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time to retire my HEDT 5820K when this lands.

All companies do this, AMD is famous for useless graphs, too many people are "measurbrators", most of these companies know this and use it a psychological tool for sales.

I once did a stint as a QC/ISO inspector for a MV switchgear industrial power shop. The senior wiremen were like artisans, every wire had a tag and bundled perfectly with no excess runs. The new gen wiremen's work looked like a rats nest but at...

VPN will drop speeds and packet drops will make gaming a bad experience on cable internet. Our Spectrum dropped so many packets it would reboot the modem we purchased. Once we went ATT fiber no issues with packet loss/drops. We use enterprise...

Their pricing policy is strict any authorized seller cannot charge more than the MSRP and service is second to none. We had a experience with a local reseller (Apple authorized service center) who wanted to charge us for a recalled battery swap...

Looks like Intel is resurrecting the HEDT, my Intel ex employee tells me that when server chips have cache defects they get marketed as HEDT.

Had the CCFL vibe too.

And it was fun to watch the IT guru cringe when he saw a bent IDE or SCSI cable. Too worried about stress on cable.

1. I don't buy into the "gaming" marketing hype. I look at core count and my workload needs. 2. I plan on waiting on Intel and AMD's next move. Not sold on DDR5 but prices are dropping fast. 3. If you want to game now it will not come...

Just a money grab https://www.kitguru.net/components/power-supplies/joao-silva/80-plus-testing-and-licensing-fee-increase-may-affect-pricing-of-power-supplies/

As a scientist I would look at MTBF for long term reliability decisions, I have never had a PS fail, again I do not go cheap on brands(EVGA, Seasonic branded units only).

EVGA 10 yr warranty is great, I wouldn't worry about OEM too much.

EVGA has recently introduced the fully-modular SuperNOVA G7 80 PLUS Gold-certified ATX power supply series with integrated system load indicator LED bars. The power supplies measure only 130 mm deep while featuring a half-bridge LLC Resonant...

Super flower is good I believe some are used by EVGA (I would look at their PSU too)

We use Display Fusion software much better than Win 10 display interface.

Funny but in the day it was ''state of the art'', Even a new custom built PC will be obsolete eventually regardless of OEMs used.

Got mine too bought a ZOTAC 3080 Holo online when they had a drop sale.

Odd experience, our checkout lines in Houston are fast and friendly.

Yeah I understand extending the life as much as you can with supply and pricing going nuts. I do Analytical chemistry for a living and I would take the temp sensor readings with a grain of salt. There is a Intel white paper explaining how the...

I like to tinker around too with undervolting and OC but if you are spending approx. 1900 for a GPU the cost of electricity should not even be an issue. Now if you are running an asic mining farm like my son does power savings correlates to...