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Sure I guess if you want to throw in real Titans as GeForce gaming cards. I really am just speaking on the GeForce stack sans Titans though. Add Titans because they occupy this bizarro slot between gaming card and prosumer card, sure. But really Titans were absolutely different every single gen...

Same. Its on a desk and definitely produces much less heat than my previous 2019 Intel i9 model did.

I can literally work all day on my M1 Pro MBP on battery and not even think about having to look and see what my battery is at.

Yep I work all day long often on my work M1 Pro MBP 16" battery. On the other hand, my old Intel i9 based 2019 MBP 16" would die in an hour.

You could play it single player no problem, but a lot of parts of the game (such as map events, expeditions, operations, etc.) are built around multi-player. I honestly haven't done much story to be honest - I'd guess from that perspective the older games like New Vegas would be far more...

No no I don't think you understand. Past several gens aside from the initial 4070 launch, it was the 70, not the 80 card that matched the previous gen flagship in performance. 20-series was another bad one but I think got better over time where the 70 Super was matching 1080 Ti performance. Give...

This absolutely. The M1 was a huge change coming from Intel. I had an Intel i9 based MBP from work and it frankly sucked. Then got the M1 Pro MBP and the battery life is great and the machine does everything I need it to. Since the M1, the M2 and M3 have been more iterative then anything else...

A base model 4070 Ti Super should also be $800. $800 for a 4070 Ti is flat out overpriced now that the Ti Super exists. Does Amazon not have any MSRP models? MSRP for a Ti Super should be the same as an MSRP Ti - $799.

Fallout 76 got a lot of flack when it first came out, and rightfully so. Last few months, the wife and I have been enjoying it as something to play together for what it is - camp building, events, dailies, expeditions, etc. almost like an MMO light.

My god that card is comically thick. :ROFLMAO:

Greatest of all time is a stretch. Greatest longevity and value for a halo product in recent history? Absolutely. But I think the 8800 series and the ATI 9700 Pro deserve a mention for greatest of all time. The 9700 Pro really started the idea of creating giant (what was considered giant at the...

AMD had acquired ATI by that point. They were just still using the ATI branding. I think the HD 3000 series was launching around the time the acquisition completed if I recall.

Part of it is I just don't trust EK QC these days. But yeah that makes sense with the colored coolant. Glad to hear otherwise no issues.

So when you described your loop as "filthy", what did you mean exactly? Yeah Cryofuel once upon a time was rebranded Mayhems X1, then it wasn't and that's when it started having reports of gunking and other issues. Even the clear.

This is why I am hoping we eventually get bumped up to 12 or 16 core CCX designs in either Zen 5 or Zen 6. Then you can get a higher than 8-core count Ryzen product without the dual CCD design. Zen 2 had 4-core CCX (2x CCX per CCD), and then Zen 3 bumped that up to an 8-core CCX (1x CCX to CCD)...

Oh nice! I used a Wix 33003 fuel filter when initially cleaning/prepping loop. Never thought to stick one in the reservoir. What model did you use? Eh...careful with that stuff.

Yeah for sure it has a niche market. If gaming was your primary concern then I think the 7800X3D is preferable to avoid any scheduling issues. I would have loved to see them just go both CCD's with 3D v-cache. Or better yet, maybe Zen 5 or Zen 6 we'll finally see CCX designs of 12-16 cores each.

I'm still on 3801 :ROFLMAO:

It's also an addiction. I've never wanted to go back to an air cooled PC after my first foray into custom loop in 2011/2012. As for noise...we do have air cooled PCs in the house and yeah, mine is definitely quieter by a lot...

Fair.

That's a really poor gen on gen improvement if the 5080 only matches the 4090. I'd expect the 5070 to match the 4090.

So not actively cooling something that doesn't need active cooling is "half assing"? Ok...

Correct. You can also opt to just pay the $10ish a year and get more maintenance. I agree that I don't really care for this model, and didn't bother paying anything to keep updating since I didn't add any new devices.

Sure...but I don't think enough to warrant an active backplate. Just my opinion. Considering how expensive EK stuff is, seems a waste to me.

Everyone should already know that soldering is part of the radiator manufacturing process, so feels like nothing new here. Also copper radiators have also always had brass in them. What is the revelation here? Also all your compression fittings and barbs? Brass.

The 4090 doesn't need an active backplate imo. Just a waste of money. 3090 definitely did due to the hot G6X modules on the rear due to the clamshell design.

Yeah the 7900X3D has got to be the worst one of the bunch imo.

There was a 3GB version of the GTX 580. Then next wasn't until the 3GB GTX 780, GTX 780 Ti in 2013. On the AMD side, had the HD 7970 and 7950 both with 3GB in 2012.

I don't buy that the 5090 is going to be a 512-bit card whatsoever and if it is, I'd expect $2500+. That's just not Nvidia's MO with consumer grade graphics. The last time they released anything north of a 384-bit bus on GeForce products (for non-HBM cards) was all the way back in 2008-2009 with...

I didn't watch whatever HUB video is being referenced here, but I would have instead liked to have seen the 4070 Ti release as the 4070 and I would have been ok with that at $600. It really is how each card got branded/priced that got screwed up (4080 12GB probably what screwed up the 70 cards)...

Functionally they just never evolved any of their game design from Oblivion in 2006. Sure some mechanics got added around gun play or there were some QOL updates to looting, etc. Worlds got bigger, graphics got better, but the depth of the worlds within their games got shallower and shallower...

Probably showed the cache was doing more than we thought. I was initially very critical of the 192-bit of the 4070 Ti when it launched but I feel like I have to change my opinion somewhat. Simply bumping the bus and capacity didn't do much for the 4070 Ti Super so it shows maybe Nvidia isn't...

Unless they want to bring back Titan branding or similar, they still have to straddle what the enthusiast gamer/hobbyist will pay with what the prosumer will pay for a GeForce branded card. If I had to guess, the $1999 price point will probably be that sweet spot before some prospective 90-card...

Agreed. Hope they do another new architecture shakeup for Blackwell as aside from some minor differences and increased cache, Lovelace and Ampere are largely very similar architectures. Last major shakeup was going from Pascal to Turing as aside from the addition of Tensor and RT, each CUDA core...

We have something called TABOR and we use it. Trying to tack tax proposals on top of other bills is just a recipe for it going down. Any real politician in Colorado would know that so not sure why they'd keep doing that. Sounds like the definition of insanity.

Plus health insurance, 401k's, etc. The actual cost per employee is quite a bit more than just the wage paid.

Its the new buzz term for any level of automation these days like what "dot com" was to the internet. Also don't forget to leave a tip for your robot: https://youtu.be/7EWrzMQjA38?feature=shared

Yep, he's wrong a lot but still presents himself with an air of smugness as if he's always right. It's extremely off-putting. I'm torn on this one because I feel like gamers soundly rejected the 4080 at $1200. Sure some sold but it was not a popular card for the price. No where near as popular...

Sure, that's a fair point. But it is still somewhat becoming a pay to play game these days relative to where computers have been over the last 20 years. Now don't hear me saying we haven't obviously advanced considerably in that time or that halo products with absurd prices have never existed...

I really don't think the market will accept a non "Ti" branded 80 card at $1200 that soon after the 4080 was soundly rejected. 4080 Super refresh at $999 I think confirms that. Of course I said a lot about what the market would accept back in 20-series days too, and here we are, so come...