Recent content by birdie

It's debatable. The two most popular gaming cards are still GTX 1650 and GTX 1060. In fact most cards in top 10 are just 6GB.

1. You can safely ignore this part if you find it so repugnant. 2. It's extremely useful for me and lots of people who perpetrate lies about [AMD] CPUs.

I cannot post a poll in the existing thread. This thread is not for "issues", it's a poll about getting or not getting stock performance.

Some people claim to get the stock [normal] performance out of AMD CPUs you absolutely need to fine tune them including and not limited to enabling PBO, using Curve Optimizer (CO), overclocking and tuning RAM timings, using AIO, etc. If you're not an overclocker and you simply like to run...

Haven't had coffee yet, sorry :-) To the OP, if you have the money, go for it. If you don't, why asking?

If I'm not mistaken starting with the second generation Maxwell all the VBIOS images are digitally signed and cannot be modified which means it's still an official VBIOS. Everything about your VBIOS is the same as for the original except the revision: Yours: MSINV375MH.423 Original...

What an embarrassingly stupid poll. AI has been used by multiple chip designers for many years now, it's just they find new ways to apply it. I'm totally OK with AI optimizing drivers as long as those optimizations are transparent, understood and approved by human beings. The biggest issue...

And it's easy: pay attention only to raw performance figures, and dismiss everything that has DLSS in it. Why? Not all games support it. Some will never support it. DLSS 2 image upscaling is not perfect and can result in very unpleasant and annoying artifacts. DLSS 2 itself is not free, it...

Both. Previous 70 (Ti) class NVIDIA GPUs never cost so much and in terms of performance the performance of 4070 Ti is not something we haven't seen before on many occasions. GTX 970 was as fast as 780 Ti. GTX 1070 was as fast 980 Ti. GTX 3070 was as fast as 2080 Ti. None of them cost even...

The worst thing about the 4070 Ti is that reviewers will ... praise the card because in terms of the bang for the buck is a ton better than RTX 4080 and a little bit better than RTX 4090 and people will read it as, "OK, inflation and sh*t but the card is the "best" RTX 40 series card, so, sigh...

Let me steal a VC comment:

No amount of forums/reddit/social networks posts will change the pricing. Either people will be buying the cards or not. I hope they won't, so that NVIDIA could realize they actually need to sell stuff instead of trying to look smug.

These are portable computers, not laptops. And there are many people who need this kind of compute power on the go. And those people don't care one bit about running on a battery. There are outlets everywhere.

I don't belong to any camps. Doing so is beyond stupid and indicates a total lack of intelligence. And thanks for the insult. Oh, and your comment strongly suggests you are in the intel camp. My condolences. I've had these CPUs in my life: Celeron, Pentium, Sempron, Athlon and lately Core i5...

I refuse to vote because I'm simply not rich enough to afford one. This doesn't count as a "no" because I'd probably buy one, if I had enough spare cash.