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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).

Yup! There were also some 754 boards with PCIe that shouldn't have existed, and some Socket 939 with AGP slots too. Going to Intel, they also had crossover style boards, also ASRock (they were good about those crossover boards back then). I have a Core 2 Duo supporting board that rocks an AGP slot for example.

K8 (Socket 939) the IMC was on die (first AMD socket to have it). So nope, DDR400 it is. You're right, the board SHOULD have DDR2 or DDR3 given its a 785g chipset. That's why I love that board. It really "shouldn't" exist.

Yeah, Walmart learned their lessons with the 2TB Western Digital Green HDD's we all used to snag out of the enclosures and return dead drives in them....... I mean, not "we", I certainly never did such a thing 20 years ago in Mexico......... The ol' switcheroo doesn't really work that much anymore tbh. Second hand, and securing an absolutely solid deal is somehow a LOT more fulfilling, and fun even.

Also: ISO a large tower case with LOTS of 5.25 bays.......... One day, one day. This is more a teaser for @LabRatthan anything since I'll probably never find the case I need for this board. ASRock crossover style board, 785G chipset, but on Socket 939. 785G was an AM2+ / AM3 chipset for Phenom II's. Socket 939 was K8 (Athlon64 / Athlon64 x2's). DDR2 vs DDR1. This board literally shouldn't have existed.

Huge shoutout to @LabRat, but figured this is as good a spot as any to share the pictures. My GeForce 6800 SLI set of cards is almost on its way back to me, and they're looking GORGEOUS!

I was a little curious about this cooler, and it looks like for good reason. Seems Corsair did a great job at releasing a top tier air cooler with this one. Glad you enjoyed it, and yet again another fantastic read!

Well, count me in for sure then.

That is such a neat case. Really great review of it too. I'm surprised how much power you were able to pack into that tiny little thing. And the layout, the layout of that case is so unique. You were right, nothing at all like most ITX cases. That looked fun to build!

Can confirm as well, I had nothing but problems trying to use my bluetooth headset at my PC. Some games the audio would still go through my speakers, sometimes the voice comms would be the only thing going through the headphones, and some games, things just worked correctly. It was a mess trying to get it working correctly. It would be VERY nice if there was a wireless option that just worked right out of the box. Sorry E, I really don't have much to comment on here except avoid bluetooth "headsets" if you can. That's just from my own experience though. YMMV, as usual.

I thought it ended at 4pm PST, not 4am. -_-. Wasted 12 hours of high electricity usage. Either way, was super fun! That was my first time EVER getting a top 10 spot. my 7900XTX and 7900x system for this. EDIT: AHHHHHHHHH ITS FREAKING QUIET IN HERE NOW OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've had deafening screeching reference blower fans going for a week, and now silence. AHHHHHH!!!!!!!