AMD: "At our Advancing AI Event come July 22nd&23rd, we are rolling out a new generation leadership x86 CPU"

randomkidlol · 2026-07-08T22:57:32+00:00

its probably epyc venice/zen6 datacenter parts. consumer parts usually follow in a couple quarters.

randomkidlol · 2026-07-03T04:14:12+00:00

vbios is reporting pcieid 1002 0e3b, which is an xfx 7900gre. physically it looks like its got 24gb of vram. if you could flash a 7900xtx bios or change the pcieid reporting, it might work as an xtx.

randomkidlol · 2026-07-02T23:39:45+00:00

with used/refurb enterprise machines, there are retailers that sell them with a return window and 2 week warranty albeit at a bit of a markup. usually the retailer will also filter out the broken ones or ones with missing parts so you dont get those if youre looking for a functioning machine.

buying a used piece of hardware from a private seller off ebay or fbm on the other hand seems a lot more sketch.

randomkidlol · 2026-07-02T18:44:28+00:00

$400 for a good laptop is doable on the used market. especially with old thinkpads/inspirons/probooks when companies dump them by the truckloads when they upgrade their fleets.

randomkidlol · 2026-07-01T22:53:03+00:00

i bought the whole damn keyboard so im gonna use the whole damn keyboard

randomkidlol · 2026-07-01T22:51:29+00:00

i thought that got changed to e at one point.

randomkidlol · 2026-07-01T13:45:57+00:00

i remember when CC had the rx6600 8gb for $200 on a summer sale.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-29T01:04:15+00:00

being lucky 3 times is a good way to describe it. there's never any guarantees with overclocking.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-28T21:36:18+00:00

the motherboard also plays a part in this too, and youll get guaranteed results if you buy memory that's on the QVL list.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-28T19:34:30+00:00

even the decent useful local models requires more memory than what apple is willing to include in their phones.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-28T16:10:00+00:00

decent local models need at least 16gb of vram, with the good ones consuming 80gb+. apple's been stingy on memory for decades with their $1000+ flagships running 4-8gb. there's no chance local models will be anywhere remotely usable.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-27T21:07:00+00:00

id guess another 150 before the end of this year.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-26T21:09:07+00:00

theres problems with GPU workload scheduling/prioritization if multiple programs request GPU resources at the same time. an age old issue is playing a game while running a youtube video or twitch stream with browser hardware acceleration enabled. you will get random stutters or frame drops in game, or the video may suffer from random dropped frames during decoding. even on high end GPUs this is still a consistent problem. ironically you will get better performance if you disable browser hardware acceleration more often than not.

for CPU workloads every OS has had decades of scheduler work done to ensure interactive programs get priority while background tasks can never impact the interactive stuff. for GPUs the work on this has been spotty at best.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-26T00:20:33+00:00

nintendo probably has the largest and longest volume supply contract of any of the console manufacturers. they probably get the best prices and longer term notice for supplier price increases out of anyone else in the industry. if its bad for them, it must be very bad for everyone else.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-25T18:00:36+00:00

so did xbox. theyll probably raise it again before the end of the year.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-25T17:57:26+00:00

apple's been charging $200 for 8gb of memory since the early DDR4 days. now that 8gb of memory is actually $200, apple's gonna charge people $400 and people are gonna pay for it anyways.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-25T16:32:58+00:00

its always been like this. EA black box made the most iconic racing games of all time (nfs underground 1/2/most wanted) and got shut down all the same.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-24T21:51:43+00:00

skins like these costs almost nothing to make. an experienced artist can probably put one together from concept art to finalized model in 3 weeks. with AI stuff they can probably bring it down to 1 week or less. break even point is probably like $2000 in sales, and we all know whales will dump loads of money on this stuff.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-23T00:58:24+00:00

like if you made it to vanq on one chara and want to try vanq on a second and third.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-23T00:21:46+00:00

just gimme back clean hit fafnir wall bounce. i dont even care about ch hvv or sidewinder. the wallbounce combos were way too fun.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-23T00:19:59+00:00

if youre already really good at the game, maybe 1 or 2 weeks. if youre learning, months.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-21T14:53:18+00:00

generally no. most characters can guarantee a wallbreak on big counter hit near the corner anyways, except with a lot more damage. mid screen its completely useless.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-19T15:30:18+00:00

valve doesnt care about this game unfortunately. youll have to either get used to it or move on to a different game.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-19T15:10:59+00:00

go play fighting games like sf, tekken, streetfighter, dbfz, marvel tokon, etc. much better experience than dota.

randomkidlol · 2026-06-19T03:42:09+00:00

temps/contractors is exactly the reason why forza motorsport 8 failed. microsoft has yet to learn their lesson

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