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I went from a 6900XT to a 7900XTX and the difference was huge, ESPECIALLY in RT enabled titles since now I can actually play RT titles. I would say a 7800XT or better, or maybe a 4070Ti or better from Nvidia would be worthy upgrades for your GPU. Obviously the better the card, the bigger the upgrade will feel.

Source- Youtube - "*BREAKING NEWS* PNY denied warranty to this 4090 for nothing" Note: NWR is a GPU repair company and has been in business for years, and he's very highly rated. I would absolutely trust his opinion on something like this. I wouldn't normally say a youtube video is worthy of a news story, but I'd argue actual professionals should get coverage.

Yup, that sounds closer to what my Redragon sounds like. It very well could just be that my Redragon is worn out, and / or it could be something to do with the bottoming out noise too. I noticed this Rosewill keyboard almost sounds "softer" when bottoming out compared to the Redragon. Maybe the keycap material or something? Not sure. But yeah, that video you showed is basically the level of "clicky" I was hoping for. Like I said, for a $30 board, this Rosewill is really good. I paid $55 for the "Ajazz" Chinese MX Browns board 4 years or so ago. My Ajazz board still works absolutely great, like new (its just filthy dirty now). I just didn't like the MX Browns switches on it. So I'm confident this Rosewill K85 will probably last me for another good few years. I'm in no hurry for an expensive board, I have other hardware to buy.

I'm only going to say this once...... Quit apologizing. The keyboard is fine. It's not quite MX Blues level of clicky / tactile feeling for me, compared to my old Redragon, yes. But it was a $30 gamble, and I took the bet. Honestly, it was well worth the $30, maybe even more as I like this board 100x better than the MX Browns switch board I just got rid of off my desk. It's just not QUITE as "clicky" as I'd have hoped for. But its a ton better than MX Browns. Why'd I ever think I'd like MX Browns?

Not going to happen.

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I could be off, since I haven't used it the way @LabRat has, but from my understanding of it the "render" card is the one you need to worry about the VRAM on as you use the raster performance from that card (or even RT performance). The AFMF is processed, pretty sure by one of the secondary "cores" or whatever on the AMD cards, like the encoding or decoding section of the card. So no, it doesn't need VRAM, it just needs to be connected to your display with AFMF on, and that's it. Select the other card as your render card (Windows 11 has that capability). And that's it. You're now rendering on a GTX 1080Ti with AFMF on through the RX 6400 for example. And yes, it really would be a cheap way for ANYONE really to add AFMF to their system. If your current GPU is more powerful than an RX 6400 (to get the AFMF features on), then it'd be worth it to try. It would be "pointless" to say put a 6900XT in a system with a 1080, as the 6900XT is more powerful already. However it "would work" in that case too. That's also why it doesn't matter if you use a 6900XT or a 6400, you're not using the raster performance of the card at all, nor its RT capabilities. Think of it kind of like back in the day when we'd add a dedicated GT240 or 8800GT or something to our big HD4890 / HD5870 / HD6970 rigs for the PhysX support. Same idea here. Right now, I believe the beta driver is only for RX 6000 - 7000 series GPU's. It probably will roll out later on to the APU's though, I don't see why they'd keep AFMF off of those, those need it more than a 7900XTX does. They might even roll it out (way later) to older cards like the RX 5000 series and maybe Polaris too (all currently supported cards). If they don't, I suspect the guys behind the Amernizone drivers probably will.

Oh that's YOUR system? Nice! I thought that was from the "other forum thread" you were talking about earlier, my bad on comprehension. Yeah, that would be a pretty easy swap lol.

Give the combo a try next time you have them taken apart. It absolutely works! Do you NEED AFMF with a 4090? Nahhh, probably not. But its actually pretty freaking cool that it actually works. I'll bet you can go the other way with it too, and introduce Nvidia features to an AMD card. For the fun of it, of course.

