Recent content by mjoeTW

KMS will probably still work

the nvidia anaglyph renderers worked well for me

I don't understand why people would ever turn off their PCs. I run my PC 24/7, and my total electricity costs are about $1.50 per day.

The obvious issue is still across all those processors, not a single one boosts higher than 5Ghz

appears to be 154,999 Yen, or $1,167.47 USD

990 pro

100% at true 40" 4K i.e. 39.5"

The issue is that the workstation parts will most likely have relatively low default clocks, not even boosting to 5ghz, just like the low clocks you get on true Xeons. In the past HEDT used to have pretty competitve clocks compared to the desktop ones...

I'm expecting we will hear more about release dates at CES. #1 use case for me is just rar extraction and heavy parallel sustained read/writes for large files. I also work on terabyte-scale databases that could benefit.

probably worth waiting a month after release to hear about what kind of issues people report on forums. many things don't show up in reviews.

probably price discrimination, people that buy 5K are usually professionals as almost all consumers will prefer 4K as most content is 4K.

hopefully this price drop will stay in place longer-term, as obviously these are having trouble selling. It seems like the pricing is set at 50 or 25 over the expected prices non-X SKUs.

they're going to have to overprice the 50 series to get rid of the surplus of 40 series cards

benchmarks already showed it's not meaningfully better than a 3080 with a small overclock

It's a loss leader strategy - they will take a loss or near-zero profit on a deal on a CPU, and expect to make a profit from that person buying other parts for the rest of their build. There is no other chain of stores in the US that have a full stock of all types of computer parts - Best Buy...