5754

The Standardized VR connector standard has been abandoned for now

5755

Wonderful!

5756

USB-C monitors are great as full-on docks for laptops. You plug in one cable and get USB, displayport, and power via USB-PD. I expect we’ll see a lot more of that sort of thing once USB4 takes off.

5757
5758

So the NVidia review embargo is supposed to end at 3am eastern tomorrow (i.e. in a few hours).

Are we expecting the orders to go live (for the few units there are) 24 hours later on Thursday morning)?

Guess I’ll be staying up!

Diego

5759

That JayzTwoCents guy going on about the colour and “desired” asthetic of the AMD cooler just sounds like a twat.

5760

Ford tweeted “Hold your horses!” when the model Y was announced, which at least implied that they expected to be competitive. I’m still waiting for AMD to at least go that far. Who knows, maybe they’ll do something after the reviews come in.

On another note, I was buying an EVGA 850 power supply, and then I figured “in for a penny in for a pound” and got the 1000 watt instead (moar is better, right?). Holy shit this thing is heavy. I’m not going to want to carry my PC once it’s in there. I’m not even sure I WANT it in there.

5761

I really hope AMD can be competitive - but I suspect the RTX 3090 will still be king.

I did order one of these eGPU enclosures tonight to be ready for a new GPU - AMD or NVIDIA.

5762

The ‘launch’ here in Australia and NZ is pretty hopeless. Initially they weren’t going to release any FE cards here, but now they are giving some to one retailer for the whole two countries (!!). The company has set up a raffle to see who will actually get to pay RRP (well, Australia’s RRP anyway), it’s unclear how many they have but most likely extremely few, and they have confirmed they are never going to get more stock of them in.

5763

Curious about any experience you can share with that. Every time I’m considering a new system I look over a laptop + eGPU option. I like the idea but it still hasn’t stuck for me - but I think it probably will, some day.

5764

I am going to try it for the first time this round. I had co-workers using it with the 980-era laptops and upgrading to a 1080. They were very happy.

I have a 2080 in the laptop currently so I may end up building a small PC for the 3090 in the end.

5765

What windows laptops does that one work with?

5766

I currently have a GTX 1060. When I upgrade to an RTX 3080, do I just swap cards and upgrade my drivers or is there anything else I should do?

5767

I usually also run a few game benchmarks on my old GPU the the same on my new GPU to see my PC’s actual performance increase. :)

3080 Founder Edition reviews drop in like 50 min.

get-hyped

5768

Big Navi won’t beat 3090, because Nvidia made a ridiculously oversized powerhog to maintain epeen supremacy at all costs.

But the fact that Nvidia went to such measures may be a sign that they’re starting to see AMD in their mirror again.

5769

Most with Thunderbolt 3. eGPU.io has a list of tested laptops.

TB3 is equivalent to a PCI Express 3 x4 slot - you’re not getting maximum performance. Benchmarks show 5-20% penalty if you use an external monitor connected to the external card directly. Worse if you want to use the laptop screen.

5770

3080FE still can’t do 60fps at 1080p in Flight Sim. Microsoft has delivered the next Crysis!

5771

MSFS is actually CPU bottlenecked. It’s largely single threaded. Much like Crysis, actually.

5772

Control RTX sans DLSS is the new Crysis. Doesn’t get close to 60

5773

On my i5-750 flight sim always pegs all 4 of my cores at 100%. Usually single-threaded games are different.