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It probably depends on your videocard and perhaps also CPU how high you can push it. That reminds me that I should try to push it further, since I never tried again after updating my GPU.

Already exists. They are called APU's. But there is a reason why this is not done for high-end graphics. You put even more heat into a small region and the connection between the CPU and GPU doesn't actually have to be extremely fast, because a ton of rendering is done on relatively little data. Yes, it would. Current GPUs push everything to their limits, so everything would have to be substantially slowed down. Also, GPU's have direct die cooling and consumers are going to be breaking their GPU chips in large numbers, if you expect them to install the cooler themselves. And you can't just change the memory amount, because VRAM is much more tightly linked to the GPU chip, than how RAM is connected to the CPU. That improves performance, but you lose flexibility. And laptop CPU's are already soldered, and memory may be moving to grid array pin contacts, rather than edge connectors, which is a step closer to being soldered on.

Disable the beta channel and disable automatic updates, and you'll be last in line, so you'll leave the problems to the people who sign up for the beta channel and rationalize it by pointing to issues with a few stable releases. I'm not even on V72 yet with my main headset. Why hurry? Improvements are usually relatively modest. You'll survive if you get them a month or two later.

If you have a product design that makes you money and one that loses you money, why not just only sell the one that earns you money? And I still fundamentally disagree that it is a good idea to put a poor product that people don't want onto the market, and then bet on losing money to sell that product in large volume, to drive down costs where you still lose tons of money, but a bit less per unit. One issue with that strategy is that a smaller loss per unit still adds up to a huge loss in total when you start mass producing. And there is no guarantee that people are willing to take your product when it is crap. There is this saying: "there are no bad products, only bad prices," but I think that this is very wrong, unless you are literally giving people money, and they only take a horrible product to trash it, and pocket the money. At that point you are better off taking the product directly to the landfill. Putting bad products on the market also trashes your reputation, making people unwilling to get your product when you actually produce something good. Mass production is simply not a panacea to magically make a product ready for the market. This is also a simplification. Chips drove down prices greatly compared to vacuum tubes. Increased miniaturization in chips was no more costly until relatively recently. Smaller products can mean less material costs and some kinds of small designs are very cheap to make.

@krhth547 Doesn't this work? https://discord.com/channels/976306826947743766/1332109063798128671/1332109063798128671 Note that the link only works if you are already in the Moza discord: https://discord.gg/p77TtQF5

This video shows an enemy airplane disappearing when flying in front of the clouds. It seems like DLSS may remove a bit too much clutter sometimes:

This is a myth, like the other person said. Even just the 'coincidence' that this is exactly the same value as a popular framerate, should tell you that this number was made up to defend the use of 60 FPS screens. Physically, our eyes + brain can process something like 1000 FPS. The ability to identify individual frames is lower, but that doesn't mean that there is not a benefit beyond that. Note that a USAF test had pilots identify a plane after showing them an image for 1/220 of a second (so 220 FPS).

That's not how it works. You need to be able to sell for a price above cost, otherwise you make a loss. And making things cheaper, is actually one of the technological advances that need to happen.

And what did that non sequitur contribute to the discussion?

You are like those cops who should 'stop resisting' at people who are not at all resisting, so they can justify using force themselves. I am not picking a fight, but trying to get you to stop gaslighting me, by pretending that I wrote things that I didn't write at all. Is it really that unreasonable that I expect you to respond to what I actually wrote, rather than to put words in my mouth?

Yeah, they discontinued the 128 GB version. Note that buying second-hand can be a good idea, because lots of people use it only a few times and then sell it on. So you might be able to get a good deal, and if you can inspect it in person, you can check for dead pixels.

Why can't you respond to what I actually said, instead of pretending I said something I didn't? I never addressed whether it is relevant to 'a discussion about 50-series cards'. I pointed out that it is not relevant with regards to the MSRP, which is actually one of the main discussions going on in this thread.

The quality has to be good enough for it to sell in sufficient quantity in the first place. You can't just mass-produce something that is not yet good enough, because then people won't buy it and you won't earn money to make improvements. You will go bankrupt.

We are almost a week away from the release date, so any stores selling them now would be breaking the rules. And the Strix is the most over the top air cooled model, for those who don't care about value per dollar. It's not relevant to a MSRP discussion, since it is not a MSRP-model of the card.

He was referring to their headstrap, not the facial interface. Those are two different accessoires. With regard to a replacement headstrap, the two major choices are halo style or elite style, and extra battery or not. Halo-style means that the headset rests mostly or fully on your forehead, which makes the headset more 'floaty' and thus less stable, but takes the pressure off your face. Elite-style squishes the headset to your face from the back. What you prefer is extremely subjective. It depends on your face shape, what you find most comfortable, etc. I personally like the stability of elite and the pressure doesn't bother me, but others swear by a halo. BoboVR is known for their top tier halo straps, but the pricing of the latest version is rather extreme. There are a lot of companies who make straps and a lot of them are quite good, even fairly cheap ones. There are reviews all over the place. If you get a headstrap with an additional battery, you can plug that battery into your headset, so you can run fully wireless for longer. A battery on the rear also helps balance out the headset, which can make it more comfortable, even if the total weight increases. Some variants have hotswappable batteries, so you can effectively play forever, if you have enough spares, or toss the batteries on the charger during play. I would advise the AMVR Q3FC3 facial interface if you want to upgrade that, but as the other person said, the standard facial interface is a lot less crappy than the standard head strap. But if you spend a lot of time in the headset, then 40 bucks for a good facial interface is not expensive compared to how much it gains you. But you can easily wait a while to first see if you really get on with it.

