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Using a keyboard is nuts. Get a simple joystick or gamepad. I can’t imagine enough people use keyboards to make any of these options worthwhile.

Already bouncing back, an opportunity a blind man could see https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/small-investors-bought-the-dip-in-nvidia-by-a-record-amount-monday.html

Ha then I am a neoliberal, I lived that era but I don’t recall anyone referring to them back then as any sort of “liberal”. Let’s stay off politics though… PS my brother was a political science major back then. He never heard that term applied to Reagan either, it’s probably a revisionist creation. There’s always something more to accomplish. I know

Or it could accomplish more by harnessing both the more effective AI and newer more powerful chips. And everyone still uses Nvidia GPUs including DeepSeek. You realize the above example there was meant as an analogy, not to go off topic into the specifics of space travel. Liberal?! I think basic economic reality is a rather conservative world view if you ask me. I can’t think of a better example of this honestly. Saturated demand would refer to selling something like washing machines where customers won’t really buy more than one no matter what the price. And they aren’t apt to buy them all up and resell them for profit etc. The demand for GPUs definitely outpaces supply as it does for most goods. Hence the price. Indeed capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the others

Those target consumers just got a performance gain in the form of more efficient AI. So the analogy again is like thinking SpaceX stock should go down because somebody invented a more powerful rocket fuel. So they’ll sell less rockets since less will be needed to go to Mars. Not realizing customers could continue buying the same number of rockets but use them to go to Jupiter instead. Or to accomplish even more missions on Mars. In fact the demand for rockets could go up now that rockets can do even more. And again this gets back to the theory of infinite demand. The beauty the market is that it will correct itself eventually… don’t sell Nvidia just yet.

My wife still has a 2011 iMac but those aren’t the target consumers for these GPUs

Sometimes markets can be really dumb. This DeepSeek reaction is like thinking GM will sell less cars because someone created more powerful gasoline and people can drive fast enough already. Or a new more powerful rocket engine means Elon Musk still just wants to go to Mars instead of Jupiter A great buying opportunity for anyone who didn’t own Nvidia already. But likely any investor already does, so… stay the course.

People don’t take their foot off the gas when more efficient compute power comes along. ”Now I have the fastest computer I will ever need” Said nobody ever… Now there’s a more efficient AI model to run and Nvidia still makes the best chips for that. For the long term investor that little bump yesterday looks like this.

Markets can be skittish. The daily ups and downs shouldn’t be something to make snap judgements about. The bottom line is they are still the leader in GPUs and the demand for those will just get higher with AI no matter how efficient it might be. Did more efficient computing cause people to buy less chips from Intel in the 90s? No…

From Morningstar: “We believe that AI graphics-processing unit demand still exceeds supply, so while slimmer models may enable greater development for the same number of chips, we still think tech firms will continue to buy all the GPUs they can as part of this AI “gold rush,” No fire sale on graphics cards yet it seems…

Looks like DeepSeek was trained on Nvidia GPUs

I’m using TrackIR with its own NaturalPoint software and camera. I’ve never had any problem like that nor ever needed to make any adjustments, I just use it right out of the box and it’s fine. The issue may be with Opentrack but I can’t imagine how the HDM would be de-synced like that. What happens if you turn off head tracking and just look around with the mouse? Is there some odd adjustment in the settings that makes the HMD slew at a different rate than the head? That would be odd.

AFAIK you should have it enabled with that CPU “Should I enable HT / SMT in my motherboard BIOS? Currently, users with 32 threads or more should disable HT/SMT, but for everyone else we recommend enabling HT/SMT.”

Not true. It should be obvious that your monitor doesn’t look like real life. 60FPS is a very decent frame rate for gaming but the limit of what your eye can see is vastly higher. What I find wrong about this math though is the quoted resolution that is perceivable by your eye. The example shown here implies a 27” 1080x1920 screen is at that limit and I think we all know it’s not. Price is an interrelation between supply and demand. Not just a product of one or the other. Demand for a product that can easily be resold at a higher price is nearly infinite.

Makes sense

What does this mean?

Doesn’t Windows High Performance Power plan already disable core parking? I don’t mess with this or something like Process Lasso currently. And doesn’t DCS (or Windows) anutomatically assign itself to the P-cores?

I ran a repair and DCS seems to work fine, I haven’t seen the problem repeat. The game runs really well with no stuttering etc. The only settings change I made recently was changing Low Latency Mode to Ultra from Off in NCP. I can’t imagine that would cause the problem above though, would it?

Also CTD during Sinai target range mission dcs.log

Crashed between missions in the menu screen. Log attached dcs.log-20250125-051006.zip

What’s worth realizing about extreme prices is that just because you see something listed for that doesn’t mean it actually sold for that price. Note it says “Or best offer”

Small correction but considering inflation the price increase is more like 18%. Still not a very good bump though.

The cost increase quoted there in the HUB video is a bit mistaken. In today’s dollars the $1,599 RTX 4090 is $1,693.40 for an actual cost increase of $1,999/$1,693.40=1.18 so 18% not 25%. Every penny counts

Well it clearly makes very little sense to use such powerful cards for those resolutions. According to Steam the numbers are 3840x2160 at 4.21% and 1440x2650 is 19.56%. 1080x1920 of course being the most common. Only 1.18% of the respondents own a 4090. So that screen resolution is 4x as popular as the card, whatever you make of that. It seems more people are running 4K on a lesser card than the opposite. The only survey I know of for flight sim players is Navigraph and it shows the 4090 as the most popular card at 14.5%! Clearly a poll of enthusiast there Sure, the 5090 can be like the aforementioned $400 toothbrush. If you ask me the best use of such hardware is indeed to run 4K at ultra settings and high frame rates. Otherwise it’s a waste IMO

I don’t really see the need for one either. The math is just amusing. Yeah for the pain of replacing it a bigger boost would be preferable. Although I guess I gotta buy one and throw it back like a little fish to win the challenge above