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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 25, 2023 18:21:07 GMT
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Post by Hanimalle on Aug 25, 2023 18:29:41 GMT
After five and a half years of loyal service, my aging MSI monitor decided it no longer wanted to be a part of this world by becoming really difficult to turn on. I had to pull the power cable and put it back in dozens of times before it came back to life. As you can imagine that quickly became tedious.
I'm somewhat relieved that it's my monitor rather than my graphics card that was responsible because that would have been so much more expensive to replace. Anyway, the monitor I've bought after spending a significant amount of time reading reviews and comparing prices is an Asus VG27AQ.
It's not necessarily much of an improvement over my previous screen (same size and resolution but with some extra bells and whistles such as g-sync) and I haven't yet had the time to fully test it in games but I'm satisfied with it so far.
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Post by zephro on Aug 25, 2023 22:43:56 GMT
That was my understanding from the little I've seen too. Using the AI for denoising. I feel that quite a lot of people might get overly excited about this giving them a big performance boosts and then complain when it makes negliable difference on their 20-series card. As someone already mentioned, using the DLSS name isn't helping here. It's kinda funny to me how performance has come to mean FPS in common parlance. As I'd always take it to be some balance of quality, quantity and FPS.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Aug 29, 2023 8:20:32 GMT
Yesterday’s DF video is a good one. Lots of new fsr/dlss tech on the way that looks cool.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 29, 2023 11:14:04 GMT
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Post by barchetta on Aug 29, 2023 12:29:49 GMT
Still hacking around various sites and bouncing from a budget mobo to a mid/upper tier as my mood (and wallet) takes me...
Seems PCIe5 for gfx cards is some way off and current PCIe4 will be good for a good time yet, but does PCIe5 for M2 NVMe make more sense to consider in anew build?
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Post by dfunked on Aug 29, 2023 12:33:45 GMT
Id say just start off with a decent gen 4 drive like the SN850X. You're unlikely to notice the speed difference unless you're comparing benchmarks.
It might come into its own with directstorage, but that's still fairly unproven. I guess best bit of future proofing you could do is get a board that supports gen 5 drives, so you can always drop one in later on when they're a reasonable price.
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Post by stixxuk on Aug 29, 2023 19:13:33 GMT
The DLSS/FSR thing is really drawing me in. Nvidia always a few steps ahead but AMD are at least giving chase. Can they come up with some kind of ray tracing thing to challenge DLSS 3.5?
If it weren't for the ridiculous prices both side I'd call AMD the people's brand since most of their tech works on all GPUs including consoles and Steam deck. That's worth some goodwill for sure!
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 30, 2023 12:53:02 GMT
It would be nice not to have the cable jammed between the GPU and the inside of the case.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 31, 2023 15:44:21 GMT
Forgot to link some videeeoooohs. I expect a rebrand or something coming soon because DLSS the featureset is a mishmash of fuckery and support behind numbers and I think it's because they realised that DLSS as a term seemed to be catching on. Fuck knows why they didn't just just go with DLSS, DLFG and DLRR. They've did it with DLAA. DLSS 2.5 is the upscaler and works on all rtx cards, only .5 versions left before it's climbing inside DLSS 3s ass DLSS 3 is the framegen and only works (officially) on 40x series cards DLSS 3.5 is ray reconstruction and again works on all rtx cards as it's part of the DLSS 2.x pipeline. <snip!> good sir!
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Post by azurelas on Sept 3, 2023 14:47:17 GMT
I'm waiting for the 7800XT but DLSS 3.5 looks too good. At this point I'm praying for decent Black Friday/Cyber Monday offers before I bite the bullet.
Say what you want about Nvidia (and hate them all you like) but their software-hardware implementation is just too good. And they even have better efficiency to boot.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 3, 2023 15:22:35 GMT
I'm waiting for the 7800XT but DLSS 3.5 looks too good. At this point I'm praying for decent Black Friday/Cyber Monday offers before I bite the bullet. Say what you want about Nvidia (and hate them all you like) but their software-hardware implementation is just too good. And they even have better efficiency to boot. yeah this kinda shows a bit in starfield. I think it's safe to say that any optimisations have been weighted towards AMD so there is no wonder there is no DLSS 3. A CPU heavy game like this just highlights it benefits and would throw a lot of shade on radeon.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 3, 2023 15:28:14 GMT
Not 100% sure that DLSS is going to do much for a cpu limited game though, unless you mean frame generation?
