Recent content by BILL1957

The problem is we do not have the capability nor the capacity to produce many of the items these tariffs are raising the prices on and it will take multiple years to build the factories, equip them and get them up and running IF the companies do decide to invest in building here. And regardless...

Another here in the midst of a basic complete system overhaul on my secondary system and moved up my timetable on purchasing some of the components to get them ordered before the tariffs went into effect. The only thing I have not yet purchased is the gpu as that segment right now is such a...

As an older long term gamer that has used Nvidia GPU's for decades and has a fairly extensive library of older well revered classic games I like to revisit the announcement that Nvidia had dropped the 32 bit PhysX support on the 50 series cards which affected the special graphical features of a...

With such a large temperature variation between the coolant lines and the much warmer operating environment of the PC wouldn't there be condensation issues with the cooling lines inside the PC?

I feel the immediate future for PC gaming graphical advancements is going to shift to majority software based improvements over hardware as the hardware and power limits of existing hardware are being reached and for purposes such as gaming cost consideration for the majority of gamers does...

With the cost of PC components these days longevity is more important than a little faster clock speed to most folks. If I need more speed I will just move up the tier to a faster CPU if possible. Figure that what the higher performing CPU's and GPU's are pulling power wise stock these days and...

You have to remember that even the 16g 4080 is not on equal footing to the prior gen 80 tier card when compared to the 90 cards. Last gen the 3080 used a slightly cut back version of the exact same chip that was used in the 3090 cards. This 40 series the 4080 is NOT using the same chip as what...

Do you think that the equipment on the assembly lines, the factory buildings they are housed in or the workers to man those lines and the electricity for those factories come at $0 cost? Do you think shipping a container of these half way around the world is free as well? Even when a engineer on...

One thing no one seems to have considered is none of us know what the contract between Nvidia and EVGA consist of. It is always possible that in EVGA's contract could be a non-compete clause for a specific length of time which legally would forbid EVGA from making AMD or Intel cards even he...

When I did my most recent Alder Lake build I oversized the PSU from what I thought I "needed" and made sure it had ample amps on the 12v output and had 3 separate available 8 pin connectors for the plugging in the 12-pin adapter for the GPU. I also bought a solid well respected name brand and...

Seems like my choice to just get a 3090ti this past week and forget about waiting for 4080 availability may end up being a better decision than I figured it would be as I am out of the 40 series market now.

I just wonder with removing all of the EVGA production capacity out of the picture how will this affect the early available stock numbers for the 40 series cards. EVGA was a huge player in the GPU market when it came to Nvidia based cards.

Countries like this is where I think a lot of the lower level leftover 30 series cards will actually end up to be sold within the next year or so. There is always a market somewhere that the older lower level series cards will actually still be considered the way to go maybe not as much by...

Nvidia has always been crucified for their high power draw numbers many claimed they would not buy Nvidia for that reason and now AMD joins them . Will there be same outcry from the AMD fans now they are in the same situation?

I have little doubt that this was originally slated to be a 4070 class card but the problem is it performed too good to be sold at a 4070 price point and not affect the perceived value of the price/performance of the 4080 and would hurt the sales numbers for the 80 series card. So easy solution...