Recent content by Brian_B

Not saying I agree with it, but here’s the thinking You have $100,000 of your own money to invest. Let’s assume all other things are equal - and Option 1 has a yield of 5% - but it’s nice and steady. Like a Treasury Bond or CD Option 2 yields a goal of 30%. It’s variable, but rarely outright...

No, that isn't it at all. PC gamers get the utmost respect. Because they know many of them are suckers, and will buy it on the console first just to get in the hype wave, then buy it again on the PC for the better experience.

Seems like Microsoft is back to handing out Gamepass vouchers with Taco Bell and Pepsi and whatever else they can schlep it on. Son came home with World of Warcraft Fanta with a voucher...

I actively avoid driver updates - at least until they have been vetted. No side is blameless

This will save the dying motherboard industry!

Lian Li isn’t charging a premium for the privilege, at least not a separate one. hahahaha that is exactly what i was thinking

Right now Steam is reporting something in excess of 100 different models of GPUs There is a downfall in that smaller sample sizes need some level of homogenization to be truely representative. You go out and ask 1000 people out of 100,000,000, and if there are only a handful of the more rare...

So... If you ask a mathematician, you don't need a huge sample size (assuming the distribution is homogenous). A few hundred upwards of a thousand results are enough to extrapolate useful results, and more sampling than that, regardless of the population size, are usually just used to try to...

Yeah, while I get that hardware has advanced a long way... the timing is less than stellar, and machines (especially integrated systems) that are able to run well with less are doing very well right now. Microsoft really needs to right the ship here, and in a hurry. Windows is really kind of...

I have to agree, but I think that games can be good without top notch graphics.

Wouldnt that be making your gripe worse? Even Microsoft moved from that dongle to the more ubiquitous Bluetooth

Clearly. Explains why they have done so well since Broadwell, and Broadwell+, and Broadwell+++, Broadwell Refresh, and they are now outsourcing their production to TSMC... Intel has had some brilliant moments, no mistake there. But they very nearly lost the company, and it still remains to be...

Easy to shoot up when you fell all the way to the gutter Glad to see the turn around but not exactly excited about the future with Enterprise/Data Center sucking all the oxygen out of the room

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Is it really February again?