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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1250 on: Sun, 04 October 2026, 18:28:03 »
Forza 6, runs supr gud', great graphics.

Buhh... for whatever reason, it just doesn't seem "fun". 

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1251 on: Fri, 09 October 2026, 19:03:01 »
Ok, based on Tp4 projections....

BUY NOW is still the general recommendation.

Fuel shortage is @ a minimum of 5 years. 


There was 5 oils in the world,  now there is 4.


Costs will only rise, no end in sights.


Buhhhh @Tp4,  what about the AI bubble,  if it bursts,  we will have all the RAMS.


Yea,  you will get the ram if that happens,  but the WHOLE PC will still be 50-200% more expensive vs pre-War.


Everything has diesel costs built in, across 100s of channels. The costs multiply because businesses need that 15% margin.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1252 on: Fri, 09 October 2026, 19:05:46 »
Tp4's 64gb DDR4 laptop kit is going for $300-$850 on ebay.

That's worth more than the laptop. 9750h, 1660ti

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1253 on: Sat, 10 October 2026, 10:39:12 »
Tp4 maintains suprsmashbros is painful to play, the sprites get so small when it zooms out.

On old CRTs these had 200-300lines, 500 tops,  So you're squinting at maybe 10 lines of, something, and the little smoke animation.


Never understood why it's so popular with the youth. 

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1254 on: Sun, 11 October 2026, 11:19:35 »
Upscaling, Lots of issues still. Doesn't look great in Forza horizon 6.

They look "fine" in still images,

IN MOTION, because horizon6 has alot of repetitive patterned structures like nets/fence/posts along the road and vertical window mesh for the cities, Upscaling adds alot of noise, and stability breakup. Everything looks a little sandy, especially along/around specular high contrast edges where the shimmer goes bzzzzzzz

Raytracing cost is still no bueno.   If you use normal pipe, 4K maxed out at 90-130fps,  Ray tracing, 1080p upscaled, 90-100fps.   Cost structure still isn't there to support it.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1255 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 08:19:06 »
STOP buying 27 inch monitors,   

If you STOP BUYING THEM,   They will go away!

27" = The monitor of Disappointment.

32" MINIMUM for desktop use.   

85", Tp4 recommended, optimal for typical 'Murikn 10x10 rooms.

77", More walking space for in place xercise

98", Against the wall viewing, DPI a mild issue. Requires good image processing PC side. (probably should wait for proper 8K implementation, displayport 80gbps, hdmi2.2 96gbps)

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1256 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 18:07:02 »
STOP buying 27 inch monitors,   

If you STOP BUYING THEM,   They will go away!

27" = The monitor of Disappointment.

32" MINIMUM for desktop use.   

85", Tp4 recommended, optimal for typical 'Murikn 10x10 rooms.

77", More walking space for in place xercise

98", Against the wall viewing, DPI a mild issue. Requires good image processing PC side. (probably should wait for proper 8K implementation, displayport 80gbps, hdmi2.2 96gbps)



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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1257 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 18:59:02 »
You can have my 26 and 27's when you pry them from my cold dead fingers.
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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1258 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 20:15:55 »
You can have my 26 and 27's when you pry them from my cold dead fingers.


Leslieann, 27 inch is bad for your eyes,  as we are all entering old age,  there's going to be a wall when it comes to eyesight.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1259 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 22:34:10 »
Starting to figure out why Tp4 dislikes horizn6 so much, Despite the graphics being fantastic, and the engine well optimized.

The MUSIC, is HORRRRRIBLE.....  Absolutely Disgusting #1

#2,  There's no game progress, you can win the race, and feel "Nothing", you haven't moved forward, there's no sense of achievement.

All they have to do, is take this engine, and MAKE need for speed underground 2.

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1260 on: Wed, 14 October 2026, 10:39:57 »
They be selling new mini PCs that don't come with ram.

LIke , wha.... who in the mini PC market is into that.

You'd be limited to people who just has spare sticks of laptop ddr5 laying around?

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Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Reply #1261 on: Wed, 14 October 2026, 13:00:34 »
Tp4 is very Xcite for  Ventiva, ionic cooling modules.

Basically, scientifically it's dat bald guy with the ionic breeze air purifier,  but smaller.


Now,  Tp4 thinks the ozone gas issue is an acceptable trade-off, 

But the big hurdle here is,  This is almost certainly going to kill someone's pet-parakeet,

Annnnnnd,  boom,  no one wants to buy supr silent ionic coolers.

Major headwinds.

Even if it's safe for humans,   they're going to jump on the thing the moment it hits internet viral outrage generator.

OH NO,  My  Dell Laptop killed my Parakeet,    Hide yo wife,  hide yo kiz,   laptop = murder.


Understand that parakeets have exceptionally sensitive lungs different from humans, where even "legal" emission standards for Ozone COULD KILL the birbs.

Many'o news cases over the years where air purifiers with built in ionizers have Murdered people's pet parakeets.




Upon further research, they is says,  40watt solution is more/less the max given the physics and the constraints.

This is pretttty gud, patherlake is quite gud @ 40 watt.   Though TP4 argues it currently stilllll needs 65 to really getrdone, in reality maxed out, pantherlake is a 100watt design.  They lie about the 80 even.


That being the case,  Assuming TSMC's  bleeding edge AMD chip, on their 2nm+++++ ,  You could see something quite gud' @ 45 watts.

Though,  mmmm... Even with optimizations, 45watt is not a fun place to be overall. but for ultra-portable.  It'll have to do.


The depressing news is , this won't scale to 100watt solutions, so you'll almost certainly NEVER achieve silent G4m3r laptop.