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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 FE Buyer Receives Mislabeled Card, Engraved with "5090"

    Or, the tariffs apply to anything made in a Foxconn factory anywhere, which is possible.
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    Fraud: Heavily used Seagate harddisks sold as new

    Which is why I buy Chinese made goods only from brands I really trust, e.g. Anker. When I see the identical product pictures on the websites of 3-4-5-many different Amazon sellers I know (1) it's probably all crap, and (2) all those resellers could disappear tomorrow and the warranty is only as...
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    This is the heaviest board I’ve ever used

    Any guesses on if Gigabyte will bring out an X870e version of this board? How much will the price "weigh" on us? 🤣
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    Those of you still running Windows 10, what will be your turning point to upgrade to Windows 11?

    I subscribe to Adobe's Photography Plan (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc), which has minor updates every 2 months and a major update each October. Adobe's policy is to support dates only on supported OSs, right now to the chagrin of old Macs. By this coming October Adobe will require Win 11, and...
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    Those of you still running Windows 10, what will be your turning point to upgrade to Windows 11?

    Why do you say that? I'm not an IT pro, and I need to sleep at least 3 hours a week so I have only so much time to devote to the care and feeding of my computer OS's. I use Linux when I absolutely have to (Windows subsystem for Linux) but I can deal with only 1 OS at a time. In particular...
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    AI Markets Were Deceived To Believe In DeepSeek’s Low Training Costs; They Are Actually 400 Times Higher Than The Reported Figure

    No surprise. CCP is trying to undermine the US in as many ways as possible, including destabilizing financial markets. Who are the OSS kids? Not these guys. https://www.soc.mil/OSS/the-beginning.htm
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    AI Markets Were Deceived To Believe In DeepSeek’s Low Training Costs; They Are Actually 400 Times Higher Than The Reported Figure

    https://wccftech.com/ai-markets-were-deceived-to-believe-in-deepseek-low-training-costs/ I won't bother to quote from the article. Everyone can just follow the link. To me this sounds like a classic stock market swindle, with some (Chinese?) insiders shorting NVidia stock.
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    How many lanes in my ASUS X670E Strix E-A? How to control assignment?

    Guys, I appreciate these responses. AND I appreciate how I should learn to get this information from the User Manual. Teaching a man to fish, if you will.
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    Belkin 11-in-1 multiport dock failed. Warranty replacement or buy another brand?

    Update of sorts. Got phone calls and email from Belkin's "escalation" department. Email sounded peeved because I hadn't responded to phone calls. Those calls were like 6 am. Didn't these guys realize that i am in Pacific Time Zone, GMT-8? So I called back. Got on hold for over 1 hour, at...
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    NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 60 rumors: Rubin GPU, more VRAM, DLSS 5, TSMC 3nm node

    But I bought my Porsche Cayman used. And the Caymen is the "low end" model.
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    $2000 Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 gets tested on creative software and AI and obliterates absolutely everything in its path

    40 hour work week? In the 21st century? Or you get your weekends back, and maybe a few weeknights. Probably several times that. So the ROI is probably 1 year, if you figure in the time it takes an IT tech to remove the old card and install the new card, update drivers, etc., etc. But the...
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    Asus ProArt X870E build!

    Where did you buy these items? How much for the motherboard? I've seen prices like up to $800, which seems like some dealer is scalping. By any chance did you have to do a backorder? On Win 11? I just want the Power and Settings icons above the Win 11 Start Button.. I'e done some Win 11...
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    Asus ProArt X870E build!

    Yeah, me too but I'm, still sitting ON my bum. :notworthy: Why the mounting plate? It seems that most guys don't use one of those.
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    Asus ProArt X870E build!

    Are you sure?
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    (full tower) heavy cases and carpeted floors

    That PC Cart would be great, but is 2 inches too wide to fit in between my desk and filing cabinet, and I can't move the desk to the left any. Too bad. If this cart had fit, I would have ordered it right away.
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    Asus ProArt X870E build!

