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  1. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Nvidia decided at the end of the scapler profit-taking that why should middlemen make all that extra money, so they built in shortage pricing to the MSRP. Unfortunately for them, other than a few% at the top who will indeed pay anything, the market will not hold those prices. The people that...
  2. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    As I understand it, IANAE, as they reduce the process size they use to make the chips, they are able to pack more and more transistors into the same area, which is one of the ways they are able to increase performance; the electrons have shorter distances to travel across less trace and less...
  3. rhinohelix

    SWTOR

    Man, I loved The Secret World so much. I forget how much I enjoyed playing that game. I'm almost done with Sentinel, when I am done I need to back and finish up a few of the other origin stories, particularly Sith Inquisitor. I now wish I hadn't gone full Dark Side Sith Warrior. Not that the...
  4. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    So it will eventually suck like all things as entropy drags it down but I haven't been this excited for a game in a long time. I can't remember anticipating a game as much as I have D4 and I haven't played D3 in a looong time. Blizzard was great, Bungie was Great, Nvidia was great, GW2 was...
  5. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    One of many threads discussing the issue here, seems to be training with the first several boots. Seems like latest BIOS along with these settings had positive effects: Fast Boot ENABLED Memory Context Restore AUTO Boot time: 12 seconds I haven't noticed my boot times being long after the...
  6. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    For better or worse, absolutely not.
  7. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    There was something when those AM5 boards were new, let me see if I can dredge it up from the depths.
  8. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I prefer Arctic or DeepCool to NZXT coolers but they look so good, and I can't get over the 1200ish price of the 4080. It's so dumb on my part. If it were 1000 I would own one right now but that 200 bucks just irks me for some reason enough that I won't buy one. Otherwise if that is a 7800X3d...
  9. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I have bought like 4? Keys from them. No issues at all so far. It looks like inflation and the weaker dollar is even affecting those prices, they are twice as much as they were last year.
  10. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    That looks awesome but do not pay 115 dollars for a WIN10 Home OEM DVD. 15 dollar grey market Win 10 PRO key FTW. Just pick one that sponsers your favorite youtuber, There's 3 or 4 of them that are all good (https://www.cdkeyoffer.com/ is good) Get another 2TB NMVE for that money. And how long...
  11. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I built my and others PCs for years (I hung around a PC electronics shop and built my first PC, a 486/100 in 1994) but as time has gone on, I have built less and less, and now with RA and not nearly enough time to fuck with things, I just take my parts and what I buy from MC and have them do it...
  12. rhinohelix

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Holy fuck. I thought D2 was dead after that shit Xpac and with this stupid water bs season but seeing Cayde-6/7?
  13. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I have one already; I run it with just the frame. I always seem to want something that's a compromise that no one yet makes, both in monitors and in cases. Everything is better except CPUs and GPUs. Even power supplies have returned to normal thanks to ending of the pandemic and tariffs...
  14. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I missed my Hackentoshes and can barely be assed these days to build my own PCs much less something without out life left in them. Apple Silicon is great but killed any chance of some of the great things you could do with MacOS. Plus I need to from a troubleshooting perspective know more *nix...
  15. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I am seriously considering this; I just want a smaller footprint machine. My dream machine would be a 7800X3d and a 4080/7800XT/XTX in 2x NZXT H1 size case: Now I just have to find a way to make that happen and justify it to the wife after just having bought a Mac Mini.
  16. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I really liked the game play of the three classes I spent any time with, the Sorcerer, the Necro, and the Rogue. If direct melee classes hadn't been so punishing in the first beta I guarantee I would have more time in Barb; in fact I started with Barb before I switched to Sorc because that...
  17. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Reportedly you can skip the campaign after the first run through; not the zones/leveling but the campaign missions so you don't have to do the super long delve to the Black Lake w dialogue etc w/ cut scenes missions. I really disliked my time with the Melee chars except the Rogue, which was...
  18. rhinohelix

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Nintendo really lives in its own space without a doubt, and has its own exclusives peculiar to its ecosystem. We really live in the best world, IMO, where each of the Big Three has its own distinct approach it their space driven by their limitations that has benefits for gamers...
  19. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Not a 16 year old Virgin in the above picture, although we are not going to stop believing.
  20. rhinohelix

