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    The July Steam Survey Is In: 16GB GPUs Have Officially Overtaken 8GB for the First Time

    Ya I have a tendency to set things to ULTRA (Max) as well. And for some reason just dont like upscaling - I prefer everything native. For what I play/do 60 fps is good and anything more is nifty. Still I miss the 24gb my 7900xtx had. The 16gb downgrade being balanced by improved Ray Trace is...
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    The July Steam Survey Is In: 16GB GPUs Have Officially Overtaken 8GB for the First Time

    Out of context I am not sure it matters - till resolution comes into play. I have been wondering if 16gb is enough for 4k - so far it seems so. Not that I have been pushing my system much. AARPG's (POE 1-2/GD/TQ 1-2) tend to be more CPU bottlenecked than GPU. Hmmmm Copilot seems to think:
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    Electronic Arts Launches Its In-Game EA Advertising Service, Offering Prominent Brand Placement

    Back in the day [back in the decade?] when City of Heroes was still on the official NCSoft servers they experimented with this. After all Paragon City is a 'modern' type mega-city like New York with actual in game billboards advertising Crey and other in game products and companies. I thought...
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    Sapphire 7900xtx Failed - Likely Vram

    Have a history of driver timeouts now I guess I know why. For Context: --------------------------------------- Finally with a freeze followed by a reboot and Asus post code 97 - GPU Failure to initialize. If I try over and over it will occasionally post, however there is very obvious video...
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    AMD Expands Its Ryzen PRO Lineup with the Addition of Six New Processors, Including Another 16-Core X3D Model

    More choice is usually good - till it leads to the 'Paradox of Choice,' or 'Decision Paralysis.' It's starting to get like the toothpaste aisle at Target/Walmart. Unless you have an attachment to a brand or the lowest price too much in options. Or perhaps not, I dont know, just speculation...
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    Early Game Testing of Intel Arc Pro B720 Workstation AI GPU Shows Comparable Performance to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

    Sadly, price aside, the message I am getting is Intel was making good progress in improving their GPU's. With 16/24gb of vram the price would go down some. Within the next generation or three I think they could have climbed up to the near top tier space. Maybe not the Big Green money sucking...
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    AMD Releases EXPO 1.2, Paving the Way For CUDIMM and Faster DDR5 on Zen 6

    So nothing much for getting my DDR5 to it's rated speed.
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    Intel Has Seemingly Bowed Out of the Consumer Discrete Graphics Market, for Now

    Disappointing - no doubt the rampocalypse is playing its part.
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    NVIDIA Is Now Rumored to Expand its 9 GB Memory Configuration Strategy With RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs

    I guess it depends how well the texture compression is going to function - I dont doubt it works, but is it fast enough type stuff. It is better to have 12gb I think than 8/9. I was reading NV is stating 80% compression. So functionally almost doubling the frame buffer? I suspect not everything...
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    NVIDIA Is Now Rumored to Expand its 9 GB Memory Configuration Strategy With RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs

    I guess, bottom line, if it works it works - more a 1080/1440 thing?
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    NVIDIA Is Now Rumored to Expand its 9 GB Memory Configuration Strategy With RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs

    One more gb of vram makes big difference? Even with compression - how good is it? How fast?
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    Geekbench Flags Intel iBOT Results as Potentially Invalid, Investigation Finds Vectorized Instructions Behind 30% Gains

    Does this tool permanently alter the code of your installed apps? How does that work with later patching and the like?
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    Microsoft’s April 2026 Windows Update Ends Trust for Cross-Signed Kernel Drivers

    I am just wondering to myself what is going to stop working at random and how it'll take days (or never) to get it fixed.
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