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https://www.guru3d.com/story/rumored-nvidia-rtx-5090-specs-cores-gddr7-memory-and-bandwidth/ Hopefully they let people pay by donating their organs directly to Nvidia this time. Cut out the middle man.

I don't think the fact that Bethesda decided to reply to reviews has much to do with it. It did seem to entice a few people to leave a negative review, but I think the score was already heading in this direction which is why they started responding at all. The score on the Xbox app isn't much better. I did enjoy the game for a while even tho it was disappointing. It's not a bad game compared to an average game, but it's a bad game for one that tried to be a once in a blue moon major Bethesda title. I think it just took a while for people to form their opinion since players needed to see for themselves that there wasn't anything interesting to find in all that empty space.

I think now that people have had time with the game, it's really starting to set in that this game felt like a bait and switch. Bait being the Skyrim level of quality and engagement people hoped for, and the switch being Bethesda's attempt at a procedurally generated RPG. A friend of mine who really loved Skyrim was hooked on Starfield for a while until he finally realized it was never going to be more than just a remix of the same assets everywhere, and then he went back to Skyrim

Maybe they can get all the way up to GeForce 1060 level performance this time

You should check this out: https://www.pinballx.com/ Go to the forum and look at the user projects section. I ran into a few pretty detailed guides in various places when I was looking around and I even can across a site selling some of the most custom parts like the big round buttons and the score board display. I don't remember exactly where they were but I'm sure you can find them.

We have those here, one chain business that does it is called Dave and Busters. I've been to one not too long ago. Tried to play some Dance Dance Revolution which I used to be good at as a kid and immediately reehow old and out of shape I am now, haha. Good times.

This particular machine has so much going on in it. Apparently, an old school pinball machine would give the player a free game if they beat the previous high score, and when that happens, the machine releases the ball and makes a loud pop or something like that... and this machine has something that emulates that and it's super loud. At first I had no idea what it was but the customer knew. These things go to extremes to simulate all the clicks and clacks from an OG machine. That said, it wouldn't be hard to setup something very similar without all the extra effects. The software is called PinballX, you can find it online, and I'm pretty sure it would work with a standard controller. I know you're not seriously asking, but if I was gonna make something like this, it could be done for way less than these things sell for (like 15k) because the core experience is really just the PC, a horizontal TV, and some buttons. There are hobbyist who build these things themselves, but they tend to go for the full package with all the extra do-dads.

I mean, it would make sense to replace the older PC parts just to prevent future failures. The hardware is already old, and I wanted to replace it purely to keep it working longer. I thought about trying to upgrade it to a 4K TV and windows 10 but the TV is a 40 inch and it's actually impossible to find a 40 inch 4K TV now. I used to have one that I sold a few years back so they do exist, but these days you can only buy 43 inches and up. Anything smaller and they're all 1080p.

I did put the original hardware in it actually. If you watch the second video in the OP, you will see the inside in the second half of the video. I wanted to upgrade it, but since we didn't know if it would work at all at yet when we made a plan to restore it, the customer didn't want to spend too much. The only hardware that got changed wad the original early 2013 SSD got swapped for a new one, and I put a bigger CPU Heatsink on since it was using the stock Intel fan. Everything else is as it was. Still running the same exact software with no changes, same Intel 4th gen i5 with a GeForce 760 and a GeForce 610. I am gonna go back and install a USB adapter so there will be room to hook up a wireless mouse and keyboard since all the USB is being used as is, but other than those few things it's all original. We only replaced the display because it wasn't working, but it's just a standard 1080p 60hz TV, swapped with a similar one. I used that little blower thing to clean it all out too.

So I had a customer recently who called me about a virtual pinball machine from the company VPcabs, which was actually a Shark Tank product. I had never heard of these before, so at first I told the customer I probably couldn't help him, but after I looked it up I decided to go check it out and see what I could do. Very oddly designed machine, it uses car speakers and a car amp for the sound and it has 2 GPUs when I really don't think there is any need for that since both screens should have no issue running off one GPU. Would have made more sense to use one GPU and some 2.1 PC speakers when they designed this... I assume the company that made this didn't know a lot about gaming PCs at the time. Anyway, here it is all working: The issues were that the storage was failing, and I think the battery on the mobo was dying. Fixed/replaced both. Cleaned up the rest, replaced the stock intel heatsink with a better one since the PC is inside the pinball cabinet, and even left a separate unconnected back up drive for the future since this is such a unique machine. It's running windows 7. Here are some pics of some of the different pinball games. We had just replaced the main display and hadn't adjusted the brightness yet when I took these so the main display is a bit dark, but that got sorted out before I was done: The customer was soooooo excited to get this working. He bought it recently in an unknown/not working condition and so once I got it working it was the first time he had ever seen it work. He is an older guy who is clearly a pinball aficionado. He was very familiar with all the different pinball games this thing has on it from playing the real pinball machines when he was younger. It was nice to see him light up so much when trying it out for the first time. He gave me a fat tip too All and all this was a pretty cool thing to work on. I'm sure I'll never encounter something like this again, so it was a fun unique thing to do.

Called it

https://www.techspot.com/news/101267-microsoft-could-launch-next-gen-xbox-2026-zen.html If this turned out to be true, seems like it would really mess up Sony's Ps4 Pro plans. I'm not a fan of the idea of a Ps4 Pro, but I'm a fan of getting a next gen console sooner. 2026 actually seems like a reasonable time frame, and there is a lot of logic in just going for next gen when stuff like AI upscaling and mature RT hardware is thrown into the mix rather than just being able to play the same games with performance closer to 4K/60 and better RT.

Oh shoot. I asked the chat bot to summarize the situation because it seemed like it had a lot of background info. Wonder why the links didn't work.

Home made pizza

Ps4 was about 1.8TFs on the GPU, ps4 pro was about 4.2TFs. Not too far off from the difference between ps5 and ps5 pro. I don't see it as an issue for PC. Plenty of console games are running at a pretty low res and at 30 fps because the games are so demanding. I don't really like that Sony is doing this. It made sense to do pro consoles for the shift from 1080p to 4k, but this just seems a little awkward. It seems like they're saying the PS5 isn't good enough by releasing another one.

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Is apple making trains now?

Avatar is just Fern Gully ramade.

Yea man, pretty neat to have it be hand held. I don't suspect this model will have any issues holding up. It seems pretty durable. Only issues is the charging cable it came with did not work, but it's just usb-c and a different cord worked fine.

Well, I figure batteries have improved a lot over the last 15 years so something like this is a lot more viable in a cheap handheld form. I've been using compressed air cans for way too long. For really dirty PCs I used to go to the gas station and used their air compressor

I just bought this little blower thing to replace cans of compressed air. First time I've tried something like this and I have to admit, I am impressed. This thing works really well, better than a can of compressed air, and it's only about $30. Definitely recommended to anyone who uses compressed air from time to time. https://a.co/d/74bt7o7

Definitely makes sense for threadripper. And given how rare it is for CPUs to die, seems like a non issue. Anyone doing the type of overclocking that could kill a CPU shouldn't expect to be able to get a free replacement. If I wanted to overclock a threadripper CPU, this news definitely wouldn't stop me. How many of you guys have ever actually killed a CPU from overclocking? I don't think I've ever owned a CPU that failed for any reason. Might have degraded the IMC on an Intel 5820K, but that's all I can think of personally. It's hard to kill a CPU.

Hmm. I'd have to go with Titanic. Not that it's like... a good movie, but it is a very well made one.

A lot of the trailer was actually inspired by real viral memes and clips of crazy Florida people.

I watched that video. First time in a long time UBI has made a game DF was impressed with.