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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Review | TechSpot WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 release has been highly anticipated for its potential of bringing the newer generation to a... TLDR: It's a 3080 with better power consumption for $600.

The res is too low to look good on my 7900XT. Probably no need to even try it on a 6800XT.

I was at 4k, with FSR set to ultra performance mode which I think is 720p render resolution.

kinda playable on a 7900XT with FSR2.1 set to ultra performance mode, anything beyond that and it's a slide show. Didn't expect good performance, but it's worse than I thought it would be. Was hoping to get at least close to 30FPS with FSR performance mode. I wonder if the RTX3000 cards will do any better. Does look cool though. When you turn PT on, most of the other graphics settings become irrelevant. Ambient occlusion, shadow quality settings, none of that matters with PT on. It's disappointing that there is no quality settings at all for PT though, it's just on or off... which makes me think this is really just intended to serve as an Nvidia marketing ploy more than anything else. No surprise there though.

PlayStation 5 Pro Rumored for Holiday 2024 Introduction (guru3d.com) I hope this is not true. There are no games that feel like "next gen" games for these new consoles yet. It would seem crazy to release pro tier versions of these consoles now. It made sense last gen to help with the transition to 4K, but nothing like that is happening now. I'd be pissed if I bought a PS5 and then they released a pro version of it before they built up a library of at least 10 or so games that actually feel like they belong on PS5. Right now, I can't think of even 1 game that falls into that category.

Dang, one of these days I'm going to have to stop being lazy and really tweak my system. Nice job OP.

I have never encountered a computer that can run win7 and not run 10. As I understand it, all windows 7 systems are upgradable to 10. If you have a system that can run 7 but not 10, I'd be interested to hear more about it. Windows 10 has evolved over its lifetime. There may by some older hardware that cannot run the newest version of windows 10 from a clean install, but they can run an earlier version of windows 10.

Surprisingly good litter cooler. The stock paste that comes on it is trash, and a lot of people used that and then complained about the cooler. With good thermal paste, it's a great heatsink. I've use it in two 3900X builds and a bunch of 3700X builds.

Had a funny encounter today, made me think this would be a good topic for a thread. Customer contacted me for help with his gaming PC. I get a lot of customers who know how to do some troubleshooting, but get stuck on the harder issues and just want advice to further their troubleshooting process. Texted back and forth, asked him some diagnosis questions. Learned he had a 3090. I asked him what the wattage of his power supply is... He responded back and referred to his power supply as a battery (this is a desktop) That's when I suggested he just bring it to me for repair. Minor facepalm, but you get the idea. I'm sure some of you have some good facepalm stories.

I haven't felt the impact of a CPU upgrade ever since I moved to 4K. I upgrade when it's cheap or convenient and that's been more than enough for 4K.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor review - Introduction (guru3d.com)

On every ryzen system I've tinkered with, there is an option in the BIOS to set the max temp. Turn PBO on and the set the max temp to whatever you're comfortable with. I set mine to 85c. If I am losing any performance, it's negligible.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/directx-12s-latest-update-offers-shared-pool-of-vram-to-cpu-gpu-for-improved-performance-in-games.html This seems like it could be a game changer if it's half as good as it sounds.

In a scenario like that, it's safe to assume a lot of missiles would be launched at once. Missile defense might be able to reliably deal with a small number of threats, but not a full-scale attack. Some major change in Russia does seem like a likely end to all this, but I doubt if it will be a change for the better until/unless the Russian people decide to take control over their own government.

Leaked 'Vulkan Files' reveal Russia's cyberwarfare operations WWW.TECHSPOT.COM An anonymous whistleblower angry over the Ukraine war provided the documents on Moscow IT consulting agency NTC... Major intelligence leak on Russian online disinformation efforts. It reads like something out of a movie.

I don't know the answer to your question about paid or not for marketplace, but the link you posted appears to be a dead link. Try this one: https://extremehw.net/classifieds/

I think it just boils down to security and having steam portals running on older unsupported and unsecure versions of windows and chromium is a security issue.

Sorry to beat this topic into the ground but I found it interesting, so I looked further into it. Apparently PCIe2 m.2 drives could in theory max out around 2GB/s. I think the fastest ACHI m.2 SSDs I ever saw were around 1.6GB/s so I guess there was a small windows of performance advantage for PCIe 2.0 drives over ACHI drives. The m.2 spec also had a lot of variation before it was standardized into what it is now which definitely led to a lot of confusion for consumers. I still don't have a clear picture of its development, but I suspect the m.2 drive on your x99 board is the finalized spec but the board just didn't include PCIe3 support for the m.2 because no one was really using m.2 on desktops back then anyway so might as well save some money on the board.

Ah, that makes sense. In any case, I don't think the high price is as much a "retro tax" as it is a "buyer confusion tax" because as far as I know these should not exist and probably only exist for people who think they need one for some compatibility reason.

You would not need an adapter, it would be just like plugging a PCIe3 GPU into a PCIe2 motherboard. It would work, just have less available bandwidth. You're thinking of an m.2 to PCIe adapter for motherboards that don't have an m.2 slot, but Avacado already has an m.2 slot.

I was curious so I looked it up before my last comment. The spec for m.2 supports PCIe3 by default. That doesn't mean a board manufacturer has to give it enough lanes or the right storage controllers to operate at the full speed, and maybe for a time there were some m.2 drives that used pcie2 controllers to save money, but m.2 supports ACHI and NVME. NVME drives are the fast ones that we use today, but there were AHCI drives before that which were basically regular SATA drives in an m.2 form factor. Drives like that were common in laptops for a while, but rare in desktops. Dell used them to do some kind of fusion drive thing for a while and it was a really bad and short lived idea. Apple did something similar that was equally bad. There is basically no reason for PCIe2 drives to exist because if you wanted a cheaper slower m.2 drive, you would get an ACHI m.2 drive. X99 is probably one of the platforms that did not have NVME support at launch but did have ACHI support over m.2. A lot of these older boards got NVME support via BIOS updates.

M.2 has only ever supported pcie3 and later, so pcie2 m.2 drives shouldn't even exist.

That doesn't even make sense, pci is backwards compatible. A PCIe3 drive would work on a PCIe2 board. Maybe they're so expensive because there is no reason to buy one so they overcharge for anyone who thinks they need PCIe2 for some reason. Why makes you think you couldn't use a regular m.2 drive on x99? The m.2 spec doesn't even include support for PCIe2 specifically, it started with pcie3, so these SSDs probably only exist for confused buyers to be price gouged.

Anyone who is still on windows 7 or 8 can upgrade to windows 10 for free, Microsoft never ended the upgrade option.