Recent content by sstanic

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    News RTX 50-series paper launch saw RTX 5090, RTX 5080 flew off the shelves — Micro Center, Best Buy, and Newegg are all out of stock

    But why is there a lack of 4nm capacity, if Nvidia makes their AI dies in a 3nm factory? Shouldn't 4nm be more than available by now, if all the main players are on 3nm? Isn't that precisely why Nvidia is making these GPUs on 4nm, so that they don't eat into their own 3nm wafers? Is it GDDR7...
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    Review Fractal Refine Review: Comfortably refined

    Surprisingly low rating, 3,5/5 for what seems a good design and an affordable price 'wonder why they didn't just ship it fully assembled' - it's Swedish, and affordable, but you wonder why it needs assembling :sweatsmile:
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    News Nvidia's next-gen B300 GPUs have 1,400W TDP, deliver 50% more AI horsepower: Report

    Sorry wut? You ran out of keys on the keyboard or something?
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    News Nvidia's next-gen B300 GPUs have 1,400W TDP, deliver 50% more AI horsepower: Report

    How come they aren't using the N3 process instead?
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    News Snapdragon X Elite beats AMD and Intel flagship mobile CPUs in Geekbench 6 – Qualcomm's new laptop chip leads in single- and multi-core tests

    Any company with this level of perf per watt will obviously go after the most profitable segment eventually - servers No doubt Q is aiming at that in a year or two
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    News AMD removes Taiwan branding from CPUs, says change wasn't made to appease China

    AMD will have high end products 'diffused in USA' shortly as well, they are also avoiding those awkward questions this way "Why is my high-end CPU made in Taiwan if we now have TSMC here, and at a great cost for my tax dollars too?" Works both ways..
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    News US Commerce Secretary: Huawei's Chip Advancements are 'Incredibly Disturbing'

    Growing up in the 80s in a then-communist country, then seeing the transition and following the development etc, it's obvious to me that ex-communist countries - China is different in many ways of course - lack the culture of appreciating individual talents and what they bring to the wider...
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    News Swiss Retailer Stats Reveal Which GPU Brand Has the Highest Failure Rates

    People who buy expensive Asus Strix cards are far more likely to send them back if they don't like the pink shade of their RGB compared to people who buy the cheapest Gainward or Palit cards..
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    News Google Bard Plagiarized Our Article, Then Apologized When Caught

    These betas serve one main purpose: to already fight against future US/EU regulation and legislation. It has nothing to do with testing the software/hardware, or general population's response, 99% of the effort is towards future regulation. Whether it's plagiarism and/or copyright isssue is not...
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    News GPU Mining No Longer Profitable After Ethereum Merge

    I'd like to be proven wrong in the future, but I suspect mining companies, even AIB partners, but particularly Nvidia, will definitely find a way to prop up a crypto coin or two to continue. It'll be a planned, engineered and carefully sustained half-craze, looking oh-so-spontaneous and...
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    Review Sony Inzone H9 and H3 Review: Double Duty Gaming Headsets

    So is the H9 a XM5 with a mic and added DSP profiles or not then? And why is that most obvious thing not mentioned in the review?
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    News AMD Corrects Socket AM5 for Ryzen 7000 Power Specs: 230W Peak Power, 170W TDP

    This now also probably means that 7950X has B or C grade silicon, just like 5900X, that's such a shame
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    News Nvidia’s RTX 40-Series 'Ada' AD102 GPU Begins Testing Phase: Report

    Yeah, I know. He also wrote that he would strongly discourage people from investing in ETH mining from now on, but again - profit is profit, and since its inception crypto was and is a bubble and a scheme so..
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    News Nvidia’s RTX 40-Series 'Ada' AD102 GPU Begins Testing Phase: Report

    News about Ethereum postponing its transition until later in the year incoming in 3, 2, 1... Profit is profit 🤷‍♂️