HW News - Major AMD BIOS Update, GDDR7 Arrives, DirectStorage & RTX IO in Games
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Date: 2023-07-24
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Zzzz
I did not want to buy a motherboard with DDR5 all that INSANE FAST CLOCK SPEED DDR5 DIMS can run is not going to do me any good. This is why. DDR5 SOCKET that is mounted on to the motherboard is mounted on to the top layer only making the connection WEAK then the SOCKETS can easy FALL OFF. lets look at DDR4 DIM SOCKETS got all its pins mounted all the though the mounted its welded on both sides of the motherboard and the welded in the middle making a STRONGEST MOUNT POSSIBLE the DDR4 SOCKET will not fall off and the prices of DDR4 DIMS are dropping. for VALUE its a GREAT DEAL However there is a PRICE to PAY. have to buy OLDER GEN MOTHERBOARDS that is NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION like Z590i MINI ITX and X570i MINI ITX ASUS people do not want to buy ASUS due to RETARED PUBLIC RELATIONS that REMOVED HAWAII and A:ASKA out of the UNION and hade it over to GUAM that is a VIOLATION OF THE LAW. when my DOA ASUS ROG STRIX X570I MINI ITS MOTHERBAORD was sent to ASUS with my own postage stamp causing MAIL FRUAD CHARGES SEND FAKE DEAD MOTHERBOARDS to HAWAII and ALASKA when my DOA was sent it I got charged 350.00 to fix some other guys motherboard that is the customer may be in CHINA or NORTH KOREA my CHIP SET as also dead and dose not have ROG SPEED printed on it and my PCIe 4.0 SOCKET have its retaining CLIP in tact and show me his PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 with a BUSTED RETAING CLIP. BLAME ME FOR KILLING IT I REFUSE TO PAY and a LOT OF YELLING ON THE PHONE ABOUT LEVEL A CLASS ACTION CIVIL LAW SUIT and you sir STEVE GAMERSNEXUS yelling at ASUS of AMD CPU EXPLODING of me YALLING AT ASUS for 3 MONTHS I got sick of it and GAVE UP THE GHOST as far as the CASE is CLOSED I chock it up for a BIG FAT EXPENSIVE LOST and then a month later FEDEX GROUND drop of a stagne PACKAGE from ASUS in there a ALI EXPRESS/ WISH WHITE BOX was pulled out oif the SHIPPING BOX With in that BLANK WHITE ALI EXPRESS / WISH SYTLE BOX is big enough to hold a ATX MOTHERBOARD what is WIERD and what ever it was in that WHITE BOX was packed very badlya rpeat what happed with LINUS LTT a my ASUS ROG STRIX X570I MOTHERBOARD wasin that WHTIE BOX BANG ITS WAY LOOSE BOUNCE ,BANG RATTLED all its way over to me. I got my motherboard back. and its working. what that is I WON THE ARUGMENT I like to THANK YOU STEVE GAMERSNEXUS with your WAR on ASUS over AMD NEXT GEN CPU EXPLODING FUEL to the FIRE that was used in my WAR with ASUS and I WON THE WAR. however HAWAII and ALASKA is GUAM OWNED that is a fight for IRS and FBI to deal with. that will NEVER HAPPEN
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I did not want to buy a motherboard with DDR5 all that INSANE FAST CLOCK SPEED DDR5 DIMS can run is not going to do me any good. This is why. DDR5 SOCKET that is mounted on to the motherboard is mounted on to the top layer only making the connection WEAK then the SOCKETS can easy FALL OFF. lets look at DDR4 DIM SOCKETS got all its pins mounted all the though the mounted its welded on both sides of the motherboard and the welded in the middle making a STRONGEST MOUNT POSSIBLE the DDR4 SOCKET will not fall off and the prices of DDR4 DIMS are dropping. for VALUE its a GREAT DEAL However there is a PRICE to PAY. have to buy OLDER GEN MOTHERBOARDS that is NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION like Z590i MINI ITX and X570i MINI ITX ASUS people do not want to buy ASUS due to RETARED PUBLIC RELATIONS that REMOVED HAWAII and A:ASKA out of the UNION and hade it over to GUAM that is a VIOLATION OF THE LAW. when my DOA ASUS ROG STRIX X570I MINI ITS MOTHERBAORD was sent to ASUS with my own postage stamp