Cooler reviews are BACK!
This time Antec enters the chat with an..."interesting" concept.
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Hardware Canucks
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Hardware Canucks
@hardwarecanucks
Just a bunch of 🇨🇦 guys working to spread our love of tech, PC gaming, gaming peripherals and more.
Montréal, Québec Katılım Mart 2009
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Call your mom. Call your relatives.
Dominos just entered the chat.
@kfc , your turn.
Domino's Pizza UK@Dominos_UK
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The absolute state of online discourse in 2026.
Disgusting.
TheGameVerse@TheGameVerse
🚨 Digital Foundry’s Richard Leadbetter says the team received death threats over their DLSS 5 coverage “We’ve received death threats… this is completely unacceptable. No one should face threats for doing their job or sharing tech.”
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This is the inherent problem with teasers. Put out some images / video with little to no context and put *some* additional information in an FAQ on a website. The result is the polarization of your audience.
Tom's Hardware@tomshardware
Jensen Huang says gamers are "completely wrong" about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash tomshardware.com/pc-components/…
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How do people work with only one display? It feels impossible to be productive
What are you swapping screens every 10 seconds
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@DanNEO_SS No. But its a step towards more realism.
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The debate over DLSS 5 brings up an interesting possibility.
Regardless of GenAI & the visceral reaction it brings, maybe we DON'T want games to look photo-realistic. Many gamers want their games to look like...games.
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Problem is, we've been shown games we have preconceived opinions of. We know their aesthetic so these changes look bad, jarring even.
Giving developers these tools for future games might help them achieve the aesthetic & look they couldn't achieve before. Or not. We just don't know yet.
Hardware Unboxed@HardwareUnboxed
Are we supposed to actually believe DLSS 5 gives developers control to maintain a game's "unique aesthetic" when the examples they show completely change the artistic style of some characters? "Ah yes, this completely different looking person is what I wanted all along!"
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@FL1NTZ From our understanding, with the tools given by NVIDIA, they'll look however good or bad a game studio intends their game to look.
Interestingly, there will come a time (maybe now) that gamers realize photorealism actually sucks. That games should look like GAMES.
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@hardwarecanucks Here's the thing HC. You saw the controls being used with Oblivion Remastered, RE9 and Starfield. What we saw is what those studios/publishers believe is the appropriate adjustment for those games. So one has to ask, what will other games look like from other publishers?
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Context is important too. It puts additional levers into the artists' hands.
Whether or not those tools get abused is another matter altogether since evidently this runs the risk of AI Slop being pushed even more broadly into games.
Geersart@GeersArt
"It breaks artists free from a game engine's limitations!" it does neither. It maintains engine limitations while covering over the artists intent with a pre-set ai filter look.
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@HardwareUnboxed At this point we don't know what to believe / expect (or not) with rollout more than half a year away. We also aren't in the minds of the developers.
The presentation was done to illicit a reaction. They succeeded, maybe in ways they didn't expect.
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Are we supposed to actually believe DLSS 5 gives developers control to maintain a game's "unique aesthetic" when the examples they show completely change the artistic style of some characters?
"Ah yes, this completely different looking person is what I wanted all along!"
Hardware Canucks@hardwarecanucks
Context is important too. It puts additional levers into the artists' hands. Whether or not those tools get abused is another matter altogether since evidently this runs the risk of AI Slop being pushed even more broadly into games.
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@fedginator According to NVIDIA this is developer controlled, at some level anyways.
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@hardwarecanucks I think even putting aside questions of the ethics and practical issues caused by disregarding developer intent, these uniformly look worse than before
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Ok, hold the phone. WHAT?
Totally torn here. Are we infringing on a game designer's artistic intent w/ AI assumption?
OR
This is SICK! It breaks artists free from a game engine's limitations!
What do you think?
NVIDIA GeForce@NVIDIAGeForce
Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…
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@mpr_reviews Giving devs full control is the only way to do it. But its still not stopping them from making every game look like some odd GenAI mess.
It gives them another "tool" but we've already seen how these tools are abused too.
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@hardwarecanucks The devs will have full control over this. The Grace example was also Capcom's doing.
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Compusemble@compusemble
For anyone worried that DLSS 5 will alter the artistic intent of a game, here is the FAQ from the official NVIDIA forum. Devs will have the ability to tune intensity, color, and masking to determine where/how the enhancements are applied to maintain the art style of the game.
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IMO this could also extend playthroughs for games. Play it once w/ artist's intent, second time w/ DLSS5 enabled.
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The @LenovoLegion 5a & 7a are arguably two of the best price / performance gaming laptops right now.
This Guide will help you choose between them:
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@beyond_fps I think it's perception. Boot a 4 year old Mac laptop & do the same with a Windows device. The experience will be vastly different and unbelievably in favor towards the Apple ecosystem.
It's sad but true.
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@hardwarecanucks In other ways MacOS is way less optimized than Windows
It doesn't even feel faster at all.
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Windows Apologists need an attitude readjustment. The problem isn't specs. It's the OS
What's the use of better hardware if the software is a bloated, unoptimized mess, shitting the bed in a new way after every update? That's why the Neo "feels" so fast: extreme optimization.
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"Insane" takes aside, people who care about those things don't care which OS they use. What they care about is creature comforts (touch points & build quality) & responsiveness. WoA & its associated devices DO NOT provide that at the Neo's price point. And certainly not at MSRP.
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Wow. That's an INSANE take, but I'll play ball.
For people looking to buy a <$999 laptop for web browsing, email, and light creative work, and consumption tasks, Windows Arm is a far, FAR better experience than Windows x86. Windows Arm is much more optimized, and you can feel it when you use the system.
I daily drive both x86 Windows and Arm Windows on comparable hardware. I review countless Windows laptops a year. I'd choose Arm Windows every time. It's simply a better experience for these <$999 laptop workflows.
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WoA one of the reasons why its STILL bad & perceived so poorly. Regardless of instruction set, MS did WoA dirty
It SHOULD have been MS's answer to MacOS. Heavily optimized, cut of bloat. Instead it carried over all the x86 issues & added more
Due in part to this, Neo = much better experience than anything <$999 w/ Windows
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@hardwarecanucks You clearly didn't read my tweet properly. I am talking about Windows on Arm specifically, not Windows as a whole. It's totally fair to call Windows bad. Windows on Arm is NOT one of the reasons why it's bad.
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@zacbowden Comprehension about the carry-over issues between WoA vs x86 seems to be at an all time low here.
WoA fixes none, precisely zero, of the issues people have with Windows in 2026 (bloat, lack of optimization, excess AI creep, etc). If anything, it adds a few more hiccups.
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Reading comprehension is at an all time low. I am talking about Windows on ARM, not Windows as a whole. You can say Windows is bad. Windows on Arm is NOT one of the reasons why it's bad.
Hardware Canucks@hardwarecanucks
Windows Apologists need an attitude readjustment. The problem isn't specs. It's the OS What's the use of better hardware if the software is a bloated, unoptimized mess, shitting the bed in a new way after every update? That's why the Neo "feels" so fast: extreme optimization.
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