GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

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Slav Power said:
The attitude changes quickly once you buy a 4TB hard drive, only to see that you have a measly 3.63TB of space available. In reality it's 3.63TiB, but since Microsoft refused to be normal and call it that, you still have people getting confused, thinking they get scammed whenever they get a new drive, not to mention the lawsuits targeted both towards Microsoft and drive manufacturers over it. Over a single letter.
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Yeah that's another reason they should just change the damn units. But there's probably some legacy shitcode somewhere that relies on the prefixes being in binary somewhere.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Micro Center chads can get an M4 Mac Mini for $450
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That is an absurdly fucking good deal for that much computer.

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The last time I paid attention to Lip Service, he wanted to keep Intel Foundry in-house after all the rampant speculation of it being sold off, TSMC joint venture, etc. However, I think he might end up axing Pat's baby: discrete gaming GPUs.
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If what we've heard about 18A and 14A is true, they'd be retarded to sell it off. TSMC has gotten a little complacent with the guaranteed Apple business and this is really the sort of perfect storm where Intel can credibly leapfrog them.

Get the rope Macaulay! said:
crazy how Intel was just stuck on 14nm for a decade,
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This is what happens when you let MBA lizard people run your technology company - they sit on their balls and divert R&D money into dividends and boondoggles like optane and buying Altera.
 
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Road Work Ahead said:
No, the drive makers should stop jewing us and give us drives that actually have the listed capacity.
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They do. The capacities are listed in TB, which is 10^12 bytes. It's the operating system that is reporting sizes in binary prefixes, which follows the table The Ugly One posted earlier. This isn't even the correct notation. Binary prefixes are supposed to be labeled KiB, MiB, etc. Consumers should not be subjected to obscure binary math in order to get a sense of data sizes.

When you hear someone say 'Gigabit Ethernet', it literally is 10^9 bits. It's not a binary prefix. Signaling never needed to bother with binary prefixes
 
I still don't understand the appeal of real time Ray Tracing, unless you're just taking screenshots. Barring the $2,000 90 series cards, you're just going to get your frame times tripled, turning your 144Hz monitor into a 60Hz one. I've never encountered a feature so great that I wanted to cut my FPS by at least in half.
 
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The Big A said:
I still don't understand the appeal of real time Ray Tracing, unless you're just taking screenshots. Barring the $2,000 90 series cards, you're just going to get your frame times tripled, turning your 144Hz monitor into a 60Hz one. I've never encountered a feature so great that I wanted to cut my FPS by at least in half.
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It's 2025. Even $500 cards can easily hit ~100 fps with ray tracing at 1440p:
 
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George Lucas said:
Consumers should not be subjected to obscure binary math in order to get a sense of data sizes.
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The difference between 1000 and 1024 is 2.4%. So you should have a decent intuition about data size without whipping out a calculator and doing logarithms. When is the last time you actually cared about file size down to the byte, anyway?
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I've never encountered a feature so great that I wanted to cut my FPS by at least in half.
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Running a game at 1440p instead of 1080p cuts the frame rate by almost half.
 
I know this isnt strictly CPU/GPU related but even since I got a halfway decent pc in 2020, right before Covid hit, then upgrading the gpu to a complete steal of a deal in a refurbished 3070ti, I started to notice something that wasn't in the ps3/xbox360 era is this smearing/bluriness of graphics, specially in motion, where moving objects or characters leave this ugly trail behind them. Now before this, the last time I was playing video games regularly was in like 2004-2005 so I thought it was my hardware that wasn't strong enough (which is technically true).

So after 4-5 years I've realized that this is just the new normal, if you don't want to deal with bluriness and ghosting, the only solution really is upping the resolution, even at 1440p some games are so blurry it feels like youre playing a youtube video at 240p or something. From what I've seen, you can maybe try an upscaler to try and reduce the bluriness but there's no filter, no mod, no solution to this problem because its an estructural issue, you either take the hit in performance and play the game at 4k in some cases, or enjoy a blurry mess. Is this true or am I going mad?
 
