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  1. Brian_B

    PCIe 8.0 Draft 0.5 is Out: 1 TB/s Bandwidth, New Connectors, and a 2028 Finish Line

    This will save the dying motherboard industry!
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    Lian Li DK-07 WOOD Launches Today with Real Walnut Tabletop at $1,399.99

    Lian Li isn’t charging a premium for the privilege, at least not a separate one. hahahaha that is exactly what i was thinking
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    Trends from the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

    Right now Steam is reporting something in excess of 100 different models of GPUs There is a downfall in that smaller sample sizes need some level of homogenization to be truely representative. You go out and ask 1000 people out of 100,000,000, and if there are only a handful of the more rare...
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    Trends from the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

    So... If you ask a mathematician, you don't need a huge sample size (assuming the distribution is homogenous). A few hundred upwards of a thousand results are enough to extrapolate useful results, and more sampling than that, regardless of the population size, are usually just used to try to...
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    32GB Is the New Recommended Amount of System Memory for Windows 11

    Yeah, while I get that hardware has advanced a long way... the timing is less than stellar, and machines (especially integrated systems) that are able to run well with less are doing very well right now. Microsoft really needs to right the ship here, and in a hurry. Windows is really kind of...
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    007 First Light - Game looks gorgeous!

    I have to agree, but I think that games can be good without top notch graphics.
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    Valve Officially Confirms Steam Controller Launches May 4 for $99

    Wouldnt that be making your gripe worse? Even Microsoft moved from that dongle to the more ubiquitous Bluetooth
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    Intel Has Seemingly Bowed Out of the Consumer Discrete Graphics Market, for Now

    Clearly. Explains why they have done so well since Broadwell, and Broadwell+, and Broadwell+++, Broadwell Refresh, and they are now outsourcing their production to TSMC... Intel has had some brilliant moments, no mistake there. But they very nearly lost the company, and it still remains to be...
  9. Brian_B

    Intel Q1 2026 Earnings Obliterate Expectations; Stock Posts Best Day Since 1987

    Easy to shoot up when you fell all the way to the gutter Glad to see the turn around but not exactly excited about the future with Enterprise/Data Center sucking all the oxygen out of the room
  10. Brian_B

    The FPS Review Weekender Roundup – April 25, 2026

    Is it really February again?
  11. Brian_B

    Apple to Drop Support for Intel-Based Macs Following “Tahoe” macOS 26 Release

    I still have a few Intel Mac Minis deployed - Core was a great architecture when it was new
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    FPS Reviews Round Up – Week Ending April 18, 2026

    Love these summaries
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    Microsoft Is Force-Upgrading All Windows 11 24H2 PCs to 25H2, and You Can’t Opt Out

    I’ve got a lot of years with Fedora / Slackware distros. They are certainly well rounded. Mostly just looking for something that runs Stream and some decent hypervisor so I can virtual sandbox a copy of Windows for work related stuff that needs the 365 suite
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    Microsoft Is Force-Upgrading All Windows 11 24H2 PCs to 25H2, and You Can’t Opt Out

    I am about this close from dropping in CachyOS and just tinkering around for a while.
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    ASRock Develops HUDIMM: A New DDR5 Standard That Cuts Module Chip Count in Half

    Isn't that name from Game of Thrones or something
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    Can’t Keep a Good Processor Down, AMD Rumored to Bring Back Ryzen 7 5800X3D for AM4 10th Anniversary

    All the rigs in my house are still Zen3/DDR4 rigs. Haven't really felt that I'm missing out on anything, all these years later.
  17. Brian_B

    New Xbox CEO Reportedly Told Employees That “Game Pass Has Become Too Expensive for Players”

    Not wrong. When it was $9 for one device, or $15 for ultimate - it was fine. I subbed on and off, and enjoyed it on both my PC and Xbox. I always found the rotating menu annoying though - games kept rolling off and that just doesn't seem like a great idea, but anyway, was nice to be able to try...
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