Mr. Fox

Maybe it has something to do with the robotic soldering they brag about or the cleaning method they use. Perhaps whatever chemical they use to wash them after soldering. It's odd that their brand is the only one where it is seen, so it has to be something they do differently in manufacturing. Perhaps it is easier for them to spray some kind of crap coating on the GPU than to clean it properly.

Will the new Astral GPUs feature extra rust for the extra premium?

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This is a good time for all of us to sit back, do nothing, spend nothing, and reflect on the things that actually matter in life. Sometimes we get wound up like an 8-day clock about things that don't matter all that much in the grand scheme of things. The only way they will listen is if the cash stops flowing. Budweiser knows how that works now. There are lots of companies, in many industries, that need to learn hard lessons the same way. But, there may not be enough people that are smart enough to teach those lessons. This is the wildcard. Stupid is dangerously common. From 9:48 (the meat of the video) - this is in line with what I have been saying.

China should not be allowed to have anything except for their dirty air and dirty water that nobody else wants. Just the fact that they did something that made it incompatible with OSes before Winduhz 11 shows a pretty sinister intent. There should not be any such thing as "Windows 7" or "Windows 10" or "Windows 11" drivers. There should be drivers for Windows x64. Period. Whatever it is that makes it Windows 11 dependent and incompatible with older versions probably isn't doing Linux users any favors either.

Thank you, Brother. Next year my age and year of birth will be the same. In order for winners to exist there has to be losers. It totally sucks to lose, but it sucks worse when winners are the same as losers. When everyone is a winner then everyone becomes a loser. Losers are what makes being a winner so special.😝 Yeah, it would beat it pretty soundly. My 13900KS and 14900KS beat my 9950X at many things already. They lose to the 9950X in a few things like Cinebench because smartphone cores without hyperthreading suck.

Honestly, it sounds way better to me than a $2500-$3000 clock-blocked GPU with a small performance bump over its predecessor.

If I used Wi-Fi I'd be yanking all of the crappy Wi-Fi cards off motherboards that only had Windows 11 driver support and replacing them with a Wi-Fi card that offered Windows 7 and Windows 10 driver support. This idiotic new Windows 11-only driver support crap is just utter nonsense. I'm okay (for now) though because I don't care about Wi-Fi or BlueTooth. I don't use either one on my desktops and have them disabled in the BIOS. What I really want is an LGA1700 15900KX 16 P-core hyperthreaded no E-core 6.0GHz AVX-512 CPU. Then I wouldn't care that my 9950X can't do 2200+ FCLK. Wonder if they'll have similar challenges (and failures) with pushing weaker silicon samples to the brink like Intel has? Wouldn't that be special to spend $2500+ on a clock-blocked GPU that started dying from silicon degradation?

Well sure you would. So would I. But I don't think I'd be happy with everybody that owned a 5090 being capped at the same maximum memory overclock. That totally defeats the purpose of owning a product you bought to overclock. Super stupid. The silicon quality should determine the max overclock not the NVIDIOT Nazis. That's one of the Ryzen gotchas, too. You can overclock as much as you want to as long as you're happy raising BCLK to bypass the stupid low fused limits on the CCD core ratios. Gamer sheeple ruin everything for overclocking enthusiasts and the idiots that make the hardware seem to think that gamers and overclockers are the same thing. It must really suck for them to be that stupid, but they probably don't even have an awareness of it. I need a better 9950X so I can run the FCLK at 2200+ but the memory seems to be doing well enough.

Nice music video, LOL. 🤣

Punchline: Stupid is the new normal. Pay a lot for a little and it's clock-blocked trash. 5080 looks to be a downgrade for 4090 owners and 5090 Kool-Aid drinkers are probably going to get screwed a second time when 5090 Ti drops later. And, here come the clowns! The China Clown Posse.

With an effing VRAM overclock limiter to make it the same for everyone. Well, screw that and screw NVIDIA, because they are screwing us with overpriced rubbish with nuts cut off. Everyone gets a trophy for volunteering to be molested. They can kiss my butt.

It's sad to think that an OS could suck bad enough make a die hard computer nut stop caring about computers, but Winduhz 11 sucks bad enough that the thought of being forced into using it makes me want to be done with computers. When they pull poop-for-brains crap like not having driver support for an OS that is still supported to force you to into using the undesirable latest version it makes me wish for very bad things to happen to the people and companies that are responsible for that. Their command and control approach to things is unacceptable. And, I certainly do hope that very bad things happen to them in the very near future. It has never been more unlikely that I will purchase new hardware because I'm not willing to embrace daily use of the crappy OS required by the new hardware.

Gimmicks. Other than the image looking kind of rough and a tiny bit muddy with AMD FidelityFX turned on, I seriously can't tell the difference between these settings. I can measure the FPS with the benchmark, but otherwise would have no clue which one was turned on or if all are turned off. As far as NVIDIA (or AMD or Intel) being honest... what I said the other day about wishing in one hand...

