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Isn't there Display Port 2.0 or something with more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1 already?

Ugh. Figured. And kudos to all those wonderful tech sites and video bloggers who haven't said a PEEP about this for fear of losing access to their precious review samples. Dog shit industry.

OLED displays are supposed to be incredibly fast. We saw that news about the 500hz TN panel monitor. Is there any reason that these OLED screens can't already be 500hz besides manufacturers milking it and drip feeding people slow incremental...

Yup, more obvious bullcrap. After all the smoke blown up your asshole it'll come out and be 10% faster than the last one. Whatever.

I actually think it's more insidious than that. I wouldn't put it past companies like Intel and AMD to intentionally design it that way so they have an out when it comes to RMAs. "Oops, you pulled out the pins of the CPU when taking it out to RMA...

A good design should be pretty braindead and idiot proof. Shouldn't require specific movements in specific orders. CPU packaging in general blows with the error prone pins and other stupid shit. There's got to be a better way.

It's just bad engineering. The AM4 socket is fucking crap. The lever on it is so flimsy and weak. Intel sockets have always been better.

Not buying it. It's been well documented that the first batch of 5950xs had a fuckload of defective CPUs in it. I think it's a fallacy, honestly. 30 years ago someone said "CPUs rarely fail," and so it just gets repeated, but I don't see any...

I had a 5800X that got WHEA errors all the time too, I eventually got tired of dicking with it and running with PBO and c-states off so I sent it in to get replaced. AMD tried to give me the runaround but eventually got me a new one that works...

No AAA games where performance matters are even written using C# or .NET framework. It's not like the performance in some 2D Unity turd even matters. Sure, it might require a computer 18 times more powerful than it should need to run, but it'll...

You need VRR so that's either HDMI 2.1 or a DP display with gsync or freesync.

Yup although technically this is pillarboxing. You get an effective 2160x1620 resolution. Emulators like MAME have a -ror or -rol switch that rotates the screen left and right. You also have the side benefit of essentially getting actual vertical...

This illustrates it very well. See how the width of a rotated 42" 16:9 monitor is almost the same as the width a non-rotated 4:3 25" CRT. http://www.displaywars.com/42-inch-d%7B9x16%7D-vs-25-inch-4x3

Because the 42" mounted vertically in a cabinet just happens to fit 25" 4:3 cabinets perfectly and ends up being roughly the same size when you rotate the display of the game.

I'm using DOCP and PBO. Basically everything else is default. The thing is, it only ever happened when the system was basically idle. The machine ran Prime95 for 24 hours successfully too.

My computer used to occasionally reboot when it was idle or near idle (like if I left a playlist on in VLC overnight or something like that). Never happened during load or while playing a game. After I changed the idle power setting and disabled...

I think even 30% is being pretty optimistic.

Every generation there are tons of bullfuck rumors and everyone thinks the next card is going to be something ludicrous like 75% faster, then the new cards come out and the high end one is 15% faster than the previous generation. Every. Single. Time.

I don't get what you mean. Inventing what problems? What did you do with your 4830 and 7870?

Have you installed that Dolby Access app for Windows? I know what you mean about spatial audio, though. It seems to basically create an Atmos stream for you based on the coordinates of the sound objects you give it. I'm just curious if any...