causing MAIL FRUAD CHARGES SEND FAKE DEAD MOTHERBOARDS to HAWAII and ALASKA when my DOA was sent it I got charged 350.00 to fix some other guys motherboard that is the customer may be in CHINA or NORTH KOREA my CHIP SET as also dead and dose not have ROG SPEED printed on it and my PCIe 4.0 SOCKET have its retaining CLIP in tact and show me his PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 with a BUSTED RETAING CLIP. BLAME ME FOR KILLING IT I REFUSE TO PAY and a LOT OF YELLING ON THE PHONE ABOUT LEVEL A CLASS ACTION CIVIL LAW SUIT and you sir STEVE GAMERSNEXUS yelling at ASUS of AMD CPU EXPLODING of me YALLING AT ASUS for 3 MONTHS I got sick of it and GAVE UP THE GHOST as far as the CASE is CLOSED I chock it up for a BIG FAT EXPENSIVE LOST and then a month later FEDEX GROUND drop of a stagne PACKAGE from ASUS in there a ALI EXPRESS/ WISH WHITE BOX was pulled out oif the SHIPPING BOX With in that BLANK WHITE ALI EXPRESS / WISH SYTLE BOX is big enough to hold a ATX MOTHERBOARD what is WIERD and what ever it was in that WHITE BOX was packed very badlya rpeat what happed with LINUS LTT a my ASUS ROG STRIX X570I MOTHERBOARD wasin that WHTIE BOX BANG ITS WAY LOOSE BOUNCE ,BANG RATTLED all its way over to me. I got my motherboard back. and its working. what that is I WON THE ARUGMENT I like to THANK YOU STEVE GAMERSNEXUS with your WAR on ASUS over AMD NEXT GEN CPU EXPLODING FUEL to the FIRE that was used in my WAR with ASUS and I WON THE WAR. however HAWAII and ALASKA is GUAM OWNED that is a fight for IRS and FBI to deal with. that will NEVER HAPPEN
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Chase
Dude there won't be any XBox or PS after their next gen imo. Even if that isn't the case, I sure as hell hope that the same old played out franchises are not still getting all the AAA budget for more than 10 years... they have already been around 10 years too many in most cases.
We are coming for you guys...just keep on regurgitating in higher definitions every year exploiting your customers, and we will innovate or at least build with a passion that has long been drained from your work.
blurb is kind of a blanket statement towards the corporate video game development leadership from myself and anyone else that may feel the same way about the assemblyline-ification of the industry.
I mainly only upgrade/build gaming PCs so I can play STALKER games, Banished, Civil VI, some Resident Evil games, plus a handful more in higher resolutions and frame/refresh rates, etc. It's kinda like building a hot rod then just taking it to the track now and then in between tweaks, new parts, and tune ups, but not racing or using it full time...or something like that.
I do love a good video game, but they are few and far between these days at least as far as the high budget top of the line AAA Games go. Not counting Nintendo games, I can't think of the last game I really looked forward to besides STALKER 2 since the first 3 Resident evil remakes for PC . Then it was clear back to FO4 which was a disappointment.
I know that is my taste, but everything seems to be the same mediocre type games that are designed to appeal to everyone, but failing making it very attractive to a few people.
Sorry, I digress.. I can't wait to see all of Sony and MS's tens of billions of dollars worth of studio/franchise/dev acquisitions blow up on their face as a small teams do it better for a mere fraction of the cost. Tic....tock... you can't buy your way out of mediocrity!! That's how you get to it!
//End: Aging gamer boy rant
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Dude there won't be any XBox or PS after their next gen imo. Even if that isn't the case, I sure as hell hope that the same old played out franchises are not still getting all the AAA budget for more than 10 years... they have already been around 10 years too many in most cases.
