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Epic also has PC Building Simulator 1 AND 2, with the IT expansion pack. That one hit a bit too close to home for me :) They also have a free weekend trial for The Crew Motorfest this week. It feels a LOT like a Forza Horizon clone.

Can I get a Metallica battleship to shoot back at them? :)

It's still better than an Engadget "product review", where they basically just copy and paste the talking points memo from the manufacturer.

Well... probably not a 4060 16GB. It doesn't seem to have the memory bus bandwidth to fully utilize 16 GB of VRAM. It really feels like they tacked on that extra 8 GB of VRAM at the last minute to appease reviewers.

In my mind, LTT and Gamers Nexus serve different markets. If you want a 40-minute video where every facet of a product is tested in excruciating detail, Gamers Nexus is the review you want to watch. If you just want a 10-minute summary review of a product, LTT is the place to go.

That's great if you're a 1080p gamer, I guess. I game at 1440p on a 2060 Super, so the current 4060 series offerings aren't much of an "upgrade" for me. Maybe Nvidia will come to its senses and offer a reasonably priced "4060 Super" with better 1440p performance. If not, I'm sure that AMD or...

Umm... that 3060 came with 12 GB of VRAM. The 4060 only came with 8 GB.

NVidia is marketing it as the "Ultimate 1080p" GPU, and the weaker reviewers (looking at you, Engadget) are following their lead and playing into the strengths of the card. The better card reviews are testing the card at 1440p to better demonstrate the issues with limited memory bandwidth...

Linus seemed to be OK with the 4060 Ti: From what I see, it doesn't really make sense to upgrade if you already have a 3060 or a 3060 Ti. Maybe it makes sense if you have a 2060 Super and you're playing at 1080p and you want to crank up the ray tracing settings? The 1440p performance on the...

By the way they focused on 1080p performance in the press release, something tells me that the 1440p performance isn't going to be good. Not good enough to consider upgrading from a 3060 or a 2060 Super, anyway.

I ended up getting an LG 38WN95C-W. Nice monitor!

You're right, sorry about that. I'll be using this for work from home sysadmin work, so the workload is going to be 2 browser windows, Teams, Outlook, and a bunch of console windows all open at the same time. This will be plugged into a 16" Macbook Pro, so USB-C connectivity would be nice. My...

What is a good single widescreen monitor replacement for 2 1920x1200 monitors? I was thinking of getting a single 38" or 42" widescreen monitor with a resolution of around 3880x1600, but those are somewhat expensive. Is the image quality improvement worth the cost?

I see that Epic is offering The Sims 4 for free as well. That one kinda makes sense, as the game seems kinda incomplete on its own and they really want you to pay for a bunch of expansion packs.

It seems that with the latest drivers, Intel Arc cards no longer suck at playing older games: Now that the Arc 750 is only $250, it's probably one of the better mid-range cards out there at the moment.

By then, the next generation AMD and NVidia cards will be out. They should totally destroy the performance of the A750 and A770 at their current price point.

Have we even heard any rumors on performance targets for the 2nd gen cards yet?

Yeah, Starlink seems to be learning some bad habits from the big ISP's as it figures out how to become profitable. They recently added a 1 TB data cap in the US and will start throttling users who exceed that cap. I hope that they don't start adding bogus add-on fees like the "regulatory...

I actually ended up getting 2 Amazon gift cards from this as a settlement payment. Came out to about $23 total, which might actually be enough to buy a used DVD drive on eBay if I wanted one. :)

Wow, I didn't know that Fallout 3 was that old. The recommended operating systems for it were Windows XP and Vista :)

My CPU progression: 1 Mhz MOS 6510 10 Mhz Intel 286 33 Mhz Intel 386 75 Mhz Intel Pentium 300 Mhz Intel Pentium II 700 Mhz AMD Athlon 2.53 GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 6420 3.9 GHz Intel Core i7 3770 4.3 (ish) GHz AMD Ryzen 3700X

I don't want one, I still have a $500 price cap on any GPU's that I buy. There are still much better GPU bargains out there right now, mostly in the used market for high-end 30X0 cards.

They are supposedly coming... https://videocardz.com/newz/custom-intel-arc-a770-and-a750-graphics-cards-have-been-revealed

I'd imagine that someone is currently printing up a big batch of "GeForce 4070 Ti" stickers to cover up the GeForce 4080 logo on these 12 GB cards right now. :)

It's probably not even that sinister. AMD and Nvidia's headquarters are both in Santa Clara, California. I'd imagine that this stuff gets discussed at backyard BBQs after a few beers are drunk and they forget that they signed an NDA about this stuff.

It's a first gen product, they'll probably figure out the "right" way to do it next time. I'd also imagine that the partner boards will be built better as well.

Steve from GN seemed to kinda like the Intel A750: I'll be curious to see what the real-life pricing looks like on these a few weeks from now. If they get down to around $250, they might become a good bargain option compared to the AMD 6600 series.

Are you sure about that? Apparently, power supplies was the part of the business that produced all of the profits. Also, who knows what else they might decide to produce over the next few years.

This is the part of the story that bothered me: “And while Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming...

Looks like the rumor is no longer a rumor. Stadia dies on January 18th, 2023: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023

A 3070 doesn't seem like much of an upgrade over a GeForce 2060 Super. The 2060 Super already performs about the same as a 3060 in most titles. If you're thinking about a 3080 or higher, make sure to factor in a power supply upgrade if you need one. A 2060 Super would happily run with a 550...

Yeah, I wonder how much Zotac is paying their former mining customers to post videos like that on social media. They need FUD like that out there to scare people away from buying used cards, so they can sell more overpriced 4000 series cards once they come out.

Well... they obviously weren't going to let any respected tech journalists do the first Intel Arc build, because they would have required Intel to let them post benchmarks as part of the deal. Benchmarks (especially for older titles) isn't exactly Intel's strong suit right now, so they'll let...

My favorite are the ones who still proudly post that their cards are the "Non LHR" models. Guess what? Nobody cares anymore. Ethereum mining is basically dead now.

That's the weird thing... The Ethereum mining hash rate was high right up until the day before the merge. It only dropped about 20% in the weeks before, much less than expected. That tells me that there are a LOT of "lightly used" video cards being pulled out of mining rigs that are about to...

Try eBay. You can get a used 3090 for under $800 now, or a used 3070 for under $400. I can't imagine that NVidia is going to sell a lot of 12GB 4080 Founders Edition cards for $899 when you can get a used card with twice as much VRAM and probably similar performance for $100 less.

Yeah, I don't blame EVGA for deciding to get out of the GPU business for a while. In a post-Ethereum mining world where you can get a used GeForce 3090 on eBay for under $800 or a GeForce 3070 for under $350, I doubt that the new 4000 series cards will be selling like hotcakes at retail.

The Ethereum merge was announced long before then, though. I think that EVGA saw the writing on the wall, and knew that selling overpriced GPUs to crypto miners wouldn't be a thing for much longer. No point dealing with a lousy supplier if you're not going to make any profit off of them, right?

My ideal scenario would be EVGA partnering with Intel, helping them fix their driver issues, and make Arc a real competitor for AMD and Nvidia. It's probably just a pipe dream, though. Intel seems to be eager to kill the product line before it even launches.

Don't forget that Apple proved with their new "M" ARM processors that Integrated graphics don't necessarily have to suck. The days of needing a dedicated GPU for a mid-range gaming PC might be numbered.