Recent content by Jagar123

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    News We need your help to shape the future of Tom’s Hardware

    This annoyed me too. Luckily, I used an ad blocker to zap those extra articles they are spamming out. Tom's is injecting their own articles as ads at this point. At the end of the day if Tom's keeps making changes that are hostile to their user experience in an effort to try to force people to...
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    News Asus anticipates price increases as it shifts production from China

    I don't think Asus has ever been price competitive. Sounds like they are lying through their teeth.
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    News We need your help to shape the future of Tom’s Hardware

    That's good to hear. Like I said, I haven't frequented those pages in years. Glad to hear you've removed the forum links and are updating them. This point by philged really resonated with me. This applies to the "best of" lists and the GPU/CPU charts. If you can update the written content on...
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    News We need your help to shape the future of Tom’s Hardware

    I've sent in my survey. I also wanted to add a comment here. Toms used to be the best place to see CPU and GPU hierarchy charts. But I haven't visited those charts in years. I can only speculate here and give my personal opinion as to why, but it seems like in order to keep SEO high you decided...
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    Where to buy AMD's Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards

    I actually woke up this morning ready to buy a new GPU for the first time since 2018. By the time I got to my computer, 4 minutes after they started selling, all the MSRP models we're out of stock. This is dumb.
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    News MSI quietly raises prices of its supposed RTX 5070 Ti MSRP models

    According to a TPU article they've reverted the prices. Publicity is a hell of a thing, huh?
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    News AMD Radeon RX 9070 series prices leak on Micro Center — starting at nearly $700 for XT versions

    I've held off a very long time on GPU upgrades. I seriously hope AMD is ready with a good offering. I do not want to support Nvidia at this time, but may be forced to if AMD drops the ball again.
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    News AMD 9800X3D 'failures/deaths' Reddit megathread indicates the vast majority may be happening on ASRock motherboards

    I was actually going for that exact board. I spent weeks trying for either that board or the Taichi Lite. I only ended up with the Tachi Lite because it was available for a few minutes whereas the Nova never was. I am guessing the Nova is just used more as it is the best bang for buck board for...
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    News AMD 9800X3D 'failures/deaths' Reddit megathread indicates the vast majority may be happening on ASRock motherboards

    Seeing as I upgraded to a 9800X3D and an AsRock X870E Taichi Lite motherboard last December I have some minor concerns. My temperatures and stability have been great though. Chuckles
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    News AMD estimates of Radeon RX 9070 XT performance leaked: 42% – 66% faster than Radeon RX 7900 GRE

    I certainly hope that is what this means. I was hoping for it to come in at $499 but I can see myself paying $550 for this performance level. I am cautiously optimistic for this release.
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    News Newegg reintroduces scalper-beating 'Shuffle' lottery for premium-priced RTX 5080s

    I'll pay them $750 for a 5080. Oh, they are twice that price? No thanks.
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    Nvidia DLSS4, MFG, and full ray tracing tested on RTX 5090 and RTX 5080

    I just can't seem to care about frame gen/MFG. If they found a way to add user input to the generated frames I think that would go a long way to resolving a lot of my issues with the technology. Until then.... No thanks Nvidia. Also, their marketing is killing off any trust I have in them as a...
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    Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition review: Incremental gains over the previous generation

    When the 4080 released I was willing to pay $750 for that product. Now the 5090 is ~8-15% faster for $999? No thanks Nvidia.
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    News Radeon RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPU purportedly performs similar to RTX 4080 Super in CoD Black Ops 6

    I think Daniel Owen debunked this pretty convincingly. He believes the COD6 graphics settings were changed without rebooting the game. In his experience if you do not reboot the game after making graphic setting changes they do not take effect. Radeon RX 9070 Gaming Benchmark at CES Analysis