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Armor King said:
I know this isnt strictly CPU/GPU related but even since I got a halfway decent pc in 2020, right before Covid hit, then upgrading the gpu to a complete steal of a deal in a refurbished 3070ti, I started to notice something that wasn't in the ps3/xbox360 era is this smearing/bluriness of graphics, specially in motion, where moving objects or characters leave this ugly trail behind them. Now before this, the last time I was playing video games regularly was in like 2004-2005 so I thought it was my hardware that wasn't strong enough (which is technically true).

So after 4-5 years I've realized that this is just the new normal, if you don't want to deal with bluriness and ghosting, the only solution really is upping the resolution, even at 1440p some guys are so blurry it feels like youre playing a youtube video at 240p or something. From what I've seen, you can maybe try an upscaler to try and reduce the bluriness but there's no filter, no mod, no solution to this problem because its an estructural issue, you either take the hit in performance and play the game at 4k in some cases, or enjoy a blurry mess. Is this true or am I going mad?
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I don't think I've seen the exact issues you're describing, but first thing I do in a newly installed game is look for Motion Blur, DoF and TAA in settings and disable them. Maybe look up config files (I've never encountered this, but allegedly some newer games don't give you those options).

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So after 4-5 years I've realized that this is just the new normal, if you don't want to deal with bluriness and ghosting, the only solution really is upping the resolution, even at 1440p some guys are so blurry it feels like youre playing a youtube video at 240p or something.
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Two possible causes. One is motion blur. Tons of PS3-era games (and PS2 games for that matter) used motion blur to compensate for running at 30 fps, and it stuck around. If the game is using motion blur, the only way to eliminate it is to turn it off in the settings, and that's only if the game allows it.

TAA is an anti-aliasing technique that uses the previous frame and the current frame's pixels to arrive at a current color. It results more ghosting artifacts the lower your frame rate is. Sometimes you can disable it, but if you can't, the only solution is to turn down various settings until your frame rate is high enough to eliminate the ghosting. Personally, I don't see much to complain about at 75 fps or so, but YMMV.

The reason nearly all games use TAA now is they also nearly all use deferred shading, which doesn't work with traditional anti-aliasing techniques.

Oh, and make sure your monitor isn't shit.
 
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I migh have to install RDR2 which is probably the biggest culprit of this and maybe take a few short videos. This only happens with newer games tho, I've played Yakuza 0 to 5 and by now those games are so old you can just crank it to 4K and everything looks super sharp, the problems really start with 6 onwards, with the new engine, you start seeing stuff like weird checkerboard patterns in hair, ghosting in some objects, specially vegetation and such, on the hardware side I have a ryzen 7 3800x and a 3070ti, with a decent 164 hz monitor (can't remember how big I'll have to look) so while not a super computer it should have more than enough juice.

I'm not that interested in many new games tho, the most I play regularly that have come out in the last 2-3 years are Tekken 8 and Helldivers 2, sometimes I scratch my Warhammer itch with Vermintide 2, Darktide and Space Marine 2. They're all sorta on a spectrum of bluriness and ghosting but Tekken 8 may be the worst offender, the stages with the big screens on the background that are projecting the fight have so much ghosting you can barely see the characters.
 
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Speaking of motherboards. Been dealing with random reboots and lockups on my x470 / Ryzen 1700x combo that's super old now. Snagged a cheap used 3900x to replace the 1700x with, if that doesn't solve the issue I will replace the mobo too. Who is making decent x570 chipset boards? Don't give a shit about WiFi on the board. Just want a reliable board with little compromises to carry me to the end of the am4 socket. Going in an ATX sized case too.

Not sure if it matters but I also plan to slap a BeQuiet cooler on there I have with two fans in push pull. I lived thru the days of putting water blocks on car radiators out the window in Winter to try and hit a ghz, I like the simplicity of an air cooler but if I must go with a AIO, I'll try and figure something out. Checked my case and I have room in front for a 360 three fan radiator if need be. Have a am4 water block and random water cooling bits if I reaaaaly must go that route.
 
