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interesting analysis that I haven't seen elsewhere, and it's always neat to see how folks tweak their NVIDIA Control Panel 3D settings for optimal results.
I'm a bit sad that my 5900x + 3080 combo is already so old that it's left off of most lists or simply outclassed to irrelevance
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When's all the new cool stuff coming out, so I can build my new PC?
 
Daidraco

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Final setup for the next few years is complete. Could obviously do with some cord management, which is next on the list, but we may be moving in the near future so not 100% sure it is worth it right now. I am not OCD enough for that to bother me. egpu enclosure upper left. Mini pc is behind left speaker.

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Ive been wanting to build a small form factor case like that. The media PC I have for our living room is a big huge desktop that I "thought" we would play co-op games on, but we never do. So Im starting to think of ways to get the same functionality without some ugly beast of a machine in there.
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interesting analysis that I haven't seen elsewhere, and it's always neat to see how folks tweak their NVIDIA Control Panel 3D settings for optimal results.
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Honestly - it feels like such a "duh" thing to have wanted to know. Ive always just looked at "whats most powerful" when it comes to new parts. But that was pretty insightful. When it comes to latency alone, (not a price or power stand point) it looks like brand doesnt even matter and that you could probably hash out a ratio for latency decrease per fps. (ex. Every 20 FPS after 60 FPS, you knock off 0.2 latency.) Good share/find.
 
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moonarchia

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Daidraco said:
Ive been wanting to build a small form factor case like that. The media PC I have for our living room is a big huge desktop that I "thought" we would play co-op games on, but we never do. So Im starting to think of ways to get the same functionality without some ugly beast of a machine in there.
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Is your house wired for ethernet, or do you have a good and fast wifi router? You could put the big computer in a closet somewhere and stream media from it.
 
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moonarchia said:
Is your house wired for ethernet, or do you have a good and fast wifi router? You could put the big computer in a closet somewhere and stream media from it.
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The last house I owned, I had the computers located in the stairway closet with vents pushing air into and out of it for circulation. I used wireless for that and.. its "ok". Not to harp on latency, but that setup is really latency heavy. We played Divinity co-op there and it was just awful at times. Wired would be one thing, but the ways Ive seen it implemented - the distance is too far in my current house. Unless I put them in the room above or below the living room. (Or its just too costly for what I want to do. Ive seen Linus's setup.)

I have my PS5 and Xbox mounted behind the TV's and I want to put a small form factor PC mounted behind the TV's as well so I can enjoy the best of both worlds. Im not going to drop several thousand on it like I do for my gaming PC though. But I do like yours. Out of sight, out of mind is kind of my thing.
 
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Daidraco said:
The last house I owned, I had the computers located in the stairway closet with vents pushing air into and out of it for circulation. I used wireless for that and.. its "ok". Not to harp on latency, but that setup is really latency heavy. We played Divinity co-op there and it was just awful at times. Wired would be one thing, but the ways Ive seen it implemented - the distance is too far in my current house. Unless I put them in the room above or below the living room. (Or its just too costly for what I want to do. Ive seen Linus's setup.)

I have my PS5 and Xbox mounted behind the TV's and I want to put a small form factor PC mounted behind the TV's as well so I can enjoy the best of both worlds. Im not going to drop several thousand on it like I do for my gaming PC though. But I do like yours. Out of sight, out of mind is kind of my thing.
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The mini pc market is going through a lot of changes right now. I got a minisforum one, but they have several new models out even in the past couple months. I think one has an AMD 7900 in it, looks like mine. One is a little larger (still small) with a 6900hx and an actual discrete graphics card on top of the built in RDNA2 igpu. I have heard good things about the Beelink minis as well as the Intel NUC boxes.
 
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Raja Koduri, Chief Architect & Founder of Arc GPUs, Leaves Intel

Raja Koduri, who's contributions to Intel's graphics technologies, Arc line of graphics cards and helped bring forth three product lines to Intel, was announced by Pat Gelsinger this morning to leave the company, along with Randhir Thakur, at the end of this month.

