Nvidia may push up their time table to hammer on both AMD and intel. The parts shortage is letting up a tad but it's still really bad. My current estimation end of 2022, Provided taiwan doesn't become absorbed by china by force.
My prediction, end of 2022 only because they want to try to keep...
I agree. A 4070 should be amazing for the price, but not if I have to drop an extra 200-300 for a new power supply. Power considerations are also a factor. If power prices spike, then those new nVidia cards will be spendy to keep using.
nVidia new offering is literally going to require so much extra power. it's sounding like a minimum 400watts to 800watts JUST for the card (I think it will be in the middle there). It sounds like a new power supply will be required. However, it's supposed to be a considerable step up in...
So they announced the low end products april 30th. They are supposed to be available very soon. I feel a little bit lied to because I want to know about the actual mid range and high end cards.
My boss sold a Voodoo 5500 AGP for $350, That stung because it was too cheap. He did make money off of it. But that hurt a tad. I also picked up a reproduced adlib card and I think it belongs in a 286 build honestly. I grew up with scsi on a 286. I think it was a nice 12mhz? I know my dad did...
When the market reaches saturation, I really do expect prices to plummet. All those people scalping will be wanting to get out all at once.
*Edit* it looks like the demand is falling off. It's going to be an interesting few months.
Bullshit. Based on what? You need to cite evidence if you want to say "never". You're making insane remarks with very little supporting evidence. "Crypto will keep pushing" Is not evidence. You are trying to backtrack without any actual proof that this is a "never" scenario.
I cited actual...
That's not a realistic answer whatsoever. It's whatever the market will accept. Saying "NEVER" is almost guaranteed to be incorrect as your don't have any evidence to support your claim. The chip shortage isn't going to be around forever. Prices should come back to some sort of reason. It's to...
Plans have to be adapted to match the marketplace demand. Long term roadmaps are kind of a sick joke because who could have predicted this shortage in the first place? There are obvious bad ideas like Itanium. The world wasn't ready and probably just barely ready to drop X86 compatibility...
i'm very close to people who work at intel. Intel also has a bad habit of not seeing things through and dropping projects before they ever bear fruit and spend literally millions to only break even. Larrabee is a PERFECT example of what should have been continued to be invested into since they...
343 industries aka Shitty bungie has been trying milk the halo franchise for years. This latest iteration actually seems decent. But it's more of a call back to halo 3/reach in many regards.
There's some serious weapon balance issues (as there always is) TTK is way to low. default magazine...
if anything I see a sharp uptick in mobile gaming that's decent. Consoles are easier to develop for (generally speaking) The catch is that an aging platform is harder to push new graphics for and that can directly impact sales.
the advantage of pc gaming is enormous but Console gaming has it's...
Unfortunately that's the nature of the beast. Politics and backdoor deals. People in exclusive clubs that get better deals then others. When the Americas broke away from Britain. I will say there was some significant advantages that the Americas had over Britain, but the end result was the same...
I once had a nightmare that intel fully pulled out of oregon, specifically my hometown. It left oregon in shambles as it once depended on that tax revenue. (not that it isn't close to shambles currently) But It made things much, MUCH worse since the fallout from that loss affected all sectors in...
There's a chance we could have a glut of silicon and then a crash of price of chips which, would be great up to the point that companies start going under because of it. We've created this house of cards, expecting things to be a certain way and it's no longer that case.
I forsee great hardship...
I'm unwilling to risk my computers stability or use for a game.
From the article:
"Besides, those concerns are more than hypothetical. In 2013, the ESEA revealed that a rogue employee was using their kernel-level software to turn users’ computers into Bitcoin mining machines. Valorant‘s...
https://www.techpowerup.com/275153/wafer-prices-rising-by-up-to-40-in-2021-report In the end of 2020 is when a spike happened.
https://www.sourcetoday.com/supply-chain/article/21867044/expect-silicon-wafer-tags-to-rise-through-2019 That is what I heard in 2018.
There's so many different factors. Semiconductor wafer prices jumped by 20% even before covid hit. It was on it's way to a bottleneck even before all this nonsense. The physical limit of silicon and literal droughts decreasing the available water to help process the wafers is another massive and...
You have no idea what your talking about.
Twitch streams are like a chatroom where you hang out and interact with the streamer. A chatroom with a host. Some are pre-planned. Some aren't so much. Some are comedians while others are far more serious.
There are pro streamers like LordBBH who...
https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-arc-alchemist-desktop-gpu-could-arrive-disappointingly-late-in-2022
I was personally looking forward to this. I'm not expecting anything amazing, but even 3070 performance for 400-500 would be nice right now. I figure by late 2022 the chip shortage should be...
Given the windows 11 cpu restrictions, I don't see very good adoption for this latest windows variant. It looks like a huge bust for both hardcore and casuals alike.
Windows 10 is acceptable but this kind of nonsense gives me the urge to wash my hands of all this garbage. At what point do you say "ok, This is gone too far!" ?!?
I'm really feeling this. I'm hoping this launches to very poor reviews and is poorly received. I'm already disenfranchised with the way Microsoft handles business.