Sir Beregond

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.

Sounded more like the 9070 XT would trade blows with the 5070 Ti on raster. 9070 looks about 15-20% worse than the XT on specs.

Possible. Another thing I hadn't thought of is the fact they 9070 and 9070 XT have the same die. If yields are pretty good, then maybe the 9070 was simply an outlet to sell the dies that didn't make it, but the 9070 XT is going to be most of what's actually supplied. As for the XT, will have to see what the AIB models end up at since there's no reference cards.

Maybe its just me, but Firefox has always performed like garbage anytime I tried it, so I never really used it. Looks like more reason to avoid. That said, I am still in the market for a new browser so will be curious to hear what others end up using.

$599 is decent for the 9070 XT. $549 would have been more aggressive, but it's not the DOA like I think it would have been at $699. If the performance claims shake out decently in line with what they are showing, then its looking like a great alternative to both the 5070 and 5070 Ti. Though it remains to be seen what the bulk of the AIB offerings will actually be price wise. As for the 9070 at $549, it repeats the same mistake the 7900 XT did at launch in it's pricing. At $549, it's 9% cheaper than the $599 9070 XT. Yet it has ~14% fewer CUs at 56 vs 64. 38% lower stock power target (220W vs 304W), so in all likelihood this will be a 15-20% worse performing card against the XT. At an only 9% discount for 15-20% worse performance, this thing is going to be justifiably trashed on review day, give AMD bad press in the review cycle, and inevitably drop to the $450ish it should have been a few months down the road as they sit on shelves and people either buy 5070's or spend the extra $50 for the XT. Outside the hardware, just remains to be seen is FSR4 against DLSS4.

I've noticed the tech tubers are starting to say the same thing, but I've been saying it for a while now. Blackwell has absolutely fumbled their launch: No supply/volume fake MSRPs Melting connectors again Missing ROPs / Quality control problem Bad drivers / black screens Dropped 32-bit Phys-X support Mediocre gen over gen performance increases This is AMD's time to shine if they want to and that means the bean counters need to go sit the hell down because they usually always screw it up for Radeon at the start. They need to lead with their best possible price at the start and not the crap "Nvidia's MSRP minus $50" they usually do which never wins over anyone outside their niche 10% of the market. And then inevitably they drop the price to what it should have started with but by that time it is too late and the market conditions have changed. Really hope they are aggressive here to really give Nvidia a black-eye. If they are not, it's more of the same. They lost market the last 2 gens so...

I would use it to game on if I was in such a position where I wanted to game but wasn't at my computer. I have no interest in laptops personally, so imo this would slot into a good use case for me. I don't have one, but if I did, I would use it for that.

One of these days I'd like to pick up an OLED Deck. Just not high up on the priority list right now.

Welcome to EHW! Glad to have ya.

Anyone on Reddit still at all who could maybe invite EVGA folks over to check us out?

This. I guess I can give Google props for at least removing stuff from their "pledges" that the public can see. Just makes it easier for people to see you can't take any of these pledges seriously. Once something "pledged" gets in the way of making money, it will be dropped faster than you can say AI.

I bought a share of Nvidia when it was at $118 last week.

It's owned by one guy who probably just wants to close up shop and retire. I definitely figured writing was on the wall for EVGA to close up shop in the next few years after they ditched doing graphics cards. You saw it in that they also killed the motherboard division, and here you are seeing them ditch the forums. Maybe some can join in here.

Yeah want to say it was 1 year contract with 2 or 3 year price lock. Yeah don't get me wrong, I hate these pricing games. If fiber or other comparably fast services hit my area, I'll happily ditch Comcast. For now my only other options where I live would be DSL that they can't reliably deliver more than 30mbps with, or something dumb like mobile 5G or satellite or something. The service itself though has been fine for us. We pretty much always have 10-20% faster speeds than what we are paying for regarding the download. Upload is what it is. As for outages, been some but usually they tell us ahead of time if planned which my old service never did, so I honestly can't complain at all about the service itself.

Yeah...until they have parity there, they have to compete on price.