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    Supply of 5090 cards to increase

    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...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    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.
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    Supply of 5090 cards to increase

    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...
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    US could ban Chinese-made TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report

    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...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    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...
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    Samsung Odyssey OLED G95SC 49" DQHD (5120 x 1440) 240Hz UltraWide Curved Screen Gaming Monitor

    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...
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    Samsung Odyssey OLED G95SC 49" DQHD (5120 x 1440) 240Hz UltraWide Curved Screen Gaming Monitor

    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...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    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...
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    US could ban Chinese-made TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report

    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...
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    Fraud: Heavily used Seagate harddisks sold as new

    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...
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    Fraud: Heavily used Seagate harddisks sold as new

    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...
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    Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

    If it's anything like the 4060/Ti, 5060/Ti will be another useless card with little value to be had...
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    Buzzing Interference Noise (Related to GPU Activity)

    I was quoting someone else, so I'm not sure why you would think I'm referring to you, though...
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    Buzzing Interference Noise (Related to GPU Activity)

    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...
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    Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

    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...
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    Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

    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...
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    Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

    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...
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    Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

    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...
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    Worst video card market ever?

    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...
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    Fraud: Heavily used Seagate harddisks sold as new

    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...
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    Worst video card market ever?

    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...
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    Worst video card market ever?

    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...
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    AR glasses as theoretical smartphone replacements

    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...
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    Worst video card market ever?

    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...
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    Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

    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...
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    $2000 Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 gets tested on creative software and AI and obliterates absolutely everything in its path

    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...
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    Who is camping out for the 5090?

    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...
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    Lucky buyer snags a RTX 4070 Super for $350 in Walmart clearance sale

    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...
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    Lucky buyer snags a RTX 4070 Super for $350 in Walmart clearance sale

    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...
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    Nvidia RTX 5090 eBay Price Soars to $9,000 as Users Revolt With Framed Photo Listings to Trick Bots and Scalpers

    ... 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...
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    AR glasses as theoretical smartphone replacements

    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...
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    Who is camping out for the 5090?

    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...
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    DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik Moment’ triggers sell-off in big AI stocks, Nvidia and Oracle hit hard

    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...
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    AR glasses as theoretical smartphone replacements

    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...
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    Who is camping out for the 5090?

    Yeah sure, let me just line up for the "opportunity" to throw 2400$ at something. Lol no. Caving to FOMO just seems like a bad idea.
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    Scalpers already charging double with no refunds for GeForce RTX 5090

    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...
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    Scalpers already charging double with no refunds for GeForce RTX 5090

    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...
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    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...
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    Well, that's a complete dealbreaker. Guess that I'm not bothering with this gen any time soon.
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    I didn't look through this entire thread yet, but any Stable Diffusion benchmarks?
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