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    Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 57" 7680x2160 super ultrawide (mini-LED)

    I can't see a GPU being unable to support a 7680x2160 screen just because it's only got 4GB vram. At 32bpp it only needs ~64MB for a framebuffer. ~128MB for full 8k. Add 25% or 50% for 10 or 12bpp. Still a small slice of 4GB. I had a GTX680 running 7680x1440 back in early 2013. Played...
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    Playing Cyberpunk2077 in High Native 4K with an i5-3570K and an RX 9070 16GB vs an i7-14700T

    That's a good point about smoothness and 1% lows. The OP's setups have min FPS reported by the CP2077 benchmark as 46.17fps for the 3570k vs. 61.76 for the 14700T. By my estimation, that means the 14700T setup is ~1/3 faster. I tune settings based on minimums/1% lows. Average isn't...
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    FSR4 support in most games

    I suspect AMD has figured out that adding upscaling support is easy enough that they'll get support without having to support every card out there. I have an ARC B580 in one of my rigs and there are few new AA titles that don't support XeSS. The only recent one I have that doesn't support XeSS...
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    Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors - The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy

    Ah ok. I'm familiar with that one. Thought about building a faraday cage for the Comcast Gateway? I have. I'd probably just pay the $30 and keep using my gear, but it is cheaper to get the package and put the Gateway in bridge mode. So far I've been ok with the 1.2TB cap, so I'm on the...
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    Network training

    You could also pick up some cheap network gear to play around with. Learn by doing. Older used commercial switches and routers, 3rd party firmware on (used) consumer routers, or just run stuff in VMs and not even buy hardware. There's even low-end commercial stuff you can get. Like Mikrotik...
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    Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors - The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy

    Why? I'm stuck with Comcast around here if I want decent speed, but I run my own modem, router, etc.
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    Intel will supply Raptor Lake for years

    Z20 is what I have my portable rig in. I like it. Nice compact case with a carrying handle. It is tight though. Pay attention to clearance between the PSU and vid card. Also good luck hiding all your cables. Actually you won't be able to. There's zero clearance behind the mainboard.
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    Intel will supply Raptor Lake for years

    The next step in crazy is new releases of Z790 and X570 DDR4 boards. Not sure if we'll get that far, but if Z790 is still being produced it's a real possibility. Ram connects directly to the CPU, so that should be workable. Pretty sure X570 is out of production. Z790 is still around in a few...
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    Intel will supply Raptor Lake for years

    AMD partially re-engineered the 5800X3D so they could make more for the same reason. The process they used to bond the 3D cache to the CCD was no longer available, so they had to rework it to use the process used for the 7000 series X3D chips. Personally I think the 5800X3D relaunch was a far...
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    What replacement screws for my case??

    Mild steel is standard for computer cases. They just use the cheap stuff and paint it. Honestly mild steel is overkill for the strength requirements of a typical computer case. Back in the good old days you could get all aluminum ones that weighed a lot less and were plenty strong. Now...
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    LG 45″ OLED Ultrawide 5120 x 2160@165Hz 45GX990A and 45GX950A

    If I were to go out and buy a gaming screen right now I'd likely end up with a 5k2k OLED. No chance on the Samsung G9 57" for gaming. I got used to OLED and I'm spoiled. VA? No way. IPS also no. LCDs are for work screens. I prefer them there. I write code for a living and I'm not real...
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    RX 9050 is a bit of a turd

    I would expect so, assuming you can source 1GB GDDR6 modules or it can run on a single 2GB GDR6 chip with a 32-bit bus. Might need some bios mods, but I bet it's theoretically possible. I'm guessing getting 1GB GDDR6 has become problematic since AMD apparently used 2x2GB on the 4GB RX 9050 and...
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    RX 9050 is a bit of a turd

    Running on max settings without ray tracing seems to be the industry standard. I suspect part of the reason is they don't want to have to retest every comparison card for every review. So just use a standard platform and run everything on ultra. A really good review would I suppose still...
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    CPU contact frame worth it for Core Ultra 270K?

