Mr. Fox

Newer is always better newer. Newer is often only better in the minds of those that stand to benefit from the use or sale of the newer product. That is the case with Windows.

That simply isn't true. If you optimize your system and disable or delete all of the unnecessary services and background filth that is running and doesn't need to be you will immediately notice a difference. You'll be able to see it and feel it. Even when you disable everything in Windows 10 and 11 that is unnecessary garbage it's still smaller than Windows 7 due to wasteful overhead that steals CPU clock cycles. It's actually very simple and boils down to a matter of operating system overhead and wasteful use of resources. The latest versions of Windows 10/11 behave in a way similar to a computer that has been infected by malware or running buggy software with a memory leak. When you're used to it you likely not notice. The degradation has taken place gradually over time due to the incremental addition of garbage. The difference is the equivalent of opening 10, 15 or 20 programs that are not being used and expecting system performance to be the same as if they were not running.

All you have to do is measure it. The biggest hit is on something that requires a swift reaction from the CPU, such as wPrime or a 3DMark Physics test. Huge hit on performance due to lag that you can actually see and feel. I posted side by side comparisons more than once and it's true. Numbers don't lie and neither does the seat of your pants. That's probably why the most recent few releases in the 3DMark suite don't even have a CPU test anymore. It would raise too many questions about why CPU performance has gone down and continues to decline and more and more performance hindering updates occur. If all you're doing is web browsing and poking around with an office productivity application, or anything like that, you probably won't notice because those tasks don't require a swift, low-latency reaction and you're not trying to figure out why performance has taken a nose dive. And, people that limit the use of their computer in that way are generally not performance enthusiasts.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm willing to go there if it means giving the support to Intel. And, who knows if 3090/4080 level is where its performance ends. Look how far ARC has come just with drivers... massive performance increases... Plus, if they are successful, who knows how Battlemage Gen2 is going to look. Might get pretty interesting. And, if we are honest, there is nothing wrong with 3090 or 4080 performance. It's not 4090-level, but it's also not nearly as severely overpriced. But, some of us get hung up on feeling like having the top performance GPU is imperative. I am starting to rethink that. I hated how much I paid for the 3090 KPE and hate even more how much I paid for my 4090. Big performance, little value... not necessary. Yeah, that would not surprise me in the least. NVIDIA is unmatched in their ability to misrepresent things for secondary gain. They are masters in the art of deception.

Yes, in no small part, that is one of the reasons I am looking forward to seeing how the Intel Battlemage GPU turns out. I don't like supporting the Green god of Greed and its goblin minions, but I also can't see myself being interested in buying an AMD GPU at this point. It wouldn't surprise me if there are a lot of people thinking this way besides me. One of the things I like most about Intel is their attention is not distracted from PC by consoles like AMD, nor are they distracted by the things NVIDIA is/has been distracted by (crypto, AI, medical science technologies, etc.).

Check out this free GPU benchmark on Steam. It's pretty cool visuals and audio. It pulled up to about 480W from my 4090. There are two different scenes and you can choose no DLSS or the range of DLSS settings. https://store.steampowered.com/app/770170/EzBench_Benchmark/ https://www.ezbench.gg/

I think if we began making a list of all the things that suck because of consoles it would be a long one. When you start lowering standards and accepting compromise it has a way of spreading and dumbing down other things. We start allowing caveats and making exceptions. Accepting mediocrity and tolerating less becomes too easy. Today's turdbooks are one of the most popular symptoms of the bar being set too low.

Maybe for some folks. Not for me. Not my cup of tea. I think computers would suck less if there were no consoles lowering the bar. But, I don't hate them as much as a handheld POS like the Steam Deck. That is about as low as the bar can go. It's in a hole on the ground, LOL. A joke like that makes a sucky turdbook seem like something special.

