Mr. Fox

Better to buy an older ATX 2.0 PSU with only 8-pin PCIe cables and without any arson connectors and either use the arson plug pigtail adapter that comes with the GPU or buy an 8-pin to arson cable and not be restricted by the engineering defects of new crap tech.

Yikes! That's just insane. 👺

We need federal regulations that make it a felony to conduct business with any enemy of the state. China, North Korea and any nations with terrorist operations need to be put on an ex-communication/no business/no travel/no communication watch list and we need to send violators (CEOs and CFOs) to prison that are caught in non-compliance. They should be charged with treason and have a mandatory life sentence and their citizenship revoked. We need to stop caring about companies getting wealthy selling crap to or conducting trade with China and other enemy nations. If they can't make it without China, then tough. Don't care. (Bottom line is, they can.) China needs to become isolated and unable to conduct legal trade with any nation that wants to place nice with the US and its allies. Survival needs to be made extremely difficult for China as a nation. They need to be stripped of any and all influence on the world stage and their ability to make money totally cut off. The world needs to reject them and exclude them from everything.

Given the fact that firmware and functional limitations are becoming more of a thing for me than thermal limitations, I am considering selling my chiller and going back to internal self-contained liquid cooling. I don't like the idea of it or the reasons that lead me to considering it, but an increasingly diminished overclocking experiencing and overall general dissatisfaction with hardware components that are being produced is starting to negate the benefit of having superior cooling systems. There is no point in having a superior cooling solution if the functional limits of the silicon and firmware castration eliminate the benefit of lower temperature in creating more overclocking headroom (because it doesn't facilitate more aggressive overclocking nearly as much as it used to). The silicon peters out or the firmware caps performance before the cooling becomes a limiting factor. This is also simultaneously diminishing my interest in computers. The functional frequency limits of my 4090 video cards and my 9950X do not seem to scale as much with lowered temperatures to the same degree as the older parts do. That really sucks.

They do not price anything to value. They price their products based on being legends in their own minds, with the knowledge that too many of their customers are brand fanboys and with no shame in exploiting the stupidity of those fanboys.

Why? Simple. Because they are scummy, scurvy bastards that never pass an opportunity to screw the people that buy their overpriced products.

That's good to know. I really like the design of the Lian Li Edge and Corsair RMx SHIFT PSUs (I own two of them) because they really help with cable management and ease of access. I am definitely not new to 4K but I do not like paying lots of money for keyboards, mice and monitors. I've found them to generally not age well and I typically prefer to spend more on performance/overclocking components than peripherals. I could not afford to replace all 5 monitors with 4K at once, but I am OCD and do not like having mixed resolutions on multi-monitor setups. I want all of them to be identical aesthetically and functionally. In this case the money is being spent on work-focused benefits of the added screen real estate. But, 4K is a bad choice on small screens. 27" is like the smallest acceptable screen size for 4K. Smaller than that is pretty miserable unless you use like 150-200% scaling. Doing that loses the benefit of the primary reason to own 4K (screen real estate).

Thank you. I actually have an ASUS 4K 120Hz IPS display that I bought about a year or two ago. It is an older model that was a flagship product in its day. It is connected to the Apex system so I do not use it 40-60 hours per week. But, these Predator monitors should be better based on numerous specs. I just finally got fed up with all of the scrolling I have to do for Excel and PowerBI every day for work. It will also be less of a shock/adjustment to my eyes and brain going back and forth from 4K to 2K. Whenever I use the Apex system with the 4K screen it takes me a bit to readjust to it. I have a total of five monitors in my office. The two 1080p screens will no longer be needed. I will use the 1440p Predators in place of them. That GPU looks so good. I know I have said it before, but I prefer that sort of very clean and non-descript look over the garish look of many of the popular gamer-targeted GPUs.

If that is true (and I do not doubt it) the product documentation Lian Li has posted on Amazon is not accurate (which would not surprise me). Clear communication in English has never been a strength for most Chinese manufacturers. So, I have finally outgrown my dual 1440p 165Hz Predator displays. They have been outstanding monitors, just not enough screen real estate for the amount of time I spend in Excel and PowerBI every day. Found this awesome deal ($100 off sale) and grabbed two. They are the same size and will fit on my dual monitor stand just fine. https://www.newegg.com/acer-xv273k-v3bmiiprx-27-uhd-160-hz-nitro-ips-black/p/N82E16824011500

So, if what I am seeing is accurate, if you have an older NVIDIA, like a 3090, or current AMD GPU with 2 or 3 8-pin PCIe power connections this PSU is unusable, is that correct? You'd have to buy a new PSU if you decided to go with something like a 7900 XTX or 9070 XT. It has only one conventional 8-pin GPU power cable? Is that right?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1420640/Boundary_Benchmark/

Anyone from China reading this, please contact me by PM about purchasing my Gigabyte 4090 for $5000 USD. I will include the waterblock for free.

