If the rest of the world isn't "necessary as constrained", with regards to purchasing an already 2-2.5k USD GPU for 2-3x markup due to idiotic amounts of FOMO, that isn't saying much about their education levels. That's the realm of pure idiocy. If they have more intelligence and/or education...
Since we've had a lot (and I mean a lot) of bots recently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1in1usg/12vhpwr_on_rtx_5090_is_extremely_concerning/mc87lti/
Is this you? Because that's copied and pasted word for word without any deviation, quotations, or attribution.
I'm sure some percentage of them, perhaps not a tiny one, that will make money doing that, but there's a thing called supply and demand, and you have to essentially be upper middle class to comfortably afford this card to begin with. I think some statistics say that a majority of Americans don't...
Late but okay dude, why don't you go look at some of the crafty code these people can make, buried in maybe millions of lines of code, and tell me what you find with your elf eyes, Legolas?
On top of that, how about less obvious things, like functionality that was developed and plugged by...
I think he does impressive work, but I quite dislike his titles. Why is that going to happen to 50% of them? He always finds something to say is going to happen to a "lot of GPUs" (like blowing canned air into the fans, the cracked retention clip which apparently does have traces, etc), but not...
You keep touting the extra width as some amazing feature, but outside of your timeline example (and that's a maybe), I don't see how that's relevant at all. Back in the day when people were purchasing productivity monitors, especially for coding, guess what resolution they tended to go with...
Since some in this topic mention vertical ultrawide... I have done that, no it's not that great for productivity. Neither is normal horizontal ultrawide, and I doubt ultra ultra wide is either.
The best productivity display I have ever used is my 42 inch LG C3 on my desk. Even with OLED making...
This is the best interpretation, it's frankly just bullshit that they couldn't have just implemented more robust circuitry to just check the connector. Further points to the cost savings reason because it seems like they wanted to save space and materials cost and then wanted to put their hands...
That's something I've been concerned about with open source for probably well over a decade now. My first thought was, "so this is just given to me on a 'trust me, bro' basis?"
To be fair, there are at least virus scanners embedded into github releases, but they're probably not going to catch...
I'm looking at a Toshiba in this other machine that has over 74000 power on hours. It's probably far from my highest. MTBF is a complicated calculation and involves a lot of factors. I would reckon it would be quite a bit higher for enterprise level drives (though this Toshiba isn't an...
Some help for people on Windows:
First of all, need smartmontools, more specifically 7.4:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/smartmontools/7.4/
Specifically, unless somehow you're on something below Vista...
Is this you asking this a year ago, too?
https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/buzzing-sound-with-gpu-under-load.128236/
I don't know why in the world bots would invade Hardforums of all things, we're not exactly a crowded forum. All I can think of is crowdsourcing product research...
Okay, my assumption was that this wear and tear was primarily due to the coating wearing down, and it was causing some kind of electrical fire due to impedance change or something similar. If it's purely mechanical, then that makes more sense, thanks.
But I hate to keep harping on this, but I'm...
Okay but one thing that is ambiguous to me is what those ratings are for: being able to run at full capacity, or just at all? Because iirc the 8 pin connectors were run well below their maximum possible capacity, per cable. Also referencing the slides you provided the maximum amperage for the...
Thanks a lot for all of this. You'll have to correct me if I'm TLDRing this improperly, but basically you're saying due to that the 12VHPWR uses the 5556, which is rated at 30 connection cycles regardless, and also has various other components (ie signaling cables) that are only rated for 30...
Well first of all, could you provide a source for that connection cycle number for 8 pin?
Second, from what I have seen (this is just reddit posts and whatnot, so not definitive) 12VHPWR has "up to" 30 connection cycles. So for one that number is lower. Also that's for one singular connector...
I was not talking about current demand. Even if I was, how would AMD have known that back when they were finalizing plans? I'm sure that these huge manufacturing decisions have to be made far in advance, and all they maybe knew was, through the grapevine, that Trump was keen on implementing...
This is only very recently, correct? I did put in an Exos in my PC, but I want to say that was over a year ago. It was fresh from Newegg I think?
https://hardforum.com/threads/newegg-seagate-exos-x20-20tb-279-99-1-99-shipping.2029051/#post-1045731250
This is the thread I found my post in. No...
