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Pemalite said:

caffeinade said:

Oh, this must be that ray tracing coprocessor Machiavellian was talking about. I don't know how Microsoft it going to be able to put one of these into each Scarlet unit though.

I would love one of these, but I want to wait until 7nm before my next upgrade.

What? Did I miss something technical and juicy?

JEMC said:

You and CGI are the only ones that I thought could use this, but only because you always go for the extreme

I don't think CGI would go with an AMD processor though, could be wrong about that.
I think he is going with the Intel 28 core chip at some point?

I am just waiting for DRAM and GPU's to drop in price and then I can complete my new Coffee lake rig.
No way in hell am I paying $800 for only 32GB of ram, that's some bullshit.

@Machiavellian: You didn't miss much, just his opinion: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=236730

And well, I didn't say that you two would buy it, just that you are two of the few on this site that could actually consider going for something like that. Another one could be Burning Typhoon because he streams, but I think he's happy with his 1800X.

As for the insane DRAM prices, maybe (but just maybe) this will help bringing them down a bit: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/dram-makers-likely-to-get-fined-millions-(if-not-billions)-on-antitrust-fines-in-china.html

Pemalite said:

vivster said:

Call me when it's actual millions. Fuck that local dimming shit. Apparently micro LEDs are still far off from being made into anything useful at a decent price so they try to butter us up with some inferior transitional mini LED technology.

Meanwhile OLED still does what LED can't do and it's getting better every day, yet no one bothers to use it.

I think we may end up transitioning to RGB LED anyway before OLED actually catches on in big displays.
Some of the concept panels have been extremely impressive.

Talking again about monitors, some people can be having more than they asked for, but with worse results:

Your 1440p Monitor Could Be Using a 4K Panel
https://www.techpowerup.com/245367/your-1440p-monitor-could-be-using-a-4k-panel
German site Prad.de reports that sources close to monitor panel manufacturers told them that the production cost of a 27" 4K 3840x2160 panel is lower or at least equal to that of a 27" 2560x1440 QHD panel. This drives monitor manufacturers to use 4K panels in monitors that are specified as QHD - when panel supply is low, or monitor demand is high.

Obviously you're not gonna get 4K resolution when paying for a QHD monitor. Rather the panel firmware is configured to report its maximum capability as 1440p, and internally scale the input signal accordingly, which may result in reduced image quality.

In order to scale a 2560x1440 image to 3840x2160, the scaling factor is x1.5. This means that a single pixel in the lower-resolution original image gets mapped onto one and a half pixels, which increases blurriness. This is vastly different to a 4K display running with 1920x1080 input, where each pixel simply gets doubled in width and height, so a 1:1 mapping exists and everything stays sharp.

>>And they include a picture showing the difference between native 1440p (top) and scaled 1440p on a 4K panel (bottom).

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

JEMC said:

Xenonauts 2 successfully crowdfunded in half a day (Updated)
https://www.pcgamer.com/xenonauts-2-launches-crowdfunding-campaign/
Officially confirmed in early 2016, sci-fi strategy game Xenonauts 2 is now live on Kickstarter. Like its forerunner, it's after £50,000, and, at the time of writing, has already amassed almost two fifths of its goal.
Update: Xenonauts 2's Kickstarter campaign has been successfully funded, several hours after going live. As outlined in our original story below, the project sought £50,000. At the time of writing, its total has reached £67,698—with 29 days left to go.

That's great news . I played the first one a lot, which i got on sale. It had it's flaws but still was very fun. The second one may be day one.

I got the first one last week or so, when GOG decided to give it for free. Otherwise, I would have bought it during a Steam Sale.

I still have to try it, tho. Damn backlog!

Last edited by JEMC - on 22 June 2018