Recent content by noko

Good review but another 8gb card. Good price for today by AMD and hope to see a 16gb version less than $350. Texture resolution can have such a big impact on image quality while having almost no performance impact if you have the VRam. I hope AMD opens up for AIBs the possibility of 16gb versions.

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I see 4 cards, assuming 2 7900XT and 2 7900XTX. One is a 3 slot card, 3 dp2.1 and one HDMI 2.1. How many pcie connections? OC? I wonder if they actually have a custom design on the 3 slot or is that just a cooler? Since Biostar is Taiwan, wonder if their cards are built there, hint, no...

Yep, Nvidia is helping AMD in selling 7900 series GPUs. Hope to see some in stock. I went to Bestbuy last night and got caught off guard having a XFX Speedster Merc 7900 XTX available to buy. Not having a clue what the difference was with the reference I hesitated and started looking it up...

Refreshing review, nicely done. Very modern RT titles that had exposer to RNDA2, current gen consoles, FarCry6 and Spiderman does very well with RT. Older mostly driven Nvidia RTX titles, DXR 1.0 era takes a significant hit. Point is RT performance is also heavily dependent upon how programed...

Any word or info when these will be available? HDMI 2.1 would be a plus also if it comes with it, not limited by the GSync module like the Alienware.

Same boat on one machine with a 3090 being held back by the Zen 2 cores particularly the minimum FPS. I will probably move the 5800x3d rig into the computer room with VR (Flight Simulator is awesome in VR being limited severely by the 3960x). Some rumor that AMD may support DDR4 with Zen 4, lol...

I've notice huge uptakes for minimum FPS in FarCry 6 where it really counts and is noticeable at even 4K resolution. Just a huge difference comparing a 3900x to a 5800x3d. I also have a 5800x in another machine but did not make any comparisons there. I would not even bother that much with...

I will probably add a few more titles that may never get played :D.

If that option is available for the motherboard makers, I see them having cheaper Z790 boards with DDR4 if they can make money from them. Plus later when DDR 5 only CPUs from Intel, some of those same buyers will migrate yet again to a new motherboard. Win Win. Plus if Raptor Lake with DDR 4 is...

Makes almost zero sense for such a low end card for a new system for gaming, DIY system, when current generation Consoles smokes it. APUs for work related tasks system makes more sense skipping this garbage. I see more like Intel will bundle to the OEMs these law end cards at a much cheaper cost...

Live with a smoker, when she went to E, I much prefer that over the real McCoy that stained anything in the house with yellow goo and utterly obnoxious in smell. Now we don't want kids to have E cigarettes, they can have real cigarettes or better yet marijuana for that brain effect so positive...

Interesting, also what advantage does Z790 have over Z690 would be my question? Zen 4 IPC and clock speed increase still appears to not match even Alder Lake P core performance while Raptor Lake should take it a notch above Alder Lake. Anyways Intel supporting both DDR 4 and 5 with their newest...

AMD needs to do something to grow, increasing prices and not dramatically the number of chips, hitting a wall so to speak will not go well over time. So yes, Samsung I would think could/should be used on some skews to increase supply.

Intel is very serious, except in this case 2025 does not help much now https://time.com/6140476/intel-building-factory-ohio/