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  2. azrael
    Arguing about fictional stats from a work of fiction....Only in sci-fi does this happen. 🙃
  3. Test_Pilot_2
    I think the days of PC master race power are gone. Aside from some limited developers going full Crysis now and then just about everything is tuned to where the consoles thrive.... It is a sad, sad state of affairs anymore. I may only get worse going forward. Anything tuned at or a little above the current consoles should thrive for a while... go 1.25 times performance over that and you're good for a long while. When does the PS6 release? It may be still lack the performance of today's peak pc hardware...
  4. azrael
    If AMD is in play, maybe look at the non-X3D CPUs. Because this scenario is a 50/50 work/play, I'd probably lean Intel for the core-count since you mention LLMs. I'd mentioned Threadripper but that's probably outside of anyone's budget. Starting with the Ryzen 7000-series, AMD change their CPU usage so that it jumps to 95C as the CPU comes under load. Go and watch reviews when the 7000-series came out. It came up as a talking point because the CPUs would immediately spike to 95C and stay there before dialing up or down. We're use to the traditional ramping up as load increases not the immediate spike then hold. If you are planning on doing 32", I'd do 4k. 32" 1440p might feel like you are looking at you 24" 1200p but oversize. The PPI of a 32" 1440p is 94ppi. That's about the same as that 24" 1200p screen you have. The idea sizes are with 100% display scaling are 24" @ 1080p 27" @ 1440p 32" @ 4k When you go outside these ranges, things look... weird. I use 24" @ 1440p and 27" @ 4K resolutions for work and while text is absolutely clear, it's also looks eye-straining small (like, I should not be looking at these screens with this high of pixel density for as long as I do if I want to preserve my eyesight), especially 27" 4K.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, my primary concern was whether the 285K was going to be another RMA queen... and my secondary being whether it'd be inferior to the 13th gen chip it's replacing. Nothing on the bleeding edge has really grabbed me, but in the event something does I'm hoping the 285K will at least not be horrendously underpowered.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    According to Macross Chronicle, Commander-type Zentradi like Vrlitwhai are engineered to be larger, stronger, and more durable than the far more numerous "General Soldier-type" clones who make up the bulk of their forces. That said, it's hard to say if one would be up to the task of taking on 4th or 5th Generation Valkyrie the same way due to the improvements that've been made in armor and structural materials since then. The Mechanic Sheet for the 3.5th Generation VF-17D/S Nightmare claims that the improved energy conversion armor of that model gave it durability on a level rivaling an Armored Valkyrie. Exactly how tough the Armored Pack is is a whole other matter. The most authoritative sources generally decline to put specific number and usually go for vague statements like "significantly" or "several times". A few older sources like Sky Angels have put the improvement in defensive ability at anywhere from about 2.5x to 10x the defensive ability of the Valkyrie's own armor. It's likely that that level of durability is beyond what someone like Vrlitwhai could mess up by hand... or if it isn't, they'd really have their work cut out for them.
  7. Papa Rat
    Hahaha. Will do
  8. SebastianP
    Is proving that the Quarter cannot have its stated hangar capacity off topic for a discussion about the Quarter's hangar capacity now? If you can't fit the main 36-fighter hangar on the Quarter at its given size, then what hope have you of fitting 60 mecha total If the ship is not 472 meters long and has to be twice the size to fit the hangar we see in the show, how is it more space efficient than the Elysion? And if you try to rule out the officially licensed 3D model from the Frontier games (yes, this was the actual extracted model, not a conversion for 3D printing or anything) as "fanfic", then I will have to say the same for the Chronicle - it's equally worthless as a source of accurate information due to its contradictions.
  9. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    I agree 100% about Rgb it is just tacky. I am going with an ATX systems. I still use a 8tb hard drive. Maybe I should go 1440p instead. But then do I need a 5070ti or will a lower end video card still be able to handle a 144hz screen. I might just go 1440p. I
  10. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    My budget is about $1750. The 5070ti has been available at $750 (msrp) for a while now. This budget is just for the pc itself. I will hold off until I see what the supers cost.
  11. Test_Pilot_2
    I think you've already solved the use case then... anything modern, even mid-grade annihilates the frame rates on older titles. Under these conditions I would stick to reliable performance as opposed to beta testing hardware and serving as a customer service incentive statistic.
  12. TangledThorns
    For gaming go straight to 9800X3D. On a budget, then 9600X. 9600X3D is supposedly going to be released by the holidays too. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-9-9950x-vs-intel-core-ultra-9-285k-faceoff-it-isnt-even-close
  13. jenius
    I do every other build AMD and Intel, my most recent is a Core 285 and it's been very good for creating tasks. My encode speed is a huge improvement over my last computer... But that's to be expected. The build I gave my kids is a 7950 and it acts kinda funny... Random heat spikes that kick all the fans on that disappear as soon as they arrive... Haven't figured out what that's all about but found plenty of people describing it as normal which is disconcerting.
