I like the design of the XSX, looks very simple and fits in with most decor,does not look gaudy (PS5 looks a little too much imo). However, a big downside to its design imo (I look the look but more in terms of functionality) is that it is hard to fit in some/many entertainment centers due to its width (my PS5 fits fine but XSX does not). Series S looks quite nice too, simple, small and easy to integrate.

Another excellent design imo is the original PS3, that console looked great and quite high end (if memory serves me right). Loved how the PS3 looked.

Technically a handheld, but the PS Vita was excellent as well, shame that more developers did not support it.

@madrocketeer:

Yeah completely baffling, made no sense.

Fair enough, we are at opposite ends then. I am comfortable with the stock market since that's what my undergrad major was in (and part of grad school too), but property, no idea what I would do or where to start with investing in or managing property (the capital requirements to start off sounds daunting af too, I'm far too risk averse to try that)

@madrocketeer:

I find it quite funny and ironic that he called you broke, yet he had to sell his monitor when he got laid off due to the pandemic. That line, to me, implies that the @theAM0G did not have savings in his account to comfortably live through the period of time when he was unemployed (aka rainy day fund). And then on top of that talks about getting an overpriced Razer gaming chair (which potentially shows poor spending habits). People living in glass houses should not be throwing stones...

Property has been quite good for you this past year I am sure. I would recommend that (if you or you through your job don't do it already), to invest in a etf (for example the SPY etf), just tracks the market and don't have to do much on your own end. Granted who knows maybe the market will tank this year (due to increasing interest rates, inflation, and potential contagion from Chinese property market, but who knows lol, the market is def due for a correction, but then again I have been thinking that for over two years and market has been consistently going up)

@madrocketeer:

Amen to that, I feel like a lot of people (especially in the US) just keep buying stuff that they do not need or can not afford (for example cars, people buying cars that cost more than their annual after tax salary,or even pretax) without paying attention to savings or having money set aside for a rainy day. Granted if one can afford it (ie save and consume at same time) go for it but majority of people do not I feel. Hell the only reason I have the setup I do now is that I used some of the savings due to working from home and used it to upgrade my entertainment setup.

If you are happy with the monitor then more power to you. Hell in my view the resolution is not the only or even most important thing about a monitor/TV. Color accuracy, response time, refresh rate and (if hdr is a priority, granted with windows hdr implementation is still awful) brightness are just as important if not more so.

That monitor does sound pretty awesome! As the OP said, most monitors are not the greatest nowadays, especially for HDR. I just changed mine from a meh CHG70 (had tons of issues with VRR flicker) to a 48 C1. Even then though the 48 C1 aint ideal (it is far too large as a monitor, at least with my setup and viewing distance, its fine for gaming but for working from home, not as much).

Ideally would have gotten this Alienware (or other QD-OLED monitors) but I am guessing they will cost an arm and a leg for the first year or two but certainly once prices come down they will be the way to go over the current crop of VA/IPS monitors. The pixel response time on these I am guessing will be great (if anything to go by off other OLEDs), cant say the same thing about VA's for example and their slow response times (black smear and etc), or IPS (better than VA in terms of response time and smearing but man is the contrast ratio poor, black look grey).

Lmaooo nope MS does not have the best first party of the three consoles. Hell I would argue that as of now they have the worst one (but not by much). With their buying sprees that may change but in terms of exclusive (or pc/Xbox exclusive) content that has been published by their first parties in the past year and that are upcoming, they def are the worst. I would argue Sony has the best but I'm more partial to those types of games than Nintendo games so I am a little biased there.

Anyway man is OPs post super dumb.

It's a cool feature that does (in most but not games add to the experience. But there are games such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider where it, to my eye, makes next to no difference while still has a massive framerates hit.

It depends, with DLSS on and a single player gmae, I will turn it on. However, a multiplayer game such as MW or BFV, no thank you, the hit to the framerate is too high and I'd rather have 140fps rather than slightly better shadows or reflections.

