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You're right. That said, I think that it is fair to mention that the delay, because of the leak, was mainly what robbed Half LIfe 2 of its graphical crown. If Half Life 2 had released in its originally intended release window in Sept 2003 (along with the ATI 9600XT/9800XT Steam promotion) I...

It's weird how quickly E3 fell apart. I was really following E3 closely back in 2014-2016 and it was still pretty much the biggest annual event in gaming at the time, every bit as much as it was in the 90's when I would read about it in Nintendo Power. I remember the BotW unveils in 2014 and...

Do you know how many posts the OP will need to get access to the For Sale/Trade forum? That is a legitimately amazing deal. I can't even buy a new Raspberry Pi 4 for that cheap in 2023. With that in hand, he basically just needs to get: - case - thermal grease - psu - gpu - ssd (SATA or M2) -...

I agree that there is a lot of risk here, and this is coming from somebody who has a deep love for the Super Mario franchise. I mean, we already have a history of atrociously bad Mario movies. The closest I have seen to a successful movie concept for Mario would have been Wreck-It-Ralph and...

Another trailer that I came across today. Nothing much new except that we get hear Seth Rogan's voice as DK:

I was (and still am) mainly a console gamer. That being said, I have had stints in PC gaming from time to time. One of those stints was when I discovered PC Lemmings in the mid 90's, I just absolutely fell in love with that game and that was one of the few things that could pull me away from...

The worst game I have played was Tonic Trouble on the N64, which I had the misfortune of owning. I really go out of my way to avoid playing bad games and so I don't have a long list and not all of these games are objectively bad, just significantly worse than the reviews led me to believe or...

Honestly, that is great experience for him. Good on you for getting him involved with this at an early age. I got into hardware when I was in high school and I had a real struggle with the learning curve because there was nobody in my family that knew anything about computers. I had to teach...

Looks great! Let us know if you have any issues with anything.

A 800W TDP GPU means the PC's peak TDP is probably going to be 1.2 kW or something close to that. I mean, that is like 10A on a 120V circuit: that's got to be coming close to tripping a breaker in most households. I am excited for the people who can afford it (not me), but I know what you're...

I mean, it depends on what format this timeline is going to take. Is this going to be a Youtube vid type format? If so, then I agree with scojer that PowerPoint is a good choice. On the other hand, is it going to be a visual timeline graphic similar to what I have shown below...

I know that there is way more to these numbers than just the consumer desktop market along with a ton of factors that are completely out of Intel's control. Nonetheless, it just doesn't seem fair for history to shackle the 12th and 13th gen with such poor financial results when Intel appears to...

Yeah, for some strange reason the PC63J (500W Shuttle PSU) is not listed as compatible with the SH510R4 (basically the same as the SH610R4). That said, the PC850 (850W PSU) is listed as compatible but it is not cheap...

Well it was back in 2005, a time when it was OK for companies to acknowledge the reality that men enjoy the beauty of the female form. It would never fly today because it is too "offensive" to the feminists, also getting men thinking about women this way can result in new humans being born...

Yes, the RTX 2060 uses an 8-pin connector and yes, the 6+2 pin connectors on your existing 550W PSU will work fine for that connection. If you are worried about this 10 year old PSU failing and you can afford a new one, then please feel free to buy a new one. That said, if it were me and if I...

Not sure how interested folks are here but it looks like Shuttle is finally releasing a new economy-class XPC Cube for the Intel 12th and 13th gen: https://global.shuttle.com/products/productsDetail?productId=2727 FORM FACTOR Shuttle Form factor PROCESSOR Support Intel® 12th/13th...

I am not sure how old school you are with your gaming, but I will throw out a few old school Sega RPG's that tend to really fly under the radar. if you handled the first few Final Fantasies then I would recommend looking at the Phantasy Star series. I know II, III and IV are on IOS, I am not...

OK, that is a fair point, and it does look like the 5700XT sells for a similar price used to that of the RTX 2060. That being said, the 5700XT recommends a 600W PSU which is even higher than the RTX 2060's recommendations for a 500W. Do you really think that a 5700XT can be safely run on a 10...

There is actually a thread in the PSU subforum that already asks a question that is similar to your situation: https://hardforum.com/threads/is-using-10-years-old-power-supplies-a-concern.1940737/ Please read it for yourself, but it looks to me like the general consensus is that if your 10...

I am guessing that this is an old PSU then? I mean, I haven't heard the name Jonathan Wendel (Fatal1ty) in probably like 15 years. I would love to recommend you a used RTX 3050 for your son's PC as it has the more advanced ray-tracing support, but I just don't know given that PSU. Between the...

