Alex

19 hours ago, UltraMega said:

Yea no doubt VR is super cool. 

 

From Valve's perspective though, VR is a flop and they're not going to make any more VR games. 

 

Same with Sony, they cut back their VR ambitions because VR sales are low. 

 

So no matter how cool it is, right now it looks like VR is on life support. 

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.

17 hours ago, bonami2 said:

 

Only reason it on life support is because they are doing the same crap as they always do. They use multiple standard and so many different device. That the dev as to buy them all to make it work correctly.

 

If they can make a standard Running envirronment or just use STEAM VR. And Make a standard design for headset with different display set but same controller. It would be easier for dev.

 

My Quest 2 in wireless is awesome. Just wish it ran natively steam vr instead of META garbage.

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.

14 hours ago, neurotix said:

Got the CK-721 set up next to the wife's macaron numpad.

 

 

She'll be using it for work all next week. Thanks Cooler Master and Avacado!

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?

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.

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

Took awhile in the post, but finally arrived Thank you everyone for organizing this fun little competition!

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.

1 hour ago, damric said:

Ok you are second confirmed person getting this fee. This is not right so I'm letting EVGA know to see if there is anything they can do.

Thanks for following up on this

1 minute ago, Hequaqua said:

Any idea of whom is bringing it so I can keep a eye out?

 

Haven't seen anyone today other than USPS, and they had squat for me....lol

UPS for me

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.

tepid response

On 24/03/2023 at 09:30, ENTERPRISE said:

Good to see they got back up, watched their video on the hack...I forgot about the session exploitation, I have to admit. 

 

 

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.

Can't wait for it to look nothing like that come release

6 hours ago, firedfly said:

 

Just the difference between the 3000 series nvidia and 4000 series is significant.  The 3090 will get 8-9mil ppd, I believe.  My 4090 averages around 27mil ppd!  That is a HUGE jump in a single generation.

 I remember when 1mil ppd per GPU was insane  

9 hours ago, Avacado said:

Great job everyone, here are the competition prize winners. Video of the drawing is being uploaded and should be available in about an hour.  Please start to PM Name and address as per the guidance in the OP. 

 

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.

In, Alex_Blum, Canadaland

In, Alex_Blum

Putting that 7950X3D to work

Look at all these #1 spots

*just ignore the fact that literally no one else is running a 7950X3D and 1080 Ti

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.

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.

Personally I gravitate towards more minimalist designs, especially as I feel a lot of designs lately are getting more and more maximalist.

hype

13 hours ago, bonami2 said:

The only thing i hate currently is 99% of game use less than 2 core. I wonder if a big open world that would be tuned to use all core would perform better on a 7950x 7950x3d or 13900ks

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:

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fpsVR Report:
App: Half-Life 2: VR Mod HMD: Index (120.000 Hz, IPD 63.2)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (31.0.15.2849, Tavg 35.3, Tmax 38)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz (Tavg 47.7, Tmax 60)
Battery charge of controllers - @end: LC 26% RC 19%

Delivered fps: 102.07  Duration: 164.7min. Headset was active: 100%

GPU Frametimes:
Median: 5.1 ms
99th percentile: 10.3 ms
99.9th percentile: 12.3 ms
frametime <8.3ms(vsync): 94.7%

CPU frametime:
Median: 6 ms
99th percentile: 14.3 ms
99.9th percentile: 18 ms
frametime <8.3ms(vsync): 83.2%
 

Reprojection Ratio: 21.6%
Compositor Frames Dropped: 1523 or 0.1%
Max. SteamVR SS during the session: 150%
Render resolution per eye: 2468x2744(by SteamVR settings, Max. during the session)
HMD driver recommended resolution (default for SteamVR at 100%): 2016x2240)

 

6 hours ago, neurotix said:

I was going to get the 7900x3d for benching and gaming, and bought a Crosshair X670E Hero and G.skill Flare X DDR5 6000 cas 36. Found out the Hero board had like over one inch tall heatsinks on the top VRMs that would not fit in my case (midtower with a thick AIO) returned the Hero board, will be waiting a month to get nearly $700 back from Amazon

 

Now that reviews are out, and it's only 6% faster than Intel, but from what I understand the review guidelines from AMD told them to sandbag the Intel and only run 6000MHz memory on it (correct me if I'm wrong), yet users on this site like Bastiaan_NL are running Intel with memory speeds approaching 8000MHz, it means Intel is still faster with more highly clocked memory.

 

I won't be upgrading. I was hoping for a 10% IPC improvement clock for clock, possibly more over my 5900x because it boosts higher, and an additional 25% performance improvement in games and benches. Making it at minimum 35% faster than what I have. But since that is not the case, and you also can't manually or per-CCX overclock it for benching, I'll continue to wait.

 

How much improvement would I get going to a 7900x factoring in it can boost to 5.6GHz vs 5.15GHz on my 5900x?

 

Pics of the beautiful board I had to return. I have also looked at Asus other X670 boards and seen a few B650 boards and they all look like they have too tall VRM heatsinks on the top to be able to clear my rad fans.

Spoiler

 

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