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    News Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC

    Problem is, that it's not gonna be +20%, but +200%, at least for Europe. So no thank You, I'll buy the standard Taiwanese one for some time in the future.
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    News Sending a Steam sticker 'burned through a month of data in five minutes' complains unhappy gamer

    Wow, New Zeland is really bad for Data Programs. I'm from the hole in the ground Slovakia and have 2TB for 20 eur, most of the people have 100 - 400 GB for 10 - 15 eur. We're talking Slovakia. I thought that New Zeland was miles ahead from the ex-Soviet satellite country....
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    News Seagate unveils 30TB HDDs for the masses — laser-powered HAMR drives are now widely available

    Am I the only one here with very bad experience with Seagate HDDs? Their Firecuda SSDs are a breeze, but all of their HDDs died on my watch, and I'm talking dozens if not some lower hundreds of these drives. On the other hand only one WD died on my watch and I'm talking in a ballpark of...
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    Review Noctua NH-P1 Review: For those who demand silence

    Paradoxically, it works extremely well with i7/7 grade SKUs, but somewhat lackluster for i9/9 even in semi-passive/low-rpm/full auto-fan curve mode. I used it in multiple systems. Works best with 12600K, 13600K, 14600K and alike wirh fans rumbling at 300 - 400 rpm...
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    News Nvidia's first desktop PC chip lands this month — Asus leads with Ascend GX10 Grace Blackwell desktop platform

    We already have great chips from Qualcomm, what we need is proliferation. I've had all great ARM Windows notebooks at launch and they were all a disaster. x86 still rules iT lands. Nvidia, Microsoft or Google need to invest a lot more to developers and 3rd parties to make ARM widely used.
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    News Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after proving ‘innocence’

    After Nintendo killed YuZu and RyujinX, I donated/gave away/sold at quarter price all of my Switch consoles and games. Now it's 🏴‍☠️☠️🦜 time. Nintendo deserves to go bankrupt. Among top 3 big a**holes like Nvidia, Sony and Nintendo,. they're my personal #1. I've had a nice collection of games...
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    News Desperate PC DIYer appeals for help after spending $20,000 on a build that doesn't work despite returning multiple parts – misfortune began with a...

    You sound like one of those people who knows nothing about nothing, but thinks themselves knowing everything about everything, with an insatiable need to piss in every corner of the room they find themselves in. It's annoying, unwanted and redundant. Fatal, derived from word "fate", or latin...
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    News Desperate PC DIYer appeals for help after spending $20,000 on a build that doesn't work despite returning multiple parts – misfortune began with a...

    Fatal mistake I made 20+ years ago and never again after. Never rely on single WS/workhorse, never/ever. Always have a full working backup. No matter what. WS grade notebook, some secondary iTX setup or prebuilt miniPC like MacMini Pro, or high-end NUC-like PC. When You can afford 20k for a WS...
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    News China's first 6nm gaming GPU matches 13-year-old GTX 660 Ti in first Geekbench tests — Lisuan G100 surfaces with 32 CUs, 256MB VRAM, and 300 MHz cl...

    People see this and laugh. I see it and am scared 💩less. Same goes for Russia. We (Europe) need Russia and China for practically everything vital, they need us for fancy stuff like chips and ideas. Once they get their own version of stuff we provide them with, in a decade or two, they won't need...
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    News The GPU 16-pin melting fiasco is getting ridiculous — now this entire Nvidia RTX turns into a red ring of death when it is incorrectly plugged in

    Deaign and shunt configuration on side of VGA's 12VHPWR and 12V2x6 is a disaster by all metrics and means, though, I've installed up to a hundred of RTX 4070/4080/Super/Ti/4090 and 5080 and 5090 cards, some had bad values on particular rails [I use clamp amp meter and measure each rail manually...
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    News Disastrous MindsEye launch plagued by performance issues — even an RTX 5090 can't deliver 60 fps despite 19GB VRAM usage, developer working on a fix

    This and pretty much nothing else. Products are being made for share/🥩holders, NOT for the actual consumer/end-user, these only deliver the money. What a crazy age we live in...
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    News Scalpers list ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition GPU for as much as $22,900 on eBay

    This Allahu Akbar edition is not only expensive AF, but also unaesthetic. It's kitchy, or slushy, not sure whether that's the right word from my country. "Gýčový". It looks like a rich gypsy clad in tons of colors and gold.
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    News EVGA motherboard owners furious over modern GPU issues — DIY users resort to taping over pins to fix RTX 50 Series problem on Z690 boards

    What? 😒, it's like crying that Russia isn't maintaining Duga early warning system from the end of previous century, well, it's because it's out of commission for almost half a century, same as EVGA in iT terms. EVGA threw towel two GPU generations ago, so expecting some maintenance from their...
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    Review Thermalright Royal Pretor 130 Review: The Crown Jewel of Air Cooling

    Cons: - looks like 💩 - RAM clearance