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    X99 vs Z107 - 5 year advantage?

    My worry with x99 is that it is such a niche platform. I understand the upgrade desire but because the platform will add all sorts of new things that you will probably want beyond the CPU socket (new USB standards, new memory standards, new PCI-E, etc) you can't entirely future-proof it...
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    Need an ITX case to be my NAS server

    I recommend the Chenbro SR301: Chenbro - Products Has 4x hot swap bays plus 2x internal bays. Perfect for a NAS and I've owned one in the past and liked it very much before I switched to a Synology unit. Can be bought from Newegg for $136 with a power supply. This can only handle a total...
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    Founders Edition Early Adopters Paper Tax for 20 Minutes @ [H]

    It seems like the NVIDIA store is getting replenished on a daily basis--they shipped out my card on Wednesday and I got it from FedEx yesterday (along with a refund of the 1-day shipping) so I can't complain too much. Got it installed in my mini-ITX Hadron Air enclosure (tight fit!) and now it...
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    Founders Edition Early Adopters Paper Tax for 20 Minutes @ [H]

    What annoys me is that I ordered from the nVidia store when they claimed to be IN STOCK and then I get an email hours later claiming that it is actually backordered but they are holding my PayPal payment until it ships (with no ETA). It's not like they were holding open the orders either--I...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    By the way, anyone who thinks that Macau doesn't mean anything doesn't understand how Reciprocation Bias works. Here's a brief overview: The Financial Engineer: Behavioral Finance - Bias from Reciprocation Tendency EDIT: If people scoff at this do some research on how a pharmaceutical rep does...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    History wise you are wrong: the fact that AMD is doing Macau in the first place has historical precedent in Tunis and Tahoe. We all know how that turned out. And sources...are you kidding? Business journalism can't cite sources for stories like this--it would completely destroy any future job...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    If [H]ardOCP was a tiny site with a small readership you would be correct but they aren't--they have one of the biggest audiences in the tech news community and that's public knowledge. AMD can't afford to just discount all those readers and the sales that will be generated because they are...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    Believe what you want but I'm telling you that permanent blacklisting of media outlets the size of [H]ardOCP simply doesn't have any historical precedent. There's no upside for AMD to do that (unless they never release a competitive enthusiast product again).
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    That doesn't mean they are blacklisted from future events, even after publishing this article. Again this is not personal: if AMD has gear to show that is going to compare favorably they will be falling over themselves to get [H] to review it--it's only when they don't that they want to try to...
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    well I tried to buy a new 1080

    If you didn't have alerts when they went in stock then you weren't going to get one. I had an active NowInStock tab open at NVIDIA GTX 1080 Pre-order & In Stock Tracker - NowInStock.net and I still got shafted out of a NewEgg order because by the time I was finished checking out (~30 seconds)...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    I don't think they were blacklisted--I'm sure that if next week AMD released a product that didn't need to be heavily spun in order to be looked upon favorably then they would absolutely source it to [H] and give them access. This isn't personal--AMD needs outlets like [H]ardOCP more than...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    It has taken more than a decade for [H]ardOCP to build up the credibility it has and credibility in journalism is one of those things that is incredibly hard to build up but extremely easy to flush down the toilet and when that happens it is often unintentional (excitement about wanting to "get...
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    From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]

    Great story Kyle, my take on this is that RTG simply feels like they cannot compete with nVidia with their current resources so they are redirecting themselves towards scenarios where they aren't going to have to compete head-to-head with nVidia on flagship performance anymore and instead focus...
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    ESXi Home server

    One other advantage of Windows Server 2012...because it supports Hyper-V at the OS level as well as the baremetal version you could always just load that as the OS on the machine and see how you like it...then you could spin up VMs at your leisure without having to blow away the underlying OS...
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    ESXi Home server

    ESXi is not the only virtualization solution you can use. True, it's certainly the easiest when it comes to remote management but since you seem partial to Windows Server you might want to consider Hyper-V server which is free and does not have any such limitations. It's a free bare-metal...
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