PCGuy_5960

Oh I definitely need this game in my life. Added to my steam wishlist.

And the game isn't a cash grab either.

@WaggishOhio383hopefully it stays that way. To many games have promised that and once the game went live it shifted to that model within the first year. 

@Spotty To be fair, demand right now is kind of inflated because of how absolutely horrible Nvidia's (and AMD's) supply is. I was mostly talking about a best case scenario with both in stock and at the MSRP.

@PCGuy_5960

DLSS is nice, Nvidia definitely has the partner support and budget to get more games supporting it, unfortunately a proprietary feature. AMD is working on their own DLSS, i'm not expecting it to be nearly as good though.

RTX voice is something i'd go with Nvidia for, too bad AMD doesn't have anything like it.

I'd give Reflex a try, not sure I would notice a difference though lol.

Raytracing might be more important with upcoming console games, but since the PS5 and Xbox X are using AMD GPU's, AMD might optimize their own raytracing, theres a few titles that AMD's raytracing does well. But its unfortunate there isn't any one standard that can have both Nvidia and AMD raytracing support.

For a best case scenario with prices at MSRP yeah I'd go with a 3080, only concerns I have is how well the 10GB of VRAM would be after 2 or 3 years of owning it, and higher power consumption.

The things that impact me most:

• video encoder (for livestreaming)
• compute performance (F@H, frame interpolation, video editing, etc.)
• VRAM buffer (for 4K gaming and other niche tasks)
• software stability (because I hate reinstalling drivers constantly)

Yeah, the campaign looks pretty cool ngl. I'd mostly get it for multiplayer though, every time I try to complete a story mode/campaign I get bored halfway. lmao

I don't think I bothered with the campaign on any except modern warfare and BO. I gave up on COD entirely after Infinite Warfare.

man same, really cant bring myself to pay $60 for a game however i do have a code from the RTX promo they had so theres that lol just gotta find somebody to activate it for me ig

@imreloadinnot only that but you also have a lot higher chance to get a lot worse overclocker with the early samples compared to later when the process gets more refined.

See...just don't buy anything on the release date, let the chumps QC and Beta test for you

Something something, supply and demand

why do people like light mouses so much? i appreciate a mouse with some bulk in it.

I just care about the white color TBH, but other than that light mice are generally better for lower sensitivity players in FPS games and put less strain on your wrist in general use.

whats a pre-order?
 

Most games tested on the new M1 Macs is Shadow of the Tomb Raider and one reviewer played WoW Shadowlands and it can go head to head with laptops with 11th gen Intel chips. However, it’s still an iGPU so the 16” MBP still performed better thanks to AMD dGPU. But, those two games are emulated and while the with the intel one, it ran natively. Man, I’d like to see AMD make an ARM chip considering that they have a license.

Don't think an arm cpu by AMD would have much of a point, remember, Apple has MacOS, while AMD has Windows which aren't that great on arm.

having DRAM on the die probably contributes a lot to performance in term of low latency

dont buy it, to many modders, makes the game unplayable.

I already have it, it's just that I've barely played it.

@Techstorm970 Haha, not a fan of the design. I like ones that have something to rest my thumb and fingers on.
@Den-Fi I can't wait to get one of the newer MX Masters. I had the OG one and while it was good for Windows, it definitely lacked the DPI range I needed.

@dizmo

It sounds like you're probably a palm gripper then.  I generally use tip grip.

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd suggest a G603 for palm grip...

@Techstorm970 I'm actually probably tip grip when I game, and when I'm just using the PC for normal stuff I'm more of a claw grip, but with the pressure on the base of the fingers, not the palm. The palm of my hand pretty much never touches my mouse.

I'm looking at the Ironclaw, G502, G604, the Roccat Leadr if I could find one not inflated, with the Razer Basilisk Ultimate in the lead.

People who pirate:

But yeah, for digital (and maybe some CD-based) games, they shouldn't have to charge this much on microtransaction-equipped games. However, cartridge-based games on the Nintendo Switch might want to retain that price, since they have to pay for the flash chip.

@PCGuy_5960Yeah I totally agree, I've been saying for about 15 years now that movies, music and games really should be cheaper and that they would end up with more profit if they sold for less money, as more people might buy them.