    I'm a generation older and I still like looking under the hood. (y)
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    (full tower) heavy cases and carpeted floors

    Well, I have to say that as I've gotten older, it's a bit harder on my back, because my system is in a "slot" between my desk on the left side and my file cabinet to the right. I am an "adult" and I even have adult children, with children of their own. Nothing as nice as grandchildren. :)...
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    (full tower) heavy cases and carpeted floors

    How do you guys with heavy cases move them around on carpeted floors? it's a bitch, impossible, to just slide them on the carpet. I'm thinking cases with say 3-4-5 3.5" HDDs, probably water cooling, probably a full tower with a steel frame. Me, I had to build a "skateboard" but it's a bitch...
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    cases compatible with rear-mounted connectors on motherboards

    I'm trying to figure out if there will be a lot of rear-mount motherboards when it's "time" for me to upgrade my motherboard, etc. Lookikng at cases, I suspect that with a dremel and some rubber grommets you could modify some current cases to accept a rear-mounted board. Bu t I'm not a...
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    Potentially 100% tariffs on Semiconductors imported from Taiwan.

    That all said (including by me), can't put all this on Trump. The CCP isn't exactly playing according to the established rules of trade, and Trump is properly responding to all that.
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    Potentially 100% tariffs on Semiconductors imported from Taiwan.

    And Trump likes to "win": on every "deal" no matter what the cost.
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    DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik Moment’ triggers sell-off in big AI stocks, Nvidia and Oracle hit hard

    Why should anyone be shocked. That's SOP for the CCP. And we can export more of the same going forward.
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    Potentially 100% tariffs on Semiconductors imported from Taiwan.

    It's over until it's not. Stay tuned.
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    Potentially 100% tariffs on Semiconductors imported from Taiwan.

    Yeah. Piss off an ally, at the same time you act to protect this ally from Chinese Communist Party predations.
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    USB flash drives are a great invention

    Fist I take offense at your suggestion that I work for Lexar or any of the other flash drive companies. Only drive company I worked for was Shugart Associates, and they made floppy drives and low-cost Winchesters (a term you don't hear any longer.) My high-tech career was in software product...
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    cases compatible with rear-mounted connectors on motherboards

    You are so totally right. I always waste a ridiculous amount of time just getting the case to board pins plugged into the right header pins. And I use only ASUS boards so at least the header positions haven't changed on me. The solution has to come with the case and the board manufacturers...
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    DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik Moment’ triggers sell-off in big AI stocks, Nvidia and Oracle hit hard

    I'm old enough to remember Sputnik. Oct, 1957. People in the US started to worry if a Soviet ICBM could hit US cities with an H-Bomb. It didn't help any that the first US satellite launch was a failure. I was a kid then and I and my friends were all worried about war with the USSR.
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    USB flash drives are a great invention

    What is the model number? Price?
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    USB flash drives are a great invention

    I wonder if one of the flash drive makers will make something in a bigger form factor, maybe longer, maybe wider, to fit in more chips. Just imagine the possibilities.
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    USB flash drives are a great invention

    Prices always dropping. Capacities increasing. Amazing compared with floppy disks, at 1.2 MB formatted. Much more convenient for small amounts of storage say < 256 GB than external HDDs. Biggest issue is speed of USB 3.x I dedicate USB flash drives to just one or two uses each. I use a...
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    How many lanes in my ASUS X670E Strix E-A? How to control assignment?

    OK, I'm not exactly a noob, but I don't know as much as I should about how many PCIE are there in this motherboard. Also, I'd like to add at least one more NVMe drive, but I'm concerned about taking too many lanes away from the card adapter slots. I have 2 x16 slots, for my GPU and a SATA...
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    Scalpers already charging double with no refunds for GeForce RTX 5090

    And how do you know you will even get this card, instead of maybe a 2060? Or nothing at all? What recorse is there?
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    Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger reinvents himself as an angel investor

    I dunno. I don't think he will be invited to really big funding rounds. Who in the institutional/pension community is going to give this any money to play with?
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    Windows 11 24H2

    What happened? Microsoft used to have an army of testers who would do a mix of manual and automated testing to help ensure the quality of the product. In 2014 they were all fired. Their strategy for testing Windows is now three fold:- Devs are expected to test their own code now- There is now a...
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    Salt Typhoon forces FCC's hand on making telcos secure their networks

    Under the new Administration? Why?
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    Can't run ram at 6000mhz, trying to figure out if it's the motherboard

    I have also had to RMA Corsair memory twice now, and will never buy it again, regardless of the specs, etc. What brands have a good reputation for working with AMD motherboards? (I have to confess that I've turned into an AMD CPU loyalist.)
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