Recent content by pcchen

He probably just do it for himself (or for Epic Games), but I’d say it doesn’t matter as long as the result is good.

I'm not so sure about the "no direct material gain" argument, as there are businesses actively doing that, especially in China. If you look at the entire market, of course there must be less people buying for AI than for crypto, but on the other hand you could use almost any GPU (with reasonable...

This might be true for 4090, as I also got one without any bundle deals with relatively reasonable price, but on the other hand it's different with the 30 series as I remembered to have to buy a pre-built in order to get a 3080 Ti and the prebuilt is a little overpriced. Today, just like the...

This is a forever problem in computer engineering, of course. Look at the history of CPU, they used to simply go faster by increasing clock rate, because it was relatively easy to do so (just use a better process, use pipelining, etc.) The benefit is that you don't need to modify your software...

Also these kinds of mind set seem to encourage IHV to sand bagging because if you make something extremely good such as 1080 Ti or 4090, you'll almost certrainly got ridiculed for the next "not so good" products (such as 2080 Ti which was considered as not very good value when it's released).

I am not expert here but considering that people don't really change brakes or tires very frequently, the material loss from them must be relatively small, compare to burning fuel, which to many people are "replaced" on a weekly basis. It can be argued that the PM2.5 produced from fuel are much...

https://www.ign.com/wikis/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion/How_Leveling_Works_in_Oblivion_Remastered This article explains the differences between the old and new leveling system.

I tried this on Steam. Had a werid problem where it recompiles shaders every time and the settings not saved, even save files are not saved (fortunately I was only in the tutorial area). Later I found out that it's got blocked by Windows security for accessing the "Documents" folder. I manually...

I think people tend to exaggerate when the bugs they encounter is significant to their use case or don't have obvious workaround. For example, I also encounter multiple bugs using an NVIDIA GPU right now, such as infrequent HDR flash during some video playback. But some are not even introduced...

I looked it up and it seems to be only with purchasing games (e.g. excluding "points" or hardwares you bought on Steam). On my account it differed from TotalSpend by ~US$10 and probably from an in-game item I purchased through the game (using points purchased on Steam, I still have NT$0.89 in my...

They seem to be readily available on local retailers here, limited to one per customer but no need to buy in bundles. The MSRP for 5060 Ti 8GB is NT$13,790 (~US$420) and there are cards from various IHVs selling at such prices. Of course there are also some "OC" versions which are slightly more...

If a project costs for example 10x more than a previous project, it can sell much better than the previous project but is still a flop. I think the problem with Ubisoft is that they were spending much more money on recent games (such as Skull and Bones) probably due to overly optimistic...

It's ok to discuss about possible quality decline of NVIDIA's driver but there's no need to exaggerate. NVIDIA did (probably still do) publish PDF release notes and they used to have multiple pages of bug fixes. It's not even that long ago.

Not really. Even these days people should have some basic standards on journalism. To be called a journalist, an opinion needs to be an informed opinion. Saying the pricing is because "NVIDIA is greedy" is not an informed opinion. I mean, if he's able to provide some evidences that availability...

If one look at NVIDIA's revenue by region it's something like this (this is from last year): US: 47% Singapore: 18% Taiwan: 16% China/HK: 13% Other: 6% US being the largest is no surprise here. Taiwan is also not very surprising as many graphic card IHVs are from Taiwan (and also server...