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In, pioneerisloud. I may end up at the bottom of the list this go around though. Will probably only be folding on the GTX 960. It's been getting hotter lately, and my power bill is already outrageous. -_-

No thanks. Can't play a lot of retro games on Windows 10 anyway, and Steam only works on Windows 10 and newer. I'll stick to GoG copies. You guys are more than welcome to be guinea pigs though.

There's a game with this benchmark?

So you're saying I have a shot?

I still have no clue what I'm doing with mine. So far, here's what I've done with my 7900x system: PBO enabled +200MHz Undervolted -0.90v 1.40v VDDQ / VDD (whatever the 2 RAM voltage settings are) 1.25v SoC Scaler set to 8x RAM @ 64x multiplier (stock was 60x) Timings set manually to XMP (slightly tighter now) 2100 IF Clock UCLK = MemClock enabled (I think I got the terminology right?) No clue what any of these new ratios and stuff means you guys are talking about. Don't know if I'm doing it right or not. But the system's noticeably faster than my tuned 5800x system. If one was to decide to step up into a 48GB kit for a 7900x later on, what ARE the proper tweaks to be doing on this platform? Do you want fast RAM? Shouldn't IF Clock be 1:1? What is a UCLK? Ugh, I was hoping this platform was going to be similar to AM4. -_-

Oof:

Woot woot! New mouse to try!

Testing stability on a bunch of "useless old cards" anyway. Why not fold on them?

I edited them in. Sorry, I should've typed it all up first lol. I'm done editing now.

There's so many to choose from, just 5? Here's what I'd say mine would be, and this is in absolutely no particular order. Super Mario All-Stars (SNES) On the list because there's 4 great games, sometimes 5 (depending on locality I believe?) included all on one cartridge. Rush 2: Extreme Racing (N64) Who didn't love playing the Stunt track on this? But even better yet, who didn't love bringing the arcade game Rush home on your N64 and CRT television set? I even had Dolby surround sound for this game, it was great! Quake (Win9x) I only ever had the demo for most of the time I played this, but I got REALLY really good at the first level at 320x240 resolution, software rendering, at like 10-15 FPS. SimCity 3000 (Win9x) Creating amazing cities and then blowing them up? Heck yes! Driver (Win9x) First game I had stumbled upon that "simulated" a good burnout in a car. The police chases weren't bad either. Like GTA games later on (I played this long before GTA), never really played for the story. Honorable Mention: NFS Underground 2 (WinXP): Do I really need to explain why?

Just a simple misunderstanding over words again. Stuff happens. I'm not worried about it, we're all friends here talking about our retro hobbies afterall. To me, retro GAMING in general includes all of it. Consoles, old PC's, Amiga's, Atari's, Commodores, whatever. If its gaming, and old, its retro gaming. To answer your question Ultra, I PERSONALLY would classify "Chess" (assuming board game version) as a "classic" game, not so much as "retro" or "vintage". Kinda like Monopoly or Checkers or any other board game. It's not really retro, since you can still buy new play sets today. But its not exactly "modern" either since its a board game. No? Idk, just thinking aloud.

The above quote is all that I saw so far this morning (in the post from Labrat). I didn't see the rest of your edit and post above his comment (I should've scrolled up). I'm just going off what you said bro. If you want it to be consoles only, we can absolutely discuss our retro PC's elsewhere. If you want us included, that's great too, we'll stay right here. No harm, no foul.

*shrugs, I usually just dm Enterprise for things like that lol. Perhaps if this thread is only about consoles, maybe we should make a new EHW Retro club for the PC enthusiasts here. I can go start on a thread if we need one.

Sigh. I read the article. Nowhere does it say anything at all about there being a paywall. They state that some monitors will get updates, and some won't. Mostly their higher tiered products will get updates. This is normal behavior. It's clickbait "fake news", the author over at notebook check should be ashamed of themselves. -_-

Slightly different rules than OCN bro, I'm not moderator here lol. I just do content creation, I don't have any special editing privileges here. If we are wanting to keep the thread to consoles only, perhaps @neurotix should change the thread title though. I don't have any consoles.

I totally have an army of 4090's going, millions of PPD, same problem bro.

I mean technically speaking, per the definition in the article, "Neural Processing Units are dedicated AI chips that remove some of the work from a computer's CPU or GPU so the device can work better.", that would mean any RX 6000 or 7000 series GPU can function as a NPU (same with any of Nvidia's RTX series cards). Interesting, I guess we'll see what the future of NPU's will end up looking like soon enough. Maybe one day, we'll be popping NPU's into our systems to assist with our GPU's. Like I said, we kind of can NOW, its just people aren't well enough aware that you can run Nvidia and AMD together (or Intel too now).

DFI is still around, they make industrial stuff mostly these days.

I've been hearing that one's gorgeous. Definitely on my list of future benchmark titles.

Well, if they're claiming that "1080p / LOW settings / 30 FPS" is the bare minimum to be playable, I'd like to simply argue that maybe the bare minimum specs are perhaps closer to this.....because this was absolutely "playable" (on a generic 1080p / 60Hz panel).

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.

Source

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/biostar-releases-the-bih61-aha-socket-lga1700-industrial-motherboard-with-pci-slots-and-legacy-io.319102/ From: Techpowerup Might be worthwhile for hwbot points, and potentially future benches for PCI graphics cards. Hwbot rules do get weird on some of those competitions.

I'd put Windows 7 + 8.1 rigs into that category as well. I think that'd be reasonable enough, no? Nobody's playing on Phenom II's, FX's, and Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge these days unless you're actively trying to (the era those OS's are).