    My Arctic AIO only works with the included contact frame. It literally cannot mount to a standard socket 1851 ILM... so I dunno, but this setup seems fine. That said I like this AIO. Instead of a bunch of stupid bling-bling shit like RGB or an LCD display the CPU end has a VRM cooling fan.
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    RX 9050 is a bit of a turd

    I'd be more interested in a 4GB model that pulls less than 75W and can run on slot power than the 8GB retail version. Cheap low power card to make a proc with no integrated video & a board with no ipmi/video work so I can use it as a server. AM4 CPU, X299, Threadripper, etc. But I'm sure...
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    LG 39GX950B 39" 5120 x 2160 OLED 165hz Ultrawide

    Is that an FE? How'd you pull that off? Sane price, or did you cough up $5k? I have a 5090, but I got it over a year ago and they were way cheaper back then.
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    What replacement screws for my case??

    6-32 has been the standard for case screws for ages. You'll probably need something a little bigger for a worn out/damaged hole. So one size up. You'll want good hard steel and will probably have to force it in. You'll probably have to crank on it. It'll probably have to cut new threads.
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    AMD Debuts Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 Powered by RDNA 4, and FSR 4

    The sticky bit between those two is they're close in performance and the price/perf advantage bounces back and forth. You can always undervolt a 9070XT if you want it to use less power. So really I think which one is the better buy depends on price, so it's a matter of when and where.
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    Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 57" 7680x2160 super ultrawide (mini-LED)

    I'm kind of a big fan of the pass-through DP support in USB-C and Thunderbolt for laptops, especially combined with a dock or monitor that supports power delivery. Just plug in one cable and boom, video output, keyboard, mouse, webcam, Ethernet, whatever other USB stuff and it charges the laptop.
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    GPU prices — is the worst behind us ?

    Same here. I managed to time all of this pretty damned well just kind of randomly. Did a couple rig upgrades including my main rig in the first half of 2025, both using DDR5. Also picked up 10TB of PCI-e 4 M.2 while I was at it. Then I went and snagged a 5090 in spring 2025. But yeah, if I...
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    Blu-Ray vs Streaming

    My hunch is 8k+ computer monitors will become common before 8k TVs. TV moves in chunks. Monitors creep up in res. Computer can support whatever, and don't need "content" to justify a higher resolution. Then, eventually, TV will go 8k. TVs going 4k and most monitors being lower res is a...
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    EA May Go Private in $50 Billion Buyout By Multinational Investors

    These private equity buyouts are just weeding out the incumbents with old, tired franchises. EA is actually one of the better targets for them. They have a bunch of annual sports franchises. They're probably clueless, but they can understand updating the player roster in licensed sports games...
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    Is this termination no bueno? 2.5G network drops

    Bad cables can reduce speed. Your NICs could very well negotiate 2.5Gb, run at that speed, and oops occasionally have a glitch causing packet loss and a retransmit and run slower overall. The more packets get dropped the lower the throughput.
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    What Is Your Personal Favorite Video Card of All Time?

    I'd probably be voting for the 4090 too if I'd bought one. Or a 1080Ti. Probably the 1080Ti if I'd bought both. I still think the 1080Ti is the GOAT, but I never had one so I just can't bring myself to call it my personal favorite. That has to be a card I've owned. Hmm... I should probably...
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    Is this termination no bueno? 2.5G network drops

    In my case this was an old NetGear switch from maybe 2003 or so (20+yo & still works!) and an integrated Intel NIC on an X79 board from 2012. If Intel and/or NetGear are doing it I bet it's common. Auto downgrade is also more user friendly, so I can certainly see why they'd try to detect...
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    Is this termination no bueno? 2.5G network drops

    No you're right, it's just 2. I looked it up. Thought it was 3. Not that I've really paid much attention to 100Mb in the last 15-20 years. Bad connector can drop your speed to 100. Been there, done that. Picked up a spool of Cat6A, ran a line, oops ends didn't show up on time so I tried...
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    Is this termination no bueno? 2.5G network drops

    Also you want all the individual wires to be the same length going into a keystone jack. It's unshielded Cat6 so cutting off the plastic wrapper early doesn't really matter. You just want them the same length and you want to un-twist them as little as possible. When I put in a Cat6 or 6a jack...
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    Is this termination no bueno? 2.5G network drops

    Dropping all the way to 100 suggests a bad line. Gigabit+ needs all 4 pairs. 100 needs 3. That's just a guess, but I'd start by redoing the keystone jacks and swapping patch cables. Patch cables first. They're cheap and having spares is a good thing. If that doesn't work I'd redo the...
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    Are there still inkjet printers that don't try to screw you on ink somehow?

