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I don't have any chance of messing with VR due to the hardware I have even if I decided to mess with it. But I knew once Facebook got hold of Oculus it was basically dead. There was no way that acquisition was going to work out for anyone invested into that VR platform. Facebook is a datamining...

Maybe I might care about this if the games on the previous "Future RT Game List" from two years ago had actually panned out.

But consider the corollary. A smaller price increase on the lower end parts will increase desirability over a larger price increase. AMD seems to have plenty of stock so selling more CPUs is only a good thing and any increase in price is going to mean more revenue and profit unless the new CPUs...

No, that's not it. I'm sure nVidia will have at least ten times as many 3070s as the other cards. Just think of that, a 10x increase in the number of cards. This time they'll have 1000 total cards to sell instead of 100.

And that's the problem. It shares one thing with the stock market and that's gambling. The gamble that it will go up or down in value. In the case of stocks there is a company behind the shares. You can research and learn what the company can and can't do. You can make risk assessments on...

My problem is that the price hike is the same no matter the CPU. That's what doesn't make sense. A $50 increase on the top end CPU is little more than added pocket change compared to the old price of the same tier. $50 added onto the value CPU end is way more than pocket change when compared to...

The US dollar is backed by the economy of the US, not the government. The government simply claims the value of the economy. The economy itself has tangible worth. The people, the businesses, equipment, patents, ideas and even more. Those are things with real value and useful in many different...

You're correct. Cash has no intrinsic worth or value. It's all based on what is backing up the cash. In the case of the US dollar it's backed up by the US economy and to a smaller extent the US government. Crypto isn't backed by anything.

Here's an addendum: simply look at Polaris cards, they are still out there. I bought an RX570 earlier this year to replace my ancient HD5770 simply because it was still a decent enough card and I was able to get it for $120. My preference would have been for a 5500XT simply because of the newer...

Isn't that an issue with the power plan being set to an 80% minimum clock speed state? The only time I ever saw that on mine is after a chipset driver update and I had to go back into the plan and drop the minimum clock speed state down. After that I never saw it again.

As someone who has driven a septic truck in Saint's Row 2 while spraying the contents of the truck on everyone and everything I would have to disagree. :p

I don't think there's any way I'd even remotely consider going with anything higher than 8 core in my B450-f Gaming motherboard. It's a low end motherboard and not setup for high end CPUs. I doubt I'd go with anything higher than the 3600x anyway. If I was going to go with something newer or...

Yeah, Intel's pricing might make a difference until AMD releases the 5700x for $100 less than the 5800x.

I agree with others in saying the price increase on the 5600x seems a bit steep. This model is basically the low end of the mid-range product stack and should be much more sensitive to price increases compared to higher end models. It's also a much larger percentage increase compared to the...

I agree that the TIE Defender was overpowered in the TIE Fighter game but that was a lot of the fun of it. It was also a dream to fly compared to any of the other fighters which is why I loved it. It would have been a good idea to include it in the game (which I don't own nor have I played.)...

I think throwing a bunch of money at superhero movies for the foreseeable future is a bad idea. With The Avengers: Endgame finishing out the main Marvel storyline that was built over quite a few years I suspect most people have met their quota of superhero movies for a while. In fact, it's...

I can understand why people had issues with Conan the Barbarian compared to the original Howard stories. They changed many details and mixed up a lot of the stories when making the movie. Still, it was a good movie and in my opinion did at worst a decent job of telling a Conan story in movie...

Motherboard manufacturers may not be worried too much about not having a new chipset anyway. Most of them can probably take their current x570 boards and simply upgrade peripherals which in many cases won't need much in the way of changes. Using already known and working designs with few changes...

I don't have high hopes for this. I still wish they had done the third Conan movie they were supposed to do with Arnold. Unfortunately they rushed, cheaped out and completely screwed up the second movie so a third was never made. The attempted reboot was absolutely horrible from what I...

What a wonderful way to make sure I never have any interest whatsoever in the game. My connection is 5 mbit downstream. Since that has to be shared with other people in the household, including a good bit of streaming, it would probably take me weeks to download that much.