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3D movies are shit (pop-up book effect) and using a VR headset to watch them is even shitter (too low res). 3D Vision for games used to work really well, I believe there's still an active community patching games to get them to work (Helix and others) but I don't know how active.

It's the same thing, if the game is already installed the dependencies are already created and all you need to do is make another copy of the game files.

Drag and drop.

TLDR; Another shitty fake clickbait.

Basically this: It's a gross simplification but the point is that graphics have been hitting the point of diminishing returns for quite some time. There is a seven year gap between GTA 4 and GTA 5 on PC/Xbone/PS4, compare that to the same seven year gap separating something like N64 Goldeneye and Halo 2. But even so, I don't think graphics are even 10% as important as art style and direction. It's why Super Mario 64 is still appealing to look at in 2018, and why something like Kane & Lynch 2 looked like shit on release and continued to look even worse as it aged. All this said, pretty graphics don't make a game good.

Alcohol wipes work breddy gudd.

I'm a pleb who only rolled into the series when BFBC and BFBC2 swung around, I enjoyed those a lot but BF3 onwards didn't hold me. I don't think Origin has a lot to do with dedicated servers though, even so I'd forgive a great game for having a shitty annoying clutter utility I have to run.

It also wouldn't be convenient as hell anymore if Steam decided they didn't like you and banned you, or if Steam decided they didn't want to be a publisher/distributor anymore and wanted to sell all fishing equipment instead. All your games would be gone forever because more than likely that's where all of your library is. This would be a much less dangerous scenario if your library were spread out over multiple ecosystems. Way back when PC games were tied to the owner simply via a CD key, if "something happened" i.e. the company who makes the game goes bust and kills the servers, you get banned because of some dumb rules, etc., you lost access to that one game and that was it. This style of distribution is never coming back for obvious reasons. As it is right now probably 90% of the PC crowd have 90% of their games on Steam (complete bullshit numbers of course but you get my point), it's not a bad thing for you to have more options in terms of places to buy games from. Bethesda are a big enough company that they don't need Steam anyway, but it is interesting to see that they opted to make the game exclusive to their platform rather than for example a Ubisoft type deal where it's on Uplay and Steam. People will piss and whine but if someone wants to play the game they probably aren't going to decide against it because of another dumb program shortcut cluttering their desktop. There was anarchy when BF3 launched on Origin and forced you to use Chrome for the server browser, now no one cares about Origin anymore.

It would be wise to check your country's tax laws before you do this, in many countries if you make an expensive purchase overseas you still have to pay tax on the item in your home country. Of course, if or not you'd actually get caught if it is considered tax evasion where you live is another thing.

I generally like Steam, but competition = good. Having all of your shit on a single platform where the owner can pull the plug on you any time they like for any reason they like isn't great.

It already is.

About as dumb as trusting AliExpress condoms.

Don't forget, this is only the stuff they are telling you about.

Betteridge's law of headlines.

Simply watch it on repeat as necessary.

Nvidia can charge whatever they like now that there's no competition, of course none of this really matters because it's another fake news WCCF article.

Waiting two years to maybe save 20% off the full build cost of your PC is pretty stupid no matter the circumstances.

Sounds like you should have mowed some lawns and washed some cars rather than sit on your thumb for two years.

Screwing with a VPN or any similar method to get around it will get you banned on Steam for 1000 years.

All modern TVs are botnet, I don't buy them no matter the manufacturer.

GPUs almost never decrease in price when a new series launches.

Typically AIO pump headers are straight 12V with no adjustability, but it'll be board dependent and it's best to check the manual. This is usually because it's important that a AIO pump runs at full speed at all times for obvious reasons. You will be able to control the RPM of fans connected using Y-splitters using either the BIOS (provided the BIOS has a fan control feature) or a program such as SpeedFan, there will be no difference in the control you have over the fans compared to just running one fan from the header. They will still operate at the same speed, for example, if you have a Corsair fan and it runs at 900RPM at "50%" fan speed, if you use a Y-splitter with two of those Corsair fans they'll both run at 900RPM. The RPM of the fan is reported using the third pin on the header, and Y-splitters only feed this cable into one fan. As a result, you'll only know the RPM of one of the two fans you're running from a splitter, not that it matters as they'll be at the same speed unless something is broken. Before you do any of this you need to figure out how many amps the headers you plan to use are able to provide, and what the maximum amps drawn will be of the fans you intend to use on those headers. You can find this information quite easily in the motherboard's manual and the same for the fans, if not a Google search will likely bring it up. Typically a 120mm fan will consume something like 0.35A, and a typical header will be able to put out 1.2A, meaning in most cases you could run up to three 120mm fans from one header. It varies though and some boards could have 0.6A headers, definitely check everything before you try running anything from splitters.

It's normal, it's an old program and sometimes doesn't read newer hardware right. Definitely trust Afterburner over SpeedFan to show you the correct temperatures. It isn't really a big deal as you're only using it to set fan profiles anyway. Exact same thing for me, a 15C difference between the two. You can go into SpeedFan and set a 15C reporting delta if it bothers you.

NIMBY.

Damaging it can't realistically be done unless you do it very intentionally, there are too many idiot-proof defences on modern Nvidia cards to be able to do it. The maximum voltage is hard locked in the BIOS, and the card will downclock massively to save itself once it reaches 90C. Probably the greatest risk would be if you had a crap PSU that couldn't handle (minorly) the increased power requirements of your system after it was overclocked and it caused an issue, but it'd likely just shut off. This said, overclocking isn't without risks and shouldn't be done unless you're prepared to replace the component if it fails, safe as it is in this instance. MSI Afterburner is the best program to use for overclocking, there are a bunch of benchmarking/stability testing programs you can use but Unigine Heaven is one of the better ones. If you can loop that for 12+ hours without crashes or artifacts there's a pretty good chance it's stable. Simply allow voltage control, set power and voltage sliders to maximum and see how high you can get the core clock to increase before it crashes.