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Isn't that just sophistry? Whilst I agree on financials, that has nothing to do with the differences between a "tacked on" versus a "next gen/proper" implementation. Are our definitions the same here, I wonder? I'm looking at it from a technical/development perspective only. If what you...

I've been thinking this too. AMD seem overly reliant on their compute/raster-based traditional performance to justify this pricing. The performance petering off at 4K also sours things a bit. Then there's the fairly substantial disparity in RT performance, and without dedicated 'tensor core'...

I don't see any reason to differentiate between RT that was added pre- or post- release. Ray-tracing is one of the most simple methods of calculating rendering information, and with current real-time apis trivialising many of the complexities behind it (fast ray intersections, interop with...

I'm sure a lot of people, like myself, try to purchase a GPU for a generation (ie. 4-5 yrs). With the new console generation out and likely most games in development utilising some form of hybrid-RT, I'd say it's already at the point that matters for many folks. If someone upgrades every year or...

Brilliant looking cards, especially under 4K resolutions, but that's only if you focus on traditional rasterization and compute-centric games. It's nice to see dedicated ray-tracing H/W too, but the performance there is pretty underwhelming even if you make allowances for it as their 1st-gen...

Thanks. I figure it's better to be overly-cautious than have a leak a few days/weeks in due to rubber rot or some other material science oddity ruining everything for me.

As muon said, a lot of game do use those extra cores. In fact, for many years now the typical scenario in engine development is to spawn as many threads as is possible for the hardware it's running on. It's been a long time since the norm of having a finite limit on the number of cores/threads...

I have some EK fittings for hard tubing that I purchased quite a few years ago, as well as an assembled EK X3 reservoir. For various reasons I ended up pulling the plug on what I was doing at the time, so these parts have been stored away for ~5yrs. Now I've reached a point where I can finally...

Factorio has to be one of the most addictive games I've played. A couple of years ago I remember spending a month solely trying to build up fairly complex logic circuits to automate flow control of everything, until I realised the game is too deadly a time sink and went cold turkey with it. Not...

Don't fret about it too much. Having too much wattage doesn't harm anything. Always be a little conservative with what you think your system will draw at full OC'ed load, and aim for a PSU safely above that. With your ~650W configuration I'd aim for a decent efficiency 850W PSU. That will give...

If it's Win 10 Home, I didn't think the gpedit.msc functionality was available?! I'm sure it wasn't in the past. Regardless, even on 10 Pro I've not been able to find a way of stopping an update once it's already installed and at the stage of prompting for a restart, only halting it before the...

Although the proper justification for those differing frame-rates has been mentioned above, I just wanted to throw in that viewing distance should affect the visual impact of fps, albeit in too much of an obnoxious way to care about. Given a specific viewing distance, to avoid a moving object...

foobar2000. It handles just about all popular audio codec types (aac, flac, alac, mp3, ogg, opus, wav) as well as can open up audio from within a video container; it's highly configurable; great for library management and tagging; light-weight on resources; has multiple configurable built-in...

This may not be helpful to you, but I had something vaguely similar some time ago and it might be worth considering in any case. I had a problem with the classic photo viewer in W10 (re-enabled via registry). Out of nowhere suddenly had these weird hangs for several seconds before the photo...

1st person and RTS/Sim games, it's always a KB+M. Driving games with a controller (don't own a wheel). However, with 3rd person ones it depends on how well I can handle/enjoy the gameplay for each game respectively. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey (the first AC game in years for me), I struggled no...

For those asking about the Gameworks Godrays/Volumetric Lighting implementation you may want to check the GDC 2014 .pdf presentation at the bottom of this blog post. It's not a tremendously complex method, and for the most part it doesn't seem too much hassle to implement. Its integration into...

Not that it's all that relevant, but based on Maxwell slides from last year Nvidia does license and support Gameworks (some library features at least) for use on the current-gen consoles. They would have likely carried out targeted optimizations for the GCN arch on the consoles too when you...

Did I... how so? :/ He/she uses 3 triple rads; had SLi but now uses one 980Ti, but will get another later; overclocks a 4770k to 4.5GHz and load temps never go above 36C; uses mobo blocks; would be concerned if they saw 60C with their set up, but that might just be him/her. Given the...

That's impressive. With 3 triple radiators and only ~350 watts of h/w I'd think everyone would be worried with highs of 60C, even in hot climates and mildly low-rpm fans. What water-air delta T do you get under load, assuming you have a sensor? Much less than 5C?

All you're trying to do is take the watts of heat generated along the loop and dissipate it at an adequate rate. In the context of radiators, you obviously look at increasing the surface area for cooling (longer, thicker, or additional rads), or you look at increasing the airflow through the...