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  1. Elf_Boy

    Build choice - am4 with more ram or am5 with less?

    Lets hope 128gb is enough - ddr5 is too expensive these days. Even 4*16 is $500+ How important is memory speed?
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    Build choice - am4 with more ram or am5 with less?

    Just upgraded mu Mobo/CPU. Now I am looking to build a second system from older parts to run an LLM and maybe even be that Linux box I've wanted to learn with. I'll need to pick up an NVME drive and maybe a PSU - have everything else. The question and for which I am asking advise: I have an...
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    A Troubling Trend Is Growing as PC Hardware Manufacturers Cancel Orders Only to Repost the Same Product at a Higher Price

    I've had a few Zotac GPU's and they always worked well with no problems.
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    ASUS Advises Users of AMD 800-Series Motherboards to Update BIOS as It Investigates Reports of Burnt Ryzen 7 9800X3D Processors

    I just upgraded, still need to fix my sig. Asus 870e strix gaming wifi with 9950x3d. Wondering how worried I should be? No new bios for my board as of yesterday when I looked. Or is only 2 months old considered new?
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    A Troubling Trend Is Growing as PC Hardware Manufacturers Cancel Orders Only to Repost the Same Product at a Higher Price

    I think it is easy and simplistic to lash out at Corsair and Zotac. I am not dismissing or forgetting any behavior just keeping perspective that those companies and many others are also victims of the AI boom and greedy chip makers. GEEZE - I just AI'd how long and how much to open a new fab...
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    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Tops a List of Worst-Optimized Games of 2025, with the Majority Being Unreal Engine 5 Based

    Very interesting. Maybe the difference in the driver/hardware we are rendering with? The 7900xtx is supposed to be a beast with pure rastor, right? Once I get my new router tomorrow (if on time) I'll test on my Corsair a1600 (6800hs + 6800m w/12gb vram). My Asus laptop, with its shared memory...
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    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Tops a List of Worst-Optimized Games of 2025, with the Majority Being Unreal Engine 5 Based

    Full lumen - maxed out doesnt seem to change anything in how the game feels - dropped in a HDR mod too. IMO for a single player RPG any FPS over 30 is good and over 60 is great - so long as no stutters, tears, or other distractions which I am not seeing. Even with the 'feel' being the same it...
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    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Tops a List of Worst-Optimized Games of 2025, with the Majority Being Unreal Engine 5 Based

    Been playing Oblivion (@4k native), not so deep in as yet, no sign of troubles, stutters or problems - though, I do have a decent toy to play it on. Only thing not fully maxed in settings is the RT - think I will check that out now though. See what it does to my FPS. What adrenaline has to say:
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    From Bad to Worse, NVIDIA Reportedly Will Cut RTX 50 Series Production by 30–40% in 2026 and Might Stop Providing VRAM to Its Partners

    I did not take this as an insult. Merely as an untruth. I assume we should agree that we do not agree.
  10. Elf_Boy

    From Bad to Worse, NVIDIA Reportedly Will Cut RTX 50 Series Production by 30–40% in 2026 and Might Stop Providing VRAM to Its Partners

    Avowed, BG3, Elden Ring, Forspoken, Hogwarts Legacy, New World, POE 1/2, Starfield, Cyberpunk. Mind, I don't have impressive times played for every single one, I do own them all in Steam and have had them up and running. I rarely use upscaling. Only when I have no choice. With RT off my GPU...
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    From Bad to Worse, NVIDIA Reportedly Will Cut RTX 50 Series Production by 30–40% in 2026 and Might Stop Providing VRAM to Its Partners

    Us 4k-gamers are taking it in the Donkey on this arent we? Having 16gb+ is not so optional. Should I buy one of those 1440p ultrawide? I still dont think 8gb would be, well, good. I see higher GPU pricing with even higher GPU scalping in the future. May not be the best at RT, just the...
  12. Elf_Boy

    The Price of Steam Machine Could Be Within the $600–$800 Range, According to Costs of a Mock-Up Test Build

    All very interesting. I will be interested in seeing performance numbers for gaming, under Steam OS and Win 11.
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    It Was Forty Years Ago When Microsoft Introduced Windows, Joining a New Wave of Graphical User Interface-Based Operating Systems

    Wellllllllllll......... I have had more than one person (including my sister) call me frantic about the new virus they have, which constantly is doing pop-ups galore in the bottom right of their screen.
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    Further Testing Shows How an NVIDIA Hotfix Driver Restored FPS to Games Following a Microsoft Update That Had Reduced Them

    My question, asked entirely out of self interest, does this fps loss affect AMD/Intel GPU's too or was it just NV?
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    It Was Forty Years Ago When Microsoft Introduced Windows, Joining a New Wave of Graphical User Interface-Based Operating Systems

    Xp was the first one I felt was 'real' not quite as crash prone as 95/98/me - I remember having to reinstall 98 4 times in one day because of .dll conflicts. Vista/7 were each incrementally more solid and less crash prone. 8 looked goofy, like a phone OS, but worked just fine. IMO 10 was...
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    It Was Forty Years Ago When Microsoft Introduced Windows, Joining a New Wave of Graphical User Interface-Based Operating Systems

    ME didnt have the time to hit it's stride, IMhO Vista, again IMhO, the OS/giu etc were fine. It was just a pissant poor product launch. MS did get much resistance from developers, including big companies, to making new drivers. The sound blaster I had at the time never got a new driver. Had to...
  17. Elf_Boy

    Intel Will Officially Debut Its Panther Lake Core Ultra 3 Processors at CES 2026

    Power efficiency does seem a good place for Intel to focus. Outside of server farms no one seems to consider cost of use - or perhaps I am just a penny pincher?
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    It Was Forty Years Ago When Microsoft Introduced Windows, Joining a New Wave of Graphical User Interface-Based Operating Systems

    And I own (owned if I cant find the box/license I suppose) most of those versions. Starting with 3.1.
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gets a Major 9% Performance Uptick with Latest Drivers, New Testing Shows It Besting NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti in Some Games

    If only AMD were to pull a "Ryzen" in the GPU space? By which I mean come up with a new idea or design that just blows away the competition. I'd like to see Intel get out a higher end card too.
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gets a Major 9% Performance Uptick with Latest Drivers, New Testing Shows It Besting NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti in Some Games

    I suspect AMD ran into a specific wall with the 9k series. Again, just a guess or if you prefer intuition, I think they did build high end prototypes and the die/chip (what's the right word) was just plain needing too much power to run at competitive speeds. If not that some other technical...
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