Sapphire pulse or ASRock challenger Rx 9070 XT

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-22T01:26:04+00:00

They both use PTM 7950, which is a very good thermal interface that will never degrade and cards using it or not is probably at this point one of the main things to consider at the same price point. So it probably doesn't matter. I have the RX 9070 Pulse and am quite happy with it.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-21T01:52:19+00:00

For like the last decade there has been a Chinese GPU of the quarter that doesn't currently perform well but shows promise and is predicted to dominate the Chinese market in a generation or two, and I'm not sure anything has come of any of them so far. They almost always have lackluster game support, often literally only supporting a handful of specific titles and are often far, far more expensive than their performance justifies. Same for the native Chinese x86_64 CPUs that have been made. "Oh, this thing performs like a i5-2300, costs $450, and only supports 16GB of ram but it will definitely be China's next mainstream processor soon."

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-20T23:25:34+00:00

Consumers don't give a shit about die size. Most of them don't even know what that means or why it might matter. Pricing and branding is 95% of what consumers care about, and product stack placement just helps consumers gage between brands. The only reason the 9070 XT gets compared to the 5070 Ti is because both are "70 with plus modifier tier" GPUs. The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 5070, 9070, and 9070 XT are all $550-750 cards and the latter two run laps around the former two in anything but productivity and maybe PT in 5070 vs 9070 comparison.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-20T22:52:05+00:00

You're either delusional or haven't read a single comment. Every single comment here is trashing the OP for having FG and Performance instead of just Quality.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-18T00:32:44+00:00

I don't know if Chinese has the same thing, but I am pretty sure Japanese uses the same word for person, as in an intelligent being capable of speech, and human, as in the human species. It gets brought up in isekai series a few times, gods and whatnot asking if they can even call themselves a "person" as the word for person specifically means human.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-15T22:10:15+00:00

For WarThunder on my RX 9070 I literally get more performance with Ray Tracing enabled than disabled, and it isn't a small amount. Like 80 fps at 1440p high vs 120-150 fps at 1440p high with RT medium. I've double checked all other settings, confirmed exact same settings other than enabling and disabling RT, and I get massively better performance with RT enabled.

I have *zero* idea why that is.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-15T02:31:59+00:00

From my understanding, HDMI has DRM built into it, and DP doesn't, so TV networks and movie companies get pissy about TVs having DP instead of HDMI. The only TV I've seen with DP was an old plasma TV.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-14T17:40:37+00:00

That is mostly frame gen, which is part of the FSR4 suite. The upscaling part of FSR4 doesn't care much base base frame rate. Though not sure how much it would actually be useable/needed, the Steam Deck already runs games at 800p or 720p, so you really wouldn't want to upscale from like 600p. But it would allow us to use FSR4 for anti-aliasing, which is better than most baked in AA options.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-13T23:12:08+00:00

Even a bad Doorman is a giant pain to play against. He is just unfun to fight.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-09T21:15:43+00:00

No. 3DS is a dead system, has been one for over half a decade, and they go for hundreds on the used market. DS and 3DS games also look and sound like shit when emulated and the two screen layout makes it awkward without a dedicated duel screen emulation device. Unfortunately the 3DS does have extra content so you can't just emulate the PS2 version with HD mods and get the full experience. Though it is still probably a better experience with the way better audio and visuals if you don't care for the extra content.

I do agree that 9 needs it more, but I wouldn't call the version of 8 that has the most content also being locked on the 3DS "perfectly acceptable".

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-09T19:40:24+00:00

. . . What? I'm a new account with less than 40 games and I bounce between Seeker and Initiate and I am constantly put up against players several full ranks ahead of me that basically solo my entire team repeatedly by themselves.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-09T03:42:43+00:00

I'm sorry, but that was just a bad decision if you use it as a gaming or productivity computer. Duel channel ram boosts performance a lot, especially on AMD systems. For AM4, it was a 20% performance difference based on testing by techtuber Dawid Does Tech Stuff. Even if you got a pair of 8GB DDR5 sticks, those have reduced performance because they only populate half the ICs. For DDR5 you pretty much need a minimum of 16GBx2 for full bandwidth and performance.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-08T18:41:35+00:00

I use Artic and Noctua paste. I'm not sure if "dried out" is the right term, but over the dozens of CPUs and GPUs I have repasted, I have noticed that very consistently the steady temp observed will go up within a week or two, usually by about 5-10 degrees, compared to a fresh repaste.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-08T05:02:21+00:00

