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And first party developers are able to squeeze the most their respective consoles, as I'm assuming their game engines are designed with a single architecture in mind. I was utterly surprised how good God of War looked and played on a base PS4. It was definitely punching above its 2TF weight class, especially compared to third party games whose engines have to run on at least 3 different platforms. I believe it was Digital Foundry who also showed that AMD's RDNA architecture is more efficient for game rendering than their older GCN architecture, per TF. So it's even more difficult to compare TFs these days. While I haven't seen the Nvidia breakdown, I'm sure Pascal is less efficient than Turing per TF.

They should put CRTs in VR headsets

And i just watched this video last night. He's going off of US prices, but seems like you should not get the ASRock board I chose (which was just the cheapest X570 I found).

They're basically the same, but for $10 it's worth it. The 3800x does have that 100 MHz higher boost potential. You also get all the games and goodies. Overclocking is going to be luck of the draw for either of them.

The last time I watched ROTJ I do remember thinking to myself, "Man this speeder chase is way longer than I realized." I might have also fallen asleep during the chase too. The only problem I have with Jabba's Palace is the singing. The rest of sequence is just fun. Overall ROTJ is definitely not the most cohesive movie of the OT, but I really do love that ending.

It is a shame Corsair never released a bracket for AM4, nor support the stock AM3 mounting system for the A70. The ML240L can work in your Twelve Hundred, but it'll be a tight fit. You'll have to use the same process as this video: The one wrinkle is the ML240L is 2mm longer than the H100. Can't make out how much room there is at the top of the case, but if there's absolutely zero give then 2mm could offset the mounting holes just enough. If you just want to play it safe, then get a 120mm water cooler like https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/9FgPxr/corsair-cpu-cooler-cw9060024ww

The seeming conflicting viewpoints is probably caused by everyone having their own unique opinion on the movies. Hell I have multiple opinions of them myself, because they do great things and they also do bad things. So I was not strongly offended; these days I don't get overly excited (only a little excited) about these arguments because I fought intensely during the Prequel Wars and am a little burned out LOL.

Yeah, they probably do. The RTX transistors take up a huge portion of the die, and as far as we know the only things those transistors do right now is calculate ray tracing. On top of that, AMD hasn't had a competitive card until the recently released 5700 series, which has only shifted prices by a little bit.

I actually like disillusioned Luke because it gives us a portrayal of someone questioning concepts that people just hold onto. I can see the other argument, though, and also acknowledge how he got there is a bit weak as we have been shown, since all of the character development for the Luke/Kylo breakup happens off-screen.

I'm fine with re-using those kinds of assets. The more egregious offense is his plot: Having the saber be a McGuffin at all. Re-using the Death Star trope for a third time, in the same ticking time bomb manner as ANH. At least ROTJ used the trope a different way, giving us the best moments of the entire Saga with the throne room scenes. Making Kylo a Vader rip-off. Worse yet, not giving us any reason why he worships Vader, a person he's never met, at all. Snoke and The First Order existing as copycat Palpatine and Empire. Han and Leia being the same exact characters as we first met them in ANH. And then JJ has the audacity to meta commentate on these bad decisions by having characters of movie say shit like "There's always a way to blow it (Starkiller base) up" and "going back to doing what they (Han + Leia) were good at." All of the interesting character development takes place outside the scope of the movies.

No games at the moment show any benefit from moving to 16 to 32GB of RAM. Only in the past year or two have games shown a benefit going from 8 to 16GB. Unclear how this will change with the next generation of consoles dropping, but given past trends (when the previous consoles launched) you shouldn't need to worry about it for at least another 2 years. Keep in mind RAM height doesn't matter with liquid cooling. Although if you currently have a really good air cooler, and still have the adapters for it (since AMD has supported the same cooler mounting size for over a decade), then you could probably re-use it and get as good of results as a liquid cooler. In which case, Ryzen processors scale very well with RAM up to ~3833 MHz speeds. I'd also avoid any RAM that has a CAS latency of 19 or higher. If looking at 3200-3400 MHz RAM, don't get anything that has a CAS latency higher than 16. And, a little known tip, for maximum performance you do want to get RAM that has been officially tested with your motherboard (their website should have a list of "qualified" kits). Otherwise, you can manually tweak the RAM to achieve better results.

Astrobot is Mario in VR. A superb platformer. It's a good introduction to VR but there are big downfalls. Games that require the move controllers are hampered by the shitty tracking of the controllers. It feels neat at first but as you play more the constant recalibration is a nuisance. It works fine on the base PS4, but a couple of games I tried could have used the power of the Pro to up the frame rate. Wipeout was the only one to make me feel nauseous. I recommend if you have money to burn and just want to try out VR then it's a good buy. If you're strapped for cash then wait. The occulus quest looks like a killer alternative though because the inside out tracking is more convenient. You can use it as a standalone system completely wireless or hook a single cable to a PC.

