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A short Animal Crossing New Horizons trailer was released today, it showed off some more stuff and the revealed the game cover. It was way too short in my opinion... need more. D: Thankfully it's officially the release year! An the date is less than 3 months away! Sooo close now, just please don't get delayed again but more importantly... please don't suck.

 

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Had my other Christmas party this weekend and got the one gift I was really hoping for... a tub of assorted homemade baked goods! My Christmas is now complete lol, very happy.

AMD had it's CES event today, they announced Ryzen 4000 for Laptops, which on paper certainly look very good but it's still paper so who really knows. They said they are focusing on high performance computing this year, along with delivering the best for gamers and creators. Well on the creator side they announced a new Threadripper, 3990x. 64 core CPU, very expensive but very very powerful. The gamer side got a 5600xt announcement, which at $279 MSRP... I personally believe is already dead in the water.

Beyond that they didn't announce anything else specifically for gamers, but the promise of "delivering the best for gamers" certainly sounds like new cards will be coming at some point.

 

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Finally finished up Season 1 of Dr. Stone. Really enjoyed this one and can't wait for more. Definitely my favorite this year.

 

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Played some more Assassins Creed Odyssey, this time on PC. What a demanding game, seen the highest temps yet. It’s a very nice looking game too though. Absolutely massive map but sadly not a ton to do in it outside of the main and top tier side quests... well actually there is but it’s all very repetitive. Supposedly the next game will be even bigger and also include co-op, which could be really amazing.

A game I’m keeping an eye on right now is Dragon Ball Z: Kararot. It releases in one week on Jan. 17th. It’s selling itself as an open world action rpg. I’m very intrigued by the idea but very skeptical of the execution... this could be so easy to get wrong but if they nail it, it’ll be really cool.

 

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Coil whine has been a bit of a downer with my PC build. I can’t seem to solve it, I tried a few different gpus and they all exhibit it... which I would think rules out gpu but it’s also just possible they all had coil whine. It’s apparently very common with these newer cards an without a second PC it’s hard to know. I think PSU will be my next step as apparently it can possibly cause/fix/lessen gpu coil whine but beyond that I don’t know, sucks spending time/money on a maybe. I wouldn’t mind it if it was quieter or only at high framerates but it’s just not. All a bit frustrating tbh.

 

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Sony is skipping E3 again. It's assumed (probably more like guaranteed) they will do their own big event at some point to announce all the details and pricing on PS5. Microsoft was quick to respond that they remain committed to E3. No word on Nintendo but I don't see why they wouldn't, they don't do press conference anymore anyways and the E3 treehouse has been very popular. I don't know where E3 goes from here but it's future isn't looking all that great.

 

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Some big news today, Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed to September 17th. It was originally coming April 16th, so this is a pretty sizable delay. It's not the only big game that's announced a delay recently either, Final Fantasy VII Remake has been delayed from March 3rd to April 10th. Marvel's Avengers was also delayed, moving from May 15th to September 4th. They are clearly all trying to get away from Animal Crossing New Horizons. Fall/Holiday 2020 shall be packed as usual apparently.

 

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Ended up downgrading to a 5700, which finally doesn't have annoying coil whine! I've since been playing around with the soft bios mod, using a 5700xt bios to unlock the 5700... out of the box AMD limited it's ability to overclock. My unit took to it very well, it's limited by power because it's one of the few with only a 8pin but at it's best I've got it to match a stock reference 5700xt in timespy. In actual use it's been stable a little bit under that. I wish it had the extra power connector because it seems it can go further.

Temps have remained pretty good despite the changes, it probably helps they used the same design on 5700/5700xt for this model. Not sure the potential long term effects of all this though. Thankfully to reverse it I simply need to reinstall the AMD drivers, so it's not a big deal in that regard.

In terms of gaming it's definitely a change I can feel and for a basically free upgrade, it's really neat.

 

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Animal Crossing New Horizons is officially 2 months away. Soooo close now. Still waiting to see what the pre-order bonuses with be for the US and if they are gonna do a themed Switch. Best I've seen so far is Best Buy offering $10 in store credit for pre-ordering but that's a pretty standard deal for bigger games.

 

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Well the Animal Crossing pre-order bonuses have started rolling in. A sticker, a poster or a journal. Meh. I mean free is free but other regions have gotten a lot better. Still holding out for a Animal Crossing Switch. PowerA is releasing a line of Animal Crossing themed controllers, but that's all 3rd party an I believe 3rd party still lack some features. Some joycon and a pro controller could be neat though.

 

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