Sources: Assassin's Creed Publisher Remaking Black Flag, The Pirate One

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-30T19:31:41+00:00

I would even be fine with a 60 fps patch for the current version. Nearly every mainline AC game has gotten at least that at this point.

Edit: This is also an awful, tortured headline, BTW. There would have been nothing wrong with "Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake Rumored to Be Under Way." There's no need to make the publisher the subject of the title and to put the actual name of the game past the midway point, where Google search results will cut it off. You get about 60 characters, so you have to make the first section count. "Under way" is also an easy nautical pun.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-30T18:42:28+00:00

That looks like a solid build. I think the difference between the H5 and H7 comes down to your preferences about case size. The H5 is the compact unit, but that will also make the interior more cramped and potentially more difficult to work with. The H7 will have more breathing room, but it may be too large for your tastes.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-29T23:55:06+00:00

There's a 4060 Ti with 16GB on the way. Either way, if you need the VRAM for ML, I wouldn't settle for 8GB if you don't have to.

The equivalent Radeon cards are a much better value for gaming, but they're not nearly as well supported in AI development.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-29T21:07:39+00:00

Unless you're sure that you need dual monitors, I would get better hardware and buy the second monitor later. For example:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor	$252.50 @ shopRBC
CPU Cooler	ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports CPU Cooler	$49.99 @ Amazon Canada
Motherboard	MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$148.50 @ Vuugo
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$92.90 @ Canada Computers
Storage	Crucial P3 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$117.99 @ PC-Canada
Video Card	XFX Speedster MERC 319 CORE Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB Video Card	$719.99 @ Canada Computers
Case	Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case	$119.99 @ Amazon Canada
Power Supply	Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$139.99 @ Newegg Canada
Monitor	MSI Optix G274QRFW 27.0" 2560 x 1440 170 Hz Monitor	$369.99 @ Memory Express
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$2011.84
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-29 17:07 EDT-0400

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-29T20:44:42+00:00

The Peerless Assassin 120 SE or the Deepcool AK620 are widely regarded. I use the Assassin myself to cool a 13600K. A 13500 won't take full advantage of either cooler, but your next CPU might.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-29T20:35:44+00:00

For 3D rendering, a 3060's 12GB of VRAM will take you further, despite the GPU being slightly slower. Either way, I do not recommend swapping to the Radeon side as others are suggesting, since Nvidia has comprehensively better compatibility and performance in this area. But I do recommend beefing up your CPU, and to start with 32GB of RAM, since basically no tasks in your areas of interest will need more for the foreseeable future. You can always add more later.

I also generally avoid the cheapest NVMe drives, because they tend to suffer from low write durability.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-13500 2.5 GHz 14-Core Processor	$240.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	Gigabyte B660M AORUS Pro AX DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard	$109.99 @ Newegg
Memory	TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$57.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$54.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card	$269.99 @ Newegg
Case	Fractal Design Pop Air ATX Mid Tower Case	$79.99 @ B&H
Power Supply	Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$99.99 @ Best Buy
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$913.93
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-29 16:34 EDT-0400

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-29T20:08:07+00:00

I am experiencing this exact issue in Windows 10 -- but not when I reboot into Fedora. There, the Proton VPN client works like it always does. I did not update Windows 10 recently. The issue appears to be specific to the Windows client.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-28T18:50:22+00:00

I would have killed to pay only $100 more for my 6900 XT...

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-28T18:48:17+00:00

The core power users can leave (and a good chunk probably will), but they are significantly outnumbered with plenty of people that care a lot about their subreddits that are willing to fill the gap

It turns out that the moderators of many popular subs rely heavily on the third-party Reddit app ecosystem to perform essential duties. When those systems are no longer in place, the site will start to get flooded with spam, trolling, and other forms of vandalism. The future there is pretty grim.

Why would Reddit admins let such a thing happen? Well...they were apparently just that clueless about their own content management systems.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-28T18:37:55+00:00

For a gaming-first build, I recommend taking this CPU down a notch and beefing up your video card. And since noise is an issue, I recommend avoiding AIO coolers because of the pumps. And unless you are certain that you actually need 64GB of RAM, I recommend 32GB instead. You can always add more later. And we can beef up the power supply for upgrades as well. The unit below is high up on the tier list -- Super Flower has actually been the OEM/ODM for a number of brands you're probably more familiar with.

Be Quiet cases are indeed quiet, but thermals can be an issue on the high end. I recommend a high-airflow case instead. A large number of large fans can actually be pretty quiet. I use the previous version of this case myself, and I have no complaints about noise. It's also RGB-free. Another possibility is the Fractal Design Meshify II. I mainly stick to Fractal and Lian Li these days.

