I see the point you're making, it's possible that production costs have increased so much that nVidia is making the same profit margin on the 4060 Ti compared to the 3060 Ti, even though it came out 2.5 years ago. Without knowing the BOM for all of the GPU's we can't say for sure. I think the...
I think it's easy to see that nVidia is trying to nickel and dime gamers, especially when you look at the die size of this GPU compared to the previous card.
RTX 3060 Ti = 392 mm^2 die for $400 in December 2020
RTX 4060 Ti = 190 mm^2 die for $400 in May 2023
If nVidia wanted to give a proper...
IMO it's natural that a company might need to change flash chips or controllers over time, especially for an entry-level or midrange product, but it should be clearly marked on the SKU, or the packaging should say "WD SN550 V2" instead of "WD SN550 V1". The other problem that makes this issue...
Has anyone found a way to add controller support to this game? I love action RPGs but I don't like to play them with mouse only, either controller or KBM is more fun for me
I'm going to get some of this paste in the next few weeks so I can repaste my GPU and hopefully it will improve my temp by 1-2* C.
But the real reason I'm commenting is to talk about Arctic Silver 5, since other people are talking about it. I can't believe that company is still in business and...
I miss the old days of tech too. Windows 10 is so overbearing with advertisements and forced updates. I click the Start button and I see icons for apps that I haven't installed on my PC, and I have no idea what they are, but of course the maker of the app paid Microsoft for ad placement and now...
This comment made me curious so I decided to benchmark my Dell XPS 8940 and Intel 10400 to see how much power limits were affecting my PC. I left the default power limit of 120 watts because I wanted to see the stock behavior of the CPU / motherboard. It's holding around 3.86 GHz after 45...
The pricing on the K-series chips is kinda high but the regular processors seem like good deals. The 11400 costs $182 and the 11700 costs $323. If the performance on those two is anywhere close to the 5600X and the 5800X they will be winners. I just don't know if Anandtech's review of the 11700K...
Thank you for taking the time to write this. Do you have any experience with high end LCD gaming monitors? I wonder how CRT like the Sony FW900 compares to high end monitors like the Samsung Odyssey G7 or the Viewsonic XG270QG.
In my opinion GPU prices have gone to shit but since you can mine crypto, the GPU will pay for itself over time (assuming that crypto prices do not change and the difficulty of mining stays the same). In that context, you can make roughly $6-7 per day mining with a 3070, so it's not bad. I would...
I agree with your point that this card might be good enough for light gamers, but I just want to point out, the RX 570 is faster than this card, and before the GPU shortage you could find RX 570 4GB for around $100-110. Now you have to pay $200 for a card with slower performance (power...
I think you have a neat perspective about the FW900 vs. new monitors. Everyone who sees the FW900 says the motion clarity is better than any LCD, but I think to myself, is it really true that we can't beat 20 year old technology with the best screens of today? I would love to see a comparison...
The Intel 10400 and 10100 have taken the place of the Ryzen 3600 and 3300X as the best budget gaming CPUs. About 6-9 months ago when you could find the Ryzen 3600 for $170 it was great, but now it's hard to find and Intel has slashed prices to rock bottom. I think anyone building a PC for up to...
I was just watching this video about the Radeon HD 6990, 10 years after launch and I realized that both nVidia and AMD haven't released any dual GPU cards in almost 10 years. On top of that, the marketing for SLI and CrossFire has disappeared and hardly anyone discusses these techniques. When I...
Hey Gerald, thank you for giving me the inspiration to do this. I just got the Dell XPS deal with the GTX 1660 Super and when I'm not playing games I'm going to mine with it. By my calculation, if prices do not change I will be able to pay off my new $600 PC in about 9 months. I'm pretty satisfied.
When I heard about the creation of 3D Xpoint memory in 2015 I thought it was going to be a paradigm shift for storage but the actual product that we got didn't have the insanely low latency or the performance that Intel/Micron were originally promising, and the cost ended up being so high that...
I am thinking of doing the same thing, either Optane or a caching SSD. Does it feel like you are running an SSD once the Optane has a chance to cache the game files and the operating system? Does it feel fast and responsive?
If any of you have been keeping up with the Gamestop situation and you've gotten interested in investing let me give you some advice, read The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle and google "Target Date Fund". You can thank me later
After I post this I'm going to be excommunicated from the PC Master Race Club but I just bought a Dell XPS computer with a GTX 1660 Super because of how hard it was to find a GPU. The entire stock of GPUs has dried up and the ones that are available cost way too much money.
The 980 Pro is one of the fastest SSDs you can buy right now but I just want to point out this drive does NOT use MLC flash anymore, they switched to TLC. That is probably the main reason that it costs so much less than the old 970 Pro. The write performance of TLC memory is slower than MLC so...
Everyone else has already listed the most important/best GPUs so I'm going to give an honorable mention to the GTX 460 because it's monster overclocking headroom and because it gave the benefits of the Fermi architecture and good tessellation performance without having the power/heat/noise...
I was 7 years old playing Pokemon Blue/Silver on a Gameboy Color when 3dfx Voodoo 2 was the best GPU, what did it do to make it the best of all time? And the Radeon 4870 was a good GPU, but why did you choose that one as the best?
For the Radeon 9700 and nVidia 8800 I know the story behind...
I saw that same video from Gamers Nexus and I have a mancrush on Steve because he's so reasonable and well informed about PC gear/gaming but I think there is a mistake somewhere in their methodology. Digital Foundry looked at AC Valhalla and tried to match the PS5's settings to the PC version...
I have to agree, the 8800 GTX had more than the 2x the performance of the 7900 GTX and unified pixel/vertex shaders were such a good idea that we still use it today.
After that I think the GTX 460 was one hell of a GPU for $230. The stock speed was 675 MHz and people were routinely hitting 850...
I kept up with the nVidia 6800 series when it came out and I never heard of the 6800 NU. I knew about the vanilla, GS, GT, and Ultra, but never heard of that.
In my case it was the Radeon 9800 Pro, I got it on Christmas of 2003 so I could play Counter Strike. It was mindblowing to see CS 1.6 with the same quality as my local internet cafe. But sadly my 9800 Pro never got to flex its muscles because I had a Pentium 4 1.7 GHz Willamette, it totally held...
I've been in PC gaming/hardware for around 15 years but the 9700 Pro was just before my time (plus I was 10 years old so I wasn't mature enough). All of the comments I've read about it are along the lines of "Best GPU of all time!" and other similar remarks. Can you guys tell me why it was such...
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Topic is closed, I found an SSD!!!
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So I'm talking about 6h, 7th, and 8th gen processors, for example the i5-8400 or something like that. Can it OC anywhere past 4.0 GHz? (the Turbo speed is exactly 4.0 GHz)
The reason I'm asking is because I remember back in the Sandy Bridge days, if a CPU had a Turbo speed of 3.6 GHz, it could...