I think the Reaper looks very good. I find it more aesthetically appealing than the other PowerColor models. It is PowerColor's version of the XFX Swift. The boost clock on both of them is lower and power limits are 36W less than some of the alternatives and I don't know if cross-flashing is going to work for AMD. (It has been difficult or impossible to cross-flash or mod AMD GPU firmware.) The software tools that I had to use on the 6900 XT to extract everything it had to offer was annoying and terribly clunky and inconvenient. Radeon 9070 XT GPU Brands and Specs

He is right. People are watching his videos, but not listening and acting. Having nothing to hide isn't a valid reason to let everyone spy on and steal from you. It is stupefying to think people are still buying iPhones and using the latest versions of OSX and Windows. The human race is digging its own grave with a smile on its face. The video is longer than average sheeple attention span, but it is worth the watch.

I have never heard of this lady before, but she has a very nice voice. Very smooth and seemingly effortless for her.

Those of us that wanted (or bought and had orders cancelled) may have dodged a bullet. Imagine paying $1200 for a $600 GPU and discovering that it sucks at overclocking. You get wallet effed and effed on a castrated part that is not satisfying to own. I do not like Red Devil GPUs. They are too tacky-looking to me, like the ASRock cards. I would only want something like one of the XFX Mercury and other models that are more nondescript aesthetically, like the ASUS Prime. Wow. Something new and it looks pretty crazy. Up to 384GB of VRAM that is upgradable.

The whole thing is just stupid. There is and was no reason for NVIDIA to deploy this garbage connector. To see two AMD AIB partners using it on Radeon cards merely reinforces that the people making decisions are inept and incompetent and shouldn't even be allowed to decide what to eat for dinner. Their inability to make sound decisions places us all at risk. This is an extremely bad time for anyone needing to build a new system or replace any parts that have failed outside of warranty. I feel very blessed to not have any compelling need to do anything and with my surplus I don't have to manage anything except for my illogical passionate for computer parts. I think I am going to start trying harder to not care anymore. A better hobby might be growing personal wealth instead of squandering it on poorly engineered overpriced computer trash. I can feel the apathy starting to build. It's not to the level of contempt and apathy I hold for turdbooks, but I could probably get it to that level without a lot of effort.

NVIDIA and AMD need to start building everything in the US. Our industries are falling in line and going according to plan. Would LOVE to see that happen to the China manufacturer scum.

That brings back some good memories from a time when laptops were actually worth buying. Nice job. Where did you get an MXM 3080 that fit the GPU heat sink? Any trouble cooling it? You're doing the thing the industry decided cost them too much money in the long run and colluded to prevent. How dare you upgrade such an old laptop? You are stealing from the losers that want to sell you a new turdbook every couple of years.

I am still trying to buy one, but not for more than $600. The ASUS Prime 9070 XT OC is in stock at both Chicago area Microcenters for $599.99 and I have messaged a couple of friends in that area to see if they can grab one for me. If I cannot buy one for about $600 then I won't own one. I totally agree. The only way this is going to get fixed is for PC components to be very seldom ever purchased for more than MSRP and products start rotting on store shelves and warehouse pallets and only being sold at a loss as EOL products that fewer people want. This is worse with GPUs than anything else, but it happens with quite a few other things to a slightly less egregious degree.

That is very similar to 3090 Ti in that benchmark.

Looks like the scam I thought I was seeing is actually what is happening. If this is not illegal it sure as heck should be. Companies that do this need to be bankrupted. They don't deserve to survive.

It's hard to say. It seems like having our respect does not matter to them. Maybe they care about self-respect. I think that the only thing they give a damn about is money. They obviously didn't care enough about anything else seeing how they released 50 series video cards with manufacturing defects. It is so special when you get raped financially and get a broken piece of crap in return for that. Jensen would probably kill his own mama for a few bucks.

If they do not fall then 5070 Ti will be the better option. It's a better product by most measurements at the same price. The 9070 XT is only the better option when it is available for at least $100+ cheaper. In terms of performance it falls short of being equal and it cannot compete based on features.

Yes she is beautiful and very talented.