SteveGrabowski0

6800 is about 20% faster at 1440p than the 6700 xt. I wouldn't pay $209 for that.

IDK, I was getting actual slowdown in Elden Ring at launch. Don't think I could recommend chips that old at all.

I ran a Xeon E3-1231v3 (basically an i7-4790 minus 200 MHz and with ECC memory support) until a couple of years ago and it started bottlenecking even my old GTX 1660 Super pretty significantly in games like Elden Ring and Cyberpunk, even with DDR3-2400. Think it would really hold an RX 6600 back, though AMD drivers have lower DX12 overhead than Nvidia's so are better with lower end cpus.

Used to play the hell out of it way back in alpha like 15 years ago when the game would keep changing so much every update. Was blown away when I found out I could make a working adder with redstone.

God I loved NieR Automata. Right there with Persona 5 for my favorite soundtrack ever in a game and the story was wild.

Have you played the PC port? If so wonder what you think about it.

Super Mario Bros (NES) Shinobi (Arcade) Chrono Trigger (SNES) Zelda A Link to the Past (SNES) Fallout 2 (PC) Half Life 1 (PC) Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne (PS2) Skyrim (PC) Bloodborne (PS4) NieR Automata (PC) Elden Ring (PC)

Makes sense. It's definitely an awesome system and I highly recommend getting Bloodborne with its DLC if you pick one up unless you hate Souls style games. The DLC is a must though, as it has the best bossfights in the game. Maybe the best bossfights in any FromSoft game. The complete edition bundle goes on sale for $17.49 pretty often and I wouldn't be surprised to see it go there again for a spring sale on PSN. https://psprices.com/region-us/game/115727/bloodborne-complete-edition-bundle

I used to run a 1660 Super and it could get frame drops in the Dragon engine Yakuza games like Kiwami 2 at 1080p with a 60 fps target without turning some settings down, so a regular 1660 probably would too. Easier to run games like Yakuza 0 or Yakuza Kiwami wouldn't be a problem though.

A lot of the PS4's best one time exclusives have come to PC. Eg stuff like God of War (2018) Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy Horizon Zero Dawn Horizon Forbidden West (comes next month) Yakuza 0-6 Persona 5 Royal Final Fantasy VII Remake The Last of Us Part 1 The Last of Us Part 2 (already officially confirmed, no release date though AFAIK) Spiderman and Miles Morales Until Dawn (already officially confirmed, no release date though AFAIK) Of course there are a few bangers not on PC Bloodborne Ghost of Tsushima Shadow of the Colossus God of War Ragnarok Ratchet & Clank You have to imagine Ghost of Tsushima and God of War Ragnarok will have to be coming to PC in the next couple of years. Shadow of the Colossus and Ratchet & Clank (2016) are probably doubtful and Bloodborne will sadly never happen. Which sucks because IMO Bloodborne is the single best PS4 game ever made (with the caveat that I'll call Elden Ring a PS5 game, otherwise it's a coin flip IMO). Personally the only use for PS4 I'd find these days is if you can get a PS4 Pro on firmware low enough to hack it to run Bloodborne with the 720p 60fps patch. Otherwise you'd be better off upgrading your gpu, as your i7-4790 should be enough for most of those games. The Last of Us Part 1 Remake will murder a Haswell chip so I'm guessing Part 2 will too but otherwise upgrading your gpu to maybe an RX 6650 XT or RX 6600 will probably offer you a far better experience. Even the PS4 Pro has a gpu more on par with the RX 470, while the PS4 and PS4 Slim have a gpu pretty close but slightly faster than the HD 7850 you list in your system. I ran a slightly slower version of the i7-4790 in the Xeon E3-1231v3 (it's a 4790 minus 200MHz I believe) and it didn't start having trouble keeping up with my old GTX 1660 Super for 1080p60 gaming until Elden Ring. Also I'd recommend AMD over Nvidia for running with a lower end cpu like a 4790, as their DX12 driver overhead is lower. And for DX11 games you have plenty of cpu for that gen so no worry about bottlenecks. Long story short: PS4 is a really cool system with great games but you could just upgrade your gpu to get a better gaming experience. For instance RDR2 is a straight 1080p30 fps on PS4 and it looks good but it was so much better playing on my Xeon E3-1231v3 + GTX 1660 Super at 1080p60 using the Hardware Unboxed recommended settings. In that $100 to $150 range you can get cards like the RTX 2060 Super or the RX 5700 XT or you could spend $190 and get the RX 6600 brand new.

If you buy a PS5 fat new in store it's probably one of the newer models with the same lithography and same power consumption as the slim. The fat comes with a vertical stand while the slim doesn't (so a $30 upcharge). If you want to set the system horizontally I'd probably go slim because the horizontal stand is horrible on fat PS5 and the system wobbles like hell.

