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  1. azrael
    Probably not. Or not quite. I suspect BF3/4 gameplay, maybe BF2042-type weapon modding & in-game transactions.
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    We're assuming we'll see stock for the March release (AMD-based laptops have traditionally had lower stock available at launch vs Intel-based). We also see sales kick in around September/October for Back-to-school and the G14 will likely be one of those models that get a Back-to-School discount. The performance uplift of the laptop 5070/5070Ti will likely be marginal vs the 4070, if the desktop RTX 50-series is any indication of this generation. Maybe better battery-life but the increase power usage of the RTX 50-series is looking to nullify any battery improvements (4070 base power is 35W vs 5070 base power of 50W, 5070Ti - 60W base power). I'd probably pay attention to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 vs the 8945HS more since that may be where the best performance/watt comparison is. Depending on what you plan on using the laptop for will likely determine going with the 2024-model vs waiting for the 2025. If you really need a new laptop now, I'd probably go for the 2024 G14. Otherwise, I'd wait for the reviews.
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    So either scalpers or paper launch. 🙄🤦‍♂️
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    I'm waiting for a few more reviews to be posted. But the trend I see is, if you're coming from a 2000-series or earlier, the 5000-series MIGHT be worth it. I forgot who said it (maybe it was Jayz), but if you see a 4000-series and the 5000-series card on the shelf and the 4000-series is cheaper, you're probably gonna gravitate to the 4000-series. 3000-series holders could probably get by for another generation thanks to AIB-markup. If you find a FE card at MSRP, upgrading from a 3000-series MIGHT be worth it. Anyone who saw the slides and saw the small, barely legible footnote about using frame gen an could figure out where that performance bump was coming from. Scalpers are one issue but when an Asus ROG Astral OC 5080 will be marked at $1899.99 for the performance numbers we're seeing, is that <15% uplift from a 4080 Super really worth it? AIB cards are likely to only gain up to 5%...<10% at the most. If you're willing to pay $1900 for a OC'd 5080, I'd really question your judgement in not shelling out for a 5090.
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    RTX 5080 FE reviews are out. I'm still going over the video reviews. Written reviews only show only marginal gains over the RTX 4080 Super in rasterization. The biggest gains were using MFG (yeah, Nvidia is leaning hard on MFG in this generation). More power, marginal improvements. If you have a 4080 Super, it's not worth the upgrade.
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    I doubt it it will trigger OCP at sub-1ms spikes. BUT, I suspect that we may see 4090-melting power plug issues also with the 5090 A space heater also has more thermal mass versus a video card power cable. NVMe or SATA-based? I'll assume the former. Samsung 990 Pro. WD Black SN850X. Crucial T500. SK Hynix P41 Platinum. Those would be your "Pro" or I would say, your boot-drive SSDs. Budget drives would be the WD Blue SN850 or the Samsung 990 EVO/EVO+. I would just stick to Gen 4 drives. Gen 3 if you can still find them. Don't waste your time with Gen 5 drives since you would, honestly, need a Ryzen 9000 or Core Ultra CPU+mobo combo to actually take advantage of Gen 5 speeds (and even then, you still wouldn't be able to fully take advantage of Gen 5 speeds). Yes, you can clone your drive to a bigger SSD as long as you are keeping the same CPU+mobo. Use Clonezilla to do a disk-to-disk copy. Then expand the partition to fill the drive. You could, technically, re-use the drive on a different CPU+mobo, BUT you will need to uninstall/reinstall drivers and that doesn't always work since there is a tendency to leave bits behind here and there during the uninstall-process so you would end up with an unstable system. If you are also replacing the CPU+mobo with a new SSD, reinstall Windows from scratch. Only way to be sure.
