Right, but go-around #1 succeeded last year where others didn’t.
That might be the worst product video in the history of product videos.
My DAN A4-SFX v2 case finally arrived. Apparently they are also working on a v3.
Now I need to decide if I want to deal with Hades Canyon (sequel to Skull Canyon) with the on-die Radeon graphics in “late March” … once you hit 4k resolution on-die becomes completely impossible, heck even at 1080p it depends on the game still. I guess Hades Canyon is “VR capable” level on die GPU, whatever that means. Supposedly equivalent to 1060 GTX but I am skeptical of that claim.
Or just continue with a real GPU via the Thunderbolt external GPU box, but having two boxes instead of one isn’t exactly elegant. I think external Thunderbolt GPU boxes are very very cool and although there were some early teething pains, it definitely works.
The intel G chips are 24 CUs of Vega, running at lower clocks and thermally constrained, so best case scenario you’re realistically looking at ~35% the speed of a Vega 56. Best guess.
The GTX970/1060 and RX-480/580 are commonly considered the VR minimum specs. However, the GTX1060 is ~65% as fast as a Vega56, and the RX-580 is ~70% of a Vega56. So… no.
The GTX1050 non-ti is 33% the speed of a Vega56, and the RX-460 is ~28%. That’s likely roughly where the Hades Canyon “G” intel chips will perform. Definitely fine for 1080p gaming, and the best integrated GPUs ever released by a huge margin, but not great 1080p gaming solutions. Not 1080p at high settings and 60fps. And definitely not up for VR.
Note they will absolutely smoke the new AMD Ryzen+Vega APUs which don’t include any HBM on-board and are only 11 CUs at most. They aren’t really 1080p-capable by any stretch, they’re 720p GPUs. 1080p at low settings and 30fps at best.
Can’t believe it but its been over 7 years since my last full pc build. Besides upgrading graphics cards I’m still running a system based around an overclocked 2600k.
I have decided that this is the year that I will build from the ground up again but I’m going to aim for a real high end gaming machine. I am going to wait for the Zen2 and 9700k, the 2080s from nvidia and the new 4k 144hz HDR gsync monitors from asus and acer. I really want to go 4K this time around. It should take me the better part of the year to build it, but I’ll need time to save and also pick off some parts if I see any sales.
Yeah in a world of Spectre and meltdown everyone should be waiting for the next releases, much later in 2018.
Not to mention cryptopricing.
Mostly this.
I’ve had a MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1060 for a little while, and it looks like I need to pick up HDMI Type E cables for the ports in the first, third and fourth spots. However, I can’t seem to locate any on Amazon and elsewhere.
Is this right, or am I misjudging what they are?
Those are DisplayPort
Thanks! I was searching for HDMI type E which no one really uses in product listings, it seems, and Display Port adaptors were coming up as the Mac version which threw me. Now I know to continue looking for that designation, noting that it could refer to one of two things depending. Appreciate the clarification!