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    News Best Buy Sold Out of All 17,000 GPUs in Short Order

    I've been a PC gamer since the early 2000s. I recently sold my GTX 1080 (for the same price I paid years ago), dropped PC gaming, and switched over to the XBOX. I'll see you guys again in a few years, given NVIDIA/AMD ever decides to sell to gamers again (vs just supplying to miners and...
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    News Shortage Disaster: AMD RX 6800 & 6800 XTs Out of Stock Everywhere

    I guess Frank Azor of AMD owes someone $10. https://www.techspot.com/news/86889-amd-frank-azor-confident-there-no-ampere-like.html Anyway to bring this to AMD's attention?
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    News Nvidia RTXGI: Ray Tracing Global Illumination At Any Frame Rate

    I'm with derek on this. Shadows should be as fluid as the player. However, given I hardly have time to notice these shadows, I'm not surprised halving it or limiting it to 30fps was considered an option.
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    Unable To Create REFS File System with 3 Drives

    So I recently acquired three 3TB Seagate drives and wanted to test out REFS using Storage Spaces in Windows 8.1 with parity resiliency, but for one reason or another, the only file system available is NTFS. Am I missing something here? Does REFS only work in a mirror resiliency situation? If...
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    Raid 5 Accelerated by 2 SSDs in Raid 0 using Intel RST Possible?

    Two questions actually: 1. Question is in the title. I'm pretty sure it's not possible, but I just wanted to have it confirmed by at least one other member of this forum with some seniority or experience using Intel's RST. 2. I also wanted to confirm if there are any size limitations? Can I...