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Looks just like a Gamegear from SEGA. So many people complain about poor performance from mid-range PCs, I cannot even imagine what the game looks like on this. I guess the 320x200 resolution would not need much processing power, but I could not play on on one of these. I could barely play Sonic on a Gamegear back in the day. I wanted a DOS PC to play RPG games. There was only one RPG on the Gamegear that I tried and it was a JRPG and I really did not like it at all. I remember the Gamegear eating batteries like mad as well. I think it was about 2-3 hours per sets of batteries. I think I traded it in for a SNES so I could play Eye of the Beholder, Might and Magic III and Ultima VI. Then I got my DOS PC and it was all CRPG except for Half Life and Thief the Dark Project. I guess I just need any little cue to reminisce about the Good Ol' Days of gaming.

I guess you really can take it with you. Skip to 5:00.

I wonder where they respawm If they accidentally press "E" or whatever command they eject with, maybe they have a parachute unlike the FPs. Come to think of it that would be a good feature in game. In reality they probably would not want to stand up on that thing in mid flight.

Looks like he is using roll to turn and not all rudder. That's the only really unrealistic part of the Gyrocopter in 7DTD.

I am putting more negative fans than positive. I was trying to get an even flow but the case I will be using, Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL, makes it hard not to add more fans to the top and back. I will have the CPU fans adjusted via the motherboard and the case fans via a corsair fan controller. Case fans will be 5 noctua 140mm @ 2000rpm. I guess the back 3 fans should run @ 600rpm and the front 2 case fans @ 1000 to get positive flow to start. The 2 CPU fans are 120mm and rated at 3000rpm and I know they will be loud but they will adjusted via the motherboard as they are PWM. The PC will be in my computer room so it makes little difference about the noise the fans make. Until I play a FPS that I need the usual WASD and Mouse to play, like maybe one of the Metro games or Dishonored 2 (whatever the sequel is named). I remember reading the whole positive, negative and equal fan setup in Maximum PC and II never payed whole lot attention to it on all of my builds. If I get my temps down with more positive pressure then I will go with that and vice versa on the negative pressure. I usually get 3 pin fans and hook the up to a 5.25 bay fan controller but the days of 5.25 bays are over I guess. I just found this as to explain the temps of the 13th gen CPUs I still do not know in ASrock BIOS what setting to mess with, but it is possible to run cooler that most cooler videos I have watched once you find the setting.

Yeah was just an example I guess, but I have seen boatloads of videos just like that one. So after you see 10 or more videos with the same problem it makes you start to think Here is the CPU Heatsink/fan I am looking at I already have the fans and they have been used for only a couple of hours. https://www.newegg.com/p/13C-0005-002Y5?Item=9SIAADYA5G6361 https://www.newegg.com/noctua-nf-f12-ippc-3000-pwm/p/N82E16835608052?Item=9SIB932GZX5422 The 5 case fans: https://www.newegg.com/noctua-nf-a14-ippc-2000-pwm-case-fan/p/N82E16835608047?Item=9SIAADY4P65808 Man it sucks to constantly look at the hardware I need and know I have to wait for about six months to get them.

Ah, the old "wife ploy". Makes me glad I am not married, but then I would not have someone to assist me in a multiplayer game. I have seen a lot of wife and husband vs the zombies in a coop game and I am jealous of it. What usually happens now is a motherboard will state it has this and that but if you read the manual, it will state that you can only one or the other. Such as the most usual thing is to swap a M.2 port for 2 SATA ports which is Gigabyte motherboard thing. So if you have 6 SATA ports, you can either have 4 M.2 drive and 4 SATA ports or 6 SATA ports and 3 M.2 ports. As far as PCIe, you will find that an M.2 shares the same bandwidth as a PCIe lane so have to chose whether you want a a full on PCIe x4 extra slot or a M.2 and no extra PCIx lanes for a PCIe 4x card. The ASrock motherboard I like has all of what I want and no compromises. The Gigabute has 1 compromise but it is worth it on that board. both are cheaper than a lot of other boards that have a lot of compromises. Now that I am seeing that the 13th gen i7 and i9s run so hot that the board throttles down the MHz a lot, is one reason I would think about going with AMD. Some guy using air cooling was seeing a lot of problems that would throttle the CPU down on the turbo boost (or whatever it is called now). So he was getting different benchmarks results in cinebench scores on the same setup just different air cooling CPU Fan/Heatsinks, which has some of his cores run at 100c and would not allow for the extra boost. So different scores based only on cooling, which really should not happen on a home PC. I mean as far as I can tell you do NEED water cooling for these chips. So whatever reason Intel is making this happen is strange to me. I can see overclocking and getting these results, but just the chip running at stock speeds and not being able to achieve what Intel states their CPUs will achieve, does not seem quite right. Here's the video:

