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    Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Previewed in RPG & Narrative Stream

    This title is so very, very late that it's a wonder that it hasn't become a meme. It was announced and pre-orders went on sale in the FIRST QUARTER OF 2019!!!!!
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    Graphics card doesn't fit

    If the graphics card fits into your PC without the bracket installed, you may be able to find a replacement low-profile bracket that fits your card (or that can be modified to fit your card). If the graphics card itself is too tall, you'll have to exchange it for one that fits into your mini-PC.
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    Intel Asks Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt Winners to Accept a CPU In Lieu of Graphics Card

    NV1 was a dumpster fire that almost wiped out NVidia. Fortunately, NV2 was pretty awesome.
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    Post your Cinebench R23 Score

    Ryzen 7 5800X Multi-core: 15240 Single-core: 1568 All-in-one water cooler Stock settings 4x 16 GiB DDR4-3600 This is my gaming PC listed in my system specs. I finally gave up waiting for the R9-5950X that I ordered months ago and settled for the R7. $434, delivered.
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    How are you all coping with increasing PC hardware and tech prices around the world?

    For my gmaing PC, I'm waiting impatiently for my "ships in 2 days" Ryzen 9 order that mysteriously changed to "all backordered" when I placed it seven weeks ago. Meanwhile, my living room PC is likely to be stuck with its Radeon HD7870 for the remainder of 2021.
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    Need recommendations on a decent 32-48 inch Gaming monitor / 4k Tv

    There's no perceptible benefit to expensive proprietary G-Sync vs. inexpensive VESA standard adaptive sync (aka AMD's FreeSync). Since NVidia finally quit blocking it in their drivers in 2019, you can get variable refresh rate with a GeForce 10xx or newer card over DisplayPort using a FreeSync...
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    Need recommendations on a decent 32-48 inch Gaming monitor / 4k Tv

    Samsung Q70T (starting at 55") does 120 Hz FreeSync Premium Pro. Note that FreeSync over HDMI works with consoles and with AMD Radeon graphics cards, but not with GeForce.
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    Keep ancient i7 930 tower going or replace?

    If re-using your old cooler is possible, you'll need a new mounting plate. I'll agree with everyone else that the day of your 45 nm Bloomfield CPU has come and gone. If you need a new PC now, then 7 nm Zen3 (Ryzen 5000 series) offers great performance and efficiency when you can find one in...
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    AMD Acknowledges USB Connectivity Issues on 500 Series Chipset Motherboards

    I have X570 + RTX3080 here and I haven't observed any problems.
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    Manufacturing: Samsung Semiconductor Fabs in Texas Shut Down Following State-wide Power Shortages

    Here are the recommendations after the similar hard freeze in Texas in 2011: https://www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/ea/ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials/FERC%20NERC%20Findings%20and%20Recommendations.pdf El Paso followed these recommendations. Federal guidelines for power plant winterization were not applied...
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    Manufacturing: Samsung Semiconductor Fabs in Texas Shut Down Following State-wide Power Shortages

    A large asteroid strike is about a 1 in 1,000,000 year event. A hard freeze in Texas is about a 1 in 10 year event. They are not equivalent risks. You definitely should have planned for one of these scenarios. El Paso had a hard freeze that affected their power generation plants in 2011...
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    Manufacturing: Samsung Semiconductor Fabs in Texas Shut Down Following State-wide Power Shortages

    It's sad to see the B.S. story blaming wind power for ERCOT's epic failure being spread on a tech site like this. Four days later, ERCOT is still experiencing a 15+ GW shortfall of operating generators. That's more than all of the renewable power sources combined. The 30 GW of natural gas...
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    Question about second PC

    A few of my co-workers have used CyberPower PC and were pleased enough with the sales and service to order from them again. They let you choose from a decent selection of components (though I dislike RGB bling cases) and if you take advantage of the deals, the prices aren't too much more than...
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    "Indefinitely Postponed" RTX 3080 Ti Might See April Launch Carrying 12 GB GDDR6X Memory

    Considering that every PC in an asian gaming parlor gets counted many many times in Steam's hardware survey, it's an inherently flawed measurement system. It also doesn't distinguish between me playing 15 year old titles and lightweight independent games on my wimpy old laptop when I'm...
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    Crazy seeing the mining operations in reddit

    Crypto currency exists to facilitate ransomware payments and money laundering and to enrich the creators of the schemes. Name one other thing that isn't done ten thousand times better by VISA or Discover.
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