Congratulations. You're going to have a very powerful, and hot, small PC.

After the launch of the new Intel chips, and because today was a bit slow, I checked the prices on several stores and all of them had the zen4 CPUs with discounts. Now the 7600X is around 70€ cheaper than the 13600K.

If that's an unofficial price cut from AMD or that all those stores all had the same idea at the same time I don't know, but it will be interesting to see what happens next.

After all, this is what real competition achieves, that the companies fight for our money.

I doubt (or hope) that's not the case, and it's the real deal, the 7900XT, especially if, like the rumor says, it performs better than expected and can bring competition to Nvidia's 4090. With a cheaper to produce GPU and slightly less VRAM (which I don't think will make a difference), AMD could price this one closer to 4080 than the 4090, forcing Nvidia's hand.

Yes, 46 is still farily young. It's been a bad week (with him and the guy from Falliout 76).

Banished is one of those games I'm interested in trying, but never make the step to grab it (I get lured to buy other games). I'll keep that Colonial Charter mod in mind when/if I finally get the game.

So I finished Cod Mw2 2022 campaign and got some thoughts.

Personally I didn't like the campaign all that much. The original MW1 and MW2 campaigns felt something on a grand scale where MW2 2009 basically went on full world war 3. Mw2 2022 on the other hand feels a lot smaller in comparison. You go to a few places around the world to stop the baddies from getting the missiles. What more is that Mw2 doesn't actually have much shock and awe treatment that even MW1 2019 had. There was a mission that was attempting to do it but it was nothing like the one from MW 2019 let alone the originals.

There's also this one mission that's known as the convoy mission and boy, I did not have a good time on that mission. Your mileage may vary but you can really tell Cod wasn't designed for such missions and it stayed around for way too long.

The graphics and sound design are great though. It feels like a good upgrade over the 2019 version. The gameplay mechanics are solid. Performance wise I can't say much cause yea it performs well but I also have a 4090 lol. I will say that there seems to be a memory leak on some missions. I saw my Vram % go all the way up to 80% which considering I have 24GB of Vram... Yea hopefully they patch that up. There were a few sections where I died and it resulted on a black screen which I had to end task and restart the game for as well. But overall it was bug free.

There's also a big focus on stealth in some missions as well as crafting which can be a hit or miss depending on your liking.

Overall, 7/10. There was a cocktease for the next one tho which hopefully will be better.

It will be in a fully meshed Q58, won't be that bad.

That's a nice, well ventilated case. You won't have too many problems with a good cooler.

I think you misunderstood me.

I was not saying that the base 7000 would make more sense than Intel's new offerings for professionals or Prosumer, I was just saying that for those guys, waiting for the X3D version doesn't make much sense, as it doesn't improve on their workloads and as a result just costs more money than the base 7000 chips.

Ah I see, yea that makes sense

If the 7900 XT is cut down to ~ 10,240 cores I can see it being some 10% slower than the 4090 at 4K raster but releasing with a ~ 320 W TDP instead. 60% faster than the 6900 XT with those specs would match quite well with AMD's claimed RDNA3 gains.

(Remember that RDNA3 doubled FP32 units per CU like Ampere, so its efficiency per core should be more like 60% of that of the previous architecture. Which is why it won't be >2.5x faster than the 6900 XT despite double the shaders and higher clocks).

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 non-X CPU allegedly features 8 cores and 65W TDP

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7-7700-non-x-cpu-allegedly-features-8-cores-and-65w-tdp

Pretty much what AMD needs to do. Imo we need to see 7600 for $230 and 7700 for $330 if not cheaper. Similar to how Ryzen forced the i5 from quad cores to 6 cores and i7s from quad core 8 threads to 8 core 16 threads... Intel is now changing the game this time around. The i5 class is now 14 cores (6P 8E) and i7s are now 16 cores (8P 8E). So Ryzen cpus ironically look like what Intel CPUs used to look like compared to Ryzen. But I don't think we will see this transition from AMD until Zen 5.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Mobile lineup leaks out, RTX 4090 coming to laptops

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-40-mobile-lineup-leaks-out-rtx-4090-coming-to-laptops

Pair that with 13th gen laptop CPUs and you got a laptop with a 2 minute battery

ASUS launches GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-launches-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-with-gddr6x-memory

Sounds like Ampere cards will sell along side Lovelace for a long time. I'd be curious to see if RDNA will get a similar treatment.

EVGA Precision X1 now supports GeForce RTX 4090, a card the company doesn’t have

https://videocardz.com/newz/evga-precision-x1-now-supports-geforce-rtx-4090-a-card-the-company-doesnt-have

Meh, I never liked Precision. I tried using it when I had an Evga 1080 and it was ass. GPUTweak is even worse from Asus. My old reliable will always be MSI Afterburner.

AMD’s Fastest Radeon RX 7000 “RDNA 3” Laptop GPU Could Offer RX 6950 XT & RTX 3090 Levels of Performance

https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-7000-rdna-3-laptop-gpu-offer-rx-6950-xt-rtx-3090-level-gaming-performance/

Pretty crazy performance jump coming