Tom's Hardware writes:
"We compared the performance of the dual-socket Skulltrail system to that of a Core 2 Extreme QX9770 at the same speed and a Core 2 Extreme QX9650, which runs 200 MHz slower. All three CPUs are Penryns with completely identical features and functionality."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I have a OLD-ASS Pentium 4 2GHz (I'm talkin' Dell Dimension 4500S here...), 2GB Ram (1GB X 2), 40GB HDD, 512MB AGP 4X ATi X1650Pro, Creative Soundblaster Live! PCI Sound Card, Lite-On 20X DVD burner drive, 350W PSU...
And I can play ALL of my games at high resolutions with all eye candy turned on with framerates consistently above 60fps.
I might wait another year before upgrading to something like a dual-core or quad-core.
I just don't see the need in mainstream PC gaming for multiple cores yet. I haven't seen a real utilization of it!
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, eh?
EDIT**
The games I was speaking of are:
- Doom 3
- Quake 4
- Age of Empires 3
- Empire Earth 2
- Rome: Total War
- Medieval: Total War 2
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
- All HL2.exe games (Any steam game that uses the Source engine)
is good "N" word
Extremely Powerful,Extremely expensive.