The Phenom 2?!

I barely remember it, but yeah, it was a beast.

But my 1700x went hard for five years. The only reason I tacked the extra 5 on was x3d changes things up.

Now, since I’ve made that comment AMD has solved the Zen 5 latency issues but cutting it by more than half. That’s what was holding it back. So when the Zen 5 x3d comes out, it’s going to be nuts.

But…

It’s going to take a while for those changes to become industry standard. It might be a year before Zen 5 x3d, I’m not sure if they’ve even announced when. So games won’t take full advantage of them right away.

It takes like a 4070 super to CPU bound a 7800x3d, and fine tune some settings and it’ll balance out

We’re not going to have a new screen resolution jump, and that combo can max out 4k 120fps on pretty much anything thanks to frame generation without even touching upscaling.

There’s just not a lot to improve until we see a major jump like VR finally taking off.

the price of Zen 4 has dropped, and the 7800X3D in particular looks compelling to those who might’ve wanted Zen 5.

This is the big one.

Literally the best gaming chip from any company is a Zen 4 and surprisingly cheap

For most people they won’t need anything more than a 7800x3d for 5 maybe even 10 years?

I’d hate to say what GPU it takes to make cpu the bottleneck on one of those.

It’s weird on a day old thread you immediately get two extra upvotes, and I get three downvotes as soon as you reply…

I don’t help people who play thos silly games, have a nice life.

A two year old YouTube prediction with no other evidence?

Obviously you’re a man of science…

That’s an entirely different thing and not happening anytime soon…

That’s the worst thing about labeling this stuff “ai” it chefs lumped into crazy no feasible shit like you’re talking about.

Why wouldn’t it?

It’s talking about two things “AI” which is actually a pretty good use of the label

1. Generatinga lower Rez screen and upscaling.

2. Generating addition frames based on what might happen in between real screens

There’s no valid reason not to use that. Hardware costs more so you’d be paying a lot more money for the same performance. With less people making that choice, the price differential would be even greater.

Like, this is right. They can’t make them without this for low enough people will buy it.

It’s facts bro

Frame generation is fucking huge.

Especially since it works best at high frame rates. Like, if you were playing 30fps doubling to 60 might be a perceptable difference because of how long it is in between frames.

But going from 60 to 120, it’s still 50% “fake” frames, but the time between “real screens” is much smaller allowing for more frequent corrections to what the “fake” frames are predicting.

So while it won’t help a bad computer run anything, it can help a “mid” computer make what it can run look a lot better, because you can crank up a bunch of options to maintain the fps you were getting without I.

Modern consoles with digital games already blur the lines on console generations, but like, very few games are even using the PS5 to max.

PC you can decide your own “generation”, and if you upgrade your PC, you don’t have to buy remakes, you just turn the settings up.

Between that and locking yourself to one entity to buy games from, there’s a lot of downsides to consoles and not many upsides left.

That article is about wifi for personal use…

And the second one is about it being free and you’re acting like they didn’t have Internet before then?

so no, I don’t think for the average sailor a US warship provides internet access 24/7

Yeah man, you have zero idea what people are talking about about.

No it just wouldn’t.

Like, are you imagining a modern US warship doesn’t have internet 24/7?

This was for porn and maybe streaming services and social media, but mostly porn.

It wasn’t for any official use, because they have that covered.

You’re acting like surface ships are submarines…

What?

Surface ships are in constant communication with stuff…

You can’t just find a signal in the middle of the ocean. Musk can find a starlink signal tho, because he can see what Starlink connects to and it’s gps location.

Probably not for the reason you think.

Like, it wouldn’t be patched into anything official

But it means Musk knew where that ship was 24/7, and I’m pretty sure that’s why Ukraine’s military stopped using it. Musk tipped off Putin to troop movements.

If it makes you feel better, losing Brazil for Starlink and Twitter is something Elmo might legitimately never financially recover from.

There’s a lot of people in Brazil, they almost all usesd twitter, and it took like 24hrs of not being able to use Twitter before they all started joining bluesky or Threads. Once a social media user tries a new service, they might never come back.

Even if Elmo appoints someone as a Brazilian representative, he’s got millions in fines to pay now. And I’m pretty sure that number keeps going up till he pays. But his companies can’t exist without Brazil’s user base