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  15. Seto Kaiba
    So at least a modest improvement over the 13900K without the tendency to die messily? That sounds A-OK to me. "Not going to self-destruct" is definitely a strong point in its favor... I've gone through the tedious RMA process for the 13900K before, and when the second one died despite having the microcode fixes I figured it was time to upgrade since the loss of a calendar quarter's productivity to the glacial Intel warranty process just wasn't in the cards. It's kind of a 50-50 between gaming and work, with the latter now involving some software development, network performance simulation, multiple concurrent virtual machines, and some nonsense with LLMs because it's trendy so management wants it involved somehow even if it makes zero practical sense. I'm kind of expecting the LLM stuff and embedded network performance simulations to bottleneck the CPU as hard or harder than any gaming I might be doing. Most of the games I play are pretty old... aside from Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, Overwatch 2, and such I've mainly been replaying much older games like the Dishonored trilogy, Bioshock trilogy, and the RTX upgrades of Quake and Quake II for nostalgia's sake... the latter of which are practically in pocket calculator territory these days.
  16. kajnrig
    Right, the 285K is actually a bit worse than the 14900K in terms of pure gaming performance, but it consumes less energy to do so. I think something like 70-80% the power draw for 90-95% the frames, generally. It also doesn't (seem to) suffer from the same degradation issues that plague the 13th and 14th-gen parts. It's also better overall in productivity tasks. Not by too much, but it's better while consuming less energy. If I were buying for myself, I wouldn't feel comfortable getting ANY 13th-/14th-gen Intel part, new or used. The 285K wins by default. Purely gaming-wise, AMD's X3D parts offer 20-30% better performance for sometimes half the power draw. Across a wider range of use cases, the AMD 9000 and Intel 200 parts tend to trade blows, though the AMD parts consume less energy. But I imagine the AMD chips are demanding a pretty premium at the moment, so if you can get a 285K for fairly cheap, I don't think you can go wrong.
  17. pengbuzz
    @Seto Kaiba On another note Seto: I recall in SFDM that Britai tore the chestplate off of Hikaru's VF-1J when Hikaru, Kakizaki and Max Jenius engaged him aboard his command cruiser. My question is this: I know that Britai was unusually tall for even Zentraedi, but how hard would it be for a Zentraedi to do something like that to a modern Valkyrie nowadays (i.e. vf-25 and up)? I would imagine with the magnetic shifters binding the torsos in place it would be pretty hard even for someone like Britai.
  18. Tking22
    Lot to love there, New Vegas is easily the best of the Bethesda Fallouts, even though it's made by Obsidian lol. Best story, best mechanics and gameplay, best player choice and build options, best characters and companions, New Vegas is simply peak. Caesar's Legion, Rad Scorpions, more VATS, Deathclaws, Mr House, I think I saw some action in Novac, one of the starter towns, I'm hyped, December can't come soon enough.
  19. mikeszekely
    Pretty much this, but I think one of the biggest mistakes I made was buying a 4k 60hz display back in the day. Granted, it depends a lot on whether you prefer higher frames or higher fidelity, but I today I have an RTX 5080 and a 240hz display that runs at 32:9 5120 x 1440, which is double the pixels of a standard 16:9 1440p display but still roughly a million pixels less than a 16:9 4k display. I play mostly single player games and I like to turn the graphics up; I average between 60-90 fps in most games, and occasionally hit the 120 mark. Despite using different cables, both HDMI and Display Port, I had weird glitches with the desktop running at 240hz and wound up setting the display to run in 120hz mode. Before, with an RTX 2080, I had to use DLSS and turn down a lot of settings to stay in the 45-60fps range at 4k, or if DLSS wasn't supported it was a choice between looking good at 1440p (or even 1080p) or looking like butt at 4k. Kinda depends on what you're running, I'd think, if it's more CPU-bound or not. My setup came with an Ultra 7 265KF, and 99% of the time I'm fine. I did notice playing Assassin's Creed Shadows, though, that I'd get some dips in towns where the CPU was driving a bunch of NPCs.
  20. Old_Nash_II
    Season 2 teaser
  21. pengbuzz
    I think at this point, reliability might be a bigger draw than a top-performer that chokes and burns itself out with dismal regularity.
  22. pengbuzz
    I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind. And if I'm wrong, you can tell him to blame me.
  23. sh9000
    Iron Man (Extremis) and Mandarin.
  24. sh9000
  25. sh9000
    1/10 Wolverine.
  26. sh9000
    DK-56A.
  27. sh9000
    DC Direct Batman TAS Killer Croc.
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