Recent content by Tahagomizer

The way I see it, QVLs are for people who can't be bothered to research and check compatibility, they want assurance that a certain combination will work. Not ignorant consumers, mostly system integrators and small to medium size businesses where time is expensive. If it's used as a marketing...

If you were nVidia, why would you waste time and allocations from TSMC on consumer toys, when you can sell "big boy things" at many times the markup to "AI" obsessed corporations? I believe they keep consumer presence as "plan B" in case their main market slows down.

As a general idea, I tend to agree with your views. My argument is that the whole notion of predatory behaviour does not apply here since we're talking about non essential items used for mere entertainment. They are toys and have no influence on a person's life, even less so than say, jewellery...

Since we are talking about mass market non-essential toys, I argue that this is as pure as capitalist consumerism gets. There is no predatory action here, just supply and demand of scarce goods. Volenti non fit injuria.

Separating fools from their money is the cornerstone of consumerism. While scalping food and water during disasters is rightfully frowned upon and outright illegal in most countries, graphics cards are just toys. Can be useful for other things, but still toys far from being essential for...

For every "AI fraud detection" there is an even better "AI fraud creation", also using tools from nVidia. The race goes on, nVidia benefits from both sides. The old "during a gold rush, be the shovel salesman" holds true.

Performance increased linearly proportional to power draw, compared to a 4090. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is usually called stagnation and basically is just brute forcing performance by throwing more power at the problem, and covering it with software gimmicks.

In remote chess tournaments an official controller has to sit in the room with the player, watching his every move. During bar exams, among many other professional ones, you have a camera pointed at your face to make sure you don't as much as look in the wrong direction, recorded for future...

All of graphics cards with less than 48GB of VRAM are useless trash because I want to run Stable Diffusion in a reasonable resolution. But seriously, my 10GB 3080 never got close to filling all of the memory in a game, and that's in 3840x2160. The lesson here is don't assume your personal needs...

As a side note, in the olden days that's how overclockers were looking for good CPUs. Buy ten, check every one, take the best and resell the rest. Some were upfront about it and you could buy a CPU at a nice discount, that's how I was buying CPUs up until the 9600k, but some were less honest and...

It is a great tool. The real problem are, as always, humans, who turn every tool into a weapon for exploitation and/or subjugation of others. If several decades of observing humanity have taught me anything, it is to expect good things... buried under an order of magnitude more of bad things...

It comes with Windows 11. It might or might not come with more spyware, but at that point it really doesn't matter. I did buy the K8 plus model from them, but it came faulty (iGPU crashes after a few minutes of load) and regardless, I nuked the disk immediately so don't even know what was on it...

I thought it might disable ports not connected during boot - it does it for HDMI - so I tried booting it without anything else, but it doesn't work. RMAs to China have, from experience, less than 50% success rate. More often than not packages get lost or take many months. I might have been...

Thanks all, I also am suspicious of the cables, although I tested with two, both work with my laptop and the screens, one was supplied with the screen so should be reasonably reliable, but oh well. In a few days I'll borrow an expensive "Alt-mode/DP/Thunderbolt" one, but damn is USB-C a mess.

Greetings, sorry for a long post. Premise: I got a mini PC, Minisforum MS-A1 with an 8700G APU, 32GB of Corsair 5600MHz RAM (running at 5200MHz) and a no-name PCIE4x4 SSD. It has three video outputs: HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C. For now I need to connect two screens to it, one is HDMI-only and one...