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  1. azrael
    Seeing that we're gonna be playing 'Idol for the next 6-12 months, this thread will stay open for a week before going into hibernation. It would be interesting if there was audience participation this time around but that won't happen. *sets timer*
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    Mod note: As with the general toy just-purchased toy thread, new rules will be applied here: 1). Maximum uploads of 3 pictures of a toy even if you bought two. That means if you bought High Metal VF-19 Custom Fire Valkyrie, you can post a combination of boxed and opened pics of up to three here. Anymore than three will get the post deleted. If you bought another copy of the same toy that does not constitute as a different toy and does not earn you three new photos. The moderation team considers that spamming and will be deleted. Text link to an external photo gallery if you have more than three pictures to share. 2). Image size: Height maximum per toy will now be set to 2400pixels for 3 pictures combined. That means one high resolution picture at 2400pixels or three decent resolution picture of 800pixels each. Choose your picture(s) wisely. Less is more.
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    With more AAA games requiring RT for even some minor scene rendering, this is where I'm in agreement with you; paying the Nvidia-tax for a 5070ti is probably going to be worth it. 🤷‍♂️ Even if the RX 9070s are price/performance competitive, AMD is still playing catch-up to Nvidia's RT, upscaling & frame gen performance. Nvidia learned their lesson when the 40-series came out. They will stop producing the previous version when an announcement is coming; causing the prices to go up as supply dries up on the previous versions. The 5070 is due out on March 5th....OOOOOh you mean when there will be actual stock in stores and not a paper launch.....May/June is a reasonable timeframe. The 5060 will probably show up this summer. I mean actual stock in stores. 😝 Assuming they corrected the defective GPUs at the fab already.
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    I'm pretty sure Nvidia doesn't care about lowering prices.
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    -2% 4K performance +2% 4K performance if OCed 🤨That's practically margin-of-error numbers there....
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    AMD will never top Nvidia's RT and DLSS performance. Will it be better than AMD's previous generation? Hopefully. As for pricing...🤞The hope is to get equal or better performance at that price vs the -70-class cards. It's possible the pricing at Microcenter is true since AIBs will add a $50-100 charge on top of MSRP. Unfortunately, we can only wait and see.
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    Hell, it's been reported that Kevin Feige is going to, EVENTUALLY, step down from Marvel Studios for the last few years now. Has he told HR and the execs he's actually going to do it? No. Then it's not happening, YET.
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    This is why posting a rumors/maybes/I-heard.../pre-trailer/etc on our forum may not be beneficial. The ‘Star Wars’ chief is staying on at Disney, despite a report that she’s leaving. At least for now (CNN)
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    AMD (and Nvidia before RTX) have been know to alter the price, sometimes, right up to the day before their announcements so let's not jump on this yet.
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    We don't know. Disney is in a low point with their productions. They haven't had a real knock-it-out-of-the park hit since Avengers: Endgame. They've had hits, but they have not been scoring with home runs for a few years now.
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    This has been happening with video for a while. This is why many want the blu-ray discs. 'Surprised it took this long to hit books. Guess y'all better spend the money to buy the physical book.
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    Anybody getting Westworld (2016) vibes from those things? *looks at YT comments*. Yep I'm not the only one. It's hard to not be able to escape the "AI blitz in business"-trend. The question is what business are you in where human written nuance appears?
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    Mod note: We have an automotive thread for car talk. This thread is for computers and electronics. Also, there's no point in posting launch day stock. They'll all be sold out then scalped. I literally see 5070ti's on ebay with pictures of the cards taken from people's cars.
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    And that's the problem. The Asus Prime (and even this might be in question) and the Gigabyte Windforce SFF are the only ones listed at MSRP. After that, you're paying WAY above the 5070ti's price/performance belt. Unless the laptop 5070ti is undervolted, a G14's chassis would probably just barely be able to keep it cool. (I think the rule of thumb is the current gen laptop Nvidia GPU is equivalent to the previous gen's desktop, performance-wise). I hear the new Ryzen AI laptop chips are actually good 👍...if you can find them... 😔🙄
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    I haven't watched any of the reviews yet but I did see Jayz2C's earlier vid about the "leaked" Microcenter and Best Buy MSRP launch prices. Yeah...🤦‍♂️ Don't be hold your breath 'sweetie... For price to performance...not really. Seeing as there is only 1 card that is even close to MSRP with the highest being near the 5080 FE pricing, is it really a better value?
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    I'm 99% sure I wasn't the only one who could hear a voice in the back of their head screaming, "COUSIN!" and a "Yes, chef" upon seeing Ben Grimm in the kitchen. 🤭 At least they're reinforcing the "family" of Marvel's first family.
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    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).
  24. azrael
    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.
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