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Pay/grind to win combat Star-citizen is very focused on player vs player combat but that whole focus is very problematic in games that has permanent progression or maybe even worse allow people to simply pay for better items. For player vs player to be good there has to be very regular resets...

Speed caps A proper spaceflight sim will not artificially cap how fast you can go. The only thing that should limit your speed is air resistance and how much fuel you have. Being prevented from going fast very much makes spaceflight worse in pretty much everyway. Not only does it prevent you...

Undersized planets Planets in star citizen are only around 1/10 of their proper size. At first this seemed ok but then when they tried to add clouds it wasn't pretty. This was very noticeable during their star-engine demo, it very much didn't look alright. Didn't have the scale you expect...

Here we are going to focus on the MMO since there are plenty of people who bought virtual items for over 1000$ in it. Are they ever actually going to see a great game out of it or will it remain as a messy alpha where things never quite work as it should? Will the gameplay actually be great...

Why cannot you cool a 300W CPU with an aircooler? It's a bit absurd how with the 4090 it can cool 600W just fine without any fancy liquid cooler but with CPUs just cooling off 300W is suddenly a monomental challange. One big contributing factor is that the stock heatspreaders are simply bad so...

What raptor lake could have been The die only needed to be made marginally smaller to replace the 16 estrogen cores with 6 performance cores. The multithreaded performance would be about the same (maybe marginally worse). There would be AVX-512 support. No issues in any games. Note that...

Graphic cards AMD isn't even trying to compete at the high end anymore. The 4090 is still alone at the top with no real competitor in sight. Intel entered the GPU market fairly recently and their cards has had loads of issues with drivers and performed much worse than older cards even from AMD...

Proof low latency is important for games First let's start with latency between the CPU cores and DDR5 Here the tuned DDR5 at 6000 performed significantly better than XMP at 7200 (MT/s). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTmbYak_8gE Low latency was also important with DDR4: We see that AMD...

AMD bottlenecked their X670 chipsets Ironically the shitty Z790 platform intel is offering actually has twice the bandwidth to the chipset, how ironic. Yes that's right, both PROM21 chips used are fed by a single just 4 pci express 4.0 lanes, it would have been much better to go for pci...

The e-cores are not actually efficient It's unclear to me why intel is insisting on using their shitty hybrig approach when they are not even gaining efficiency from it. When you actually do the math and look at the performance/W we actually see that there isn't really much gain here. 5...

AMD has a history of screwing over costumers who wants more than 16 cores You may ask "what about threadripper" and AMD tried push people towards the super-expensive threadripper pro instead, this was not due to lack of demand, it was due to them wanting to push people towards much more...

Zen5 will also be limited to just 16 cores on AM5 That's what you get for 'investing' in an expensive AM5 motherboard. https://www.pcguide.com/cpu/amd-ryzen-8000-series-zen-5-cpus-rumors-and-info/ That's just great, it has been almost 4 years and still no increase in core-count.

Intel abandoned AVX-512 in favor of e-cores It is often claimed that this would not provide a benefit for gaming which is utter nonsense, it is very valuable for emulation which makes it something you definitely want for gaming...

Bad/awful core to core latency when you try to use more than 8 cores This is the case both for the 13900K and 7950x. Sure it has more than 8 cores but when games try to actually use more than 8 there will be problems.

Meteor lake doesn't look good Consistently with meteor lakes leaks have indicated only 6 performance cores on low end desktop (successor to LGA1700). The thing that has varied in leaks is the number of estrogen cores going as high as 16 and as low as 8...

DDR5 overclocking with raptor lake is often a nightmare Their quality control for their memory controller is abysmal and it's a nightmare to get solid stability since you often run into stability issues that are very hard to find (such as after 48 hours of stress-testing). This is especially a...

Why the AMD chiplet approach is awful Instead of providing one large monolithic die they separate each cluster of 8 cores into a separate die and then have very slow and energy consuming interconnects to communicate. When sending data to and from memory it has to pass through the IO-die and...

Issues with zen4 While AM5 is a better platform than Z790 by offering significantly better connectivity and isn't end of life according to AMD the zen4 CPUs hasn't been great. The 7950x lost to the at first cheaper 13900K in gaming and single-threaded productivity. The 7800x3D does perform...

Sapphire rapids: expensive, poor overclocking headroom, very power hungry The single-threaded performance is pretty bad due to the CPU being limited to 4800 Mhz by default 13900K in geekbench6 2963 in single-thread performance, 20021 in multi-thread performance. 2495x in geekbench6 2373 in...

Low end desktop raptor lake isn't that great It used to be the case that high end desktop CPUs were fairly affordable. i7-3930K had an MSRP of 600$ and then you actually got 40 pci express 3.0 lines and quad channel ram. Now instead you have to pay 600$ for the low end desktop CPU 14900K...