Recent content by russell_john

All game consoles are a luxury purchase because they are not a necessity ....... Everyone complains about the global economy but seems to ignore that Sony has to deal with the same thing and the cost to manufacture and the cost of components have also gone up in price. Cost for labor has also...

Odd how a company that is supposed to be about energy efficiency and clean energy selling a product that is the least efficient at charging devices. Not to mention to have the nerve to put a totally ridiculous price tag on it simply because Elon Musk is greedy. I wonder how many tons of CO2 are...

Agreed .... Exclusives are dinosaurs these days and Sony is stupid for leaving millions of dollars on the table by not releasing their games on PC like Microsoft and 3rd Party developers have been doing for years now .... 10 years ago it made some sense because there was money to be had selling...

The latest BIOS for my Asus x570 motherboard had TPM enabled by default .... Anyone that uses Bitlocker also has TPM enabled One other thing you got wrong is most motherboards no longer have an actual TPM module but have it built into the UEFI BIOS .... You mainly only need a module if you have...

To me what is most notable is they removed the copper cold plate and that indicates pure cost cutting measures or what I like to call "Beancounter Engineering" .... I never really liked the idea of a massive amount of liquid metal because it it breaks through containment it's either going to...

I'll believe it when I see it ..... Most likely they are using the same Alps branded joysticks as Sony and Microsoft and they all have drift issues in a significant percentage of units .... I can only make it about a year before I have a drift problem with an Xbox controller at which point I...

I really doesn't matter to me because I'm just going to use Classic Shell like I have been since Vista came out ..... It's the first thing I install after I load Windows for the first time .....

By the same logic no one should buy a PS5 just to play one game either ..... Here is another reason Sony is being left by the wayside with Bethesda ..... They won't allow modding and Bethesda's Business Model now pushes modding because it has stretched out the life and playability of games like...

Once again Microsoft proves that a Windows Update is a far greater risk of hosing your system than any virus is ...... I'll take my chances with the security issues and likely won't bother with this update until early next month and then put updates on pause again for the maximum allow time like...

This has been going on since the day after the RTX 3080 released and only now are people picking up on it? I'm sure there are a couple of scammers but for the most part this has been dones for months now just to irritate Scalpers and make it harder for them to make a quick buck

To me the real difference maker is for all practical purposes the Xbox and the PC are now in same market ..... Microsoft effectively doubled their Market Share by offering up the Xbox exclusives on PC so at the end of the day Xbox + PC > Sony in market share ..... Plus Microsoft doesn't have to...

This isn't a disaster for Nvidia by any stretch ...... They are selling them as fast as they can make them and in record numbers .... Ditto for their Enterprise products which is what is actually causing the bottleneck ..... High margin enterprise products take precedence in manufacturing over...

With GTX 1660 TI and Supers going for north of $600 this thing is going to sell out and then scalped for twice the MSRP ...... Everyone thought I was crazy for paying $500 for an 11 month old MSI RTX 2080 Super Seahawk X back in mid-October but they aren't laughing now with much lesser cards...

In my experience in the last couple of years you are more at risk from a Windows Update than you are from a virus or trojan ..... I'll wait a couple of weeks and see how many people have problems before I update ...... I have better advice, if you don't want your computer to crash don't play...

I'm on pause until the 22nd ..... Maybe longer because for the last year or more I've only been doing updates every 3 months and when I do I always do it late in the month It is sad that Windows Updates are a bigger risk than getting a virus or trojan since I haven't had a successful infection...