I think this is the big nail in the coffin for AMD, and why they're holding off a bit to try to improve their AI tech. It's not because they want to, but because right now Nvidia is technically better on all fronts. For longevity, with the strides DLSS is making, I think it's only copium to try...
No it doesn't. Last I checked, those are incredibly hard to get your hands on. And then unfortunately further testing uncovered severe flaws in the way they operate, so that they're incredibly CPU limited.
As far as consoles, that's pretty irrelevant. I was never addressing consoles. Consoles...
VR is one thing because it's a completely controlled environment, with 100% consistent viewing distance, and the hardware has complete control to decide what the picture is. And also put cameras in between you and the screen very easily due to the dark void.
Real life is a chaotic mess and the...
I said something to that extent very recently:
Nvidia is the market leader and has exacerbated this further with its decisions and greed. This is where complete lack of competition gets us. With import tariffs, it's only going to get worse, too. Maybe that's why AMD decided to hold back its...
I agree with this, I never had a problem either with the adapter or the native plug on my 1200W Be Quiet! unit, but I was very careful with the connection. The damning thing is that the connection actually DOES wear out over time, too (Gamernexus showed that it degraded with certain amounts of...
Depends on if that time will actually be used meaningfully. Your "PHD-level users" might prefer to have a little downtime while the jobs run (yes it's slacking but once you start having to overload your brain constantly as a BAU thing, a bit of downtime is basically necessary), and/or they might...
We have to sort of keep in mind that Nvidia might not even give a shit about the entire gaming space anymore to begin with. They can clearly absorb some costs and keep the department going, and at this price it's probably still profitable... but compared to their datacenter and commercial side...
For 350, you are not getting much better than that. Even if you had more VRAM (which you likely will not need with the new DLSS), the 4070 likely would not be able to use it to begin with. It's a plenty fast card for that price. I'm sure there are a few outlier games it definitely can't play in...
What's sad about this is that I have occasionally looked at my Microcenters to just see if they had some good open box graphics card stock. Guess how much they have? None. They have a few pro cards at BOTH of the ones near me, and then it immediately drops down to 4060/Ti (which we all know are...
... This shit is absolutely bonkers. People sitting here getting pissed about not being able to have the "opportunity" to drop 2000-3000 USD on a freaking graphics card for playing video games.
Guys, girls, and all in between... Come on. This isn't some world ending crisis. I promise you will...
Yes, that's what I was saying in the post, but again also I really doubt a pair of glasses could actually do that. In order to paint said HUD on your display, you need a lot of computer vision, which is visual data processing. I guess that field has probably gotten a lot better with AI, but...
I have a feeling that it's sort of like a group frenzy situation. Seeing even one camper gets more people camping, leads to more FOMO, leading to more campers. Monkey see, monkey do. In other words, the campers are easily susceptible to peer pressure and FOMO, which isn't something that needed...
The problem probably comes down to cheap labor somewhere in the production line. I remember hearing about sweat camps in low GDP countries where people were basically working like slaves tagging images for AI training. With China's population, such sweat shops are fully possible (and honestly...
I mean, I wear glasses basically all the time as is, so would not be weird to me. But not 24/7, I don't know of that many people that try to sleep with glasses on.
But if they don't work with prescription lens, then yes it's still quite useless. If they do work with prescription lens, then I...
The worst part is that I don't think I've seen any reason for it. ASUS tax is just ASUS tax for no reason other than people liking the brand. They're just overpriced. The MSI Suprim will probably be every bit as good for a lot less.
Not that "a lot less" matters given this context...
Can always count on ASUS to release some stupid pointlessly overdone card for a stupid price tag. Anyway, 200-800$ extra, on top of an already dumb price tag. Are people actually okay with this garbage? I got my Suprim X Liquid 4090 for less than base 4090 MSRP, not 25% more...
Did anyone actually expect PCIE5.0 to do anything for a while? I've said for a long time it would basically do nothing for multiple generations. We've seen even the 4090 tested down to PCIE 3.0 x16, and it lost almost nothing. That's 1/2 the bandwidth of 4.0. Ergo the 5090 would have to...