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    Some things I noticed in the reviews (glad a few pointed them out). Performance at 1080p and 1440p was not that spectacular vs the significant gain in 4k. Since the process node is the same as the 4090, I wonder if performance has plateau'd at those resolutions or Nvidia is capping performance at lower resolutions. Power spikes were mainly in the 700W range with some outliers reaching close to 800W. What worries me is with that much power, we might see burnt power plug issues as we did with the 4090. That's a lot of electricity being pulled through those wires. And the 12VHPWR was only designed for 600W-ish. The PCI slot only can pull 200W-ish and the rest comes from the power plug. Nvidia seems to be pulling an Intel and just pushing more electricity through that thing. It feels like a recipe for failure. If the FE has such a small cooler vs the AIB partners' over-engineered heatsinks and fans. We'll see more AIB-partner card reviews coming out in the weeks ahead but I wonder if it make a different to thermals (As of writing, I know Hardware Unboxed posted an AIB card review. I just haven't watched it yet).
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    Doom: The Dark Ages PC Specs. Yes...Ray-tracing is required. (spoiler'd for size)
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    The RTX 5090 is a halo product. You are either playing at 4k at 120+fps (240fps with Frame Gen ), you have money to burn or you are running AI models locally. Most sane folks will not be paying the $2000+ price tag. That's a whole computer in the cost of 1 GPU. Anyways, I'm still sifting through the reviews.
  10. azrael
    🤦‍♂️That just means my average jumps up to $15.36/month and you have to watch if the others follow suit.
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    MOD Note: In order to better diagnose issues, please add some specificity if you encounter issues. i.e. What device are you watching from? TV? Computer? Mobile device (phone or tablet)? Are you casting from a device? (from a mobile device, Roku, Apple TV, etc)? Are you using the Disney+ app with Hulu integration or the Hulu app directly? Is the app built in to your TV (i.e. Amazon Fire-based TV) Are CC subtitles generated from your TV or being generated from your casting device? Include timestamps if you are noticing an issue on a particular scene on a particular show. Etc. This will help others attempting to recreate the issue.
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    Mod note This thread is going on ice for a bit.
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    A few reasons. Consistency. IPS panels color reproduction and accuracy, viewing angles are very consistent. OLED can do this as well, but over time, the organic material in OLED will begin to degrade. Keep in mind I'm talking about hundreds of thousand hours of use (for the majority of folks, we're talking 3...5...maybe 6 years of usage). My workplace still has IPS monitors from 10+ years ago still in service. For productivity, long-term usage and ROI are taken into account. IPS will deliver on that. Text. OLED subpixel layouts are arranged in a way which has a tendency to cause fringing. This looks like the text on-screen has little hairs. As you get closer, the pixels get more jagged. As you get closer to where you can see the actual pixels, you'll see what causes that fringing. WOLED is a little better at this but that fringing becomes a blurring effect to smooth out the fringing. So you end up with a blurry-effect on text. Overtime, this will probably give you a headache. Not ideal if you are reading text all day. Long-term durability. We've talked about burn-in. Productivity usually involves lots of static images and text on-screen. OLED, while the effect can be mitigated, it will still occur over time. A single 8-hour day will not cause burn-in. Neither will a single 40-hour work week or work month. A year of constant usage? Maybe. 2-3 years? Possibly. Over time, the risk of burn-in increases. As long as you use anti-burn-in features, an OLED panel will likely last for years and years. It's not to say you cannot use OLED for productivity. But over time, the down-sides of OLED may impact your work. IPS doesn't have that problem.
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    Gaming IPS is 400 nits. My WFH monitor for my work laptop does a max of 350 nits. Both are still completely usable in my bright sunlight drench room even at 25% brightness. Bare minimum is 300 nits in a brightly lit indoor environment. 500 nits is definitely good enough, unless you are viewing HDR content. The best factor, though, is location. My back and monitors are not facing a window so, thankfully, I don't catch any glare. If you don't think its bright enough, consider rearranging furniture so you are indirectly getting light. Unless you are in a basement with no windows, in which case, move lights around as well as furniture. Or find something you to use as a divider to deflect some light.
