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I have always wondered how a a 4 drive raid 0 array of old 64gb Intel X25-E drives would compare to a cheap 256gb nvme drive

This might be the first generation of NVME drives I skip if there isn’t much increase in 4k random. I bought a 4TB 990 pro for games, and shifted my old game drive ( 2TB 980pro ) to an OS drive. I don’t need more space, and I don’t really know how I would take advantage of more drives.

I mean, maybe someday the models will be able to infer at 100% accuracy, but my playing with DLSS on my 3080ti says it’s not there right now. I’d rather have higher end hardware generating the full frame, then go with lower end hardware + artifacts, even if it’s the same FPS.

that also neglects PC upgrades. Give me someone that bought an x470 based system, say a 2700X or whatever. I’ll flash the bios, drop in a 5700x3d and a 4070 super and it will blow the doors off the PS 5 pro. Or, at this point, drop in the 5700x3d and wait for the 5070 to drop and spread the...

I bought Mechs in Mechwarrior online to get the 30% c-bill bonus and cut down the grind. I honestly don’t mind spending a little money on a game like MWO since I really enjoy it.

I agree 100% on AI products as the focus. If you haven't been watching the AI announcements recently, there are many, and some estimates of >10x growth in hardware demand by 2027. I'd be slightly surprised if gaming hardware growth was much more than 10% by 2027. NVidia, AMD, and Intel will...

I think the initial high price is very much the ideal situation for manufacturers that are having their product scalped day 1. Why let the scalpers get all the profit? Come out with a price 2x - 3x what you would normally charge, let the scalpers eat the inventory at huge profit, and then...

The 5000x3d series on AM4 is actually pretty solid price to perf wise. The 5700x3d is $200 and you can drop it in many old AM4 motherboards. Sold a buddy my old 2700X + x470MB + 32GB ram for a song, and he flashed the bios and dropped in a 5700x3d. a 4tb Samsung 990pro. and a 4060. Hard to...

Same here. The 5950 normally just crunches distributed computing, but I game on it every now and then. A 9950x3d really would be the best of both worlds and a decent upgrade to boot.

Same PC since 2007 with a better monitor?

I'd agree with this 100%. Mic built into the headset is not optional, especially if I'm moving from my work PC to my Game PC with the same headset.

This kind of info is fantastic. So maybe less a deep dive in gaming headsets, but more a "forget the gaming stuff, here is how to build something much better". Kind of like comparing a AIO to a custom water cooling build.

You guys should do a headset deep Dive. I’ve been using a Kingston hyperX cloud (or something) I got at a microcenter Black Friday sale like 7 years ago. They are fine, but not amazing, and are wearing quite a bit…. But they were $25. I’d really like a wireless that I can move between my work...

I'm not even sure you really need the DRAM - how much penalty is there for a cache miss and then loading from TLC vs directly loading from MLC or SLC? At this point I should just look into enterprise SLC drives. There must be a 512GB or 1TB SLC drive out there somewhere.

I would challenge the idea that you can't do a higher TDP processor on Air. I've got a 5800X3D on my ancient Noctua D15 and it hasn't been an issue. I know quite a few people in my distributed computing discord are using the Thermalright Peerless Assassin / Phantom Spirit on chips like the 7950.

Was the Radeon the best 2d card at the time? I ended up going with a Matrox 2d card as I recall, but THAT is one aspect of my old system I don't remember anymore.

It’s amazing how fast things were changing back then. I replaced the sli voodoo 2s with a GeForce 2 ultra, and upgraded the pi 400 to a pentium 3 700 with that GeForce 2 ultra in fall 2000. It was my first water cooled processor, as I put it on a 133 FSB and needed water to keep it stable...

100% agree. My fondest gaming memories are from my P2 400 system with SLI Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12mb and a raid zero set of ultra wide SCSI 9.1GB 10k seagate cheetah drives. I got the pII 400 at release, having saved up the entire summer of 1997 and then all my after school job money in the...

I wonder how much this makes a difference for, say, a 5800X3D?

Did you somehow channel exactly how I feel about it and write the post before I could? It’s entirely possible I’ve spent more time between civ2 and 3 than I have any other 2 games. Toss in Masters of Orion 2, and you probably have my most 3 played games of all time.