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Intel Graphics Chief Departs: What Does That Mean for Arc GPU Line? WWW.PCMAG.COM Raja Koduri helped jumpstart Intel's renewed push into desktop graphics last year, but he's now departing to focus on a new startup. Good news for Nvidia, as it looks like they will only have to compete with AMD for AI server space, and we all know AMD is well behind on that front. I have no doubt AMD has strong plans to do more in the AI market, but I don't see them challenging Nvidia much any time soon.

The default settings shout be fine but you may want to adjust some of the sensitivity settings once you get going, especially for the rudder control.

IGN Error 403 - Unavailable (IFW-I02) WWW.IGN.COM Better late than never. I guess this also means this will be the last CS game valve ever makes

The Premiere AI Conference: NVIDIA #GTC23 WWW.NVIDIA.COM One pass for 4 days of technical talks, demos, networking, workshops, and more. All sessions can be viewed live... Lot of AI announcements aimed at the server industry in this one.

I'm mostly happy. My card sometimes has some coil whine. Not a lot, but enough to notice. It seems like it's pretty hard to find any high end cards that don't have some coil whine these days, and I've heard much worse before so I feel like this is just par for the course. Temps are good though the fans do sometimes oscillate their speed a bit. I have not repasted mine but if it dropped even 1-2c it would probably solve the oscillating. It's pretty mild so not very distracting. Performance wise, I am very happy with it. Obviously not ideal pricing, but given the lack of any other good options... it is what it is. With everything on max and FSR2 set to balanced I was getting about 45FPS. If I tweaked a few graphics settings I'm sure I could get ~60FPS with RT on. Now that I have a GPU powerful enough to do RT well enough to actually use it, it's made me care even less about it because there are so few instances where it actually looks good. Cyberpunk may look good in screen shots, but like a lot of RT games, it takes a second or so for the RT lighting to update and reflect the world around it, so all the lighting is essentially out of sync which totally ruins RT IMO. It looks good in screenshots, but in motion it's very weird to me. Portal RTX is the same way, but other games like Ghostwire Tokyo don't have this lag issue. It's not an AMD vs Nvidia thing either, it's just how RT works in many cases. IMO, any game that has slow/out of sync RT effect shouldn't even bothered with RT at all because it looks so broken. And then even when RT does sync properly, there are still other issues like culling distances or using lower quality assets for reflections instead of actually reflecting the world around it, etc. It feels like the visual issues are just different than SSR: not really better or worse, just different. I wish more games used SVOGI and maybe even found a way to use RT hardware to make SVOGI run a bit faster. SVOGI is a great lighting method that can basically do everything RT minus crisp reflections, but is software based and is basically a form of HBAO+ IIRC, but it doesn't have any sync issues or anything like that. I suspect lumen in UE5 is pretty similar to SVOGI when not using RT hardware, although that does have some sync issues. I still think Metro Enhanced is the best RT game to date. They just used it to make the lighting better without trying to focus on the more gimmicky RT effects. /rant.

Next refurb: CPU: 3700X GPU: GeForce RTX3080 10GB Ram: 32GB 3600mhz CL18 Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING Storage: 1TB Kingston NV2 3500mhz SSD Power Supply: Thermaltake 750w $900 in parts, will try to sell it for $1050. This time the CPU, mobo, and GPU are used. CPU and mobo came from ebay, GPU came from the OCN marketplace. Everything else is new.

Technically this is not AI creating animation, it's live action shots being passed through a custom trained stable diffusion model and then heavily edited in adobe to lool like an anime, but really nothing was animated at all.

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work - The Official Microsoft Blog BLOGS.MICROSOFT.COM Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. Each of us seeks to do work that gives us purpose — to write a great novel, to make a discovery, to build strong communities, to care for the sick... Kids in a few years "Wow you actually had to write essays manually for school?! You're so old!"

South Korea to build world's largest chip center using $230 billion investment from Samsung WWW.TECHSPOT.COM South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol said the country will "build the world's largest scale system semiconductor... $230 billion from one company, I'm not sure I've ever heard of a larger investment from a single company.

