Oh boy! I can't wait to buy another similar single board computer with lesser software support when these all immediately go out of stock and cost 3x on eBay.
All jokes aside, I really hope there will be adequate stock for hobbyists this time around.
I'm also stoked to see what a new pi0W might bring to the table this generation with such an increase in SOC performance.
The original Twilight Zone is a rapid fire smorgasbord of the greatest Sci-Fi writers of the 60s. When I was around 12 or 13 I couldn't get enough Twilight Zone. I always looked out for marathons on the SyFy channel on Holidays.
And since it's from the 60s it doesn't have any swearing or gore or anything inappropriate for kids but there's a lot of irony and death that a kid a little older will be able to appreciate that a younger kid wouldn't.
Short List of my Favorites: I Shot an Arrow into the Air To Serve Man The Monsters are Due on Maple Street It's A Good Life Eye of the Beholder Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
It worries me to see another engine getting mothballed in favor of Unreal 5. With all the garbage surrounding Unity lately I don't want the industry's eggs to all end up in a few baskets. I for one don't see Unreal's prices to stay at their current rate forever, especially while Epic is bleeding money in the Epic Games Store.
Maybe with Counter Strike 2 Valve can jump back in as a relevant player in the engine space.
I'll bet his favorite episode is DS9 S4E16 where O'Brian and the Ferengi start a union to protest against Quarks unfair business practices.
I'll bet his favorite episode is DS9 S4E16 where O'Brian and the Ferengi start a union to protest against Quarks unfair business practices.
Love to see this and hate to see it at the same time.
I wonder how long interoperability will last or if they will immediately start forging a new path.
That's interesting, I've had it happen on several occasions. Maybe I've been unlucky or had weird ram timings.
By chance do you know the speed and timings of the ram in your system?
I'll chime in with a build tip. DDR5 can take a super long time to post on first boot. Like a long time. Like a looooooong time. Like "RMA the board thinking it has memory issues" long. It's only on the initial boot during memory training and shouldnt happen again unless you reset the bios but just keep that in mind.
Also DDR5 is more sensitive than previous gens about being seated properly. Try not to touch the contacts whatsoever or wipe them off with microfiber and alcohol before seating them. It sounds excessive but I've solved problems before doing just a ram clean + reseat.
Also also, if you're looking at a 4060 look instead at a 6700xt and if you are looking at a 6700xt a 7700xt is marginally faster but has more hardware features. For the same money as a 7700xt you can get the last generation 6800 which has the same raw horsepower and more vram but lacks the new hardware features namely AV1 hardware decoding and envoding. They can still ray trace decently but they have a lot more raw power than a 4060 and more vram which if you hold on to a machine for years, which it looks like you do, the extra vram could be the difference between a game being able to start or not down the road. It's complicated.
4060-DLSS-Better Ray Tracing-RT hard to do with a lower spec card-only 8gb vram
6700xt-12GB vram-equal raster performance to 4060-Lesser ray tracing chops- missing extended AV1 and DLSS support.
6800-16gb vram- faster than 4060 and 6700xt-Missing AV1 and DLSS-more expensive.
7700xt-12GB vram- faster that 4060 or 6700xt-AV1 hardware support-more expensive-no dlss
PS I'm still rocking an AMD R9 390 from 2017 and even though I don't get a lot of fps anymore I can still enable HD textures and get really nice visuals just because of the 8gb vram which was a lot back then.
Looks good. I'd go for 32 gigs of ram though if you can swing it. Also is there any reason why you want a 22" monitor specifically?
The reason this one should last is because ddr5 is new and so is the AM5 socket for AMD. AMD supported the previous socket from 2016-2022 so many are speculating that you should be able to do CPU upgrades for the foreseeable future without having to change the whole platform.