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    I know we've talked a bit about Nvidia, but the AMD rumor mill suggests their mid-range card is performing better than expected and the price point is solid there, too. I picked up a 7900xt because of the ram, raster performance, and I got a killer price on it from Microcenter. I can personally confirm the card is phenomenal in all of my resolutions and works wonderful in the EGPU. If the rumors hold true on the new AMD card I may use their trade-up program. Eager to see real benchmarks done by some of the more ruthless and critical forums.
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    Coolest thing I've seen of the new stuff are the watercolors with the LCDs built right into the block. Same with fans. When I overclocked my PCs I would run all the stats for monitoring to my logitech device screens whether on my KB or G13 so I could monitor health. Now I could put all the stats on the fan and cooler displays. OCing used to be an art/science. Now you push button like on the 186dx and OC, lol. I think those LCDs have utility. RGB stuff is kinda dumb unless you can make a cooler look like warp coils.
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    I've been trying to get better educated on the frame gen bit and I will say aside from micro artifacts and some shenanigans, frame generation is pretty amazing. However it's still sleight of hand software magic to me. There was a video posted about a year ago where a reviewer extracted all the frame gen frames and put the side by side actual frames in a spider man game and it makes a compelling argument for the AI generated frames. I watched another video of someone streaming the new Indiana Jones game on a 16 gig card. About 10 minutes in frames tanked to 20 or less. The cause was the card running out of VRAM. No need to run around with hair on fire yet, because the reviewer failed to turn off the highest quality texture setting when transitioning from a lower resolution test to a higher one. However, it lends strength to 16 gigs just not being enough especially if you want the best textures and highest refresh rate. In computer terms I'm a generational dinosaur although I can still build with the best today :P. My son's Christmas upgrade is just obnoxiously fast and at a budget. My other twin son's EGPU upgrade built off the remnants of his brother's old PC is spectacular, too. We scored an LG 34" 144hz monitor for 200 bucks (down from 500) at microcenter for him, too. One of the best PC deals in a while there. Anyways, his Ally X + rx6700 hand-me down has Space Marine 2 running maxed out on his new monitor. I'm old man rambling... Which brings me back to my criticism of frame gen... Maybe I'm just sitting in my rocking chair on the porch griping about the "good old days," while not giving this new tech a fair shake. I kinda wish we were back in the ATI 9700/9800 pro era. That was such a good time... When I saw AMD adopted a 9000-series number for what feels like a least breath GPU release something twisted a little inside :(.
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    Spectacular
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    Lol, slippery slope, but I too like to live dangerously /Austin Powers.
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    Gotta figure out how to do that with my phone then. I'll do my best and if I can't figure it out I'll stop posting. This work better?
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    I've been waiting for this one a while... Pose + Baldios. Box is bigger than I anticipated and gorgeous. Deleted.
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    Yup, this is why I'm not a fan of this push into frame generation - this should be a value feature or for specific applications that can benefit from it. If you're dropping two grand or more (these prices are pre-tariff I imagine) then you should get that kind of performance. I think Nvidia is just making up for the 1080ti awesomeness. That was an awesome crazy value.
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    5070ti looks like the sweet spot. We'll see what partners do with it. I think this is an underwhelming release because the focus wasn't on raw performance increase, but frame generation magic. I don't think it really matters how they get there though so long as the performance is seen by the user. Only the high-end processors for the handheld market are real evolutions. We're going to see alot of frame gen shenanigans there, but expecting that for handhelds. I'm paying attention to what the Switch 2 is doing with DLSS. I think the bump in performance for the handheld PCs is most relevant, especially with Thunderbolt 5. My Ally X + EGPU has just gotten better and better with driver updates.
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    Thanks man! I have a pretty severe backlog, so it may be a while. I also want to tweak the color pallette to better fit the concept design for the R-104 White Requiem from Final 2. It never made it in-game, but the original concept had a different tone of white with whispy features like a wedding dress or maybe even an angel? I think this metal heart is an awesome base for the White Requiem.
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    OK. I'm going to build this.
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    Shmup tribute shelf is complete in its current stage - waiting for premium models of Raiden, Ikaruga, Raystorm, and a few more niche ones that will likely never be releases aside from Gacha Ball models and I can't seem to find those. Maybe I'll build them with Legos like my Endymion (too big to fit with these, so bonus pic of him on a separate shelf.
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    This one took a really long journey, but glad it's here... Basically a premium finish version of Plums Vic Viper from the original Gradius games.
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    Ladypool is awesome - get the whole family!
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    In Crocodile Dundee voice @ all prior VF weapons... "That's not a Gunpod... THIS is a Gunpod." It's giving me Aliens smart gun + A10 Warthog gatling gun vibes.
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