SpriteNo5

I’m not much of a judge on portraiture, I like the subject. Framing could be better, left arm clipped a bit. I’d probably frame for just the top hand, mic and face. Zoom in on that one eye and really get it prominent and sharp.

Z63 is about 2 months old, only noticed problem in last week or so. The noise I'm getting isn't the pump whine you expect to hear, I get that and it's consistent and as expected. Temp of CPU hasn't been affected at all. I noticed a noise from the PC, clicking at first so started mooching. I narrowed it down to Z63 pump, basically the frequency of the noise changes when the pump speed is changed. So low speed you get slow intermittent click/creak but regular, at 100% you get loud click that slowly dissipates to quiet then starts up again. I found that around 70% pump speed, noise almost goes completely with very irregular faint click about once a minute you really have to listen for this. I noticed when gaming and system heats up the noise stops. So started running Heaven and Cinebench at same time to monitor things. After about an hour of this CPU maxes out around 70 GPU 65 and liquid temp around 41. Pump speed at 70% no sound, so raised pump to 100% (this was previously noisiest) and still no sound. It seems to be that when the system is coldest and at idle or light tasks and liquid temp is low 30s to high 20s you get the issue and can only get rid with pump at 70%. Once the system has been heated and is being stressed no noise at all even at 100%.

Getting some strange lighting issues on Hitman 3, see here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBYlcKp28vg playing on; 3090 5950x 32 gb 1tb Gen4 NVME 1440p on Odyssey g7 Previous levels have been ok, not noticing anything on any other game. Have tried on drivers released 7/1/2021 and 26/1/2021.

I did like things a bit more when they were more small scale, working out of a house, were a bit more jank and tried stuff like whole room water cooling.

There is still supply with some of the system builders. I was gonna build a new machine and, like many, was waiting for stock at multiple places. Then I saw one of the builders in the UK had 3090s and 5950x in stock. 3070 was in stock too but no 3080 or would have had one of them. Only other 5 series available was 5600. So ordered a system with the 2 top boys in it. Paid more than I wanted but it's here now and I can at least get on with things.

Hope you all get all the tech you deserve in 2021, may new GPU's flow freely.

If you are into real high end eye candy I'd probably for the G7. At 27", depending on distance, 4k might not make sense. Plus if you want the best looks you gotta be running as much ultra/insane/very high as possible, with ray tracing of course. If you want a sensible frame rate (average above 60) at 4k with the above settings even 3080 won't guarantee it in all games and if you're spending that much you want a little performance future proofing. At 4k you wont get that and if looks is what you want 4k does scale to 1080 but you'll never go, happily, back to 1080 after 4k. I'd say if you want best visuals at 4k, with ray tracing, and good frames even 30 series can't guarantee and their ability will only degrade over time. We're not there yet. For highest settings, with ray tracing and very good frames 1440 is still the sweet spot.

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Off, Geralt's hair looks ridiculous with it on. The performance hit is a secondary consideration.

If there's not going to be a disc drive on the PS5 then there will be no true backwards compatibility as you won't be able to play your PS4 discs on it. If you want to play a game, you own on PS4 disc, you'll have to buy the digital copy. That's almost certain. So by conceding there may not be a disc drive, you have to accept no backwards compatibility. Sony aren't going to just let you, download a game for free, just because you have a copy of the PS4 disc. The only way it will work is if you've already bought a digital copy from PS store, they can then confirm purchase and allow you to download on to PS5. If it does have a disc drive then it will be a simple question on whether Sony thinks they will make more money by offering backwards compatibility or not. Will they make more money by allowing people to play their PS4 discs or by forcing them to stream (ps now) or buy a digi copy on store. I think it will be the latter and my evidence is what happened to the PS4. No backwards compatibility and huge sales. It doesn't matter for a minute why there was no backwards compatibility on PS4, just that there wasn't and they still made huge sales. The technical issues are not relevant, a company will do whatever offers the best profit. If they think they can make more money by not offering backwards compatibility then that's what they'll do. Added to that it will be cheaper to manufacture a system without a disc drive, so that will influence their decision, no disc drive no compatability. Companies have been trying for years to eliminate the 2nd hand market, if they go full digital, they'll do that overnight. All digital means no compatability.

Ok, I'll have to end here. You ignore every piece of evidence out there and continue on with unproved theories. History shows that a PS4 that was released without backwards compatibility and which had a very poor catalogue upon release, and for some months after, sold by the bucket. It became one of the strongest selling consoles in history. But you say "this time there will be a shitstorm" but offer no evidence to back this up. I never said no backwards compatibility would increase sales of PS5, i just stated that after what has happened with PS4 they will not offer it with PS5. You say sales of PS5 will be hurt with no backwards compatibility. See my first paragraph. Again you ignore all the evidence provided by PS4 and state unproved opinion. I understand you really want this to happen, I think it would also be a good thing. But you can't sit there calling someone dead wrong when your arguments are based on nothing but hope and there is a decent amount of evidence to back up the opposing view. One final thing, we may be arguing the same thing. I'm an old git, so when I say backwards compatibility, I mean you won't be able to put a PS4 disc into a PS5. I've no doubt you'll be able to play PS4 games on the PS5, digitally downloaded or streamed. If streamed you will have to subscribe, so pay to access a game you already own. And I'm pretty sure if you own the physical copy of a PS4 game and you want to play it on a PS5 you will need to buy the digital copy. Like now if you own a game on disc and the disc is damaged you can't just download a copy from the store, you have to buy again. However if you own a digital copy of a game on PS4 You'll likely be able to download this on PS5 at no cost. So in one sense I may be wrong, but also, if you have to re-buy or pay to stream PS4 games you already have physical copies of, then that isn't really backwards compatibility IMO.

I understand what you are saying with regards to the technical issues, technically it would be very easy, I get that. But to say there "is literally no reason" not to have backwards compatibility is hugely naive. If they think, for an instant, they can AGAIN not offer backwards compatibility and instead charge for streaming or digi download, then there's a very good chance they will do this. There is no technical reason not to offer the functionality but there is a huge financial incentive not to offer the service, that you either don't accept this premise or can't see it is surprising, especially the way the gaming industry has gone in the last 5 or so years.

No backwards com No backwards compatibility didn't cause a shitstorm this gen, did it? PS4 has sold massively (70 million in 4 years compared to PS3 85 million in 11 years). That's why Sony are more likely not to offer it, not offering it hasn't harmed them at all

I never commented on the technical reasons for backwards compatibility, so your wall of text is a bit premature. I just stated I didn't think there would be backwards compatibility. My reason for this assumption is that they would rather offer digital sales or a subscription steaming service. Network infrastructure is improving all the time and will have improved even more by the time a new console is out, so streaming and digital sales are much less likely to be hampered by patchy broadband services. There's a good argument that the next consoles will be digital only and may not even have disc drives (my guess only, but not unreasonable). Also the fact that PS3 to PS4 was the first time and all previous consoles offered backwards compatibility, doesn't suggest to me that Sony will revive this possibility. In fact it's more likely, now that they've realised that not offering this has not harmed sales of their PS4 at all, that they won't offer backwards compatibility again? There's no financial reason especially now they have PS Now.

I'd recommend one for BOTW alone. Bought one played the hell outta that game and hardly used since. Don't regret the purchase.