Recent content by mac_angel

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    News Lack of PCIe bandwidth can nerf RTX 5090 by up to 25% in content creation workloads — Puget data confirms performance hit when using older generati...

    So, this touches on something I've been curious about, but haven't been able to confirm anywhere, other than an older video I found on YouTube. Can you run NVidia Surround with three identical GPUs and displays without SLI? The video shows that you can, but nowadays you'd need a computer with...
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    AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Faceoff — Battle of the Gaming Flagships

    there are a lot of people complaining about various aspects of the article, and rightfully so. They make some good points. I didn't read through them all to know if my thought was covered or not, but I think it's very relevant. If someone is buying either of these CPUs, they are either...
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    Review Sandisk WD Black SN8100 2TB SSD Review: The fastest overall consumer SSD ever made

    Your title says 2TB, but your links are for the 1TB models. As for Sandisk's history, I give it 6 months, tops, before they start swapping out the various chips on the m.2 drive.
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    News Nvidia GTX 970 memory mod boosts performance with 8GB VRAM upgrade

    NVidia didn't make "bad calls", they do it on purpose. It's called "planned obsolescence". The 'dumb down' their cards for retail use, and put the bare minimum of VRAM in the cards that they can get away with. Not to save money, but so that the cards have no 'future proof' aspect. They can...
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    News Nvidia GTX 970 memory mod boosts performance with 8GB VRAM upgrade

    GTX 970 has faster memory, 224GB/s vs 192GB/s GTX 970 has a lot faster clock speed, 1178MHz boost vs 773MHz. And remember, that's per CUDA core, so that difference is applied to 1664 CUDA cores. Drivers probably have some differences, too. As for my own comment. I think this is just more proof...
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    News RTX 5060 reviews are reportedly in jeopardy — Nvidia allegedly withholding pre-release drivers from reviewers

    not surprising. NVidia probably knows that the reviews are going to be bad, so they'll cut them off for as long as possible and try to get as many as possible day 1 sales as they can.
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    News OpenAI spends millions to process polite phrases such as "Thank You" and "Please" with ChatGPT

    How many of us are saying "Please" and "Thank you", and being polite just in case of the Ai uprising happens and we'll be known as the ones that were nice to Ai?
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    News Nvidia's PhysX and Flow go open source — Running legacy PhysX on RTX 50 may be possible using wrappers

    yea. It was a great technology right from the beginning, along with the other 'daughter' technologies that came out of it (HairWorks, Turf Effects, and others). They also had a great audio one that was able to render audio to sound like it should in different environments (Hall, small room, open...
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    News UserBenchmark bashes AMD GPUs and claims they lack real-world performance

    but it would be nice to know. If someone is going to be doing a review on a CPU, then they should be giving full information for everyone. I also suggested years ago that they should test games with and without hyperthreading - especially with the 13th and 14th gen CPUs that overheat. If you...