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  1. Alex
    I don't think so, they're actively developing a new VR headset - Valve just work on different timelines and expectations than most. VR is surprisingly growing (honestly thanks to Meta more than anything) but I do think the Index (and Quest 2) really helped push it from niche into mainstream appeal. That's not Valve's fault, that's Meta/Oculus for refusing to support OpenVR. OpenVR is literally that, open source VR API for anyone to use - but a lot of other headsets refuse to support it native. At least Steam offers an OpenVR translator. For what it's worth, some games (MSFS2020) support the OpenXR API. You can download it via the MS Store and run it via that instead of the OpenVR translator in SteamVR. Should be worth some performance.
  2. Alex
    Woah, that keyboard looks pretty damned cool. Love the volume knob... giving me great ideas for when my fiance's build. She also wants that all white / pale pink theme. Where did you get the bubble tea numpad enter key?
  3. Alex
    I absolutely love VR, it's a completely new way to experience games. It gives a much better feeling of the 'world' that you're in and exploring it is a lot more 'real' feeling versus being on a 2D screen. I am going through HL2:VR lately and it's really awesome to experience the world in VR, and I can't wait for Hogwarts Legacy VR mod to come out so I can try that. I don't care if I am 'worse' at a game because it's in VR, it's far more immersive and more fun. Also trying MSFS2020 in VR lately is mind blowing (even if its at like 40-45fps on minimum settings w/frame gen). I think a lot of people that discredit VR haven't tried it in it's full potential... it's like discrediting an OLED screen versus a TN screen when you only edit Word documents on both... if you aren't using the OLED screen to it's strength and potential of course you won't understand what the appeal of it is Also the barrier to entry isn't that high, you can pick up a second hand Oculus/Meta Quest 2 for ~$200-300 and it's 90% of the way there to an amazing VR system. No other trackers, etc. required.
  4. Alex
    Just sitting here with my 1080 Ti not even having seen RT in person before lol I really hope path tracing takes off, I want to see more implementations of it.... and makes me want to wait for a 5xxx class card
  5. Alex
    Took awhile in the post, but finally arrived Thank you everyone for organizing this fun little competition!
  6. Alex
    Nice, it's been painfully slow to see ATX3.0 / PCIE5 PSUs get released, the Seasonic stuff is impossible to find and stuff in Titanium rating is super rare too.
  7. Alex
    Thanks for following up on this
  8. Alex
    UPS for me
  9. Alex
    For what it's worth, I'm in Ontario and just got a notice from UPS today for a parcel that I have to pay $41 brokerage fee... hope this isn't the mouse but I haven't ordered anything else from... anywhere. So I'll have to see, tracking # is invalid too which makes things extra interesting. @damric pretty sure this is the mouse actually, now reading your comment/post.
  10. Alex
    tepid response
  11. Alex
    They need to stop using Chrome as a browser embed and move to a Firefox-based fork (or their own... they're big enough now) if they want LTS. It's nothing really to do with Valve but rather Google deprecating support, and I bet this will get missed when people report on this as usually no one reads beyond the headline....
  12. Alex
    I was really surprised that wasn't implemented on YT/Google. They really should look at those partners as what they often are; multi-million dollar partners and put in place a lot more safeguards, features, effort into supporting them. I feel like YouTube/Google still gets a pass for some reason on the incompetent things they do because of how laid-back everything used to be.
  13. Alex
    Can't wait for it to look nothing like that come release
  14. Alex
    I remember when 1mil ppd per GPU was insane
  15. Alex
    Nice! Didn't realise how much more powerful hardware has gotten for folding, was surprised how my 'ancient' 1080 TI felt buried haha. Thank you everyone for organizing this event, hopefully when I get a newer GPU, and sort out my cooling for my secondary rig I'll be in a better position for at least top 10.
  16. Alex
    In, Alex_Blum, Canadaland
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  18. Alex
    In, Alex_Blum Putting that 7950X3D to work
  19. Alex
    Look at all these #1 spots NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO WWW.3DMARK.COM AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 11} NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO WWW.3DMARK.COM AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 11} NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO WWW.3DMARK.COM AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 11} NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO WWW.3DMARK.COM AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 11} NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO WWW.3DMARK.COM AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 11} *just ignore the fact that literally no one else is running a 7950X3D and 1080 Ti
  20. Alex
    Vcache is on slower CCD, but it doesn't matter much. It is technically accessible via the other CCD but induces a latency penalty. Windows so far has been very good at making things prefer the CCD0 (with vcache) without any fuss. Memory timings has been a bit of a fuss for me, but just going bit-by-bit. ASUS, as expected, has too high voltages for things. So make sure you double check them, my SOC/VDD MISC was way to high and had to reduce it to 1.25v / 1.35v respectively. Also benefits more power for the cores that way.
  21. Alex
    Lots of ups and downs. Got 4 DIMMS of DDR5 @ 6000Mhz to work just fine at 1.4v - so pretty pleased with that as the Internet seemed to lead me to believe that might be a struggle. However I have had some weird microstuttering when enabling PBO and/or curve optimizer in the BIOS (0922, the latest so far). I've just done an offest of -0.0150V to reduce the temps a bit. So far so good, running 8 hours of y-cruncher all test got the DRAM to 79c so I stopped it there. CPU max temps are super close to throttling but they don't luckily - maxes out at ~85c, ~155w and ~1.075v.
  22. Alex
    Personally I gravitate towards more minimalist designs, especially as I feel a lot of designs lately are getting more and more maximalist.
  23. Alex
    hype
  24. Alex
    I'm very interested to see how this impacts my performance in VR, that's my main reason for wanting to go 3D V-cache and a beefier CPU. Right now I am (weirdly) CPU limited in most things with my 9900K / 1080 Ti. It'll be almost comical having a 7950X3D and 1080 Ti but I am still very interested in seeing how/what changes in terms of frame times. Here's my previous session in HL2VR via FPSVR for example:
  25. Alex
    This is like deja vu, I also just got this motherboard to pair along with my 7950X3D. Barely managed to snag one before they went out of stock at Newegg
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