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Sure, degraded ram can happen but it looks like that board only supports ram speeds up to 1866mhz anyway. Try one stick at a time and see why happens. 16GBs is a lot for a system like that.

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I think it's very different to have a currency backed by a government vs pure faith. There's a lot more than faith backing the US dollar.

That's definitely a factor but on the flip side, crypto isn't tied to anything other than itself. If you buy gold you have the gold, if you buy a house you have the house, if you buy shares in a company, you have a share of that company. If you buy crypto, you just have the crypto. It's the most pure form of "money has value because people think it does" that I can think of in the real world. I'm not saying it won't do well, I just think there has to be a point where it can't forever just be this pattern of more and more spread out peaks that people look at as reliable, and once people stop thinking it's always reliable... it probably won't be. Or maybe I'm just naive for thinking that way and crypto is going to take over the investment world someday.

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So ever since I started playing Wildlands with the first person mod I've been taking a lot of screenshots. This is going to be a large post, but before the screenshots I'll rant a little about Wildlands to tell you guys why this game stands out to me. I think Wildlands has graphics that were a bit ahead of it's time. When it came out, I had a 970 and I had started using Nvidia DSR to make use of the extra headroom on the GPU because it was so powerful at the time. Wildlands was the first game I remember playing on the 970 that wouldn't run smooth at 1080p with max settings. The game probably doesn't earn many point for optimization, but it has the visuals to back up the performance requirements for sure. Wildlands uses some variation of the Far Cry engine which used to be Dunia and now it's AnvilNext, but it's all based on the CryEngine. In a sense, Wildlands has the graphics you might expect from an open world Crysis game. The developers of Wildlands went to Bolivia for two weeks to study the terrain. Much of the map is based on very real locations. For instance, there is a road that's extremely curvy to the point that it makes you think the devs must have gotten careless with this part of the map, but it turns out that is a very real road and considered one of the most dangerous roads in the world. The devs spent 5 years making the map for this game and it shows. In first-person, a lot of detail starts to stand out that usually goes unnoticed in third-person. A good example is clocks. The game has analog clocks that work and move it real time to reflect the time in the game world; something very hard to notice in third-person. It seems clear to me that Ubisoft must have considered releasing this game as a first-person game but at some point they decided to go with third-person instead. So with all that said, here are some screenshots in first-person.

Just stumbled onto this article: Bitcoin’s Plunge Exposes Idea of Uncorrelated Asset as ‘Big Lie’ WWW.MSN.COM A selloff in cryptocurrencies resumed Monday, with Bitcoin dropping back below $30,000 with global equity markets remaining under pressure. Side rant: I think it's going to be really interesting to see what happens when next gen GPUs start selling as far as how that will affect the GPU market. There are so many mining out there now, when miners start swapping out their hardware this time around, it seems like there is going to be a flood of used GPUs like we've never seen before. It also sounds like next gen GPUs will bring a hefty performance lift which will just entice miners even more and make last gen GPUs all the less valuable. Nvidia may even try to drip feed out their new GPUs to keep from having to compete with crashing prices in the used market by keeping the supply tight, but if they do that will leave the door open for Intel and AMD. We might be about to see a GPU price reckoning like we've never seen before in the used market.

Bitcoin hasn't really been a thing for that long though, and definitely not in a serious way. It can't outperform the market forever, and it make sense that after a few good peaks there's going to be a lot more attention on it from Wall Street in the same way you would see with large stocks and ETFs. Id argue the crazy gains we've seen have really been the birth of a new currency playing out but now that it's here and established, I think it's a lot less likely to have wild swings, though with that said I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the next two years bitcoin hits 200K, or if it drops to less than 5K but more than anything I'd bet it will mostly mirror the stock of GPU manufacturers like Nvidia. Whatever happens, it will be interesting. Bitcoin may seem cheap right now, but everything is. Microsoft peaked at $350, now it's at $260. Nvidia has basically halved. What makes bitcoin stand out more than stocks like that which seem like a sure thing in the long term?

Perhaps but it's a lot more mainstream now. During covid and bitcoin last peak the number of people buying into it increased 5 fold. Now you have people like Jim Cramer telling people to invest in it.

I'm definitely not an expert on crypto, but I'd be hesitant to assume it will follow the same trends it used to now that it's become more mainstream. It might just act like a tech ETF now.

Looks like it would be valuable to pioneerisloud, haha.

After the tech demo they released a while back, I don't think anyone is surprised their next game is another Arma game. Definitely interested to see how their new engine holds up.

Looking at it more, the one stand-out win DLSS seems to have is at lower resolutions. with 4K, FSR and DLSS are so similar that IMO they're on par with each other, but at lower resolutions DLSS is able to maintain a noticeably cleaner image. But considering this is AMD's first smart upscaler, I suspect we will see that gap close a lot with versions 2.1, 2.2, and so on.

I think gamers would be super mad at Nvidia if they did that, and there is enough focus on this now that I think that would come to light if it were the case. With Intel planning their own smart upscaler release, it seems like things could get really messy if these companies don't play nice. But I definitely would not be surprised if Nvidia did try to make this a fight. Sort of a mix of FSR2 being super impressive for being on par with DLSS and realizing more and more that there's nothing proprietary about DLSS and Nvidia could have done this themselves if they weren't so greedy, but even a global chip shortage wouldn't convince them to throw gamers a bone. In the short term it may have helped make Nvidia stand out as a better choice for gamers but in the long term it feels like gatekeeping. I'd love to see all three (DLSS, FSR2, and XeSS) all merge into one thing that becomes integrated into DX12 or something along those lines. Feels like wasted effort to have multiple implementations of different systems that achieve basically the same results. If Nvidia no longer has an edge with DLSS, I don't see what benefit they could maintain from keeping it to themselves.

Yea for sure. I wonder if we will see devs start to move away from DLSS since really, why do both when FSR2 works 99% as well and runs on more hardware, including Nvidia cards that support DLSS? IIRC I think it's been known for a while now that DLSS doesn't actually even use the tensor cores at all. I think I heard that mentioned in a Digital Foundry video or something similar, but what it does do is use game specific AI profiles, supposedly.

Bitcoin news – live: Crypto prices collapse with Tether latest ‘stablecoin’ to suffer NEWS.YAHOO.COM Follow the latest news and analysis for bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano Makes sense to me that long term, crypto would function just like an ETF.

Well, Valve absolutely has a majorly dominating presence in the PC game market. Not the first time I've heard that they have over reaching rules designed to keep games from selling on other platforms too much. If there is any truth to that at all, which I strongly suspect there is, Valve should definitely face consequences.

Knowing Google, they'll probably prototype it for a year and then cancel it.

AMD reveals the first games to support its FSR 2.0 upscaling tech | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Deathloop will be the first, with others to follow. Pretty excited to see this in action. This will be the first smart upscaler that is GPU agnostic which is a good thing for all PC gamers. Update:https://www.techspot.com/news/94783-god-war-receives-amd-fsr-20-support.html

Update: The leaked 2001 Duke Nukem Forever build can now be downloaded | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM The source code is out too, so modders can get stuck in. The still incomplete version of this can now be downloaded.

This. Nothing about Twitter is inherently truthful. I could tweet that the Elon poops his pants on a regular basis if I want to, and then yell at people for not being able to prove me wrong in the length of a tweet.