I do not know what you mean. I have had almost half as many AMD CPUs as Intel. The whole AMD vs Intel is based on performance not brand. If AMD had a CPU that blew Intel i7 and Intel i9 out of the water I would be looking at AMD for a new PC. A lot of the reason I am picking socket 1700 for Intel 13th Gen CPUs is that I cannot find a AM5 socket motherboard that I like. Then again I can only find 2 socket 1700 that I like. Perfect Intel Socket 1700. https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813162086?Item=N82E16813162086 Good Intel Socket 1700: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813145417?quicklink=true That's it for motherboards. I am looking for at least 3 M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4, at least 6 Sata ports and al least 1 PCIe 1x for my sound card. The ASrock has 4 M.2 ports, 8 Sata ports and 1 PCIe 1x slots. The Gigabyte has almost all of these and both have good ratings. I am building (hopefully) a PC around motherboards not CPUs. Although I do like the 13th gen i7 more than the AMD Ryzen 7000. That is due to the Intel being the best price / performance. Intel Core i7-13700K runs at $ 415. The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X is $430 and they are comparable in benchmarks. I know its a $15 difference but then the Socket 1700 motherboards are way better in features and they are cheaper too IMO. The best Socket AM5 that I like is $300 whereas the perfect Socket 1700 is less than $200.

Yeah my dreams of a rackmount PC was a 20u rackmount case with a window on the front and using the U's for all kinds of not necessary hardware. Like massive UPS and even a firewall appliance among other things most people with that kind of money would not conceive to have in their PC room. I guess it is not much more than people who wish they had ferraris' and lamborghini's. Too each their own I suppose.

Found this on you tube by accident (no pun intended): This is just waiting to happen to me after spending $1000s on hardware.

Well I get the idea now after editing this post 5 times. Build a PC in a rackmount case. I would love a rackmount server but for a gaming PC I want the case to have a somewhat aesthetic look. I don't overboard with RGB like most guys but I do want it to look nice at least. I guess I could build another PC in a rackmount case with a Micro ATX motherboard and bare-bone hardware with nothing but controller cards and onboard video, and have some NAS software running. Thank you for the Idea.

Exactly like I feel on the water cooling. Man do some of those PCs with water cooling look pretty. With a lot less viewing obstruction to actually see your motherboard without that massive heatsink and fan setup in the way. I have three USB 3.x four bay and one USB 3.x single bay external enclosure that are holding about 10 3.5" SATA drives. I would love a NAS but they are over $1000.00 because I need it to be at least a 8 bay preferably a 10 bay or 2 six bays and that is way over what I can spend at this point. I still need to replace my gaming PC. One four bay on a USB 3.x hub is running at USB 2.0 speeds which I think was about 40 Megabytes a second where the other USB 3.0 four bay is running 80-120 Megabytes a second. I need to have a direct connect to that external enclosure with 1 compatible cable and get rid that hub. I know that hub is the problem. As of a month ago I have no USB 3.x ports at all, just USB 2. On my old first gen i7 860 on a 1156 motherboard. Which believe it or not this PC is still holding its own, other than gaming. It is still reliable after about 5 years of off and on light use. I fall back on it when my gaming PCs die or I need to do something that requires it. The optical bluray internal drive on this PC can rip UHD 4k Bluray disks. Which was just plain luck because this optical bluray drive is one of a handful that can rip these disks. Even Bluray XL drives will not show the disk you put in the drive. This is obviously the next form of HDCP that has changed with the sale of UHD blurays. The drive is a HL-DT-ST BD-RE (BH16NS40) and I could sell it for twice what I paid for it because of this.

tensor cores My new GPU is a Gigabyte RTX 4070ti, and along with the MSI 850 watt Power Supply that has the cable for the new 40 series cards, I already own. The only way for a non-geek (like me) to find out the performance is to look at reviews that have benchmarks in gaming and other real world tests like Blender, Vray, and Handbrake etc. I mean I get the basics like the VRAM Frame Buffer, Filtering and Ambient occlusion, but if you were to ask me how Tensor and/or Cuda Cores really work, I would not know. Other than the more the better of course. I do not pay much attention to places like UserBenchmark, but Toms Hardware and AND tech and similar, do have reputable reviews and benchmarks in gaming and a massive amount of other productivity software like Winrar or 7zip and whatever. I run 3Dmark on every upgrade, but I just do it for kicks and realize the 3D Mark score does not tell a whole lot about performance. For that you need to run your games and/or use the demanding software you bought the new upgrade for in the first place, and if it made some difference then that would be the most important thing to truly gauge if the upgrade was worth it or not.

