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Yea pretty insane. Seems to be based on the increased spend forecasted by Meta for Nvidia based AI solutions and Goldman Sachs reinforcing that Nvidia’s earnings should surpass their yearly earnings target from my quick google searches. Curious to revisit this discussion in 3-5 years…

Pacific Drive (Demo) 1440p, Ultra Super excited for this game. A free demo just dropped a moment ago. Seems to be a bit heavy on the GPU considering the visuals but pulling ~100fps at 1440 / ultra. I believe the goal is just to survive and it's main loop is similar a roguelike. The devs are calling it a "road-like" :P. I assume you'll likely need to complete multiple runs to survive or unlock the final ending, and your car, a station wagon, is the main character that you upgrade. We'll see how that plays out but what I like is how every component requires input. Fom opening the door, turning the key, sliding the shifter out of park etc. Could be really fun or get tedious quickly. I made a quick video (12mns long) and linked it below. It may be still rendering at the time of posting.

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Thanks for sharing. I'm currently using an ITX board in an ATX case, been waiting to make the jump to a smaller case, but not a cramped case, for a long while. This case won't be the one (just personal preference) but I appreciate the reviews and I agree that ITX doesn't need to be a <10L box.

Shows fine for me on Dark theme and Light theme

Im on 24.1.1 with a 7900 XTX and have not experienced any issues. Further, since owning this card from day 1 (December 2022), the drivers have been very stable. There were only two notable bugs that impacted me indirectly. 1. the high idle power consumption, which has been resolved (well mitigated). 2. Unable to launch the GUI / control panel via a shortcut. At some point I needed to wipe the driver or dig into the root folder and delete .ini type file for it to work again. I’m not sure if the issue is tied to the drivers but have you checked the “known issues” tab? Might just be a conflict that can temporarily be avoided until a fix is in place because I don’t experience this free sync bug with my 1440p / 120hz Asus monitor.

Thanks @iamjanco - ultimately, I had to redo the post on PC in dark mode to ensure the font colour was showing up correctly. For some reason, text (colour) kept defaulting to that grey. Likely due to a formatting issue when I copied / pasted some of the titles of games from another article.

2024-01-31 - Sony State of Play Announcements overview Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (2025) Physint (TBD) Stellar Blade (April 26, 2024) Sonic X Shadow Generations (Fall 2024) Dave the Diver Ft. Godzilla (May 2024) Zenless Zone Zero (2024) Silent Hill: The Short Message (available today) Silent Hill 2 Remake (2024) Judas (TBD) Metro: Awakening VR (2024) Rise of the Ronin (March 22, 2024) Dragon’s Dogma II (March 22, 2024) Until Dawn Remastered (2024) Source: https://www.polygon.com/2024/1/31/24057143/playstation-sony-state-of-play-ps5-showcase-announcements-trailers

I mean, it's a 5% difference in CUDA cores so the performance increase is inline with what was highlighted / marketed. I'd consider it a binned 4080 and nothing more. The only thing worth noting is the price cut and as most people gathered, it's not enough. Still, a step in the right direction.

I’m not on desktop at the moment but thanks for addressing the issue so quickly

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 1440p, Ultra

System Shock (2023) 1440p, Ultra Just booted it up. Loving the blend of retro PC first person action with updated visuals and audio. Should be a quick game, never played. Will shuffle between this an Avatar, which im about 90% complete

Looks really fun and more my lane (city design). I’ve listened to a few podcasts that mention Cities Skylines 2 has the foundation to be the best city game and the true sequel to sim city 4. I never really touched Cities Skylines (1) and while I still found some enjoyment in Sim City (2013) that game’s foundation was built on the completely worst principles. Always online / cloud nonsense with shallow mechanics. Still, it was fun and colourful but didn’t scratch the itch like old Sim City games. Sim City 2000 / 3000 were some of my favourite management games back in the day on PC.

I can now replicate it, 100% of the time. How I did it: First, I had to manually open a review. I chose this one: https://reviews.extremehw.net/all-reviews/corsair-mp700-pro-2tb-nvme-review/. Closed the tab and that instance of Chrome. Now, if I start a new instance of chrome, two things can happen: If I type any query into the search bar on the main page, and press "Enter", a new tab opens any review that is currently highlighted in the carousel and the original browser / instance will search for my query. If I type any query into the search bar on the main page, and click on the magnifying glass, my search will resume as it should, with no additional tabs opening. Oddly enough, I had to click on the review (step 1.0) to initiate all of this behaviour. Prior to that step, pressing enter would not result in the extra tab. I can track that as the carousel moves through the highlights, represented by the black dots, the currently highlighted review or link will be the one that opens in a new tab. Test environment: Windows 10 Chrome (default browser) with uBlock Origin 1440p display Edit: I am trying to replicate it on mobile (iphone SE, Chrome browser) and I cannot as the action of "searching" requires you to click on the magnifying glass. There is no search bar on the main page, like on desktop, to pre-type your query into.

I hear ya. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve been scammed all these years

I think we need a Nvidia ranting thread XD

How's the game?

Never knew car batteries had such a lane. I've always just gone with batteries with the better "cold crank amps" rating. Been in a situation too many times where its -20C and welp, battery is out of juice.

I don't argue that, I simply disagreed that a 104 class die is a XX50 series GPU. I'm all for jumping on the Nvidia price gouging bandwagon because... that's what they're doing. They save those full 4090 dies for B2B sales as someone else stated here. Gotta get 5K a pop for "AI".

Nice! I have the same chair (white / grey) and been using it for almost 2 years. Holds up extremely well.

I haven’t played much at all since the winter holidays (which was dominated by my weird Avatar obsession) and I have a fairly decent backlog that borderline brings me anxiety. I also did purchase Alan Wake 2 and I have not even booted it up yet but there are a quite a few games I also want to play but I will prioritize a couple (if possible). One from last year (System Shock remake). Game looks great, I love Bioshock, and I like some of the Deus Ex games. This seems like a fun take on a classic PC game and hopefully will introduce me to the System Shock series. On sale, 50% off. Also in a few weeks time, Pacific Drive comes out and looks super fun. Survival horror is one of my favourite genres and mixing that with driving and roguelike elements like Hades, this has the potential to be one of favourite indie games. 10% discount (pre-order). Save 50% on System Shock on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space! Save 10% on Pacific Drive on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this...

Good point (to help troubleshooting). I can't replicate it now but if it appears again, I will note the above.

Can confirm, appears on my end too. I thought it was just my phone (im usually on mobile) being weird. Pressing enter after typing my search query opens that review page in a new tab. Edit: 1:14pm EST, oddly enough, I cannot replicate it right now. However, this has been happening for the past (at least) 2 weeks. I was trying to dig out my gaming threads using the search function for context when I noticed this event / bug.

I know it's semantics but the 4070, 4070 Super, 4070 Ti, is still 300m2 die (AD 104). With the trade offs (cut cores, smaller bus etc.), they should have marketed as 4060 cards and priced accordingly. Either way, Nvidia plays a lot with the 104 series chips. Maxwell GM204 were 960 to 980 GPUs. Pascal 1060 to 1080 were GP104s. Turing TU104s ranged from 2060 to 2080S. Ampere GA104s ranged from 3060 to 3070 Ti. I don't believe the 4070 (AD 104) is an XX50 class GPUs given ~Nvidia's history over the past 10 years.

Agreed… it’s just that this class of card should not be $800. Honestly, $650 makes way more sense with the 4070 Super at $550. I think the 4070 TIS will sit on the shelves for a while. The $200 gap for the TI is absurd for that wider bus / 4GB of VRAM and minimal gains against the 4070 Ti.