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My theory that Squadron 42 is vaporware is still undefeated 12 years later.

They are right for once. I don't even use them for free games.

Oh, no I don't intend to buy anything. But for someone who wants to do a new build from scratch a laptop might be better value than a desktop at this point.

I hate noise, and I also hate headphones, even on my desktop I had to make a custom fan curve for my GPU for it to be barely tolerable. Of course not, but it is a waste of money to have any kind of dedicated gpu internally if I'm going to use an external GPU. That was my point.

I looked into it and finding a laptop that has thunderbolt 5 doesn't seem that easy to start. The ones that have it already have at least a 5070 Ti built in, but most have a 5090 or 5080. It would make more sense to buy an external GPU if it had no dedicated GPU just an integrated one. But I...

What's not easy to stomach is the noise a gaming laptop makes when at full load. However this is worth considering: https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N5090IXEB-32GD I just don't know if gaming would work properly on an external GPU. What does "near desktop level" means exactly?

I'm not sure how long they can hide the fact that AI is not making money, but I'm more cynical than you. I think they'd rather put the HW in landfills than let it flood the market when the collapse comes. Nvidia probably has clauses that prevent DCs to sell the GPUs to anyone else, so they'll...

Ideally I see the fans in my PC twice: When I first built it, and when I'm retiring it. But who am I kidding, my current PC, it will probably be my last, so I'll never see those ugly fans again.

Maybe not for long, local AI models are getting more capable. And I think a lot of people and even professionals are more comfortable paying for their own electricity than paying a giant premium for tokens in the cloud. Not to mention the privacy / data leak concerns.

Easier maybe, but totally useless. With frametimes you instantly get the full picture based on how high are the spikes and how they are distributed.

I think the "invention" of the 1% lows have really spoiled the discussion about performance. People treat it as if it is some kind of golden standard, when it's as arbitrary of a line as can be. Why not 0.5% lows, or 2% lows? It's just another data point to look at, that people attribute too...

I'd risk my 2080Ti to make it 22GB. It's not very useful as is, but with 22GB many common LLMs could be fully loaded to vram

NGL this looks like donkey. The first game was already creepy enough, this is outright disturbing. Also this supposed to be the protagonist from the first game? There is literally zero resemblance.

Sure, who cares. By the time it is on PC we'll be fatigued by all the gameplay footage. I have netflix but I probably won't even look at it until it hits public youtube.

You know that's not an useful comparison, the distribution of pre-orders is not linear along the entire window. Usually it is highest at the start and close to the end, with a big lull in the middle.

I don't know of any game that released that specific data point. The marketing gurus are not stupid they deliberately release numbers that you can't compare to anything else directly. Cyberpunk 2077 was pre-ordered 8 million times, but it's not known how many of that was in the first week, and...

Actually new ideas should be ripped to shreds. Just because you have a new idea doesn't automatically make it good. And even if it is good, input and pushback from others in the team could make it great. But we are in the era of toxic positivity where any pushback or disagreement is frowned...

Wrong. Steam is an excellent indicator of how games are doing. One could say it is the only reliable indicator as this is the only number that corporations can't astroturf or hide. Remember when ubisoft wanted it gone? The "oh but think of games pass" excuse was trotted out for indiana jones...

This is so stupid on so many levels. First off, making up the details with AI is not equivalent quality. It is a fake image that we know can and will deviate from reality due to hallucinations. Second, I'm pretty sure bandwith is far cheaper than the computation required to generate video with...

That's KITT's evil twin.