Yep, I had to google this earlier today when I saw the random email. I had no idea they were offering a free month; or I had forgotten, but I've had 2-factor turned on for over a year.

Lightboost makes it look and kind of act like a CRT, in terms of motion and blurring. A CRT back in the day lit lit up one line of the screen at a time, then moved to the next line of the screen, and then moved to the next line, but after it stopped lighting the previous line that previous line was basically dark until the electron beam came around to light it up again at the fixed interval refresh rate. This alternating pattern of light/dark eliminated the visible blurring. In an LCD, every pixel will light up at the same exact time rather than going line by line down the screen, and then refresh together at the fixed interval. So then TN panels began to emulate the CRT effect by inserting an entirely black screen in between each of its refreshes. So you get your normal image, then a black screen, then a normal image, then a black screen, and etc. And you do have to turn off Freesync. Although I think Asus just released a high end monitor recently that can do both for the first time. So, since you can't use Freesync and ULMB, if your game's framerate falls below the fixed refresh rate you set for the monitor, then games will appear choppy/stuttering. It won't actually be stuttering (so you'll get your normal input lag and mouse responsiveness), it will just appear that way. So when you use ULMB it's definitely best to always have the framerate higher than the refresh rate, especially for online games. If you're playing single player and want to use ULMB, then go ahead and enable normal V-sync to get rid of image tearing.

Excited to play last year's NBA game.

Well I don't switch monitors much, and haven't seen an IPS monitor in person (other than large screen TVs), so I can't speak to how the more expensive (IPS) options would look in direct comparison. But, from all accounts, the Dell is no doubt one hell of a value. I don't think there's any monitor that offers a better overall package for the ~$260ish prices I've seen it go for lately. The only other subject I'll weigh in on is competitive gaming. If you play a lot of online games, especially shooters, I think a 240 Hz monitor would probably suit you better. This was what I was debating in my mind months ago. I historically play a lot of competitive shooters - from Counter-Strike to Battlefield and more recently Overwatch and Apex Legends - and wanted better pixel response time. But I also enjoy my single player games with high graphical fidelity, and I'm also getting older and am noticing a decline in my competitiveness so that lead me to lean more towards getting a monitor that would deliver a sharper, better image. The Dell does that... but after purchasing it I think I ended up playing even more online competitive games and kind of wished I had gone with either a 240 Hz monitor or a monitor that offered a better ULMB mode (the Asus is notoriously bad at dimming the image while using Lightboost while newer monitors don't do so as severely). Sounds like you want to enjoy your movies and single player games, so the Dell is a good option there. The older S2716DGR is now not so overpriced in comparison to the S2719DGF, and it offers a Lightboost mode, so that could be an option. I wish I had gone with that one, but it was not going on sale at the time I wanted to buy and didn't look like it would ever go under $350 (which since it has) so that I could have had my cake and eat it too, lol. Also the S2719 doesn't even have DVI, so you have to use HDMI or DisplayPort. And if you're going to use Gsync, then you have to use DisplayPort with your Nvidia card. Nvidia is not currently supporting Freesync over HDMI for computer monitors. They are starting to support HDMI Freesync with TVs, so maybe they'll slowly add that support for PC monitors too. Who the fuck knows, though.