I can't see myself ever gaming on a console. I barely make any time for gaming on a PC and if I had to use a console and controller I would probably never play any games. The thought of it disgusts me. But, your point isn't lost. If you don't count the sloppy crap, the minimum system requirements of most games allow the use of weak and antiquated components.

^^^ this ^^^ maybe the idea follows the logic that it would be difficult to find any purpose for those living in an post-apocalyptic wasteland 😜

Unfortunately, I think that represents a sizable portion of the earth's population... gluttonous lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride in possessions. Truth is stranger than fiction, but in the end it's all gonna burn.

Excellent work here, brother.

I found the TV series equally slow and boring. I forced myself to watch the first 3 or 4 episodes and just couldn't get into it. My wife likes it. I find it difficult to not fall asleep watching them. One of the things I love about the Doom games is the nonstop action. There is no opportunity to slow down or stop to think about doing anything other than slaughtering demons to avoid being slaughtered. 10/10 for the adrenaline overdose. I had to edit my previous post as I somehow forgot to mention two extremely important franchises.

I did. Thank you. If it's what I think you're referring to I replied in that thread. While my preference is first person shooters, I have enjoyed a few other genres as long as they don't get too bogged down with collecting garbage and crafting trash, or interacting with AI to reveal clues and similar nonsense that bores me to death. Bingo. The Green God of Greed has made participation prohibitively costly and unnecessarily complex. Amen. I'm not sure why but I found your comment hilarious and it perfectly captured the essence of what I strongly dislike about Witcher games and titles with a similar style of gameplay (i.e. Skyrim). I have literally fallen asleep at the keyboard trying to force myself to play them. A really good action game will leave me with a bad case of jitters from being amped up on adrenaline for an extended amount of time. I love when that happens.

Well said. It doesn't even need to have a lot of tactical thinking to be fun if the gameplay is not as slow as molasses. If the game moves at a frenetic pace it is harder to get bored and lose interest due to slowness and monotony.

I really do think that part of it is just crappy work on the part of the game developers. Sloppy coding doesn't run smoothly and requires stronger hardware to minimize the impact of the half-assed products.

I have never, ever been a console gamer, always only PC. I hate game pads and joy sticks and only like keyboard and mouse. I think it's a matter of personal preference and I'm much the same. I have several of the Fallout games and find them too boring. My sons love the Fallout franchise. I have tried super hard to discover what they like about it and can't. Same applies to the Skyrim, Witcher and GTA franchises (which my sons also love). I've tried hard and forced myself to play more than an hour of each release and it's like watching pain dry to me. My gaming interest is concentrated on AAA FPS titles along the lines of the Crysis, CoD, Unreal Tournament, Gears of War, Wolfenstein, Quake and Doom franchises, and anything similar. Oddly enough, I do like Elder Scrolls. Vermintide is acceptable, too. I also like God of War.

Did you try bumping up the memory voltage? XMP profiles are often not stable because their default voltage is too low and if you tighten some of the timings things will come unraveled unless you increase the voltage. I would start at 1.500V and see if you can dial in settings you want. Once you do, slowly start decreasing the voltage until it begins acting up, then go back up about 0.020-0.025V.