With all the rumors of Microsoft considering porting their games to PS5 yeah the XBox sounds dead as hell

The controller is irrelevant; the games are why PS5 is demolishing XBox in sales. None of the hyped XBox exclusives, eg Halo Infinite, Starfield, and Redfall, have been very good while Playstation has had bangers in God of War Ragnarok, Demon's Souls Remake, Spiderman Miles Morales, Spiderman 2, Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Horizon Forbidden West, etc.

It's the latter

No one here with a 6700 XT who played the RE games in VR?

You probably want to cap your framerate to 3 fps below the max refresh rate of your panel when using FreeSync / GSync, which you can do via Radeon Chill in the Adrenaline control panel. I don't have to do it for every game, for example I run a 60 Hz FreeSync panel and Cyberpunk's ingame 60 fps cap actually works properly, but most games even if I put a 60 fps cap built into the game it'll still jump up to 61 fps occasionally and I get ugly tear lines without a frame cap at the driver level. So I set 57 fps in Radeon Chill and enable VSync at the driver level in the Adrenaline control panel, but leave VSync turned off in the game's own settings menu ingame. It's a real gamechanger for me since my panel has a FreeSync range of 40-60 Hz and makes drops into the mid to high 40s not noticeable when they were horrible playing with VSync turned on when playing on a panel locked to 60 Hz. Also might want to see what your FreeSync range is on your panel to see how low you can go without tearing or stuttering. When I bought my panel a couple of years ago most of the 144Hz panels had a Freesync range of 48-144Hz. I generally find I want to keep my framerate 3-4 fps above the bottom of the Freesync range too or I'll similarly get momentary drops under 40 that show up as stutter since normal VSync takes over the second you get under the bottom of the Freesync range with VSync turned on at the driver level.

Was thinking of buying a Quest 2 since they dropped to $250 but the Quest's native library isn't good enough on it's own to justify getting one, but maybe combined with some of the interesting PC VR titles it could be. E.g., Half Life Alyx, Resident Evil 7 VR mod, Resident Evil Village VR mod, Half Life 2 VR mod, Doom 3 VR mod, No Man's Sky, Subnautica, etc. What I'm most concerned with is if my 6700 XT is enough to play Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village in VR and still maintain the 72fps or even better if I can run it in 90 fps mode if anyone here plays VR with a 6700 XT. Don't think any of the other games are graphically intensive enough to be a worry, but I really want to play those two Resident Evil games if I grab a VR headset. Relevant PC specs are RX 6700 XT i5-12400F 32GB DDR4-3200

Series X has a better gpu than an RX 6600. It's probably more on par with an RX 6700 XT, so your games should look quite a bit better on it than on a PC with a 6600.

Thanks. Used ShellMenuView to get rid of some of the annoying ones like the VLC context menu additions. Really would love to get rid of the option to cast to a device, the whole 'send to' menu, the restore previous version, the share, and the scan with Windows Defender but guess I'm stuck trying to regedit those out.

What's the best way to get rid of this ridiculous bloat in right click context menus in Windows? Still regedit like the old days or is there a better way to do it in 2024?

Game probably won't be out until 2027, maybe 2026, so ask then.

RAM is so cheap right now 16GB should only be reserved for extremely tight budgets. Might as well go for 32GB today when there are a few games that want more than 16GB, because who knows what RAM will cost in a year or two? RAM prices fluctuate so much and can shoot to the sky when the producers are price fixing (which they have been caught for multiple times).

It's only a two fan cooler so isn't going to be an amazing cooler or anything. Then again 6700 XT isn't like a 320W RTX 3080 that needs really high end cooling. My 6700 XT (PowerColor Red Devil) maxes out a little below 210W at full load in gaming at stock, though will often be more like 185W if I'm playing something like Elden Ring at 1800p or Like a Dragon Gaiden at 1440p. Intense games like Cyberpunk or The Last of Us will push me to usually being around 205W. I really enjoy my 6700 XT for gaming at 4k with my render resolution usually 1440p or 1800p and then FSR or RSR to 4k if I have the headroom to upscale or just straight 1440p with my monitor doing the upscale if I don't. Having a blast right now playing Dead Space Remake at 1440p for example.

6700 XT is pretty much a no brainer since 8GB is terrible in 2023, unless there ends up being a great sale on a 6800 say to clear stock. I would however also recommend getting another 16GB of system RAM since it's probably something you're going to want in the lifetime of your system and since DDR4 is still dirt cheap right now. For instance, playing The Last of Us Part 1 I needed to close every program down to get it to run without massive stuttering when I was playing it with 16GB and it can use upward of 20GB. DDR4 is so insanely cheap no gamer should be running only 16GB these days if they're on a DDR4 system. A year or two from now who knows, RAM could shoot way up in price again.

Not much difference between 5700x and 5800x in this bench. They should be pretty similar cpus, as the only difference I can tell between them on the spec sheets is 5700X targets 65W while 5800X targets 105W and 5800X has a 400MHz bump in base clock and 100MHz bump in turbo clock vs the 5700X.