It is cool but I still don't think hardware is strong enough to truly make it worthwhile due to the performance hit. A good DLSS implementation does mitigate that hit, but on the flip side, I would personally rather do 4k DLSS at high framerates (100+) rather than have RT on at 60 fps.

I am sure this will change in a few years but for now meh. Plus the game support is still not fully there. I will say I am excited to see what Witcher 3 will look like with RT.

Long story short, love DLSS, a bit indifferent atm about RT.

@Juub1990:

Agreed, I do not understand in the slightest the hate for EGS. The whole "exclusives" argument makes no sense, since the EGS is a free app that anyone can download, and it's fairly light too (from background CPU usage perspective).

Sure it's not as feature rich as Steam, but all that takes time. I have had Steam since HL2 and Steam took a while to get to where it is now. And frankly I rarely use the community features.

They seems to have good sales and give games away free, sure they are doing that to take some market away from Steam and not due to the goodness of their hearts but who cares, I am not an investor in Valve anyway nor have any weird attachment to Steam.

Really think those who are so against EGS are quite weird/have some issues. It's a free product...

@BassMan:

Exactly, 8ft away from a 55inch TV is far too far. Ideally he would be sitting around 5.5 feet away in order to have a proper viewing experience, meaning a 40 degree viewing experience. At 8ft it is a little too far (you would need around 75inch tv to have a proper cinema experience at that range, ie the whole TV fills your field of vision). I see now why he could not see any difference even though there are significant differences, tv is too far. I sit 6/6.5 feet away from my 65inch and the differences were quite obvious.

Furthermore, since DLSS as of now is for PC gaming, and since most pc gamers play on a monitor (meaning they sit super close to the screen), there is signficianr value there. But there is value in a tv gaming experience as well (better frame rates while maintaining image quality).

@R4gn4r0k:

Agreed 9700k is still plenty capable enough for today's games, by the time games truly need a better cpu than this, better ones will be out. Yeah I have it paired with a TridentZ 3200 Ram (16x2), only issue is that it is single rank ram rather than double rank but oh well. It was a gift and I do not have the gift receipt (just changed it this Christmas).

@blaznwiipspman1:

Simple, you kept referring it to as dsl, which raises eyebrows about your credibility and knowledge about the strengths and weaknesses of the technology (DLSS).

Second, I completely disagree, I own Spiderman Miles Morales, and (due to the improved framerates) play in performance RT mode. However, the pure 4k mode does look significantly better and the differences are easily noticeable. If the 4k/quality mode (or whatever it was called) was 60fps would play that since the IQ is quite a bit better, but alas it is not. The differences are easily visible on my end (have played it on both an LG CX and a Hisense U8G and both tvs clearly show the difference). I'm surprised that you don't notice any difference tbh.

@04dcarraher:

Yeah you are completely right, I have seen the techspot article/cpu benchmarks of 2042 and it does seem like it requires a higher IPC Cpu (and is targeted towards 8c/8thread systems ie can't take advantage of more cores). Thing is that Bf2042 is the only game where I have seen a significant enough (or any really), cpu bottleneck. Can't think of a single other game I have a cpu bottleneck in (maybe crysis remastered? But I believe most cpus have that with lod settings). Anyway can't justify upgrading based on just that, plus frankly it's a pita switching a mobo, have to redo/rewire the whole system. Hell I switched my psu to be able to accommodate the high power draw of the 3080ti (old psu was meh, was 800w/850 but some no name/crap brand, aka apevia, due to pc being a pre-built) and man was it a pain to do that. Will just stick with this for another year or two, or hell maybe even three, until I will truly need a cpu upgrade. I have quit 2042 already anyway and gone back to bfv. 2042 is not fun, tons of bugs, meh performance and worst of all, a bug where kb/m stops responding for long time before responding again (potentially due to me using an external dac/amp as sound output source)