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    The Harkonnen are basically Dark Elves in DVs imagining, twisted and evil and pale from their complete industrialization. I agree it isn't how they are described in the books but I will go with it as everything else looked so. fucking. amazing. Tribal scream music is weird but Everything about...
  21. rhinohelix

    SWTOR

    I re-upped again to have something to do until D4 comes out. Edit: wow the double XP event is blowing the doors off. I leveled from 1-35 in like two easy days of play.
  22. rhinohelix

    Horizon 2: Forbidden West

    Did they fix Aloy's full Mass Effect Andromeda Tango and Cash face or can you still not break *that* that jaw? I mean, now it fits the <insulting lesbian crack about her stronk jaw line> but I figured they were too busy getting Woke and doing the going Broke prep. I thought they had been now...
  23. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    You are so right. I agree completely. Those Pugs look like the 1800's pictures of Pugs before the cosmetic breeding took over. I can show you on the doll where BP inadvertantly touched me talking about Pugs when mine was so close to my heart; we spent so many good years together, and then...
  24. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Look at the terrible, constant agony that dog is in. Look at it. Soak it in. Pugs are not in "constant agony waiting to heatstroke out" or whatever. They sure as fuck aren't working dogs, aren't made for the heat, and have any number of health problems from too much lack of genetic diversity...
  25. rhinohelix

    Star Trek: Picard

    Its worth the 9.99 through Roku or Amazon; Just this and Yellowstone typically justify it for me. I haven't watched much TV Star Trek since Voyager ended. Picard S1/S2 were hot garbage. This season was great. I have been arguing "plot holes" with people on Twitter. I am amazed how loosely...
  26. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  27. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The Price difference between the one on the left and the one on right? About $65,000 in US Weimar Bucks.
  28. rhinohelix

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    Go watch Ocean's Eleven or Stalag 13 and then understand what they were going for with ME2. The final battle sucked from a lore perspective: "The Reapers, the most feared race in galactic history, look this way not because we are designed to but lucky for us we were convert from bad ass looking...
  29. rhinohelix

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    A man can dream. I am not betting money or pre-ordering, though.
  30. rhinohelix

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    I guess I just block out Teenage Anime Space Ninja. I barely remember him except for killing him in What's His names' office near the end. I am going to have to go back and check but IIRC I always made peace between the Quarians and the Geth. Mass Effect 3 is just about paying off the first...
  31. rhinohelix

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    The ending. THE ENDING. <Col Kurtz> Everyone hated Kai Ling but I always killed him too fast to really hate him too much. It was full retard anime Sci Fi Ninja, though. Dev Tank was on FULL E at that point. Anyone have the screenshot of the MYSTERY!!!White board or whatever? Holy fuck those...
  32. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    <pedro pascal laughing then crying.gif>
  33. rhinohelix

    Ashes of Creation

    mmmmm Dishwasher Banana reminds me I need a Chikfila milkshake Oh, and Ashes of Creation Alpha 2 later this year.
  34. rhinohelix

    Ravenswatch

    I love everything about the game except for the one thing I can't stand, my gaming bete noir: "Rogue-like". Well fuck. It means they don't have to make nearly as much content and I am guaranteed to get frustrated.
  35. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I remember when it was just genius Nerds. John Carmack, Sid Meier, Gary Grigsby, Chris Roberts, etc. Blizzard was loaded with talent, Then over time it and almost every other dev became SJW central. Anyway, we have threads for this.
  36. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Both so close: She *ate* the EndGame. You have to shrink down to the Quantum Level ala Avengers Endgame and fight inside her to win your freedom. <bow chicka wow wow plays quietly in the distance>
  37. rhinohelix

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

    Millions of dollars?
  38. rhinohelix

    Final Fantasy 16

    Every time one of these comes out I wish I had got into playing them. I own the soundtrack to a few and probably the game (I know I own/ed X and played 14 for quite a while) just can't seem to stick with any of them.
  39. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Was an amazingly fun game, they were coming back after the changes and delays when Marvel yanked the license. The Secret World was another really good game that Funcom never really gave the chance it should have gotten. Has any other company created more games with possibility and then...