Recent content by Elf_Boy

All very interesting. I will be interested in seeing performance numbers for gaming, under Steam OS and Win 11.

Wellllllllllll......... I have had more than one person (including my sister) call me frantic about the new virus they have, which constantly is doing pop-ups galore in the bottom right of their screen.

My question, asked entirely out of self interest, does this fps loss affect AMD/Intel GPU's too or was it just NV?

Xp was the first one I felt was 'real' not quite as crash prone as 95/98/me - I remember having to reinstall 98 4 times in one day because of .dll conflicts. Vista/7 were each incrementally more solid and less crash prone. 8 looked goofy, like a phone OS, but worked just fine. IMO 10 was...

ME didnt have the time to hit it's stride, IMhO Vista, again IMhO, the OS/giu etc were fine. It was just a pissant poor product launch. MS did get much resistance from developers, including big companies, to making new drivers. The sound blaster I had at the time never got a new driver. Had to...

Power efficiency does seem a good place for Intel to focus. Outside of server farms no one seems to consider cost of use - or perhaps I am just a penny pincher?

And I own (owned if I cant find the box/license I suppose) most of those versions. Starting with 3.1.

If only AMD were to pull a "Ryzen" in the GPU space? By which I mean come up with a new idea or design that just blows away the competition. I'd like to see Intel get out a higher end card too.

I suspect AMD ran into a specific wall with the 9k series. Again, just a guess or if you prefer intuition, I think they did build high end prototypes and the die/chip (what's the right word) was just plain needing too much power to run at competitive speeds. If not that some other technical...

Pretty nifty. I suppose it is too much to hope that this trickles down to the 7k series too?

My wondering, what new features either-or GUI or under the hood would a Win 12 bring? I tend to be a new to new-ish adopter of OS's. Really the only I ever wished I had waited a bit more was Vista and that was just the Driver issues - it took like a year to get some of my pieces and parts on my...

Game looks nice. Are we at another GPU 'Crysis?' One where software is a generation or two more intense than hardware currently supports? Did watch the whole Vid, so I didn't catch if there were many Ray Trace options. If there are, how much does it degrade the visuals and increase the raster...

What's the power draw on the b60's? Single and Duo? I am a but curious. Cost of operating is a big part (for me anyways) of a buy decision too.

These are the BIOS notes. 3067 is what I had, 3222 is what I installed. So some various gaming and Agesa updates.

Something in the new firmware is definitely not playing well with 3planesoft. The default Windows Screen savers work as expected. All the 3Planesoftones go to a black screen now.