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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    That's a really poor gen on gen improvement if the 5080 only matches the 4090. I'd expect the 5070 to match the 4090.
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    New and Improved Watercooling Sticky - Post Your Systems Here

    So not actively cooling something that doesn't need active cooling is "half assing"? Ok...
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    Aquacomputer Aquasuite offlineinstaller

    Correct. You can also opt to just pay the $10ish a year and get more maintenance. I agree that I don't really care for this model, and didn't bother paying anything to keep updating since I didn't add any new devices.
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    New and Improved Watercooling Sticky - Post Your Systems Here

    Sure...but I don't think enough to warrant an active backplate. Just my opinion. Considering how expensive EK stuff is, seems a waste to me.
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    Many full copper radiators aren't full copper- Igor's Lab

    Everyone should already know that soldering is part of the radiator manufacturing process, so feels like nothing new here. Also copper radiators have also always had brass in them. What is the revelation here? Also all your compression fittings and barbs? Brass.
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    New and Improved Watercooling Sticky - Post Your Systems Here

    The 4090 doesn't need an active backplate imo. Just a waste of money. 3090 definitely did due to the hot G6X modules on the rear due to the clamshell design.
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    [HOT] 7900X3D $391.49 @ Amazon

    Yeah the 7900X3D has got to be the worst one of the bunch imo.
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 “GB202” Gaming GPU reportedly features the same TSMC 4NP process as B100

    There was a 3GB version of the GTX 580. Then next wasn't until the 3GB GTX 780, GTX 780 Ti in 2013. On the AMD side, had the HD 7970 and 7950 both with 3GB in 2012.
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 “GB202” Gaming GPU reportedly features the same TSMC 4NP process as B100

    I don't buy that the 5090 is going to be a 512-bit card whatsoever and if it is, I'd expect $2500+. That's just not Nvidia's MO with consumer grade graphics. The last time they released anything north of a 384-bit bus on GeForce products (for non-HBM cards) was all the way back in 2008-2009 with...
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    GPU prices — is the worst behind us ?

    I didn't watch whatever HUB video is being referenced here, but I would have instead liked to have seen the 4070 Ti release as the 4070 and I would have been ok with that at $600. It really is how each card got branded/priced that got screwed up (4080 12GB probably what screwed up the 70 cards)...
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    The Verge: Westworld showrunners are creating a Fallout show for Amazon

    Functionally they just never evolved any of their game design from Oblivion in 2006. Sure some mechanics got added around gun play or there were some QOL updates to looting, etc. Worlds got bigger, graphics got better, but the depth of the worlds within their games got shallower and shallower...
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 “Blackwell” GB202 GPU GDDR7 384-bit memory

    Probably showed the cache was doing more than we thought. I was initially very critical of the 192-bit of the 4070 Ti when it launched but I feel like I have to change my opinion somewhat. Simply bumping the bus and capacity didn't do much for the 4070 Ti Super so it shows maybe Nvidia isn't...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Unless they want to bring back Titan branding or similar, they still have to straddle what the enthusiast gamer/hobbyist will pay with what the prosumer will pay for a GeForce branded card. If I had to guess, the $1999 price point will probably be that sweet spot before some prospective 90-card...
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 “Blackwell” GB202 GPU GDDR7 384-bit memory

    Agreed. Hope they do another new architecture shakeup for Blackwell as aside from some minor differences and increased cache, Lovelace and Ampere are largely very similar architectures. Last major shakeup was going from Pascal to Turing as aside from the addition of Tensor and RT, each CUDA core...
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    Ai Restaurant opens in California

    We have something called TABOR and we use it. Trying to tack tax proposals on top of other bills is just a recipe for it going down. Any real politician in Colorado would know that so not sure why they'd keep doing that. Sounds like the definition of insanity.
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    Ai Restaurant opens in California

    Plus health insurance, 401k's, etc. The actual cost per employee is quite a bit more than just the wage paid.
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    Ai Restaurant opens in California

