Recent content by phxrider

If you interpret it literally, "after April" means May or later.

It's like TDS, except for tech. AMD GPUs were garbage some years back, I tried out a R9290X and what a piece of junk that was. Went back to Nvidia real quick. Fast-forward to 2021, I grabbed a 6800XT during the crypto craze because it was available, and I knew it would pay for itself even at...

I think it would be silly anyway, all the games are made for 16GB or less, the highest amount of RAM that has any serious market share. The only GPUs over 16GB are Nvidia 90 series, and the 7900XT and XTX, which hold too little market share to be worth optimizing games for.

In other news, Congress begins talks on embargoing exports of the 7900XTX to China..... Maybe this illustrates the differences when software is explicitly written for one or the other? I'm pretty sure most games are written for Nvidia seeing as they own something like 85% of the market, except...

Export embargo...... They're not going to make anything below the 90 level too fast to sell in China.

Good price, I hope it's better than the BE800 though - mine performs great but needs to be rebooted weekly or 2.4Ghz appliances will start dropping and will be unable to reconnect until I reboot.

Says who? Back in the day my entire department would play Duke Nukem 3D deathmatch on our company PCs after-hours.... Then Quake, etc.

It seems like your number comes up at some point and you get surveyed. I had every device I log into pop up a survey one day, after ~20 years of having a Steam account and never getting one.

Not that strange. No one cares about a lab-derived power comparison when deciding which device to put their hard-earned money down on, they care about how it performs when actually playing a game the way they're going to run it in real life.

No, I'm saying ultimately, when making an actual purchase decision, it's more important to know the FPS you'll be getting on screen when really playing a game than what a laboratory power comparison shows.

Seems like a good idea to me. Older guys like me can't see the 7" screens anymore, and we have the money to buy toys like this. Then again, it IS getting closer to the size of a full-fledged gaming laptop....

Pretty sure they'd be using a workstation card, not a gaming card.

I said "real world performance", not "real performance", and real world performance is what you get on your screen when you set everything up optimally for best performance in the game you're playing - and it's ALL anyone except lab nerds cares about when they plunk down their cash.

I doubt that, but if it exists, *I* want to work for the company that puts x080ti level gaming GPUs in their PCs!

Looks like someone went through a messy divorce!