Recent content by Sound_Card

Schitt is way overpriced and the 'Modi' is essentially no different than the dongle DAC's you can find on amazon (they typically use the same ESS chip ... 9018, a dirt cheap DAC). You are paying a $100 markup. As someone else already pointed out, there are a number of limitations that are going...

So my mini PC game in yesterday... I'll just say that I'm damn impressed with everything about it. The Radeon 680m is as fast as my old Crossfire HD 6950's which is the last time I actually bought graphics cards. That is insane for an IGP. The USB4 makes it future proof for external GPU's which...

Not true. The difference is noticeable with any variance of blacks. Regarding burn-in, this is an exaggeration perpetuated by the first generation of OLED, so much so - it's borderline a myth at this point. Coincidently, I left my LGC3 on for the last 5 hours on this techpowerup forum to run...

Ya not to dump on you, but I can't take LCD seriously anymore after using OLED. Even looking at your picture, the colors look washed out, and the blacks are not black.

Firebat MI2. Upstart chinese company with no website. Should be coming in today - got it for $280. Very well equipped: Ryzen 7735 Radeon 680m HDMI 2.1 Display Port 1.4 USB 4 Going to vesa mount it on my LG C3 42''.

I don't understand... You can get a 6600 for almost 200 bucks which is incredible at 1080p raster. Why would you want something cheaper and worse than that? Because that would be a complete waste of money. Considering that there will be RDNA 2 graphics in all modern AMD CPU's going forward, it...

Does it have DP 2.1? lol

Even if what I say is untrue (I kinda doubt considering I follow the linux community) doesn't it suck to have stigmas?

I beg to differ, don't fall for the memes. However, it's objective to say that Nvidia drivers are worst in Linux.

I have the M2, good piece of tool for sure. These units are way more cost-effective than your typical dac/amp combo. The market the M2/M4 competes in is way more competitive and the costs are much lower for performance given. It's actually a little secret kept among the audio community. While...

Like I said in another Post, the cost of the Intel CPU is partitioned off into the chipset itself, never minding the cost of DDR 5. Using DDR 4 with ADL absolutely brings down its performance.

It significantly improved over the 5950x in those titles however, majorly closing the cap with the Intel's. And in other titles, it's just beating Intel period. Then you have cost and power to factor in. I suspect in a review that covers 30 games or more, will be more telling.

The price of Intel CPU's are built into the chipset itself. If you look at motherboard prices, they are pretty insane. A clever trick of marketing. Also, a good amount of games have a pretty large disparity. It makes really wonder about a Zen 4 3D stacker in the works, because I would be all...

Imagine having a new platform with a new PCIe bus, ram speed, new IPC, etc. AMD just sticks some more cache on top of the CPU while consuming considerably less power and tying your performance in games (if not better with the 1% lows). Just sold my Intel stock.

Honestly, Hunter x Hunter has ruined Anime for me. It's so hard to watch anything else.