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But are they actually selling the Claw, or is it sitting on store shelves collecting dust? In GN’s review, Steve says he was the only one at the store in Taiwan that asked for one, and the clerk questioned why he wanted to buy it. The kind of customer for the Claw will tend to be computer...

It’s interesting that, just a short time ago, you have EVGA, arguably Nvidia’s best partner in terms of the product they made and no doubt selling well, walk away from a relationship with Nvidia that essentially defined their identity as a company, citing that Nvidia was increasingly difficult...

Underperforming sales of AMD GPUs, not underperforming AMD GPUs. MSI doesn’t care how the GPU performs, they care how it sells. Which brings me to your second point, because the Claw is an absolute piece of crap that isn’t selling well, and the only reason why I can think MSI went with Intel...

Bonus points if they subcontracted it to Volkswagen.

100% it’s the CPU. It looks like Intel has a significant advantage over AMD Ryzen in this software. My 7900XTX paired with my 5800x3D only managed 71409, which is far lower compared to people in this thread running Intel CPUs but slower GPUs.

+1 on this. If they're abandoning it, why not just put it out as freeware at that point and let the fans enjoy it? My buddy and I still bust out StarCraft from time to time like we did back at high school LAN parties for a few laughs, and if you don't already own it, you can get the base game...

AMD is adopting a “Nvidia price -10%” pricing model these days. Not exactly a smashing deal in most cases compared to what you could get in previous generations, especially because they have to discount because they’re behind in frame generation, frame smoothing, and RT processing. The 3080...

I’ll say there is little chance it launches at the 4090 price. I would expect at least $1800, because Nvidia knows they can get that for it. The consumer told them they could.

Yes, crypto led to the initial run up, but Nvidia is still testing the waters to see what gamers are willing to pay, and gamers lined up to buy the $1600 4090, so they have their answer. 4080 Super, which is functionally almost identical to the 4080 anyway when benchmarked, is $1000, still a...

I have no doubt this is also a contributing factor, but the bottom line is that they will charge what the market will bear. As long as market participants signal they will pay more, companies will charge more, which is why the rest of consumers are annoyed with “how other people spend their...

The 3080 had an MSRP of $699. The 4080 launched two years later with an MSRP of $1199. That’s a sharp increase in 80-series cards in a single generation. Why do you think that is? Because the market told Nvidia they were fine paying more, or at least a segment did and Nvidia decided to test...

I’m not talking about halo cards. The pricing of the entire GPU stack has been rising, and the more people show a willingness to spend excessive amounts of money on the cards, the more companies know they can charge. That’s why gamers are annoyed. It’s not about what others want to do with...

I don't think it's that as much as the fact that others showing a willingness to spend insane amounts of money on a good video card means the rest of us have to as well when we want to upgrade.

But can it run Crysis?

For what it's worth, for the price I was going to have to pay to upgrade my 1070Ti, 12GB VRAM was a non-starter for me. I keep my cards typically a little longer than you do, so my choices became 7900XT, XTX, 4080, or 4090. I was able to get a Lenovo Y32P monitor and a 7900XTX on sale for a...

GeForce 256 was when the term "GPU" was first introduced by Nvidia. Yes, it was really more a marketing thing than anything else, but that was the card first given that description.

No whine on my 7900XTX, running on an MSI 850W. Some people had their coil whine problems solved by running three separate cables to the card from the PSU by the way.

You said you don't care about DLSS or RT but are concerned about the size of the frame buffer, in which case I'd go with the 7900 GRE and overclock the VRAM or look for a 7900 XT on sale. Also, if your upgrade cycle is 1-3 years, you're probably going to upgrade to a significantly better RT...

No, women and men do not have the same muscle building potential, and it’s not even close. Watch the women's fitness division at any bodybuilding competition and you’ll see what’s essentially the maximum muscle building potential of a woman, bearing in mind that the competitors have leaned out...

