Thr biggest problem with the price of the 4080/4070Ti is that the vast majority of people are only willing to spend that much money if they get the best GPU possible. Paying $800, that in reality is more, to get the third best option Nvidia offers is something that doesn't result attractive to us, consumers, and it's a lesson that hopefully Nvidia will learn this gen. Unfortunately for them, the cost of learning that lesson may be quite expensive, which sucks for them, but the costlier it is, the better for us.

I didn't realize Epic had done that. It may have to do with Epic removing those games from the Epic Store because they can't add the Fornite's multiplayer system, and they won't let their games run perfecly fine on its competing platform and look bad.

But hey, thank God Epic is so much pro-consumer and cares so much about our freedom to play games on the platform we want.

Scalpers getting cucked this gen is probably the only good thing about these shit prices. With some luck, Nvidia and AMD will stop being dumb by summer and discount their GPUs to reasonable levels. And by that time, there would be so much stock that scalping would be impossible. Till then, best to either buy a 4090 or last gen GPUs or wait.

Even if those two GPU's from Nvidia are going to be the 4070/4060Ti, it still means both are going to be received less warmly, primarily because we've seen what the 4070Ti is priced at, and the fact it is just lesser and rather a meh-worthy card.

I'm fully expecting those other two cards to do less and rely more heavily on DLSS 3 to pump up their stats, which means the cards are getting worse and now have to rely more on a band-aid to look semi decent, and both will still likely cost 500+

Also what's with NVME's getting chunkier over time?, between the GPU's and NVME's, it feels like we're regressing in the compact dept of tech (I've seen this with phones over the past decade getting bigger, wider and chunkier in general).

Epic likely removed their games because they are either going to slightly "remaster" them and sell them exclusively on their store, or hand them to third parties to then re-release on Steam, complete with Trojan horse EoS, because everyone totally wants crossplay between Steam/EGS, at the cost of losing the ability to play said games in Steam's offline mode/having to make EGS accounts..

Seriously, I wish Tim would fuck off this planet, he's been doing nothing but shit on the PC platform since he sold gears and copied what Tencent told them to copy. 

So Youtube randomly suggests this video and user to me, so I thought "why not?" and gave it a watch.

Turns out Sega delisted all the OG Sonic games entirely from Steam (funny since Epic did that with their UT games), and that this collection of theirs is utterly half baked and just feels like an amalgamation of good/bad pros and cons.

I'm actually glad I own all the og games on Steam for Sonic, because this collection sounds like half arsed shit compared to Mania. It's been 6 months since that video came out, and I doubt they rectified all the negatives listed in that guy's vid.

The 4070Ti isn't a bad card "per se". If you look at the performance it brings, it offers a 30% improvement over the 3070Ti:

(graph taken from TechPowerUp's review of the ASUS 4070Ti TUF card)

If you look at previous gens (3070Ti FE review, 2070 SUPER FE), you can see that a 30% increase is the average improvement from an xx70Ti gen to the next one, so in this regard, the 4070Ti performs as expected.

The problem is, obviously, the price. They've gone from $600 (official Nvidia price, it's the value they gave to the card) to $800, a 33% increase. So, just like with the 4080 vs 3080, Nvidia is charging $10 more for every 1% performance increase, killing its value.

Heat. The push for faster drives pushes the temps of the controller and NAND chips higher, requiring more cooling with every gen update. All Gen4 drives need heatsinks, with some controllers running cooler and the simple heatsink of the motherboard was ok, while others run far hotterand needed beefier ones.With Gen5 it's worse, and all drives will need bigger coolers, and some even with fans.

From 70 to 100 is a 43% increase, not a 30% increase.

Yeah... I knew something was off, but I was too tired to make the maths.But you're right, it's not a 30% increase but a 43%, similar to the jumps from previous gens.

And, therefore, it's not $10 more for each % increase, but something like $9 (for example). Still, you're paying more for the extra performance, neglecting the value of the new cards.

Summary from reddit

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So I have a few potential upgrade plans coming up. One issue with owning a 4090 is that the GPU is so powerful that when you have a bottleneck in the system, it really starts to show. There are instances with Spiderman Remastered with RT on to max that my PC actually drops below 60fps when playing at 4k Native. It doesn't happen frequently but it happens once in a while when swinging around the city. This is of course due to a CPU bottleneck as the 5950x is not able to keep up with the 4090s capabilities.

So I have been eyeing an upgrade and neither vanilla zen 4 or a 13900k seemed like a good deal. 7950x while a tad faster than 5800x3d in gaming is not much faster and while 13900k is 5-10% faster than a 7950x in gaming, again not much faster and no upgrade path. Of course the leap over a 5950x for both is more like 30-40% in gaming but still, feels a bit meh considering how expensive of an upgrade the platform will be. And upgrading to a 5800X3D may be the cheapest option, I would still like to have my cores.

You can start to see why this is a bit of a dilemma. But with 7950X3D, the future is bright. As my job anniversary will happen around May, it may be time to upgrade with the bonus that's coming up. If the numbers are legit and it can beat a 13900k lets say by 5-10%, then there's a good chance I'll be buying it. If it ends up being slower though, would be lame.

The other thing I'll likely upgrade this year is a monitor. Sadly there are no 4k 32 inch OLED options that have high refresh rate.

How many cores do Spiderman use while running? Given how the 3D cache will not be split between the two CCDs, if the game uses more than 8-cores (highly unlikely), you'd be better going for something other than the 7950X/7900X 3D.

And we'll have to see how well the new scheduller for those chips work in Windows. There were some issues with several games when Alder Lake launched, and it could happen again with these AMD processors.