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  1. Comment on Rumor: Insider claims Xbox handheld under development in ~games

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    You'd probably have to change your graphics settings every time you dock/undock, but this sort of set up does already exist with the Asus ROG Ally. They have a few eGPU you can plug into the ROG...

    You'd probably have to change your graphics settings every time you dock/undock, but this sort of set up does already exist with the Asus ROG Ally. They have a few eGPU you can plug into the ROG XG port or whatever it is and add a mobile RTX 4090 if you like.
    Theoretically, you could also do something similar with upcoming handhelds running Intel internals that I suspect will expose a thunderbolt port.

    Downside though, at least for the Asus solution, is it is ludicrously expensive. I've made whole PCs to game on for the same cost as their eGPU.

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  2. Comment on Starfield - what are your thoughts? in ~games

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    In my experience on my beast of a rig, performance has been good and I have had no crashes yet. I'm only in about 8-ish hours. I'm seeing over 100fps most of the time on a 13900kf with a Radeon...

    In my experience on my beast of a rig, performance has been good and I have had no crashes yet. I'm only in about 8-ish hours. I'm seeing over 100fps most of the time on a 13900kf with a Radeon 7900xt on ultra 1440p. One thing that could potentially get a bit annoying are load times, though. I have a crazy disk array setup so my load times are around a second or two, but for comparison my XBox Series X takes 3-5 times as long and over a play session does get a little annoying if I'm doing a lot of zone hopping. That'll probably calm down though if I keep playing and learn where things are better.

    Performance-wise on an XBox Series X, the framerate holds 30fps most of the time, but it'll have occasional dips. I haven't tried any gun battles on XBox yet -- I just did some shopping -- but I would expect they would be fine and hold steady at 30 the whole time. Graphics quality is obviously cut down, though. A hazard of the Zen 2 architecture and 16GB of total system memory I would suspect. Still, equally enjoyable as my PC I would say and definitely playable. Also I experienced no crashes here either.

    For giggles I'll probably also try the game on a 13400f with an Intel Arc A770 16GB in the coming days. Should prove interesting.

    Edit: It's unplayable on a ROG Ally on low 1080p. In the lodge I get a VERY inconsistent 10fps. Once leaving the lodge I get a crash to desktop.

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