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Overtime is starting for me too, and I never have time to play games when it's happening. Wait for price cuts and re-stocks!

There will eventually be 3rd party options when the technology gets cheaper to produce - basically when NAND manufacturers move to a smaller node for their storage chips. MS made a deal with Seagate to produce the current expansion cards at a reasonable price. Not sure how long, if any, exclusivity there is on Seagate's end. If there's none, then perhaps we'll see 3rd party ones 6 months after launch. It will probably take time (I'd say 2 years until a significant price reduction, maybe some smaller ones until then) for prices to come down, and I wouldn't expect bigger sizes until a smaller node process for the NAND chips comes out and is widely used. Now are they necessary? No. You can still use a normal external USB drive. But that drive can only run, natively, backwards compatible games from it. Next-gen games, including current gen games that get patches/updates for next-gen features, have to be on the faster internal SSD or the approved expansion card.

Twin Snakes also had Nintendo-related Easter eggs. Really the only time I can remember lauhing out loud at a video game is when Pyscho Mantis read the contents of my GCN memory card and told me what games I liked. The funniest part was that he just kept going on about my gaming habits because I had every compatible save game on it

Nvidia: 1650 Super (stay away from the original 1650) Any GTX 1660 variant RTX 2060 AMD: RX 570 RX 580 5600 XT Those are your new choices. Used choices aren't bad. You could probably get something around $100 that kicks the shit out of your 660. I'd actually recommend a used RX 470, RX 480, or GTX 1060. If you could possibly wait another 4-8 weeks, it's possible AMD's announcement of new cards in the sub-$500 price range could push the prices of these budget cards down a little bit. Particularly if the RTX 2060 came down in price that would be attractive. While not exactly "cheap" right now, getting it and having the possibility to test out DLSS+Ray Tracing for the future could mean you either hold onto that card longer than you'd expect or it could have better re-sell value. But it's also likely the price won't drop that much on it.

Not that term, but I know of the concept. It's a more recent movement?

Yep, and Catholics still hold onto most of that view, some more than others. While they can claim that every potential life is worth fostering because it's God's Will, a more insidious interpretation of having as many children as possible is that doing so grows their own belief system, because those kids will be taught the same bullshit and then teach kids of their own that bullshit. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that is the true origin of this interpretation, because at some point in human history they needed to increase the population.

All of those Senators who wanted to postpone a nomination in 2016 are white men! In general our representatives do not actually represent the diversity of our population. Even more staggering is the fact that 6 of our Supreme Court Justices are (were) Catholic. 28% of our population should not be represented by 66% of the Supreme Court.

Amazes me how they can be anti-abortion and anti-contraception. One of these things helps reduce the other... But I really don't know how you could argue (with an attempt to change their minds) with someone about abortion if they firmly believe life starts at contraception. This seems to be the root of their belief; people consider a zygote as a life with full rights. They attach their full emotional weight to them; making it impossible to argue about context and circumstances.

It is most definitely not an actual 240 Hz; and most likely not even 120 Hz. They are just processing and inserting extra frames in between the source's framerate (which will be 24 fps or 30 fps for movies/TV), but most likely can only display at 60 Hz. Best look up the model number and find a review or find the tech sheet to be absolutely sure what it can do.

In the year 3080.

No, they're doing stupid advertisements like this which I literally just saw: Who the fuck is in charge of advertisement? The first thing the eye sees is Trump.

Some games are definitely CPU bottlenecked, but mostly the re-vamped architecture makes Ampere shine at 4k. Memory bandwidth is probably a key factor too. Of course, maybe Turing just wasn't well-utilized at higher resolutions. When comparing the 2080 vs. the older 1080 Ti, the 1080 closes the gap or pulls ahead of the 2080 at higher resolutions while the 2080 does better at lower ones. Those college kidz are our future!

And it says sold out at 9:02, a whole 2 minutes after it (the disc version) goes live.

Website is already taking a shit^^^

Easy. Just give the buyer your address and tell them to pick it up on delivery day

Re-doing character models+animation, ray tracing, instant load times, haptic feedback on the controller, 3D audio are the things that will actually take some work. They also said an improved framerate, draw distance, and population density, but these should be less work since PC games have been doing this shit for years now and should be simple code to change. Also 3 new suits. I guess you could also say the new character models aren't really "extra" work because they are most likely going to re-use those models in the sequel PS5 Spider-Man game anyway; heck they probably already made those models for the sequel but decided to throw them into remaster. So they are offering a little more than what I'd consider a "free" upgrade, but definitely far from a full-fledged game. $10-20 DLC is what I think all of this would be worth. $30-40 if someone doesn't own the PS4 version and has to buy the game anyway.

If you own the original game, hopefully they treat the PS5 version as DLC so you don't have to pay full price for the game. The changes they are making do sound significant, but most of the content will be the same.

The 3090 has 20% more CUDA cores (with with pretty similar clockspeeds) so it will likely be 20% faster at best, but probably closer to 15%. There's really no secret sauce Nvidia could do, unless you run into a game that happens to need more than 10GB of VRAM. And it seems the only game that can do that at the moment is DOOM Eternal. You can do the same calculations for the 2000 cards (take the increase CUDA core count times the clock speed reduction) and that figure will be the rough estimate of the performance difference. For example, the 2080 Ti is roughly 25% faster than a 2080. It has 147% the CUDA cores but 89% of the clockspeed, which equates to about 30% raw theoretical performance. Subtract 5% to account that there is almost never perfectly linear scaling. So the 3090 will live up to the Titan name by not offering the best price/performance metric.

It's definitely a 4k beast.

Aren't reviews today?

The last updated reviews I saw of the 970 showed it did pretty well, considering its age, and seemed to compete against the GTX 1060 (3GB) as expected. If you were lucky enough, hopefully you got your class action settlement of, what was it, $30? $40? #970fixed I don't see any funny 1% low numbers here, so no stutter anymore? Five Years Later: Revisiting the GeForce GTX 970 WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Recently we've looked back at the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and the GTX 960, both popular GPUs from yesteryear. Those features have been warmly welcomed, but besides...

The 5700 cards make sense as a temporary solution, if you plan to upgrade within 2 years anyway. Of course, you are betting on how long it takes for games to embrace RT+DLSS support on a wide-scale basis. My guess would be 2 years, but I could see a 1 year timeframe where every major release will support those features. "Good enough" CPU physics definitely killed it though. RIP.

Dude, shut. the. fuck. up. This isn't trolling; it's a discussion. Most of you live in or near major metropolitan areas. There is not a major city within a 90 mile radius from my location. My town has 2 Gamestops (3 up until last year) plus a couple of local used game shops. Discs have value in my location. It's fucking ridiculous you want to label people with disparate notions as trolls. The only metric that matters here is 83% of all sales being digital. I would have never guessed it was that high; I would have presumed 50% at best. Of course, without having access to the full article and seeing the breakdown of PC vs. Console, that 83% figure is also inflated as it includes PC sales, which are all digital.

Obviously, as I never said otherwise. Microsoft is forcing users to get Gamepass with this device, because the value is great for those selections of games. However, game pass does not give you the big yearly titles like CoD, 2k, Madden, Ubisoft games, etc, and these games are easily and cheaply found as used discs, and these are titles that people who buy the budget console would get.

Pretty sure you could double the 3090 as a stove top replacement; just set your frying pan right over the passthrough fan and finstack. What do you thin Jensen was doing with it prior to the presentation? Look from where he pulls it!