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    DougMcC replied to the thread News Wi-Fi 8 will not improve transfer speeds — the new standard will, however, enhance reliability and user experience.

    I haven't heard this suggested before. How do you get all your laptops connected to 5g?

    Nov 16, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News MSI MEG X870E Godlike motherboard drops at an eyewatering $1,099 — AM5 motherboard unleashes DDR5 9000+ RAM, five M.2 slots, 10 GbE, and Wi-Fi 7 al....

    Some people have a lot of money to spend, and would prefer to have every feature they can get because the price is no impediment and...

    Nov 16, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News MSI MEG X870E Godlike motherboard drops at an eyewatering $1,099 — AM5 motherboard unleashes DDR5 9000+ RAM, five M.2 slots, 10 GbE, and Wi-Fi 7 al....

    over $1000 and no tb5 in late 2024? Thanks I'll wait.

    Nov 16, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News GPU cooling supplier claims Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs will "seize the whole market starting in December" — Auras says key components like cold pl....

    Was going to say the same .... they sell all they make, and it took ~1.5 years before they had made enough they weren't being scalped...

    Nov 16, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News Wi-Fi 8 will not improve transfer speeds — the new standard will, however, enhance reliability and user experience.

    BT was in pretty poor shape 20 years ago. And even 10 years ago, fairly unreliable. But have you tried with 5.x devices and hosts...

    Nov 15, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News Wi-Fi 8 will not improve transfer speeds — the new standard will, however, enhance reliability and user experience.

    Isn't the phy limit on 7 46G? Google seems to think so.

    Nov 15, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News AI accelerator tinybox pro goes up for preorder for $40,000 — the device features eight RTX 4090s and two AMD Genoa EPYC processors.

    Noise 'Loud' made me laugh out ... Loud.

    Nov 14, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News Nvidia offers Indiana Jones gaming bundle to super sales of aging RTX 40 series — RTX 4070 and higher GPUs eligible for the promotion.

    I was just going to offer in response to another poster that probably a more agreeable nomenclature would be new/old/ancient.

    Nov 12, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News Nvidia offers Indiana Jones gaming bundle to super sales of aging RTX 40 series — RTX 4070 and higher GPUs eligible for the promotion.

    It's been more than 2 years since release. 2 years is a full generation in computer lifetimes. It's aging. Only the fact that the...

    Nov 12, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors.

    Curious as to why people think it needs to be so high. I know Samsung flip advertises ~200k folds but who needs to fold that often...

    Nov 11, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News Scalpers sell Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs for up to $1,000 — Ryzen 7 9800X3D is out of stock at major U.S retailers.

    Why on earth would you overpay early for a bargain cpu? Wait two months and get a 9900 or 9950.

    Nov 7, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread Where to buy AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D — the new king of gaming CPUs.

    Kinda shocked at the number of people jumping on this immediately without waiting to see how the higher parts work out in real benchmarks.

    Nov 7, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News TeamGroup DDR5-7200 C32 CAMM2 promises performance speeds over 100 GB/s — memory manufacturer aims for DDR5-9000.

    Surprisingly -> Unsurprisingly.

    Nov 1, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News Cadence says its AI-driven chip design tools provide a process node's worth of performance gain, but without moving forward to a new node.

    So they have AI designing the chips on which future AIs will run. <ducks>

    Nov 1, 2024
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    DougMcC replied to the thread News Russian court fines Google 2 undecillion roubles for blocking 17 state TV channels.

    I assume the amount is intended to allow Russia to seize any and all of Google's assets and cash currently in Russia as Google tries to...

    Oct 29, 2024

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