Mr. Fox

Asus quality control is hit or miss. I don't like the brand or the company because every enthusiast motherboard I have owned that they made either failed or had something wrong with it. When they do good they offer some truly amazing motherboards. When they don't, they're very bad and their warranty service is atrocious. They look for reasons too shirk their responsibility under warranty. Oddly enough, their mid-range and budget Strix and Prime motherboards have been reliable for me. It's only their most expensive high-end stuff that is unreliable and it has been unpleasant to deal with on the warranty side. With things like Armory Crate and Aura their support is also pathetic. Now that they have moved to UWP filth and no longer produce legacy win32 applications, their software is unreliable, often unusable, and extraordinarily bloated. More than half the time Armory Crate will not even install and when it does it usually does not function properly. The ROG Strix 4090 that I purchased was grossly overpriced and performed poorly compared to the MSI Suprim. It was $400 more, absolutely sucked at overclocking and I returned it for a refund. It had some pretty tacky looking default lighting features on it that were only controllable using their broken UWP garbage. I know that Brother @electrosofthad to RMA a Suprim that was a lousy silicon sample, but it did not come with a $400 premium attached for an imaginary state of excellence like the Strix turd does. I have a Z690 Apex. Its memory overclocking abilities are pathetic and below average. They marketed it as superior and charged accordingly, in spite of its inferiority and their shameful misrepresentation of its abilities. I have its lighting features disabled because there is no reliable way to control the rainbow puke thanks to their trashy software. I'm very happy to see them coming under fire and I hope all of the negative tech media attention causes them extreme financial harm or results in an immediate change of approach that is customer centric. If not, then they deserve whatever misfortune comes to them and I'll be happy to see it come as retribution for their crimes and underhanded approach to business.

Yeah, I am not impressed or pleased with the notion of creating anything proprietary or establishing new form factors that are not a universal, industry-wide standard, or incompatible with current form factors. I view anything like that as being stupid, selfish, greedy and short-sighted. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I think we should be careful to stop calling them "the best overclockers" because that's not what they are. At least that's not what many of them are. They are merely the endowed and the funded overclockers who have been chosen for that special treatment program. They do not possess special knowledge or skills. They possess special products and supporting equipment that someone else is paying for and nobody else has access to. Maybe the extra $400+ premium paid by Strix buyers and the extra $150+ premium paid by TUF buyers that basically got nothing in return for it except a bloody wallet, is where they got all the extra money to make that ugly Matrix abortion what the Strix should have been. And, of course, still charge more for the Matrix than what it is worth as well, and accomplish that through equally obnoxious and misleading marketing. Might even sell a few silicon duds and excuse it with a "better luck next time sucker" approach. They only need to produce enough good ones to go around to their chosen group of shills. The general public doesn't deserve to receive anything special, they should only be expected to pay for something special.

I feel bad for all of the trusting people that wasted their money, and didn't think fast enough to RMA to get it back. Maybe they're not lying in the truest sense of what that means, but the marketing and the representation of something that the buyer has been led to believe is something better and isn't, and charging a huge extra premium consistent with such a misrepresented expectation, might actually be worse than simply lying. It's a carefully crafted campaign intended to defraud and deceive. If that were not their intent their not-so-special, special overpriced trash would be sold at the normally inflated price of their not-special competitor products. They can only get away with the buyer beware approach for so long. Eventually they'll need to pay for their crimes.

He's not wrong. He is saying what we have said and thought, and complained about. Hard to know whether that's just lefty tree-huggers trying to make an environmental mountain out of a mole hill, like they always do, or just fresh clickbait to feed the sheeple zombie horde. Arizona has historically been governed by level-headed conservatives, but things have gotten extraordinarily goofy under the brain-dead "leadership" of the new illegitimate governor, who is also an open-border sanctuary, alphabet-friendly witch with an agenda. We've had record setting rain and the water table is looking good. But, I think we do need to stop selling our water to California. Their need is not our problem. Maybe if they stopped talking about idiotic things like reparations for stuff that happened a century+ before the proposed recipients and their great grandparents were born, and wasting billions on idiotic socialist programs, they would have time and money to spend money on the sea water desalinization plants they've been talking about for decades and have some water to sell on top of meeting their own needs. Can't fix stupid, but you can certainly kill it. Maybe someday the dumb dumbs will figure out that a vote is a terrible thing to waste. (Probably not, because they're dumb LOL.)