We are coming for you guys...just keep on regurgitating in higher definitions every year exploiting your customers, and we will innovate or at least build with a passion that has long been drained from your work.
blurb is kind of a blanket statement towards the corporate video game development leadership from myself and anyone else that may feel the same way about the assemblyline-ification of the industry.
I mainly only upgrade/build gaming PCs so I can play STALKER games, Banished, Civil VI, some Resident Evil games, plus a handful more in higher resolutions and frame/refresh rates, etc. It's kinda like building a hot rod then just taking it to the track now and then in between tweaks, new parts, and tune ups, but not racing or using it full time...or something like that.
I do love a good video game, but they are few and far between these days at least as far as the high budget top of the line AAA Games go. Not counting Nintendo games, I can't think of the last game I really looked forward to besides STALKER 2 since the first 3 Resident evil remakes for PC . Then it was clear back to FO4 which was a disappointment.
I know that is my taste, but everything seems to be the same mediocre type games that are designed to appeal to everyone, but failing making it very attractive to a few people.
Sorry, I digress.. I can't wait to see all of Sony and MS's tens of billions of dollars worth of studio/franchise/dev acquisitions blow up on their face as a small teams do it better for a mere fraction of the cost. Tic....tock... you can't buy your way out of mediocrity!! That's how you get to it!
//End: Aging gamer boy rant
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Jake
It's quite a shame that the power supply reviews didn't take off I guess. I was really hoping for a good void fill.. case reviews are... I mean their cases right? It's really not hard to find one that will work for you, especially since a lot of older stock exists LOL.. but power supplies that's a whole nother story, especially on the nitty gritty.. and catastrophic if you get it wrong..
If the average, doing everything more or less correctly for cases didn't yield such consistent results amongst hardware.. maybe that would be more exciting if there was a case that really could do something for you.. and cases that do things for you are are very exciting for sure.. but the thermal performance of them on average really doesn't seem to do a whole lot as opposed to something like ram overclocking or power supply that can avoid coil whine...
don't get me wrong I appreciate all the effort that you put into all your testing... like that's definitely the right mentality and I'm sure this is the first place I go to for anything in that regard.. albeit, I've been going to Northwest repairs a lot or buildzoid to gleam on the possibility of better builds in pcbs as as that is starting to be far more important than slight performance uplifts on hardware.. but anyhow all I'm saying is.. power supply reviews.. very important like genuinely important.. and regardless of whatever Linus is doing.. your review is going to have that information in a much better format.. and actually cover the things that matter the most beyond the basics so.. I doubt this in any way will convince you to go back to that but.. would be cool.
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It's quite a shame that the power supply reviews didn't take off I guess. I was really hoping for a good void fill.. case reviews are... I mean their cases right? It's really not hard to find one that will work for you, especially since a lot of older stock exists LOL.. but power supplies that's a whole nother story, especially on the nitty gritty.. and catastrophic if you get it wrong..
If the average, doing everything more or less correctly for cases didn't yield such consistent results amongst hardware.. maybe that would be more exciting if there was a case that really could do something for you.. and cases that do things for you are are very exciting for sure.. but the thermal performance of them on average really doesn't seem to do a whole lot as opposed to something like ram overclocking or power supply that can avoid coil whine...
don't get me wrong I appreciate all the effort that you put into all your testing... like that's definitely the right mentality and I'm sure this is the first place I go to for anything in that regard.. albeit, I've been going to Northwest repairs a lot or buildzoid to gleam on the possibility of better builds in pcbs as as that is starting to be far more important than slight performance uplifts on hardware.. but anyhow all I'm saying is.. power supply reviews.. very important like genuinely important.. and regardless of whatever Linus is doing.. your review is going to have that information in a much better format.. and actually cover the things that matter the most beyond the basics so.. I doubt this in any way will convince you to go back to that but.. would be cool.
