Recent content by Vorador2

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    News Nvidia reportedly releasing a new and weaker RTX 3050 6GB to replace the already anemic 8GB variant

    Man nvidia really doesn't give a toss about gamers any more. Since the start of the pandemic market was crypto first, and now it's AI first and crypto second, with gamers at the bottom of the barrel. Dropping a bad card in order to replace it with an even worse card because they're sitting in...
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    News Low-Performance External M.2 NVMe SSD Found to Have MicroSD Cards Inside

    Yesterday i saw on Google an ad about a 16Tb external SSD from an unknown Chinese company. I instantly reported it as false advertising. And Google reviewed my report and said the ad was perfectly fine.
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    News NFT of Jack Dorsey's First Tweet Cost $2.9 Million, Now Auctioning for $2,000

    I've always found hilarious that *almost all NFT are bought with the purpose of reselling them down the line for profit. In their minds, the market cannot go down, but up. Not feeling the tiniest bit sorry for them.
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    News Linux Foundation Creates Ultra Ethernet Consortium with Cisco, Microsoft, AMD and More

    The demand for 2.5Gb Ethernet has shot up with the introduction of Wifi 6E, since 1Gb ethernet is not enough to feed a high performance AP. Nowadays 2.5Gb is becoming the new standard. And 10Gbe is becoming cheaper, just now i read a review of a 8 port fully managed 10 Gb ethernet switch for...
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    News 'Windows Update Restored' Site Provides Updates for Classic Windows Versions

    This is for the rare breed of retro gamers that want to play online with old games that don't run on modern OS. The very few professional computers that still run these old oses are almost always isolated from internet access and already patched by sideloading the updates.
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    News Nvidia RTX 4070 Drops Below Launch Prices in Europe as Demand Falters

    Nature is healing. Hopefully, prices will keep falling.
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    News Asus ROG Ally Takes Aim At Steam Deck

    Err, no. You can install third party games and applications, and if you need it, install Windows and dual boot. At the end, Steam Deck is a PC.
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    News Asus ROG Ally Takes Aim At Steam Deck

    It's an interesting device, but they always do the same mistakes while pursuing the Deck. 1º Add a beautiful, high res screen that massively cuts battery life. Plus the integrated GPU won't be able to run games at native resolution unless they're 3 years old at least or lowering a lot of the...
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    News Nvidia's Gaming Revenue Plunges, Jensen Announces Price Cuts

    They made their bed and now they get to lie on it.
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    News AMD's Octa-Core 4nm Phoenix Point Zen 4 APU Breaks Cover

    Errh, you do know Steam Deck uses a custom APU whose retail version won't be out until fall? Valve IS wiling to get custom silicon made from AMD. In any case, this is a 45W part so no way they're going to stuff it into a Deck. Deck runs pretty hot with a 25W part and battery is less than ideal.
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    News Intel Core i9-10850K: The Poor Man's Core i9-10900K

    My personal view is that they're having so many wafers of the i9-10900k that isn't selling that they're releasing a cutdown version just to get them off their hands, rather than just cutting the price.
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    News Nvidia Goes Nuts and Readies Two More GeForce GTX 1650 Variants

    Nobody on their right mind is spending 300$ and up for a GPU that's going to be obsolete soon. So if they need to get a replacement, they get the "best bang for the buck" model. The 1650. Also, i'm pretty sure nVidia will hike their prices again for Ampere, so lowering the price now for the RTX...
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    News WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech

    Right now all (Seagate, WD and Toshiba) of the major manufacturers have been selling SMR without clearly branding them as such. And is really worrying. SMR have such a huge drop in writing performance than they had to advertise them as "archiving" devices before. Until all of them come clear...
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    News Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges

    It is not going to pass through FDA, but thats not the point. I mean, a medical team on Colombia is even using car parts to build ventilators. And printed 3D parts. It is improvising or letting them die. There's a chronic shortage of everything related to the pandemic, so hospitals work with...
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    News Google Stadia's Upcoming Launch Looking Increasingly Incomplete

    The lag-reducing technology was so amazing it unintentionally produced a time portal where all Stadia features and games where transported to the future! You don't need to buy the sub. You can (in the future, like all Stadia features announced) just buy the hardware, pay for the games and skip...