Raja Koduri will be working with Thakur on "a new software company around generative AI for gaming, media, and entertainment," tweeted Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel. Koduri does not mention anything about the new venture in detail other than he plans to announce more in the coming weeks. He may wait until his time with Intel has concluded before publicizing his new venture. However, Koduri is on the board of directors and the chief technical officer for Makuta VFX, which deals in animation and visual effects.

Raja Koduri joined Intel back in 2017 as the Chief Architect for Discrete GPUs and more. He held the role of Vice President and Chief Architect at Intel, focusing on graphics and technical advancements for the company. His work spanned AI, graphics, and processor technology to assist with Intel's zettascale initiatives and to advance memory and various architectures.

Before his role as VP, Koduri was the general manager of Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group. He led the way to HPC and graphics solutions for discrete and integrated use that span consumer, business, and data center structures. He also led the development and production of Xe, oneAPI, and many other high-performance aspects.

He has held roles at ATI and AMD, as well as graphics director for Apple. He has led many advancements for Intel, Apple, and AMD, focusing heavily on graphics and AI.

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Lanx

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Raja Koduri, Chief Architect & Founder of Arc GPUs, Leaves Intel

Raja Koduri, who's contributions to Intel's graphics technologies, Arc line of graphics cards and helped bring forth three product lines to Intel, was announced by Pat Gelsinger this morning to leave the company, along with Randhir Thakur, at the end of this month.

Raja Koduri will be working with Thakur on "a new software company around generative AI for gaming, media, and entertainment," tweeted Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel. Koduri does not mention anything about the new venture in detail other than he plans to announce more in the coming weeks. He may wait until his time with Intel has concluded before publicizing his new venture. However, Koduri is on the board of directors and the chief technical officer for Makuta VFX, which deals in animation and visual effects.

Raja Koduri joined Intel back in 2017 as the Chief Architect for Discrete GPUs and more. He held the role of Vice President and Chief Architect at Intel, focusing on graphics and technical advancements for the company. His work spanned AI, graphics, and processor technology to assist with Intel's zettascale initiatives and to advance memory and various architectures.

Before his role as VP, Koduri was the general manager of Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group. He led the way to HPC and graphics solutions for discrete and integrated use that span consumer, business, and data center structures. He also led the development and production of Xe, oneAPI, and many other high-performance aspects.

He has held roles at ATI and AMD, as well as graphics director for Apple. He has led many advancements for Intel, Apple, and AMD, focusing heavily on graphics and AI.

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does this mean shitty arc is dead again?
 
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Lanx said:
does this mean shitty arc is dead again?
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Hopefully not. We need more competition, especially with lower priced GPUs. If they can continue unfucking their drivers, the arc GPUs could at least fill in that gap.
 
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Daidraco said:
Ive been wanting to build a small form factor case like that. The media PC I have for our living room is a big huge desktop that I "thought" we would play co-op games on, but we never do. So Im starting to think of ways to get the same functionality without some ugly beast of a machine in there.
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I had the same setup (fullsize HTPC) but was barely using it for anything but streaming in the last few years. I looked at Firesticks etc but I still wanted the flexibility and features (adblock) of a PC.

There's companies that buy lots of ex-lease office PCs and clean them up, I bought a refurbished SFF Dell from one. Cost me €300 for a i5-8600, very small footprint and very quiet and handles streaming/media playback over the integrated graphics just fine. Got a new windows license with it for free too.

Kaby Lake and upwards have hardware support for decoding streaming services requiring DRM so i'd get at least a 7x00 or up, maybe higher if you want to futureproof for 4k content. I like the SFF over the even smaller mini-pc's because you can still expand them with half-height cards or SATA SSDs if you want more storage.
 
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Daidraco

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5000 of your socialist american fagbucks, give or take
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What all did you get?.. Im building a PC for my brother at this very moment so he can play games with me and Im not even cracking 3500?
(13900KF, Z790, 4090, 32 DDR5)
 
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