I don't recall who actually did this first, I want to say it was somebody in China. @LabRat has been following that stuff pretty closely, maybe he knows? Labrat's been running a 16GB Vega64 (actually a Radeon MI25 pro card) to render, and letting a 6500XT handle the AFMF. It actually works pretty well! I see absolutely no reason, especially with Windows 11, why you COULDN'T run two different GPU's in your system for the different feature sets. You can get DLSS to run on AMD by having an Nvidia card, and you can get AFMF to run on Nvidia by having an AMD card if I'm not mistaken.

Vega honestly is great with 16GB of VRAM compared to the 8GB models.

Please update my submission on the list to ALSO include now a Rosewill Neon K85 with Kailh Blue switches. It's not the MX Blues board I was hoping for to be honest, but for the $30 price tag on newegg, I have to say this is quite a nice board. I feel like actual Cherry MX Blue switches are more clicky and that tactile "bump" is more pronounced. This Kailh Blue switch board is a lot more tame than MX Blues I feel like? It's a lot better than the MX Browns I had before, that's for sure though (my MX Blues Redragon is a 60% and I can't use 60% boards daily driver).

Really fun too, I got through about half of it on stream on our discord the other night. I kinda want to sit down sometime and play through all of them on stream, but I need to figure out the chronological order. There's like 5 portal games now with all the fan made mods to continue the storyline.

I've been REALLY loving my 7900XTX. A 7600XT with 16GB VRAM sounds like a very attractive 1080p / 1440p option. Wow. I hate to say it and bring the green team into the conversation, but Nvidia really doesn't have much of a solution in these budget ranges. They have the RTX 4060, and the much more expensive 4060Ti, but both are only 8GB cards. Today's games, even at 1080p definitely are starting to use more and more VRAM. DLSS, yeah sure. AMD has FSR and AFMF though too, which also do work and work well too now. The GPU competition is starting to get good. Wish it would bring the prices down some though, I still say the entire stack of cards is overpriced from both parties. -_-

I'm always promoting EHW. Anything I can do to help further our site's reach so the tech communities start realizing we're here, I'll do.

I was just going to say the 4080S looks like it could be a really good budget high end contender with its $999 MSRP. The regular 4080 is currently $1200+ on newegg. Obviously it probably won't actually release at MSRP, but we can hope. It'll be a cut in current 4080 pricing anyway, actually makes the 4080S an attractive option over the old 4080 to be honest. Especially when you consider the 4090 tax of like $2200+ on those.

I actually really enjoy WarCraft II, but I usually just play BNE on an old system. This is neat, but I'm not buying a Blizzard title to try it out.

But if they did that, they'd be taking content away that people have paid for. -_- Not that it matters, since they've nerfed the capabilities of making them run anyway by taking support of old OS's away. I think they should refund people who have bought titles that only work on older OS's, regardless of if they take them away from the store front (since they don't work) or not. Personally. I know I wouldn't be so upset over this kind of crap if they gave me my money back.

I might be in, might not. We'll see if I have stuff running in time to be in.

Does that one even support video files? it CLAIMS you can put "movies" on the TF card, but then doesn't list a single video file extension its capable of playing. Resolution is 128x160 on the screen on that, so keep that in mind. I would try really old codecs, that device says right in the description it was made for Windows 98 (and the specs make me think similar). I would be shooting for old avi or mpeg codecs for that to try. I wouldn't hold my breathe though with it either.

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I'll admit to being a noob with handheld PC's, but isn't it mostly the software that's the big hiccup on these devices today? What I mean is, a Steam deck is supposed to be a finalized product and they seem to work pretty well. But the Windows devices I've heard of, all seem to have problems because of Windows. Hopefully MSI gets permission to use SteamOS, or maybe it'll be possible to load SteamOS on them. I'd LOVE to have a Windows capable handheld to be honest, I just don't know if Windows is ready for that (again). Their last attempt at a mobile capable desktop OS was 8, and well, we know how that went.

Woohoo! I'll sign up. EDIT: Awww, its a closed beta test for the alpha, only for like 2 weeks. Jan 17-31st. I couldn't properly give them the feedback they'd need from beta testers, I don't think I'd play it nearly enough to do that. I'll wait till its actually out in whatever stage.

I wasn't invited. I'd play, used to play the original WoT years and years ago.