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Curious what makes you think it will get delayed? It easily could get delayed but since it's Rockstar they probably don't have much pressure to rush development. They've had soooo long to work on this, I'd like to think they will have had plenty of time by the target release window.

It looks like they're going to do the typical "will they, won't they" thing with PC as Rockstar confirmed consoles but not PC. Hopefully the wait for PC isn't too long.

Looks like they dropped the trailer a day early.

Some goofy news in the meantime: Rockstar's GTA 6 Trailer Release Date Announcement Was So Huge Other Developers Are Parodying It - IGN

US government warns Nvidia against circumventing China export restriction by redesigning chips | TechSpot Hopefully this isn't too political. This seems to be the biggest new on this topic in a while. Just from a financial standpoint, this type of news has been sending Nvidia's stock price through a lot of ups and downs. One day the US updates it's export ban list and Nvidia stock goes down, shortly after Nvidia releases new chips to sell internationally and their stock goes back up, and the cycle repeats. It seems this could be an end to that cycle, but I have no doubt Nvidia's stock will only take a small hit. Right now they might as well be selling water in the desert, there's not a lot that can slow them down. Every chip they can make for AI will have a buyer willing to pay a lot, be it in the US or elsewhere. It always makes me pause to think that Nvidia, the company I've been buying GPUs to game on since Battlefield 1942 came out on PC in 2001 now has such a pivotal role in vital tech.

Bf4 is an old game. I bet that would have run fine in my situation as well.

Yea I get a 4x gen 3 slot a huge step down from a 16x slot, or just a gen 4 slot, but it's still interesting just how much it hindered the card. Some games went from completely unplayable to perfectly smooth. A 3070 isn't that powerful of a card too, so just interesting that it mattered sooo much for a mid range card.

A friend of mine upgraded from a GeForce 1070 to a GeForce 3070 recently. His PC already had a sound card, and he wanted to add a wifi6 card at the same time. This meant all of the PCI slots on his PC were to be used. Short-sidededness meant the only way to fit the GPU and the two PCI cards in meant the GPU had to go into the bottom slot to physically fit, which is a PCI3 4X slot (4GBps) We've all heard about how PCIe speeds don't matter for GPUs. I am here to tell you that in this case, it mattered very much. The 3070 performance under a 4X PCI3 slot was terrible. It probably tripled at least when we got the extension cables needed to move his other PCI cards lower in the case to make room for the GPU to fit into the 16x slot. Once we did that, performance was great. 4X PCIe3 - massively bad performance, constant stuttering. Bad performance at 1080p 16X PCIe performance - totally smooth, like you would expect. Good performance at 1440p-4K I wish I had recorded data. Researching this situation beforehand, I could not find any instance of a GPU as powerful as a 3070 in a PCIe slot as slow as a 4X PCIe3 slot. So this thread is just to point out that PCIe speeds are starting to matter.

There are a lot of mods that adjust the filters now. Might wanna look on mod nexus before you try the same mod that was out right after the game launched, which just removes the filters completely.

https://www.guru3d.com/review/amd-ryzen-threadripper-7980x-review/

If I were trying to put together something for gaming on a really tight budget, I'd probably try finding a decent used desktop on ebay. You can get an intel 6th gen desktop for like $60, 8th gen for $100. Or if there is an e-waste place near you that resells stuff, you can probably find something better than a CPU so old for dirt cheap.

Is this for retro gaming?

I don't think you will benefit from using an unlocked chip in a PC like this. What is your goal here?

Just got officially approved to sell on Amazon, with my own unique brand and product code.

If you like racing games but prefer arcade racers to Sim racers, try NFS unbound. I beat it recently and I really enjoyed it. It's a very light hearted but fun game with a unique risk/reward system. The cops can be annoying later in the game, but beyond that it's pretty solid. It's on game pass.

Based on what you describe with the fans powering on from something other than the power cord, seems like that would have to be something the motherboard is responsible for, so I'd assume that's probably the part that's bad. Never heard of that happening before tho. Pretty weird!

Based on the reviews, it seems like everyone is getting crashes all the time. I wouldn't bother trying to tweak any hardware settings, but that's interesting that it made a difference in your case. Just gonna have to wait for some patches.

Did one for read dead 2.

Another one: Wildlands 10000% speed

CPU makers are experimenting with alternative substrates to double clock speeds WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Diamond Foundry, which makes lab-grown synthetic diamonds in San Francisco, is leading the charge. The... Maybe this would make overclocking more meaningful again. Seems pretty interesting.

Actually if you want to help me with the text/font, that would be pretty cool.

Just an update on the Amazon stuff; Amazon has a system in place that makes it very easy to sell existing products/products their system recognizes via product codes, which obviously a custom gaming PC won't have. So what I have to do is create a brand, and that brand needs to appear on the product/packaging. So basically, I need to make some stickers with my branding/logo on them, then take pictures of that and upload them to amazon to be able to create a new brand. Good thing I already know how to make stickers. How many Anime girls do you guys think I should use?

Just sold the AMD 7700/3070Ti system I had ready, for profit, to a local customer. Now I just have two left and those will be the ones I advertise on Amazon.

Made another one of these:

Sounds like a bad mobo to me.