So, the AOC 1080p 144Hz IPS display that was displaced from the monitor trio for work has been appointed as the OSD screen (LOL yes, 24-inch AIDA64 Sensor Panel) and the mini-1080p screen repurposed for Roku so I can watch/listen to Newsmax while working without wasting computer screen space for that. And, here's the tacky-looking crap on the back side that I mentioned. I'm not sure why they feel compelled to do stupid stuff like this. In addition to the idiotic RGB logo and glyph designs, the bottom area where the cords and cables connect also have a stupid cover to help hide the ports with a small opening for the cords and cables to exit. There are half circle plastic fillers that snap in place to hide the screws attaching the screen to the base. So extremely dumb and totally unnecessary, LOL. I'll get over it in a day or two and won't care anymore, but stupid crap like this is rather annoying because I know the people that created it are proud of themselves. Ultimately, it was a frivolous endeavor that added cost to production that nobody realizes any useful benefit from and looks really ugly on top of having absolutely no value or functional reason to exist. Everything is a cartoon or anime crap now. Sheesh. Disgusting. Dad gummit, that's really unacceptably lousy memory overclocking. I would not excuse it. Looks like his first was the best and even that was totally unacceptable... +700 less than my memory overclock on my Suprim and about as crappy as the Strix that I RMAd. If they're going to ream out my tailpipe without any lubricant, it had damned sure better perform as high as the price tag, or I'll ram up their tailpipe and break it off while it's in there. In the past year or so it is kind of scary how much trash I have RMAd because of lousy silicon bin quality. It's too bad for the people that are getting it back and can't sell it as new, but I don't care any more. If it is not at least average or a few ticks better they're getting it back. I'm not taking any more losses on crappy silicon. We all deserve to get top quality for top prices. "Settling" for below average just isn't something I am going to do any more. The loss will be theirs for selling me trash and no longer a lottery for me. No more short straws. The "guarantee to run stock stable" ain't gonna fly. It needs to overclock to an average or better level, or they'll get it back.

I got it. I am going to have to get used to it. I don't "love it" at this time. I decided to move the 1440p 165Hz Acer to the middle monitor position on my work PC trio. I don't believe I would find one moitor acceptable for work. So, I am using the 4K display with my benching rig. Probably makes more sense with the 4090 anyhow. The 6900 XT isn't ideal for 4K and 1440p is going to be a better match. ASUS has a knack for making things aesthetically ugly and this monitor is no exception. For some weird reason it is really thick and seems like an 80's-era product. It has some tacky-looking features on the back side, like a big ASUS RGB logo and weird alien-looking glyph designs. so I am glad the back faces the wall/window. The picture quality is excellent though. Very clear and bright.

Windows 10 LTSC 2019 and LTSC 2021 generally offer a little bit snappier CPU performance and better memory performance because the CPU has less worthless trash to blog it down. Every version of Windows that followed Windows 7 degrades CPU performance a bit more than the version before it. The consumer versions, especially Windows 11 have a so much worthless filth running that doesn't even need to exist. Not uncommon to bring up task manager and see 200 or more processes running with nothing open. Totally ludicrous.

Windows 11 Enterprise is not really any different than Windows 11 Pro. I think it was more for licensing purposes than functionality. There is no LTSC version AFAIK. I eventually formatted and replaced it with Pro and there was no change in performance and nothing remarkable. The same is true of Windows 10 Enterprise (non-LTSC) versus Pro versus Pro for Workstations. Only LTSC was remarkably different. The other variations are irrelevant IMHO.

Yeah, that's just crap. ASUS... surprised look is not on my face. That is an abnormally few connections. This one... https://rog.asus.com/monitors/27-to-31-5-inches/rog-strix-xg27uqr-model/ $318 from Provantage ($340 shipped) for a $600 monitor is pretty decent pricing. I would not entertain the notion of buying it at the utterly absurd normal price. It is a poor value and not worth it at normal price, but for half price it was hard to resist.

My new 27-inch 144Hz 4K 1ms IPS ASUS monitor was supposed to be delivered yesterday. Should have it today.

I suspect they were paid (maybe unofficially or indirectly) to not implement it. I have no doubt that NVIDIA and Micro$lop are even more experienced in the game of dirty pool. That's how it works. They take turns playing the part of scumbag. Business as usual. 😉 I enabled it on Quake II RTX and not only was the performance still poor (45-50 FPS at 1440p with the 6900 XT) it looks really bad. Lots of shimmering, a bit of banding and a grainy look to things. Hopefully, FSR3 will actually turn out to be a technology worth using. That may also be a fabricated at-launch paid-for "problem" the same as no DLSS support. It certainly wouldn't surprise me. We should expect to see more underhanded behavior as Intel gains market share in the GPU space.