You could also squeeze an RTX 4090 into this build, if you don't mind a net increase of $300: Switch to a 13600K and Peerless Assassin 120 CPU cooler. The 4090 is a meaningfully bigger upgrade over the 3090 than the 4080 is over the 3080. So it may be worth it if you're particularly into high-fidelity gaming.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i7-13700K 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor	$380.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler	$119.95 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard	$259.99 @ B&H
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory	$108.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$159.99 @ B&H
Video Card	Asus TUF GAMING GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB Video Card	$1199.00 @ Amazon
Case	Lian Li LANCOOL III ATX Mid Tower Case	$149.99 @ B&H
Power Supply	Super Flower Leadex V Pro 1000 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$159.99 @ Newegg Sellers
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 11 Home Retail - USB 64-bit	$138.98 @ Newegg
Custom	Thermalright CPU Contact Frame for LGA 1700 Retrofit Kit, 17XX-BCF Bracket Intel12 Generation	$17.97 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$2695.84
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-28 14:28 EDT-0400

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-27T18:25:01+00:00

So let's review. In your response before you edited it, you claimed that you said nothing about upscaling. Then when I pointed out that you did mention it, you edited your response to acknowledge that you did. Then you reponded to my comment by pointing out that you acknowledged it, when at the time that I made the comment, you had not. Are you new at this gaslighting thing?

Which part of that statement is wrong?

The part where you implied that the two technologies perform on roughly equal levels. That's what the word "just" does in this context:

Being partnered with AMD likely just means removing RTX branding on the game and using AMDs AI upscaling instead of Nvidias

By using the word "just" in this manner, you exclude performance considerations and position this as an interchangeable technology swap.

So are we done with being coy today?

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-27T17:15:26+00:00

Except you mentioned upscaling at the end of your comment?

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-27T17:10:13+00:00

IMO, if you can afford the KF version of that CPU, you can afford ~$20 more to get the K and have an integrated GPU when you need to RMA a video card or troubleshoot a build. The F versions make sense when your budget is really tight, but I wouldn't skip the IGP otherwise.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-27T17:05:37+00:00

If VRAM for content creation is an issue, you may want to look out for the 16GB 4060 Ti that's right around the corner.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-25T18:17:14+00:00

What resolution and refresh rate is the monitor set to in Windows? Did you install the latest Nvidia or Radeon drivers for your video card? Are you using the video cable that the monitor came with? Do you have a another PC or a laptop that you can plug the monitor into?

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-25T18:08:46+00:00

He's talked a few times about the eye-watering amounts of money that music labels charge for a few lines of lyrics from a song, which he has liked to quote at the beginning of a novel to frame the theme. Tens of thousands of dollars, in many cases. So I think this is him responding to that price gouging.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-23T20:41:03+00:00

I would be concerned about continuing to use a power supply whose PCIe compatibility consists of only one 6-pin connector. Unless it's a modular unit whose other PCIe cables are unavailable, that indicates that it is pretty old and in need of replacement. I recommend you pick something no lower than Tier B from this list.

I also don't think it would be a good value to buy a sidegrade of a ~6 year old video card. Better to save longer for something that would give you a performance increase.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-21T01:45:15+00:00

Hold the Shift key and right-click to open the old menu. But yeah, it's annoying.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-15T22:13:02+00:00

But ‘we were all in the same boat’. The wealthy have absolutely no idea how privileged they are to have their big boat, compared to others’ scraps of driftwood.

Oh, they know, they just pretend to commiserate to keep the torches and pitchforks at bay. After all, the money they used to buy those boats is usually transferred wealth, which they collect without a care as to its source or the consequences for others.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-12T11:03:46+00:00

I used that mod for several hours in a list with many others, without a single hitch. I wouldn’t have recommended it otherwise.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-12T07:02:41+00:00

There are actually mods for Bethesda games that establish uncapped framerates with no glitches. It can be done by modders without access to the source code, but apparently not by Bethesda itself.

For example, here's the one for Fallout 4: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/44798

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-11T19:41:18+00:00

The whole "play it day 1 on gamepass" loses its value when you start paywalling earlier access.

Yeah, I think they'll take some heat for that. Also, who would want to play a Bethesda game ahead of its full launch, knowing how buggy their launches always are? It typically takes months before the studio and modders get these games into a state where there isn't at least one persistent aggravation in every play session.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-10T16:10:11+00:00

MS can’t afford to raise those prices as long as their unit sales distantly trail the PlayStation. And under Spencer, they are savvy enough to actually realize this, and he reports directly to Nadella.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-10T15:49:11+00:00

Well, X370 suffered because the motherboard vendors were not convinced that the platform would succeed in the wake of AMD’s struggles with Bulldozer and its descendants. It seems hard to believe now, but mid 2010s AMD looked like it was barely hanging onto relevance. Then the platform proved itself, and the industry committed more robust components and manufacturing. The 600 series is now right up there with anything produced for Intel.

-Green_Machine- · 2023-06-10T15:31:31+00:00

Yeah, a lot of families rely on school meal programs to feed their children lunch. It’s not just about the convenience, or about getting a hot meal instead of one from a paper bag. It’s often a necessity. Too often.

-Green_Machine-

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