They don't deserve to get away with that. If they were an honest company they wouldn't charge more and say "Oh sorry, too bad you drew a short straw in the lottery. But, thank you for the extra $400, we really appreciate it. It sucks to be you. Better luck next time loser." No. They would give you what you paid for. Only an idiot would intentionally pay more for a pretty GPU and a nice PCB that performed poorly. But, as we've all seen time and time again, they are not an honest company. All of the recent media attention highlighted that fact and it's all very accurate. They suck. I'm glad the chickens are finally coming home to roost. I hope they get covered in so much chicken poop that they suffocate. They should change their name from ASUS to ASUC.

The Strix 4090 that I RMA'd back to NewEgg was a real piece of <insert 4-letter S-word for feces>. And it was several hundred dollars higher than an average gamer-wuss 4090 price, even though it was an inferior specimen. Extremely disappointing and totally unacceptable. If ASUS guarantees that you'll pay more for something with their name on it, they for damn sure better deliver more in equal or greater measure than the premium suggests. When they don't, then they're just ripping people off and selling defective crap for top dollar. I think that guy making the Galax video has that 4090 confused with the HOF model. He's not looking at a HOF model. That one is actually kind of cheaply made, not a flagship model at all.

OUCH! That's got to hurt... calling the balls and strikes... love it.

The best of the best are saved for their shills, reviewers and employees. The crap that is left gets installed on the retail leftovers. Cheaper GPUs get the crummy samples and the average chips get put on the more expensive SKUs.

Totally agree. In fact, AMP was on my shortlist if I couldn't get a Suprim. I was going to grab whichever one became available first for under $1700 before tax.

You should be able to get a 4090 Suprim for that price and it is the clearly best option in terms of power delivery/phase count, build and QC. The only better 4090 is the HOF like @Papusanhas. It does look fantastic, but that is almost exactly what I paid for my 4090 Suprim. As Brother @electrosoftmentioned, unknown on the warranty. Might be kind of sketchy for a US customer. Are you feeling really lucky Brother @tps3443? Here is one for under $700 if it is not a scam. If I had an extra $700 to play around with I would absolutely take a chance on it. But, I don't right now. Only 6 more available. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805400355205.html

Awesome. Glad to hear it worked well. I run only modded versions of Windows with full admin rights and UAC disabled, so that might be why your permissions were more restrictive. Have a nice weekend. Well, here's the deal. If AMD AI/software is smart enough to know Winduhz Update did something really stupid, Micro$lop's AI/software should be smart enough to identify what it would normally do is a stupid idea (like replace a newer driver that was already installed with an older driver). The problem is the people writing the software and programming AI are not smart enough to know the difference between a good idea and a stupid idea, or they just don't care how it turns out for the poor sucker that is having Windoze Update projectile vomiting on his OS.

Unwarranted change purely for the sake of change is always stupid and the outcome almost always sucks. The downgraded Winduhz 11 screen snipping tool is just one example of an unnecessary change that sucks. Do you want the old Window 7/10 screen snip tool back? You know, the one that is simple, elegant and just works correctly 100% of the time instead of the idiotic "Snip & Sketch" bloated UWP piece of trash that often doesn't? https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-restore-old-snipping-tool-in-windows-11 If you do not have a computer with Windows 10 to copy the files from, you can download mine. Old_Snip.7z You may need to take ownership of the folder to manually copy the .mui file to C:\Windows\System32\en-US Order has been restored...

It's the same story, just a different scene. When the newer isn't better you just go back to using the older. Any recently produced ATX 2.0 PSU has the ports that are needed and I think there's no shortage of those power supplies. There's also the element of manufacturing in accordance with need. If Intel releases a new high-end graphics card that sells well and uses 8-pin connectors, and AMD continues manufacturing graphics cards that use 8-pin connectors, the makers of power supplies will manufacture something that can sell because there is a demand for it. Right now we are seeing a PSU market reacting to a trend, simply being smart and following the money. If that changes tomorrow, they will change with it. They don't need to modify what they are making. All they need to do is use a different inexpensive piece of plastic at the GPU end of an array of electrical wires that doesn't care what connector form factor is attached. In addition to that, many people that aren't married to the idea that they need a specific overpriced video card brand that uses a morphodite 12VHPWR connector that also requires that they retire a perfectly functional, possibly even a very expensive and still functional, power supply they will chose the option that makes the most practical and financial sense. If Battlemage provides performance that is similar to a 4080, then there will be two high-end alternatives, including 7900 XTX, that do not require spending money on a new PSU that works just as well as it did on the day it was purchased.

