Sir Beregond

2 hours ago, neurotix said:

 

So, it turns out when you order there is a drop down box allowing you to pick what weight shirt you want. The choices are 4oz (what I got that's thin) and 6oz (which should be more like a Gildan or Fruit of the Loom tee).

 

Just thought I'd give you a heads-up if you didn't already know that you can probably order a shirt and make sure it's 6oz and it should be like a normal tee.

Yeah I saw that but that's weight, that does not indicate a material change if these are like dri-fit shirts as earlier indicated.

Wonder if it will have built in OC support like AMD's does. Somehow I doubt it.

2 hours ago, UltraMega said:

 

You don't think Nvidia being in their third gen of NPU capable GPUs while AMD has no NPUs in any of their GPUs is something that caught AMD off guard? I'd say it definitely did. 

 

I don't think even Nvidia knew how effectively they would be able to leverage the NPUs for gaming at first. I think DLSS 1.0 was Nvidia's attempt to justify the existence of NPUs on their GPUs to customers after the fact, and over time I think DLSS turned out way better than Nvidia expected. Now with DLSS 3 and 3.5, I'm sure AMD feels pretty far behind. 

 

I think Sony and Microsoft also feel like they messed up with current gen consoles. If they had put NPUs in the current gen consoles with no other real changes, it would have been a game changer. Hardware wise, they just barely missed the boat on that. Had the consoles launched a year later, they might have had some NPUs. 

 

I think everyone selling hardware for graphic that hasn't embedded NPUs yet feels like they're missing out. 

 

 

 

 

Oh if we are going back to Turing and RDNA1, sure absolutely everyone was caught off guard by how that developed. I was more replying to Pio's comment with RDNA2.

Not sure what was to be caught off guard with on Ampere's launch. It was literally a continuation of RT with 2nd gen RT (3rd gen Tensor) and was still DLSS 2.0. The only weird thing about RDNA2 was how tacked on features like RT were exposing the "playing catchup" game AMD is playing.

17 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

I've got my 6900XT on 4k duty on my TV, with the 5800x.  Does a fantastic job on a TV.  For the harder to run titles, I just dump the resolution down a little and its fine.  Literally can't even tell a difference from the couch lol.

To be fair, you've already got RTX 3000 series cards and 4000 series.  The RX 6000 series are honestly a more "interesting" card than the 7900 is anyway.  7900 is faster yes, does RT waaay better, yes.  The 6000 was a weird gen though, seems like Nvidia and RT took AMD off guard or something that gen.

It was more that that was AMD's first go at RT and it showed then anything else. That was Nvidia's 2nd gen RT so maybe it improved more than they thought it would but I don't think there was otherwise anything there to really take AMD off guard.

2 hours ago, J7SC_Orion said:

...fasten your seatbelts and hold on to the RAM on a 4-dimm board...

 

 

 

 

Impressive.

1 hour ago, neurotix said:

They're still pretty worth it imo.

I'm not a fan of that material for shirts personally.

Oh these aren't regular t-shirts? Hmm...

I was wondering if something like this would take off at this level vs the Nvidia and AMD offerings. If these features become more universal within the OS itself long-term and become just as good or better than what we currently get, that will be interesting to see how DLSS and FSR continue and what they offer on-top of this.

Great review and nice to see something live up to the marketing claims.

41 minutes ago, UltraMega said:

If battery life is a big factor for you, the battery life on the set I have is exceptional. My battery never really even dies, I'll use it several times before thinking about charging it. I think I've fully drained it once. 

I concur. My Steel Series battery is excellent.

24 minutes ago, UltraMega said:

If you're talking about a Bluetooth headset, They just don't work as well for gaming. Some games just won't really work with a Bluetooth headset when trying to use the mic and headphones from a Bluetooth headset at the same time. 

 

I would go the Bluetooth route myself if it were more viable. 

Mines not blue tooth, though has the option.

For headsets, I am pretty happy with my Steel Series wireless (Arctis Nova 7 in my case), but I will agree with @The Pook and say quality headphones and a mic are superior in terms of sound quality, so just depends on what you are looking for out of it. The headset is certainly easier to deal with than headphones and separate mic, but headphones are definitely much better sounding than this Steel Series headset. That said, it seems like wireless is a priority for you, so certainly steers you towards headsets most likely. Quality headphones you'd want to keep a wire in my opinion.