Are you undervolting or OCing at all? Because I could not get away with any undervolting on my 7900XTX and maintain stability. I reverted to default and I’ve not had a single crash since.

Sorry, allow me to clarify what I’m saying. There is racism, sexism, etc, that exists in the world, I’m not saying that there isn’t. Unfortunately, DEI has actually become a catalyst for identity politics by dividing people by race and gender which has promoted division, racism, misogyny, and...

DEI is a solution desperately trying to find a problem that simply doesn’t exist, but in spite of that, activists have achieved a stunning level of elite capture and set off a bizarre moral panic. Like all moral panics, people will ignore the evidence in front of their own faces if it...

Non-white dudes have to fight to prove they exist in the video game industry? Clearly she’s never been to Asia, just like the Xbox. Props to Microsoft for hiring a person as their head of global marketing who appears to be blissfully unaware that their two primary competitors are headquartered...

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Lol, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who runs 3DMark2001SE when I upgrade for the lulz. It was the first benchmarking software I used, so it's always funny to see how things have changed, especially in areas where I remember it tanking performance on my old TNT2. Interesting results in...

That’s true, because Intel hasn’t had any significant security breaches recently that I can think of…

LANning was a great time and I really miss those days. Mind you, lugging around my CRT monitor, desktop, and all of my peripherals was a bit of a pain, but had some great times with friends those few years in the really early 2000s when not everyone had broadband yet so getting together was a...

I'll be honest, I'm not even going to be the least bit shocked if this is a $2500 card. After the 4090 launched at $1600 and the card had line-ups of people waiting to buy it, I immediately assumed the 5090 is going to launch at $1800-$2000, so if someone said $2500 to me, I'd be like yeah...

No, ETH going from proof of work to proof of stake followed by a general crash in the crypto market due to widespread fraud by people like Sam Bankman-Fried was what disabled mining operations. Nvidia made a whole new class of GPU just for miners and just went on selling, as I recall. They...

What issue? The issue that AMD might sell a boatload of CPUs, over and above what they would have sold otherwise? That's an issue for you and I, but this is not an issue for AMD and its shareholders.

It helps, but it's not a silver bullet. Otherwise, why not just buy a 4060 and let DLSS and frame gen make everything playable? Because native performance matters, you don't get anything for free. Plenty of games are not able to hit 144 ray traced with DLSS on with various Nvidia GPUs if...

I'm going to second this. While I think ray tracing is really cool and has great potential, this is basically my experience using it. Also, it really depends on the title. Certain titles do it very well, but a lot of those titles already look amazing enough as it is with raster that the added...

Well back in the day, not everyone had a computer in their hand/pocket, constantly connected to the internet, with multiple services allowing you to trade shares almost instantly for free. You used to have to call some dude on the trading floor and he'd charge you a decent amount to make the...

It's hard to call it a bubble when Nvidia is generating so much revenue and earnings that their valuation is actually shrinking with every earnings report. Nvidia's revenue went up 205% from October of 2022 to October of 2023. People might be over-projecting where those earnings will...

I'm going to break a lot of brains here, but while everyone seems busy fixating on Nvidia's share price and saying it's in a bubble simply because it's risen so fast, they're losing sight of the valuation which, believe it or not, is actually getting MORE reasonable, simply because Nvidia's...

TSMC has pricing power now, so I don't blame them. It sucks for us as consumers, but yes, Intel finally getting their act together would be nothing but good news. I'd love to be excited to buy an Intel product again.

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That makes sense, considering Intel hasn’t made anything in year’s that I’m personally interested in buying. My last Intel product was my i5 4670K. Intel’s propped up by some legacy OEM contracts, but they’ve been trailing their competitors badly for quite some time.

No it hasn't. I guarantee you, in the last 20 years, exactly zero people were at a PC hardware store, holding up an AMD and Nvidia card side by side and saying to themselves "awww man, I really want this Radeon card, but Nvidia has that super slick minimalist control panel that I just can't get...

All right, I can’t wait for Ryzen 14nm+++++++!