Mr. Fox

Turdbook garbage from the Green Goblin, in partnership with the identity theft trashmaster Nazis at Micro$lop.

Maybe the difficulty (or inability) and financial prohibition to insure all of the AI crap data centers will help put things back on a good path. I had not thought of it before I saw this article, but the AI clown posse is going to have to insure all of this stuff. This will limit where they can build and whether or not they can afford to buy insurance to cover it. Building a data center in an area prone to tornados, hurricanes, flooding or other natural disasters might make them uninsurable. Any insurance carrier with just a smidgen of common sense would be insane to underwite that kind of risk. I think it would be a real blessing and a hilarious outcome for the prohibitive cost and availability of insurance coverage to cause progress to come to a screeching halt for these clamoring morons. Imagine the tension explaining to the shareholders and board of directors that plans are being scrapped or scaled back because they cannot find a company willing to insure it or the cost is so astronomical that it decimates all earning projections. Way too funny... poetic justice. If the insurance carriers are smart, they will be scalping the AI companies on the cost of insurance and give them a nasty, bitter taste of what they have done to us on PC part prices. "So, you want to insure your $50B data center against equipment losses and operational losses caused by an insurable risk? OK, no problem. That will be $25B annually, but only as long as you have no loss experience." "Wait. What? You've started building this data center where? Are you stupid? Um, yeah, no thanks. Oh, sure, we get it... it's cheaper for you to build there due to lower property costs, lower wage market and tax advantages, but we're not interested in providing insurance for it at such a disaster-prone location. Have a nice day, and good luck." Data centers straining U.S. insurance capacity | Property Casualty 360 "For some of the largest projects, it’s impossible to insure at full value."

Maybe the difficulty (or inability) and financial prohibition to insure all of the AI crap data centers will help put things back on a good path. I had not thought of it before I saw this article, but the AI clown posse is going to have to insure all of this stuff. This will limit where they can build and whether or not they can afford to buy insurance to cover it. Building a data center in an area prone to tornados, hurricanes, flooding or other natural disasters might make them uninsurable. Any insurance carrier with just a smidgen of common sense would be insane to underwite that kind of risk. I think it would be a real blessing and a hilarious outcome for the prohibitive cost and availability of insurance coverage to cause progress to come to a screeching halt for these clamoring morons. Imagine the tension explaining to the shareholders and board of directors that plans are being scrapped or scaled back because they cannot find a company willing to insure it or the cost is so astronomical that it decimates all earning projections. Way too funny... poetic justice. If the insurance carriers are smart, they will be scalping the AI companies on the cost of insurance and give them a nasty, bitter taste of what they have done to us on PC part prices. "So, you want to insure your $50B data center against equipment losses and operational losses caused by an insurable risk? OK, no problem. That will be $25B annually, but only as long as you have no loss experience." "Wait. What? You've started building this data center where? Are you stupid? Um, yeah, no thanks. Oh, sure, we get it... it's cheaper for you to build there due to lower property costs, lower wage market and tax advantages, but we're not interested in providing insurance for it at such a disaster-prone location. Have a nice day, and good luck." Data centers straining U.S. insurance capacity | Property Casualty 360 "For some of the largest projects, it’s impossible to insure at full value." Why Liability and Insurance Won’t Save AI: Lessons From Cyber Insurance | LawFare "...the insurance industry has at various points asked the government to provide a backstop or some sort of federal reinsurance program for catastrophic cyber risk, to ensure that in the event of such an incident they would not go bankrupt. But this, too, has been complicated to figure out as it’s not immediately clear what types of cyber risks the government views as catastrophic or what it might ask of the insurance industry in exchange for such support. In the absence of clear government support, many cyber insurers have taken to excluding certain types of catastrophic risks (such as state-sponsored cyberattacks and attacks on critical infrastructure) from their coverage and strictly limiting how much cyber coverage they sell."

If the rumors are true, we will get a "remastered" 3060, LOL. Maybe instead of 6090 we will get a 4060 in 2027 for those that that want an updated downgrade. If the 3060 rumor is true it will be interesting to see how hard they screw everyone on the cost of a "remastered" 3060. Interesting concept that obsolete mid-range products might become the de facto standard, but likely at a much high cost of acquisition. So, we should probably be expecting around $750 for this, unless you get it on eBay, in which case it will be $1200. If it sounds like I am full of pi$$ and vinegar that is because that is exactly what we are being served, along with a side of feces.

