Recent content by spongiemaster

Ice Hockey?

If you look at the shrinking green bar in this chart, it is pretty clear the gaming market as a whole completely tanked last year. With AMD, gaming includes consoles. Q2 of 2024 was down 50% from Q2 21, 60% from Q2 22, and 60% from Q2 23. Such a dramatic drop in one year is not a lull. The...

None of this has anything to do with why the 2 crippled Broadwell desktop CPU's had it. These CPU's ended up being a preview of current X3D CPU's. The BW chips were solid gaming CPU's well after release because of the extra cache, but Intel never bothered with it again to this day for desktop...

As someone already mentioned, two 8 pins plus PCI-E will get you 375W, not 475. Regardless, Intel not needing the connector is a long way from not using it because it was determined faulty as you falsely claimed. Pretty much everything you said is just made up.

If WD didn't believe in the hard drive market they wouldn't be removing SSD's from the main brand. That tells you all you need to know about where the market is. 28TB Exos were announced in 2023 and the recerts just starting hitting the market a couple months ago. It will take time for the...

Hyperscalers are buying them all. The market demand for high capacity hard drives is extremely strong right now, despite the uninformed claims to the contrary from some here. You can easily buy recertified 28TB Exos on Amazon, despite them never being available as new.

Not sure you could be more wrong. Western Digital just exited the SSD market to focus on spinning rust. That's how dead the hard drive market is.

There was no grand vision for adding an L4 eDRAM cache to Broadwell, which is demonstrated by never seeing it again. The reason why Broadwell desktop got it was as a performance bandaid for the giant clock speed loss vs Haswell (4.2Ghz->3.7Ghz). Intel was struggling with 14nm and it...

Intel is heavily involved in the development of the 12VHPWR connector. It is officially part of their ATX 3.0 standard and they made revisions and recommendations for the connector before adding it. Intel does use 12VHPWR for their datacenter GPU's. That's the expensive equipment that needs...

You can disable all the animations in system properties under performance and then visual effects. Has been like that for as long as I can remember.

He doesn't, but Nvidia is one of extremely few companies that have the cash reserves to deliver on Intel's IFS roadmap footing the bill out of pocket without outside help.

No one calls Bentley or Lamborghini German auto makers even though they are owned by Volkswagen. They're still British and Italian auto makers. ASML bought the technology from SVG by acquiring the US company. SVG is still based out of California today. If the Dutch want to cut off diplomatic...

The story has been updated and AMD claims they never said anything about sales numbers and the original source has pulled the article.

Based on it being 15 years old, I wouldn't be surprised if he got it from a friend for free when they got a new one. That would qualify as being cheap. If you're spending over $1k on a GPU, using a 15 year old PSU to power it is not the right choice, it's dumb. That card comes with a THREE...

It does.