Confirming yet again that Sam is a douche bag! Didn't this guy also complain that his workers were only doing it for money and didn't care enough about the company's vision?
He was also great in the short lived Blunt Talk, an underrated if slightly non pc gem. Seems like he was actively working up till a few months ago, a quick candle going out kind of end, apropos for his legacy.
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/sir-patrick-stewart-dead-at-86/507-5c662c1d-8f79-4288-9a44-cae95d5c49dd sad day, my favorite 'captain' in the entire genre....Bon Voyage Sir.
The last gaming generation that followed the traditional hw depreciation cycle was Pascal, somewhere around 2019-20 GPUs finally became the widely used GP parallel processing compute devices that LJM had been positioning for, also the start of...
Of course LJM living it up, nice side piece: https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/business/alleged-chinese-spy-had-close-relationship-with-nvidia-boss-jensen-huang-report/
CME/CBOE should introduce options on GPU pricing by class...would have a big market. Surprised one of the big 'speculation' platforms like Kalshi or Poly have not hopped on to this...they have basically no regulation and can bet on anything.
IIRC: memory tuning is a bit tougher in general, after the late spring/summer updates which change how bank refreshing works by default. It plugs a security hole. But...means certain sub-timings are either no longer valid or a lot more sensitive...
5080s gone from NV MP as well:
https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/consumer/graphics-cards/
Cheapest 5070 ti starts at 1269, at this point grab it if you need a NV card.
I think we can safely say the worst is still to come....mid 2024 to 2025 was the lull before the storm hit again this time with unprecedented ferocity.
Amazing that it's still in stock in this market, shucking the GPU from these should be easy. These used to be 2799 not too long ago and stay in stock a while too...
Just got my 4090 back from power connector repair.
What a weird world we live in where the 2 fastest consumer GPUs available are both discontinued and selling for more than MSRP on the 2nd hand market. This AI crap has turned this market upside...