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Osvaldo
Please reconsider this idea of using Portal 2 RTX for path-tracing benchmarks. I know, NVidia is the big innovator in this area, but you can't pick a game/demo that's fairly described as a NVidia RTX techdemo and pretend it's even remotely fair/unbiased. We don't even know if the very poor performance on RDNA GPUs is completely explained by their inferior RT support, or if it's in part because the game is extremely fined-tuned to the RTX architecture or even using code intentionally designed to hit the bottlenecks of competing architectures.
The same goes for Cyberpunk 2077, a game where all advanced RT stuff is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NVidia's marketing dept at this point.
Suggestion: use ANYTHING that is not sponsored by any GPU vendor. I suggest Desordre, which uses the latest UE5 Lumen. Turn all rendering options to the max and it's very close to Portal RTX in both visual quality and performance. But it's a non-sponsored game, supports all good upscalers (unlike Portal RTX), and runs reasonably well on a 7900 XTX, because unlike NVidia they give a flying f for Radeon users.
Plus, unlike NVidia's path-tracing gimmick that after 4 years (since Quake II RTX) still got absolutely zero adoption outside NVidia's own techdemos, UE5/Lumen will actually be used by many upcoming games so that will be a fair technology to use as the standard bearer of next-gen raytracing in games.,
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Please reconsider this idea of using Portal 2 RTX for path-tracing benchmarks. I know, NVidia is the big innovator in this area, but you can't pick a game/demo that's fairly described as a NVidia RTX techdemo and pretend it's even remotely fair/unbiased. We don't even know if the very poor performance on RDNA GPUs is completely explained by their inferior RT support, or if it's in part because the game is extremely fined-tuned to the RTX architecture or even using code intentionally designed to hit the bottlenecks of competing architectures.
The same goes for Cyberpunk 2077, a game where all advanced RT stuff is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NVidia's marketing dept at this point.
Suggestion: use ANYTHING that is not sponsored by any GPU vendor. I suggest Desordre, which uses the latest UE5 Lumen. Turn all rendering options to the max and it's very close to Portal RTX in both visual quality and performance. But it's a non-sponsored game, supports all good upscalers (unlike Portal RTX), and runs reasonably well on a 7900 XTX, because unlike NVidia they give a flying f for Radeon users.
Plus, unlike NVidia's path-tracing gimmick that after 4 years (since Quake II RTX) still got absolutely zero adoption outside NVidia's own techdemos, UE5/Lumen will actually be used by many upcoming games so that will be a fair technology to use as the standard bearer of next-gen raytracing in games.,
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Corvo
I love to watch comment about the Switch by people who know very little about it :
1. The Switch have already PLENTY of no family friendly games on it. For example DOOM (2016, eternal, 3, etc .. ), Metro, many Resident Evil, Outlast, Mortal kombact 11, Sniper Elite series, the WITCHER 3, Alien etc.. etc.. its not the the Wii-U since 2017.
2. If they find a way to run the games i mentioned before be sure they can make a Call of Wathever that can run perfectly on a Switch.
Said so, last year Splatoon 3 wins best shooter category at the Game Awards over Call of Trash and Overwatch 1.5, so, who cares. And as i love PC gaming (as my gaming PC) many times you people demostrate to be very closed minded about anything that is not inside your sphere of knoweldge, expecially if is not advanced as last edge techonlogy. Sad but true.
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I love to watch comment about the Switch by people who know very little about it :
1. The Switch have already PLENTY of no family friendly games on it. For example DOOM (2016, eternal, 3, etc .. ), Metro, many Resident Evil, Outlast, Mortal kombact 11, Sniper Elite series, the WITCHER 3, Alien etc.. etc.. its not the the Wii-U since 2017.
2. If they find a way to run the games i mentioned before be sure they can make a Call of Wathever that can run perfectly on a Switch.
Said so, last year Splatoon 3 wins best shooter category at the Game Awards over Call of Trash and Overwatch 1.5, so, who cares. And as i love PC gaming (as my gaming PC) many times you people demostrate to be very closed minded about anything that is not inside your sphere of knoweldge, expecially if is not advanced as last edge techonlogy. Sad but true.
