Sir Beregond

Many went to [H]ardOCP too. I was planning to fold for them in the upcoming contest this month. Probably something you talk to folks on if you do end up going through with it.

If you bought and continued the site, happy to still be here and contribute to forum activity as well as to continue reviews if that program stays.

Man I totally forgot about Vice City. Fun times as a 12 year old...

Never heard of it to be honest. I'll have to find that and pick it up. Hard to pick just one game for PS2. I have a whole box of em. For me here are some top mentions:

Gotta do one last hurrah.

It's good to see more entries in the sub $300 market. Perhaps it's not groundbreaking, but the sub $300 market is the mainstream market, just look at any Steam hardware survey top 10 GPU's. It's good to have more cards in this space. Problem Intel is going to have is competition from mostly AMD come next year. AMD's stated goal with RDNA4 is to capture market share and that is going to definitely have to include the mainstream $300 and below market imo in addition to the mid-range $500-$600 market. This is going to put Intel's offering in an odd spot performance wise depending on what kind of uplift we see in this segment with next gen. I also have to wonder if Intel is making any money off of the B580. The BMG-G21 die for the B580 is 272mm2. The RTX 4060 on the other hand is using the AD107 die which is 159mm2. Both are using versions of TSMC 5nm. This means that Intel is using approximately 71% more silicon to beat the 4060 by about 10%. That can't be good for their bottom line on these cards. I really hope Intel keeps at it, but now with Pat Gelsinger gone, I'm not so sure about the longterm future of Arc.

If they only just now started full production, then yeah 1-2 years seems unlikely to me given games these days taking multiple years to dev.

What's funny is we'll probably be on 60 or 70 series GeForce by the time this game comes out.

I can, my wife can't Now if I had an office instead of this sitting in the bedroom, that would be different.

I may try to join in if it doesn't make the room too stuffy. In sirb

Are any games using DirectStorage yet? Feel like there must be some, but wasn't sure.

Definitely add me to the list of folks interested in picking up a B580 to play with. Never did pick up an A770, but maybe some day.

I think you kinda just buy an Nvidia card if folding is a concern these days.

It seemed like a good idea at the time I am sure to put Pat, an engineer, at the reins. And it sounds like he was well liked within Intel, but man, blunder after blunder after blunder during his tenure. Intel went from seemingly limitless amounts of money to a shell of itself in not too much time. Often times the blunders were just timing too. Intel missed AI, spent probably too much on Arc which doubt made them any money really, floundered with 14nm forever and getting back on track, lost consumer and data center mindshare and over time market share and dominance. Guess we'll see where Intel goes from here. I hope this leads them back to a better road. Competition is good, we need it still.

It perpetuates the financial ruin of the most vulnerable who would be drawn to an idea like this...just like places such as Aaron's or Rent-a-center. It's a horrendous practice. Of course they like it because its a way to generate a monthly income off stuff otherwise just sitting in a warehouse. But yeah, Gamer's Nexus is right. This is a thing that needs to be killed before it can take off. Corsair: I just replaced an RM1000x recently, otherwise just have a Corsair Scimitar mouse because I like MMO mice and its basically a choice between that, a Razer Name, a Steelseries, a Logitech (which I couldn't fine at Micro Center), and that's about it.

That V3000 is gigantic. Looking forward to it!

Oh did they? I haven't been keeping up. But would love to do the same basically.

Wouldn't mind getting my hand on one to play with, but also interested in the higher end models.

Haha, trust me, I totally get it. Its a weird time and I hope the same as you.

Lol. Chiplets for AMD started with EPYC server products, so not sure that is really the correct description. But I get the sentiment , and definitely monolithic is superior for latency purposes. And then there is Threadripper as well which is definitely not a gaming product. Intel besides first using chiplets for Meteor Lake also used them for Sapphire Rapids server chips.

That's good to hear. One of my biggest complaints with my 5900X is my RAM frequency is directly limited by my FCLK (fabric) frequency, since for Zen 3 and prior it had to be in a 1:1 ratio. My 5900X won't do any higher than 1866 FCLK so leaves me stuck at 3733 for the DDR4. Well, look forward to seeing how this progresses!

Huh that sounds like a bug for sure. Yeah I really don't like Ryzen Master myself either. Maybe just old school that way, but much prefer to manage all those settings in BIOS properly. Glad to hear you are enjoying it! Nice loop, love the functional nature of it. Looks like going to external rad? I thought it might be a good idea to try watercooling the RAM when I upgrade platforms to DDR5. How is the RAM working out on the 9950X?

Nice! Looks like you are having fun! With the fixed voltage (also what I do when OCing) and using a split CCD model of Ryzen, are you going about it with an all-core OC, or does your motherboard support per CCX all-core OCing? I found on my 5900X that the 1st CCD/CCX is descent enough binning (not great), but my 2nd CCD/CCX is pretty awful by comparison where the max all-core I can get out of the 2nd is at least 150MHz lower than the 1st. Being able to split my all-core settings between the two and pushing my better CCD to its brink is how I got my best score on R23 multi. Overall the bin I got as a package is kinda meh tier, but thought I might mention.

If I recall the RMx series (not to be confused with the cheaper RM series with no x) has the Japanese capacitors FWIW. Just going off that site, the Corsair warranty is 10 years while the MSI is 5 years. If these were my only two options, I'd go with the Corsair. Better warranty, and Japanese capacitors for the RMx model would make it just a better buy if these are the same price. But it would also be worth looking at options from Seasonic, Leadex / Superflower, beQuiet as well.

One correction: RTX 4080 had the $1199 MSRP. MSRP for the RTX 4080 Super was $999.