Recent content by Chrispy_

Based on past trend of 3090 and historic 4090 pricing over the product cycle so far, the 4090 is going to stay at $2000 when the 5090 launches at a new even higher price. I'd love to be wrong but Nvidia are charging what people will pay and people will continue to pay $2000 for a 4090...

I feel like we're 2-5 generations of hardware away from that. Let's see what Blackwell can do and what it costs, but it would need to be a couple of orders of magnitude faster than a 4090 I think - We have to get hours down to minutes for the big workloads, and minutes down to seconds for the...

I wonder how many of these cases get damaged in shipping. Even though most of my builds stay in-house, I do ship maybe 10 desktop PCs a year, and I'm just thinking that the "pillar" might be the sole reason that some of them survive the journey - I've seen horrific photos of unopened boxes that...

Not this generation. All of the useful AI I've encountered so far is datacenter-hosted AI requiring hundreds of gigs or even terabytes of RAM for LLM datasets, hundreds of terabytes of fast storage for inference, and year(s) of training on multiple petabytes of datasets to become useful. The...

Yes, that's true - and useful for those tiny NUC-sized prebuilt PCs from Minisforum - but the real issue is that you're worried about something running cool. 90C isn't actually a problem, and the Wraith Stealth is supposed to be a minimum-viable-product for the "65W" CPUs that's as small and...

Ugh, missing cache = hard pass. I hate these laptop APUs in a desktop package, The 8400F is doubly pointless because it's more expensive than the 7500F based on the full-fat Raphael cores, whilst also being slower. Sacrificing half the cache seems to be a necessary compromise to make room for...

1.1 million? Epic pull in $15M/day. This is 30 minutes of revenue to them. €500 million would be a two-month setback that might actually be enough of a slap on the wrist to make them change something.

Ohhh, you mean on N4 once N4 is old and cheap? Sure, that'll eventually happen. That's where N6 is right now - but it's not relevant to this discussion, is it?

Never, for sure. It's simply a question of cost because low end parts need to be cheap, which means using expensive nodes for them makes absolutely zero sense. I can confidently say that it's not happened in the entire history of AMD graphics cards, going back to the early ATi Mach cards, 35...

GPU compute for the datacenter and AI isn't particularly latency sensitive, so the latency penalty of a chiplet MCM approach is almost irrelevant and the workloads benefit hugely from the raw compute bandwidth. GPU for high-fps gaming is extremely latency-sensitive, so the latency penalty of...

But most of the results, even on your old SATA SSD are under one second, and the longest you had to wait that I can see was a 5 second launch immediately after a cold boot. Why do disk speeds matter if the real world impact is that it only opens 0.2s faster on an expensive NVMe SSD? For an...

Just pick up an original, used 64GB Deck from ebay for $200-300. Use it with a big memory card, or grab yourself an SSD and replace the 64GB drive yourself - which is a perfect time to clear out the dust if you're buying a used Deck. The Steam Deck's success isn't anything to do with the...

Can someone please explain the point of this thread? OP raises a complaint about NVMe vs SSD and their sole point of reference is a workload that has nothing to do with drive speed in the first place. Can't we just close this thread and stop it appearing on the frontpage? The only possible...

Do current Ally owners get their faulty-by-design devices repaired free of charge through a recall yet? No? Quelle surprise! <insert sarcastic :shocked: emoji here> I'm waiting to see a big fat class action lawyer rub AsusCorp's greedy faces in the mess they've made. Hopefully that'll also set...

No mention of price makes this announcement a huge waste of everyone's time. $100 or less? Interesting. $250 or more? Dead on arrival, product flop that will be discontinued after the 1st, poorly-selling generation finally clears inventory at deep discounts. Software support will evaporate...