Although I don't have any first-hand experience with it, comments from owner's of the new Intel GPUs indicate they are seeing steady improvements as drivers and firmware mature. Not only is this something new for Intel that would naturally take time, money and effort to master, but they have fierce competition. AMD alone has their work cut out for them competing against NVIDIA, so think about what a steep uphill climb it is for Intel. Being the world's best CPU-maker means absolutely nothing in the GPU space. Reputation is nice but, at the end of the day, results are really the only thing that matters. Appropriately, and as it should be with all things, trying hard just isn't good enough and there are no trophies for participation. I'm excited at the possibility they might actually land a few rib-breaking gut punches to both NVIDIA and AMD in the GPU space.

It matters a lot at the local level even though globally it might be a small percentage. The associated jobs that are created are also very valuable, as is frequently the case when a very large business comes to a city or town. The ripple effect is often much larger and broader than the big roster of staff.

Looks like Battlemage will have 4 x 8-pin. No silly 12VHPWR connector nonsense. If this is accurate and it competes with, or beats, the RTX 4080, I might have to think about getting one. One of my sons is a contractor at the Phoenix Intel fab facility and another a contractor at the TSMC plant currently under construction. Both facilities are massive and have a gigantic workforce. (All four sons work for the same electrical engineering company, but the other two work on other projects.)

Maybe more good jobs for Americans and I love the idea of defunding the CCP and cutting China out of business deals anywhere the opportunity presents itself. It would be great for the rest of the world hang them out to dry. I'm not really seeing any angels in the tech realm. They all seem like devils to me. It comes down to picking your poison. Nothing genuinely good comes from China. Relegating them into a state of abject poverty would be an effective way of preventing them from waging war with the free world. They have few natural resources and depriving them of the ability to cultivate financial resources or conduct business is an excellent idea. When your enemies have no resources, no money and no food, they're no longer a problem for you or anyone else.

Maybe not... I'd actually like to see GPUs getting manufactured here in the US instead of Asia. This was from 4 months ago, but nobody was talking about it until now...

Intel will be making NVIDIA GPUs???

Silicon lottery is what it is. Not all parts with the same SKU are created equal. Some are good, some are garbage. CPU, GPU, RAM, motherboard are all potential casualties in a world where QC is essentially non-existent. G.SKILL is the memory brand I have RMA'd more than any other. About one in five are excellent, with the rest ranging from mediocre to totally unusable garbage. Their XMP profiles are always the least stable, but their good silicon samples manually overclock nicely. Their lousy samples just need to go into the garbage. So far, the DDR5 memory modules that have been hands-down the best at everything are the naked green generic SK Hynix M-die and A-die modules. They are more stable and perform better, and overclock higher, than any of the branded RGB junk wrapped in heating blankets that I have purchased and returned. I'd be glad to test your 7200 G.SKILL 48GB kit in the Dark if the V-Color shows up. Thank you. I saw another video showing that new gimmick form factor with connectors on the back. This make no sense at all. The idea is focused on aesthetics and another presentation of form over function. Another example of unnecessary change for the sake of change rather than a bonafide improvement. I'd much prefer that they focus on being consistently excellent at what they already produce rather than looking for weird gimmicks that require unnecessary purchases of related products. This is as bad as, maybe even more idiotic than, the unnecessary introduction of the 12VHPWR connection.

It's no secret that I'm not into SFF computers but the new model coming from Acer is a pretty sweet looking little beast. They intend to sell it as a pre-built or just the chassis for custom DIY builds. Anyone that's not in a hurry that is interested in SFF should check it out. It will be interesting to see how the self-contained liquid cooled 4090 behaves in terms of thermals compared to a normal air-cooled space heater.

Banned... for gaming on Linux... 'cause that's "cheating" and unfair to Winduhz users that are crippled by the cancer OS.

I haven't, but I rarely ever visit Facepoot or Twatter. It would be kind of neat to have someone famous or powerful respond though. Speaking of powerful, nothing gets the attention of stupid people like money... namely, the loss of it. I love it when normal people take retribution into their own hands and the result is effective without any effort at organization. Just random normal people voting no to nonsense with their wallets is a beautiful thing. Just imagine how effective a serious concerted effort could be at restoring decency and normalcy to our lives.

Speaking of games, this looks like it might be a new Crysis competitor. @Etern4lI hope this is not a prophetic glimpse of where the AI road is taking us. This is pretty interesting...