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  1. This is good news, the 40 series was overpriced because they were still trying to sell leftover 30 stock.
  2. Article title makes it seem like they are selling their firmware updates. Some of their monitors just won't support updates. That may have been a sales decision. They have the same panel. Overclockers like us love getting stuff we can flash different firmware on and receive more features. This isn't pitchfork worthy news. Up until last year, none of the monitors I owned could update their firmware. I remember when video games were sold as complete games, rather than having day one updates. Those were the days.
  3. This might be the first real feature of Windows 11 over 10! I generally don't use upscaling or frame generation if I don't need it, but it may be a way to keep older games relevent on new hardware. I'm curious how AI is actually learning this stuff. If it doesn't know right from wrong, good from bad, how does it know what improvements are desired and what isn't? It must be an interesting algorithim if they plan to impliment it on thousands of games at once. There's some talk about different processing units in the article, but it's something I didn't understand. Can anyone explain it better? The only thing I know is, Nvidia GPUs are good with AI, AMD and Intel, not so much. I've always wondered what is physically different with AI compute as opposed to rasterization. The fundamental concept still leads to a 1 or 0, so why is it hardware that's different and not software? Maybe we'll start to see software/firmware bridge the gap that hardware was doing.
  4. This is interesting. Intel may not have licensing rights on Nvidia technology, but if they are building it for them they are in a prime position to leverage Nvidia for their own gains. Sort of like China stealing technology. "We'll make it, just give us your designs". Intel can't copy the product verbatim, but they can still benefit from the R&D, which is no small cost. It's also interesting because it has similarities to Nvidia and AMD board partners. Seems to me that EVGA dropped out because they didn't want to compete with Nvidia. The ability to set the price they sell their components for, set the MSRP, and the ability to compete in the same market was too much to bear. It may indeed be time to buy Intel stock. It will be interesting to see just how many keys to their kingdom Nvidia is handing to Intel. It's still a bit early for Intel graphics cards though. I suspect it will take Intel 3 generations to smooth out the bumps. That is if they stick with it. Rumor has it their 3.5 billion investment may be axed before it can pay off.
  5. Yeah it sounds more like someone bought the 4090, then returned their borked card instead of the 4090. The old swaparoo. Seems more like a 1 off scenerio than something to get worked up over.
  6. $700 for a 7900xt is not bad. I had a 7900xt, it had an intermittent display port so I sent it back and picked up the XTX instead. I can honestly say the 7900xt was enough card for me, and I overspent upgrading to the xtx. They are both really nice graphics cards.
  7. I was just investigating if one of my add-ons was causing the news/latest problem, when I stumbled across this post. Thanks, that fixed it. That's a really obscure setting for such a main feature of the site.
  8. This will be a fun topic to follow. Material science has some real potential. It is a game changer. My friend who works in AI development (they are working with bees and plant germination), says the problem with AI is no one understands how it generated the answers. It's a black box that people don't understand. For stuff where the answer can be checked it's amazing. Chat GPT can generate an answer, but it's also known to lie and make up sources. It's real goal is to understand languages, but can a statistician ever know if it actually understands? It can tell you the probability or likelyhood that a certain word will be next. It doesn't actually know what it's saying. But hey, if I listen to enough smart people talk I can always just repeat the answer.... The problem is, unless they release their dataset (which they won't because they web crawled it without permission), we don't know how smart those people are when it regurtitates, or just plain makes up answers. https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec2023.pdf I was trying to copy article 99 to add an excerpt but it doesn't like copying. It's a blatant example of openAI ripping off an NYtimes article. It's bad, like I wouldn't have even tried to pull that off in middle school because any teacher would have called it plagurism. Statisticians are scary. In business stastics we learned how data can be manipulated to show just about anything. Most of AI development is just statistics. Where those statistics comes from matters. What people are trying to show matters. (I wouldn't trust AMD, Intel, or Nvidia marketing statistics to tell me how good a product is. There's too much variamce between that and independent reviews. OpenAI reached a little hard by not getting authorization to use company datasets They did it the good old fashioned piracy way, just take it.
