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electrosoft

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  1. Yep, that's basically what Steve said. Workforce contraction among tech companies is up across the board. Makes sense with plummeting sales and reality kicking back in.
  2. EVGA lays off 20% of work force (along with a few other companies):
  3. This was pretty much my take. He went off the rails HARD. At first I'm going, "Ok, that sounds alright...." to "well that is possible" to "Huh?" then when he started the whole conjecture sprew I faded fast. I don't think JZ2C was pushing anything...just commenting on past market conditions but failing to factor in the massive mark up from the Pandemic even on new products which could result in an even bigger depreciation of value when crashing. Jufes failed to recognize all the other AIBs massively marking down their prices too. EVGA in the here and now just happen to mark theirs down more to clear out inventory. Clearly it is working as most of the 3090 models are dried up and gone now for EVGA. KPE 3090ti is officially sold out even after adjusting for the E1 lackluster response and many of their other models are sold out too. 3090ti 4 of 5 models left (KPE sold out, HC pulled before launch) 3090 2 of 5 models left (KPE sold out) 3080ti 1 of 7 models left (XC3 Ultra) 3080 12GB 1 of 9 models left (Only XC3 HC left) 3080 10GB 4 of 7 models left (Prices will need to come down more but getting dangerously close to 3070ti land) One moment he's railing on EVGA next he's bragging about the $2k he made from his viewers using his associates code..... He very badly wants to be noticed by Linus and JZ2C....you can just tell. 🙂 $1149.99 for a FTW3 3090ti is a damn good price no matter how anyone attempts to crap all over it. $350 less than the 3090 launch MSRP for the FE and $450+ less than launch AIB pricing for the 3090. I know there's a ton of resentment from the whole "Perfect Storm" of pricing from the last few years but enough is enough.
  4. Yeah that was a good run over there. I was a member since 2008/9 so 10+ years. Luckily after some clearing of the air with three potential forums as a replacement the other two went under but NBT persisted and is growing and thriving. Welcome back!
  5. Jufes going in HARD on EVGA (JayZ2C a bit)..... EVGA is clearly living rent free in his head atm 🙂
  6. $1149.99/$1199.99 for the previous $2149.99 and $2199.99 models for a FTW3 3090ti.....wow.... $1k price drop. They're even cheaper than their own 3090 meaning they ordered based on old market conditions that suddenly came to a screeching halt.
  7. Final nail in the coffin for that ProSiphon Elite from der8auer @ ~245w (OC'd 11th gen):
  8. Yeah all that hype to score the same or slightly worse than the NH-D15. I still keep one as a back up ready to go just in case.
  9. I'm not sure if that was with stock BIOS or Prema but either way I agree. We're both in the same boat with 2080S so the 3080 upgrade is ho hum at best.
  10. No one yet has tried it, but I can't see a reason one wouldn't work. Just swap in a KM heatsink or pickup a universal heatsink from Aliexpress and you're good on the hardware front.
  11. Looks to be about equal with an NH-D15 in this extensive setup and testing review:
  12. You won't regret it. For true, unbridled performance nothing beats a good desktop. Laptops on the go obviously or when I want to relax in the recliner but outside of that? Desktop all the way. There really isn't anything out there that tickles my fancy except maybe the NH55 which is as close as it has come outside of that BGA GPU. Hopefully an aftermarket HS will pop up on Aliexpress. X170SM-G is running calm, cool and collected. Low to no noise and no thermal throttling anywhere. I do hope Clevo will right the ship even more back to the P870TM'esque days with 13th gen but I'm not holding my breath.
  13. Are you thinking 4000 series laptop or building out a desktop?
  14. Yeah I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would but then again I played through and liked all the original games too from original launch so there was a very strong chance I was going to like this one too.
  15. In theory yep when it launches late next year or early 2024. Expect the standard Nvidia roll out 4090 first then 4080 then 4070 early next year. Slight wait till the big fish buy the higher end cards then finally 4060 and 4050s limp in. Wait. Then refresh time. I hope that AMD is going to be enough of a threat that Nvidia comes right out of the block and has to offer the 4090ti flagship and like the 1080ti and 2080ti that is the top dog the entire life cycle.
  16. I'm tempted to get a Classified. Killer price and would tie in nicely with my GPU. Throw in an associate's code discount and knock off another 5%. I'm just wary of 4 slots as I will only use 2. And true, launch pricing was high. It is quickly becoming an end cycle purchasing game now. Top tier boards at substantial discounts, new, with full warranties. I think Classified is basically the FTW in this scenario.
  17. Agreed.... Only thing we can hope is the glut will cause 4000 series card makers to re-evaluate their launch pricing to realize the Pandemic pricing was an ad hoc outlier situation with so many things that could go wrong did exactly that (Pandemic, Mining, Tariffs oh my.....) and pricing needs to get back to reality especially towards the end of the cycle when I'll be eyeing up a end cycle 4090ti or skipping altogether and getting a 5000 series if needed. WoW Dragonflight apparently has a lot of optimizations and code clean up and runs even better than Shadowlands which did ok @ 4k full Ultra except for two areas known to bring GPUs to their knees (Ardenweald and Bastion). I'm also playing Fallout 76 full 4k max settings and my GPU isn't even going over 130w full load it is so non taxing atm. Even 13th gen doesn't have me excited in any type of way based on early results vs 12th. Early results show 4080 = 3090ti Full fat AD104 is rumored to be 4070ti (not 4070) not launching till late next year. Maybe AMD will bring the high heat this time? EVGA Z690 motherboards back on sale:
  18. EVGA dropped the price of the FTW3 3090ti's down to $1399.99:
  19. During the Steam sale I picked up Fallout 76 and put WoW down for a break till Xpac. So far, I'm liking it the 5-6hrs I have in but being a MMO(ish), I am seeing some scary levels on players who have clearly been playing for quite some time. I'm a massive level 4 atm. 🙂
  20. There is absolutely no reason a system of that caliber with that chip should be thermal throttling at ~76w and hitting 100c everywhere.
  21. Ditto with the MSI GL66 Pulse w/ 12700h. I went in there and attacked the anemic heatsink and was able to break 17k CB23 but even opening up the extra options in BIOS with this chipset and/or CPU you can't do anything. You set it and it does nothing and this thing needs to be able to adjust PLs, undervolt or both to dial it in.
  22. Not sure what I love more....the crocs, old hardware or benchmarks! 🙂 I love seeing old GPUs being benched on modern CPUs because they are being pushed to their absolute limit. Good work as always bro!
  23. So crazy. I remember way back in the day with an MSI-1722 and a C2Q Extreme being a throttling, heating mess going, "something is clearly wrong here," doing some google searches and finding the notebook forums in 2009 and the rest is history....since then every laptop I've had has gotten cracked open and optimized. The trend has continued to this day even BGA garbage gets ripped open and addressed. Awesome! I reached a point I busted out a spiral notebook and started jotting down torque levels and correlating successful boots, memory channels working and synthetic benches either glitching, freezing or BSODs and after a few days of hours of testing and torque levels it all pointed to that bottom left screw as problematic. Not to absolve the other two but that bottom left was consistently causing issues. Sheesh, 1.601v on this constrained environment? What was the package pull on that? 😁
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