Recent content by Brent_Justice

I mean it sounds cool, but trying to get developers to adopt new things like this is the friction there. They still haven't properly implemented Shader Execution Reordering (SER) in games yet, it's not used much, if at all, and it's been launched since the RTX 40 series! Ugh.

I'd really like to do a look back at AM4, from Ryzen 1 to Ryzen 3, and see how it holds up with current GPUs and games. I think it would be highly interesting to take a look at that. Let's hope AM5 can do the same. RUMOR (yeah i know), says Zen 7 will be on AM5 as well. If true, that would...

"You're holding it wrong!" hehe

This monitor is for me. This is what I want. Will it come to the US? And what timeframe, good question, and how much? I have been wanting a good Mini-LED display, I do not want OLED, since my PC is always on a static work display, though I do play games here also, but primariliy it's a...

Now that they've been out a while, time seems to be a factor in how long they will last before failure as well. /shrug I think the proof is in the pudding on this connector.

another one just happened https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/razem-pitaniya-videokarty-kriticheski-peregrelsya-i-edva-ne-unichtozhil-gpu and i've seen a couple x posts from china users as well with them happening this month and another one also

THAT is awesome, big upgrade!

Realized I never answered this, sorry for the delay. It depends on the game, but run-throughs are typically 5-10 minutes, but it does depend on the game; some that are quicker are in places that test the CPU the hardest, like city areas in games with lots of NPCs, while others can be longer to...

Could be yields that couldn't cut it at the 7800X3D spec. But they must have a lot of them to release it as a new SKU. I dunno. Its a decent config for a budget gamer, or wanting a small, not power hungry, cool running build.

Introduction Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what kind of an upgrade the Ryzen 7 9800X3D would be over a Ryzen 7 7700X3D in 2026? We thought so too. With the recent launch of the Ryzen 7 7700X3D in July of 2026, we wanted to know what the gaming performance difference is between this Zen […]...

ASRock has a PSU thing that's supposed to shut down (built-in NTC thermal protection sensor), but didn't protect, Buildzoid has a video about it, that's how I found it here's another article...

another one bites the dust, this time an RTX 6000 Pro GPU, ouch

Interestingly, NVIDIA recommends Path Tracing as an input into DLSS 5 for the best image quality. So I don't think DLSS 5 is meant to replace Path Tracing or better lighting technologies in games. Rather, as a companion to them. With better inputs, you get better DLSS 5 quality outputs...

So we have gone from faking lighting with baked in lighting, to wanting real Ray Tracing, to wanting real Path Tracing, to wanting non-rasterized games, to now coming back to not wanting any of that at all but faking the lighting again? Full circle? How strange to me.

With MS I've learned that they are all talk, little action or care.