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The 5070Ti is looking like a "mainstream" option. Less than 16GB VRAM and I wouldn't want to bother with the purchase, but $750 is more than a flagship desktop CPU and that strikes me as absolutely galling. I'm hoping that AMD has my must-have feature so I can entertain sub-$500 options from...

This is Indiana and if there are only two states where something is legal, one of them will be Indiana. I was treated to a bunch of my Tampa friends dealing with the low-40F weather posting their "cozy vibes" outfits, the sweaters and stocking caps they never wear, yesterday. 40F here and I...

I was a big fan of Fujicolor Pro 400H when I had access to 35mm film cameras. The photographer I worked for had a half dozen Canon EF bodies and couple sets of lenses. He did a mix of studio work and event photography. I never got to mess with his studio set up at all because he didn't need any...

My theory is that there must be an air gap somewhere but I don't particularly want to look for it right now. I don't see any places where I can see light from outdoors; I briefly lived in a (new) home that had its foundation buckle and it was immediately obvious where the problems were. The...

There's a foot of snow in New Orleans right now. I also found out how much worse the new windows are in my apartment compared to the old ones. My back bedroom was 55 degrees with the thermostat at 68. I wound up stapling a bunch of blankets over the windows just to get the temperature up...

I did learn film development when I was in middle school, actually, and I worked for a photographer when I was in high school. His main income source was actually using a Kodak Panoram. He had this crazy ordering and automation system for printing that ran on an IBM System/38 (the thing that...

The future that the current political landscape looks like it will produce is one with a corporate aristocracy, where the properties of large businesses can supersede governance within their properties. This is kind of a common trope in dystopian cyberpunk fiction of the 80s and 90s, but it is...

This guy just posted a 75 minute explanation of what all the advanced DRAM timing settings on Ryzen motherboards do, just in case anyone else has some hope of ever getting all four of their DIMMs to work some day.

We get these evangelical Hare Krishna Hindu guys in about once a year. Maybe it's the same guy? Anyway we'll chat with him for a while until he gets unpleasant. I like to discuss my sincerely held Yadzidi faith with them, which usually brings out the best in their arguments. Re: gun, I'm a...

Getting off the topic of firearms for just a sec: Better Offline is a podcast that had absolutely insane CES coverage. The host set up a hotel room and had journalists from basically every major Tech new site, plus oddballs like consumer advocates, local newspaper reporters, a physicist...

I live in Gary, Indiana, which according to every republican in the USA, is second only to Fallujah in terms of ongoing threat to life. It's not. It has the bad marketing of being close to Chicago, another place with bad marketing regarding crime. The truth is that Chicago's per capita violent...

The parts are validated for whatever. If you're making parts for larger designs, you don't fuck with that. You buy the exact thing in the approved design. Cars are a perfect case in point. They don't screw around with Snapdragon 1-whatever SoCs even though they're absurdly more capable because a...

All the new fabs in the US are apparently going to Arizona, in spite of the fact that silicon wafers are unbelievably water intensive to produce and every drop of the Colorado river is already spoken for. I do think there's enough of a protectionist and populist streak among the new...

Every person who has ever been or will ever be in a relationship has baggage, man. There's no cure for all the parts of life you weren't there to see; we all have our attachment styles and love languages and traumas from family long before anything else enters the picture. One of the things...

Lunarmist may be in California somewhere and Santilli is an LA resident. There are a couple others who visit infrequently. There is no actual geographic concentration among us. We've had multiple members from the same area because long time members occasionally drag friends on here.

I'm a couple years older than my partner's dad. In my defense, the whole "partner" thing was her idea and it took over a year to convince me she wasn't joking about it.

I suspect China will be waiting for NATO to fall apart to do anything. If NATO doesn't fracture (i.e. enough less syphilitic relics from Reagan's GOP remember Ruskies aren't our friends), China isn't going to risk its place in the global economy, because losing access to European AND North...

My grandfather was born in 1899. My grandmother was only 16 to his 36 when they got married. To his credit, my grandmother wound up with a college education and a full-time career as a nurse, which was her condition for marrying him in the first place. I bring this up every time someone in my...

Trump tried to leave NATO during his first term. Congress passed a law stating that the President can't unilaterally withdraw from military treaties, but oh hey, there's nothing aside from the possibility that a couple congressional representatives fail to show up for votes that keep Republicans...

Not sure if anyone cares, but it's looking like the non-XT AMD 9070 is about 20% faster than a 7900XTX, at least for rasterized performance in Call of Duty. Given that there is a faster SKU and AMD itself is saying it isn't chasing high end performance, I'd say that's a pretty good showing. B&H...

Go up there and fucking get married so they don't make you leave. Claim refugee status if you have to. You'll be better off. Around 25 years ago, I just missed out on a senior Windows admin position at a tech consultancy in Windsor and I doubt there's a day that goes by that I don't think...

There were a total of eight standard vaccines given. I've seen syringe guns that delivered four injections at at time, but that might not have been what you got. When I got my second covid booster, it was delivered by an Army corpsman and it was done so quickly and so smoothly that I didn't...

Most adults over age 30 would probably be 4F regardless. Too many sedentary, pot-smoking people who have ruined their eyes from bad phone habits. I sort of think Trump talking about these imperialist ambitions is going to be his narrative for why some future administrative positions don't get...

My partner decided to put off her big move for a while. She's still leaving, but the current plan is to wait and look for apartments with the people she'll be rooming with. I think the reality of being on the hook for those extra months of rent right away really killed her enthusiasm for going...

