Recent content by c3k

Exactly. All my rigs have one, just for the DVD playback. The Zip drive comment upstream reminded me: I had a Gateway computer with one in it and I'd never seen it before. I tried prying that zip disk out after it got sucked in. I finally, randomly, pressed the green light and "boink!" the...

Broadcast TV limited your stations and your content and had 4 commercial breaks an hour, totaling about 10-12 minutes back in the 1970's. Cable came along. Pay a fee and never see an ad. Never. Now? We're up to ~18 minutes of ads per hour (primetime), depending on some specifics. Some are...

I just bought a 6800. Non-XT. I was going to go 6700xt (yes, SEVEN). The price difference was about $20, so 6800 it was. This is a filler card for 1440 gaming.

I have not upgraded the 4 boxes in my signature to Win11, nor do I plan to unless forced. I am not a business. I use my computers (notice I said "my"?) to surf the web, watch videos, play games, email, and create documents and spreadsheets. I have NO desire to let Microsoft grab a copy of...

I just bought a Quest 3. The passthrough lets me read my phone, but only if I hold it away. Up close and it is a blurry mess. VR is very good. MR is moderately good to good.

Pretty basic...but I just learned that "tethered" VR headsets are called "PCVR" vs. the "Standalone VR" headsets. And...pancake lenses > Fresnel lenses.

I'm wondering how a VR headset gets output from my PC video card if it is a wireless connection or a usb-c wire? I'd think only a display port or hdmi connection would do that??? I'm going to use it for DCS flight sim gaming. So far, the Meta Quest 3 (soon to be released) seems to be in the...

The online game "accounts" are something I've always detested. If I buy a game (or a movie, or any other content), I feel that I OWN that content and should be able to store that content where and how I like so that I always have access to it. A cd allows that. I prefer bluray movies over...

While these prices are pretty steep, I've never had any issue with any Seasonic power supply I've ever owned. If I needed that much wattage, yeah, I'd fork over the money. To me, the PSU is the basic foundation of any build. Cases come and go, motherboards can be swapped, GPUs are temporary...

Have you tried a new cable? (<- yeah, basic, but that's where to start)

Referencing the 4070 chip supply...Moore's Law is Dead also had the same information: Nvidia will choke the supply so that the boards can sell at $600. That opens a BIG door for AMD's ~$600 gpus (with recent price cuts). The 4070 is a flop at $600.

I just voted on what I think about Nvidia and the 4070. Yep, just ordered a Radeon 6950XT, for just a bit more. Thanks, Jensen!

Well...crap. Twice as fast as a 3700x? (Looks down at his sig.) Sigh. I think I feel the need to build a rig with one of these 7800x3d cpus. Off to check motherboard prices...

I used to subscribe. Then they had a staff change. (Well, that =always= happens...) And the new staff started pushing their San Francisco values in the various tech articles. I stopped subscribing.

Nvidia has lost me, forever, as a customer due to Jensen's attempt to manipulate media and other heavy-handed autocratic impulses. I still have a choice, so I choose NOT-nvidia. AMD? Yeah, check my sig. Some GPUs are beyond their life expectancy. I'll keep waiting. The prices will drop...