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  2. Seto Kaiba
    Another random question for anyone who might have flirted with this tech... Has anyone out there tried, or had any success with, using a wireless HDMI adapter to plumb a TV into your PC for conference room-type stuff, streaming, or gaming?
  3. Seto Kaiba
    To be fair, the distinction between a PC and a game console has been shrinking for a long long time now. I remember when the PS3 dropped and half my friends were excited not for the games but because they heard you could load Linux on it and use it as an ad hoc PC. 😆 (We're engineers, it's just how we're wired.) Proprietary dev kits and licensing hassles aside, developing for a console at least offers some stability in terms of the limitations of hardware and hardware variations so I can definitely see the appeal. Especially after years of working with embedded control systems that wish they had even a fraction of a current gen console's oomph. From what I've heard, it sounds like there's a shakeup in the games industry itself that's driven some developers into corners. Mainly the AAA envelope-pushing and live service model isn't paying off like it used to, though since I haven't had a ton of time for gaming I've mainly heard it secondhand in the form of grousing games journalists. Maybe a bit... it really depends on your needs. As I understand it, a lot of the FPS "esports" types favor 240Hz monitors in the 24-27" size range because it's easier to see the whole screen without needing to turn your head. I know a lot of folks who still run monitors in that size, though either because of space constraints on the desk or because they're running a multi-monitor setup. (I'm running three 27" 1440p ROG Swifts in my home setup, for instance, with the outer two on gas shocks so I can spin 'em around as needed.)
  4. Big s
    Careful, you’ll shoot your eye out
  5. Big s
    Early Christmas present, Yay!!!
  6. Big s
    Weird that it doesn’t have pilot figures. Does it even have a landing gear down set of parts?
  7. TangledThorns
    Oh then you should be fine for most if not all mATX cases then. If you like adding more capacity there is mATX mobos like my MSI MAG Mortar Wifi 850M mobo that has three NVME m.2 slots.
  8. TangledThorns
    Walter Goggins is my new favorite actor.
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  10. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    just 1 8tb.
  11. TangledThorns
    A single or multiple HDDs? mATX cases can hold one or more HDDs
  12. azrael
    At relative distances. The average viewing distance of desk workers is ~2 feet from the screen.
  13. isamu started following Macross 7 Discussion
  14. isamu
    I came here to post this news, but I see you guys are already aware. R. I. P Ms. Sakurai. She was amazing as Mylene Genius. I can't believe it. Does anyone know what she died from? 53 is still very young. The article from ANN doesn't mention cause of death. Edit: disregard my question I just read the Wikipedia. frakk cancer.
  15. Test_Pilot_2
    I'm at 150" 1440p from 12-13 feet away. Looks spectacular. My desktop is a 34" ultra wide @ 1440p, also looks spectacular. Maybe that's a little subjective though, but 24-27" just seems small anymore. x3D processors are fantastic.
  16. azrael
    Arguing about fictional stats from a work of fiction....Only in sci-fi does this happen. 🙃
  17. 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. It 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 still lack the performance of today's peak pc hardware...
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Papa Rat
    Hahaha. Will do
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
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