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My wife keeps trying to give me her old iphones when she upgrades and I keep going out and buying used iPhones because the newer ones are just bigger than I want to deal with. If there was something new to buy I would. It’s simply a personal preference. I’ve been using iPhones for a long time...

This is my issue. I’d like to upgrade but give me a damn iPhone ‘nano’ or some shit. I’m not watching movies, I have no interest in a large screen. I want something small and light. Until they do I’ll stick with my old POS but small iPhone.

LOL free market economy, suck it up. MSRP is 100000% meaningless. Once a store buys a product from AMD they can sell it for whatever they want, AMD has no say in the retail pricing beyond making a suggestion what they think it should be. The market will decide actual selling price.

Wore my old one out after about 20 years. Cool to see you bringing them back.

Could you elaborate on that? What kind of margin are they working with at current pricing?

All the eggs in the TSMC basket is pretty scary really.

LOL not in the least bit surprised. NVidia doesn’t want to sell these cards. Why waste all that precious silicon on low profit gaming GPUs?

Interesting that the card is not exhausting heat out of the case.

Well deserved. I have immense respect for this woman.

NVidia has competition- it’s their previous gen cards. Not for the performance crown but for the consumer dollars.

That’s what being GPU limited looks like.

Your local bike dealer is right. Better to have a Walmart bike than no bike but there is a huge difference between an enthusiast bike and a department store bike. Trust me, I started on a department store bike and quickly realized how incapable they are for any serious off-road riding. Intel...

Your hobbies include HVAC systems? 👍

True story. I’m into guitars and mountain biking and while $2500 will get you a “decent” guitar, it’s not going to get you shit when it comes to mountain biking.

Correct but I don’t think El Capitan realizes that.

Were people not seating their CPUs in the socket properly back then too?

GPU limited eh?

It’s interesting to see different approaches to how to decide on whether to do an upgrade or not and which way to go.

LOL

What’s up with the surface finish on that block? Looks incredibly scratched up to me but maybe it’s just a super macro closeup?

Same here, games just aren’t as appealing as they used to be- is it the quality of games or me changing? I know micro-transactions and locked down content doesn’t appeal to me at all. Hard to know but there’s other hobbies that I enjoy more these days.

This is one of very few sites I visit. It works for me. Why are you here?

I also just noticed that this subforum is among the highest in terms of posts/engagement on the site so it seems what erek is doing gets the traffic aka lots of people like it and use his posts as the basis for user discussions. I fail to see a problem here.

I prefer things the way they are now but please feel free to go to different sites for your news. This subforum would be pretty dead without erek’s on topic contributions. Sorry you don’t like it- there are lots of other subforums you can frequent so you don’t have to get offended by what goes...

Gaming segment is too small (what is it currently, about 10-15% of their total business?) and they already have the majority of gaming segment so they can’t grow that business substantially. If 85-90% of their business evaporates (not saying the AI bubble is going to pop for certain), gaming is...

Sure does 🙄

Something interesting.

Why make $12B when you could make a multiple of that amount by using that same silicon for AI products instead? It literally doesn’t make sense to “waste” it on gaming products. For the “prestige” of being the leader in a tiny market? I guess you have to use the defective dies for something…

With gaming being such a small part of both AMD and nVidia’s business you have to wonder why they even bother and don’t redirect those resources to their profitable business. Maybe just a matter of time.

That would indeed be unfortunate.

If this isn’t just a microcode issue things aren’t going to be looking good for Intel. This release was already pretty lacklustre but I figured Intel still end up selling lots in prebuilt systems to people who buy based on the Intel sticker. If this is bad enough that the Dells of the world...

When it was new and I played it I remember the immersion being pretty good and a few good scares!

I have no doubt we could. You buying? 😂

Funny, I was just thinking about revisiting this one! How does it hold up in this day and age?

I’m not sure that’s an accurate characterization. I might be more of an SJW (I don’t consider that a pejorative) than most of the complainants. I consider myself socially progressive, liberal minded, left leaning, tolerant and non-religious. 🤷🏻

Isn’t that the only thing you can base it on? With no evidence you’re just making assumptions aren’t you? As far as congress, I don’t have an opinion on that, I’m not an American but again are you going by statistics or assumptions? Based on the small number of people who complain I can only...

The constant harping about what is news and how Erek formats his posts is going to do nothing but drive people away. I know I’m sure sick of it. Maybe it’s time for the big guy to rule on the appropriateness of Erek’s posts and put an end to it either way. It’s Kyle’s house and his rules and I...

Exactly, and I’m not combing through each and every subforum to see what’s new. Those guys are out to lunch.

“Stealing” LMAO, you’re hilarious.

Seems like a small minority to me.