Modern Tom’s hardware

actually trying

Not possible.

or rely on Windows update to give you reasonably recent drivers.

Windows update: I see you just installed this driver from 3 weeks ago, let me just revert to a driver from 2021 for ya.

Just like gsync died

(true) gsync isn’t dead, it’s only in the highest end of monitors which is basically where it’s always been. It only “died” because it requires an expensive module vs adaptive sync being built into basically every modern display controller so it’s basically free.

I’d like to make a law that anyone who says “just google it” and doesn’t also provide the very first link they found on google that solves the problem should be castrated.

I thought they still made games for the non series X/S/One but apparently they stopped in 2023.

Well either way I felt the same way about the original one. I got mine in 2018 and I’ve played less than 100 hours of games on it, and never actually bought any games for it (I got it second hand with about 6 games).

In general I think AAA games just aren’t worthwhile, let alone AAA exclusives. There’s a lot of great indie games, but that requires going through the sludge of indie games.

Then they still get your money and it’s at the higher cut.

Why would MS care if you already have a PC? The console sale itself doesn’t really make them money, it’s the games. And if you’re still buying their games on PC they still get their (albeit lower) cut.

Or noise canceling headphones, and only up to 5 so you don’t destroy your hearing.

Does the feature of acquiring an older version, then using the App Store to update it and it being owned by you still work?

In pfSense land it’s called nat reflection. I believe it’s off by default on pfSense, but it makes accessing your own stuff “externally” while inside the network a pain so I’d imagine most devices have it enabled by default.

What you gain in quicksync you lose in raw CPU power for other tasks. If you don’t need to transcode your video, or you pre transcode what needs transcoding at night when you’re not doing anything then you can bog the CPU down then, while still having TONS more power available during the day.

According to geekbench the 7745HX is 2.5x the single core performance, and almost 6x the multi core performance. Under load power consumption will be a lot higher, but idle should be low enough to not really make a difference.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9360225

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-7-7745hx

And only 1000x the energy usage!

Dell has done this for a while now. You just can’t buy them in store, you have to custom order them.

That’s great if you treat your computer as a toy. But if you actually need it to do work then that’s terrible advice.

Destroy a virtual machine first, not your actual computer.

Only 500 hours? I’ve put years of my life into world of warcraft.

Like, we can obviously still follow news and whatnot

I stopped following the news first, then largely lost interest in new games after that. After TotalBiscuit passed I haven’t seen a single thing about video game news or reviews. If there’s something I’m interested in I might skim through a review, but that’s the most I do.

…I completely forgot that was even a thing. It came out and nobody really cared. Only the 770/750 got love, and the a380 saw some appreciation for being the quicksync addon card.

Well regardless it’s the same MSRP as the A770 post price drop, and still outperforms it.

Most of the demand is for Windows. So if your choice is to spend resources (money) where demand is, or hope that you can possibly create demand where there isn’t any currently.

Original MSRP of the A770 was $330 so that is a big improvement. I assume intel is sticking with a reasonable launch MSRP to set expectations right.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-a750-a770-full-pricing-revealed

It would be incredibly stupid for Intel to abandon the dGPU market after spending all this money on it. As long as Battlemage turns out alright (basically it’s only goal) I doubt it will go away.

They cut the die size nearly in half so they’re no longer blowing a fuck ton of money on a $200 GPU. As long as utilization of the silicon goes up it should be fine.