Sir Beregond

It's basically scientific distributed computing with the aim at finding cures and treatments for cancers, Alzheimers, and other diseases. And along with it some fake internet points.

Oh a contest. in, sirb

It would. Just means they are using more off the shelf parts is my guess vs say a Dell with all their weird proprietary crap. A pre-build is a pre-build.

Royal Core? Arrow Lake refresh seems completely unexciting as fundamentally the generation is kind of a dud. Adding more e-cores isn't going to fix that. Here's hoping Panther Lake is good.

Man I share all your same opinions here. I've extremely mixed on Guild Wars 2. It's completely different from the original and the original deserves a spiritual successor.

I was never involved with high end GvG, but man that takes me back.

I had quoted Kaz's post when I asked that. Got my build log and specs in signature.

Off Topic: You play Guild Wars 1 too? Great game. Played it since 2005 and off an on every few years or so.

Hmm last time I tried Linux was over 15 years ago and I did not have fun with trying to game on it. Will have to give SteamOS a try one of these days, but sad you still need to basically dual boot Linux and Windows. Would personally love to ditch Windows Spyware.

Wow, terrible pricing. I thought the 9070 XT at $600 was ok. $700-$800+ seems a what for considering these are technically replacing the $499 and $549 7800 XT and 7900 GRE respectively. I think I'll wait around and see if sanity ever returns to this market.

Yeah I don't even know who OEM's Corsair's current PSU lines. All I know is there's great quality choices out there these days. The sailboat logo tax ain't worth it. Been really happy with the Seasonic I got last year and the BeQuiet (review unit) over the Corsair RM1000X I also have around here somewhere. The fitment tolerance on the 24-pin on the RM1000X was shockingly poor compared to the other two PSUs I mentioned.

Newegg is doing that again eh? At least that's a quality PSU and not a guaranteed to catch fire one like they were doing before. Anyway, regarding the club. I'm not planning on upgrading anything until probably Zen 6 comes out. If we are still solidly on RTX 50-series and RX 90-series at that time, then I will look at going the Radeon route as I need more VRAM, but I am not going to pay Nvidia pricing to get it. That said I also have no interest in $700+ 9070 XT's. It's gotta be closer to MSRP. Of course...tariff factor too, so I don't know. I might wait for UDNA and 60-series at this point.

$730 for a Pulse? Didn't those used to be the MSRP models in Sapphire's tiering? So tired of fake MSRP's.

B stock was awesome.

Local Micro Center supposedly had 700+ units today. By comparison each 50-series launch has been maybe 100ish units. Honestly looking great. 20-25% better in raster s my 3080 Ti. RT seems about on par with 3090-3090 Ti-ish levels. FSR4 is looking to be better than DLSS CNN models but behind DLSS4 transformer models. Huge improvement over FSR3. And 16GB. 5070's are sitting on the shelves at my local MC.