Unpopular Tech Opinions

[dean_5234]

Unpopular opinion: iPads and tablets are either basically laptops with less features or a bigger phone with less features

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, davemc said:

Unpopular opinion: iPads and tablets are either basically laptops with less features or a bigger phone with less features

iPads are tablets, so tablets, but there was a zoolander movie that commented on this as well iirc.  At least the tablet vs phone thing.

[Intoxicus]

On 4/30/2021 at 5:31 AM, Amias said:

Physical simulation is not a gimmick and never was.

 

PhysX was a gimmick. It is idea of hardware accelerated physical computation, firstly with a dedicated card (failed) and then with GPU acceleration (detrimental to game performance). The implementation of PhysX has completely failed, and will likely die out. It's only been used in barely 40 games ...

 

The implementation of multi-core processors, vastly more powerful GPUs with dedicated compute units ... all combined with a complete failure of the industry to push more integrated physics into their games (multiplayer been a core bottleneck for this) has led to the demise of any further requirements for dedicated physics compute units in PCs.

 

Now I would looove if games increased physics in their games 10 fold. LOoooove it. But PhysX is a failed technology. There are only a handful of games that support it and it's purely cosmetic.

 

Except people dismissed it as a gimmick like was being done with Ray Tracing initially.

PhysX is no gimmick either. It was THE big push to put physics in games.
Exactly like RTX is THE big push to put Real Time Raytracing in games.

Nvidia can be frustrating and whack.
But it's that they keep pushing tech like PhysX and RTX forward in ways that pushes gaming as a whole forward is why I generally prefer NVidia.

I'll tolerate some of their bullshit to make the future happen now.

[Stahlmann]

Just leaving this here: OLED HDR with under 1000 nits peak brightness brings more impactful HDR than even high end LED's with close to 2000 nits. The deeper blacks do much more for HDR than brightness.

 

Another thing: OLED burn-in is not a real issue anymore. You just shouldn't keep your TV on overnight watching some news channel. Many people miss out on better TV's by going with the LED alternative because of the disproportionate fear of burn-in. (Burn in is not something that happens when you forget to turn off your TV once. It accumulates over the years if at all.)

[beasterdudeman_]

Thermaltake toughram rgb is the best looking ram

1080p is plenty

1660 ti is plenty for 1080p

[rafe_28]

3 hours ago, beasterdudeman_ said:

1080p is plenty

I must say no. I will never go back from 1440p. It really males a difference in my eyes

[Quinten Verhelst]

I still prefer Intel over AMD in 2021

[MartinTheActor]

Fingerprint access to anything is massively overrated.

If we'd have been told twenty years ago that children would be accessing their school lunches by using their fingerprint (with no option to opt out) it would've seemed dystopian. It's only become something no-one blinks at because of fingerprint access to phones and the like. 

[imide]

Noctua coolers are better than all AIOs

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, Quinten Verhelst said:

I still prefer Intel over AMD in 2021

The argument for AMD is price/performance. Because there is markup of AMD lately it’s quite Reasonable.  up to 2018, yes. 2021, yes.  Should have been no, but the chip shortage changes things.  2022 we’ll see intel 10, superfin, and a new design, so possibly yes again.  Might not be though.  Time will tell. 

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, imide said:

Noctua coolers are better than all AIOs

Depends.  There comes a point where water beats air.  The question is is it reached though? Imho currently only the very hottest chips can even reach near that point.  Wasn’t always that easy in the past.  In general cpu temps are going down while gpu temps are going up.  It’s not uncommon to see rigs where the gpu makes twice as much heat as the cpu. 

[dean_5234]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

Depends.  There comes a point where water beats air.  The question is is it reached though? Imho currently only the very hottest chips can even reach near that point.  Wasn’t always that easy in the past.  In general cpu temps are going down while gpu temps are going up.  It’s not uncommon to see rigs where the gpu makes twice as much heat as the cpu. 

Agreed. I am an Air Cooler fanboy, and sometimes water cooling is better, but most of the time I don't see the point. Personally the only time I would ever water cool would be if I was custom looping or water cooling a gpu

[Quinten Verhelst]

9 minutes ago, imide said:

Noctua coolers are better than all AIOs

In terms of performance, probaby. 