I'm not talking like $1 cheap, but say a more reasonable $5-$10 cheap, same as on sale prices pretty much, then they could theoretically have a market of like 2 billion + people. I would say more, but the hard fact's are that over half the world's population doesn't have any spare money as they aren't paid enough to spend ANY money on things that aren't food and other essential items.

Movies are a different topic.

By now I am so fucked up by not working DRM that pirating while paying for a abo like netflix might be the functional way compered to 320p (or what ever) the streaming services deliver if I would still watch movies.

On topic of bad DRM and overpriced items: scientific literature (especially de gruyter unless they changed there DRM to less restrictive since the last time I looked at them).

if there was ever a group of people most likely to not excercise... 

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@Spotty You forgot: Link

It only took a global pandemic to end it.

Pewdiepie created covid just to end youtube rewind, you heard it here first.

Youtube created covid just as an excuse to end Youtube Rewind without admitting how bad their previous years efforts were.

It does!   It's also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sur

https://bigsur.bandcamp.com/

You're looking at him

from my understanding geekbench is heavily, and i mean HEAVILY skewed towards arm based cpus, so of course when apple can make a chip that isnt constrained to a phone or tablet, they can get something that would beat x86 on geekbench

Wait.

Intel and AMD spend billion on R&D so it isn't believable that Apple beats them with a fraction of power consumption beside some cherry picked applications.

also: !(x86 == ARM A + apple shit)

On ARM M (or some other architecture I played with) for example there is no guarantee that reading a RAM adress will work. There isn't even any guarantee how many cycles it takes. 

Same goes for other things on many ARM M3 you can directly sample the ADC into the memory (and run it on it's own clock). On AVR you can't making the ARM much "faster" in such applications.

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Intel and AMD spend billion on R&D so it isn't believable that Apple beats them with a fraction of power consumption beside some cherry picked applications.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. This seems impossible, especially when you consider the clock speeds. Apple's IPC would have to be like 2x higher than both Intel and AMD.

Shouldn't it be?

"holy fuck, I can't believe that some of these guys make it for free when there are callcenter paying for it."

More amazing then Dell is how friendly Canadians are.

I just realised there's no Acer PC. They have gaming desktops in the predator line. I wonder if they would have done better.

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Weird, cause my experience with Dell's tech support was really good, but I contacted them for a monitor, not a PC, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Makes sense after watching Dell's support in part 3

@Spotty Beside Acer especially Lenovo which might not be number one in gaming system but overall the largest PC manufacturer in the world. Could be that they don't offer phone sales for consumer.

What would be a larger shortcoming is that there is no brick and mortar experience like walking into best buy with $1500.

Anyway the average viewer is likely happy with this:

1. you want entertainment -> you got it

2. you actually want a PC -> you got a recommendation

Damn, forgot you were looking for a Razer, should've linked this (before they were sold, obv)

Oh well, too late now. I still got it for a good price tho, less than a GMMK/G Pro X. 

Inserts 5950X into the AM4 socket

FPS:

But...but...but...Tiger Lake 10 nm is faster than Ryzen 4000 with 7 nm....

@like_ooh_ahh Believe it or not Ryzen 5000 mobile wont be any faster than 4000 on select parts. The 5300U, 5500U and 5700U will still be on Zen 2. However their SMT enabled counterparts will be Zen 3 based. No word on H series yet

If you're an audiophile and shit your pants over virtual surround sound, go with the HyperX.

If you're not an audiophile and don't shit your pants over virtual surround sound, go with the Logitech.

And if you have another $50 you're willing to spend, get the Sennheiser Game One.  HardwareCanucks loves it and for good reasons!

Fixed it upon editing.  Please see the clarified edited edition

Psst, Sennheiser fanboy here reminding users that the GSP300 and 302 exist

enough doomscrolling for today, time to vibe to Ievan Polkka.

cant even lie thats fire 

I'd get the GMMK personally. Don't really know anything about the G Pro X.

The Keys are quite  stable (of course, stabilizer on all keys), but that does make it really loud Inna way I personally don't like (quite rattle-y).

The key caps still felt kind of cheap, regardless of the material chosen

Been thinking about changing mine also but idk what to get and media keys and a volume scroll wheel are a must for me

You're not allowed to like it, you're supposed to make a complaint in the "feature suggestions" subforum.

Is.... is this Shroud or Ninja?