GPT-4 was just announced, and Microsoft confirmed that it powers the new Bing | Windows Central WWW.WINDOWSCENTRAL.COM Microsoft just unveiled that the new Bing has GPT-4 under the hood. I'm getting a lot of usage out of BingChat. Soooo nice to get clear direct answers when searching for info online.

Rumor: GeForce RTX 4070 may launch at a higher MSRP than expected, $749 for Founder and $799 For AIB (guru3d.com) I thought $600 would have been a high price... ~$800 for a 12GB GPU.

Disney Animators Have Unexpected Reaction To Controversial AI-Generated Anime SCREENRANT.COM Rock, Paper, Scissors has resulted in controversy. It does seem like there is a lot of potential for AI to make animation a lot easier. Hopefully it can be a tool for artists rather than a replacement.

Source: Guru3D 1080p gamers rejoice!

ChatGPT was made possible thanks to tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, which Microsoft is now upgrading WWW.TECHSPOT.COM According to Bloomberg, OpenAI trained ChatGPT on a supercomputer Microsoft built from tens of thousands of Nvidia A100 GPUs. Microsoft announced a new array utilizing Nvidia's newer... Now large companies have a whole new reason to need more and more computer power; for AI.

Star Citizen Alpha 3.18 Finally Released Including New Features, Tech, & Content Aplenty | TechRaptor TECHRAPTOR.NET As promised earlier this week, today Cloud Imperium Games finally released the latest major update for Star Citizen, Alpha 3.18. Official Trailer: Tech Summary Video:

Sounds like these will be made at the Ohio megafab Intel is building.

Microsoft now has a web video upscaler, too WWW.TECHSPOT.COM From today, 50 percent of Edge Canary branch users can try Microsoft's newly-unveiled take on Video Super... Glad to see MS step up to make sure this relatively simple feature isn't allowed to be a single vendor thing.

BlackLotus UEFI bootkit can defeat Secure Boot protection WWW.TECHSPOT.COM BlackLotus is a potent threat against modern firmware-based computer security. This UEFI bootkit provides...

Just for fun I've been messing with some different designs of my own, getting some practice using AI to make some practical images and then editing them a bit with some software.

This is the PC I just built for my buddy

This is how BingChat responded to your question "Both AI and blockchain have many potential applications and benefits for various domains and industries, such as finance, healthcare, supply chain, etc. However, they also face some challenges and limitations, such as ethical issues, scalability problems, security risks, etc. Some people may use the phrases “AI all the things” or “Blockchain all the things” to express their enthusiasm or optimism about these technologies and their future impact on society. However, these phrases may also be seen as exaggerations or oversimplifications of the complex realities and trade-offs involved in adopting and implementing these technologies." I think it mostly just boils down to "AI" being harder better faster and stronger. Just for fun, I asked BingChat to write a new daft punk song: We are the robots We are the future We are the music We are the culture We have a vision We have a mission We have a passion We have a fusion Robot, future Music, culture Vision, mission Passion, fusion [Chorus] We are the robots (robot) We are the future (future) We are the music (music) We are the culture (culture) Robot robot robot robot robot robot robot robot Future future future future future future future future Music music music music music music music music Culture culture culture culture culture culture culture culture [Repeat chorus]

AI-powered Windows 12 is on its way, but Windows 10 is still king WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Microsoft is hard at work on Windows 12, and Intel (and likely AMD) is working together with the Redmond... I hope my PC won't be smart enough to judge me based on my browsing history.

This kind of thing won't really work for a shirt because it has too many small pieces that will flake off very quickly. If you want to send me just the dixie cup background image and the logo as separate images I can try to use them for something. Keep in mind, this style of shirt will have images printed on them, not died into the fabric so they will wear out over time and the more small individual pieces there are, the faster it will wear out. Something like this would wear out very fast. Thicker bolder designs are best.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_9_7950x3d_processor_review,1.html Looks like it's a win for AMD, but a much smaller win than their first X3D CPUs.