But for my personal rig I opted for an AIO because it just looks WAY better

[Touch My Hamm]

There is no reason why ATX is the standard form everyone buys as very few people actually use all its functionality and its cheap because of the volume. MATX, and ITX are much closer to the normal users use scenario. The price would be the same as ATX if they sold the same volume with different SKUs. Its the same with Computer cases. Most cases have way more space and features than most people wont use. 

[Quinten Verhelst]

13 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

The argument for AMD is price/performance. Because there is markup of AMD lately it’s quite Reasonable.  up to 2018, yes. 2021, yes.  Should have been no, but the chip shortage changes things.  2022 we’ll see intel 10, superfin, and a new design, so possibly yes again.  Might not be though.  Time will tell. 

Call me a fanboy but I still have more trust in my Intel chip then I could ever have with current gen Ryzen. It's probably false but the "safe" feeling is worth it for me

[Bombastinator]

2 minutes ago, davemc said:

Agreed. I am an Air Cooler fanboy, and sometimes water cooling is better, but most of the time I don't see the point. Personally the only time I would ever water cool would be if I was custom looping or water cooling a gpu

There are instance specific SFF and unusual case instances (iirc there were some Alienware cases where there was only one fan hole and the only thing that could be done was a 120mm AIO with a big ol’ big ol’ fan on that one fan hole) where water’s “move the heat elsewhere THEN get rid of it” capacity can trump air.  The average user doesn’t even need big air though.  Stock cooler or lowball aftermarket air cooler is more than enough.  Personally I’m waiting for the quintuple slot gpu where they give up and just make a box with a 120mmfan at either end.

[Bombastinator]

7 minutes ago, GodSeph said:

There is no reason why ATX is the standard form everyone buys as very few people actually use all its functionality and its cheap because of the volume. MATX, and ITX are much closer to the normal users use scenario. The price would be the same as ATX if they sold the same volume with different SKUs. Its the same with Computer cases. Most cases have way more space and features than most people wont use. 

Pricing wise matx is generally cheaper than full atx.  Itx often isn’t because there is difficulty finding space for parts.  Itx mobos not infrequently wind up with stuff on the back. All this Assumes (full) ATX is the standard though.  If it’s atx vs non atx, matx and itx are kinds of atx.  They all fit in atx cases.  Actual full on non atx can get quite weird.  Just look at some of the odder Dell prebuilts.  It can get bad. 

[imide]

1 hour ago, Quinten Verhelst said:

In terms of performance, probaby. 

But for my personal rig I opted for an AIO because it just looks WAY better

not the d15

d15 is hot

[pythonmegapixel]

15 hours ago, Quinten Verhelst said:

Call me a fanboy but I still have more trust in my Intel chip then I could ever have with current gen Ryzen. It's probably false but the "safe" feeling is worth it for me

To be fair, if you've bought Intel for years, and you are happy spending more money than you would for comparably performing AMD processor in exchange for the backing of a brand you have had good experience with in the past, I don't think there's a major issue with that - it's a reasonable stance to take.

[XGoodGuyFitz]

Samsung is better than Apple. Apple is overpriced. Enough said. 

[pythonmegapixel]

 

2 minutes ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

Apple is overpriced.

Yes, but it's not like Samsung are any better in that regard (assuming we're talking about smartphones here)

[XGoodGuyFitz]

2 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

 

Yes, but it's not like Samsung are any better in that regard (assuming we're talking about smartphones here)

Well yes, but they also come out with features samsung did 5 years ago. They came out with face id with what, i think the iPhone 10 or something, i have a 10 year old LG/Samsung phone that has Face id. Samsung is just a better value .

[pythonmegapixel]

3 minutes ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

Well yes, but they also come out with features samsung did 5 years ago. They came out with face id with what, i think the iPhone 10 or something, i have a 10 year old LG/Samsung phone that has Face id. Samsung is just a better value .

Eh... I prefer my fingerprint sensor...

 

Face recognition systems have existed on Android for a long time, but the older ones weren't as advanced (I believe some could be fooled by a good quality photo, for example, which is not appropriate for security)

[XGoodGuyFitz]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

Eh... I prefer my fingerprint sensor...

Same. But you get what im trying to say right? 

[pythonmegapixel]

5 minutes ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

Same. But you get what im trying to say right? 

Yes - I accidentally pressed submit before typing the rest of my post. I get the general sentiment of what you're saying (in fact Apple were nowhere near the first to have a fingerprint sensor either!)