jaxa
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I've written off using >2 sticks. It's unnecessary for me, and you can get a lot in 2 sticks. I also lean towards SFF for future purchases which usually can only fit 2. My 64 GB DDR4 systems have 2x32GB. That is the way. DDR5 users can technically have 2x64GB or 2x128GB quad-rank now, good luck affording it though. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/256gb-of-dual-channel-ram-hits-mass-market-thanks-to-origin-code-quad-rank-cudimm-packs-128gb-of-ddr5-8000-into-a-single-module
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All of my machines use DDR4 and have 32-64 GB each. Used DDR4 pricing isn't particularly outrageous, and I'll probably hang onto these until the end of time. I've pretty much checked out of the market. But I'll look at new low-end graphics cards if AMD/Nvidia/Intel launch any. I'm optimistic about RDNA5 AT4, but AMD has repeatedly fumbled at sub-75W. Intel's Arc Pro B50 was a little too generous, with an announced $300 MSRP morphing to $350 launch MSRP, and street prices skyrocketing. They may be abandoning dGPUs in favor of accelerators like Crescent Island. Nvidia is more opaque but AMD is basically copying their moves, and the low-end faces neglect. Nvidia has little incentive to focus on consumer graphics, period. I would pick up a 12th gen Alder Lake office PC (most if not all use DDR4), but I didn't find the current prices compelling. It would be something nice to have (but not necessary), and I could instantly transplant 64 GB into it.
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AM4 and AM5 sockets might as well be 2 different galaxies (in terms of deciding what to purchase, not performance) because of DDR4 vs. DDR5. Waiting on any AM5 purchase is probably for the best, since it shouldn't be too long before Zen 6 desktop parts appear. Then you can have 12 cores and 144 MiB L3 on a single CCD.
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The 5800X3D will be "good" for at least the next 6 years.
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Bounty Train 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/bounty_train https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim
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It's here: https://store.epicgames.com/p/system-shock-2-25th-anniversary-remaster-cb94d9 Also this: https://store.epicgames.com/p/buried-stars-d7c88c
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I actually picked up a cheap i5-9400 PC, and put a cheap RX 560 4GB in it. I would be willing to upgrade the GPU again to some newer, better 75W option, but I don't see anything exciting to me on the market. I'm hoping the segment will get thrown a bone during the next generation. I see some interesting improvements between 6th gen Skylake and 7th gen Kaby Lake, namely the Intel Speed Shift which should allow the clock speeds to ramp up/down faster, and I think MBEC is relevant to some people doing virtualization. Then on the iGPU side, you get improved H.265 support and the first VP9 hardware decode support. VP9 could be helpful but I think the relevance is waning, especially as YouTube usually pushes AV1 even if you have to decode it in software. Keep in mind that even Skylake's HD 530 iGPU is capable of playing Thief (big NewDark missions), The Dark Mod, Skyrim, GTA V, etc. Usually at around 720p low, 30 FPS. From 8th gen to 10th gen, it's all about the increased core/thread counts, slightly higher clocks, higher DDR4 speed support, and the L3 cache scaling up with the cores. Skylake and Kaby Lake may be legendary, but they are stuck at 4c/8t, often 4c/4t. Every 8th gen and up in the i5 tier has at least 6c/6t. I wanted to stop picking up so many quad-cores, so that's why I aimed for at least the 6c/6t i5-8400, and landed on the nearly identical i5-9400.
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Nevermind, didn't read it right. But frankly, there is no reason to bet on Intel discrete graphics anymore, since they are signaling their intentions to abandon it and use Nvidia graphics tiles in big APUs. RDNA2 pricing (even used) may not be good enough for it to make sense w/ Skylake. Who knows, you do you.
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I have never given Epic a dime or a payment option. My account was made by some Russian who misspelled his own email, and then I took it over.
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Pre-Free: System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster will be free on Epic Games Store from October 1 to October 8. https://store.epicgames.com/p/system-shock-2-25th-anniversary-remaster-cb94d9 Until then, it's $30.
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I think you have another 2 years until the 20th anniversary of "The Way To Black Heart Manor" video.
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There are a lot of areas that look barren/lifeless in TDP/TG compared to newer campaigns like The Black Parade. I'm not seeing many area changes in the trailer. One mission in particular I'm thinking of is OM 5: Assassins. I noticed a lot of empty rooms when I replayed it.
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How tetrahedral cages significantly reduce BVH memory usage
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Nice. Bookmarked your channel.
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I'm pretty sure you don't need a fork to turn off or ignore all the NewDark changes. I'm interested to see if GOG uses NewDark v1.29, and if the remaster adopts NewDark at all (if that was answered earlier, I forgot).
