Recent content by Brian_B

I honestly have no idea what the value of a machine like this is in today's market. Everything has changed so much since mining bubble, then Covid, and continues to change with AI. Off the cuff, i can say - that's a lot of cash for a glorified Steam console. I was interested, but not at this...

I will admit that a decent sound bar does sound pretty good out of the box. But nothing beats a well-tuned "classic" home theater system though. It takes a bit of effort, but you can get great sound of it with decent components (don't confuse quality with cost, which is very easy to do in the...

EGS is ... pretty bad. Loads slow. Doesn't add any benefit, other than occasionally throwing a free game your way. Transactions occur slow. Nothing really great on there in the first place. I don't really know why I even have it installed, other than occasionally checking to see what free crap...

The lack of diversity. Definitely shows.

That is exactly when and why I stopped looking at anything from Creative Labs

Before Starlink a couple of years ago — either it would take a weekend+ of steady download time (with no other internet traffic), or I would just drive down to my office (55 miles) and leech company wifi - which is only 100Mb and would still take an hour or two, so I would just set up the laptop...

Really? There are a metric $***ton of bat$*** theories out there. I might accept “occasionally” - but “often”?

You are obviously not American. For some reason we are suckers for punishment

I stopped updating my 3080 drivers a while ago - seems every other release would cause issues. No vendor is immune. Could just be the effect of having a clean driver install without “upgrade remnants” laying about

Re: 3060 Honestly, if you were out to replace it today, what would you replace it with? The direct replacement 5060 is a VRAM downgrade. You get... DLSS 4, but less VRAM to run it with. Yeah, an upgrade, but not an impactful one, and not an upgrade across the board.

I’ve gotten to the point where if the game isn’t on Steam i just don't bother any more Steam isn’t perfect by any means, but at least it usually knows how to get out of the way and let me play my game when I want to

Peaked with D2

The AI/Datacenter market is crazy right now. It races until it hits the next constraint: Chips, Power, Water, whatever hits next. I read somewhere that while nVidia has sold a metric buttload of AI chips, only a handful of those are actually installed and working - the rest are sitting in...

I’d leave Windows before I left Steam

nVidia quit well before RAM shot up. In fact, I’d argue nVidia quit PC gaming when they rolled out the RTX branding