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The price can't be too high or they'd be sitting on shelves instead of sold out below $2200. Apparently I was a genius for buying one in a 13900K system for $2500 last month. It's awesome. Everything at 4k/ultra.

The r15 with a 13900kf and a 4090, 32gb ram was $2500ish a bit over a month ago. Everyone wanted to tell me how awful alienware is because (checks notes) they were better before dell bought them 20 years ago. I've been enjoying it anyhow ever since then. Now 4090's are $2200ish, if you can...

Laptop 4090 <<< desktop 4090. Not even close to the same thing. Not a bad deal, but a little less BS to push it would be nice. We know they're all sponsored links.

I've seen more benchmarks. Looks to have roughly the same performance as an 8th gen i5 quad core. tl;dr: Pretty good performance for a low wattage part considering that i5 is a 65w part. I'm interested in seeing how a 2 performance core, 16 efficiency core works out in general workloads.

1970's computer science joke. "You can identify early adopters and true pioneers by the number of arrows they have sticking out of their backs".

This. Heat problems with nvme drives without a heatsink showed up with the fastest gen 3 drives, and were a hard requirement for gen 4 drives. I've used one on a drive as a standard for about 3 years now. My favorite for gen 4 drives is the sabrent one that has a couple of heat pipes on it, and...

I've watched his youtube channel for a long time. Very good. He often tries to get a playable experience from unexpected setups and often with just integrated graphics. What's the use? He was the guy who figured out that using DXVA, the directx to vulcan translation layer, would enable the...

It's a windows problem and it's been a long standing issue with drivers, requiring turning off auto updates? Not in my experience. I've had a bunch of machines on windows autoupdate with all sorts of drivers and I can't recall the last time I had an issue with that. Years. What I have had is...

I watched this video when it aired. The brief piece people should focus on is how they procured these gpus. Because it made the rest of the video useless. They bought cherry picked, ideal cards from a variety of sources. Clearly not the pressure washed and warehoused cards that so many are...

Surely one of the safest things that one could do is download a windows ISO that's been heavily modified, doesn't take updates, and who knows what got stuck in there? Love these windows reducers, but one can get a lot of reduction using a standard windows distribution. The tools are easy to use...

The 1060 came out a year earlier than the RX580. The 580 was being sold against the 1650 at one point. Both of those cards will run the game.

"You really oughta buy the undercoating and the rust proofing. And only a fool would leave without the fabric protection. Can I also talk you to about an extended warranty?"

Not if you get the chunks centered on each chiplet. Then you're good to go.

I've tinkered around with N5095 and N5105 boxes before, and the "N95" sounds suspiciously like the 5095, which also sports a higher TDP than the N5105, 16 gpu eu's instead of 24, etc. Far from "grandpas computer", the 5105 with 24 eu's was an excellent performer while the 5095 disappointed...

Clearly they applied far too much cheese. Even though that concept doesn't exist.