Recent content by tracker1

With PCIE Gen 5 it makes a lot of sense to do this... Even a 5090 is okay with 16 Gen 4 lakes which is 8 Gen 5 lanes... The x16 slot is a formality. I would like to see CPUs support 32 lanes though in order to better support a few add in options. For that matter, I think there's a lot of...

What makes you believe this data wasn't encrypted? Just because data is encrypted at rest doesn't mean it can't be decrypted or otherwise accessed... It likely was. Why passwords weren't hashed using a one way algorithm is a different story. Likely has to do with accounts being used by...

The issue is that the production allocation from the fabs are often set multiple years in advance. AMD simply can't make more than they are already. They under estimated demand by a lot. Mostly because they knew they couldn't match Nvidia on the high end this generation. That said, last...

Why 3 fans for this? It has to be overkill... Some people like being able to use a smaller case.

The difference is the pro card likely consumed around half the electricity compared to the 5090. Similar to last Gen. It's also likely to cost $7-10k...

While I understand that capacity was set well over a year ago. That said, I wish more of these cards were sold by random draw for verified accounts... Without BS bundles, etc. it's bad enough that some models were 40-45% over MSRP to start from. I refuse to buy from a scalper. I feel like...

It's always about prove to performance. Even then AMD has mostly been priced well. They've launched too much but usually adjust quickly. Even then, they've had to do about 20-30% better in terms of performance and cost combined to get the sale over AMD. And even then doesn't overcome brand...

More that the site owner has a personal hatred of AMD that goes beyond any technical reasoning. He'll also bluster things that sound reasonable as reasons but never ever any evidence backing the assertions. In this case "real world" means synthetic benchmarks and not real world game bench years.

Don't buy scalped cards... It's really that simple. Just try to deal with low settings on a modest card for a while. The inflated and scalper process aren't worth it.

They're priced inline compared to expected performance and Nvidia pricing for 50 series. While I personally think they should be $100 and $150 less respectively, that doesn't look to be happening. That said if you can get them at MSRP compared to inflated Nvidia they'll sell and still be good...

It's already a thing. I've got active intake and exhaust vents on the closet my home server and network stuff runs in. If I were building a new house, it wouldn't take much to run an active fan or two at each vent for better circulation.

TSMC has seen demand slip and has additional capacity. AMD could buy this available capacity. It could also shift portions of production to focus on specific products in the near term.

I think it's a shame. The few times I've looked, I hadn't been able to even find Solidigm consumer nvme drives in stock. I've kind of settled on mostly WD Black lately as Samsung has been a little overpriced IMO and the controller firmware issue from last Gen affected me.

Nifty... This may be a great go to option. Especially since 4-dimm ddr5 memory configurations have been problematic anyway.

I fully expect Qualcomm to invest heavily into Risc-V in the next year of they aren't already. Unfortunately, ARM is significantly better performing right now. While I understand ARM POV on this, it's pretty silly all the same. Qualcomm licensing already exceed the smaller company it bought.