UltraMega

"Do your own research" is the mantra of people who believe everything they read online, as long as it's fake. Can't trust the experts or academics. Everyone is lying and only the people who read about it online for x amount of time really know what's going on! The truth is out there, and it's so poorly hidden, you can just read about it online but only in places that tell you what you already believe. All you have to do is believe whatever is good for your team and you have found the truth!

These lawsuits have nothing to do with Trump or politics so IDK why you're bringing it up in this context. These lawsuits are about big companies blocking competition from entering the market in unfair ways. And why would they do what he wants them to do? That's a dumb question. Why wouldn't they as long as he's still their boss is a better question, but since those lawsuits aren't political that wouldn't make sense to ask either. Google and Facebook are being sued because the government believes they have engaged in anti competitive behavior to keep competitors from having a fair chance and it's just that simple. Not everything in life is filled with political drama and conspiracies.

I can file a lawsuit against you for whatever I want. Doesn't mean you are guilty. Also, your link is behind a pay wall so if you want anyone to bother to read whatever it is your getting at, try a different source. However, without knowing the source of your info it would seem obvious to anyone with common sense that the DOJ and FTC (both organizations with leaders appointed by Trump) that they are simply doing what Trump wants them to do.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/87783-fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-announces-intent-step-down.html I don't think many will be sad to see him go.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/87716-graphics-api-vulkan-now-features-full-ray-tracing.html Neat!

Very odd. Try setting your bios to defaults and see what happens. I wish I could remember more about exactly how I fixed the issue when I had it. I think it actually was a motherboard bios update that fixed it for me now that I'm thinking more about it but my pc was older and you already updated your mobo bios anyway.

All I know for sure is I had to update the bios on an AMD RX 480 to get it to work on one of my PCs even though it worked fine in another. Something to do with UEFI compatibility. There was an official update for it when I did it. The 480 and 570 are pretty similar so it sounds like the same issue to me. If you already updated the bios of the video card and it's still not working then IDK, must be a different issue.

CPUs and GPUs already have some hardware level DRM-like features for things like streaming copyrighted videos. Hardware level security features is something that's been slowing growing over time.

You may need to update the bios to your GPU. Some AMD 500 series GPUs actually won't work in newer systems without a bios update. I ran into the same issue myself and it was definitely confusing at first. I think this is what you need: https://www.amd.com/en/support/gpu-firmware-download

I wonder if the RT performance will improve over time, or work better/worse in different implementations. Currently all the ray tracing games are RTX which means Nvidia only so we only have the 3Dmark score to look at, which if I'm not mistaken is purely reflections and not GI-RT. RT reflections are nice but so far all the games I've seen that use them seem to over-use it almost like they're a tech demo for RT reflections. WD Legion seems like a great example of that. If performance was more on par when using ray tracing for GI instead of reflections, that would definitely change the situation but for now it seems like the RT performance is disappointingly far behind. Being worse in full path tracing than a 2080Ti (which has pretty weak RT performance anyway) makes RT seem like a non existing feature for AMD right now because with that kind of performance it's just not practical to use it. Separate from that though, it will be really interesting to see how performance scales when titles start using more Vram or using more advanced features like some of the stuff we saw in the UE5 demo. It seems like we don't really have any true next gen titles to look at yet. Everything "next gen" right now is just the same type of games as last gen but with RT added in. One thing that was interesting was in the gamers nexus review they point out that AMD has better frame time consistency and generally better 1% lows.

The surface go has a really weak cpu. Totally different experience on a surface pro. Heck a surface pro 3 or anything above is fast enough to play games like bf4.

Get one used. I just got a surface pro 4 i5 version in perfect condition on eBay for $200.

I've done sli a few times, a long time ago. I think back then sli support was at it's peak and even then the results were disappointing far too often. It was amazing when it worked well but even at its peak that was far from guaranteed. I think it was a smart move for Nvidia to stop marketing it to gamers, even if it's still technically an option in some games, simply because it doesn't work well enough to be a selling point especially with gpu prices being so much higher now compared to when sli was more common.

Source: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/microsoft-eying-directml-as-dlss-alternative-on-xbox.html Based on the single image, the results looks really good. I'd love to see DLSS die off and get replaced with this.

Source: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-talks-about-zen-4-already.html Looking to 5nm already. Very cool.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/87567-rumored-999-rtx-3080-ti-launch-january-take.html This wouldn't be a surprise at all. Personally I'm not in the market for a $1000 GPU. I'll likely be getting the 6800 when it's available. Seems to have the best specs for the price.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/87568-smoking-xbox-series-x-videos-fake-microsoft-warns.html Kinda funny news.

I remember when this was on shark tank. Bet the sharks are glad they didn't invest now.

Once a long time ago when I was working a remote support job, I had been remote connected to this old guys PC who had a virus..I had the finished removing the virus and so I called rh customer to let him know I was done and his computer good to go. I was still remote connected at this point and while I was on the phone with the customer he went to his computer and typed "hand jobs" into google, clicked a link and started playing a video. He was apparently testing how s computer to make sure it worked normally with the stuff he wanted to use it for again. I guess he also did not realize I was still connected to his PC while I was on the phone with him.... So I disconnected and hung up without saying anything. Have at least two other remote support stories just like that.

Damn why so much ram with that cpu?

I'm sure I have some dumb mistakes but atm I can't think of any good ones that I caused but I had a customer the other day who brought me a desktop PC for repair. It was a middle aged woman with no PC knowledge and she had figured the PC was too loud because the fans inside were dusty, so she took it upon herself to remove the CPU heatsink to clean it, but she didn't use the latch on the heatsink and rather unscrewed the mount that the heatsink latches on to and then didn't reattach it after, so the heatsink was just hanging there by a loose screw and she had no idea what the issue could be. Turned out her hard drive was failing. ?

Oh haha I guess that answers my question. I didn't watch the video before, just assumed it was the same results as the last ten times I've seen this test. Very interesting.

My stocks have been pretty crazy today, not in the way I would have expected. Two of my stocks that seemingly don't tie to covid a whole lot went down substantially while my tech stocks barely moved. I have a few stocks I bought low expecting them to jump up with the end of covid and they went up but barely. Also, let's hope the quarantine last long enough for us to play cyberpunk.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/87521-news-covid-19-vaccine-90-effectiveness-sees-pandemic.html Some extremely good news! Not purely tech news but news that impacts us all.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/87504-fortnite-reportedly-return-iphones-nvidia-geforce-now-web.html Seems like they should have done some kind of web based client sooner.