  9. My approach would be to use wireshark to figure out what ports are needed, and nmap to see if those ports are actually open. Chances are they aren't and your ISP router is still in play. Setting the pfsense to demilitarized from your ISP router is a reasonable solution, that should eliminate the isp router as a problem. In my previous experiences with this, the ISP router was still in play and the ports from it had to be forwarded as well.
  10. The monitor I wanted, but probably shouldn't buy... (My wallet is thanking me.) I'm also hesitant with oled, though I think qdOLED is supposed to be better with burn in.
  11. I love MX blues. My first experience typing was with typewriters, blues audiable click always reminds me of a typewriter. I tried MX browns, they are alright but without orings the bottom out sound makes them arguably as loud as blues, and the sound isn't rewarding When my 2nd keyboard died I went back to blues. I'd like to see what holy pandas and topre switches are about, but there's little point in trying them when I already love blues.
  12. Gigabytes 32" 3840x2160 is a good monitor, but I returned them for the 27" version. At my viewing distance the image quality is noticeable. I can't imagine wanting to go bigger for anything less in terms of resolution. I deeply regretted buying 32" 1440p monitors. I'm holding out on OLED, burn in is a concern to me and I recently found out LG's OLED doesn't play well with text. Glossy glass monitors look a lot better than plastic matte finishes. I wish I could still buy glossy IPS screens. I'd pay extra for that.
  13. Update on the situation. I've now had Gigabyte M32U monitors for about a week. I was using text scaling, then I tried windows scaling (apparently they are different). While there were some gains/benefits, I ultimately decided the monitors weren't working out for me. I am now using 2x Gigabyte M32U (32" 4K 144hz) monitors, and I'm debating returning them and getting Gigabyte M27U (27" 4K 150/160hz overclocked) monitors. The smaller screen size might be preferable to me for a sharper image/text clarity. I'll probably fire up cleartext and see how that goes for the next week or so before making a decision. From what I read, the LG monitors don't play well with clear text, it was designed for sRGB/BGR, not rWbg. The gigabyte panels should be fine, but the LG panels are unsupported. With the prevalence of LG OLED panels hitting the market, it will be interesting to see if windows adds support for rWbg. Interesting sidenote, my 27" Yamakasi 2560x1440 monitor felt like it had a sharper/crisper image than the Gigabyte 32" 4K monitor. The 4K monitors have higher PPI, but the Yamakasi had a glass finish, as opposed to the mat finish on new monitors. I miss the days when monitors had glass. The 32" monitors I was using are LG 32GQ850-B. I question how much of the issue is a text issue, vs a screen/panel lighting issue. Before finally purchasing new monitors, I noticed that watching video for 10 minutes would bother my eyes. The final straw was when I was looking at my blue windows login screen and realized, my eyes are bothered. That was within 30 seconds of firing up my computer. Since the monitor swap, I do still have some eye trouble, but it is significantly reduced. I feel like I can recover in this situation, vs before when things were only getting worse. For now, I'll be avoiding LG panels due to the unsupported rWbg, which includes companies like Corsair who use LG panels. I'm extremely disappointed that all the new OLED panels fall into this category, especially considering they are the only panels that still use glass.
  14. Simulators are where VR really shines. Condor 2 (glider simulator), is pretty damn realistic to flying an actual glider. Condor 2 translates to real flight extremely well, to the point that I would say any potential glider pilot should spend time on the simulator. My instructor likes to say "Airplanes make poor classrooms, and classrooms make poor airplanes." Simulators are extremely nice because you can pause and talk though everything going on, while still getting the airplane experience. The only thing missing is the g force effect and the resistance feel of of holding open the air brakes. (Also that first flight has a hard realization that the plane is always falling and has no engine, first real flight is unnerving.) My local mall had one, but their pricing was more in line with $50 for 30 minutes. I'm a bit too frugal to justify that, but my personal hardware is such that I could easily add VR. I've been waiting for valve to come out with a new headset. The index has held it's value on the used market, and paying full price for 4 year old equipment computer equipment doesn't entice me. The Oculus Rift S is fairly cheap in the used market, but I don't want to deal with facebook/meta. When I last looked into VR, there were quite a few VR headsets on the market, but the actual implementation/support they get is questionable.
  15. After spending the evening reading reviews. Gigabyte M32U is the leading choice.
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