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Same.

It depends on what they mean by "day one releases on Steam" but it is nice that they realize something has to change. Personally, I will not give them a penny of my money until and unless they ditch the requirement of creating a Ubisoft account either in game or using their separate launcher...

I'm glad that with everything going on at Intel they seem to be sticking with their new discrete GPU's. Even though I am a long way from actually considering a discrete Intel GPU, that market really needs the added competition, and some day I might just find a use for one.

Still don't understand why anyone would get any Meta VR product over the latest versions of the HTC Vive or other SteamVR compatible products. The whole "requiring a Meta account" bullshit pretty much means I would never even consider it. Hardware should never be locked to accounts. It ought...

I already have all the accounts I want. I will never sign up for any account to play any game. If I can't play it as is using my Steam or GoG accounts, I'll just pass. If it is an important enough title to me I'll just use the "community edition" in protest.

It will be interesting to see how they play this one. I bet they will be tempted to really bin the **** out of these chips so they can offer higher clocks that result in more of a performance increase over previous gen than the disappointing 1-2% of the non-X3D parts.

Yeah, traditionally why Android phones had such short support lifespans. Qualcomm made most of the SoC's, and while they provided drivers for the launch versions of Android, they refused to update or support them long term, meaning that within ~2 years, the phones would stop receiving updates...

To me, the biggest problem with Qualcomm is that they don't support their products long term. They seemingly launch each new SoC with a set of drivers, and then abandon them quickly thereafter, meaning they have an artificially imposed very short lifespan in the field. That mindset would be...

The fact that there is even talk of this is an astonishing turn of events.

Yeah, the label in one of the pics says 100v to 240v (presumably to cover the range from Japan (100v) to most of the world (240v) Japan is weird though (but I don't mean in the usual way people mean it when they say Japan is weird) My understanding is that while the entire country is 100v...

I wonder if it would accept 60hz line power... Would be trivial to hook up a US 240v plug so it. Not that I can even imagine needing that much power, but...

Sounds risky from a branding perspective. I feel like someone already owns the trademark "Razer". 😅

No worries. I suspect with Mikrotik, the multigig requirement is going to be the challenge. They have a handful of products, but have been really slow at rolling out multigig at large scale for some reason. You can make up for it to a certain extent with those SFP+ -> multigig+10gig adapters...

My experience with RAID0 has been that while it is great at boosting sequential speeds which tend to scale fairly well, random speeds can suffer. That said, while it was a real screamer when new, even compared to later SATA drives the X25-E was on the slow side. Intel only speced it as "up...

It's funny. I've had 64GB in my main machine since ~2014. That was when I decommissioned my old consumer hardware based server (AMD FX 8350). It was maxed out with 32GB of DDR3 RAM. When I decommissioned it, I had all of this RAM I didn't know what to do with until I remembered that my...

I also don't know how most consumers take advantage of high sequential speeds, other than the novelty. I mean, how often do you really copy large files back and forth between latest PCIe Gen drives anyway? Especially considering how limited PCIe lanes are on modern motherboards.

Samsung is always late to the game with a new generation interface, and then proceeds to be among the best performers of the generation (in the consumer space) once they do launch. Will be interesting to see how much (if any) the 4k Random performance improves over previous gen. I'd almost...

Depends on how many ports you need. If you are ok with 24gigabit and two 10gig (SFP+) a Mikrotik CSS326-24G-2S+ is one hell of a bang for the buck. Mine cost me $129 a few years ago (pre-pandemic inflation). Now they appear to cost slightly more, but still not terribly so...

**** this. **** all of it.

Exactly. It's a false comparison. If they actually had to sell the PS5 Pro at typical PC hardware mark-up levels, then the cost comparison would make more sense. Right now buyers of consoles get the "expensive inkjet printer cartridge" experience. Sure you get a "cheap" console below cost...