Here is my updated virtual cart in newegg Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL Intel Core i7-13700K ASRock Z790 PG RIPTIDE Intel LGA1700 ATX Mainboard G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 1TB WD BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2280 PCI-Express 4.0 2TB WD BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2280 PCI-Express 4.0 I live in the San Francisco "east" bay area, in the summer last year it was in the 110s for almost a week. As far as cooling, With my luck I could not imagine putting AIO water cooling system in my case. If money was not an object, yeah maybe, but I am FAR too paranoid to put any liquid based hardware in my case. I will have 2 120mm Noctua (push/pull) 3000rpm heavy duty fans on the heatsink. I will also have 5 heavy duty Noctu 140Mmm 2000rpm case fans, and in a large case that will have strict cable management and that has lots of room for airflow. I have seen the benchmarks for the Ryzen 7900 and the Intel Core i7-13700K and they are almost even in some benchmarks. I am really an Intel guy since the Core2Duo. Not that I do not like AMD. I had a AMD K6-2 which I hated because it was so below the Pentium II in gaming, that was the only AMD CPU I did not like. later I had a 800mhz Duron and "as the story would go" without listing all of them - AMD up until the Core2Duo. I like the new Pcore and Ecore things as well, I know it is a gimmick, but it seems like a good way to up the clock rate in demanding software, I guess it just ups the Pcore and leaves the Ecore to just running apps like winamp and AVS and so on. I mean the i9 can reach 6Ghz through turbo boost so that is amazing. I know this is an issue, but I think it is based on 2K and 4K. I do everything including my TV/Monitor at 1080p. My GTX 1080 still held its own in most games, so the 12GB should be good for a while and if not I will have a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot for later upgrades. Every time I think about this, which will hopefully be in November if I am lucky. I spend countless hours screwing around in NewEgg and other hardware sites and it just makes me more frustrated and I have been blessed (cursed) with the patients of a rabid dog. Thing was, I was at a great point in my A20.6 current game, but I cannot get into it until I get this new PC. The PC I was using is dead or a permanent coma.

A thing of the past thanks to all new gamers, streamers and/or something I may not be understanding: https://www.sabrepc.com/blog/Computer-Hardware/6-Ways-to-Utilize-Extra-PCIe-Slots I cannot be the only one that uses a sound card, network cards or a controller cards. Maybe I am.

With the LGA 1700 I could not even imagine that a SLI setup would make any sense anyway.

Well one source says yes and another says no. I should have checked it more first, but anyway the source that is newer say that instead of a new 14th gen CPU, they will refresh the the 13th Gen. Hopefully they will add a new chipset, I do not know how, when or why they change a chipset, but this may get motherboard manufacturers to fix the socket problem and hopefully have more useful features. like more chipset based expansion slots. They may make an extreme edition for about about $1000.00 like they used to just add some more PCI express lanes and get suckers like me will buy into it. I am not going to pay over $400.00 - unless I win the lottery - for a CPU and the Intel Core i7-13700K is fine by me. If you wonder why I am getting the K and not the cheaper KS, it is due to me being paranoid that the RTX 470ti I have now is defective and I need to RMA it. If I have the integrated GPU I can test all the other hardware like motherboard, CPU and RAM in the 30 days I have for RMAing the other parts. Thing is I may get a DOA motherboard and get another and then find out the CPU and RAM is also defective. Basically I am using the "expect the worst hope for the best" mode of thinking religiously.

Looks like the next series of sockets for Intel will be the new LGA 1851, which I may just wait for. I am sure they will fix the sockets by then, I would think anyway.

Well if I cannot get a revision update by the end of the year my patients will be gone and I will more than likely get the ASrock LGA 1700 motherboard. I almost like the MSI PRO PRO X670-P AM5 Socket motherboard, but if I were to build around a motherboard I would pick the ASrock. The ASrock has 8 SATA ports and 4 M.2 and at least one PCIx1 slot for my sound card. Thank you for the advice.

Yeah I was looking at the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X. I just like the Intel Core i7-13700K so much. I will check out the AM5 motherboards again, I also do not like the idea of having to put a collar around the Socket 1700, which maybe a V2 or Series 2 or something set of Socket 1700 motherboards will fix that eventually. I am just so paranoid of buying parts and having to RMA some or most or whatever, and the collar thing seems an unnecessary complication for a motherboard. But I really like Intel CPUs since the Core 2 Duo.

