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Nvidia announces GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs based on Ada Lovelace architecture WWW.TECHSPOT.COM According to Nvidia, an RTX 4090 with DLSS 3 is up to four times faster than an RTX 3090 Ti running DLSS 2, and... RT performance getting a major boost as expected.

Damn that's crazy. I read that GeForce cards are 80% of their revenue. Nvidia much have REALLY pissed them off.

Feom what I've heard, the 12gb 4080 was supposed to be the 4070 but they renamed it to justify charging more for it since the flood of used 3000 and overstock is taking over the lower end of what the 4000 series would cover.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/are-these-the-geforce-rtx-4090-and-rtx-4080-final-(leaked)-specifications.html I wonder if the 16gb 4080 is going to be a 4080Ti. Kinda disappointing to know that the 3070 and lower will have less than 16gbs.

Recently some dude won an art competition with some art he made with midjourney. That sparked a lot of anger among artists, especially from the particular parties whose style was emulated by the AI. I get the anger, but at the end of the day I don't think there is anything anyone can do legally to stop this. At best, it's emulation which is totally legal. I think it's short sided for artists to shun this. I'd love to see what real artists could do if instead of hating it, they added AI as another tool to paint with, which is how I think of this kind of AI. It's like a very advanced paint brush and now that it's here, it's not going away.

Tldr: almost as good as DLSS.

Yea, or pretty close. The thing that seems the most telling is the rad not being warm at all. I remember it getting warm in the past.

My cpu temp shoots up really fast which seems concerning. 88c in just a few seconds. On top of that, my rad never gets warm to the touch. Everything is at stock.

My old H115i seems to have an issue. Pump is giving a good RPM reading but temps are really high and get high very fast under load. Rad is cool to the touch. Think something must be wrong with it. Recommendations for a replacement? I'm not up on the AIO game. I think the cooler I have now is the largest size my case can fit.

I'm down to try for a higher score, does anyone have a good guide on ryzen tweaking handy?

Well, I haven't done any real tweaking to my 5800x because for one there is no real motivation to do it at 4K and two, I just really don't know much about tweaking ryzen. I don't think my ram is samsung b-die either. It's stock 3200mhz 16-16-16-36 and I used to have it at 3600mhz 16-17-16-36 and that made my multicore score go up but my single core score went down just slightly, so I just went back to default ram settings and haven't really tried tweaking beyond that. But also, I have a 3600x PC and I could just submit a score for that if you wanna do your 5800x. How much would I need to improve my score for it to matter?

A whole new breed of SSDs is about to break through WWW.MSN.COM A new set of standards sets the stage for a new category of SSDs, with computation handled on-board. Pretty neat. Sounds like a good thing for efficiency for sure.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/alleged-leak-shows-geforce-rtx-4090-gpu-at-3-ghz-with-20k-points-in-timespy-extreme.html But can it run...

My parents got divorced during the PS2/Xbox era. I took my PS2 to my moms house and my dad must have thought I needed something to do at his house because he took me to gamestop and bought me an Xbox. We asked the guy there if there was any particular Xbox game we should get to go with it, and he was like "Duh, HALO!" Took it home and played it and my dad who has zero interest in video games was watching at it and saying how impressive it looked for a video game. My and my friends used to have a thing where 6+ of us would get together and hook up two Xbox's and play multiplayer team games with two couches back to back in the middle of the room so each team was facing opposite directions and thus could not screen peak. We'd all chip in $5 and order pizza. Some of the best kid memories came from Halo. Aside from any nostalgia though, you should play Halo 1 campaign on legendary. There is a reason it's still held in such high praise. The AI is really fun to play with and it always feels like you're fighting against enemies that have an equal or better combat ability as the player which makes progressing feel really rewarding and authentic, without getting too hard or frustrating. I think to this day I can't think of a game that got single player AI right more so than Halo 1. I also think 1 is by far the best in the series. Everything after that is just trying to recapture the magic of Halo 1, not that they're bad, they just never hit as hard as 1 does. I honestly think even today a new player would really enjoy Halo 1. It just gets so much right, far more than most games today do.

I agree with the sentiment but to hold to all that at all times would leave a pretty small library of titles to play.

IGN Error 403 - Unavailable (IFW-I02) WWW.IGN.COM Recently it was announced that local coop would be dropped to bolster other aspects of development for the game, but it looks like local coop works just fine via this menu glitch. It seems to indicate that local coop was canceled arbitrarily to force coop players to own multiple copies of the game. Pretty weak move. I personally didn't finish Halo Infinite because the campaign boos fights are increadibly hard in ways that don't feel well thought out. Nothing about the boss fights is fun at all, they're a purely horrible grind. Seems like this game could use all the good will it can get which is why this move seems so dumb.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/usb-announces-usb-4-version-2-0can-go-as-fast-as-80gbits.html I wonder if USB will replace other types of video ports eventually.

Well, actually their stock has been hit pretty hard over the last few months in part due to this GPU fiasco. They have a lot of other investments going on right now so they are stretched pretty thin. But the GPU market is only going to get bigger on more lucrative so I'm sure they'll stick with it for the long term pay-off. Their investors don't like to think that far ahead though.

SSDs are about to get a lot cheaper as NAND prices plummet WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Analyst firm TrendForce writes that its latest investigation shows the NAND flash market failed to experience its... Good news for consumers is always welcome.

Intel says it isn't abandoning Arc graphics cards, is working on the next generations WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Underwhelming performance, problems with DirectX11, and the need to enable Resizable Bar have been some of the... Definitely the right strategy IMO but also definitely a bumpy road. I'm sure it will pay off eventually.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-announces-ryzen-7000-processors-(preview),1.html The naming of these CPUs leave a lot of room for more variants to be added later on. I'd guess it's likely we will see a 7800X with high clock speeds at some point, but maybe they will just do that with the 3D cache variants this time.

I think it's resolved now. I had already joined, but when I clicked "switch teams" it let me join.

Hmm.. tried joining the team. When I click the "my Team" link at the top, I get a 404 error. Update: I think I've joined now. I had already joined, but when I clicked "switch teams" it let me join.

I think so? It asked for a team and I selected extremeHW. Is there another step I missed?