Recent content by manleysteele

Frankly, I'll have to see actual performance, in a game I'm willing to play, before I make any decision about buying a new card. The ray tracing looks good, but I don't need it to enjoy the games I play. If I do pick up a 20 series card, it will be based on the frame rate. In other words, make...

No.

Hell. Just don't install any of that mess. Cabling problems solved.

But it will work just fine without the RGB junk, right?

"Ultimately, what makes for a faster CPU is a mixture of both clock speed." You might want to finish this both;and proposition, then delete this reply.

This release raises several questions in my mind. 1. What is the relative performance with say, 1080 vs. 2080 with ray tracing turned off? Because the old games they that many of us still play won't benefit from ray tracing to any usable extent that I can see right now. I'll be happy to be...

Meanwhile, those pesky rascals over at NVidia keep moving the target.

The first product out the doors was something no one was asking for. The second product out the door was something no one was asking for. The third product out the door was something no one was asking for. The fourth product out the door was something no one was asking for. The fifth product...

To go from 1080p to 1440p will cost you about twice the graphics computing power, but on a 27" monitor will only increase DPI from 80 to 106.7 on the same monitor. 2160p cost 4 times as much compute as 1080p to go from 80 DPI to 160 DPI on the same monitor. An 8K 27" monitor will display about...

Did you mean to double enter Z370 in the chipset stack? I'm thinking Z390 on top. In any case, delete this after you check.

frankly, modern games are photorealistic enough to suit me. I never want to play a game that could make me forget that it's just a toon.

My gut feeling for this is that this is the moment when a mockup is held up and the commentator says, "This is (Your choice of names here) and describes what it is/has in the way of shaders, etc. By is/has I mean will be/will have. Nvidia is late for doing this for the next generation. This...

I watched the entire GTC Keynote from NVidia. No mention of Turing or Ampere at all. I was prepared to be underwhelmed by a lot of marketing speak. Instead, I was impressed. NVidia has positioned themselves to dominate the future of computing. The Volta GPU is even more of a monster than it...

The bandwidth that is being argued over with the NN debate is not infinite. What the ISP's are saying is that if a service wants to use more bandwidth than normal, they need to pay for it. Data is not all the same with no regard for what it is. Streaming a 1080p movie @ 60 fps for 2hours uses a...