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Re: What do you think about Steam Deck handheld PC ?

Posted on 2021-07-20, 06:32

I love the idea, but I don't see it succeeding. Most steam games are not a good fit for handhelds. The design philosophy of desktop games and 'mobile' games are fundamentally different. Imho handhelds are more for 30mins or less bursts on the go and desktops are for 1 hours or longer gaming sessions …

Re: What do you regret throwing out?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 05:38

It was maybe 15 years ago, I was around 16, give or take a year, still living at my parent's naturally. My father said I have to throw out half of my "trash". There were a couple of socket 3 and 7 motherboards and a full socket7 PC, a Deskjet 520 printer and 3 CRTs that had to go. It still pains me …

Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

Posted on 2021-07-07, 08:52

I have a trash heap build with a 433MHz (or 466MHz?) Celeron, 256MB RAM, an IBM branded TNT2 M64, some kind of baby AT form factor socket 370 mainboard and generally a lot of random and budget part running Windows 2000. I had no consideration for anything when I threw it together, I just wanted a PC …

Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-05, 05:02

Shreddoc wrote on 2021-07-04, 21:05: I know it's not a moving/relative reference, but the turn of the millennium is another very simple milestone which anybody can relate to. Yeah, especially since that's when hardware T&L entered the consumer market with Geforece 256 in 1999 and ATI Radeon in 2000 …

Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 09:48

I think the things that have enough significance to be shown in a museum are mostly the big firsts and the big lasts. And generally the high-end versions of those. Things that either revolutionized computing and last ditch efforts of companies that for a time dominated it. Aside of that, interesting …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-06-24, 19:03

I am braining around some halfass upgrades for cheap, do I wanna get a Phenom II x6 for an AMD 2+ board, and 8GB ram for it, or do I wanna jump on this local deal for a used i5 3rd gen in a mATX Biostar. Or both. The Phenom X6 is a good CPU. I had it as a daily driver in an AM2+ board for around 5 …

Re: PC gaming magazines with full games

Posted on 2021-06-23, 20:17

I used to be a PC Guru subscriber for a couple of years in the 2000s and bought a couple of issues outside of subscription. One or two PC game too. The full games I got in random order: Homeworld International Rally Championship MDK Fallout 1-2-Tactics Thief: The Dark Project Forsaken Crashday …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-06-21, 16:34

Still on KCD and still loving it. I haven't had much time to play (maybe 5 hrs a week) so my progress is slow. One thing I've come to love about this game is the archery mechanics. Very difficult, no aiming reticle, you kind of have to get good at going by feel. I had one standout point recently …

Re: 8k

Posted on 2021-06-19, 09:37

No, and I don't see myself getting one. I have a 40" monitor and 4K is perfect for this screen size. Below 32" I wouldn't even consider 4K over 1440p and for 24" or smaller 1080p is enough. With resolutions too high you are just wasting GPU power at a time when GPU power is expensive without much …

Re: What is your Favorite CPU and Why ?

Posted on 2021-06-18, 05:08

The Tualatin-S and close second is the 486DX4. Both are very powerful CPUs that can cover most of the 90s on their own and their compute power overlaps at just the right place so used in combination they can cover even the speed sensitive stuff from the mid 80s up to the resource intensive stuff in …

Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 05:52

At best I'm curious how it will be. Windows 10 made me completely leave Windows except form retro machines and I'm not missing it. Currently I don't have anything with more recent Windows than Vista and I don't expect this to change. MS should do a complete 180 on their business model for that and …

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