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The problem, since the 109xx days is that the heat spreader and TIM are limiting factors in transferring heat away from the CPU die. It's not an easy problem to solve but your right. Increasing radiator capacity, airflow etc. will only net you so much in the grand scheme of things. Going...

Given Ubisoft's track record lately and all the leaks coming out from inside the company, I don't doubt it.

I think they can. How they would be able to mitigate this is unclear to me but this is the type of thing Intel is typically good at engineering their way through historically. Generally speaking, Intel's CPU's have not been effected by latency to the same degree as AMD's. AMD for one reason or...

My take: This is a transitional product that lays the ground work for future releases. This isn't remotely the first time Intel has done this. The Wilamette Socket 423 Pentium IV's were such a product. It introduced RAMBUS memory and they were often out performed by their Pentium III...

There are people who will buy Intel even when they have no logical reason to do so. I work with a guy like that. He won't buy anything else because of the reputation non-Intel CPU's had in the 1990's.

Well the platform has to be good for something.

Except it isn't. Overclocked, Intel's 10980XE and its Xeon W-3475x pulled more than that. The former pulled well past 400w on its own at 4.8GHz. Granted, if you are going to pull that you are pretty much going to have to go to water cooling but you could get close with a good 360 AIO.

I don't think I've ever played any of the Killzone games.

I'm not expecting much if Squadron 42 comes out at all. CIG has lost any credibility they might have had years ago.

I'll actually give ASUS credit here. I dislike a lot of case designs, especially anything I've seen that used wood. But this one looks pretty good in my opinion. I don't know how good a case it is, but I like the way it looks.

The last Blizzard game I ever played was Diablo 3. I didn't care for it. After a couple hours I abandoned it and never went back. I didn't think it was that good and nostalgia for the first two games weren't enough to carry me through the 3rd one.

I agree 100%

That's often what the DEI proponents say as they hide behind the excuse of "if you are against DEI you are racist / bigot / ist / phobe" or whatever. This isn't true. A lot of critics on Youtube that complain about this stuff I've seen are calling it where its appropriate for the most part...

They are already in damage control mode. EA/BioWare is going to claim piracy wrecked sales when that couldn't be further for the truth. Woke / DEI nonsense aside, the games live service underpinnings and cartoonish style worked against it from the start.

Again, woke / DEI is NOT the same as organic diversity. One stands out as its forced and out of place. The other doesn't raise flags because its normal and representative of whatever geographic location and time period the story takes place in. There have been shows that were supposedly woke or...

Agreed. I'm not fond of current GPU or motherboard prices either. They've gotten out of hand in the last few years. I used to be that guy who upgraded every generation and I may not be doing that going forward.

I'd also add that I grew up playing console games because my parents couldn't afford a PC. Back when I was a kid a sub-$1,000 PC that could play games didn't exist. Hell I had one friend that was into PC gaming and that's only because his family could afford a PC and his dad worked in the...

Being an exception to the rule yourself doesn't necessarily preclude the possibility that a data point is generally accurate. I make more than most people who don't have a high school or college degree. I don't even have my (G)ood (E)nough (D)ummy. I work in a technical field despite having no...

I've never cared about power consumption on a desktop part. As long as I can keep it cool enough to maintain reliability I'm happy. As for the price, I don't really expect it to be that much if any more than the RTX 4090 was.

Organic and natural diversity is NOT DEI. Let's make that abundantly clear. The 1987 film Predator stars an extremely diverse cast of characters. No one had a problem with that. In the setting and context of the film the diversity was organic. It also didn't matter if the cast belonged to one...