Recent content by Brian_B

They need to take a page out of nVidia's book.... https://macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/gross-margin

The plot thickens…

If it’s a work laptop managed by your company IT or procurement - absolutely just dump it back on them. If it isn’t broken enough for them to replace it turn a full coffee cup over on the keyboard and claim innocence

I'm honestly not too worried for the gaming industry. The only thing at risk, really, are those huge AAA money pits. And for the most part, I'm fine with that. The nice thing about gaming is that it's an industry where if you have some passion, and a good idea, and a good work ethic, and a bit...

I have been taking notes

Agree - I've subscribed a few times to GP, usually because there's some new game that I'm on the fence about, and $15 to play is a lot cheaper than $50/60/70/80/wtf. A lot fewer regretful purchases that way, but the GP library isn't strong enough to keep me subscribed for any length of time...

I think it's the combination of two things here One is, $70 is steep. Two is, a plain single player FPS today is ... stale? old fashioned?. All it would take is one influencer saying "OMG BEST GAME EVER" and it would take off like crazy though. I think today's crowd, either it's Flavor of the...

If you phrase it as 5700X and 4070Ti, or 5700x3d and 3070Ti.. I would do the former. Yeah, the 3d is a better CPU. But in either build case, not a whole lot is going to be CPU bound.

Shocked. Bet plenty of people flock to it anyway. You know, for Raytracing.

Oh, I can't wait to see the final pricetag. I think you are being way too optimistic. Think about how much a small 5% overclock gets marked up. I wouldn't be surprised to see that Grim is closer to the mark at 3k than 1k. Especially if these are marketed as commercial compute cards and not...

You mean, kinda like we are already seeing with 12VHPWR and such?

I thought Fortnight was fun when it was a survival team-based shooter. The Battle Royale killed it.

Yeah I’d be looking hard at the PSU if the RAM passes a men check. PSUs are usually built to kill power if they get shorted or overloaded, and sometimes over time that gets a hair trigger on it and is a bit overly aggressive

My want to run a memory checker - I've had the "instant reboot" issue with bad ram. Also bad PSU, but that's much harder to test for without just doing a swap, although you can get close if you stress test the system. Prime95+Furmark or whatever your favorite tool for pulling as much power and...

I'm sure they could, but I think the latency would be so terrible it would be closer to watching Netflix than playing a video game.