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There’s some good news for you then. if you sign up on EVGA’s website, you can select a 3080 like you want, and it’ll automatically put you in a queue, and will notify when your spot is up. You then have an 8 hour window to purchase the GPU, or you lose your spot, and it goes back into the queue. Best part is you pay msrp on it, or very close to it. Mind you, this process WILL take months, probably at least 6-9 months depending on stock. I put myself on the queue for a 3060 ti back in March, and I’ve still yet to receive a notice when my queue is up. I may not even buy one at this point now that I have the Steam Deck on reserve.

How old we talking?

Some interesting info in this vid such as Valve are supplying dev kits to developers

Probably is the case here. Out of the entire trilogy, Vice City was always my favorite, so I'd be willing to go through with that again.

Yeah. Pretty much. My initial take is it's like replacing the battery on your smart device. Can be done, but not intended by the end user.

I noticed in the Specs section of the Steam Deck page, they have continued to update little things here, and there. Looking back, they added the bit about the models have a socketed nvme m.2 slot (Also saying it's not "intended" for user upgradeability, but we know it can be replaced by the end user), and now they added some wording to say the ram is in dual-channel, which is good to know. Single-channel wouldn't make a lot of sense anyway, so it's good they added that it is in fact dual-channel.

It'll depend on how good SteamOS is, and by extension Proton turns into between now, and upon launch. Since it appears I won't be getting mine until Q1 2022 according to the Steam Deck page, that'll give me some time to process the viability of it as a platform, or if I'd be better off going full windows. At the same time though, I feel as though the purpose of a device like this would be to use SteamOS. I'm liking thus far what I'm reading about with Proton, and would be cool if it gets to the point where Windows might not be necessary for Steam games. The kicker though are places like GOG, Epic, Origin, and Uplay, which appear to require Windows, and that is where dual-boot comes in. I could easily partition off the 512GB SSD in half, and have Steam OS in one, and Windows 10/11 in the other, and probably similar with the microSD. I do await what consumers, tech channels, and just random people are able to get out of this thing. And who knows? Maybe...just maybe you can overclock this thing too. EDIT: In Valve's case, I think it would be better for them to make this the best SteamOS device ever put on the market with the highest compatibility of Windows-based games. Of course, they'll still allow you practically do what you want with it, but I think they're going to try, and make SteamOS really good with Proton.

I'm not someone who normally downloads mods for different games, but what purpose does it serve to effectively eliminate one of the largest modding communities? I could see this really backfiring on Take-Two, and might even affect their stock prices. I get it that this is Take-Two's IP, but the modding community has been a huge plus for a lot of folks over the years, and I hardly doubt this is really hurting the value of the GTA franchise as a whole. I feel there's something we're missing in all this.

I feel Skyward Sword was really bad at that not so much because of Nintendo being Nintendo, but rather this was the Wii era where the "casual" gamer started getting into games, and thus, Nintendo thought newer gamers needed more handholding. Unfortunately for the rest of us, it meant that we had to be on the short end of said handholding, and it made the game rather tedious, and boring at first. So in this regard, I'm glad they "fixed" a lot of that, and made it all optional, controls included.

Actually all versions come with a carrying case, but interestingly the 512GB has an "exclusive" carrying case. So I guess it's more...exclusive...or something, I guess.

EDIT: dur, double post.

Meaning, expect owners to upgrade their SSDs in the coming years. I don’t regret reserving the 512GB as I like having the extra storage on tap from the get go. But thanks for pointing that out because I missed that before. Looking at pricing, Dell has 2230 nvme SSDs in both 256, and 512 variants as shown here: Dell 2230 nvme SSD So between the additional storage, the anti glare etched glass, and the “exclusive” carrying case, that sounds like a decent mark up all things considered.

Everyone has their breaking point on rebuying the same shit, different generation. If what Nintendo in the past has said holds true today, then not only is nVidia going to be a partner with them for two decades, but having an Apple approach to hardware where you can use software across multiple platforms across generations is also a possibility. Im a sucker for Nintendo games. It’s what I grew up with, and I believe if Sega were still making hardware, Sega fanatics would do the same. Heck, we see the same thing with Xbox, and PlayStation fanatics. We’re all the same either way.

I'm already used to playing PC games at 30fps on my rig right now, so all I'm gaining is fidelity, and couch convenience.

It probably doesn't if I'm honest. And at sub-Full HD resolutions, you're becoming more CPU-bound compared to GPU-bound at higher resolutions.

I know there have been some videos from Digital Foundry, Linus Tech Tips, and some others, but I want to say they're normally using high-end CPUs in their tests to avoid any sort of bottleneck to begin with, and look at purely from a visual, and performance perspective rather than hardware usage. It'll be interesting to see what the next few months holds though.

I was chatting with some friends on Discord about FSR, and I actually wonder if at those low resolutions, you might end up being CPU bottlenecked due to it being a software solution instead of nVidia's hardware-based DLSS.

Maybe Nintendo could learn a thing or two about software support across generations with this...

It's still ARM vs. x86, so comparing directly is tricky, even in FLOP terms. But the Steam Deck is much more powerful than the Switch in that whereas the Tegra X1 could run Doom 2016 at incredibly low settings at 540p 30fps in handheld mode, this Steam Deck with its custom AMD APU should be able to do Med-to-High settings at 60fps easily I would think. Someone else could correct me on that though.

At 15-20w, this thing truly is a beast of a machine in Performance per Watt terms. And I think in a lot of ways, that's what intrigues me most about a system like this. I'm not interested as much in Glorious PC Master Race PCs that have dual 3090s with 128GB of Ram, and a Threadripper Pro that probably altogether outputs at maybe 1200-1500watts, or some crazy figure.

I'm not Vic, or Stepee, but at 720p, it'll be fine. Sure, it's limited to 60hz instead of 120hz for the Series S, but I think broadly speaking, it'll be fine. Besides, 1080p, which is what the Series S is more marketed towards, is 2.25x the resolution of 720p. Should be about right for a 2 TFLOP next-gen APU.

I wonder what people will get first: Their GPUs, or the Steam Deck.

I recall seeing Q2 2022 when I went to go reserve, but figured that was an estimate. Here’s hoping they take these reservations as a sign to really step up production when this thing goes Gold.

You guys should check the Steam's Top Sellers page. The Steam Deck Deposit is #1 right now. And if I understand correctly, that's not units reserved, but in dollars sold. Dayum.