    Its the new buzz term for any level of automation these days like what "dot com" was to the internet. Also don't forget to leave a tip for your robot: https://youtu.be/7EWrzMQjA38?feature=shared
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Yep, he's wrong a lot but still presents himself with an air of smugness as if he's always right. It's extremely off-putting. I'm torn on this one because I feel like gamers soundly rejected the 4080 at $1200. Sure some sold but it was not a popular card for the price. No where near as popular...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Sure, that's a fair point. But it is still somewhat becoming a pay to play game these days relative to where computers have been over the last 20 years. Now don't hear me saying we haven't obviously advanced considerably in that time or that halo products with absurd prices have never existed...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    I really don't think the market will accept a non "Ti" branded 80 card at $1200 that soon after the 4080 was soundly rejected. 4080 Super refresh at $999 I think confirms that. Of course I said a lot about what the market would accept back in 20-series days too, and here we are, so come...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Still more than I want to pay, but I'd likewise see that as an acceptable upgrade for my 4k display. That said, rumors seem to suggest quite the gulf between the 5090 and 5080 is specs similar to 4090 vs 4080, so we'll have to see what we actually get. As for the 5090, I'm sure Nvidia is...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    I think you're right and when it comes to the 90 branded cards, the sky is the limit. I 100% believe the 5090 will totally be at least $2k next gen. That said, I think the 40 Super cards do show that there was a limit to the top of anything that isn't the best consumer card. $1200 4080 was no...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    And yet all those cards were aside from the memory capacity functionally a rebrand of the xx80Ti branded cards, and sure some crossover with Titan, but I mean really, spec wise one can argue what constituted a Titan vs an 80Ti card was completely different each gen spec wise since the Titan's...
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 “Blackwell” GB202 GPU GDDR7 384-bit memory

    Whoops, you are absolutely right. I went the wrong way on the calculator in reading it. So even more makes the point. Spec wise anyway. As for actual performance difference, yep agreed.
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 “Blackwell” GB202 GPU GDDR7 384-bit memory

    Yeah. I was more commenting on how that poster was surprised at the speculated massive performance difference between the 5080 and 5090 as if we don't already see that with the 4080 vs the 4090. The 4090 literally has 40% more CUDA cores than the 4080. Difference drops a bit with the 4080 Super...
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 “Blackwell” GB202 GPU GDDR7 384-bit memory

    LOL, that shocks you? You have seen the massive gap that exists between the 4080 and 4090 right?
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    Latency Pipeline, "Input Lag," Reflex, & Engineering Interview

    GamersNexus has sponsored content all the time. Sometimes it's sponsored by them (i.e. their store sales), other times its various brands. Just got to look at the video and video description. That's just sort of how the YouTuber tech channel thing works....for better or worse.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    We EHW folks had a ton of fun, and for me personally this was really my first time folding. Thanks for the invite and the fun!
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    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    I'm just waiting for the holodeck. That's what I want.
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    MicroCenter In-Store Only: 10% off CPUs, Laptops, Desktops, Macs or TVs with MicroCenter card

    Nice. Too bad the timing, just put a large buy on my Micro Center card and paying it off next month.
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    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    Those are some expensive scuba goggles.
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    The Mac turns 40

    I'm younger than most of you apparently. When I was a kid, we had those transparent differently colored iMacs in school. I always thought it was cool how you could see the inside. The hockey puck mice were god awful though. The only dumb part about that school computer lab was everyone had the...
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    RDNA 5 speculation

    No, you got that wrong. RDNA5 is awesome because they'll add additional X's into the product name. RX 9900 XTX XXX Edition Brought to you by XFX.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    Ah ok, I don't know why I thought you flew with it. :ROFLMAO:
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    TSMC maintained during "industry slump" by raising prices

    The wafer cost on that chart seems much lower than some have been peddling to justify Nvidia pricing. And this chart is 3nm, I imagine 5nm and Nvidia 4nm are cheaper.
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    And...finished with 169 upvotes. :ROFLMAO: If I recall....the same number of posts OP had when he left this thread. Yes I am still not quite sure if this was an elaborate troll or not.
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    The Mac turns 40

    Yeah Xerox really dropped the ball on that one and not thinking that was something that could be a marketable product. And thus Macintosh and Windows was born and the rest is history.
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    GeForce RTX 4070Ti Super Reviews

    4080 Super is 5% more cores, maybe slightly faster memory? I wouldn't count on it being much at all faster than the 4080. Biggest thing is the price drop. But frankly I'm not that excited about it being $999 either when it's predecessor was $699.
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