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I was initially just looking at the percentage increase for NOK, expecting all games to now cost 40-60% more. But then I looked at the actual values and the new suggested price in NOK is more in line with what games have already been priced at for a while. So I guess no real change for most games.

This is (for now) just about the cables though, and HDMI 2.1 cables (or their correct name, Ultra High Speed HDMI cables) are properly certified for their full speed. It's the ports that are allowed to be labelled as HDMI 2.1 without supporting any 2.1 features.

Not that it helps anyone, but I have ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi on the AGESA 1.2.0.3 Patch C BIOS (newest is 1.2.0.5) and have had fTPM turned on for months (since long before that BIOS), haven't seen any sign of the described issues. (Running Windows 10 still). So it's not automatically an ASUS issues at least.

https://custompc.raspberrypi.com/articles/ddr6-is-already-on-the-road-map JEDEC is expecting to have the DDR6 standard ready in 2025

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I know you asked for why PC gaming is better, but I'd like to add some reason why I (as a long time PC gamer) have started to warm up more and more to consoles. The big thing consoles have over PC, is the simplicity and how fast it is just start and stop playing a game (from the couch). I've had a PS4 Pro for 3 years, and now a PS5 and the one thing I love the most is the Suspend/Sleep feature. Being able to just put the console to sleep when I need a break, or ending the game session for the day, and quickly waking up the console again later and be right were I left off, is amazing. To me this makes it way easier to just "plop down" and play for an hour or so. I really hope that Microsoft will add something similar to Windows 11 soon, the ability to "suspend" a game, so closing it down, but keep it in memory, or even write the memory state to disk, so you can jump straight back in where you are. There are also other annoying aspects of couch gaming from a PC that crops up if you don't have a PC dedicated to your TV. As soon as the TV is a secondary (or tertiary, or more) monitor connected to your PC, you're going to have annoying issues and need to tinker to get things right. And it gets even worse if you need to use Nvidia Gamestream or similar. I'm actually at the point now that if the game runs at a stable 60fps on PS5, I might actually prefer to play it there.

I've got multiple games, or rather multiple series of games, "in the pipeline". 1. I started the Mass Effect remaster collection, finished Mass Effect 1, but decided to take a break shortly after starting 2. 2. I then started Crash Bandicoot remakes, played through 1 and 2, decided to take a break before 3. 3. Played Mario Odyssey, techincally finished it, but still several moons to collect if I want to. 4. Started replaying Assassin's Creed, played 2 and Brotherhood, currently playing Revelations. I'll probably take a break from this after finishing Revelations and go back to Mass Effect 2. (My plan is to replay all games through Syndicate, but skipping Rogue) 5. Also started playing New World, got a couple of hours in last week. I "ran out off" multiplayer games a while back. The once that I'd like to play more off my friends are tired of and they're not really fun to play alone (Apex), but New World looks like something we're all going to like for a while.

The slides also mentioned an 800Gbps prototype that they would share more about "next year". Possibly an early sample of Zen 4 Epyc with DDR5?

This could in be a good thing, in regards to the quality of their AAA games. When a company no longer heavily relies on their AAA releases to make them money, they can actually slow down the development of those games, and give them more care. So fewer but better crafted AAA games. I'm all for that, if that is what this means. Also, AAA isn't exactly dying, they still make a ton of money, when made right. Just look at all the PS4 exclusives that have made absolute bank, and Sony says they'll continue to focus on that. Ubisoft them selves earns a lot on their AAA games, so it's not like they're going to abandon that marked.

Being able to go that high is mainly for one purpose, "all-hands" meetings. As in big info meetings where only a few are supposed to speak. Since we were sent to work from home in early March, we've had weekly such status meetings where we end up in the 200-250 participant range. And a few even bigger meetings that go 300+. (This is on Webex).

We're still in Q2 though, June is the last month of Q2.

The different 1.0.0.3x are just bug fixes on top of 1.0.0.3. 1.0.0.3A fixed some bugs, then 1.0.0.3AB fixed more bugs, and finally 1.0.0.3ABB fixed the random number instruction that caused newer Linux distros, and Destiny 2, to not work + WHEA errors/log spam. Basically the numbers go up when AMD has done changes in behaviour, or added new features, while the letters are for bugfixes

From what I've gathered following the discussions on /r/amd since launch, I've formed a guess as to what happened. AGESA 1.0.0.2 appears to have the advertised boost speeds according to several reports on different forums, but AGESA 1.0.0.3, which released very close to launch, has the current reduced boost behavior. This is the AGESA that came with the last-minute BIOS update reviewers got two days before release. According to some of the BIOS developers (from ASUS and Gigabyte), AMD might have concluded that the boost behavior in AGESA 1.0.0.2 was too aggressive for long-term reliability, but this realization came way too late, and all marketing information were already printed with the boost speeds of 1.0.0.2. The reason AMD hasn't stated anything publicly yet cloud be that they hope to address this in a future AGESA update, but BIOS developers have indicated that an AGESA 1.0.0.4 exists (or a beta of it), that does not have any changes to boost. The important part is that reviewers (or at least most of them) did the review with the current boost behavior people are seeing, so if you do any research before buying, you're not going to find numbers that are notably higher than what you'll end up with. But it's still a marketing fuck up by AMD that they should rectify in some way. I'm happy with the 3900X, as it performs as reviewed, but I wouldn't mind even higher boost in the future, my Corsair H115i should handle the heat.