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The thing is, everytime they release these updated versions of Counterstrike, they are already dated looking and shouldn't be all that demanding of low spec machines.

Counterstrike players either absolutely hate any type of progress, making them the Amish of the gaming world or they are all broke bastards running the game on computers that are period correct for when the game originally launched.

That's my thing. Gameplay mechanics have evolved since the late 1990's and Counter Strike doesn't really evolve in that area. I don't get it.

What was the difference? Near as I can tell it's always the same game with new graphics, which are outdated at the time of each iterations release.

That's the only reason I have that stuff installed. I use it to control that stuff on my Maximus Z690 Extreme.

I'm not sure how well this will work out. If there is one thing CS players seem to hate, it's change, progress and evolution of games.

Exactly the point I was going to make. As usual, AMD is simply unable to compete with NVIDIA on the high-end and just doesn't want to admit that. We've seen plenty of examples over the years of AMD charging just as much for CPU's and more for chipsets than Intel at times. It would absolutely...

There are just way too many hurdles to getting SLi implemented by developers. The last time NVIDIA and AMD pushed multi-GPU, support got better for a short time and then fell off a cliff. It got worse over time, not better. The changes to DX12 would have allowed for great things but put the...

I've gotten pretty good at driving cars in the game and I much prefer them to the bikes aesthetically.

X58 came out in a particularly stagnant point in the CPU market where Intel was only iterating each generation by small amounts and AMD wasn't even competitive. At no other point in history would CPU's have been viable for modern applications for that long.

They've done a lot to improve the driving aspect of the game. I used to have to use all kinds of mods to make it even remotely tolerable. Now its fine by default.

No. It's an FPS game. A gamepad isn't going to make playing easier.

I haven't bought the expansion (and I don't think I am going to) so I haven't paid much attention to the raid. As I understand it from people I know that cleared it, the new raid was one of the easiest in contest mode they've had.

The software was actually simple and it didn't do anything but allow you to setup the RGB lighting, mouse sensitivity and map the buttons. It had a simple profile system and the application was fast and took up almost no resources. That came as a total surprise to me. I never had it crash or...

The problem is that when you talk about a piece of technology or a given item as "the best", it will always be the top performing model that deserves that accolade in the most simple connotation. Its always going to be the item with the superior technical specifications, the most reliable design...

I disagree completely. While it may not be the price point you buy in or prefer, the high end cards can represent a value on their own. In some cases, they provide the same gaming performance as cards two and three times their cost. Some people buy ultra-high end cards and run them for several...

My point is, the list is very short sighted. It omits a lot of ground breaking and game changing GPU's that advanced technology forward or stood the test of time with architectures that were reiterated upon for multiple generations. There is no Voodoo cards mentioned, no Riva TNT or Riva TNT2...

This is a type of design I can't stand in video games. RNG is a mechanic that doesn't care how good you are, how much you've improved, or what your strategy is. You'll just wipe time and time again for no reason even when your team has done everything right. It's bullshit.

I don't entirely agree with the list, but a lot of GPU's that should be on the list are. Though, I think the 8800GTX was more significant simply because it was the dominant high end graphics card well after the 8800 Ultra launched. That card probably dominated the high end longer than any other...

In contest mode it was horrible.

I quit doing the world first raid crap in Destiny 2. I actually enjoyed it, but everyone else on the team never really had the drive to see it through. They straight up quit on the second boss of the last one.

In the past there was a cost increase on Intel motherboards. That has not been the case since AMD's X570 chipset came out. PCI-Express Gen 4.0 signaling, the updated VRM's and the very expensive chipsets all brought the cost up above Intel's then current Z490 motherboards. Z590 boards then came...

Around the time the Intel Z590 and AMD X570 boards came out.

I hate to burst your bubble but you will find things just as pricey on the Intel side. The ASUS ROG STRIX Z790-E motherboard is $500. The ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 APEX is $699.99. The ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme is $1,099.99 before tax. Unlike the video cards, ASUS' STRIX models are the low end...

Sounds like it.

Definitely. Though that game is odd with some aspects of it looking really good and a lot of things looking extremely dated. Almost like two very different groups of artists worked on it.

That's stupid.

You won't really find that either. I used to see that on the ultra-high end ROG boards, but it was primarily for PCI-Express x16 type slots, not M.2 slots.

I've worked with and reviewed a couple of hundred motherboards and I can't think of a single one off hand that had this feature.

Usually this goes in the water cooling section.

This. There really isn't anything else like it. However, it gets repetitive over time. If you've played the game for years you already know what the gameplay loop is like and frankly, it's worse than ever. The constant grind for light season after season is tiresome. The whole pinnacle gear...

I was on an EVGA 680i SLI board at the time. Their VRM's and some other design issues with those wouldn't really allow me to overclock all that high. I think I could get around 2.8GHz on that setup. The 680i SLI boards were dogshit.

Correct.

Q6600 was indeed one of the best CPUs of all time.

Nope. They are more traditional in terms of their CPU cores.

I was able to push a Northwood Celeron 1.8GHz to 3.0GHz with 100% reliability. The funny thing was, I compared it to my Pentium IV 2.4C at stock and overclocked speeds (up to 3.0GHz), and the Celery lost every time. Still, I was impressed by the 1.2GHz clock speed increase. Meanwhile, I'm the...

A lot of people are really only going to think about traditional Intel x86 PC's when talking about CPU's. I'm familiar with a lot of CPU's beyond that scope but non-Intel/AMD CPU's rarely come to mind when talking about or thinking of CPU's.

Outside of the expansions once a year, Bungie never got anything out of me. Very little from the Eververse store appealed to me. Most of Bungie's armor and weapon skin designs, or vanity items are hideous. At this point I've got 3,000 hours in the game and I haven't bought the latest expansion...

Intel's 12th and 13th generation CPU's have both P cores and E cores. The latter are a different design that focuses on efficiency rather than raw performance. The issue is that Windows 10's scheduler does not know what to do with the E-cores. If the scheduler assigns tasks to the E-cores that...