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My previous system was a 5800x and I just upgraded to a 12700k a month or so ago. For my use cases there's not much difference performance wise but I was having some stability issues recently with the 5800x build. In hindsight it may have been bios related as all the components seem to be...

I've been concerned about the 8gb on 3070 and you're testing helps confirm it's already a problem... I figured if the new consoles have 16gb, games are likely to exceed 8gb usage in common scenarios. If I remember right the new xbox caps you at 10gb fast, 6gb slow, which should make the 3080...

I'm sure there's a market for the S for people with less money and casual gamers. The cpu and storage speed upgrades will make it a good experience vs last gen and if you have a 1080p TV or you're sitting on the couch it'll probably be fine. I think the bigger issue is that Sony has better...

Hopefully big Navi has 16gb of ram and AMD's version of DLSS is respectable. Otherwise I think they're not likely to sell well.

For the 3600x system I'd go b450 with a smaller psu (500-550W) and get a bigger nvme drive or add a standard hdd. 500gb total storage is not much for home pc. Games like Destiny 2, Rainbow 6 Siege, Fortnite, Call of duty etc are up to 100GB each. The Western digital black (vs blue) is...

Looks like an Xbox one controller in shape and angles. I'm glad they added a mic. I hope the next Xbox adds a mic to the controller as well. For Netflix and passwords and stuff. I know they had Kinect but once it was unbundled you lost that.

pretty much. it's all speculation. the hardware is nearly identical and having a 10gb/6gb split hardly seems like a big deal... game developers already manage system ram and vram for pc. The other arguement about DX12 being more complicated probably doesn't matter either as pc and xbox one...

combat looks like xcom, which is fine. Definitely interested in this one.

Won't be the end of the world. As others mentioned, I'd probably start with the air and light laptops. I'm not sure if apple has full on chipsets with lots of I/O for their ARM parts but that shouldn't matter for the small laptops and there are third party solutions to those problems. The...

It's interesting that's for sure. Based on the shader counts it seems like these new parts won't necessarily be faster than a 2080 ti for classic gaming, depending on clocks, architecture enhancements, etc. I'd guess that a GA102 titan/ti part may be coming later. What that means for pricing...

43" is a big monitor. Does anybody use one that big for work? Is it super awkward? I use a 24-32-24 arrangement right now.

It should be a a good thing for high core count Ryzen's (vs threadripper with 4 channels). Probably good for IGP's as well.

If the host pc can't communicate over pci-e that lowers the value proposition further. I'm struggling to think of a reason it's worth buying unfortunately.

definitely needs more details

i wonder if steam's big picture mode would work well on a handheld. I feel like it should. I'm not sure about the rest of windows, uplay, origin, etc.