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  1. Brian_B

    I have seen vertical CMOS batteries but THIS is ridiculous

    That does suck Looks like if you cut the heat shrink off, the leads will probably be tack welded to the battery... You can get (or make) conductive epoxy (often sold as "window defogger wire repair") to reconnect the leads to a new battery if you don't wanna splurge on the tack welder, then...
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    CDPR Exec Confirms That Total Sales for the First Three The Witcher Games Have Exceeded 85 Million Units Sold

    I'm kinda surprised it's not more, with W3 being so well regarded.
  3. Brian_B

    PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB Overclocked Dual Fan Video Card Review

    i think a lot of folks are doing a 180 now that more RAM requires a credit check and reverse mortgage Maybe Ram Doubler will make a comeback.
  4. Brian_B

    Unreal Engine 5.6 Makes Its Debut with New Footage from the Witcher IV Tech Demo, Showcasing Improved 60 FPS Ray Traced Global Illumination

    In their defense... very very few developers get to work on projects that are actually their idea. Even/Especially If you get successful, then your ideas get co-opted by board rooms who are investing money. Sure, it may have started as your vision, but there are strings attached to that...
  5. Brian_B

    This is how badly Intel screwed itself over

    How big is the market for local large language models?
  6. Brian_B

    Latest Rumors Suggest That NVIDIA Is Delaying Its RTX 50 SUPER Series Indefinitely, and the RTX 60 Series May Not Arrive Until Mid-2027

    First, my attempt at sarcasim obviously failed here Second, I think your example is an excellent one and is indeed what I’m trying to convey - but I don’t think is where industry executives are heading
  7. Brian_B

    Latest Rumors Suggest That NVIDIA Is Delaying Its RTX 50 SUPER Series Indefinitely, and the RTX 60 Series May Not Arrive Until Mid-2027

    I never thought streaming would supplant physical media either, but here we are. Convenience always seems to trump quality. I wouldn't be surprised to see that developers specifically start to target the latency issue.. I mean, AI can fix anything, right?
  8. Brian_B

    Latest Rumors Suggest That NVIDIA Is Delaying Its RTX 50 SUPER Series Indefinitely, and the RTX 60 Series May Not Arrive Until Mid-2027

    The issue isnt development time, costs, or support. If you have a finite amount of resources (in this case - fab capacity and RAM) — and you can make XX% margin making one product, but XX% times 5 making another… the first product will just bleed a slow death until you can get everyone some...
  9. Brian_B

    ASUS Prepares to NUC the Steam Machine with a Mini PC Featuring a Panther Lake Processor and an Arc B390 GPU

    All the big news I've been seeing so far... and admittedly I have not been watching very closely ...is all the previous generation OLED monitors going on fire sale. That, and AI seems to no longer the big buzzword, just another marketing bullet point that everyone is assumed to have.
  10. Brian_B

    NVIDIA RTX 50 SUPER Series Might Debut at CES 26, Launch Between March-May, and Has Been Spotted on the Seasonic Website

    Oh it'll "arrive". All 18 super-influencers will get three different versions of the cards. Six of those influencers will proceed to destructively tear down the cards, shoot them with rifles, or catch them on fire... for "clicks". Three influencers will give their cards away in some sort of...
  11. Brian_B

    NVIDIA Is Open to the Idea of Pairing Newer AI Technologies with Older GPUs to Offer Lower-Cost Products for Consumers

    Oh I read this and I think - the consumer GPU division is dead Yeah, possibly, and we could possibly, depending on which generation, we could also bring the latest generation AI technology to the previous generation GPUs, and that will require a fair amount of engineering, but it’s also within...
  12. Brian_B

    MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z Is Already Brewing Up a Storm Thanks to Its Two 12V-2×6 Connectors and 2,500 Watt XOC BIOS

    this forum is full of addicts - my money is on most of you self-exercising a kidney while laying in a bathtub of ice to get your hands on one before the subsequent Ti respins hit the market
  13. Brian_B

    The 2026 Game Thread: You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy Edition

    I have a hard time getting into most CRPGs as well. Turn by turn game play just feels so slow and I get bored, and if you try to play it in real-time the mechanics are so complex (because they assume you are playing turn by turn) that I can't keep up. Dragon Age did an ok job finding a middle...
  14. Brian_B

    NVIDIA Announces DLSS 4.5 with 2nd Gen Transformer Model and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation with up to 6X More Frames for 240 Hz/360 Hz Displays

    Nice naming convention ... to hint that they will let you use this with current gen cards, while holding back 5.0 to ... whatever is next that you won't be able to afford. I mean, not that I'm bitter about arbitrarily locking proprietary software features behind a hardware paywall or anything.
  15. Brian_B

    AMD CES 2026 Announcements – 9850X3D/Ryzen AI 400/Ryzen AI Max+/Ryzen AI PRO

    Becomes less and less relevant every day. Really only necessary for legacy compatibility any more... and if you are leveraging AI/Compute, it's probably not with something written in Cobol compiled for 80386 architecture I know for my use case, I keep an x86 around for only two reasons: -- I do...
  16. Brian_B

    recover cookies

    Wouldn't that depend on the browser he was using?
  17. Brian_B

    LG Reveals Its Lightweight Aerominum Composition as It Announces the World’s Lightest 17-Inch Laptop with a Dedicated RTX 50 GPU

    I can't even figure out how you would pronounce that Arrow - mine - um ? Arrow - min - um ? doesn't exactly sound right A - row - me - num ? Not sure you can stretch Arrow to A-row, but maybe this is it? Arrow - mini - um would have at least sounded like a metal
  18. Brian_B

    LG Reveals Its Lightweight Aerominum Composition as It Announces the World’s Lightest 17-Inch Laptop with a Dedicated RTX 50 GPU

    I'm pretty sure they just made that word up. Weren't Surface laptops a Magnesium alloy for a bit when they first came out?
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