Recent content by homerdog

I'm aware of Newegg's history with customer service problems but I've never experienced it. All my interactions with Newegg have been good to great. When I purchased my current rig I'd initially shipped it to my office. Once I realized it was scheduled to be delivered on Saturday, meaning I'd...

It was purchased from Newegg. It was brand new in the box but I'd waited longer than the retailer's return period (30 days I think). I opened the box, noticed the bent pins, called ASUS, and the guy rudely told me they don't ship with bent pins. I was so shocked I didn't know what to say. Right...

I feel vindicated. About 10 years ago ASUS fucked me on a super expensive (for the time) Z77 motherboard RMA. The socket was damaged and they simply said "we don't ship damaged sockets" and refused to discuss it any further. Haven't bought an ASUS product since then.

Search "Microsoft Authenticator" on the App Store. Cutting down on malware my ass. The first result is always a sponsored scam made to look like the real Microsoft Authenticator (the icons are clearly designed to fool someone who has only been given a description of it). It's incredible that...

What are the odds I could flash the BIOS of my 4070 MSI Ventus 3x to a 4070 that allows raising the power limit? This card is card capped at 200W :(

Maybe all the past devs wrote their code in cursive and now nobody can understand how they avoided traversal stutter.

Some of the path traced comparisons are so much better I wouldn't believe it if it weren't coming from DF. And I agree with Alex, it starts flipping the switches in my head from "screenshot" to "photograph".

It looks phenomenal. Some scenes like at 1:35 show a generational improvement IMO. Is it possible for someone to hack a denoiser into it?

Yea I didn't get it until I saw the silhouette. That's pretty cool. I assume the game is entirely unaware of these geometry changes? Like for collision/physics and stuff.

On my last build I mostly routed the cables where I thought they would be easiest to work with rather than hiding them. After a couple decades of building PCs I've come to the conclusion that cable management is mostly a counterproductive waste of time. I don't give a fuck if I can see cables...

I really wanted to like Tales of Arise but the realtime combat is not for me. It was only bearable when using the DLC to enable super duper easy mode. Once I realized I was avoiding fights if at all possible I had to stop, about half way through the story which was pretty interesting. I'll take...

I play mostly old games on my 4070. It's great, I can max them out with >100fps and super clean IQ. I will eventually play games like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk once I have a GPU that can run the path tracing comfortably. So yea, I buy new GPUs to play old games.

If I saw a deal like that online I'd think it was a scam 100%. If I put something similar together on Newegg it comes out around $1300.

This game has a very well done online feature for a purely single player game. It's completely optional and only serves to enhance the experience, and the game will work just fine once the servers are turned off. So far my only complaint is that I didn't try this series years ago. Love the...

Having never played any Persona games I decided to do a month of Gamepass to try it. I'm about 17 hours in and I have to say this is a fantastic game. Will definitely pick up Persona 5 once I've finished it.