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Zodiark1593

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  • Gender
    Female
  • Location
    Nowhere Special
  • Interests
    Computers, anime, games, 3D, writing, Photography
  • Biography
    Video gamer for entire life, albeit, not nearly so as of late. Transgender MtF. A skilled writer, and borderline insomniac.
  • Member title
    The Maiden That Never Was...

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  • CPU
    Intel Core i7-4790
  • Motherboard
    Asus H97-Plus
  • RAM
    2x4 GB PNY XLR8 DDR3 1600 MHz
  • GPU
    MSI RTX 3060 12G Gaming Trio
  • Case
    CoolerMaster N-400
  • Storage
    120 GB AMD R7 SSD + 2 TB WD Green
    1 TB WD Black NVME
  • PSU
    EVGA Supernova GT 650W
  • Display(s)
    Vizio 4k 43” TV
  • Cooling
    Stock Intel Cooler
  • Keyboard
    Logitech G710+ Cherry MX Brown
  • Mouse
    Corsair Harpoon
  • Sound
    Sennheiser Momentum On-Ear
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

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  1. Nintendo Switch is one option. A PC with either no network hardware, or hardware disabled, is also very doable. You’re pretty much limited to GoG for purchasing your games though, but the upshot is that GoG provides the game files free of DRM, so you can download the Offline Installers on another PC, and move them over. Selection of games is also a lot better than it was even a few years ago, back when I didn’t have home internet, and was downloading said games at a friend’s place. Edit: Kind of just realized that GoG has now been getting former PlayStation exclusives like God of War, and Uncharted. OMG, give those guys some love.
  2. Given the extremely low power levels that Bluetooth emits (a handful of milliwatts), as well as being non-ionizing, it’s pretty negligible. Compare that to something we’ve been exposed to since antiquity, the Sun, which outputs vast energy, and kicks out a fair bit of ionizing radioactive such as Ultraviolet, which actually is harmful.
  3. I run an i7-4790 here, Haswell being about 11 years old. The CPU does limit me a bit on the newest games, but the GPU upgrade (went from a GRX 960 2GB to the RTX 3060 12GB) allows me to run the games I already play, at higher settings and greatly higher resolutions (generally stuff I used to play at 900P 60 fps, I can hit 1440P 60FPS, or even higher now), without putting additional load on the CPU. Being able to run my favorite game, Final Fantasy XII, at 4K 60 FPS, with a hint of MSAA, really validated throwing the GPU in my old system. Big upgrade from what my old 960 could do. And surprisingly, my config actually holds its own when it comes to Cyberpunk 2077. This was beyond my expectations for this old platform. This is the most demanding game I play semi-regularly. Though once Stardew Valley 1.6 comes out, that will probably be my primary game for awhile again, and that runs on potatoes. So I seldom need the capabilities a more modern system offers at this time.
  4. The newest controller I have on hand right now, is a 360 controller I got at a work raffle back in 2014, that is currently connected to my laptop. I keep my stuff for a while. The next oldest ones are some PS3 controllers that I seldom use outside blu-ray duty, because the batteries last maybe 40 minutes at most nowadays. I can replace the batteries, but never really cared enough to bother, as It’s a bit of work to do so (not that it’s hard, just somewhat tedious), requires ordering online, and I can’t really use them (the controller, and the batteries) anywhere else. With the AA cells, not only do they take mere seconds to swap out, I’ve some potent flashlights at home that also run on AAs (Some of the Fenix and Lumintop ones use a single AA, and can crank out over 200 lumens at full power), and one of my camera flashes uses them as well. Not only do I benefit from easy replacement and availability, but also flexibility in that I’ve lots of things that can use them. That said, I’d really like to see controllers adopt more standard lithium cells. A 14500 LiIon cell is of similar form factor to a AA, but more than doubles the voltage, so a controller can easily run a single cell. Lots of single-AA flashlights can also run a 14500 for increased brightness too. 18650 cells are relatively more commonplace (primarily due to vaping) but are too large for controllers, and many other consumer applications we’d want to actually use them in. I’ve a few for my more powerful flashlights. If we can figure out a standardized LiPo cell that many devices can use, I’d be on board with that too. Though that’s a massive pipe dream.
