Recent content by Blazkowicz

There's plenty of "free" wifi in my country, from at least three major providers, those are home routers provided by the ISP that also act as a hot spot serving a web portal login page where you need identifiers given by your ISP (so there's wild login trafficking, sometimes short lived...

I meant chipsets too. Ever since Intel kicked nvidia out we've had chipset dictatorship (phones do the same thing, only everything is in a single chip or one main chip + one radio chip) On traditional consumer desktop you do have e.g. Z170 and H110, H170, B150 - this suspiciously looks like the...

For anything past Core 2 Duo and AM2/AM2+//AM3/AM3+ sockets there's no alternative to anything?

This is one of the reasons SSD/HDD hybrid is better if the SSD and HDD are separate, then. Seagate "SSHD" where both are inside a HDD's casing are the best known solution perhaps, it's transparent to the OS and user and is also easy for OEMs (laptop or iMac can use HDD, SSHD or SSD). It's a...

The PS4 Pro did add some small RAM, that's a kludge to get a cheap upgrade likely but I think doing it on a new console would have to be cheap as well, such as a single channel (64bit) of DDR4. That would be 4GB or 8GB, I'll go bold and say 8GB. If that runs at DDR4 2666 that gives ~21.3GB/s...

Perhaps predictably they'll do a new Fury X : push voltage and clock up to match (roughly) its competition. That sells the flaghship GPU to the half-kilowatt gamers with overvolted CPU at least. For a console there's more incentive and less downside to put the voltages and clocks at a better...

They should do what others do in the mobile phone space and second source the parts - wholly different SoC and perhaps motherboard. Assuming this doesn't create a stupid feud about who has the better one.

Here is a comparison between NES and PS4. Higher resolution, perhaps a few more colors but no improvement whatsoever beyond that!

I believe too there's some big market, I don't know how large, of people who only have a combination of desktop, laptop and/or phone. Most wouldn't know or bother about putting an Xbox or something on the desk, plugged into the mediocre 21.5" LCD monitor. Console gaming on the living room's TV...

We've had surprisingly cost effective 256-bit wide DDR or GDDR - that's on consoles, but before that it was on graphics cards. I'm partial to the argument that this would have been unthinkable in the late 90s or early 00s. In fact I may well imagine one console going with GDDR6 and the other...

There are arguments for and against this. Zero atmosphere is even worse than thin atmosphere, radiation is worse except for quick human transit times, lunar night is a big problem - so there are concepts about only colonizing the south pole region where you can have things in small permanently...

I think LG is a decent brand, but well if the whole market thinks 32" is only for low end, all or most the TVs might be of bad of mediocre quality with light bleeding, poor color reproduction, and so on. I am merely speculating though. Alternatively a mediocre LED TV might be deemed good enough...

There are two, RX 550 and GT1030. Kind of "premium" for such a role (there will also be yet another codec in the near future, AV1, which I would assume they do not support. But there might be such "codec fatigue" that I don't know if it's very relevant compared to VP9 and H265) Maybe the R5...

"only" 2GB RAM on low end graphics card? no big pb, I think a 512MB would be enough if that still existed. In fact you have twice the memory than some other GT 710s and it will run quite a few games (somewhat ressembles the Nintendo Switch GPU with some missing efficiency as it's a gen older)...

It's true that it will be untenable if I think of mobile/phone games as if they were the same things as in 2009 or 2011, with at best bird catapults, jewel bustlers, temple runners version 1.0 and that slow motion zombie fps. I would be like a granpda who calls every console a Nintendo and think...