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Intel has announced a lineup of all new arc pro graphics cards since the launch
of Intel's arc gpus for gaming was such a smashing success
smart and then the script says smirk
as the name implies they're professional tier graphics processors for content
creation design and engineering akin to NVIDIA's rtx a series and AMD's Radeon
pro the cards have a dare i say it
minimalist and utilitarian look devoid of any RGB bling you could use to
illuminate the gaping void in your soul but they do have all the bells and
whistles when it comes to encoding and rendering however as is still the case
with the arc gaming lineup it might be a bit before we find out just how well
these pro gpus actually work considering Intel's now very well publicized issues
with graphics drivers and more recently board partners so you may want to think
about holding off on buying an arc pro unless you're looking for an architect
that wasn't john i take full responsibility hey you know
how you can save a thousand dollars right now leave it in your bank account
and don't spend it on anything or you could buy an rtx 3090 ti which is
getting a pretty insane discount due to the huge glut of inventory floating
around out there that NVIDIA wants cleared out ahead of the lovelace GPU
launch right now two models from evga are going for less than twelve hundred
dollars down from msrp is around twenty two hundred bucks so it's quite a deal
but do keep in mind that the upcoming rtx 4070 is rumored to match the
performance of the 3090 ti at a significantly lower price point so if
you've got twelve hundred dollars burning a hole in your pocket maybe
choose a wiser investment like lottery tickets that was not investment advice
john wrote this script and he went to law school
but still i wouldn't valve has been quite good about allowing
players to use many different kinds of controllers but for a long time support
for the nintendo switch's joy-cons has been notably absent
well not anymore the latest beta version of steam finally features support for
the popular controllers so if you already own a switch it'll save you from
spending extra money on something like an xbox controller if you don't want to
use a mouse and keyboard do keep in mind though that unlike most other
controllers you don't have the option to connect joy-cons to your pc via usb and
will have to use bluetooth i wonder if some indie developer will
release a steam game called joy-con drift simulator 2022.
like you like cars
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below please let this be abnormal quick bits
with riley no way
oh it looks like apple is going to get into
the smart display game to compete with products like the amazon echo show and
the google nest hub insider mark german has reported that such a device is in
testing and could appear in the next couple years hopefully for apple it'll
be more popular than the complete debacle that was the original homepod i
can't even remember it i was traumatized you'd be forgiven for forgetting that
netflix has been offering some free games to subscribers for a while now a
new report has revealed that less than one percent of their subscriber base is
actually playing them although netflix's bread and butter is obviously streaming
movies and series not gaming the company would surely like to see more folks
downloading its games as it seeks new revenue streams to counter recent
subscriber losses except that they're only offering like a handful of Android
games right now you know what they should do is to pick up those old aaa
games that ubisoft stopped supporting that i
got him the xbox series s obviously has appeal as a lower cost alternative to
the series x but one massive trade-off is that the s doesn't have enough vram
to keep up with all the fancy fixings developers are adding to games but a
recent software update has allocated more of the system's shared memory to
vram so hopefully you'll see a quality boost in your favorite titles and never
have to feel console envy again it's my forever console i'm sure that
NVIDIA is hoping for its lovelace gpus to be a hit whenever they come out as
the crypto crash and result in tank and demand for graphics cards led team green
to finish the second quarter 1.4 billion
dollars short of projections that's obviously a lot of money but keep in
mind their overall revenue is up thanks to their data center business so jensen
is in no risk of having to sell the leather jacket off his back can you
imagine and remember to verify that images you see on the web are actually
what they say they are etienne klein a research director within the french
government shared what he claimed was a picture of the star proxima centauri
taken by the james webb's telescope but it was actually a slice of chorizo
posted as a joke and as a lesson not to blindly trust those with authority
seeing his proxima centauri is in fact a red dwarf i wouldn't feel too bad if you
were fooled by the vermilion colored sausage but now
i'm suddenly in the mood for tapas and if you're still in the mood for tech
news well all i can say is come back on wednesday trust me binging tech news is
a habit you do not want to get into it's the beginning of a
of a dark spiral