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  1. Brian_B

    Civilization VII Is Getting a Free Atomic Age in 2027, While Its First Paid Expansion Takes Players into the Solar System

    That or they go like The Sims with 8,000 DLC packages - which is what they had flirted with before
  2. Brian_B

    A Real Talk Discussion about DLSS 5: 3 Good Things, 5 Bad Things, and 4 Questions For You

    That looks so much better when you turn on DLSS 5
  3. Brian_B

    Probably Bound to Happen: Increased Power Draw for DLSS 5 Reportedly Claims Its First Victim After a User Finds an RTX 5090 with a Melted Power Ada...

    Usually, for electrical fires - air flow often makes the problem worse by spreading the spark/heat out faster Electrical is usually a high impedance/resistance connection with just too many amps going through it (P = R * I^2), and it's a very small, very hot point source - and that spreads to...
  4. Brian_B

    A Real Talk Discussion about DLSS 5: 3 Good Things, 5 Bad Things, and 4 Questions For You

    I have been thinking that since RTX came out, to be honest. I'll admit the "program it once and let the calculations figure it all out rather than leaning on an art department" argument has some merit. But mostly all we got was a lot of very shiny chrome and mud puddles with big performance hits.
  5. Brian_B

    Probably Bound to Happen: Increased Power Draw for DLSS 5 Reportedly Claims Its First Victim After a User Finds an RTX 5090 with a Melted Power Ada...

    Well, had they done the testing that way, then it blew up later on without the test equipment - that would also be news-worthy. And even if it didn't - still would be very interesting to know, particularly since this issue is very much out there. But they didn't, did they. Apparently they...
  6. Brian_B

    Probably Bound to Happen: Increased Power Draw for DLSS 5 Reportedly Claims Its First Victim After a User Finds an RTX 5090 with a Melted Power Ada...

    The test equipment should not affect the peformance - so the testing is still “real world” And if it does affect performance that’s worthy of a story all by itself
  7. Brian_B

    A Recent Survey Shows a Majority of Users Still Do Not Notice Microsoft Following Up on Its Promise to Improve Windows 11

    Mostly because I just learned to avoid entire parts of it - so if they get changed or improved I would never notice
  8. Brian_B

    PowerColor ALPHYN AM10 Wireless Gaming Mouse Review

    Pretty sure you can launch games from a lot of hardware stuff too, you know, just in case you wanted to cover your bases with something like Razer Cortex or nVidia App.
  9. Brian_B

    Why Play It When You Can Watch It Played? Sega President Acknowledges a Growing Fanbase That Has Never Played Their Games

    He's not wrong. My kid spends as much time, maybe more, watching other people play games as he does playing himself.
  10. Brian_B

    A Real Talk Discussion about DLSS 5: 3 Good Things, 5 Bad Things, and 4 Questions For You

    I'm ok with DLSS 5 being used to make older games look better. Who doesn't like a glow-up? And with that perspective, taking an old game that can run at 500 FPS and getting a 50% performance penalty to make it look like a new game... not so bad. I could get behind that. But it's being marketed...
  11. Brian_B

    Probably Bound to Happen: Increased Power Draw for DLSS 5 Reportedly Claims Its First Victim After a User Finds an RTX 5090 with a Melted Power Ada...

    Discussion about the merit of the connector not withstanding The point was that the influencer/author/whatever you want to call them had access to all the tools, and was under the pretense of testing the card - but ignored a key tool in their toolbox. Had they been watching everything - I dunno...
  12. Brian_B

    The First GTA 6 Gameplay Footage is a Netflix Exclusive for Six Hours on August 27

    I’ll wait for EGS to give it out for free
  13. Brian_B

    New Lenovo RTX Spark

    128G RAM I’m sure it will be an affordable APU gaming laptop.
  14. Brian_B

    Hardware Unboxed Becomes the Latest Reviewer to Witness an RTX 5090 Cable Meltdown on the Testbench

    I just read an article somewhere saying DLSS 5 pushes power draw through the roof too.. like over 800W in some cases So have fun with that, all you 5090 firestarters!
  15. Brian_B

    Your smart TV is now an "xbox"

    Oh wtf You have to pay for streaming time and then can only play games you already paid for?
  16. Brian_B

    Alienware Debuts 32-Inch 4K 165 Hz OLED and 24.5-Inch FHD 560 Hz QD-OLED Gaming Monitors

    ooo the 3226 looks interesting and the price isn't all rapey.
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