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The oldest PC I still use occassionally is my old Phenom II X6 with 12GB RAM which my parents now use daily as a HTPC. It had a GT 610 (rebranded GT 440) which died yesterday. Replaced it with an HD 5670 but the lack of hardware acceleration in all browsers except Firefox was probably the reason...

Nvidia's drivers still support Maxwell (2014 hardware) and users with old systems could have gotten the xx30 products simply to get support for modern hardware acceleration standards. Security updates have also gotten more public attention, Nvidia even still supports Kepler (2012) with security...

I'd say requiring POPCNT on Win11 isn't surprising since Win11 never ever officially supported older CPUs, but Win10 users suddenly affected by this is bad since that always supported really old CPUs.

Watched two episodes of the live action One Piece series, it's good so far. I really thought was doomed not to work in a realistic setting.

A review, whether it is for a graphics card, book or a film, always boil down to subjectivity. It's the reviewers take of the product they have gotten. A review can be very specific too, if someone says he's going to run 50 DX9 era games just to see if they all work as expected, and does exactly...

It is hard to find detailed comparisons of the high-end DX9 GPUs vs the 360, but at the time, I was always curious how they compared in for example Bad Company 2 or Metro 2033, and all the other games four or five years in which still were officially supporting DX9 era GPUs. This of course is...

The mods responded to it multiple times on the same page when they were questioned for their actions, their end posts write it out clearly, they deemed that the discussion was done because no new information was being added. Apparently people found that sudden warning harsh, but the mods...

Yeah, I can't blame the mods for locking the threads rather than going through multiple pages of thread wars and then might be questioned regarding how they possibly could decide that and that user could have been banned but not that one. If the mods start banning users though, I still think...

A problem which surprisingly comes down to viewers/readers not thinking about different test scenes making a difference in the results. Hardwareunboxed does show their test sequences during the reviews, and many other sites do too. What more are they supposed to do? Not having a huge headline...

Unfortunately some members can't differentiate between what actually is faulty reviews and opinions. If every other site shows that HUB gets different performance figures than them performing the test, that would heavily suggest HUB's testing was wrong and the review indeed faulty. But deciding...

If you want to prove that the testing is lame and sloppy you get the same hardware and software and show on a repetetive basis that you get other performance figures. You can complain about the choice of titles, but the whole point about telling what the tests are is so anyone can repeat the...

So why the issue with keeping it about raytracing only? Stop taking reviews from another context and tear away at it for not including this and that. Stick to the relevant parts or leave it out.

HUB's incentive should be doing what they think draws most viewers, and that ought to be true for all other testers as well. Likewise, if HUB did everything wrong like most of this thread suggests, they would have close to zero viewers and fade away.

Here's what got me pondering regarding you folks who snear at the comments of reviewers being excused for focusing on popular games...This thread is obviously focusing on high end raytracing performance, and Hardwareunboxed's reviews typically are not. That's well known since their RX 5700...

Ring of the Nibelungs (2004) is a film I guess fits the description you either hate it or enjoy it, but it did fit my niche well. It had a certain charm.