Recent content by AIM9x

I remember sometime in November I had 3 4tb Crucial MX500s in my cart for something like 160-180 apiece to swear off disk drives. I got up to go grab some water and my wallet, sat back down to my cart getting updated to "new" prices of over 200. Now they're $260 and I'm still hitting myself...

The launch event images of the 5700xt anniversary edition had "RX 690" on the card. These were designed, even up until they were making early promotional materials, to be spiritual successors to Polaris. I remember laughing quite hard when they announced 379, 449, and 499 launch prices for...

2070 super at about $500 was really close to 1080ti performance. 1070 wasn't too far off from a 980ti either. 3070 matching a 2080ti doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me. If anything, it just shows how terrible a value the 2080ti was.

You're probably right. I think the original idea of Big Navi was essentially just more Navi CUs with the possibility of HBM. Also for it to not take very long to put out to market. RDNA2 is actual new tech. I still make the mistake of saying big navi instead of rdna2.

I haven't been following leaks like I was back before vega & navi came out. It just isn't fun for me anymore. I'm sure AMD will have some price-competitive offerings to much of Nvidia's stack. I just don't know if AMD will have a statement product to match the 3080. Quite frankly, that would...

From what we've seen so far, 3080 should seriously spank your 1080ti, along with every other card currently available. Getting access to RTX and NVENC should be some nice icing on top of that.

Normally I'd say wait for benchmarks, but that DF video left me believing much of the Ampere hype. Sadly, Big Navi is still a mystery. AMD still seems pretty hyped about their upcoming products, but I've lived through Bulldozer hype, Polaris hype, Vega hype, and Navi hype. Ryzen was probably...

I had no idea there was another crypto bubble forming until I started reading this. Perhaps I'll offload my 5700 non-XT after all.

Big Navi is going to have to be pretty damn big to outdo Nvidia's claims for 3080 performance, which is double the performance of a 2080. It will also need to deal with nvidia's price point of $699.

And it's great because analyzing BSOD dumps when your memory is causing game crashes will throw up error flags in gpu drivers and d3d. Naturally, one is lead to assume something is wrong with gpu hardware/software.

Wait for reviews and spend what will make you happy based on your own budget. So much of what we assumed about Turing and Navi launches turned out to be wrong.

Seasonic is one of Corsair's OEMs, so there's a possibility you went from one seasonic to another. They are one of the earliest brands I remember seeing switch to a 12cm fan with an underslung intake while everyone else was still using a loud 8cm fan on the back panel. There's always the...

Look at people buying a 3800xt over a 3900x, even though you can get a 3900x cheaper in some cases. Sometimes it's just a lack of knowledge, other times it might be some weird enthusiasm for one particular part. I understand getting the lower end part due to power constraints (either psu or...

Nvidia T-shirt was definitely relevant for a longer period of time. It also caused you less hearing loss.

Is this card rare because people smashed them with sledgehammers from all the noise-induced migraines?