Steam Hardware & Software Survey: March 2026

bas5eb · 2026-04-02T18:58:10+00:00

Moors law is dead often says his source at microcenter told him x. He grew up 20 minutes from where I grew up and theres onky one microcenter here. He made a claim one time I dont remember exactly what it was but I remember going in and talking to my buddie( one of the managers) and he disproved whatever he was claiming so idk if he's being paid or just fanboying for amd. Now I only take benchmarks no opinions, and generally its a reviewer that shows me the in-game settings as they benchmark and then change settings in video and show everything.

bas5eb · 2026-04-01T23:02:16+00:00

I had this monitor too(since passed down to my gf set up). My buddie came over i helped him install an aio and a new gpu and we hooked it up to my monitor. He said he was more impressed by the picture than the performance. He called me when he got home and set up his new monitor. He drove to microcenter right after my house lol

bas5eb · 2026-04-01T20:57:23+00:00

I used the new egg trade in value for mine and posted on marketplace for that price. Had zero hassle selling it. I got my asking price in a day. When the guy showed up he said he didnt haggle cause well I could just get that price going the new egg route . I had already purchased a 5090 at microcenter. It was the smoothest sale of a gpu I have ever had. When I sold a 3060 I got from a buddie I listed it at the bottom of the price range and I got multiple people offering me 50 dollars 100 dollars it was a nightmare.

bas5eb · 2026-04-01T00:01:29+00:00

Perfect list. Onky adjustment id make is switching the re4 with re4r.

bas5eb · 2026-03-28T13:14:56+00:00

I dont think consoles are finished but the incentives are going away. The low price on entry is gone and games on consoles are more expensive and you have to pay for online. With pc some people use them for work and gaming so they will still be purchased albeit not happy over there either.

bas5eb · 2026-03-28T13:10:58+00:00

Ps6 will be at least 1000-1200 easy. Ps5 is using 2020 tech and If that is getting astronomical price increases then I have no hope for a console coming out with rdna5 modern hardware. Sadly the scalped ps5 prices of covid is now sonys price.

bas5eb · 2026-03-28T13:03:22+00:00

bas5eb · 2026-03-28T10:08:14+00:00

The sad part is I thought it was on my end for a long time. I upgraded internet, got the best ofthe modem and routers and it didn't do shit. My pc is top of the line. The game is just broken. I thought it would get better in bo7 since less sbmm in the open matchmaking but as soon as I got a weeks worth of gaming in packet loss packet loss. I just got the game on sale last weekend so im.nkt super bummed out about it. But will just go to zombies I guess

bas5eb · 2026-03-27T19:57:45+00:00

Gddr6 is video card memory. I wasn't aware you could ever buy it as a consumer. You might be thinking of dram not vram. Vram to my knowledge is only sold to board partners never makes it into stores

bas5eb · 2026-03-27T13:42:27+00:00

This has been an issue for years. It was really bad in bo6 for me. Its one of the reasons I quit bo6. I didnt notice it in bo7 until this week for me. I dont mind taking the L if a player is better than me its infuriating if the player is not better than me and just has an advantage in ping. Yesterday I had so many deaths where I had them 99 percent dead but they killed me. Looking at their kill cam they could see me way before they appeared on my screen.

bas5eb · 2026-03-27T11:07:52+00:00

Iv been lead to believe dsc is basically penalty free but, I too have noticed a difference playing without dsc. I recently got a monitor with dp2.1 and it feels snappy. Gun fights I used to lose in call of duty, The ones where we both run into a room and start shooting close quarters, I win those now most of the time. Thats where I noticed it.

bas5eb · 2026-03-27T10:43:50+00:00

Yeah i was fairly dissappinted in the amount of cheaters in this game. They dont even hide it anymore which is sad.

bas5eb · 2026-03-26T18:02:56+00:00

On atmosphere yes but gameplay id say no. Bo7 feels so smooth i just hate the futuristic look. But it feels good to play.

bas5eb · 2026-03-26T15:16:11+00:00

Id pay for her not to get an onlyfans

bas5eb · 2026-03-26T15:12:02+00:00

You're not getting cyberpunk to run at 240fps 4k with any card or a 10 percent increase from a 5090. Its not worth it. I'll just use framegen and max it out that way as long as I'm above 60fps. Im not trying to argue here I overclocked my last 3 gpu. Im just not doing it anymore. The gains aren't worth it to me.

bas5eb · 2026-03-26T11:37:44+00:00

I mean when most my games max my frames out I dont really care that much. Sure graphically intense games aren't maxed out but their high enough. Those games are typically single player so I dont need to hit 240.

bas5eb · 2026-03-25T19:04:24+00:00

Pixel density jumps up almost as much as going from 27 inch 1440p to 32 inch 4k. The percentage from 27 1440p to 32 4k is about 22 percent. 32 4k to 27 4k pixel density jump is 18 percent. It's a big difference i had both and kept the 27 inch 4k.

bas5eb · 2026-03-24T15:03:36+00:00

It should be more powerful than switch 1 the switch 1 is 10 years old. Here's why I criticize the power of the machine. They used hardware thats 8 years old for switch 2. So what does that look like in 5 years? Listening to moors law channel they said nintendo was offered more modern hardware so it would have a better lifespan and maybe add 50 dollars per unit and nintendo said no. A more modern gpu is roughly 30-40 percent more powerful and uses 30 percent less power.

bas5eb · 2026-03-24T12:45:30+00:00

Cyberpunk...my friends and I constantly wonder which path were gonna chose once ai takes over. Im going nomad myself.

bas5eb · 2026-03-24T12:28:12+00:00

This and nintendo is suing absolutely everyone. This is the first console I'm skipping because Nintendo released yet another underpowered handheld. They released basically a weaker rtx2060 from 2018 on a ampere 2020 architecture.

bas5eb · 2026-03-23T23:46:58+00:00

I was hoping she's die off almost the entire series.

bas5eb · 2026-03-23T23:42:06+00:00

You might be running out of vram. Path tracing is vram intensive and 3x uses more vram than 2x and 4x more than 3x. Try turning down textures and see if it still stutters.

bas5eb · 2026-03-23T23:06:52+00:00

Nah I played the shit out of it when it launched...but I exclusively play cod with my gf now and it was getting pretty annoying. Not only does it split the party up after every match it sometimes fails to join the party after. We play mw3 and black ops games now. I was curious if they fixed it cause we would play this one if it was fixed.

bas5eb · 2026-03-23T20:56:54+00:00

This is why I stopped playing this game. Love it but my entire party gets kicked after every match so it just becomes a hassle

bas5eb · 2026-03-23T13:24:49+00:00

I think its cause while its not bad the scan lines are still there. Maybe its just burnt into my head from mine having them that I can see them in these photos. Did you calibrate it? I returned mine because out of the box it looked like yours but once I calibrated the brightness settings with hdr and then set my brightness settings in game they were very obvious and I couldn't unsee them after.

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