Etern4l

Welcome back! Always good to see a fellow Linux user.

It's only a matter of time before they make a DeusEx movie. Wait, what do my eyes see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2265890/ https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt2265890?rf=cons_tt_indev_fmake1&ref_=cons_tt_indev_fmake1 Not sure if those writers are particularly good though, their past achievements are no cause for optimism, hope they won't ruin it. I would see someone like Denis Villeneuve take a shot at this with a big budget, although he will probably be busy shooting Dune movies for the next 15 years :) On a more paranoid note, should one of the main premises of DeusEx - the world is being ruled by powerful people/groups operating in the shadows - be not too far from the truth, would that affect funding prospects for the movie?

I'm quite happy with MSI. Reliability under stressful conditions seems great (touch wood), as is compatibility - no problems with Linux, as opposed to what I've heard about Asus from @Mr. Fox. EVGA boards are really nice, if pricey, but definitely geared towards the hardcore overclocker (e.g. just 2 DIMM slots). PCIe5 SSDs are being unveiled now. On the GPU side there is less of a rush, as PCIe bandwidth is rarely a constraint, especially with 16-24GB VRAM becoming mainstream.

Stopped watching the first video on the "two legendary market experts" announcement and ran a quick sanity check... #1 Eifrig - a convicted fraudster #2 Navellier - ditto

Yeah, I am using the latter setup + bottom intake fan + 200mm side fan. Altogether 11 120mm fans including the AIO + 1x 200mm. Does the job while being fairly quiet (overall much quieter than a laptop under heavy load). Most of the fancy new cases I see don't look like an improvement, and are typically much smaller than my Cosmos S.

(barely resists the temptation to post the usual Linus gif yet again)

Sony Has Declared That The Great PS5 Shortage Is Over At CES Jensen, you are up next sir. Actually, the whole game is up.

Looking closer, there is no longer a chip shortage. Chip prices have been falling since April, today Samsung announced a big drop in profits on weak chip demand and thus pricing. Jensen has been bluffing, he will get called soon.

After seeing the first few seconds, I thought Phanteks got Chris Pratt to review the case lol

That's Apple's playbook. Obfuscate as many technical details as possible, especially if not favourable.

Yeah, 20 items per order is anti-consumer. What seems to also be happening is NVidia using lower tier card "launches" as a trick to upsell people on their higher tier options. Just relax and wait a little, you will be fine.

Both AMDVidia autoscalping, and 3rd party scalping have the same solution - defer the purchase until the prices correct themselves to a sensible level. Every purchase at (auto)scalped prices sends a "it's working, carry on" message.

Sorry to hear about this bro. Apologies for the obvious question, but have you called the police? If so, what did they say?

Your "73C" is just the GPU rather than VRAM temp though, and anyway you only have 6GB of VRAM. Still, there have been mobile SKUs with 16GB so it's doable in a gaming laptop, but probably only the top tier ones with best cooling.

Are you talking about GDDR6 or some other memory type you are familiar with? The former runs very hot, and obviously the higher the density or quantity the more heat gets generated. I'm sure it's a factor.

Is it not though? Doesn't higher capacity VRAM require more board space and/or generate more heat?

Well, I would argue that laptop buyers on the whole have discriminated against themselves by insisting on thin and light designs. Realise that a Chungus-class graphics card such as the 4090 alone weighs more than most laptops these days. Another side of this, of course, is that Nvidia is cutting corners in the consumer space. Less VRAM, less bandwidth, crippled mid and low end graphics cards models are being pushed to the market without any apparent sense of shame at all.

Agreed. My theory is just as Alienware doesn't want people to use fast eGPUs to extend the life of their systems, NVidia/AMD don't want gamers to run multi GPU setups. They would rather people buy hulking 4 slot 4090s at 2Gs a pop, which most gamers would find sufficient today, then upgrade to another, ideally 5-slot, gigaoffering again ASAP, as opposed to grabbing another card from the second-hand market (they are hating so much rigtt now) at a huge discount and be good to go for another couple of years.

Definitely a bit suspect (as mentioned earlier, would be funny if FTC caught wind of something there) but that is serious stuff - potential felony charges, so would they take the risk? Jensen really doesn't have to.

Well, to a point. Common sense dictates that using super-distorted GPU prices (autoscalped MSRP/street prices, whatever) between Dec 2020 and Apr 2022 is clearly not sensible. RTX 3090 Ti was introduced at $2k amidst the bubble and promptly collapsed in value. Now, 3090 was a quantum leap over the 2080 Ti. Over 2x the amount of next gen VRAM (a significant component of the price, surely), 50% more bandwidth. 2.5x more compute performance. The 4090 offers a similar jump in terms of compute over 3090, but the memory is roughly static (same size, +15% bandwidth). Worth noting that the dollar is significantly stronger than it was in Oct 2020, which normally should push the prices of imported goods (a minor part of the US CPI) down. Of course, Nvidia is anything but normal. The truth is that they don't care about gamers that much these days - just go to their website, the gaming section is still there but kind of dwarfed by all the other stuff going on. Their gaming revenue has been collapsing for the past quarters, in start contrast to the datacentre business. They can afford to autoscalp, because they push so much silicon to the enterprise they can throw what's left of the AL stock to the early adopters at elevated prices. This bonanza might not last either, because a. there aren't enough enthusiasts with ca. $2k lying around to spend for fun and b. the tech sector is not doing particularly well either. Things should normalize soon, unless the geopolitical landscape deteriorates further. Obviously, I'm not saying anyone who can afford to drop $2k on a gaming video card shouldn't do it - YOLO, just no need to try and rationalize the spend really. In the end, what? $300-500 bucks extra in NVidia's pocket is hardly a big deal (pocket change for quite a few here I'm sure), particularly given that the world as we know it could come to an end soon! All there is to say regarding the pricing (if anything) is "Sorry, I can't/don't want to wait, take the money, well played Jensen".

So, Chat GPT which this emerson is just a frontend for is very impressive but not flawless, and it's not something you would use for traffic lights control.

The problem is that there is no sensible reference point, since past two years were shrouded in the crypto mining distortion field. Applying inflation to a meaningless number doesn't achieve much. The street price of the 3090 Ti collapsed around 50% in what? 9 months? Has the market reached the bottom? Unlikely, the only gaming GPU price direction is down. Once the premium on early adopters and enthusiasts has been reaped, Nvidia will reduce the prices on the current line to reach the rest of potential customers, then drop the 4090Ti at a price tempting enough to induce a second harvest :) (ca. $2k, perhaps not even would be my guess).

Cost and safety/regulatory concerns.

Just in case someone missed this lol

BTW not every Elon fan in the US is aware that the lithium man is quite partial to China: Elon Musk praises China’s economic progress on Communist Party anniversary Elon Musk said Taiwan should become a special administrative zone of China. Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like and most recently Tesla makes China boss highest-profile executive after Musk