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 3, 2023 16:33:15 GMT
Yeah that's why I put DLSS 3 because the framegen but. 2.5 is upscale and 3.5 is the new ray stuff
See it's con-fucking-fusing and you're an 'enthusiast'
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 3, 2023 18:13:00 GMT
Heh yeah. Still, FSR3 should do frame generation too, I think they’ll implement that first as I think that would work on the xbox as well.
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Post by Phattso on Sept 4, 2023 3:22:21 GMT
Is Starfield considered to be CPU limited? On my AMD 5800HX with a mobile 3080 it sits at 35% CPU utilisation and 98% GPU. That’s 1440p being upscaled to 4K by the awful FSR2.
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Post by captbirdseye on Sept 4, 2023 7:29:17 GMT
It's extremely heavy on the CPU but the PC version is an unoptimised mess at the moment especially on Nvidia. Nvidia seems to have an issue with low power draw at the moment which is likely the cause of the low fps across all cars gens.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 4, 2023 7:32:59 GMT
In the city areas or during intense combat it seems to be from the benchmarks videos I've seen.
Solo on a barren planet or indoors, it looks to be GPU bound.
you can see the change most evident in the DLSS mod video posted in the Starfield thread. It just looks to be a very heavy game.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 4, 2023 13:22:36 GMT
Is Starfield considered to be CPU limited? On my AMD 5800HX with a mobile 3080 it sits at 35% CPU utilisation and 98% GPU. That’s 1440p being upscaled to 4K by the awful FSR2.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 16, 2023 7:16:19 GMT
Recommendation for a large pcie 4 nvme m.2?
Currently have a 1tb sabrent rocket boot drive which I'll keep and then some random shit from laptop upgrades (1 nvme m.2 and 1 SATA ssd) and a large 3tb mechanical for older shit
Idea is to remove the sata entirely and then replace that 500gb WD m.2 with something bigger, probably 2tb for games. New games are getting larger and I'm finding myself uninstalling stuff to play it from an SSD as the mechanical can't keep up. Fine for my yesteryear stuff though.
Enticed by some of them being £60-70 (paid over 120 for the 1tb nearly 3 years ago) but then look at the Samsung ones for 150 and it's performance numbers being nuts.
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Post by dfunked on Sept 16, 2023 7:22:26 GMT
I'm very pleased with my WD SN850X. One of the top tier gen4 drives out there.
Can be had for under £100 if you don't mind faffing with Amazon Germany
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Post by Vandelay on Sept 16, 2023 8:49:30 GMT
Yeah, the WD Black SN850x are good. They do sizes up to 4TB. I've seen those going for £250, but they are normally just under £300.
1TB is about £60 and 2TB is about £120.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 16, 2023 9:07:19 GMT
Yeah I got one of those, 2TB. Supposedly a bit faster than the slightly pricier Samsung I was looking at, at the time, in practice I don’t notice any difference with my samsung 980.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 16, 2023 17:19:32 GMT
thanks all, 3 recommendations for the same kit is enough for me
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Post by barchetta on Sept 16, 2023 17:59:52 GMT
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 19, 2023 17:01:02 GMT
As soon as I started searching for SSDs Google starts reccommending me alsorts of shit. Big brother is watching. Anyhoo, it suggested this one fro. Amazon US. Works out at £130 for 4tb o_0. Sure it's not as fast but look at the girth... Limited-time deal: Silicon Power 4TB UD90 NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD R/W up to 5,000/4,500 MB/s (SP04KGBP44UD9005) a.co/d/aitbA0u
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 20, 2023 7:07:14 GMT
This Asus ROG Matrix 4090 that's doing the rounds at the moment is mental. What the fuck are they smoking?
$4k !
I watched the video on HUB and it's like 3-6 FPS better than my FE model. I will admit I'm a fan of it's industrial aesthetic but thats the whole reason I bought the FE model, sleek non-gamery finish.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Oct 10, 2023 7:25:32 GMT
Prime day wd_black sn850x 4tb 71% off. Down from £850 to £244 Deal of the day for Prime Members: WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB M.2 2280 Game Drive PCIe Gen4 NVMe up to 7300 MB/s amzn.eu/d/6GWL8k1
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Post by dfunked on Oct 10, 2023 7:41:35 GMT
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Oct 10, 2023 8:06:57 GMT
Yeah no way I'd buy storage at 850. this really is a no brainer, relatively speaking
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