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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News US retailer lists RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT starting at $649 and $749 — March 6 launch date confirmed.~$700 is neither midrange NOR aggressive pricing. As previously mentioned, if the purchaser is paying that much money they are going to...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News Western Digital envisions 80TB HDDs in 2030, 100 TB HDDs to follow — new HDMR tech enables record-breaking storage density.It doesn't matter because the price per TB won't go down. HDD will be priced like GPUs.
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burn.That way you will have nine +12V wires providing power instead of just six.
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius — Uneven current distribution likely the culprit.It could go either way. Most of the sixteen pins on that connector are for signalling between the GPU and PS. Issues with communications...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report, says AMD has 78 vulnerabilities with no fix planned, Nvidia has only high-severi....The items that Intel hasn't fixed yet are like AMD's. They ones they have fixed were much worse.
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius — Uneven current distribution likely the culprit.The ubiquitous 8 pin connector only has three +12V wires. You had to use three of those to power a 4090 without an ATX3.0 PS. That means...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius — Uneven current distribution likely the culprit.The wire in a 12VHPWR cable is 16 gauge. That thickness of wire (I assume copper, not aluminum) is rated to carry no more than 10amps...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report, says AMD has 78 vulnerabilities with no fix planned, Nvidia has only high-severi....AMD's issues require the attacker to have Local Admin access. Seriously, if a threat has Local Admin privileges you have so much more to...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News Intel proposes easily repairable and sustainable modular PC design for laptops and mini PCs.This is the same company that changes the socket every couple years, right?
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 specs reportedly leaked — up to 4,096 SPs, 16GB VRAM, and 2.9 GHz boost.AMD learned their lesson. The money-is-no-object consumers are always going to buy Nvidia. Even if AMD is competitive in that sector...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News Power wire-less motherboards pump 1,500W over 50-pin connector — BTF3.0 standard envisions zero cables between the motherboard, GPU, and power supply.The board makers have all of the power, USB, SATA, speaker, PWR/RESET.... connectors that other motherboards have - they just put them...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News AMD RX 9070 XT allegedly tested in Black Myth Wukong and Cyberpunk 2077 — RDNA 4 flagship purportedly lands 4% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti Super pe....The numbers look pretty good, especially for games that favor Nvidia architecture. However we all know that the base SKUs are only one...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News AMD explains the missing RDNA 4 GPUs in its CES 2025 livestream.Nvidia announced pricing for their halo cards - 5080/90 which AMD has already stated they aren't going to compete with. There won't be...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread News Power wire-less motherboards pump 1,500W over 50-pin connector — BTF3.0 standard envisions zero cables between the motherboard, GPU, and power supply.All this to appeal to the vanity of a handful of builders that struggle with proper cable routing? Moving the GPU power taps to the...
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Llmcnabney replied to the thread Best Holiday CPU deals: Save on AMD and Intel.There are no deals. I was considering building a new PC for my son. I last built a PC for myself 16 months ago. Building the exact same...
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