did you try running a fluid simulation and having a 4k project in Premiere/Resolve open too
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or having more than 4 chrome tabs
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Fwiw I regularly have like 20+ chrome tabs open, as well as having like 5 game launchers open at the same time and I experience nary a stutter with 16gb.
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people joke about Chrome but that depends more on the site you’re on and what it’s doing and I find Firefox can be just as bad (very much enjoy watching certain sites take 3+ gig over time if I keep a tab of them open on my laptop in Firefox)
Rookie numbers. I have both chrome and firefox windows open, three browsers back when edge could read epubs, enough tabs to where they start disappearing in chrome or scroll off the screen in firefox, and usually a game minimized because why risk closing it when it takes so much effort to bother double clicking anything to begin with
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If I’ve got two monitors being run from a PCI-E graphics card, does that actually DISABLE my motherboard’s built-in HDMI out port? I wanted to plug my TV in through it but it doesn’t seem to be working
depends on how your EFI is booting (mine, annoyingly, won’t initialize the builtin iGPU at all without displaying the EFI and everything prior to Windows coming up on the iGPU-attached display, so I have it disabled most of the time)
TV manufacturer says the TV should automatically show up as an attached display but the PC doesn’t acknowledge that anything was even plugged in at all
It’d be nice if I could use my graphics card’s HDMI port but it only has one (and one DVI and like four DisplayPorts), which I have to use for my VGA-and-HDMI-only monitor.
just get a displayport to hdmi cable
The simple but not very useful answer is that it depends on your motherboard. Would need to look at the manual/specs. Also sorry if you know this is/this is obvious to you, but even if your motherboard has built-in video capability, your CPU needs to specifically support it too.
A/V stuff has never really been in my wheelhouse so that’s news to me.
That only works if the DP port is DP++ which I don’t know how to determine before buying the cable
I got burned by this and am paranoid now
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the year of new consoles is always a terrible terrible time to buy new PC hardware, you want to do it 2 years before or after for value
when i was a lad reading all the games mags rich leadbetter wrote for i never knew 25+ years later i’d be watching vids of him as an old fella wildly gesticulating about graphics cards
funny world
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I haven’t watched that video, but if he’s advocating that you buy any currently available graphics card between now and october he should be fired for blatant paid shilling
7nm nvidia is a good time to buy tho
It’s not like the Radeon derivants in new consoles are gonna hold a candle to them
yes but in generational terms it’s not clear how much longevity the $500 2020 card will get you relative to the $300 2022 card especially if you already have a 1070 which can still run everything just fine
before I got this titan xp for free I was using a 9800 gt
Oh, yeah, I ain’t moving off pascal any time soon, just think GPUs haven’t been worth buying new since 2016 (1080/1080 Ti)
These consoles are going to be awful value propositions because their spec sheets have expensive would-be optional components e.g. nVME drives
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