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DLSS Is huge but you can match it, Intel did. I have hopes for FSR4. Very few people really care about RT, there are only 3 modern path-traced games, normal RT games look better but not transformatively so, and recently games like Indy run with mandatory RT on very low-end hardware. Admittedly...

Again, no. I'd appreciate if people would listen to what actually comes out of my mouth and take it at face value rather than immediately flaming. Welcome to the internet, I suppose. Intel provides all those features. Quality remains to be seen, and not all games support it yet, but they're...

He isn’t. AMD could get my business, as I just said in my previous post. Intel, not until Celestial at the earliest.

The market didn’t choose green over red in a vacuum. AMD’s products were less attractive and overpriced. AMD made the most perfectly wrong bet with RDNA focusing exclusively on game performance while Nvidia’s bet on ML paid off big time, even ignoring gen AI, just talking about consumer GPUs. It...

My reactions to your extreme snark, you mean? My reaction was negative, yes, when you claimed I was posting in ill faith and attacked the same straw man twice. I have no agenda. If you think I'm lying, put me on ignore. And in the future, here's a Pro Tip: Attack the post, not the poster. Can...

Also the new Indiana Jones game has a nearly full path-tracing option that looks incredible. Not quite up to AW2 standards as it doesn't RT interior shadows and reflections though.

I didn’t do that, as I noted in my previous response.

Flagship path-traced titles are CP2077 and Alan Wake 2. That's where I would turn after buying a 4090 for sure. Outside of those two games you're looking at either mods for existing titles (Quake 2 RTX etc) or games that are ray-traced but not comprehensively unlike what we typically call...

I don't know that I would call it a lie, two years ago. Things just didn't turn out the way they wanted. C'est la vie. It's not at all clear to me why reviewers like this product. They compare raw price/performance then walk away without giving the user experience a second of thought. 7% faster...

Texture LOD can be pretty noticeable on an 8GB card with the texture pool set to high, I’ve heard. But the solution is simple, just set it to medium and you’re all good.

All new games support upscaling anyway so your 1440p monitor is perfectly usable with any modern GPU. Older games don't, but they'll run fine on a 3060-class GPU anyway. Aside from sponsored games like Indy of course, but I have no doubt that'll get FSR and XeSS at some point, hopefully soon...

That's a great tip! It's predicated on bullshit, but otherwise would be very helpful, and I appreciate your thoughtfulness. Re 1440p, it doesn't really have the performance to hang there unless you upscale, and the competition can do that too. Definitely better than FSR at lower resolutions though.

Sure, you can think up specific use-cases where it makes sense to buy this product at MSRP. The question is whether the decision makes sense for anyone overall. I really don't think it does, not at this price. I deeply want Intel to succeed here. The market desperately needs competition. But...

Way too expensive. Pros Performance: 7% faster than the 7600/4060 Price: $40 cheaper than the $290 4060 and the exact same price as the $250 7600 (going by pcpartpicker right now) VRAM: 12GB when the 7600/4060 have 8GB Cons Driver quality. Even AMD's are vastly superior. Features: No DLSS...

Suppose that depends how many units sold. Could have been a largely paper launch with nobody noticing because demand was so low.

That microcenter bundle really is bananas value.

My build is silent. If I'm irradiating my testes, I suppose I'll discover the consequences eventually. YOLO as the kids say.

I got my torrent with a glass side because it was $30 cheaper and I figured I don't care what it looks like. All lighting is disabled. I did kinda like the ability to grab a flashlight and look inside to confirm the fans were running right after building, I guess. Assuming the glass doesn't...

Geez. Even if the performance was great and drivers worked perfectly that would be disqualifying for me. Hopefully battlemage fixes it.

Tune your fan curves properly. I can't hear a dang thing unless I run all-core benchmarks, and everything runs cool and quiet. I do have 8 total fans of which the two front intakes are 180mm, admittedly.