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  1. 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?)
  2. Brian_B

    DLSS 5 - what the sh1t...

    Other than the glowup on facial shots - mostly it just seems to make everything brighter.
  3. 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**! **...
  4. 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.
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. Brian_B

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

    No one is gonna chase it when AI will buy almost identical product at 5x the cost
  9. Brian_B

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

    You are assuming we will still have consumer cards.
  10. Brian_B

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

    I'm still a naysayer. Full blown 100% RT is still not real-time. What you are seeing now are some mud puddle reflections and shiny chrome on guns pasted on top of a rasterized scene. The only full RT-calculated games right now are tech demos and ports of ancient titles.
  11. Brian_B

    The end of Android sideloading?

    You can thank California and AB 1043. Wait until you have to upload a picture of your driver's license before your internet router will work. It's gonna really play havoc with Linux. I hope this gets struck down this fall - the law is well intentioned, but written so poorly it functionally...
  12. Brian_B

    Sony Will Reportedly Lessen the Number of Games It Brings to PC Moving Forward

    I was gonna point to the Switch as a lower cost console, but even that is $450 now.
  13. Brian_B

    AI Analytic Firm Predicts the End of the Sub-$500 Entry-Level PC by 2028, as Well as a Major Hit to Smartphone Sales in 2026

    I dunno about that. There's an awful lot of sub $500 PCs out there. I mean, that stretches all the way to sub $200, and you can even find some stuff under $100 (new) that will run Windows. If you are talking about a gaming PC though (which I will loosely define as a PC with socketed CPU, RAM...
  14. Brian_B

    Sony Will Reportedly Lessen the Number of Games It Brings to PC Moving Forward

    Kinda depends really... if the RAM/GPU prices don't come back down, we won't have many future PCs that compare vs consoles... Of course console price will be affected as well, but they can manage it a bit better, and subsidize hardware pricing if they really want to.
  15. Brian_B

    Long-Awaited NVIDIA/Mediatek Arm-Based Laptops Are Expected to Arrive Soon

    Nothing nVidia does anymore is "value priced"
  16. Brian_B

    Industry-Wide Layoffs and Studio Closures Continue as Gaming Audiences Lose Interest in New Releases

    what? That's like saying you aren't part of the economy if you're self employed.
  17. Brian_B

    MSI MPG 341CQPX

    I don't run it on my 4K monitors either, but those are standard 16:9; it would be nice to have on an ultrawide.
  18. Brian_B

    Industry-Wide Layoffs and Studio Closures Continue as Gaming Audiences Lose Interest in New Releases

    Just because you think it's mediocre, or it's putout by an indie, doesn't change sales figures. Which I would say correlate fairly strongly to "appeal" Unless you were just talking about "appeals to MadMummy76"
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