. We already know it works. Download Rufus and an install image, click a checkbox in Rufus, make a Win11 USB installer stick that'll install on unsupported hardware...

I wouldn't attempt to repair this myself. I just have no experience fixing vid cards, and I wouldn't start with a 4090. I'd have a look at the PCB. One reason connectors melt is uneven current distribution. So... see any PCB damage? It's possible the PCB could fail first, effectively...

They got me once with that "cut it to size" bit. Yeah you can do that but that's not how they sell them. Walked into a Microcenter to buy parts, they only had one size of Kryosheet, I figured I was just supposed to cut it to fit without checking... nope. Bought a square one meant for AMD when...

Actually one of my complaints about that video is no NV cards were included. They should have skipped the POS RX 6500 cards and included RTX 5050 and ARC B580 instead. Mr. Unboxered is apparently a 4GB vram shill. Where's the segment on stuff that just plain doesn't work with 4GB? There are...

You get what you pay for. $70 mainboard vs. $400 (when new) higher end vid card from 2017. Still plenty of good quality computer parts around. They just cost more. That said you can't get too nice on a new DDR4 board these days. Seems like the best you can do is B760 (Intel LGA 1700) or...

Yep. The next card down roughly matched the one a notch up from the previous generation. Maybe a little faster or slower, but about there. So 600, 700, 900, 1000... by the time the 1000 series came out the 680 was a "50" card. That's the old way, and it doesn't hold up anymore. 4060...

IIRC X58 just used regular unbuffered non-ECC ram. X58 isn't a server chipset, it was an HEDT aka High End Desktop chipset. X58 boards share the 1366 socket with Xeons of the time. I never had an X58 setup but I still have my old X79 rig sitting down in my basement. That was the next HEDT...

Seems like that's where the leaks come from. It's not NV/AMD/Intel corporate. Once all the assorted other companies involved in actually bringing cards to market get involved is when we get the leaks. So the lack of leaks makes me think cards are a ways off. The rest of the supply chain has...

I think we'll be lucky to see a next gen gaming card any time in 2027. By this point in the last cycle we had lots of leaks on the upcoming specs. Now? Crickets. Nothing for gaming cards.

I don't pay enough attention to have any real idea on what's good. What I do know is I work for a big corp and we've been dumping VMWare left and right for charging too much. Broadcom seems to just want to loot everyone. VMWare isn't that good that we're forced to use it. So bye-bye VMWare...

What are you thinking in terms of cooling and such? Good case for air cooling isn't necessarily the same as one that's good for water or an AIO. Like a Fractal Torrent is a great case for air cooling but it has a solid top so no top mounted AIO or rad. Not so good for liquid cooling. So what...

Whatever setup doesn't put your lappy at risk of falling off your desk. :p

Not that I've seen. I have 4 Win11 boxes and none of them do that... unless maybe it's some new bug was introduced last patch Tuesday (meaning the day before yesterday - It's Thursday 9/10 and patch Tuesday was 9/8) that I haven't seen yet? Have you tried wiping and reloading it? I wouldn't...

I picked it up. I wouldn't say they're that bad. I mean it's better than unmodded Skyrim. But yeah the art is "meh" and it looks like an older game. Just not 2005 old. It's kind of the old precision vs. accuracy thing. It's detailed like a modern AAA game, but stuff just looks misshapen...

Which model 5090? Just curious. Standard is a theoretical 575W max but there are a number of 600W models like my Asus ROG Astral. Then you're hitting 610W+, so I'm wondering if that was a "600W" or a "575W" model.

Ouch. Hopefully it's repairable. I'll be sure to have the Asus monitoring utility going whenever I get around to trying out DLSS5 & set it to shut down my rig if current goes too high on a pin.

Don't forget about 92mm fans or whatever. I know, weird size but there are sizes between 80 and 120. You can even get 92mm Noctuas. These days I think you see that size on vid cards more than anywhere else.

I'll put it on a secondary rig first & see how that goes, then roll it out to the others. Main rig goes last. For stuff like this I usually start with my laptop since I barely use the thing. I just keep one around so I have something portable.

Quantum entanglement with a resonant nuclear magnet caused the same particle to hit both rigs. :p

It wouldn't be hard for AMD to spec a lower powered version or for AIBs to build it. It'd just run at a lower clock speed. Pretty much any vid card can clock down to use less than 75W. They could make a <75W 9040, they just don't.

At the end of the day it's all about what's more profitable. Take a few losses and replace them or spend more on packaging. I mean if they save $5 a screen on packaging and the average damaged in shipping costs only go up $4/unit that's a win, right?

I wonder if LGA 1954 will support DDR5 and DDR6, kinda like how LGA1700 supports DDR4 and DDR5. Intel makes a long lived socket, then we all end up wanting a new one halfway through the socket's lifecycle. DDR6 is already in production.