What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

[Nexus]

Swapped out the 16GB RAM kit for 32GB. I feel like the rest of my system is bottlenecking my CPU, so I want to take advantage of it's power while it's still reasonably good

Now all I need is a new GPU - thinking the replacement for the RX 7900 XT will be a suitable candidate.

 

[Terronium-12]

Swapped out the 16GB RAM kit for 32GB. I feel like the rest of my system is bottlenecking my CPU, so I want to take advantage of it's power while it's still reasonably good

Now all I need is a new GPU - thinking the replacement for the RX 7900 XT will be a suitable candidate.

You have quite a few options, honestly.

• 7900XT
• Used 6900/6950 XT
• 4070 Ti
• 4070 Super
• Used 3080/3080 Ti
• 7800XT (basically a 6900XT)

 

[Nexus]

You have quite a few options, honestly.

• 7900XT
• Used 6900/6950 XT
• 4070 Ti
• 4070 Super
• Used 3080/3080 Ti
• 7800XT (basically a 6900XT)

The RX 7900 GRE and XT were at the top of my list, but we only have lower-end AIB's still in stock - and I want something at least as edgy looking as my Red Devil Vega 64

 

[Terronium-12]

The RX 7900 GRE

How'd I forget about the GRE!?

and XT were at the top of my list, but we only have lower-end AIB's still in stock - and I want something at least as edgy looking as my Red Devil Vega 64

Hm. Are you opposed to using eBay? You can probably find a Red Devil there if none are available elsewhere.

Powercolor made an RD for the 7800 as well, if push comes to shove.

 

[Nexus]

How'd I forget about the GRE!?

Hm. Are you opposed to using eBay? You can probably find a Red Devil there if none are available elsewhere.

Powercolor made an RD for the 7800 as well, if push comes to shove.

I've been keeping an eye on eBay, though it seems to be slim pickings in my region, unfortunately.

I know future-proofing is a (mostly) pointless endeavour when it comes to PC parts, but I'm thinking an X900 series card might be my best bet: my main monitor is still 1080P/144Hz (will upgrade to 1440P eventually), though my sim-racing monitor is 1440/165Hz - and I'm expecting the worst for Assetto Corsa: Evo's optimisation at launch

 

[Terronium-12]

I've been keeping an eye on eBay, though it seems to be slim pickings in my region, unfortunately.

I know future-proofing is a (mostly) pointless endeavour when it comes to PC parts, but I'm thinking an X900 series card might be my best bet: my main monitor is still 1080P/144Hz (will upgrade to 1440P eventually), though my sim-racing monitor is 1440/165Hz - and I'm expecting the worst for Assetto Corsa: Evo's optimisation at launch

Fair enough.

If it launches next month, RDNA 4/8800 XT is rumored to have RT performance on par with the 4080S and raw performance that's better than the 7900 XT. It may be worth waiting to see what happens after that's announced at CES next month (hopefully).

Though with PCs, the waiting game is incredibly fickle and almost pointless, so...

 

[Nexus]

PowerColor is rumored to introduce Radeon RX 8000 Reaper graphics cards early next month

PowerColor is set to introduce the new Reaper series of GPUs for AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 8000 series, targeting budget and mainstream market segments with models like the Radeon RX 8800 and Radeon RX 8600. The lineup, expected to be unveiled at CES 2025, represents AMD's strategic focus on...

www.notebookcheck.net

I'm hoping speculation is incorrect and we'll still get a Red Devil variant - I'm assuming the 8800 XT will cost ~$1k when it lands here, and I'd want a beefy cooler for something that expensive.

...Though I'm half sold on this already because of the name

 

[Terronium-12]

Reaper is a pretty cool name though.

Last time I can remember it being used in the PC space was for this:

And, yes, I absolutely had a kit of these.

 

[JohnBM01]

I got and set up my Google TV Streamer to my TV. The Google TV Streamer is the rather expensive replacement for the Chromecast With Google TV. It seems to run smoother than the Chromecast With Google TV. Though I don't have a 4K TV, this device even can allow you to stream media in 4K resolution should you be bestowed with a 4K TV. I have no or few complaints about this device, if any.

 

[Greycap]

Tried to get bearable HDR colours on Windows 11 desktop, on a HDR display of course. And didn't succeed. Googling for solutions only produces either instructions that don't work, or completely insufferable Reddit elitists that keep claiming that's how it should look because it's the correct colours and not the incorrect ones we peasants are used to with our puny SDR displays. Also everyone should use sRGB and it looks similar to HDR.

Well, not sure if everyone should or not, but I've been using that indeed and it's nothing like the HDR colours. It actually has colours to begin with, with HDR on everything gets washed out so heavily that it looks like a frosted glass layer on the screen. I've been doing commercial graphics design for more than a decade so I think I have a bit of an idea of how a screen should look like, and above all I'm pretty sure that RGB #000000 should be a very dark black instead of a mid grey.

The Windows HDR calibration tool does absolutely nothing to correct it as I tried extreme settings in both minimum and maximum and nothing changed, the only way to get black that is even remotely black is to crank gamma so low that white becomes grey and then compensate by extra brightness. Considering that everything looks just fine with the (Nvidia settings) default 50% brightness, 50% contrast and 1.00 gamma on SDR, I have a feeling that things aren't right if HDR needs 90% brightness and 0.65 gamma to produce anything that doesn't look like stone washed jeans.

 

[Dave A]

Not quite today, but finally got high speed fibre optic broadband installed in my house this weekend.

The cables were only laid in the street recently. Prior to that, the max we could get in this village was 67mbps, which was a big downgrade from our previous address.

We've gone up to 500mbps now, which is nice, but we will be getting double that for no extra fee once my O2 and Virgin accounts are linked.

To go with that, bought a new Mesh Network system, which is all up and running and pretty soon I might upgrade my NAS to an M2 system.