tele1234

evilution said:

If you are one of the 30 people who have genuinely charged and listened to music at the same time, buy the dongle.

This honestly sounds like you are saying "Well, I don't PERSONALLY do it, therefor NO ONE does"

Have you ever travelled? Ever taking a multi-leg flight or a long car journey? Of course you'll have one end in the charger, one end plugged into headphones. Heck even just driving to work I oftentimes put the charger and the audio jack in. It's a pretty major inconvenience. And wireless headphones, whilst cool and all, are the biggest pain in the butt going. it's just one more thing that needs charged unnecessarily.

lkrupp said:

The last few versions of Windows have been utter disasters. Windows mobile remains a partial abortion. PC sales are slowing down. Yet analysts don’t fall all over themselves to publish “Microsoft is doomed” articles. Where are the “What Microsoft must do to survive” articles? Analysts fume that Apple is a one trick pony with the iPhone responsible for too much of its bottom line. Microsoft is basically a one trick pony with Windows, the Surface line is doing just okay, and Windows phones are a sad joke. But Apple is the one in trouble, right?

Uh, I don't think you understand where microsoft earns most of their money: Enterprise. Only $14bn of Microsoft's $96bn for FY16 came from consumers, the rest is all business. The consumer windows-running segment could cease to exist and Microsoft wouldn't be out too much revenue. The high-end server side software thatMicrosoftt provides is second to none, the Linux-based competitors to SCCM are held up by string and tape and Apple doesn't even have a competitor to it.

It's like IBM or Oracle: Who the hell still uses their products? Businesses, and that's why they are multi billion dollar companies.

tallest skil said:

tele1234 said:

How long ago did you buy it? Have you checked temps? What's your mobo set to do on overheating? (What is your motherboard?)

Honestly, sounds like an RMA issue. Because there's so little info on the matter I'm thinking it's an individualized fault rather than a widespread concern.

Early September, I’ll do that the next time I boot to Windows, and I haven’t changed any settings to my EFI/BIOS/whatever.

It’s an Early 2009 Mac Pro, so Gainestown. Stock motherboard (of course), standard everything.

I’d feel a lot better about it being the fault of just my card, but then I have to deal with the fact that I can’t get a replacement for it.

The Mac Pro motherboards do not support 128k vBIOS, and MacOSX doesn't store vBIOS in the AHCI controller which is why OSX can sleep, but windows cannot on that particular machine. As for the turnoff/dismount, check your temps. One possibility is that the card is overheating, hitting a threshold (max is 98c according to nVidia documentation, for it to get that high something is pretty wrong) and turning itself off without triggering the computer to do the same.

jfanning said:

Could you provide some documentation that says that "most" PS4 games run at 720p and 960 (also which one, as there is a difference between 720 and 960)

Out of the 968 games released for PS4, we have 52 that run at a native 1080p and 60fps, and the rest of the 1080 games are either upscales using the PS4's dedicated hardware upscaler, or sacrifice framerate to make it 1080. The PS4 outputs a few resolutions, same games have multiple resolutions for different parts, we see games all over the spectrum - 720, 768, 900, and 1080 vertical resolution.

auxio said:

Granted, you couldn't see a biased statement if it smacked you in the face.
Please define good.  Seems like his definition is whatever fits his little corner of the universe.  Maybe he needs to get out and interact with average people more to realize that he's in a very niche group, and demanding that the world bend to his will by spouting insults just makes him seem like an immature child.

The guy's being purposefully antagonistic. It's like complaining that a Lambo is shit because it can't go offroad; different computers have different purposes.

The annoying this isn he isn't wrong, but If he worded himself slightly differently I'd have a touch more respect for the statements. No mac line is a gaming powerhouse.

smartmammal said:

If a high-end consumer computer is not good enough to run your product, then you are doing it wrong.

That's not quite how it works. It's not a matter of the Mac Pro (or any Mac line) not being "good enough", it's just now what they are designed to do. I have a few $30,000 DL580's at work that wouldn't run a rift, doesn't mean either of them are poor devices.