I have not used the 2011 CPU for over 5 years, I was talking about my Z390 1151 (300 Series) with a 9700k and a GTX 1080 and then 3 extra PCIx x1 cards. I understand what you mean about bandwidth, I forgot to take the bandwidth of the PCIx 5.0 and even the PCIx 4 being that much higher than PCIx 3. That's not what I was getting at though. I have seen some motherboards stating Crossfire / SLI comparable listed on their ads, so they must not think SLI is dead, but yeah it probably is to those who bought GPUs that do not support 2 cards. Even still if you want a card in I would just like a z790 with one PCIx x1 for my sound card without having any other motherboard features being penalized. I cannot stand the onboard audio I was getting on my GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS PRO LGA 1151 (300 Series). I am still checking the the motherboards and I am OK with having the 1 PCIx 4.0 M.2 VIA CPU being traded for at least 1 PCIx x1 slot. I do not need 4 M.2s of course, but so far I have yet to find one other than the ASrock mentioned above. The MSI godlike has the 2 PCIx 5.0 at 8x8, I understand that the bandwidth is much higher than the PCIx 4.0, but it still feels like cheating you out of the specs, in that they say they have "2 PCIx 5.0 slots", when they should mention that the cards only run at 8x8 which may or may not be on NewEggs website but it is stated in the downloadable manual. I love the Threadripper Pro. I have dreamed or running a file-server with 2, 16x PCIx SAS 8 port controller cards and a couple of NIC cards with 2 SFP+ on them, but that is just a dream. I cannot even think of getting a decent system up until about September.

I used to have a Intel i7-3960X Processor Extreme Edition which had 40 PCIx lanes because it was an extreme edition. Now I go to look at top of the line i7 and i9s and it seems that the best CPU they offer has only 20 PCIx lanes max. So in general if you use a PCIx x16 slot you have to choose between 1 4x M.2 or a 4x PCIx 4x. I have found only 1 (really) Socket 1700 motherboard that will allow a PCIx x1 slot and the M.2 CPU slot (unless this is a typo anyway). This is the one board that would allow a sound card - yes one PCIx x1, imagine the generosity of ASrock for this: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813162086?Item=N82E16813162086 So another thing is that the use of SLI, which is really labeled SLI compatable, you have to choose PCIx slot 1 and PCIx slot 2 at 8x8 lane. These means that SLI will run the GPUs at half the speed of a single board. This is all fine and dandy because I do not need SLI, but what about a single sound card, that is only supported by 1 LGA 1700 board - that will allow you to use the 4 lanes left for CPU to do a M.2 at PCIx x4. Whats the point of buying the best i9 if you cannot have more than 20 PCIx lanes. The last CPU I had was running: 1 1x Intel NIC 1 1x Hard Drive controller 1 1x Sound Card Why do they do this to PC gamers that want a great GPU but also a few other things cards to add? What also is the point of even having 3 slots on a motherboard if you have to downgrade to use them? Who wants a SLI setup running at half speed?

I do think you are right though. It would seem somehow the lighting and textures are completely baked in and the game never really does much per frame calculations and leaving the CPU to do the AI of the NPCs in the game. possibly limiting amount of dynamic lighting and using only ambient lighting, therefore being true ambient light so no calculations are needed for realtime GI.There is no way that the GPU is doing full ray tracing and GI, at 60FPS, its just not possible. Ambient light is the easiest way to render a scene but it make for a completely unrealistic render, whereas GI renders (physically based preferably) has the most photorealistcic renders, but takes a lot of calculations. When I was working in the early to mid 2000s and was rendering basic brute force type GI, the renders would take up to 4 hours per scene depending on the complexity of the scene, on a basic mid range CPU. This was all done via CPU which had no help from GPU at that time.

Remember these days (Skip to 1:26): They had shrink the 3D engine (if that is what it is) to half the size of the screen to may it playable. I honestly love retro RPG's but I am not sure if I could play it. I prefer tile based games until about Might and Magic 6, when they had a perfectly playable engine.

I used a level editor in the mid 2000s and I could swear that it did not matter if you used 8k photographs, (back then I believe it was a limit of 1024 x 1024) the textures will get pixelated based on distance. I am convinced the lighting is GI and GI takes a lot of possessing even with 2 RTX A6000 quadro's it cannot be done smoothly at even 30 FPS. Example: This is the last editor I used, I think it was Unreal Engine 2.5 or something. It was incredibly slow and the engine would get pixilated when viewing a texture in game at a distance and then walking toward the texture. This used to be mipmapping and then I think it was anisatropic filtering, now I do not know what is used.