Recent content by P.Amini

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    News Technician warns against copper modding GPUs, fixes RTX 3080 with component damage

    DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! If you have no freaking clue what you are doing.
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    News PhysX quietly retired on RTX 50 series GPUs: Nvidia ends 32-bit CUDA app support

    There were a way to use an Nvidia card (just to have PhysX) along AMD as the main graphics card . For that reason I had two Radeon 6950 in crossfire mode and one Nvidia card (560 I believe) just to run PhysX.
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    News PhysX quietly retired on RTX 50 series GPUs: Nvidia ends 32-bit CUDA app support

    If someone knows a little about CG then he/she knows raytracing is the real simulation, the other way around is gimmick. Yes realtime raytracing is extremely taxing and is in earlier stages but it doesn't change that fact.
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    News Flaunt your style with this $65,000 Nvidia H100 purse

    A necklace made of a 2000W PSU, stylish!
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    News Intel's 18A and TSMC's N2 process nodes compared: Intel is faster, but TSMC is denser

    What do you mean? Are these smaller nodes slower (clock wise)? Why would they?
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    News Vendor puts an on-and-off switch on a AMD X870 motherboard to enable easy GPU removal

    How often do you change your your graphics card? People disassemble their PC to clean it or in the case of a problem they breadboard their PC.
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    News Trump administration declares 'most powerful' AI chips will be built in America

    Nuclear is green when it works as intended but a DISASTER when it fails (earthquake, etc.). Everything is safe and sound? Take a look at what happened to LA recently.
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    News Custom RTX 5090 water block drops GPU temps by 30C

    Water cooling can be made quiet or at least almost quiet (specially with custom setups), unlike air cooling.
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    News Nvidia's new tech reduces VRAM usage by up to 96% in beta demo — RTX Neural Texture Compression looks impressive

    I am looking forward to see what AMD will offer next month. I like to see a B770 as well, there's no reason to think it wouldn't be a great card (Xe3 as well).
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    News Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

    I'm not talking about dangers here, i'm talking about contents AI uses. It's been discussed before here in articles, AI consume (read) text very different than human, it doesn't learn like a human, it's so different. I am not against AI at all, yes it'll have it's upsides and downsides like...
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    News Nvidia's new tech reduces VRAM usage by up to 96% in beta demo — RTX Neural Texture Compression looks impressive

    I hate nVidia's pricing and greed, this new generation (50 series) is more like a sidegrade than a real upgrade and even then there is very little supply which raise the already stupid prices and I really hate all of it BUT I like ray tracing, I've been reading about it way before Nvidia's RTX...
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    News Vendor puts an on-and-off switch on a AMD X870 motherboard to enable easy GPU removal

    Easy GPU removal???!!! No... Easy Graphics Card removal.
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    News Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

    That is what I said, advertising is a science, a very very big, advanced and profitable nowadays. And I found the name, Thomas J. Barratt.
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    News Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

    Different sources/reviews, in fact I am a long time Tom's Hardware reader when there were very few computer and tech related websites (except digit-life.com to name one which no longer exists). I don't see any ads now as I use more than 9 different chrome extensions to block/hide different kinds...