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There are multiple storefronts selling lossless music in standard formats (FLAC, WAV, etc.). As far as I know, no one has ever sold full-quality digital movies or TV in an open format. We don't need CDs because we have an equivalent digital alternative. We do not have that for movies, and...

I never bought into DVD or Blu-Ray because they seemed to be dead-end formats that would eventually be obsolete. Now that we have 4K, nearly equivalent to the source material, with little to be gained by going to 8K, I can finally buy something and not expect to replace it. Just in time for...

If you ever get a chance to see them side by side in a dark room you'd understand. A matte coating smears the reflection across the whole panel and muddies the image. It's affected by the light output from the monitor itself, so it's always a downside, even if your room is setup so reflections...

For more than 10 feet you really need fiber optic. I had a certified HDMI 2.1 fiber cable from Monoprice and it frequently failed to connect. Replaced it with this one by Ruipro and it has worked fine for 4k@120Hz 10-bit. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCFZG1W5 So yeah, it does seem like the...

While it is technically cheating by definition, I'm skeptical it provides any benefit. It doesn't change what is visible or perform any sort of interaction for you. Arguably, it's less significant than a hardware macro for a glitch or even simply going from 60Hz to 120Hz. Mass produced...

There's a biiiig difference between spending $80k on a Tesla and $300k on a custom built electrified classic. There absolutely is a market for less complicated vehicles, but there isn't any reason for automakers to produce them. Why sell a car that will last forever and float through the used...

Sometimes there really is just one solution to a particular problem. If two completely independent research teams come up with the same solution, whoever gets it patented first wins. They shouldn't be immune to competition just because they refuse to license out their patent to anyone else...

I think it's wroth pointing out that D3 was not too 'bright', it was too 'cartoony'. The complaints weren't the color or lack thereof, but the exaggerated/unrealistic proportions, animations, and particle effects. It did not help that it took a lot of style cues from WoW. D4 looks much...

If the game is still looking washed out - I know this isn't really a solution, but if you have a screen capable of HDR, try that instead. At least for my setup, the game always renders in HDR, even when I don't have an HDR capable display connected. It actually looks pretty good on my TV...

Reminds me of Crysis, at release the best hardware available couldn't maintain a playable framerate in that either. The big difference is that Crysis looked massively better than most other games when it released. Alan Wake 2 is not such a big step forward. The fact that a $1600 GPU can only...

Hopefully 4k discs remain an option anyway, but I'm not too optimistic. Being able to buy retail 'that day' is useful and Best Buy is currently the best option for (new) physical media. Lose that and I'm not sure how big the market is, does the average disc sell to someone who wants to watch...

I wouldn't suggest playing FM8 with a wheel. It's better than 7, but only by virtue of being functional. I played around with wheel settings for an hour or so and never got to anything beyond 'it takes effort to turn'. I only have a G27, but it's still night and day between Forza and Assetto...

In D2 at least you end up with something different than what you already have, that might encourage a new build for a different class. In D4, at best, you get a very slightly better version of something you already have. D4 isn't a bad game, as long as you stop playing it around level 50 or so...

Forza doesn't really have any competition on PC. Horizon and NFS don't even attempt realism, and the sims like iRacing don't have street cars. The original AC does, but it's ten years old. FM7 had it's issues, but it wasn't a bad game. I expect more of the same from FM8, and not much else...

I spent a while looking for a small case to fit a full-size ATX mobo somewhat recently and ended up with a Thermaltake Core G3. The materials are cheap, standard steel and plastic, but it's well made and gets the job done. Plus, it's a lot more reusable than buying a new motherboard for the...

Ideal outcome - It somehow becomes illegal to sell a digital game that's only valid on one launcher, and all the stores start selling universal 'CD keys' instead. Likely outcome - Valve pays a tiny fine and nobody cares.

Most of my top ten games didn't even make it to round 1 and there's some really weird franchise choices. Halo 2 over Halo 1, really? Pokemon Yellow over Red or Blue? Skyrim over Morrowind? THPS2 over THPS3? My top five of what did make it onto the bracket all lost in round 1: D2, FFVII, HL2...

I actually just bought this case, wasn't using the fan hub since I have plenty of headers already, but guess I may as well get the replacement in case I ever want to use it.

That's actually the default behavior, I always have to remember to turn it off or I accidentally switch skills when using mouse 3 for something. As far as rubber banding and lag, I'm 50/50 on whether it was any better or worse than the original. Hit detection was about the same, rubber banding...

Have to admit I was enormously impressed by D2R. They truly did not change (read: break) the existing game. D2R is D2 with pretty graphics and a shared stash, which is exactly what I wanted. Early D2 (as opposed to endgame) is hard in ways that many modern games aren't, and that's a big part...

Really considering this case to replace my aging Lian-Li (solid front panel isn't great for a 3080 and 9700k). I honestly wish it was either cheaper or more expensive. As-is, it's pricey, but has some obvious cost cutting (sleeve bearing fans and plastic panels). Add $100 to the price and...

Such an easy solution to these things: stop paying ransoms. Especially for software, it's not like you could trust the attacker to 1: actually decrypt after you pay or 2: not embed another virus into the decryption. You're restoring a backup either way, and if people don't pay ransoms...

EVGA's SFX PSUs are on sale today, that was enough to convince me to go order one and a Core G3. Better to buy a case and PSU that I can reuse for ~$150 than throw away $100 on a motherboard for a ten year old CPU.

That's kind of what I was afraid of. I've looked for mATX boards for the 2500k and the choices are ~$80 for a new board on a lousy chipset or $100 for a used one that probably won't work. Maybe the best course of action is just giving in and buying a small full ATX case. I have space for...

I've been using a full ATX system mounted open-air to a single panel of plywood as my HTPC for several years now. It's quiet, but quite ugly, and I'm thinking of building something that's actually in a case. I've already got a lot of relevant parts, but no complete system, and I'd like some...

Had it apart to replace a fan today, figured I may as well share. The fan controller at the top really sticks out but I need the extra header.

AMD and Nvidia (and other companies before them) have done multiple GPUs on one card in the past, but as far as I know, those cards have always essentially used the same SLI/CrossFire interface as two individual cards would. Even being on the same chip, the two GPUs are effectively working...

So I had another idea while putting stuff back together today: A spare 92mm fan fills the empty PCI slots almost perfectly. This plus mounting two top fans and removing the top divider appears to have dropped temps by about ten degrees, GPU peaks around 71C now instead of 79-80 (based on...

I have two unused fan slots at the top of the case right now. And I already have a pile of low-quality 120mm fans I'm not using. The reason I haven't mounted anything up there yet is that there is an aluminum divider plate separating the HDD cages from the motherboard, and my SSD is mounted to...

I get that a new case is probably the right solution, but I don't want to replace the case without at least considering the alternatives first. It was one of those 'it costs a fortune but should last forever' purchases. Whatever I do, having a few more good fans on hand won't hurt. Maybe I'll...

I just replaced an aging R9 290 (Sapphire vapor-x cooler) with an evga rtx 3080 ftw3 ultra. Performance is great, temperatures are less so. The card reaches 75-80C under gaming load. Today, that's not bad and seems pretty typical for the card. The fans are crazy loud though, much louder than...

This was super helpful, my local store got enough cards today that I had time for a half hour drive to pick one up after someone posted what today's delivery had in it and how many people were already there.