Recent content by Dan_D

I worked at Comp USA from 1997 to 1999 and Best Buy (before Geek Squad) from 1999 to late 2000. I did a second stint at Comp USA part time around 2003 to 2004. I worked in the tech shop in both places and saw hundreds of gross *** machines. We saw cigarette smoke, ear wax covered paperclips...

It's like the wood paneling absorbs and preserves cigarette smoke forever.

I don't like the faux wood grain bullshit. Hell I don't like real wood grain on electronics. The **** is right out of the 1970's. Reminds me of wood paneling and the smell of cigarette smoke. I'll pass on that.

Gross.

This is about how often I buy games. Granted, there are years where I probably buy less and a few where I buy more. But on average, I think that's about right for me. I don't play that many games because I don't like most of them. The games I like, I play the ****ing **** out of. I think I...

It's not surprising. They ban everything fun in states like that.

I think a lot of applications are better than iCUE, but that's hardly an endorsement. It's still crap. The Keychron web configurator is about the best I've seen so far. It's a web based interface and its pretty slick. You don't have to install anything.

I've heard of ASUS and MSI having had the same issue, but issued BIOS updates quickly.

I agree that refresh rate shouldn't be the priority if you are looking for image quality. At 4K using max settings most games aren't going to hit 500FPS unless they are super old or something. It isn't as though Samsung doesn't have other offerings that are more in line with what you want though.

So will I. Bottom line, I've had three Corsair power supplies and none of them have lasted all that long. My AX1200 lasted all of 3 years I think and that's one of the longer lived ones. I've had issues with many of their other products and Corsair iCUE is awful.

I don't doubt AMD is probably working on something like this. What I doubt is that it will perform as well as anything NVIDIA currently has or will have at the time of release. AMD has been well behind NVIDIA for several product generations now.

I liked their absence on the HardForum and here.

Buying STB and making their own cards (by extension getting rid of AIB partners) was what really did them in. Even then, their last hurrah which never came out was an inelegant, brute force solution which as I recall wouldn't have saved them. By that point, I think the GeForce 256 and GeForce 2...

I completely forgot about those. I think I only ever saw one or two of those cards in person. I vaguely remember something like that.

S3 predated the GPU wars entirely. Though they did participate with the S3 Virge. Back then everyone had 2D/3D accelerators but really lost out to the VooDoo 1 and later VooDoo 2, which were dedicated 3D cards but were so much faster when utilizing the Glide API. The only thing else like it was...