Mac OS dropping 32 bit support made me realize just how bad the situation is. And that was over 5 years ago.

The fact that any software being made in 2025 is still 32 bit is ludicrous.

Games run faster on SteamOS with proton than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

FTFY. I hate all these articles that downplay the heavy lifting proton (and all the tools that make it up) are doing. But “Proton makes games run better” doesn’t get the same attention.

The themed icons are even worse

Over time I hate themed icons more and more. In like 2013 when I still used Android as my main phone I used to use them. But shortly after that I realized any customization I do myself is just… hideous? And ever since then I’ve hated all of it.

iOS recently added tinted and “dark” icons and they’re all horrendous.

https://www.xda-developers.com/material-you-monet-theme-engine/

Apparently it’s officially called material you, but that name is so stupid I think I’d prefer to call it by it’s code name too.

And ran on the xbox 360… which had 512 MB.

It’s a negative feedback loop.

The less time you can spend optimizing games the less you know how to optimize games. The less you know how to optimize games the more time it takes to optimize games. Optimizing games becomes too costly for management. Goto 10.

skamtebord

You could replace the caps if you wanted to keep that board around. Through hole caps are SUPER easy to replace. Just spend some time identifying the specs of all of the blown ones. The replace all of them (including the non blown ones) as long as they’re all the same manufacturer. I used to do this to old machines and it’s honestly quite fun.

Otherwise if you wanted a retro machine I think those machines are still getting thrown out. But maybe they’ve already reached the bottom of their value curve and are starting to go up. I’ve seen some whack ass prices.

1. Yes ATX is a standard. That said airflow and build ability have dramatically changed in the last 20 years. I would probably find a new one.

2. Yes ATX is a standard.

3. Depending on what you’re going for it would be cheaper to buy just a whole ass PC. Used office PCs or ancient gamer computers can be pretty cheap.

Honestly I’d keep it for playing older games if that’s your jam. Then find something new because you wouldn’t want to reuse almost any of it.

Our local down the street phone building businesses?

https://www.theverge.com/news/685738/google-pixel-6a-battery-overheating-update

With a good mounting mechanism that’s normally not a problem.

But between Intels classic plastic clips that never go in, and AMD’s unbendable steel beam that never wants to clip It’s pretty fucking dangerous for both you and the components.

Noctua’s mounting system is pretty good. It’s a little awkward aiming the screws into position but MUCH easier than almost any other system I’ve used.

less dust accumulation during PC assembly.

Is that really that much of a problem?

Don’t worry guys, they’re serious about it this time.

They’re totally not going to do something to piss off everyone developing games for them in like 6 months.

The performance gains are from all the tweaks people have done to proton to fix the games. Running regular programs through wine will only be slower.

That’s the magic of proton, and all of the tools that make it work.

DXVK alone is incredible.

Sapphire has been building/designing their reference cards for a long ass time.

AMD’s website has a picture of what I assume is the reference 9070 and sapphires pulse looks pretty different.

I wish they’d bring back the reference cards. They look so much better than the aftermarket ones, even if the coolers are usually some of the worst.

AMD and Intel both need to be launching FEs and pushing the price down and making these board partners look bad.

They do.

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-B580-Limited-Graphics-Card/dp/B0DPM9923G

Looks like the 9070 might not have a reference design card, but previous gens you used to be able to buy a reference design directly from AMD.

Uh, why?

That’s like the opposite of what I try to do with my purchases. I won’t buy something unless I’ve wanted it for a while (at least a week) that way if I do buy it, I know it’s something I truly want. VS if I impulse buy it I might not ever get around to it.

Well the alternative is PC gaming, and building a competitive PC aint cheap. I remember on launch people were building computers with similar performance to the xbone/ps4. But now that entry level dGPUs aren’t a thing, and even mid range GPUs are expensive you get fucked either way.

The PS5 is at least powerful on launch. The 4 was on par with like a regular APU.

TBH I’m kinda surprised the game doesn’t run maxed out without problems. I know the IGPU wasn’t the greatest back then, but it wasn’t that bad.

My current laptop has a 96 eu iris Xe IGPU and it runs a LOT of games very well.

Does anyone say it looks better than native? Or do they just accept the lower resolution + scaling is “good enough”.

That said I hate it. Give me perfect integer scaling or nothing at all.

I had no idea they were even still around at all.

Because you’re not supposed to.

That’s the biggest reason I went with a proart board instead of any other gaming board. It had all the features I want, but (almost) none of the gamer cringe.

At least this board has actual 10gig Ethernet unlike their other ROG board I was looking at that only had Realtek 5 gig for some unholy reason. No board costing almost $500 should be afflicted with Realtek anything, but only 5 gig?

Dude it’s a fucking port on a cell phone, not the rise of fascism. Chill out.

And the process of dealing with it sucks ass. You’re probably more likely to buy at least one second set of joycons while you wait forever for them to replace your own.

A Deck has two touchpads that work as mice.

And they suck trying to use them for an FPS.

Is it more confusing than dealing with splitscreen/dual screen android? Two distinct devices sounds easier to me honestly.

On Windows or Linux? I don’t have this issue on either my desktop or my laptop, nor do I know of anyone else with that problem.

It doesn’t take much of a CPU to run the base windows. Without Windows unloading stuff it uses less than 4 gigs of ram.

If the device is capable of running remotely modern games it’s capable of running them on windows just fine. Microsofts garbage doesn’t actually use that much resources vs a modern full fat linux distro.

The pi 5 is a lot more powerful than you’d expect. At least when cooled properly.

I wouldn’t expect a great experience, but as the article says: Older games (like 10-15 years ago) and web games should work ok.

This is definitely more of a because you can, than a primary computing experience.

In stock, but not at the right price. MSRP is $250. The cards I’m seeing are $350 and up.

For $250 it’s a good card. For $350 not so much.

It should still be better. Or at least cheaper.

… what?

We should reiterate that this warning is to OEMs only, not end users or corporations.

Who is buying a new 10th Gen. or older machine at this point?

This has nothing to do with steam (as much as you can separate the two). Even through Lutris it Proton work. Even plain wine was janky but technically worked.

Windows 10 has had more or less all of the same spyware backported to it.

People said the same shit with windows 10 vs 7/8. I swear every other update is the same cope over and over again.

Steam does, but that doesn’t necessarily mean your games will. I spent like an entire day getting comfortable and customizing some distro to finally fit my liking, only to later on realize that proton just doesn’t fucking work for shit on it.

They just don’t make that big of a difference.

The 40 series was basically the exact opposite of this. The lower down the stack the worse the per generation gains got. With the lower end cards sometimes seeing regressions because of the lack of memory bandwidth/capacity.