Since I am not from the us or ever been there, I do have a question: are there people that truly believe in this bullshit?

I watched hub review and this one, not sure what to make of this. Some games is actually quite alright, some it gets heavily stomped. In general, price sounds OK but depends how much they cost in the end on the stores. For all intends and purposes, if the price is met then its in a much better showing than the 5070 and 5070ti for the price point. If the price goes down eventually for the 50 series (which over time, should) then it becomes a bit more difficult to choose this over the 5070ti (vram capacity is still a shit show at this price for nvidia no matter what).

Nvidia DESERVES to be fleeced after the mind blowing stupid marketing saying 5070=4090. I did not see a single person that fell for that. And even with that out, the card is meh at best.

What I see in general in the indie scene people are much more willing to experiment with different concepts than regular AAA. For that alone I think is always a good idea to check the indie section. But I am also aware since there is a lot of volume, there is also a lot of straight up shovelware, which makes it difficult to navigate. By people talking about it, we can have more visibility as a group to see what is actually good and what is not from such a big selection.

That is for sure true. And this variance that creates the “binning lottery” people talk about (and why there is some people that will pay premium for specific high binned parts)

So in this case, the rop were not detected because of firmware? Strange, but at least would be solvable. Let’s see if this situation for the 5090 is the same

If the spec does not follow the expectations, I assume they have to recall those. Right? If not, someone is asking for an official recall and get their rears destroyed.

There is a lot to be said about the 50 series so far:

• reviewers by en large are extremely fed up with this situation (msrp is a value, street value is way more inflated. This skews a lot the review process)
• people simply cannot get them (mostly scalpers for now I would say)
• if we check in a vacuum the msrp and performance between 40 and 50 series, in the same segment is not an impressive uplift
• the 5090 PCB is a massive fiasco (if you do not know what the problem is, check buildzoid video on the 12x6 connector and PCB issue). And by the looks of it, 5080 might suffer the same

My opinion regarding the pricing issue is going to be decided in the next months. If people cave for scalpers or pre scalper prices, price anchoring will be in full effect for next release. If people as a collective get a back bone and don’t cave in, prices will have to be more normal than this nonsense. Still the connector issue for 5090 really needs to be addressed in an official capacity for nvidia to do something about it.

This is true not everyone out there has the capability to go out and have something like Linux, or the best version of windows 10 on their machines. But most people here are either knowledgeable enough, or have enough patience to try something like Linux out. If you know people that are in this position with their current machines from windows 10 to 11,and are not tech savvy, help them, and try not to be patronizing. Help them out by installing something like mint or Ubuntu and walk with them on the system, as many times as needed. If they cannot get used to it or find something that simply won’t work, don’t try to force Linux on them. Just find the best windows 10 version and install it. At some point if something doesn’t work anymore on windows 10 and they want to keep the machine, they will reach out to try Linux again, or, they will try to sell the machine they cannot operate with anymore (or give away, depending on the situation). Either way, help people out but don’t be abrasive if things do not work out the way you wanted.

You are not wrong here. However, this is a double edged sword. By running windows 10 after a good while (let’s say, after 1 year of eol) you are risking for malware that is going to be non patched on windows 10. Of course, if you use the PC mostly for gaming and get stuff mostly from the usual places, I really doubt you get anything. If you work with documents however with macros and stuff, or you might have questionable internet hygiene or foreign external devices like usb on a frequent basis, do not get close to an out of date system

I have to say, in general this doesn’t happen too often. But if you are afraid of this scenario specifically, my advise is either use a separate partition for the home folder (this is where all user installed things go, as well downloads, documents and pictures by default) and make a backup in some other drive with something like timeshift, or use something a bit more advanced namely immutable distro. I will give a bit of advise here: immutable distros can be extremely unintuitive, so if you want to try and understand it, go for a VM and take a weekend playing around. For gaming, bazzite comes to mind for this specific case.

That is far the only blunder we should account for. I still remember that:

• they basically ruined NBA games for people that like that stuff (I don’t play, but making something like that and be the NBA slot machine instead is straight up terrible)
• they sent lawyers to people’s homes to bully and hand over seize and desist letters
• they went several times after modders that basically made a WAY better job than 2k slop (several of those times for GTA modders)
• and the list goes on

Frankly I don’t really play anything where 2k, Activision, ubisoft and ea touches (and I am sure my list is not complete. Also, anything denuvo can go take a hike). They all deserve to go under. I just wonder sometimes people getting excited to work on projects on these places to be squashed by the realities of “number go up” from these soul suckers.

You are most probably right. We have seen several times already making a lead was not hard, they just decided not to. I mean at this point “amd never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity” is an absolute meme, and quite frankly, correct

Frankly? I can’t tell. It looks like they are constantly trying to get away with the most egregious option every time and expect to be “the lesser of 2 evils”

This is also a good point. Since nvidia made an absolute colossal paper launch, amd has to gain to go the other direction

OK AMD, you have the cards, you know where nvidia falls in the market with the other cards (or have very accurate expectations), now price this decently from day 1, no exceptions

Not sure if in your area is a thing, but a 4090 second hand at a decent price should do it

For the people looking to upgrade: always check first the used market in your area. It is quite obvious for now the best thing to do is just try to get 40 series from the drones that must have the 50 series

Yep, that is why I referenced jelly time. From what I understood from most people out there, the latest exclusive to 5000 series frames gen feels like walking in gelatin, because it has that much smearing

This gen is going to be known for 2 things:

• jelly time
• the succession of the tis (or ties, like the other presentation)

How is the Intel arc treating you op? Is it actually good for general purpose nowadays, or still a lot in beta phase?

Safe from your privacy of course. How else can they know what are you playing at all times

As usual, draw conclusions with proper 3rd party benchmarks. Still, I do expect this is the decent CPU from this gen for gaming

So… Torrenting security patches will be a thing? That would be a bizarre usage of torrents I have to say

For me feels someone is chasing a KPI on PSN users that, quite frankly, gives no one but Sony executives satisfaction on bigger number = better number. Steam on that sense made the correct decision to give back the money on people that cannot play a game anymore because of a future requirement (as mentioned by op, not everywhere psn exists). But for me, even if psn is available, you should be able to refuse to further engage on a game based on a future requirement like this and get the money back (same applies if for instance a game all of a sudden has something like denuvo).

So my take away of this is: please, get rid of kpis, it’s about time we learn to get away from hard metrics that can be cheated