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If you mean DLSS 5, buy the new generation of cards that moves to a TSMC 3nm node. But also, Nvidia claims that they are continuing to optimize it and have improved performance 5x since it was first shown running on two 5090s. There's also a mod out there that does DLSS upscaling AFTER DLSS 5, instead of putting DLSS 5 at the end of the pipeline. This improves performance but can hurt quality. Neural texture compression is an unrelated technology that I expect will be pushed heavily during the next console generation, and tailored to AMD RDNA5 graphics. I think there could come a time when if you don't have a graphics card new enough to handle it effectively, and you need to turn it off, you get a huge VRAM penalty that could make 16-24 GB cards unusable. Just a guess though.
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Maybe PCIe 6.0 SSDs will eventually catch on with consumers, but it's possible that PCIe 5.0/6.0 becomes a stopping point for a long time. There isn't much need for more than PCIe 4.0. Meanwhile, PCIe 8.0 is scheduled for release in 2028. You won't believe what it does in comparison to PCIe 7.0 bandwidth. We should eventually migrate to optical-based technologies to cut down the heat.
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The RX 9050 4GB supposedly fares much better than you might expect when used with a PCIe 5.0 x16 connection, which by default it doesn't come with in the only pre-built to ship with it. PCIe 5.0 x16 is a whopping 8x the bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 x4 of the similar RX 6500 XT low-end card, and that's apparently allowing it to use system memory as VRAM much more effectively. So while that's a heavily disabled junk card, having the full 16 lanes could help such budget cards in the future. Similar observations were made about the RX 9060 XT 8GB, but it's more dramatic in this case. PCIe 5.0 is locked to AM5 and DDR5 in AMD's case. The card that was tested has been shipped off to Australia for Hardware Unboxed.
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11 gigabytes?! We need to buy it and run an LLM on it!
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If we're asking for changes to the forum, what it actually needs more than hiding stats is a link back to www.thedarkmod.com.
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Apple finally announced the long-anticipated foldable iPhone: the iPhone Duo. Inside, the A20 Pro will have an unusually large (for mobile) 96-bit LPDDR5X memory bus, undoubtedly to boost on-device AI performance.
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AMD can absolutely take the crown, but they are hesitant to do it. This could be the most obvious opening ever, with Nvidia delaying RTX 50xx Super cards but still probably planning on using them as a stopgap to stretch out the time until 60xx cards. Nvidia also has CPU overhead problems, see below. On the other hand, if GDDR7 remains expensive, it's a really bad time to do anything for consumers. All bets are off with respect to launch timing, given AMD launching Zen 6 Epyc several months before desktop. No reason that chiplet-based RDNA5 can't debut in laptop APUs many months before any desktop GPUs using the same silicon.
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*384 I think you would need a real expert and/or a retrospective after a lot of time has passed to determine if it matters. But think of it this way. We the AMDumbs people want AMD to create a CUDA-like ecosystem where you can pick up any consumer card and get decent AI/HPC support, right? That's seemingly the point of UDNA, maybe also to reduce redundant work and driver issues. We already know that what's being called RDNA5 is going to be a long-lasting, important generation, because it will be the basis for next-gen consoles from Xbox and PlayStation. Xbox without any modification to RDNA5 at all, as it's rumored to be using the mid-range chiplet (the one closer to the likes of the 9070 XT, 5080, or 4090, not the 6090 killer) shared with desktop GPUs and other products. PS6 may not technically be pure RDNA5 since Sony likes to tweak it or even do AMD's work for them. So if the grand "UDNA-ification" isn't happening during the so-called RDNA5 generation, that seems like a missed opportunity, as that's a very important architecture that will be sticking around on the market in at least console form for basically the 2030s. Does RDNA5 == UDNA1 in everything but name? Maybe. But it would be better for it to be everything in everything, and for it to not take years to add ROCm support. If RDNA5 is the last "RDNA", then there probably is no RDNA6, based on the video.
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I take it that's based on the old MLID AT0 XL leak? 154 compute units, 384-bit, 12x 3GB GDDR7. It's presumed to match a hypothetical RTX 6090, but we don't know a lot about that, including the VRAM. RTX 5090 is 512-bit, 16x 2GB modules. If they keep the bus width, there's nothing stopping an RTX 6090 from shipping with 48 GB GDDR7. https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/radeon-rx-10090-xt-guide https://hardwaretimes.com/forget-the-rx-9900-xtx-rdna-5-based-10900-xt-may-feature-36-gb-vram-10k-cores-rumor/ AMD could justify making such a card if they are selling the silicon for workstation/AI too, which is what the leak alleged. The memory bus is actually cut down from 512-bit. The leaked document also refers to as-of-yet unreleased 4GB GDDR7 modules, allowing an enterprise/workstation product to reach 128 GB on 512-bit (32 modules in clamshell configuration). Another aspect is that RDNA5 appears to be ditching L3 Infinity Cache in favor of a smaller but faster L2 cache, like Nvidia has adopted. Only 40 MiB mentioned for the RTX 6090 competitor (Panther Lake iGPU has up to 16 MiB for graphics). RDNA5 appears to be well on the road to becoming "UDNA":
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@taffernicus https://chipsandcheese.com/archive https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing Lot of very in-depth articles at Chips and Cheese, check it out if you dare.
