I'm just wondering if it is safe to turn on WPS to pair a printer for example and then switch it off?
Would my network be forever compromised by that pairing?
As usual with unlucky people like us you’ll watch everyone get rich and then suddenly you’ll get upset and buy at the peak and lose everything. Right now is not the time to go long on anything.
I mean we all knew (those who bought it) that we were early adopters for the RTX machinery. Now everyone else can benefit. Most of us knew RTX was a waste of time. However some of us needed the extra rasterization performance and NVidia has been training us to spend $1200 on their Titan level...
Yeah that’s what it looks like realistically. All that tensor stuff might not even be used a lot of the time.
If AMD beats decisively on raw rasterization I know what I will buy.
I’ve been using the 12GB NVidia parts for 3 generations. No game I played ever needed more than maybe 6-8GB. Sometimes I would use DSR to try 8k (slideshow) and it would get to 10-11 maybe.
Well if you get the 3090 expect the 3080ti to reduce its value. But all tech loses value. What choice did we have for 2 years but to suck it up and get the 2000 series? This time AMD has made them competitive up to $700. Seems like they’ll own everything above that. Or maybe they are waiting...
Without a doubt it is. I’ve been going for Titans and then I went 2080ti last time. This time I cannot justify that ridiculous price jump from 3080 to 3090. In theory 20% faster is a lot but this 3090 is the new Titan when you look at pricing.
A 3080ti will certainly come out for those who...
We knew when we bought it. It’s just we were so hungry for any increase at that point.
Seriously a joke of a card. Couldn’t even overclock much and no BIOS modding either.
Correct if I am wrong. Isn’t the Xbox a UHD Blu-ray player also? And it is also one of the best? At least it used to be. At least it is also software upgradable. So that feature is complete loss on this.
No because Intel reserves bandwidth for DisplayPort. Egpu guys have been suffering with this nonsense for years. They could just offer the user the option but they don’t. They were supposed to open source the standard yet I don’t know if someone will write firmware to bypass that.
The maximum...
Right now I’ve decided that AC origins and Odyssey I might play at 30 FPS or 60 FPS with lower settings. I’m not sure.
I played and liked origins when it came out. But I think i’m done with it. I haven’t gotten into odyssey yet. I might not for a while. I save games for times when i’m not...
I didn’t know. Around the 6700k time started posting benches that showed that HT was useful at least on certain games.
It might be the cache, however they could have ruled that out by testing the same i7 cpu with HT enabled/disabled. I’m not sure if that’s how they did it.
Agree with that. However the average consumer likely will not. They want all the cool modern stuff like usb-c and design etc.
If you ask me some of those business laptops have timeless design. Like thinkpads or latitudes.
It depends. Some people prefer consistent frame rates. So even with a 2080ti I play some games at 4K with 30fps. Otherwise they just drop frames and stutter too much.
It all depends on which compromise you prefer. Reduce quality settings and get 60fps or keep quality and get 30fps.
This. It sounds like EMI issues. As much as these MB manufacturers claim “audiophile” audio stages, no real audiophile would care. They don’t want their audio stages sitting in an ocean of EMI.
To be rid of this once and for all you can try one of many optical DACs or even usb DACs. Probably...
Me too. But that folding x1 carbon looks interesting. 13.3” screen in a 7” tablet form factor but obviously thicker. It will fit in purses and man bags.
What I read about it is that it will be the future. I also read that they need to develop new cooling technology to do it.
I am totally speculating but I think it will have to lead to creative liquid channels or heat pipe style cooling inside the silicon die. The cpus would have to be shipped...
I’d like to speculate that the 2021 desktop may be a laptop.
I built myself an NUC 8th (not hades canyon - I don’t need that GPU) and using it with an egpu. I put the whole thing into an Akasa Turing passive cooling case. With Intel XTU I can get it to use 50w. It’s undervolted and hits 4.5GHz...
Haha yeah. People are delidding. Doing bare die cooling. What’s next? Ship the CPU with phase change cooler? Free mini fridge with your 10900x?
The way it’s going these CPUs will need to be shipped with a built in water block that takes thermal resistance between the die and cooler out of the...
Well let’s say you currently have a machine with a 7th gen Intel CPU. You bought it 2-3 years ago. Is 8th or 9th really going to improve battery life or performance by any substantial amount?
Rather your IT Dept supplied said 7th gen laptop 2-3 years ago. Would they be willing to upgrade your...
They do. But at some point some corporate user will go to IT guy asking for a new machine.
IT guy will say you can have one now and have the same performance, battery life etc.
Or because Intel screwed up you can wait a year and get some improvement. Maybe.
Can’t wait for Apple to release ARM based MacBooks. I don’t even like MacBooks.
Then I’d like to see Lenovo release an ARM X1 carbon.
Then hubristic monopolies can go choke on a rod.
That’s kind of dreaming. I really would like some competition in this space. Some choices. It’s getting to a...
You’re right. But why is Shadow of the Tomb Raider CPU render limiting for me? I’ve run it many times and it always has parts where the frame time is limited by the CPU.
Having an 8700k and reading what i’m reading about the 9900k. Getting any satisfaction from this upgrade (sidegrade?) would involve delidding and lapping IMHO.
So apparently it seems that even though they went back to solder which is what everybody wanted they managed to increase the thermal...
For both Origins and Odyssey the situation is such that even with top end hardware you cannot run with ultra settings at 4K 60fps.
My compromise given this is a console type game and motion blur can be used is to max out graphics and run at 30fps. Which it does smoothly if you consider 30fps...
It’s pretty good. Maybe two weeks to get bored for me.
It might be just me but I think it has the most impressive graphics on PC right now. Level of detail as you approach the rope in the dark zone extraction helicopter is unbelievable. For me that is what keeps it immersive. Aliasing is...
I wonder what the next gen console cpu will look like.
What kind of specialized memory cache might they use to mitigate that memory latency? Consoles tend to have some specialized memory in them. Can that translate to a desktop system? Can they end up like “super console” chips? Games would be...
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