3 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

1. the high idle power consumption, which has been resolved (well mitigated).

Is this just a thing with chiplet design? I noticed my 5900X idles pretty high too.

14 hours ago, SoloCamo said:

Alright people, less power limiting to save a buck next time, this was too close;

 

Oh I took off my power limiting. I just checked what it would do for one WU.

EDIT: But Flux is correct in terms of why points dipped.

5 hours ago, GanjaSMK said:

 

Link to FE review over @ TPU

 

From what it looks like, literally a margin of error increase in performance. Something seems... off. I don't think anyone expected some holy grail here, but wow.  Literally tests within the margins of error. 

Beyond what comments are already up at TPU on possible cuts (power, BIOS, etc) - anyone think there might be an uplift somehow?

I mean specs wise, there wasn't really much of an uplift in...anything. Marginal memory speed increase from 22.5Gbps to 23Gbps, and only 5% additional cores. All worked out, means marginal uplift probably closer to the 2-3% range which is well within margin of error.

Really all this release is, is a 4080 at $999 MSRP because for whatever reason Nvidia didn't want to just officially price-cut the existing model as probably some marketing tactic. Which is weird since they did the 4070, but what do I know.

Edit: I'll be honest, a couple week ago I thought maybe the performance would scale up a bit better, but frankly the 4070 Ti Super launch last week dashed that idea. So I think this is pretty expected for the 4080 Super.

Funny because I'd say $999 is still too much.

That was a lot of fun and really my first time really folding. Look forward to next year!

I dropped my 3080 Ti FE to 85% power which dropped it from 350W stock to 290-300W and only lost 11k points on a large WU (projecting 864k instead of the 875k at 100%).

I've seen this occasionally over the last couple months. A refresh solved it for me most times, so I never really thought anything of it.

Well, tried running at 50% power (about 150w) overnight and room still hotboxed and @damricadded another million between us. Back to full bore now, but not home so just hoping nothing crashed as I try to catch up. 

Hoping to gett some more 500-900k WUs to close the gap 

But based on last night will have to just shut down for the night again like I was before.

Lost about 1.3ish Million points yesterday in a random Windows update/reboot killing a 90% done 850k WU and another crash that I didn't notice for 2 hours. But got things running again today and starting to rack up some points. Nothing like a lot of you guys, but happy to be getting some points in. 

CST is just UTC-6 so basically go back 6 hours from UTC end time and that is your end time. Mine is UTC-7.

2 hours ago, The Pook said:

 

My battery died too when it dropped to the single digits here 

 

15% off coupon for Walmart.com if you have a Wells Fargo CC and/or checkings account:

 

 

After the coupon it ended up being the cheapest to any other comparable battery by about ~$50. 

 

kinda old (2020) but:

 

 

Basically what I have now. An Interstate battery from Costco. But I think they reduced their warranty on it, so not as nice a deal as it was back then.

39 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

Never knew car batteries had such a lane. I've always just gone with batteries with the better "cold crank amps" rating. Been in a situation too many times where its -20C and welp, battery is out of juice. 

 

 

Yeah that was the issue I ran into last week. It was -24F with wind chill and car was like nope, meanwhile everyone else in the complex seemed to be able to start their cars. So thinking mine is just too old at this point.

1 hour ago, schuck6566 said:

But the night is still young......

I don't know why but this image makes me think of the Bitconnect guy if you remember him from a few years back.

Now just gotta picture Jensen..."Hey hey hey...."

3 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

I don't argue that, I simply disagreed that a 104 class die is a XX50 series GPU. I'm all for jumping on the Nvidia price gouging bandwagon because... that's what they're doing. 

 

They save those full 4090 dies for B2B sales as someone else stated here. Gotta get 5K a pop for "AI". 

Yes, exactly. I'm all for busting Nvidia's chops here, but to call the 4070 a 4050 is disingenuous. 4070 is basically a 4060 Ti and the original 4070 Ti should have just been the 4070. That would have at least matched the precedence of the previous generation's slotting (minus the 3070 Ti I suppose).

11 hours ago, The Pook said:

 

Yeah I need to get a new battery myself. Died in the cold last week and then I looked up when I bought it and it was 6 years ago.

17 hours ago, bonami2 said:

 

the 4070 is honestly a 4050 class gpu.

60-class, not 50.

I'd say the 4060 is the 4050, the 4070 is the 4060 Ti. And the 4060 Ti is the 4060.