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Last time I've checked, ASRock & Gigabyte have decent value on Amazon for its features on their X570 motherboards. It's getting harder everyday to get a new X570 board of course, unless you're happy with used parts.

According to PCPartPicker these are the cheapest you either go for:

Personally if I were to choose, I'd pick the latter, had good experience with Gigabyte in the past since the 775 era.

EDIT: These do have a chipset fan and apparently people had bad experiences with noise once they die out, be prepared to replace them down the track if you can't put up with it. I think these should last once you decide to move on.
 
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Speaking of motherboards. Been dealing with random reboots and lockups on my x470 / Ryzen 1700x combo that's super old now. Snagged a cheap used 3900x to replace the 1700x with, if that doesn't solve the issue I will replace the mobo too. Who is making decent x570 chipset boards? Don't give a shit about WiFi on the board. Just want a reliable board with little compromises to carry me to the end of the am4 socket. Going in an ATX sized case too.

Not sure if it matters but I also plan to slap a BeQuiet cooler on there I have with two fans in push pull. I lived thru the days of putting water blocks on car radiators out the window in Winter to try and hit a ghz, I like the simplicity of an air cooler but if I must go with a AIO, I'll try and figure something out. Checked my case and I have room in front for a 360 three fan radiator if need be. Have a am4 water block and random water cooling bits if I reaaaaly must go that route.
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MSI or ASUS you can get the for 150 on ebay if you're i n the US
 
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Speaking of motherboards. Been dealing with random reboots and lockups on my x470 / Ryzen 1700x combo that's super old now. Snagged a cheap used 3900x to replace the 1700x with, if that doesn't solve the issue I will replace the mobo too. Who is making decent x570 chipset boards? Don't give a shit about WiFi on the board. Just want a reliable board with little compromises to carry me to the end of the am4 socket. Going in an ATX sized case too.

Not sure if it matters but I also plan to slap a BeQuiet cooler on there I have with two fans in push pull. I lived thru the days of putting water blocks on car radiators out the window in Winter to try and hit a ghz, I like the simplicity of an air cooler but if I must go with a AIO, I'll try and figure something out. Checked my case and I have room in front for a 360 three fan radiator if need be. Have a am4 water block and random water cooling bits if I reaaaaly must go that route.
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Just don't buy a Gigabyte board. At least on AM4 I had nothing but troubles with them. MSI and ASUS have been good (touch wood) for me so far, like @Stratos Sphere said.
 
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Armor King said:
I migh have to install RDR2 which is probably the biggest culprit of this and maybe take a few short videos. This only happens with newer games tho, I've played Yakuza 0 to 5 and by now those games are so old you can just crank it to 4K and everything looks super sharp, the problems really start with 6 onwards, with the new engine, you start seeing stuff like weird checkerboard patterns in hair, ghosting in some objects, specially vegetation and such, on the hardware side I have a ryzen 7 3800x and a 3070ti, with a decent 164 hz monitor (can't remember how big I'll have to look) so while not a super computer it should have more than enough juice.

I'm not that interested in many new games tho, the most I play regularly that have come out in the last 2-3 years are Tekken 8 and Helldivers 2, sometimes I scratch my Warhammer itch with Vermintide 2, Darktide and Space Marine 2. They're all sorta on a spectrum of bluriness and ghosting but Tekken 8 may be the worst offender, the stages with the big screens on the background that are projecting the fight have so much ghosting you can barely see the characters.
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Some of this sounds like issues with Japanese Playstation ports, which have always been notoriously janky. First, verify none of these games are using FSR by default. With any of those Japanese games developed for the PS5, I wouldn't put it past them to not bother checking. Second, verify all those games are hitting at least 60 fps. The NVIDIA control panel has an overlay you can add to any game to check the frame rate. While the 3070 Ti is a very good GPU, most games can still be cranked up to the point where it's not hitting high frame rates.
 
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