  5. My hopes and dreams involve a room of rich people, bidding obscene sums of money over my “fine art” photos, for the purposes of tax evasion and laundering, long after I’m deceased. Probably a tad ambitious.
  6. A warranty does not come close to making up the difference in value, between the shit-tier PC that was built, vs one that was built with competent components. A warranty may justify a slight downgrade (maybe a 25% performance cut overall), but what is exhibited here is easily an order of magnitude, and arguably, reasonably good vs borderline unusable. No warranty justifies such extreme difference.
  7. Pretty glad I haven’t given Nintendo my money in a long time. Don’t even bother to pirate their games either. My last Nintendo console is the og 3DS.
  8. Speaking of potatoes, anyone notice that the quality of potatoes, particularly the ones you buy in the bulk bags, have a high rate of rotting?
  9. I had a similar thought a bit ago. My Sony camera isn’t even all that high resolution (24 Megapixels), but it spits out 50MB RAWs every click of the button. Would’ve been an absolutely bonkers amount of data back in the 90’s.
  10. Comcast is at about 1.2 TB per month. Most satellite providers, Starlink aside perhaps, are only 100-200GB of “Priority Data”.
  11. In terms of raw throughput, the Cell demolish many later CPUs. That’s already well known. Rather, what I suggest, is that in a world where the 8800 GTX exists (a GPU that brought both compute shaders, and cuda, alongside unified shaders to match the 360), I don’t see a lot of reason for Cell to exist. Granted, Cell was probably in development well before the 8800 GTX was on the radar, and at least compared to many GPUs of the time, Cell provided much superior flexibility.
  12. Cell wasn’t super interesting in the end, ngl. The PPE was really no better than netburst (dual-issue, in-order), if not considerably worse at general-purpose code. Sure, the SPEs acted as psuedo compute-shaders, but I think Sony would’ve been far better off scrapping the exotic Cell idea, delaying a year, and launched with C2D, 8800 GTX, and 1 gb total ram. Would’ve flattened the 360 out the gate, be far easier to utilize than Cell, and carried them well into the gen after. As for the gap between the PS2 and PS3, Sony could’ve probably launched a sort of PS2 Plus, with a 4x sized Graphics Synthesizer unit (or 2x the pixel pipes and double up on clocks). Given that it’s literally just a rasterizer, it should be relatively easy to force games to run at 4x resolution for no performance hit. Throw in some extra memory for texture enhanced games, and you’ve got something that would satisfy the Sony crowd for a bit longer.
  13. iGPUs only take up as much memory, as the application requires if a game typically only needs 1 GB of VRAM, it’s only that amount that will be used (in addition to what the game requires to begin with). Rendering just the desktop, certainly much less. Having said that, as iGPUs become fast enough for gamers to actually want to use, having a lot of system memory will be of greater relevance. And high resolution textures are a cheap way of squeezing as much visual fidelity as you can from an iGPU.
  14. There isn’t necessarily a technical reason that you cannot achieve strong sound from an EV. From my brief time with rc cars, an electric motor, smaller than my palm, spinning above 30K rpm, with 100 amps going through, sounds astoundingly beastly (and it’s not just the straight-cut gears). Probably the biggest impediment to auditory experience, is going to be the gearbox. ICE engines require multi-speed transmissions to achieve necessary torque, so it’s generally easier to hit higher rpm, even at lower speeds. Higher rpm means more happy sound. EVs are typically designed with a single-speed gearbox, as the torque produced requires robust components, and for street-legal speeds, is perfectly fine. However, this also means that to get that happy audio out of the motor, you have to be going at pretty high speeds (the Go To Jail kind). And by that point, you’ve got tire and wind noise to contend with. So, to design an EV sport car that produces solid audio, would at least require a proper transmission, so that the motor can rev higher at slower speeds. Though drawbacks include needing a transmission that can actually handle EV torque, the addition of said expensive maintenance item, and not especially useful outside a racetrack (a Tesla Plaid can already rocket you to 60 MPH in well under 3 seconds, being able to drop a gear won’t do much of anything useful on street tires, outside of producing more motor sound).
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