Recent content by Aretak

There will still be suckers customers who will pay twice as much or more for the Noctua name on the box when it comes to air coolers, and people generally just buy whatever AIO they like the fancy disco lights on the most in my experience. It's nice that there are genuinely great...

But it won't be. They seem to have shoehorned the driver settings into GeForce Experience, which aside from being telemetry-ridden spyware with a forced online login, is also a labyrinthine pile of crap that runs a ton of processes in the background at all times. NVCleanstall is absolutely...

Yes, I use WordPad quite regularly. It's very handy when I want a formatted text document with multiple font sizes and such. Sure, there are plenty of alternatives, but all the ones I've tried come with a ton of additional bloat and extra features that I'll never use. WordPad is simple, fast...

The N100 is a BGA mobile SKU with a 6W TDP, which is exactly what the person you replied to said. Quad-cores have no reason to exist as socketable chips on modern desktop platforms.

I mean, it's pretty obvious what it means if you actually read the article. They're guaranteeing that new CPUs will be on AM5 until 2025, but may continue on beyond that depending on the circumstances. Maybe Zen 7 or whatever they currently plan to move to AM6 with will be delayed or something...

People haven't "forgot" anything. They just have the capacity to realize that was almost 20 years ago and standards for digital distribution and online platforms have changed dramatically since then. The "b-but Steam was bad in 2004!!!" argument for cutting Epic some slack has never held even a...

Orgrimmar is an extremely light area, even when it's packed with players. Try visiting the plaza outside the auction house in Valdrakken during peak hours with maxed settings. It will bring your 12700K to its knees. So will places like Ashran with a full 40 v 40 clash in the center road or any...

Complete nonsense. There are plenty of games which both look great and run great. Stop simping for corporations.

As above, it's only really impressive without the context that Arc was previously completely broken in Starfield.

For all the totally organic hype online about how much Intel's drivers have improved, not much seems to have changed performance-wise. Comparing this review to the A750 review from a year ago, at 1440p the 3060 Ti was 25% faster back then and 26% faster here. The test suite of games has changed...

Digital Foundry is pretty much an arm of Nvidia's marketing department. They're constantly shilling Nvidia's new products and working closely with them on videos, whilst AMD and Intel are lucky to get a mention every few months (in a positive context anyway). I still remember Alex having a...

I'm not sure what the article means about XeSS not working correctly. I've been using it myself via the mod and it not only works, but looks better than the game's native FSR implementation. It's much more stable handling fine detail at a distance. The only noticeable artifact I've found is that...

The only way you could say Intel is ahead of AMD in any way is if you add the huge qualifier of "at a budget price tag". The A750/A770 aren't competitive in any respect or any workload if you actually need high performance. If you're on an extremely tight budget then they may be interesting...

Competing with the 4080 isn't going to happen. We already know that the flagship SKU is going to be 225W or less again from Intel's own roadmap, which makes 4080-level performance an unrealistic target. At best it's going to be a 4070 Ti competitor, and I imagine it'll fall well short of that in...

I usually don't have any issue at all using FSR, but it looks like hot garbage in this game. The flickering on distant objects and disocclusion artifacts are nuts, at least at 1440p using the Quality option. XeSS looks much better, but the performance bump is much smaller. I ended up going with...