If I am not mistaken, I-225V LAN was the last NIC driver that could be successfully modded for W7 support and I think Intel LAN after I-226V and the latest AX WiFi has no Windows 10 driver support. I think WiFi 7 is not allowed to be Windows 10 compatible (by driver development being blocked). We are living in the bad old days for PC, with worse days looming on the horizon. What they do not deliberately screw up gets screwed up by accident. After I repasted the Strix 1080 it has been great and I haven't even bothered putting the 3090 Ti back into that system. I've tested quite a few games on the 1080 after work (it's my work PC) and everything run smoothly and plays very nice at 1440p. With overclocking and benching being intentionally diminished and destroyed by the dishonest, retarded and corrupted "leaders" of the industry, I am quickly moving in the direction of not buying anything new and reverting to older hardware whenever a purchase is necessary or desired. It sure would be nice if enough gamers could grow their gonads and deny themselves of juvenile pleasures long enough to inflict some major financial harm on all of the big tech companies. But, that will never happen because their priorities are all jacked up.

I'm not a huge fan of growling, but man this kind of metal grind is just SO awesome. I can't avoid feeling compelled to head bang and fist pump. Absolutely love it. I could listen instrumentally for hours. No lyrics necessary. No growling on these...

Amen. It's vicious by design and nefarious by intent and should be treated as nothing less. The people and organizations responsible for it should be treated as organized crime syndicates. Survival should be made difficult for them. They need to be snuffed out.

Yes, unfortunately. This is because it has been allowed to happen. It should not be allowed. The only way to fix it is to stop permitting it. China cannot participate if they are deliberately excluded and cut off. They need to replace Afghanistan as the world's poorest nation. That is why the US, UK and EU need to ban together and outlaw any form of trade or exchange with China and any other nation that considers itself an ally to China. Any travel to China should be one-way, with no pathway back by land, sea or air.

Then he should have his US citizenship revoked and get deported to China. All of his personal belongings can be confiscated, sold and the funds used to support something that benefits everyone else. Screw them. Tech companies need to either fall in line or get expunged by the use of force. There should be zero tolerance for any company supporting China or any other enemies of the free world in any form. These vile nations need to be cut off from the rest of the world, isolated and left without any basic resources of any kind and allowed to wither and die. There should be no trade with them in any fashion and their currency should not be accepted as tender for any financial transactions. As long as stupdity is tolerated, prices of PC hardware (and many other things) will never correct. Stupidity is extremely common, and it is easy to identify stupid. You don't even have to try. It stands up, waves and screams, then introduces itself. Found two examples of it in about 10 seconds.

What needs to happen is NVIDIA (and any other company) that cooperates with China in any way gets all of their patents revoked and everything they produce is automatically gifted to the world as open source and free for the taking. Also needs to happen with Micro$lop, Intel and AMD. Need to make it a law that they have to provide newly released hardware driver support back to the initial RTM release version of every OS produced for the greater of 3 OS generations or 15 years. If they do not, patents are denied or revoked and their products (hardware and software) are gifted to the world as open source. If they try using their lies that the old OS doesn't "support" certain feature they want to implement they can choose between not implemented or being forced to provide an update for the OSes they (falsely) claim lack support. Windows 2000 and Windows 7 will support any and all hardware features introduced in 2025 and beyond except for the deliberate actions taken to prevent support.

They should be but it should be 25% more than an acceptable FE base price not screwed 25% harder than already screwed for 200% more than what an FE should sell for. None, not one, of the GPUs are worth the price they are being advertised at. Everyone that buys one is getting sodomized. And if the only thing available turns out to be shitty Windows 11 driver support it will be getting shanked in the groin on top of the sodomization. There are already components on new motherboards that have no Windows 10 drivers. I'd love to round up all their idiots responsible for that, put them into a cage and drop the cage into the ocean. They are unworthy of oxygen.

I think A$$zeus could put RGB on a cow patty and their idiot fanboys would pay $10,000 for it just because of the RGB and ROG name on it. If the ROG logo is RGB they'd pay $12,000 for it. Can't fix stupid. We really need to start punishing bad behavior instead of rewarding it. The only way we can do that is by depriving them of the revenue they need to survive unless or until they knock it off. If they don't knock it off then their companies all deserve to die of monetary starvation. We have all the power and hold all the cards. We need to start playing those cards and begin wielding the deadly sword of common sense. Easier said than done when common sense has become so uncommon.

Haters are gonna hate. It's their loss. Good music regardless of what they think about it. The haters can go fly a kite. Can't fix stupid.

Yeah, that's definitely not ideal. I wouldn't call it "breaking" GPUs but it is, best case scenario, causing physical damage like that is undesirable and unaesthetic. If a person took their GPU in and out of the slot on a frequent basis it could hurt the resale value of the GPU or void its warranty with the GPU manufacturer having it all scratched up like that. What would be humorous is if the motherboard and GPU are both made by ASUS and they end up having to foot the bill for replacing both. I'd still buy the Apex though. My 4090s will be out of warranty long before any surface scratches on the PCB ever matter. It's good that the contact fingers are not being affected by that ridiculous retention mechanism the clowns at ASUS decided to make. Things like that are truly worthy of severe punitive legal action. It's sad how all of the big names in tech act first, think later and just don't care. I'm starting to grow numb to how we are getting screwed over at every turn. AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock... all of them. All shady and greed-driven self-centered entities that ultimately don't really care about the quality of their products, the people that make them or the people that purchase them. The joke is on us for thinking anything different. The brain cancer that turned all laptops into digital feces is metastasizing and degrading the desktop space. But, there is still satsifaction in knowing it's all gonna burn and take them with it. I'm honestly in a place where I just wouldn't own a computer any more if I had to purchase a modern turdbook. There are no words to express the contempt I have for mobile dung. They're trolling the people that waste their money on defective trash engineered by idiots.