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Join the club :( GLWS, OP. That amp is fuckin' insane

As said in this thread: https://hardforum.com/threads/ion-fury.1984004/page-3 When I can... I will buy.

Adding this to the wishlist without a second thought. Still need to get around to finishing the first one.

It's moderately sagged, though. Not 100% sure of a safe way to correct that...

Found it.

Hah... I still have my PNY example around... Let's see if I can find it...

Alright, fair enough.

Good. Let him shoot his own foot. For as anti-PC as Epic was when Cliff Bleszinski and Mark Rein were still around, I'd say them going bankrupt from said lawsuits is laser guided karma for hating on a community that enabled them to be what they are today. The only bad thing is the...

They are significantly better at DX9 and DX11 than at launch, but really in games that utilize RT the A770 can provide fairly compelling performance for the price.

Too late for me...

Man oh man... $289 for a 7900X?! If I had the funds while the sale was on it'd been on like Donkey Kong... Oh well. If I ever do have the cash in the future I did save the link for the ASRock X670E board. After an incident last month I am eager to get away from PGA sockets. (If you're...

Damn. And no, I wouldn't either. I myself wouldn't object to owning an original fat Jasper based system again (the last one I owned was smashed by a former roommate, but that is its own horror story that is off topic) because there's a good handful of games I'd get besides, but aside from that...

Gigabyte and later Intel and ABit used blue PCBs back about 10-15 years ago. Those were the days, back when motherboards were priced much more sanely... Glad you're having fun with your potato, OP. I planned on getting a 16GB A770 myself at some point, even though my 3080 will give it a...

Is Rockstar finally getting around to porting that from XBox 360/PS3?

Same. It's one of a small collection of games that I'd argue is worth paying the full $60 for... Back when it was new on PlayStation 3 I'd argue the same for TLoU Pt. 1, albeit the re-release is pretty shiny.

Ah, yes. Wave Race 64... It really had impressive water/visuals for the time. It was definitely a cut above anything PlayStation or Saturn could do, albeit a little blockier and with lower resolution textures (I blame Nintendo cheaping out on the texture cache (only 4KB)... Carts over CD...

That's probably thanks to denser ROM chips and smaller lithography. I remember the early games all costing between $60-80 in my area. If you could find what you wanted. There was a city of a quarter million about an hour drive away, and that's where I bought said $73 and some odd change for...

Also Nintendo 64 cartridges were not cheap. Those "large" carts were sold directly from Nintendo to the publisher. At a profit. I distinctly remember spending about $75 after sales tax (US) for my copy of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter back in 1997.

I meant to say that. Valve just does what the publisher requests, I realize this. Brainfart on my part. My b... I do remember paying $299 for my console. Got it in mid 1995 with a copy of Doom. Heh... I can't remember what I paid for the game, though. Also had the Saturn. But again, I...

I am aware of this. I should have been more clear, perhaps? Steam just obfuscates the listing from the Steam program's search. A quick Google search usually pulls up the link to the store page, though. I was able to do this for Skyrim to play on a X58/GTX 295 system running Windows 7 a...

That's... actually reasonable. Good on them. I could see this being a negative though if the remaster is half assed, broken and buggy, or both. I do have access to the original version so it's not a huge deal, but I was looking forward to trying out Bioshock Remastered... Found out 2K pushed...

So, not worth buying. Got it. I'll look into a vanilla 7900X instead, then, if I do decide to pull the trigger. Thanks for the heads up.

A few. Depends on the publisher. Most of the AAA ones pull the originals to upsell you on a "remaster". You can't buy the Steam version of the original Skyrim unless you have the page link itself, for example. They remove them from search results in the Steam app. At least, this was the...

Neat, but until they offer a 5900X3D, I'm not interested. I'm not downgrading in cores/threads. That said I know AMD never made more than 1 CCD parts like this for AM4 before anyone says anything. I'll have to upgrade to DDR5 and AM5 if I want a 12 core part with vcache.

Those asshats responsible for this practice need to go wear a Kavorkian scarf already... What if I wanted the original verson of something to run on lesser hardware, or didn't feel the remaster was worth it, as you pointed out? God forbid, what if I wanted to sell my game once I was done with...

I sure the fuck haven't. If a game uses Unreal Engine it doesn't mean I won't get it - I'd be locking myself out of a lot of decent (and not) games if I did that. But as far as buying anything on Epic? That's a no-sell. I'd rather buy stuff off the Microsoft Store than do that.

That's what I've done with every version of Windows since 8.x, myself...

No, that has been what I have more or less observed as well. I was thinking about lifespan and maximizing your turbo clocks more than anything else in regards to the rebuild. And the 8800/9800 GTs I have kicking around are a reminder of this. Always at full clocks and 73°C idle :ROFLMAO:

I've never seen BGA type SDRAM. DDR-400? Yeah, literally just a couple times in my life. Used to seeing the TSOP variety with the legs. That's fascinating. I hope you find them.

It's honestly kind of impressive to see an Arc A770 edge out my 3080 vanilla at 4K. I always knew Arc had potential, but dayum...

Y'all might mock it, but if it gives me a higher fidelity overall I'm not above capping the framerate and using a gamepad... To each their own, I suppose.

That's fair enough. Perhaps it may be a very vocal minority, but it is enough to give myself a moment of pause when considering their hardware. It doesn't mean I won't buy ASUS motherboards (my current and previous motherboards have been ASUS, in fact) - my experiences have generally been...

With ASUS it's all fun and games until you need warranty support... :ROFLMAO:

As someone who also tinkers with older hardware myself I can appreciate this standpoint. I don't have much, but what I do have I value and have appreciation for. It's important to remember where we came from... I never imagined computing going so parallel in nature. It's kinda breathtaking...

I too am like this. If there's something wrong with my build it'll drive me insane until I fix it. OP, go the extra mile to get your rig in the better case. It may be a colossal pain in the ass, but you'll be happy you did in the end. Don't take the chance of such an insanely expensive GPU...

Pffffft... Surround sound module or bust.

4x GTX 680s? My god, man... If I remember right the original F.E.A.R. was one of the very rare games that actually scaled well over 4 GPUs. I honestly can't think of another game that does.

Hopefully... Fingers crossed but my hopes of this are not high, sadly. As I've said before, Jensen is committed to that fourthyacht money after the cryptoboom showed him what his GPUs will actually go for... MSRP has taken a sharp incline since then. To bastardize Meijer's slogan: Why pay...

You're not wrong. It's stupid how expensive they've become. My wallet won't be able to keep up.

I don't know what ol' Pat is smoking but I sure as hell want some...