I am sorry that happened, brother. Did they let you go for financial reasons? The company I worked at for 6.5 years let me and about 15 other people go due to a slump in business volume that lasted more than 6 months. It was unavoidable for the company, but still terrible for those it affected. It took me about 90 days, about 200 applications and many interviews to find another job. The only time in my 40+ year work history that I changed jobs where it wasn't a self-betterment decision and on my terms. God provided for us, but it was still a pretty demoralizing experience. I'd love to have an Alphacool block on my 5080. As much as I hate air cooling, I just can't get past the idea of paying $300 for a mass-production GPU block. Even the cheap ones (Barrow and Bykski) are similarly overpriced and not worth the asking price.

New BIOS from ASUS added new memory overclock settings (tCCD_L, tCCD_WR and tCCD_WR2) that basically seems do nothing whatsoever. BIOS 2304 seems OK for me. Changed "Auto" to the recommended 21-84-42 but found no change in performance noted using my daily driver settings. Haven't tested my max OC with the chiller, but I don't expect any change. I guess it must be better just because you can adjust new settings that do nothing. Kind of like a fidget toy for computer geeks.

They found it easier to make money screwing a quarter as many people four times worse per sale. As long as it looks fancy, or just plain goofy, and has RGB an idiot is going to buy it (likely using high interest credit) no matter how hard they are getting screwed. Form over function. Ice cream for all the kiddies.

Well, I am glad that it turned out OK on the Jeep from a legal perspective. The Astral is a joke by most measurements. They are just overpriced cards with a fancy cooler. They do not have binned core or memory and their stock firmware has nothing going for it. I'm glad you didn't waste money on an Astral. I am 99% certain you would have gained nothing for the extra cost.

Garbage. Also a creative scammy way to help their cartel brothers financially because the sheeple will also need a new PSU or a special new power cable for a new motherboard. The wickedness of the PC hardware bastards has no limits. Totally unnecessary changes that nobody asked for and nobody needs and no consumer benefits from that fabricates an unmerited necessity of an additional purchases.

How are things going Brother @Papusan? This song is for you, bro. Listen to and read the words.

That absolutely sucks. Unforgivable. The only end users they are treating right is RTX 6000 owners. Bastards. I wonder how long it will continue to be available from the Micro$lop Store Whores? This also sucks...

At this point it certainly seems that the quest is to identify the least undesirable option because none of them are good. The best plan might actually be to chose nothing and reject all of the options. What I would love to see is an aggressive wiper malware that specifically targets and destroys all AI source code in all platforms across the globe, and that it would spread like wildfire, uncontrollable and utterly destroy all of it and financially obliterate the companies backing it. Google Gemini, Chat GPT, Grok, Claude, LLaMA, CoreWeave, Baidu, Qwen, Tencent, ByteDance, AWS, Accenture... aIl of it FUBAR'd and unrecoverable, along with the money wasted on it... totally destroyed, permanently corrupted, unusable and nothing salvageable, and no resources available to rebuild with.

That sentiment has not changed. It was too much then and still too much now. The current prices are untenable and any gamer paying current prices for a new 5090 GPU is bereft of common sense. They either have so much money they have lost the ability to think rationally about their purchases, or they should not be trusted to make any important decisions about anything that requires average intelligence. Radeon remains rough around the edges and hard for me to get overly excited about as an overclocking enthusiast, but 9070XT is undeniably the best bang for buck gamer proposition that exists. That excludes any models sporting the petite arson connector. Those should be viewed as undesirable trash. It defies logic that they were able to sell any of them. The most compelling reason for buying a Radeon GPU is the avoidance of that trashy abortion power connector.

Have you tried using Lossless Scaling for 3DMark benchmarks to see if it works?

Not as hard as justifying the purchase of a 5090. The cost of two brand new is still less than the cheapest 5090. The 5090 offers less value per dollar than any other PC component in the history of personal computers. Current pricing is reserved for the mentally insane.

I love it when big tech companies suffereing from AGS (AI Glorification Syndrome) fail and lose gobs of money. Good job, Micro$lop. I hope it hurts more and causes more long-term damage than they are willing to admit.

@tps3443 since you just did a clean install, you might as well do it again. The latest release of Rufus nukes a ton of Micro$lop's bundled feces prior to installation. https://rufus.ie/en/ Changelog Version 4.14 (2026.04.30) Windows User Experience improvements: Add a Quality of Life option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info) Add tooltips for all the dialog options Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs) Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces

Rufus update just rammed an ice pick into the gonads of the Winduhz 11 Cancer OS. But, it's still a piece of crap and smart people choose something better. https://rufus.ie/en/ Changelog Version 4.14 (2026.04.30) Windows User Experience improvements: Add a Quality of Life option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info) Add tooltips for all the dialog options Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs) Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces

I am glad it was something "expendable" that is not affecting your core system. Enjoy that nice Zotac 5080 Solid OC GPU now. That was a good one to buy. Are you keeping both or sending back the new one?