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  1. 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
  2. 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...
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    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.
  4. 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...
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    recover cookies

    Wouldn't that depend on the browser he was using?
  6. 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
  7. 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?
  8. Brian_B

    PC Hardware Manufacturers Answer as to Whether or Not Its Better to Use Bundled GPU Adapters or Native PSU 12V-2×6 Cables

    six of these bad boys and a willingness to mcguyver the wiring harness https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QVXXGVR/?tag=thefpsreview-20 there is a hall effect version as well if you are worried about the shunt resistor, but it won't be nearly as accurate...
  9. Brian_B

    Free games thread

    I peaked at it, saw the reviews, and slowly backed away. Looks like it ~could~ be promising but not sure it's promising enough for me to want to light up what amounts to a subscription fee for a single player game.
  10. Brian_B

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

    That is fair
  11. Brian_B

    PC Hardware Manufacturers Answer as to Whether or Not Its Better to Use Bundled GPU Adapters or Native PSU 12V-2×6 Cables

    I don’t think it works that way with amps Voltage pushes. Amps pull.
  12. Brian_B

    PC Hardware Manufacturers Answer as to Whether or Not Its Better to Use Bundled GPU Adapters or Native PSU 12V-2×6 Cables

    I don't think an adapter can fix a current imbalance issue. You can make an adapter that normalizes the current coming from the PSU... but the card itself is still gonna pull unbalanced across the pins: and that's where all the failures seem to be happening. To fix the imbalance on the pins...
  13. Brian_B

    PC Hardware Manufacturers Answer as to Whether or Not Its Better to Use Bundled GPU Adapters or Native PSU 12V-2×6 Cables

    Funny if it does - that would be an easy thing to fix on the card
  14. Brian_B

    RAM == LOBSTERS???? OH CRAP!

    Nope. As long as the bubble is inflating it just means they will put out more racks
  15. Brian_B

    From Bad to Worse, NVIDIA Reportedly Will Cut RTX 50 Series Production by 30–40% in 2026 and Might Stop Providing VRAM to Its Partners

    Me too. Digital has its own set of issues, and I do miss physical media being available — but by and large I also prefer digital distribution. Cloud computing should be the next logical extension of that - but it’s been well covered here; the shortfalls are too steep with current technology
  16. Brian_B

    New Mozilla CEO Says Firefox Will Evolve into a “Modern AI Browser” with AI Features That Can Be Turned On or Off by the User

    You and I do.. but a lot of people any more don't have any use for a desktop at all... Hence the market for Chromebooks and such. Which are pretty much cloud-based platforms like you describe.
  17. Brian_B

    Which CPU design do you think will come from the AMD Indian Cores team?

    Not opposed to it honestly. Some of Intels best stuff came from Israel. After all, they have all that experience from years of running all the call centers! (Sorry couldn’t keep that one to myself)
  18. Brian_B

    Pre-Arrow Lake Xe iGPUs abandoned by Intel

    You aren't wrong. But it sends a pretty strong message when you are sunsetting a product that's only a couple of years old. "What's next on the chopping block" is what I'm hearing.
  19. Brian_B

    Smoking hot deal! 32gb DDR5 for only $400! /s

    If I were a betting man, I would bet half this price increase is just people speculatively buying the run-up.
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