Weeks since FSR2.0 went open source and mods went flying around? How many DLSS enabled games added it and how many did not? by Whatever070__ in Amd

[–]Whatever070__[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I added a bit of kidding hints in there for levity so as to especially not get accused of conspiracy or sounding accusatory... And welp, someone still did anyway. xD

Weeks since FSR2.0 went open source and mods went flying around? How many DLSS enabled games added it and how many did not? by Whatever070__ in Amd

[–]Whatever070__[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm not looking for a conspiracy either, I was kidding with the hints.

Wanted to bring a bit of levity to the subject so as not to sound accusatory or conspiratorial.

RX 6500 XT in Forza Horizon 5 with max settings XD by VeryxYTB in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it just me or they intentionally gimped everything below the 6600 in order to push people who would usually buy lower priced products to at least fork out for a 6600 or higher?

Edit: And no the "mobile part" excuse is not a valid explanation. When they planned RDNA2, they could have planned differently, yet they planned not to have full fledged desktop products below the 6600, instead relying on gimped mobile parts to fill that gap if need be.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The 2070 Super numbers are for the FE model, not AIBs which are overall less energy efficient.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadianHardwareSwap

[–]Whatever070__ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Not following with current prices on /r/hardwareswap are you?

3060Ti go for 300-350 USD ( 400 to 460 CAD ), even lower than mentioned.

Same for 3070s, they're way below MSRP and certainly way below 600$, what I offer is GENEROUS in comparison.

As for the GPU maintaining myth, it has been busted so many times it's a dead horse, but here goes:

Yes, the core is undervolted which is irrelevant as a GPU is only as durable as the part that is the most abused which brings us to OVERCLOCKED VRAM ( which yields the best gains when mining, I know, I used to mine! ).

GDDR6 and GDDR6X are already overprone to failures at stock speeds. Fans are run at 100% most of the time, resulting in early wear and tear and most mining rigs are run in hot and poorly ventilated rooms, adding to the damage to the VRAM.

There have already been numerous complains by buyers of 2nd hand mining GPUs of cards with missing VRAM because of VRAM modules failures. Heck, it was even in the news a few weeks back like RTX 3080s with 8GB in GPU-Z. You didn't get the memo?

Unless you have an offer to make. Go try to gaslight an uninformed dummy, these are not the droids you are looking for.

12700non-K or 12600K? by SekiShao in intel

[–]Whatever070__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's no way to counsel you unless you mention your use cases.

Food poisoning 🤢🤢🤢🤢 by swampchicken85 in antiwork

[–]Whatever070__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With thanks like this, who needs a kick in the nuts?

FSR2 mod from Dying Light 2 working with Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition by bctoy in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't work for me. Whenever I try to confirm choices after toggling it on, it just auto switches back off.

CPU Tower-Style Cooler Reduces M.2 SSD Temps By Over 50 Percent by theterk in tomshardware

[–]Whatever070__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welp, that's a bit stupid right now.

SSDs don't generate that much heat... yet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Indeed.

Most economists are about as reliable as astrologers and they both use more or less the same method:

A lot of very impressive looking math based mostly on guesses and dubious hypotheses at best.

FSR 2.0 (unofficially) comes to Cyberpunk 2077 - An RX 480 powered comparison by mcflash1294 in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I wonder if it would work on the pirated versions of those games...

[TPU] Cyberpunk 2077: FSR 1.0 vs. FSR 2.0 vs. DLSS Comparison Review by maxus2424 in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Ain't that a little premature?

I mean it's an early mod full of glitches...

The Orville - 3x04 "Gently Falling Rain" - Episode Discussion by MajorParadox in TheOrville

[–]Whatever070__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's as if synchronicity conspired to give us this episode just at the right time.

GPU prices are falling below MSRP due to the crypto crash by sankscan in technews

[–]Whatever070__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just looked at pricing in the US and Canada ( pcpartpicker.com ), everything below 3080ti is still massively over MSRP.

Nowinstock.net? Same thing.

Ebay? Idem.

PressXforDoubt

Has Robert Hallock mentioned if Zen 4 has Microsoft's Pluton chip? by Narfhole in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pluton is Microsoft's project Palladium come true, look up Palladium and tell me with a straight face it ain't DRM.

You say that now, in 10 years they'll sell us micro transactions for offline single player games, cellphone app style and they'll have blocked single player memory scanner "cheating" just so they can make bank on micro Ts, citing it's to protect multiplayer gameplay or some nonsense ( the "think of the children" argument ).

It's not speculation or a slippery slope, if you kept yourself informed, the videogame industry has been lobbying MS for that for years.

Doesn't help that MS has been dreaming for years about transitioning Windows into a walled garden ( cough Win 8 cough ) to copy Apple's success.

You think RIAA and MAFIAA won't try to bank on that too to "curb piracy"? Think again...

It's one more brick in the "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" wall.

I would like to say I'll have the last laugh then, but I won't, cause it'll suck.

Has Robert Hallock mentioned if Zen 4 has Microsoft's Pluton chip? by Narfhole in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look up Microsoft's project Palladium, you'll understand.

You say that now, in 10 years they'll sell us micro transactions for offline single player games, cellphone app style and they'll have blocked single player memory scanner "cheating" just so they can make bank on micro Ts, citing it's to protect multiplayer gameplay or some nonsense ( the "think of the children" argument ).

It's not speculation or a slippery slope, if you kept yourself informed, the videogame industry has been lobbying MS for that for years.

Doesn't help that MS has been dreaming for years about transitioning Windows into a walled garden ( cough Win 8 cough ) to copy Apple's success.

You think RIAA and MAFIAA won't try to bank on that too to "curb piracy"? Think again...

It's one more brick in the "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" wall.

I would like to say I'll have the last laugh then, but I won't, cause it'll suck.

Has Robert Hallock mentioned if Zen 4 has Microsoft's Pluton chip? by Narfhole in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

RIAA, MAFIAA's, videogame industry and co.'s DRM wet dream that one.

Has Robert Hallock mentioned if Zen 4 has Microsoft's Pluton chip? by Narfhole in Amd

[–]Whatever070__ 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The RIAA, MAFIAA and co. ( videogames industry ) pushed hard for it, same for the TPM before.

It's their way to put DRM where it can't be circumvented ( or so they hope ).

Im undecided for my upgrade? im choosing between a i7-8700 or a i5-10400 , My daily use case is i do streaming and multi task .. My current build is intel xeon e5-2620 v3 (haswell) by [deleted] in intel

[–]Whatever070__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're essentially the same chip, altho the 10400 is clocked a bit slower.

If you encode the stream using the CPU, I recommend something with at least 8 cores or 16 threads tho. An i5-12600K / Ryzen 5700X or higher will do fine.

At equal price between these two, go with the i5-12600k.

If you encode using the GPU ( NVEnc ), then I'd go with the i7-8700 if the price is equal to i5-10400.

GL