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Yeah saw that, not a huge fan of FSR / DLSS as it seems to become more and more needed to run higher frame rates on some newer titles. That being said I suppose it could be possible, though Im on ITX, I have extended its potential past what most are willing to tolerate with such a scenario. I'll grab some pictures when I get home later today so you guys can get a laugh or two out of it. Used to have a certain threshold for how my PC's ran, ever since getting the open air rig that @Mr. Fox linked many many moons ago it has uhh, well oyou all will see tonight lol I call it "Doing it Wrong" and @Hiew likes to poke at me saying I play games on a file server.

With that premise the one thing I really wanted was the Alienware 13 R3 with 7820hx instead of the 7700hq, heck maybe a 8850h and disable the dGPU for eGPU but nothing like that existed or exists. Would've been really cool to see. Older GPU may be similar, that was the main issue @Khenglish ran into with installing desktop GPU vRAM modules to MXM board on the same mod you are referring to IIRC. Love seeing these kinds of mods though!

Half my interest in the 7900 XTX is to play with game streaming on the RTX 3090 @ 4K or other random things that look interesting to do

I've been curious about having this done to my older cards liek the 5970, 690, gtx 295 and such but I dont have a hot air station nor have any skill in such things lol I can solder more or less but no experience with hot air yet

I still have my Red Devil 5700 XT, pushed it to match 1080Ti, at least in some synthetics. Keep it as a just a case card as its not really worth the hassle of selling. The System Administrator at work refuses to believe me when I say Asus makes a decent product but their QA is hot garbage. Nonplot twist, he's got quite a few Asus parts for his main rig.

And my main point, is that they both engage in such behavior when it suits them. GT 730 rebranded from a RT 430 in designation where both Fermi and Kepler share the same product names? :( Cant even say this is a bug fix.

Lets not pretend that both vendors dont participate in rehashing, rebranding etc etc of their product lineups. 2028 according to that article yikes, looks like thye are going to release something akin to what the 5700xt was. I can grab a 7900 XTX and sit pretty for some time then.

I cant remember who it was that said this but effectively the idea put forth was that this generations ability to argue without putting the person you are arguing with in the "hate/enemy" category has effectively atrophied. The appears to be more true over time, at least as I continue to observe. Me and you have different viewpoints regarding our use of PC's, just like you may have some differences between yourself and @Papusan in terms of how your approach overclocking, and thats fine. It doesnt need to then become the basis for classifying someone as extreme or beyond recognition. Sometimes a difference is just that, different. It doesnt then automatically mean not worth consideration. I mean, probably here in the next few days ill be posting an update to my desktop scenario to which many at OCN would immediately question why I didnt do X,Y,Z instead of chuckling at making what I have work for me. I have already dubbed it "Doing It Wrong" by my friends if it works out. Basically I have an ITX system with a 1300w PSU and 16 port HBA adapter via NVME lol should be interesting getting the adapter tomorrow. Oh, Im ranting again. I'll stop here for now haha

Yeah its the same "you're the niche so stop talking" kind of stuff I used to see all the time there. I may prefer my 5800X3D for my use case, but my use case doesnt involve looking for the best CPU benchmarks since I primarily just play games and remote to my VM sandbox's that run my homelab's (48 cores / 96 threads 256GB RAM). Doesnt mean I need to find the best motherboard or cooling since its not overclocking (just tuning for best performance it can run 24/7 ) nor would I tout it as such. The problem I used to see there (and to be fair, not only) is that on one hand they would say overclocking is a niche hobby that virtually nobody does but also in the other hand say overclock to get best FPS in your games. While not mutually exclusive, you probably shouldnt engage in the latter without first picking the appropriate hardware / cooling. Which means you should probably engage the supposed niche nobody does sector of the market. Lastly, I always appreciate your colorful use of language to convey your position regarding products, it makes my life much easier from a moderation standpoint. As I am sure there are a number of vernacular that may be preferred in such cases lol. They also have the "Professionalism Initiative" for the forum, but its selectively enforced. I can go on, but I'd be ranting for days since I surfed there for probably a good 10 years.

I enjoyed my time there, but over time things just became less authentic. When they would openly clown on people using performance laptops it became more difficult to participate in that community.

Looks like the market protested Sony's actions and was able to get them to overturn the mandate.

If I didnt have my AM4 platform thats probably the route I would be looking at as well.

Looks like the game is being review bombed due to Sony's forcing on PSN accounts being linked to Steam

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If you are building out over time, then just buy it a piece at a time and maximize your dollar

Make a thread for that please. Thanks

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Yep, its why I always respect those that have a passion for the subject matter. Especially on HEDT, especially in the X58 era. SandyBridge made it much easier to jump in but you also lost some of the granularity iirc.

Very interesting, going to try it in a VM here soon. Thanks for sharing!

Source Just finished my first playthrough of the base game and DLC (which was included), about 105 hours total doing a healthy amount of side quests and such. Very much enjoyed the title personally and highly recommend it. The landscapes in this game are beautiful IMHO.

Sounds like Windows is trying to install what it thinks it needs. I believe you can disable automatic driver installation and see how it behaves.

So, anyone here been playing? I've got around 150 hours in the game so far, been playing with a buddy of mine for a couple hours each day. Got to say loving the PVE and how self aware the game is.

What is the general configuration of the M6800 including the sBIOS? LVDS or eDP panel?

Those cards likely do not support eDP if I had to wager a guess. Some laptops will post but the card may not work, do you have a monitor to plug in? perhaps it might display something there.