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Sav
I'm not sure how newer Intel bios updates go, but on my X570, there were some check-your-pants moments.. On more than one occasion, the BIOS update for my motherboard would freeze mid update(according to reddit), luckily for me, I only experience this once. Bios update froze at 50% - exactly - and I noticed it froze right away as the fan speed stopped updating(such a random stat to display during bios update). I decided to sleep and restart my PC in the morning. I was lucky enough that the update completed successfully. Other people reported that their boards were bricked. This was my long winded way of saying - not so sure about beta bios updates unless it has been explicitly recommended for your use case.
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I'm not sure how newer Intel bios updates go, but on my X570, there were some check-your-pants moments.. On more than one occasion, the BIOS update for my motherboard would freeze mid update(according to reddit), luckily for me, I only experience this once. Bios update froze at 50% - exactly - and I noticed it froze right away as the fan speed stopped updating(such a random stat to display during bios update). I decided to sleep and restart my PC in the morning. I was lucky enough that the update completed successfully. Other people reported that their boards were bricked. This was my long winded way of saying - not so sure about beta bios updates unless it has been explicitly recommended for your use case.
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Apeiron
I would assume a large part of decreasing disk space requirements when using direct storage and the like is that those games will no longer need to optimize disk seek times. I don't remember which CoD it was but I remember that there's one where one of the assets (iirc, a potted plant) is duplicated dozens of times because it was so frequently used in every map. Having copies of it spread everywhere meant they could optimize to load specific copies of it that were close to where other parts of the map were be stored on-disk, speeding up load times by a little. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that these games, just by removing all of their duplicated assets, end up being 20%+ smaller.
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I would assume a large part of decreasing disk space requirements when using direct storage and the like is that those games will no longer need to optimize disk seek times. I don't remember which CoD it was but I remember that there's one where one of the assets (iirc, a potted plant) is duplicated dozens of times because it was so frequently used in every map. Having copies of it spread everywhere meant they could optimize to load specific copies of it that were close to where other parts of the map were be stored on-disk, speeding up load times by a little. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that these games, just by removing all of their duplicated assets, end up being 20%+ smaller.
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liaminwales
The UK Gov got sensitive after a lot of company's got sold over the last 20 years only to wake up and wonder if it was a mistake, ARM ended up being sold without a second look until years later when they wondered if it was a mistake.
There's a small who ha over the sale of 'Newport Wafer Fab Ltd' to a Netherlands company Nexperia which is owned by Wingtech, the sale was kind of done before they questioned if it was good to sell all the UK company's and now want to force a buy back or something.
As far as I can see a lot of hot air but nothing is relay going to change, the hot air just makes it look better when the sale happens.
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The UK Gov got sensitive after a lot of company's got sold over the last 20 years only to wake up and wonder if it was a mistake, ARM ended up being sold without a second look until years later when they wondered if it was a mistake.
There's a small who ha over the sale of 'Newport Wafer Fab Ltd' to a Netherlands company Nexperia which is owned by Wingtech, the sale was kind of done before they questioned if it was good to sell all the UK company's and now want to force a buy back or something.
As far as I can see a lot of hot air but nothing is relay going to change, the hot air just makes it look better when the sale happens.
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Radu
Woah woah woah, I had to pause the video Did I just hear you say you are not going to do a DDR5 ram tuning on AMD video because you are doing cases and coolers??? Who da hell cares about that? What a waste of your talents to be reviewing cases and coolers Cases are cases, doesn t take a genius to buy the one with the most airflow in their size of choice. AIOs are all pretty much the same 1-2deg who cares, rest is all rgb and brand preference, tower coolers well that s even more simple, buy a scale and weigh them, heaviest one is the best Do the DDR5 tuning video, god.
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Woah woah woah, I had to pause the video Did I just hear you say you are not going to do a DDR5 ram tuning on AMD video because you are doing cases and coolers??? Who da hell cares about that? What a waste of your talents to be reviewing cases and coolers Cases are cases, doesn t take a genius to buy the one with the most airflow in their size of choice. AIOs are all pretty much the same 1-2deg who cares, rest is all rgb and brand preference, tower coolers well that s even more simple, buy a scale and weigh them, heaviest one is the best Do the DDR5 tuning video, god.
