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I dunno, some people are willing to pay too much for stuff like this because they view it as a collatable. Of course it has no bids so far so...

If it is crashing everywhere and that fast I wonder if it is CPU related. Do you have a 13/14th gen Intel CPU? Some of them seem to have issues with UE games, which Survivor is, when they have an unlimited power setting which many motherboards...

Kinda depends on how much you want to spend, and what size you want. If you just want a nice 24" monitor with no frills, the Dell U series is still a good way to go. The U2424H is one we often get at work. $300ish dollars and looks and works...

Why are there Vatniks in a tech thread? :p

True, though that said there are some very accurate HT speakers (the SVS MTS speakers were pretty amazing) and it is easier to get one designed for a large room for not too much money. Most powered monitors are designed for nearfield which is...

Lots do actually, never ceases to amaze me how much people will spend on video and then just ignore audio. Not just computers either. I've seen people with new shiny $5k 85" OLEDs just using the integrated speakers. Also, I will say that while I...

Good luck to them with that. :P They were at least a decade behind the rest of the world, probably more, when it they finally broke up.

Pretty much. They'll start caring if AMD or Intel produce a card that people start buying instead. If GeForce cards start sitting on shelves not selling and people are snapping up cards from the competition, they'll care and lower prices...

I'm also guessing it is using the newer "12V-2x6" variant which has tightened up tolerances and made a few changes to make it less likely it can be not fully engaged and still deliver power.

They want to move more things to the local system. Probably not everything, some of the LLMs are real heavy on that first "L" (large), but some stuff. There's sort of two sides to the reasons they would do this: 1) From a consumer standpoint...

Ya thats... Ummm... Like why even do that? I mean I get not everything needs to be latest node, we make a LOT of useful chips for lots of products every day on older, cheaper, nodes. Your microwave has a PIC in it, they are not paying to have...

I used to do receiver audio, I used an Emotiva XMC-1 hooked to amps hooked to a bunch of SVS M-series speakers. It worked quite well, though I did have to do the second "phantom monitor" thing. That went away when I moved in with my girlfriend, I...

ASUS does have an 8k monitor upcoming though they haven't announced a release date yet. It has been shown at trade shows, so it is real and in "getting ready to go" state. The downside is, of course, cost. It is expected to be about 8k dollars...

I imagine they don't care about that. This probably isn't a "You can't do this, it's against the rules and we'll be mad!" kind of thing. More it is a "This is shit we do not want to deal with, so the official answer is no." The probate system is...

If you find a controller you like for one handed play, I can't recommend Spiritfarer enough for a 2-player game. It has a very deep and touching story, the game play mechanics are simple but fun, and it has no failure state so in a case like...

In addition to all the good control suggestions people have made (the MS adaptive in particular) I can suggest some games to think about: Xcom and Xcom 2 are both really fun turn-based games. I know you want non-turn based as well, but of course...

Could be, I didn't know about that part of it, just the viewing angles, having observed that. It is amazing how wide the viewing angles are. Like WOLED is good, better than IPS, but it does drop off at the sides. QDOLED you can look at...

Part of that is the lighting and QD-OLED. QD-OLEDs don't have a polarizer in them, they don't need it. The advantage of that is their viewing angles are insanely wide. Like WOLED is good, but QD-OLED is just another level. Essentially perfect...

I mean, that's never going to happen. For one according to the article he only controls 25% of it, meaning he doesn't get to make the decision, it is a group of people, but also because of for finances and taxes work it is pretty difficult to...

That's probably part of the issue is that we learn what a given franchise is supposed to give us, and we want it, and then if it doesn't we aren't going to be happy. Mass Effect established that this was a story-driven world. That was the shining...