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  1. Brian_B

    OT: A truckload of antimatter on the move (watch out for potholes...)

    At least they are wearing hard hats. You know, just in case an annihilation occurs
  2. Brian_B

    NVIDIA Releases Game Ready Driver 595.97 WQL, Hopefully Faring Better than 595.59

    Probably AI writing the drivers anymore
  3. Brian_B

    It’s the End of an Era for the Cheese Grater as Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro

    Wasn’t the Pro the model that they promised to build in the US a few years ago for some sort of incentive?
  4. Brian_B

    Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is Official: AMD Puts 3D V-Cache on Both Chiplets, Launches April 22

    I’m betting CPUs get pretty inexpensive now that RAM is choking off people from upgrading Gotta try to entice people to do drop-in upgrades
  5. Brian_B

    The OLED Black Depth Lie – When Panel Type and Coating Matters

    That’s fine But the original article obviously doesn’t agree and has data on the models they tested. I’m sure there are always outliers, and the article only tested some subset of all screens available. All I did was summarize the article for the tl;dr’s out here
  6. Brian_B

    NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 5, to Help Achieve Photorealistic Lighting While Honoring the Artist’s Original Intent and Image Quality

    Steam runs, even has Big Picture Mode and everything on OS X. Apple does have an App Store on OS X, but it isn't nearly as big as it is on iOS, since OS X is open and not a walled garden, so no need for Valve to break into the walled garden and fork over 30% as long as it stays on OS X and...
  7. Brian_B

    NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 5, to Help Achieve Photorealistic Lighting While Honoring the Artist’s Original Intent and Image Quality

    Why would Apple partner with Valve when Apple brings in almost 10x the revenue that Valve does, just on App Store Gaming revenue alone, let alone everything else Apple creates revenue with. Apple could buy Valve outright five times over just with the cash they have on hand if they wanted to...
  8. Brian_B

    Intel Will Reportedly Launch Its “Big Battlemage” Arc Pro B70 and B65 Workstation Graphics Cards Next Week

    For the Apple unbelievers, and folks that are just flat out in denial, I'll just throw this out there: From Wikipedia - List of Largest Video Game companies So, a lot of companies making a lot of money, for sure. Apple would be top of the list though, if you considered them a publisher...
  9. Brian_B

    NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 5, to Help Achieve Photorealistic Lighting While Honoring the Artist’s Original Intent and Image Quality

    hahaha like nVidia would ever allow you to mate their product with an inferior brand. You'll be lucky if it doesn't require whatever the latest generation is, just because they can do that and force sales. (you have a good point though, despite my joking)
  10. Brian_B

    NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 5, to Help Achieve Photorealistic Lighting While Honoring the Artist’s Original Intent and Image Quality

    I mean, if we keep going down this path - graphics programming won't be anything other than a series of AI prompts.
  11. Brian_B

    NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 5, to Help Achieve Photorealistic Lighting While Honoring the Artist’s Original Intent and Image Quality

    I'm in camp "Jaded and salty because I don't have the hardware to run this"
  12. Brian_B

    Valve Reveals Steam Machine and Frame Requirements, Advises Developers That “Optimizing for Lower Spec Machines Expands Your Audience.”

    It’s the same conundrum we had when mining boomed —- if you can sell every single piece of hardware that you make at a higher margin, why do you bother continuing to support lower margin uses? The constraint is manufacturing - they can’t just scale up fabs fast enough to support the demand, and...
  13. Brian_B

    Valve Reveals Steam Machine and Frame Requirements, Advises Developers That “Optimizing for Lower Spec Machines Expands Your Audience.”

    Steam does have a native OS X client, and there are a surprising amount native games — but nothing like SteamOS on AMD hardware (maybe about the same as Windows on Arm though?)
  14. Brian_B

    DLSS 5 - what the sh1t...

    Other than the glowup on facial shots - mostly it just seems to make everything brighter.
  15. Brian_B

    DLSS 5 - what the sh1t...

    * Only available on select nVidia 6000 series graphics cards, which we aren't going to introduce because AI is awesome. Or dual 5090 setups, which we aren't making any more and now have a retail MSRP of $5,090 to match the model number. So good luck - go stream it on GeForce Now**! **...
  16. Brian_B

    Intel Core Ultra 9 285K & Ultra 5 245K CPU Review

    That is the most boring graph to come out of a marketing department that I have ever seen.
  17. Brian_B

    Crimson Desert Has an Estimated 400,000 Pre-Orders on Steam, Which Could Result in $20 Million in Sales Revenue at Launch

    Game could be interesting. Black Desert had some really confusion microtransaction system (at least to me, I may have been drinking). Was typical Asian MMO gameplay though. Have my eye on this but not expecting much depth, just some flashy graphics and an overly complicated combat system that...
  18. Brian_B

    The Z Build(s) 3.0 - Go Big and/or Go Home

    It is very easy and inexpensive to make your own double conversion unit using solar/storage components - in pretty much any size you want and any battery technology that you like, including lithium cells. We do this at work for control systems all the time rather than commercial UPS units The...
  19. Brian_B

    AMD Could Be Prepping a Flagship Next-Gen GPU Featuring 96 Compute Units with Memory on a 512-Bit Bus

    That is exactly what I do at work. There aren't enough electrical generators right now to support the data center demand. Gas turbine and large reciprocating engine availability is out until 2030 (or beyond). Nuclear isn't rapid deployment at any scale. Renewables require so much lithium to...
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