I have this monitor and Gsync does work. It's cheap because it's TN, but I've seen other 27" 1440p 144+ Hz monitors get close to this price (~$300). Also, funny enough, I too own the 24" Asus VG248QE 144 Hz monitor that you are looking to upgrade from. I, too, upgraded from the Asus to the Dell just earlier this year. So I can comment on my comparison between the two. The short answer is the Dell edges out the Asus in every aspect but one. The Asus, despite being one of the first 144 Hz monitors on the market, does have better pixel response time (and thus less motion blurring) than the Dell monitor, even when the Dell is overclocked to 155 Hz. Now the difference is very, very small, but when I put both monitors side by side and scrutinize every little detail then I can make it out. I also looked up a couple of reviews and found the Asus did actually test to have about a 1-2ms advantage in real-world pixel response time. Also, if you used Lightboost (a.k.a. ULMB, strobing, ELMB, and other marketing jargon) on the Asus, then the Dell 2719 does not offer that feature at all - but the older Dell 2716 G-Sync only display does offer that feature - and that too gives the Asus a huge win in motion blur elimination albeit at the cost of brightness and color accuracy. Now if you were looking to go with an IPS, then you'll downgrade even further in the pixel response/motion blur category in comparison to your VG248QE, unless you get an IPS display that also has a strobing/Ultra Low Motion Blur mode (which will again sacrifice your screen brightness). Even if that IPS can go up to 165 Hz it will still have slower pixel response time. And I wouldn't really consider a VA panel at all unless you plan to mainly watch a lot of movies/TV shows while doing some gaming. But I personally hate motion blurring and am pretty sensitive to it, so that's my bias. Now as to what the S2719DGF does do well. It certainly does have much better viewing angles than the Asus VG248QE. It's quite surprising how big the difference is, and even when you get to the extreme ends of the angle the picture doesn't get too weird, just a bit obscured. There's little color shift when viewing it an angle, so yeah when you read reviews that say it's almost as good as an IPS they definitely are not lying. The colors of the Dell panel are also more natural than the Asus, but it's a not a huge leap in difference (if you are looking at the Asus straight on). But since the Dell is still a TN panel, the colors don't pop as much as they would on an IPS. I could never get my Asus to both have good blacks/contrast/brightness and have the colors pop at the same time. There was a tradeoff and when calibrating it and very hard to find the balance. So a big benefit for the Dell is you can find a better balance. The pixel density improvement of going from a 24" 1080p to a 27" 1440p screen is probably the most noticeable improvement you'll see when gaming. Everything will just appear sharper and you'll see fewer jaggies and blocks. It's great. It also requires more horsepower, so be prepared to sacrifice a few frames per second to get that buttery smooth image. I have ran into one bug though, of which I have not had the time to properly isolate, diagnose, or fix though. And that is sometimes when I leave my computer idle the screen will go black and say roughly "resolution is not supported". I'm not sure if it's my particular display, the fact I'm using DisplayPort (when I used DisplayPort on my previous Asus there were bugs/issues I ran into as well that didn't happen when I used DVI), my video card, or something with my Windows power management (because sometimes it won't put my monitor to sleep after the set time and it will just stay on.... for hours.) I haven't figured out the permanent solution or the culprit, but my temporary fix is to push a button to bring up the OSD of the monitor, and then exit the OSD, and voila somehow my computer sends or the monitor reads the proper signal (resolution+refresh rate) and works normally. The blank screen bug has never happened while I was actively watching or playing something, but usually when I just leave my computer idle and rarely when I exit a fullscreen application. I think it's either a bug with the firmware or a bug with DisplayPort.

You're really not going to notice a difference real world.

It's gen 3 using 4x lanes like other nvme drive. The title description is misleading lol.

I honestly didn't research motherboards. Look up a YouTube channel called actual hardcore overclocking and he has a long video on the best motherboards for Ryzen 3000. Basically MSI, Asus, ASRock, and Gigabyte all have hit or miss boards, but they are mostly good.

It's only pcie gen 3, not 4, but it's still a really good deal.

The Rocket should be faster than the Crucial for sure. I don't think Crucial makes a high end SSD. They focus on bringing value and the budget market now. But upon further review, it does look like the XPG SX8200 Pro is faster. Sabrent is still pretty fast, but I think it must be a better value here in the states where it regularly goes on sale for ~$100. Canadian prices are screwy. Yeah should be fine. If you've had it as long as you've had the 2500k, I'd definitely consider getting a new one when its warranty expires or perhaps when you get a new video card. One of the most important features of a good power supplies today is the ability to quickly deliver the necessary load while staying within the voltage tolerances - a transient load. This is because the turbo boost features of both the CPU and GPUs these days are way more aggressive and change their clockspeed (and thus voltage requirements and power load) extremely fast. Older power supplies were not designed to deal with this. The power supply has to be able to go from like a 50W load to a 500W load, and back again, in a microsecond with new hardware because CPUs/GPUs can shut off cores completely and then bring them back online that fast.

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Also if you go with an AMD processor, which makes the most sense for this budget, you won't really need to overclock. Their turbo boost feature basically maxes out the processor. You can squeeze a little more performance by overclocking, but I personally don't think it's worth the time, effort, and increases power consumption. However, the better cooler you get for the processor will help the turbo boost work better, because as long as you have a half-decent motherboard the determining metric for how much the processor automatically boosts is temperature. Intel processors have a bit more headroom to overclock, but even then I still don't think it's worth it unless you find yourself needing that performance. Or, since their CPUs can hit 5 GHz, you simply want to overclock to 5 GHz as symbolic status. But after a quick price check, they simply don't compete with AMD (in Canadian prices).