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Titanium
Microsoft and Blizzard will promise literally ANYTHING to get that deal through and grease as many palms as need greasing.
Then they will stick to their word for a year or two and then slowly, but steadily, forget about all the promises they made, fire half the staff and make all new releases game pass exclusive for a year.
And they will be fined for tens or even hundreds of millions of dollards, but that will just be the cost of running business and they will still make a tidy profit.
And lawmakers won't learn anything from it.
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Microsoft and Blizzard will promise literally ANYTHING to get that deal through and grease as many palms as need greasing.
Then they will stick to their word for a year or two and then slowly, but steadily, forget about all the promises they made, fire half the staff and make all new releases game pass exclusive for a year.
And they will be fined for tens or even hundreds of millions of dollards, but that will just be the cost of running business and they will still make a tidy profit.
And lawmakers won't learn anything from it.
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Jeffrey
PAM-3 vs PAM-4
First off, the 3 doesn't just stand for three. What was Steve trying to say with that awkward pause? It stands for 3-level PAM. GDDR6x had 4-level PAM so we're going backwards to 3-level PAM now. I'm not certain, but I think they bit off more than they could chew with 4-level PAM in terms of the complexity of the electronics, Signal-to-Noise etc to the point that PAM-3 actually works better for graphics cards... the technology is a bit confusing if you don't understand electronics.
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PAM-3 vs PAM-4
First off, the 3 doesn't just stand for three. What was Steve trying to say with that awkward pause? It stands for 3-level PAM. GDDR6x had 4-level PAM so we're going backwards to 3-level PAM now. I'm not certain, but I think they bit off more than they could chew with 4-level PAM in terms of the complexity of the electronics, Signal-to-Noise etc to the point that PAM-3 actually works better for graphics cards... the technology is a bit confusing if you don't understand electronics.
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Douglas
I wonder if Nvidia gating performance tiers behind memory bandwidth and total memory will cause Samsung to raise the price of their new GDDR more than they would have otherwise. If Nvidia is going to force higher selling prices off of memory allowances, why shouldn't Samsung see a piece? And consequently this could bleed over into being everyone's problem as the market rate for GDDR goes up for AMD and anyone else regardless of whether they were going to attach a ransom to it like Jensen.
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I wonder if Nvidia gating performance tiers behind memory bandwidth and total memory will cause Samsung to raise the price of their new GDDR more than they would have otherwise. If Nvidia is going to force higher selling prices off of memory allowances, why shouldn't Samsung see a piece? And consequently this could bleed over into being everyone's problem as the market rate for GDDR goes up for AMD and anyone else regardless of whether they were going to attach a ransom to it like Jensen.
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Pixelated
Just wish microsoft would take the time to nurture their own studios and make sure everything is right to make great games. Instead of buying more of them up and expecting hits from just buying them. Gamepass is super lack luster unless youve never played any of the games. Theyve got plenty of good studios to work with. Just get to making great games. Im no fanboy i have all the consoles and a pc. Im still getting flashbacks to rare where they went to die( almost but pretty close).
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Just wish microsoft would take the time to nurture their own studios and make sure everything is right to make great games. Instead of buying more of them up and expecting hits from just buying them. Gamepass is super lack luster unless youve never played any of the games. Theyve got plenty of good studios to work with. Just get to making great games. Im no fanboy i have all the consoles and a pc. Im still getting flashbacks to rare where they went to die( almost but pretty close).
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JMJ
Steve and team - does it sound to you like the new AGESA should allow reliable EXPO speeds with MCR enabled on marginal kits, not necessarily just faster (6200+) ones or manual higher OCs? I have the G.Skill Flare X5 kit that Micro Center bundles with Ryzen 7000, and it's stable at it's rated 6000, but only with MCR disabled (seems Samsung DDR5 and AMD are a match made in hell). It would be great to save the boot time.