Yes, but the quality is not that good. For it to be at a very high level, a lot of technological advances have to be made. This is not as accurate as tracking the retina, also because the eye can change shape and differs per person. And you have eyelids getting in the way and such: https://kguttag.com/2021/07/13/exclusive-eyeway-vision-part-1-foveated-laser-scanning-display/#jp-carousel-6331

Or the render resolution.

If the performance rumors are true, then the 5080 pretty much should be the worst card of the bunch. Lower gains than the 5070 (Ti), but no price reduction. The 5090 seems to have almost no price/performance improvement, but it does gain VRAM, and in the top tier, price/performance is much less important to many buyers.

Sure, but only if you also stop with the passive aggressive attacks on me, while pretending that you are behaving nicely.

You guessed at the reason why I am reacting this way to you, and I told you the real reason. If you start making stuff up, you should not be surprised when people don't want to let you get away with lies. Do you really expect that I would just let you get away with lying about me? What are you even talking about? I made my claim about the 5080 and below, so all these statements about the 5090 are not relevant to our discussion. It's hard to have a discussion with you when you seem unable to keep track of the discussion and start making all kinds of false claims.

And all the words/phrases in that definition are subjective: consistently - subjective good - subjective quality - subjective performance - subjective able to be trusted - subjective If you define a word based on a subjective definition, then the meaning of the word is of course also subjective. No, because you are a hypocrite. I was explicitly only talking about the 5080 and below and excluded the 5090 from that statement. So you are spreading a falsehood here.

It matters way less with solid state than with mechanical drives. The issue was that mechanical drives take very long to move to a different part of the drive, so when the system would switch from reading the game files to reading the OS files, and vice versa, it would take a very long time. Solid state doesn't have this issue. An issue with solid state is that such a drive really shouldn't be filled up completely and you have more headroom with a single big drive. A single drive also makes it easier to add a second big drive in the future. But my preference is at least two big drives

False. There is no objective standard for what one should consider to be reliable. Let's say that LTT tests these cards. Some people consider their tests reliable, others do not. The same for Hardware Unboxed. The same for Gamer's Nexus. Some people consider them all unreliable. Fact is that none of these channels are without fault. They all make mistakes and their testing is imperfect. There can also be systemic issues across channels, like the vendor misinforming the channels, so they all make the same mistake. And cards can have issues that come out of left field, like the high CPU load of the new Intel cards, that led to testing changes, to expose the specific traits of those cards, which was not visible in the normal way the channels tests these cards. So at no point can you argue that their tests are perfect and their results cannot be wrong. The decision when to consider the evidence reliable enough to support a certain claim is thus subjective. No, it is not an attack, but an observation of your behavior. Not just in this thread, but across this forum, you try to take control of threads and demand that others accept your subjective opinions as the truth, rather than simply allowing them to have a different opinion from yours. I understand that it may be unpleasant to get called out for that kind of behavior, but instead of retreating into your double standards, you can also reflect on your behavior and be a nicer forum member. IT IS! Again, science has realized a long time ago that the best we can do is to show how likely certain things are to be true, and even then only based on certain assumptions. Yet those assumptions can be wrong and even very likely claims can turn out to be wrong. So true reliability, in the sense that something is 100% certain to be right, does not exist in a scientific sense. Most people do not have the ability to actually do this well. Even very many scientists fail at doing science properly. You certainly are not capable of it, as you've demonstrated. I don't see you using the tools of science to greatly increase the accuracy of your predictions, or understanding how they work. But science is not the be all and end all, and there are good reasons to not be that rigorous in normal conversation, because it is a huge burden to be far more accurate. But the result is that normal conversation is a world of subjectivity, not of fact. You may have the delusion that you know what the truth is, but that delusion makes you less accurate, not more.

What is reliable enough (or not) is opinion, but you are presenting your opinion as fact. Again, I have explained why I consider the available benchmarks good enough to have high certainty that the performance of the new cards is not worse. This is a very modest claim, much less so than people who throw around actual percentages. Is it 100% certain? No. But it is a core tenet of science that you cannot actually prove anything. So if you demand absolute proof to call something a fact, then facts do not actually exist. After all, there is a possibility that we are a computer simulation, and anything that we perceive to be a fact can be changed, no longer being a fact, or can be a delusion implanted in our brains. But it is silly to have to present everything as an opinion, so in reality, people just state things with certainty when it passed their subjective threshold. You do so too. This entire idea that your personal threshold of what is valid should be accepted by others, is authoritarian and arrogant. You deny others the right to their own opinion on the matter and you act as if you are perfect. Yet you do the exact same thing in the quote at the top of this comment. So again, you apply your double standards, where you get upset when I do the same thing that you do.

To be honest, I think that you are going to have a hard time finding a replacement that you will like with that mindset. Tweaking is a pretty common need and you didn't seem to have taken advantage of available resources, choosing to use trial and error instead. Having lots of those resources available is one of the benefits of the headset. The need for 3rd part accessories has benefits as well, because it means that you can tune things to your liking. I would argue that the price reflects this and you should just factor in some accessories into the price.