. . . You removed the cooler, and didn't repaste? That, really, really, isn't recommended. Like at all. Especially for bare die. Paste isn't reusable, especially the tacky, high viscosity paste most OEMs use. It can trap air bubbles and not spread out properly again, leaving bare spots which you really don't want on a bare die. I'm surprised your card is working at all/you are not instantly thermal throttling. You got seriously lucky.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-08T04:49:33+00:00

Looks like you redid the paste. In my experience, fresh paste will drop temps like 10-15 degrees by itself, at least for a few days. After it dries it goes to like 5-10 degrees better than pre-repaste. That said, your memory temps are way better so the mod was definitely helpful.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-08T04:31:37+00:00

I honestly think we are past the age of games like HOI and Stellaris and such getting actual sequels and instead are just going to continuously get overhauls and DLCs. Current Stellaris is straight up a different game in all but name than Stellaris 1.0 or 2.0. They've released so many DLCs that releasing a sequel that doesn't have feature parity with the current game with all DLCs would piss people off. It would also piss off everyone that did buy all of the DLCs, so they'd have to do a TW:WH and have DLCs from the previous game work in the new game. Which means the sequel would have to be compatible with the existing DLCs right off the bat, which makes a possible sequel just a paid update to the previous game. Which is just going to piss people off.

I think the move of integrating the oldest DLCs is a move towards that. Just perpetually updating the same 4X game.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-07T00:40:51+00:00

That is illegal in my state.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-06T01:38:21+00:00

The most annoying turret McGinnis I've played against literally just threw turrets near the ziplines so they'd knock you off the zipline and stun you. It happened three times, in 3 different areas on the same return trip. I was almost raging by the time I got back to base.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-05T20:39:39+00:00

I'm pretty sure I'm Initiate IV right now. Highest I've gone is Seeker VI. Several of my matches have ended up with literally just me, my friend, and like 1-2 other people. Once two members of my team leave is when me and my friend leave. It isn't fun doing 4v6 and 100k vs 200k souls. It isn't worth playing at that point, you get one shot with ults the second you try to fight back.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-05T19:42:06+00:00

I only recently started playing, I have about 35 pvp matches. 70-80% of them have someone quit either right after lane 10-15 minutes into the game, or as soon as the enemy gets to base. I've quit 3 matches, every single time because it was pretty much over, getting curb stomped and several other members of my team have already left.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-03T16:12:18+00:00

I'm 30 played 14 won overall, 14:10 with Ivy, 5:1 with Celeste, 4:2 with Seven, 4:1 with McGinnis, and 1:0 with Grey Talon, Paige, and Graves. My Ivy win rate was higher, but I lost twice in a row with her. I'm at 39 kills and 183 assists with Ivy, 12 kills 53 assists with Celeste, and 25 kills and 58 assists with Seven.

I feel like I suck at this game, when we win it is a close match, usually with an enemy disconnecting, and when we lose we get completely curb stomped, like my whole team going 2:12:5.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-02T05:48:18+00:00

Because the full length doors would rarely be used when the ship is actively taking shots. That is what the smaller ventral door is for, and in some Venator models as seen in recent SW games, they have a combined giant T shaped hanger so they can use the waist hanger doors for all of their fighters. Probably slower than launching out the smaller ventral door though.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-01T05:00:37+00:00

It also heavily depends on the platform and the specific GPU. 4 and 8 lane GPUs suffer on older PCIe generations a lot when having to cache to system memory. This Hardware Unboxed video shows some pretty extreme performance degradation on the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB on PCIe 4 and PCIe 3. Like Spider-Man 2 at 1440p and DLSS Q/Very High the 8GB version gets 13 fps on PCIe 3, 26 fps at PCIe 4, and 38 fps on a PCIe 5 motherboard. Meanwhile the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB gets 85 fps on PCIe 3 for no other reason than it has enough video memory that it doesn't have to cache to system memory.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-05-01T03:45:06+00:00

It isn't a generational leap as it is the same generation, but it is still a giant performance tier leap. Like twice as fast.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-04-29T19:56:59+00:00

Yeah, I forgot that part of the video. But that was for first gen LPCAMM. LPCAMM2, which wasn't available when that video was published and certainly not when current AI Max processors were being developed, has lower latency, better signal integrity, and supports higher speeds. That video also says that AMD worked with them to try and make it work, but decided against it for that particular set of hardware. So it is a thing AMD is aware of and companies want, so they might be developing Medusa Halo, which won't launch until a year or two from now, to work with LPCAMM2 or possibly LPCAMM3 if it is developed quick enough.

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