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    I'd recommend watching/reading Monitors Unboxed or RTings OLED burn-in series. The jist is, OLED will suffer burn-in, eventually. The good news is, thanks to the various anti-burn-in methods (pixel shifting, screen savers, power timeouts, reduced brightness, more black, etc) you can extend the life of the panel to where it may not be a problem by the time you upgrade. First gen panels are very susceptible to burn-in. Newer panels are much more resilient. And unless you're torture testing your panel, the chances of burn-in are significantly lower as long as you enable anti-burn-in features. That being said, the conventional wisdom still applies, if you are mainly doing productivity, go with IPS or VA panels. Content consumption & gaming? Go OLED. Me? I'm sticking to IPS only because my productivity usage far outweighs my gaming and content consumption. Also DP 2.1 has cable signaling issues and I run 6ft cables due to my monitor arms (yes, I'm aware of HDMI 2.2). And seeing as I read a lot, text fringing would annoy me (but I hear that new 27" 4k 240Hz OLED panel that showed up at CES has really made this a non-issue).
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    FYI, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- already premiered in theaters in Japan. Just to reiterate, the movie is just a compilation of the first 3 episodes of the show, which will premiere later this year. There are a ton of spoilers, scans of the movie book handout which you can read them on r/Gundam.
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    Probably because it allows Nvidia to insert more frames for their multi-frame generation. It supposedly has less ghosting and shimmering, producing a better image vs CNN while maintaining FPS. An Nvidia rep stated that Transformer-modelling can lose up to 5% FPS vs CNN. The key take away is better image quality which is something frame gen has problems with (frame gen is still inserting faked frames in between actually generated frames from the game engine). TBD.
  18. azrael
    *Looks at tiny grey footnote* Yeah....wait for 3rd party benchmarks. Manufacturer-supplied benchmarks are worth the paper it's printed on. Oh wait, it's not printed on paper...or printed.
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    I'm probably game as well. But I'll wait closer to end of year so bugs can be worked out. I'm going to assume economy of scale and supply chain is the reason the initial model will not be OLED and that a OLED version will eventually make it's way down the road (mid-cycle upgrade). Again, scale and supply chain. If this maintains a $400-$500 price point, older, proven components that can be sourced cheaply are better than newer, more expensive components. Word is they've been demo-ing the device for the past couple of years behind closed doors at conventions. They've likely been building reliable supply chains to keep up with possible demand. Enough time has passed that the handheld market is now flooded. The original Switch was a leader in this before all the others came out of the woodwork. Judging by the leaked specs, I suspect ray-tracing, DLSS frame gen & super resolution will likely be required on games moving forward.
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    Yes, it’s from the Nintendo YT account. Nope, it’s not a fan render.
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    Ahem... 👇
  22. azrael
    I'll be spoiler-free in this. It was OK. I think the number of bad Star Wars shows has definitely tempered expectations quite a bit. Entertaining, but after a while some things start to wear out their welcome. The naivety of the children started to annoy me before the halfway point (yes I understand they are children...🙄and the target audience are kids) and started to drown out the show. At the same time, the stereotypical characters, the daydreamer Wim, the tough acting Fern, the know-it-all KB, and the 3rd wheel Neel; they were all getting annoying after a while. Jod's backstory...are we going to see more of these types of characters when we want to add Jedi into the mix? The ending felt lacking. Like...that's it? Are we expecting a Season 2 to explain what happens or we're just stopping right there? Overall: C+. 78pts.
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    The best thing to do is setup a profile on PCPartPicker and set price alerts. I doubt all deals will appear all during Memorial Day so you might want to start piecing it together as deals come out.
  24. azrael
    Game developers have been complaining for a while about the limited VRAM.
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    It's debatable. It's better than 8GB but considering AMD released the RX 7800XT (which is the closest price point card), a card released back in 2023, with 16GB, it feels like Nvidia is still under-loading their mid-range and lower cards. Even Intel's new B580, a budget card with respectable performance, comes with 12GB. That's why a few of us here are eyeing the 5070Ti since it feels like the lowest option that doesn't feel like Nvidia is spitting in our face.
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