PCIe gen 2 vs gen 3 tho… Could that make a big difference here somehow?
I’m working under the assumption that those are the ratings for the modules themselves and not the bus, otherwise they would be manufacturing two different PCBs. if you can get in there and do whatever, it’s probably a PCIe 3.0 x4 socket
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yeah, I don’t think it’s the bus, but I also can’t imagine that 64GB eMMC won’t be nearly unusable. it’s basically like a switch at that point, running everything off an SD card, except with games that aren’t designed for it.
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Went to see if I can change my reservation and the answer is yes but get it possibly six months later
the eMMC is probably good until you hit a certain tier of game that wants stuff all the time or has constant loads
on the other hand, there’s a hell of a lot of variation in load times on the Switch for games (Diablo 3 and Overwtach, both Blizzard games, both ported over by Iron Galaxy, D3 fucking zips after the initial load, meanwhile OW visibly struggles, to the point that I would call a mode like Mystery Heroes unplayable (the port is how I found out the game has placeholder spheres for when models are still loading into the engine))
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Hmm
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I really do not think this product compares favourably with a gamevice / razer kishi / rooted switch / moonlight / etc.
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This release schedule staggered over almost a year is bizarre. Never seen a serious hardware company do it that way
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There’s something very y2k about resin printers - the colored translucent polycarb hoods and raising something upside down out of a pool of goop
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What the good brands and things to look for and look out for with the resin printers from 1-3.5k? Basically that can make large scale pieces like life size action figures and stuff.
I’m guessing you don’t mean like… 1:1 scale statues of people. What dimensions?
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No that’s basically it.
The largest resin printer I know (Uniz Slash Pro) caps out at like 400mm in one dimension. Mine does 192mm x 120mm x 200m. Most are under 200mm cubed.
The Saturn is the best value for the volume ($500) and I think the Form3 is the next step up but it’s not much larger. If you’re looking for huge volumes you need like a Creality CR-10 or the print mill modification. I guess you could cut the model into pieces and glue it/sand it, but resin doesn’t take to sanding/post-processing as well as PLA.
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I think there’s a practical limit to the y axis on resin prints because they’re suspended upside down - even on one like mine you can get the model too heavy to adhere to the plate. With more than double the height? Much worse odds.
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hi
let me do some boring math
Valve is listing the theoretical max FP32 performance of the APU they have in the Steam Deck as 1.6TF
AMD lists the same for the 6700XT at 13.21TF
the math for this is (40(CUs)*64(ROPs)*2.581(GHz core clock)*2(you got me))/1000
((40)(64)(2.581)(2))/1000=13.21472
hey I have a 6700XT
the lowest min clock the AMD Radeon software will let you configure is 500 MHz and the lowest max is 600 Mhz
((40)(64)(.5)(2))/1000=2.56
((40)(64)(.6)(2))/1000=3.072
I’m hitting 40-50 FPS in Control at 720p on the higher end with settings maxed and 60 locked in something more simple like Overwatch while staying at 500 MHz
I buy the idea that the Steam Deck, assuming it can stay cool and keep clocks up, could easily play something like Control at a steady 30 fps or thereabouts at medium to high settings
this has been a dumb thought exercise with numbers
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counterpoint to above post:
hey I just spent the past hour and a half tracking down why my poor linux TV computer (Manjaro KDE) wouldn’t let Steam see my Steam controller and literally the answer was downgrading the Bluetooth handler
I’ve traded “Steamcon stays connected but doesn’t work” for “Steamcon has to be connected twice every boot but works”
it’s hard to say if this is good or bad
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Not sure if I should cancel my 64gb and place an order for the next tier up… I don’t expect to play super big games with this, but it would be nice to have the option? hmm
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How confident are you in getting into the guts of a handheld? You may need to re-paste the cooling depending on what they mean by behind thermal/emi shields.
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Are you cool with losing your “place in line” and getting a mid-2022 reservation?