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  1. Brian_B

    Marathon Is on Track to Launch in March, but Thanks to Its Anti-Cheat Solution, It May Not Be Playable on Steam Machine or Linux

    Marathon was a good game back in the ‘90s — the Mac equivalent of UT or Quake really. But, you know, since it was on the Mac (in the 90s no less) only like 15 people ever played it. Kind of a precursor to Halo, before MS bought them out and made it exclusive
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    KX-7000: The perfect CPU to punish your kid with for not doing homework

    I mean, it works... it booted and ran all that stuff. So that's a big something right there. Maybe not "serious contender" something, but it's more than I've done in my garage with silicon, for sure.
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    MSI MPG X870I EDGE TI EVO WIFI Motherboard Review

    My new leading question in motherboard reviews: But how is the CMOS battery mounted? And it does get answered here in this review folks!
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    RX 9xxx Owner's Thread

    Nice. I was thinking about upgrading a couple of the computers in my house but.... nope. Not any more. I think you got a decent deal considering today's climate though. Kid is still rocking an old AMD 5600XT - but he has a job now and doesn't care about graphics, like... at all. He would play...
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    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.
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    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.
  8. 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...
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    This is how badly Intel screwed itself over

    How big is the market for local large language models?
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    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
  11. 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?
  12. 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...
  13. 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.
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    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...
  15. 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...
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