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Steve and team - does it sound to you like the new AGESA should allow reliable EXPO speeds with MCR enabled on marginal kits, not necessarily just faster (6200+) ones or manual higher OCs? I have the G.Skill Flare X5 kit that Micro Center bundles with Ryzen 7000, and it's stable at it's rated 6000, but only with MCR disabled (seems Samsung DDR5 and AMD are a match made in hell). It would be great to save the boot time.
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Ari
Steve: Okay memory training will take longer... But can you still enable Memory Context in bios?
Regarding the NUC's... I'm noticing a growing trend with people using them as small home appliances to run little (but still quite powerful) servers, lately more AI/Language Learning Models are actually capable of running on these smaller devices. Not sure if the post is referring to that, but to me, it made sense.
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Steve: Okay memory training will take longer... But can you still enable Memory Context in bios?
Regarding the NUC's... I'm noticing a growing trend with people using them as small home appliances to run little (but still quite powerful) servers, lately more AI/Language Learning Models are actually capable of running on these smaller devices. Not sure if the post is referring to that, but to me, it made sense.
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Dr
Looking forward to all your ITX / SFF case reviews and seeing what performance is lost/gained versus ATX systems. Since my current ATX system is in a 20kg Coolermaster Cosmos case from 2008, and I don't need optical drives or HDDs so much anymore the only thing I really need is room for the 7900 XTX... and case cooling that doesn't bottleneck that or a CPU sufficient to drive it.
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Looking forward to all your ITX / SFF case reviews and seeing what performance is lost/gained versus ATX systems. Since my current ATX system is in a 20kg Coolermaster Cosmos case from 2008, and I don't need optical drives or HDDs so much anymore the only thing I really need is room for the 7900 XTX... and case cooling that doesn't bottleneck that or a CPU sufficient to drive it.
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Bundy714
Is there any reason to update my AMD bios to a newer bios that supports AGESA 1007B if I'm not buying newer/faster RAM? From my less than knowledgeable perspective, it appears that the only benefits of AGESA 1007B is that it supports DDR5 RAM faster than 6000. Is this correct, or are their other benefits for us early adopters that already have invested in slower ram?
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Is there any reason to update my AMD bios to a newer bios that supports AGESA 1007B if I'm not buying newer/faster RAM? From my less than knowledgeable perspective, it appears that the only benefits of AGESA 1007B is that it supports DDR5 RAM faster than 6000. Is this correct, or are their other benefits for us early adopters that already have invested in slower ram?
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DeusKDuo
This judge is so wrong and has no understanding of what is going on. Just like he said the switch is a non starter, 10 years is nothing even though it is spreading it out to other cloud services once those 10 years are up its gone for everyone but Microsoft. I don't see how the temporary increase in availability counteracts lessening of competition permanently.
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This judge is so wrong and has no understanding of what is going on. Just like he said the switch is a non starter, 10 years is nothing even though it is spreading it out to other cloud services once those 10 years are up its gone for everyone but Microsoft. I don't see how the temporary increase in availability counteracts lessening of competition permanently.
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Futurist
The only downside of the Activision/Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft is that it's not EA that they're going to turn into a steaming pile of crap. You know, like they have with almost every other game company that they've bought and tried to do something with (Minecraft excepted, but that's a game, not a company with many franchises under them).
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The only downside of the Activision/Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft is that it's not EA that they're going to turn into a steaming pile of crap. You know, like they have with almost every other game company that they've bought and tried to do something with (Minecraft excepted, but that's a game, not a company with many franchises under them).
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Lathan
Pretty ludicrous to say that longer timescales don t matter for these massive corporations. Some of the greediest decisions we see made in many industry simply come down to sacrificing long term sustainability to short term profit. 10 years is plenty of time for Sony to figure out an alternative to Call of Duty.
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Pretty ludicrous to say that longer timescales don t matter for these massive corporations. Some of the greediest decisions we see made in many industry simply come down to sacrificing long term sustainability to short term profit. 10 years is plenty of time for Sony to figure out an alternative to Call of Duty.
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