Recent content by phints

For those that do mixed productivity/gaming that want the best gaming performance will probably be most interested to know how many cores per CCD. If it's 8 like last gen I'll be most interested in a 9700X provided it uses 1 CCD. Anyway I'll be patiently waiting for a 9800X3D. Here is to...

DLSS is great now I use it on Quality setting on anything that supports it... it would be nice to see DirectStorage come to some games next.

I skipped 7000 series since I upgrade every 2-3 gens so looking forward to 9700X or 9800X3D depending on pricing and performance. I hope AMD fixed the longer boot times plaguing 7000 series though.

Nice to see AMD continue to play catchup with Nvidia, hopefully a savy review site gets to compare this to Reflex at some point.

Definitely excited for Zen 5 / 9700X / 9800X3D announcements, whenever they come.

Installed on my Win11 box, zero issues so far. Interesting to see a new PhysX version. It's a very minor update overall but installed since I like all the 5s in the version number :D

The AI nonsense is meaningless at the consumer level still, but it does sound like Lunar Lake should be a solid (and long overdue) jump foward in performance per watt for Intel.

A flat, 27", 240Hz, 1440p, VRR, OLED monitor. Basically perfect. I'm hoping BenQ makes one with their Mobiuz lineup though, I got one of theirs now and was really surprised how awesome the built-in speakers are so I want my next monitor to have that too.

You hate Win11 but like Win10? Lol what? Win11 is similar but faster, better looking, and has some new features like tabs in file explorer. It's been a no brainer on my PC and laptop. Have Linux on a few devices too like OpenWrt of course.

Very nice looking laptop and CPU selection. I think the ThinkPad T14S is my current favorite still.

Wasn't Ryzen 9000 supposed to be announced soon?

Looks almost identical to the Samsung Bar 256GB I've had for 4 years.

Finally a PCIe 5 SSD with decent realworld performance (boot time, load times, etc.). The power efficiency is terrible though. Seems like 990 Pro is still the best.

Yet another glorified tablet CPU leveraging the most expensive lithography known to man. Locked down doesn't work with Vulkan, GPUs, or much else. Pass.

Loading your apps with bloat, definitely a great strategy. What a bunch of idiots. Razer products are quite good, my Viper V2 Pro has been great over the past couple years, but this has me looking elsewhere for future upgrades.