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I have two PC's in my home .. one is a completely irrational $5000+ monster Ryzen Threadripper + RTX 3080 machine with full EK water cooling. The other is a far more sensible all air cooled design in a decent air-flow case. I can say emphatically that water-cooling looks fantastic but ... air...

Visual Effects for Film and TV is such a frick'n niche market. Apple was smart to abandon that for the consumer market which is back to their roots. Here in America you can go onto any college campus and the dominant laptop computer .. by a wide margin .. is the Mac. Add that to the fact that...

The thing about this computer that I find most interesting is the absence of fans. PC fan noise is unbearable. If you try to do anything that is intensive on a PC laptop .. you get fan noise .. and lots of it. There is no such thing as quiet PC laptop under a heavy load. It simply doesn't...

Value pricing. It's good to be king. If I were in charge at Nvidia, I would do the exact same thing.

AMD doesn't lower prices... rather they lack the features and performance such that they cannot raise their prices any higher. I'm not sure saving a few dollars is always a good thing. Sometimes, you are paying less because you are getting less.

Both AMD and Intel are launching new processors and platforms this fall. Both vendors will be HEAVILY targeting gamers in all of their marketing. But here's the rub... If you have a decent machine that you have built in the last 2-3 years, you could spend as much or more than these new 4000...

God Bless Them.. Every sanction is a point of pain we can use to end this atrocity and bring peace and Justice for the Ukrainian people.

We are approaching a hard limit, as transistor features will never be smaller than 0 nm. Everyone will run into process issues at some point.

It's probably an inside job. Demand for RTX 3000 series is off the charts! I don't see any good reason to buy an AMD GPU other than for a pity-purchase. AMD is pricing their cards less, because they are less. In sheer performance it's just a bit less, but in next generation capabilities ...

Power efficiency is the key to more performance. There is only so much power you can draw through an outlet on the wall. Also, there is only so much power you can generate from a lithium polymer battery. And regardless, both must also dissipate the waste heat that consuming all this power...

The 5700XT is not really a good purchase. RT enabled games are already here (I played three of them this week alone) and more are coming every month. It makes little sense to buy a mid-range card right now (without RT features) only to have to buy another mid-tier card next year when AMD...

WOW! I must be really lucky.... My Stock 9900K crushes the Ryzen 3800X.

15%? That all? That's nothing.... If anything AMD has priced the 3700X and 3800X too high. In you are an enthusiast you already have an 8-core part. The 12-core part isn't even the flagship part. That will launch this fall as the 16-core 3950X. I can easily wait until the fall, for Z570...

"Ryzen, just end it their and look again in 2021 when Intel has something interesting." Huh? 9900K features near HEDT performance closer to Ryzen pricing. Availability is great with motherboard bundles offering a $30 discount from some vendors. Comparing the total system costs, spending...

To this very day .. most movie theaters still project at only 24 frames second. I personally, cannot see (or feel) any difference when using a high refresh rate monitor. But, when I switched my gaming to a high quality 49" 4K television (Samaung Q6F) the impact was ... "F*CK YEAH NOW THAT...