Nothing tops Nividia's GeForce 7 series mascot. Mad Mod Mike. I have no idea who at NVidia approved that decision for a mascot. I mean, clearly, he looked like the 7800 series' target audience but what I don't understand is why NVidia's marketing team thought that this was a good thing or...

Yeah, it's always been like this. For every Windows 2000, Win XP, Win 7, Win 10 that was well received by users, Microsoft puts out garbage OS's like Win ME, Vista, 8 and now 11. For the last 20 years, at least, it has almost been like clockwork: every second operating system is reasonably...

No for sure, you are right. Once you enter the used market the price barrier comes down considerably. If price is the only consideration I am sure that he can get something better than the 2060 for the price of a new 1660. That said, the main reason I suggested a 2060 is because it has...

Thanks for the interesting retrospective. Yes, I agree with you, while it's before my time, I can definitely appreciate the significance of advancing from a simple jump + move style of 2D gameplay to something that is clearly a story-driven, object-oriented style of RPG. Certainly, the changes...

Thanks for this newsgroup thread. It's really hard to find info on public sentiment from that era as most messageboards like [H] weren't around yet. One thing that also stands out to me here is this comment: That's another factor here. Yes, High-end PC's exceeded the N64 graphically at...

This is how I remember it being in 96. PC gaming was absolutely a thing and was probably almost as big as console gaming was at the time, even among kids. That said, the kids I knew back then were still playing either outright 2D games or heavily sprite-based 3D games on the PC. I don't know...

I will never forget a quote from PokeCapn during a Let's Play of Sonic 06 (possibly the worst game ever made): "There's lense flare because this is a cinematic gaming experience." Exactly, the graphical improvements that we see now are generally fairly minor and incremental, mainly because a...

Yeah, but given his budget and the fact that he was about to buy an RX 6500XT I am sure that we can agree that the GTX 1660 would be leagues better. I am sure that the extra 2 GB of VRAM will make a significant difference. That said, I agree the RTX 2060 is the best choice, especially if...

Originally, I replied to you saying that only RTX Nividia card support ray-tracing but I guess that is for hardware-level only. Apparently the GTX 1660 was given driver-level ray-tracing support at some point after its release. That said according to this quora thread it sounds like the GTX...

According to Wikipedia 2k == 1080p, at least for television and consumer media. It sounds like for cinematography (film) it is closer to being 1440p but I don't know much about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution Yeah, it is extremely unclear. I am just going to assume that the...

Nintendo needs to remember that it wasn't that long ago that the company was on the brink of having to throw in the towel on their existing business model (dedicated handhelds and home consoles) during the Wii U era. During that time, Iwata took a 50% paycut to appease enraged investors over...

I guess that it's always been the case that console's generally have not been on the graphical forefront given that gamer's always have the option to build a $2,000 PC that can basically cream any console, even one that has just been released. I know that is the case with the PS5, I mean the...

That is a fair point, I stand corrected here (protracted explanation as to why you are right is provided below). When I argued that Mario 64 was graphically advanced my frame of reference was in comparison to the 3D entries that we had seen up until that point on the Saturn and PS1. Mario...

You make some really good points. Mario 64: yes I never thought of it in that way before. If you think about it, Mario can do such a wide breadth of actions and movement that it almost approximates what a (super) human can conceivably do to traverse an obstacle course. Mario can tip-toe, walk...

You know, I thought a little more about what you were saying here. I get it. Gen 6 was the console generation where gaming systems started to surpass the capabilities of SD televisions. I remember that my Dad bought FIFA 2002 soccer on the Gamecube when I first got the console back in 2001...

I am not as knowledgeable as some of the people on this board (so somebody please correct me if some of what I say below is not completely accurate), but I recommend looking into how much more money would it be to go with an i3-12100F setup, overall, for your son. I recently did a side-by-side...

Yes, you really nailed it here. What made Mario 64 so great is simply how big of a leap it was from what came before it. It did so many things for the first time and it did it with so much polish and mastery that it honestly felt like you were playing something that was developed like 10 years...

I am an enormous fan of the original Trilogy (A New Hope is my fav movie of all time and Empire is easily in my top 5). I thought that the prequels were flawed but I still enjoyed the heck out of watching them: there was so much potential that was held back by the stoic writing and acting...

Yes! I totally forgot to consider pre-rendered games. Honestly, I should have included Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings on my list as well for the Gamecube. Resident Evil on the 64 and Gamecube (although the latter wasn't pre-rendered) were extremely impressive games, visually! You made some...

Or it doesn't even necessarily have to be ahead of its time, just games with particularly impressive graphics that stood out to you in some way (please explain why). Also, please feel free to include PC games, arcade games, etc here as well. I am more of a console gamer at heart and so my list...