Recent content by Darth Ender

this is the natural reaction to scalpers. there's no other way the market can respond until supply can outstrip demand

companies around using your stuff without your consent. you are giving it to them by using their stuff. nearly everything running on software is just licensed to you and in using it you have agreed to give them everything they want. privacy only exists when all parties involved in the...

Microcenter gets stock of the good stuff every now and then. they dont sell these high demand things online so it's harder for bots to do anything about it . if best buy cared about their customers, they'd do the same, only sell these high demand items physically in store then nvidia could...

motherboards just have to get you to the OS handoff. writing the OS for them is probably not something any manufacturer is going to invest much time into and I'm not sure that's where i'd want a lot of money going as a customer. If they're doing their job right, I should basically not spend...

it'll be nice when some day in the distant future intel can sell their cpu's on the merit of them and not thru backroom deals and anti-competitive practices limiting how oems can utilize and market other manufacturer's chips.

botting and scalping can only be combatted by dealing with the idiots who buy from them. Not any other way.

Yes, i do my own car work down to the engine block so long as the job doesn't require some special tool that doesn't make sense to purchase for a one-off. A metal intake transmits the heat it is absorbing from the block and surrounding engine compartment air to the cooler air flowing inside...

Why? composite intake manifolds keep your intake air cooler by acting as an insulator without stupid aftermarket "spacers" - they're lighter and cheaper to produce.

intel is going to be focussing on the medium to low end consumer and they need cheap 10++++ solutions rather than expensive cutting edge stuff.

The problem isn't scalping. It's the automated botification of it.

Scalping via bots for anything deserves prison sentences. Though, the people paying the scalpers for something like a ps5 or other item that is still being manufactured and sold by the company making them are almost as bad. The lack of patience is insane and basically delaying launch dates for...

so tempted to get the 5900x ...but i have a 3900x now. could give the wife the 3900x but she's got a 3800x. Decisions!

the whole end of x86 writing has been on the wall is something people have have said since the days of the movie Hackers and powerPC architecture. And we see how that writing stuck. Anyone trying to kill x86 only seems to be able to write with magic markers.

i dont use the proprietary drivers so how they behave doesn't matter to me. Just future proofed VR and insane overkill 1080p ... giggity. gonna have to camp microcenter come December 8th

what presentation were you watching? they mentioned ray tracing a number of times. The developers they had talking about the card mentioned ray tracing specifically a number of times.