Recent content by Zhyr

Chrome memory usage was fairly extreme and Edge was subsantially less,

You do realise it's DDR4 and not DDR5, right?

Have you forgotten how poorly the first Ryzen performed before the Windows Scheduler was updated?

I hate to tell you this, but the AUD of ~$1700 is pretty reasonable for Australian pricing. The cheapest 3080 at launch was ~$1300 and the Strix models were around 1800. Between freight to get it here, freight around a large country, 10% GST, and all the other fun stuff, <Mod Edit> expensive.

Consoles have historically been sold at a loss(at least initially) which they recoup by game sales. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080515/economics-gaming-consoles.asp Something else to consider is that the maximum read/write speeds advertised are generally not achievable in...

Australia gets to pay an extra $45 for the privilege after the USD to AUD conversion.

If they move manufacturing from a very cheap country to an expensive country, prices will increase substantially more, especially when factoring in the costs to build the new manufacturing facilities.

What isn't taken into consideration is the number of games which are becoming CPU intensive such as any EA game on Frostbite. There's been a huge jump in multithreaded games over the past 12-18 months.

This isn't technically price fixing since it's defined as price-fixing noun a practice whereby rival companies come to an illicit agreement not to sell goods or services below a certain price.

Why would the PSU need upgrading? It's not exactly like there's anything that power hungry there.

The thumbstick would be awesome in RTS games to move the camera since most keyboard controls are set up to use the arrow keys which takes either hand away from other things.

Because they didn't understand, and wanted an explanation? On the bright side, your explanation did explain it, because I didn't understand why people would want it either.

While Steam region locking may be new, the idea of screwing over people from different countries has been going on for an extended period (Australian dollar being worth $1.10 USD while games on the Australian Steam being $80US compared to $50US - not so bad now that the AUD has fallen down to...

Assuming that the APIs for each product work perfectly, there shouldn't be any issue with deadline>quality, though going by the most recent releases, the idea of perfect APIs is obviously a fantasy.

Just because some people may want an optical drive, doesn't mean everyone does. There's plenty of cases with external drive bays so pick one of those cases.