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I wouldn't be surprised to see movie studios propping up theaters and for good reason. They get a huge chunk of their money from theater viewings. Without theaters the gravy train will stop. While you can get some people to pay extra for on demand viewings of new movies right now that's not...

It's 100% nVidia's fault. nVidia rushed the cards out the door knowing there would be no real supply at launch. It's also likely nVidia knew there would be no real supply for quite a while as well. Either that is due to bad yields for the chip or bad yields for the memory or simply that...

I might watch it if there's a giant hand hovering over everyone and after the hand taps on an orc a few times in a row the orc yells "Stop touching me!"

StaxRip is a GUI fronted which can do encoding and I believe it does hardware encoding for nVidia and AMD cards. I've seen it recommended before for CPU video encoding because it handles threads much better than Handbrake, especially with x265. That said, it can be confusing to figure out and...

If companies want to stop or hinder scalpers all they have to do is launch with a reasonable stock of product. If people can readily get their hands on the product there is little or no reason for scalpers to bother.

There's a program called Thaiphoon Burner which can be used to read and save the RAM specs to an HTML file which can then be loaded by Ryzen DRAM Calculator to auto-populate the needed info for your RAM. The free version of Thaiphoon Burner will allow you get the specs you need and export them...

Do I think nVidia is intentionally holding back a bunch of chips/cards and forcing AIBs to limit the number they put out? No. Do I think nVidia rushed the launch well ahead of having any sort of real stock? You bet your *** I do. Whether the stock problems are due to yield issues or simply...

How can production costs be so high if in the case of sports games it's basically the same game as the last five years but with different names? There's no way you can tell me that changing some names is massive production costs.

And now that I've finally read the review which I enjoyed quite a bit I can add an addendum to my previous post. First of all, the DC project I was talking about is WCG. As usual I forgot to state specifically what I was talking about. Second, from the review you can see that in CB20 the stock...

In the case of my Q6600@3.6Ghz I managed to get a multi-core score of 741 in CB20. My Ryzen 2600x pulled a multi-core score of 3004. It's not a perfect comparison because the Ryzen obviously has more cores/threads and a higher clockspeed but even by tripling the Q6600 score to "match" the thread...

Sure, it's cheaper but I definitely doubt it's nearly as powerful. I'd be really surprised if the C2Q didn't badly limit the video card. IPC has come a long way since the Core2 days as I can attest. A year ago I finally upgraded from a Q6600@3.6 to a Ryzen 5 2600x and the difference was like...

16 to 20 is a 25% increase. If we're talking a linear increase in power you could be looking at up to 25% increase in power usage. That's not a small increase and the power usage itself is not the only concern. Cooling the GPU as well as needing to dump that extra heat are problems in and of...

The reason I brought it up in the first place is because of Intel's 10nm failure. They've been trying to push out designs on 10nm and it has failed rather badly. Even when they do get a working product out of it the yields are bad and they're low clocked and small core count parts. Fixing a...

I'm wondering how long this is going to be in effect for, though? I'm willing to bet the only reason Intel has been able to keep up clock speeds is due to still being on 14nm. I think it's quite likely that when Intel finally gets something desktop usable on 10nm that the clock speeds are going...

I hate giving EA any money but I might have to find some spare cash and pony up for a couple of copies if it looks like my son will play the game.

From the beginning of these rumors my first thought was that the purchase of ARM by nVidia would be the absolute fastest and easiest way for ARM to be killed off.

I've gotten the occasional song through this for myself and others mainly because I was able to download a copy to keep/archive. That option is disappearing after the switch. The only way to download anything is by subscribing to the service at which point it will allow you to download to a...

My 486 didn't even have a heatsink much less a fan. My Pentium 100 had a heatsink but it was tiny and probably didn't do much. Fanless heatsinks in general are nothing new. There have been a number of them over the years. Some were specifically designed as fanless while others were designed to...

Until a year ago I was part of the 1920x1200 group. My poor, old Acer x243w died on me after 11 or so years and I had to downgrade to 1920x1080. Once I was able to retire my Radeon HD 5770 and replaced it with an RX570 Freesync was really nice and 75hz instead of 60hz was a nice upgrade as well...

Even if it happens it's too many years and too many movies too late at this point.