At this point I will give dd some bad ideas and suggest a nice hole and a geothermal heat pump as a very reasonable alternative his monster radiator setup. 😁

I have some A310s to play with today. These are short, single-slot cards with no need for external power, but they DO need a fan. They also support all the media encoding the more expensive Arc cards do. Even one of them seems to be able to keep up with three simultaneous 4k to 1080p transcodes...

I can't see any news at all about updated media compression support from either AMD or Nvidia. Edit: Never mind. It's not on the 1 page data sheets but it IS on the developer web site. Blackwell supports AV1 and HEVC422 like actual grown-up hardware.

Just as a little background, most of us, other than sedrosken, have been members of the same community for a very, very long time. Since the late 90s, in fact. We mostly know each other very well. In our ancient history, this site was set up as a replacement for forums run by storagereview.com...

Up to the 3070, the standard was for the *70 card to have about 50% of whatever the biggest card has. Now it's all the way up to the 5080, and the 5070 is still a loser 12GB card that won't even have enough RAM for AAA 1440p gaming. I'm glad the cards are physically smaller but we're still...

Hello new guy. What brought you to our community aside from holiday tidings?

I don't see this as a huge problem because we have CPU horsepower coming out of our ears right now, and it's probably something that can be fixed in software. AMD did not show off any discrete RDNA 4 hardware at CES. AMD did confirm that RDNA 4 will be available Q1 2025, at least for the...

Apparently the architecture in Battlemage drivers is suboptimal for low-spec CPUs, resulting in lower than expected performance on older hardware. I'm not sure how many people are using B580s with 10th gen i3s or Ryzen 2700Xs but it's not the best choice for those people.

Although Eda Rojiet Ezi has passed, I wish you all a somber and dignified period of fasting and contemplation.

^on par for ray tracing performance, apparently. Leakers are also saying that the third-fastest SKU should have 17% less power consumption than the 7800XT, which sounds to me like a pretty modest dual slot/dual fan card rather than some 2.5 slot, three fan monster.

IMO LGA 1700 might as well not even exist. Intel can say they fixed it all day long, but the only way I'd bother with it is with a 12th gen CPU and even then only if the CPU were free, given the 250W+ TDPs. That's not home server territory either, unfortunately.

Apparently, RDNA 4 GPUs are directly taking the literal name scheme from nVidia, with the new top end being called 9070XT being on par with the nVidia 4070TI. I suppose it will make comparison easier. The top end card is supposed to cost $650, which seems pretty reasonable since we're not...

It's not so much that I'm dead set as that the role and position I have is meaningful and stable. I'm not getting rich by any standard, but I like the life I have. There's a lot of trash IT service companies out there I could work FOR, or I could try to swim upstream by starting my own, full...

The last time I was able to RMA a CPU to Intel was a C2Q 6800 and if I remember right it took about two weeks. AMD got me a replacement 3700X in about 10 days. Just as a point of order, you can probably find something like a 9700X at retail for basically nothing as a stopgap that can...

I don't think I could build a new customer base there and I'd probably have a hard time finding work as an older tech with no interest in management or corporate work experience in the last ~20 years.

She has a job opportunity and family there, and it turns out that she's grown very close to my dear friends, who also live in the area. Basically she'd have a better life overall and I can't even remotely argue otherwise.

I actually just spent the week in Tampa. My partner is planning to move down there. I don't know how the hell anyone affords anything any more. I'm pretty sad about it all, but truthfully she needs to move on. Indiana isn't a good place for anyone, really.

Resolve Studio is $350 as a lifetime payment and Corel Draw shows up in Humble Bundle for like $20 every three months or so.

As far as I can tell, those cards are sold out EVERYWHERE. Apparently the next big news is the next generation Ryzen Pro AI Max nonsense-whatever APUs, which supposedly exceed a discrete mobile RTX 4060 in overall performance. I guess if there's one good thing about planet-killing AI energy...

Adobe is apparently increasing the price of its baseline Photography plan from $10/month to $15/month for users paying monthly. It's still $20/month to get the 1TB plan monthly and $120 for the plan if it's billed annually. I think Lightroom Classic + Photoshop is the cheapest package deal it...

Turns out Battlemage actually adds more advanced chroma support compared to Arc. 12-bit HEVC 444 is something you normally only find on cine cameras, not consumer mirrorless models, but it's there on the spec sheet. Sweet.

It looks to me like the GPU is momentarily spiking to very high utilization if I'm doing subject sharpen/face detection/noise removal. It happens if I feed even one image to Topaz AI and stays at nearly full load until it runs out of images to process. This might be an AMD driver thing; I don't...

I have decided that my RX 6900XT is too loud and I kind of hate when it spins up for just a minute while I send 50 pictures through Topaz Photo AI and it's briefly the loudest thing in the room. I'm kind of thinking that I could wire tie some 120mm fans to the existing heat sink, but I'm not...

There's still an entire world of portable players that don't say Apple on them. I carried a Sandisk Clip+ in my pocket for YEARS because they handled oddball formats like .ogg. They also stored progress in media files, which was great since mine had the entirety of "This American Life" on it.

Mild update which is that the Fiio does straight-up have the Play Store on it so you can install Firefox or whatever else you can get that runs on Android 10.

This is a DAS rather than a NAS but you can get an Orico 5 bay USB C (10Gb) 3.5" drive enclosure on Ebay sold direct by the OEM for $135 right now. That's a pretty good setup for your ITX PC or local, HDD-only backup system.