    That's one thing I always print. My tax return. I do my taxes on a computer and e-file, but I always print out a copy as a backup. Guess I'm old fashioned or something. Other than that, my office at work is paperless. We just don't use the printers. Been there 3.5 years and I don't think...
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    New Machine Needed for Video Rendering, etc.

    It's not really a thumbs up to anything, just that Asus, MSI and Gigabyte are all fine as vendors. ASRock too mostly, though they have had some issues with AM5 boards killing procs, mostly 9800X3Ds. A couple other thoughts - That Rosewill PSU looks ok but it might be worth spending a little...
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    New Machine Needed for Video Rendering, etc.

    The extra 4-pin CPU power connector on the Asus is for overclocking. You're not planning on OCing, so don't worry about it. You probably don't even need to connect it. Since you're not overclocking they'll all be fine. The biggest differences are often in slot & port layout. Also sometimes...
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    One monitor in a 3 monitor setup wakes to black screen others are OK

    Depending on the specs of the monitor it might be worth trying the HDMI port. Ampere has HDMI 2.1, so that's no problem. If the monitor has at least HDMI 2.0 it should be able to run at a full 144Hz refresh over HDMI at 1440p.
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    Signed up for TDS

    Oh ok, so it was "2.1MB" not "2.1Mb". That's better. Not good, but better than what I was thinking. Back in the day I had DSL with speeds like 768kb or 1.5Mb over old copper phone lines. You had me thinking you were stuck in the 2000s. First DSL service I had was in 1999. It was 768kbps...
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    One monitor in a 3 monitor setup wakes to black screen others are OK

    Sounds like it. If it won't show anything at all when you poke the buttons that's not a good sign. You should at least be able to get it to show a message complaining about not having a signal. If it just wouldn't display output from the PC but you could get some sort of built-in menu poking...
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    Are there still inkjet printers that don't try to screw you on ink somehow?

    Yep. I have a color inkjet - same reason the OP wanted one. Lasers suck at photos. Also have a B&W laser. The inkjet is an expensive pain in the ass. Gums up if you don't use it, ink costs too much, etc. The laser is using a 12+yo toner cartridge and can sit for a year, then fire up at tax...
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    Upscaling and Frame Generation Usage Poll

    DLSS quality is the first knob I reach for if a game can't run maxed out at 4k native on my 5090. Past that I start trying other knobs. Sometimes I end up with more DLSS, sometimes quality + lower some settings, or in the case of Borderlands 4 a bit more DLSS and lower a few settings a bit...
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    Will 2027 next gen video cards get rid of the 12VHPWR and be safer?

    My bet is they'll quietly stop using 12V-2x6 at max power. Next gen top end cards will go over 600W and have 2, while 80 cards will be 450W or less and NV will tighten the specs on line loading so they're less likely to get out of balance and melt. But nah they're not gonna admit defeat and...
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    Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 57" 7680x2160 super ultrawide (mini-LED)

    If you're using a Dell monitor the Dell Display and Peripheral Manager app can do similar things with dividing a monitor up into chunks. At any rate there are a bunch of options for slicing a screen up and snapping windows to the slices.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    I played through CP2077 with mouse & keyboard. Driving was ok, but maybe I should have tried a controller for driving. Flight stick? Wheel? Nah, not going to bother. Not for a game with multiple console ports. I'm sure CDPR put a lot more work into making an XBox controller work well than...
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    What Is Your Personal Favorite Video Card of All Time?

    Probably the Matrox Millenium 4MB I had back in the 1990s. Vid cards became a pain in the ass once 3D acceleration hit, and they're still a pain in the ass. If you're talking GPUs, that's tougher. Probably the GTX 680 4GB cards I bought to run a surround setup. Those lasted me a long time...
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