Recent content by Wasteland

lol, that heatsink is farcical. I sure hope that PCIe 4.0 drives stick around for a long time, because 5.0 looks more and more like a bad joke. A near-unanimous majority of the consumer market won't even notice a speed increase; that is the reward for strapping this grotesque monstrosity onto...

This is a good argument in principle, but I find it misleading to lump frame generation in with the rest. You're not the first to do this; I've seen Digital Foundry make precisely the same argument. Upscaling, sure--we can argue that various forms of that have existed for thirty years. If...

As far as I know, the A380 is the cheapest drop-in upgrade that can give you AV1 encode. That is worth something, to someone, somewhere, lol. I'm also pleased to see that the idle power on this card is much improved; last I heard, it was hanging out in the 40-watt range, along with all the rest...

Agreed. Intel IGPs are where it's at, ATM. As an added bonus, Intel CPUs idle at lower power than most current-ish Ryzen products, by quite a large margin. I should have made the distinction between Intel's discrete GPUs and Quicksync generally more clear in my previous post. I should also...

Re: Intel's video acceleration, I had the same thought at first. Then I remembered why I dismissed Arc for my media server--an idle power consumption of ~40 W is a tough sell for a 24/7 machine. It's a shame, because otherwise, an Arc A380 would seem to be the premiere choice for people who...

Underrail, because nothing better justifies all the time I spend obsessing over cutting edge computer tech than a turn-based game with 90s-style pixel graphics. (It's a great game, though.)

lol, this is an exceedingly polite way of saying that the 4060/Ti launched at a clownishly inflated price point. Don't get me wrong; I appreciate the price cuts and certainly the news post--I'm just here to compliment the author's dry humor

Yeah, actually this is one of my favorite things about Heroic--it allows you to automate adding games to Steam, or rather, it makes adding EGS/GOG games to Steam a one-click affair. This is more relevant to me on Linux, where the benefits of running through Steam are much more pronounced (and...

Might check out the Heroic Launcher as an alternative: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher It works quite well. You can even buy games on the Epic/GOG stores through Heroic (though thus far I've only ever claimed free games in this fashion). The only caveat is that...

lol, yeah. I'm not suggesting that the article isn't useful or interesting, but I can't quite shake the image in my head of someone writing a review for DLSS using an AMD card, "conclusion-wtf it doesn't work at all."

Excellent, you found one. So between Tomshardware's one chip (they bought a single 12400 before retail launch for that review--they couldn't even supply 100% accurate description of the specs because the specs hadn't been announced yet), and your chip (assuming it is stable), we have two whole...

Incidentally, this Techpowerup review that Gica quoted earlier was written based on testing with an i9-12900k, which is not a locked CPU. Not only that, it was written before any of the locked Alder Lake SKUs launched. These facts point to why I harp on this issue. Most people who google for...

Ok, link me to an article from a "reputable reviewer" who tests locked Alder/Raptor Lake CPUs with DDR4-3600 in Gear 1. And while you're at it, give me a direct quote where I used the word "unsafe." You can't because I didn't use that word. What I actually said is that it's irresponsible to...

LMAO. Do you know how those BIOS updates "increase memory stability?" By defaulting to Gear 2 when the user dials in XMP speeds of 3600 MT/s or higher. If Alexx or whoever wants to believe you over HUB, Buildzoid, MSI, and frankly Intel itself at this point, then they're certainly free to do...

No one cares what you do with your CPUs, which is why I didn't reply until you recommended to someone else that he should expect 3600 MT/s in Gear 1. That's the irresponsible part. Posting screengrabs of HWINFO doesn't prove stability, and those screengrabs are a pretty lame rebuttal to all of...