Recent content by Brian_B

Ok so I had no idea what that was, but googled "ST Lights of Zetar with the woman who was being possessed" and amazingly: Courtesy Trekkie Feminist

I'm still on Zen3/DDR4 but right now sure as heck isn't the time to jump from that platform. It is curious this Zen4 is being released now, and I'm actually surprised it's as competitive as it is (with respect to price/performance and all)

Probably not, but it still wasn't impressive enough to make me want to go out and get a card where I could use it as intended either.

Standard Molex was never immune to meltdowns either - it certainly can happen. Mostly it was with cheap extension cables or cheap no-name power supplies though - so it was easy to point the finger at a manufacturing flaw rather than a design defect. 12VHPWR though - doesn't seem as if anything...

From reading, it sounds like they put a thermocouple in the plug itself. But yeah, just looking at typical amps/volts, nothing there really protects you from high point source resistance.

So I tried this out. https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/you-can-now-apply-dlss-5-to-your-entire-desktop-with-a-free-app-and-it-even-works-with-rtx-30-series-cards/ First off - it worked on my 3080. I mean, FPS was about what you would expect (unplayable), but I was mostly just looking to see...

Limited Edition because they already laid off the designers?

This article is just talking about units sold - but does not discriminate as to who did the purchasing

Saw this earlier today https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/desktop-graphics-card-shipments-hit-four-year-high-of-12-5-million-despite-increasing-prices-nvidia-takes-90-percent-share-as-gamers-rush-to-beat-looming-price-spikes "Defying common wisdom, high-end AIB sales spiked as...

Wow that is bad You need a new potato

That or they go like The Sims with 8,000 DLC packages - which is what they had flirted with before

That looks so much better when you turn on DLSS 5

Jumper cables to the rescue.

Usually, for electrical fires - air flow often makes the problem worse by spreading the spark/heat out faster Electrical is usually a high impedance/resistance connection with just too many amps going through it (P = R * I^2), and it's a very small, very hot point source - and that spreads to...

I have been thinking that since RTX came out, to be honest. I'll admit the "program it once and let the calculations figure it all out rather than leaning on an art department" argument has some merit. But mostly all we got was a lot of very shiny chrome and mud puddles with big performance hits.