Recent content by BoboOOZ

There's definitely a good chance to grab a smaller price due to an AMD drop or due to AIB and resellers dropping prices a bit themselves to better compete with Nvidia. Also, if you buy in euro, watch the exchange rate, prices in euro are best when the euro is strongest, and that tends to have a...

The fact that the water equilibrium equation has ins and outs and equilibrium is maintained only if ins more or less equal the outs should be obvious to anybody with an average or above intellect. But what is happening here, as most of the time on this forum (and most fora that I know, for that...

It looks like the notion of order eludes you. You said that the dams are created for other purposes first. That is false, the fact that they use huge investments for multiple purposes doesn't change that they are built for hydroelectric power first. Let me quote again for you: "The reservoir...

Nice dodge, and maybe it is somewhat true for the US (just somewhat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_dams). But the situation very different in Europe and the former US. And Kazakhstan is no different...

I would be very curious to know what source do you have for this affirmation? Literarily all the large dams that I know in France Italy and Romania are built for electricity generation, and the managing of the water levels comes as a consequence (there are also many bad consequences on...

It is renewable, but only if the consumption rate is sustainable. In dry places, the sustainable rate is very low. But with the global warming, even places which used to have no water problem now have one. The difference between a rich country like France and a poor country is that here people...

Not a huge difference, but during summer 30W can make a big difference (video card + monitor extra consumption). Also, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine I'm trying to not waste energy if it doesn't make any difference for me. Anyways, what I wanted to say with my post is that you have...

It's hard to give good advice on choosing a good monitor for work, because it depends a lot on your personal preferences and your habits of multitasking etc. In the office I work on 2 24 60Hz monitors side by side, they're absolutely fine, you can set one up vertically for code and the other one...

Fixed it for you Most of the desktop market is still gamers, believe me, I spend a lot of time on consumer fora. It's just that people aren't that knowledgeable about hardware. Some buy 16 cores and 64GB of RAM for gaming, with entry level GPU's:cool:

I think Jeager was just joking ;) . In any case this is an enthusiast forum, so users should derive from the average.

I didn't say it's exclusively related to the exchange rate, both influences are present, the one I am talking about and the one you are talking about. It's just that the exchange rate explains the very recent rebound in GPU prices, and not the slave relationship, which is always there. It's just...

I don't see why they are "surprisingly" popular, they have many qualities: improved gaming performance, improved monothreaded performance for cache heavy applications, good efficiency and decent price, they must be a good choice for many people.

Oh, in France the 7900XT seemed to sell pretty well, but that was due to the fact that it sold under MSRP very fast, while Nvidia is not available at MSRP. I bought a 7900XTX in August, if I wanted to go team green I would've got a 4070Ti for the same price, so at this point there's no...

Nvidia is doing a different thing, they are intentionally trying to shift all anchor prices up, both to protect the sales of old Ampere stock and for the future GPU market. AMD said on multiple accounts that they expected the 7900XT to sell like hot cakes. Some people in their marketing...

It's related to the euro-USD exchange rate too. The euro is very low ATM, so you won't see these discounts. I bought my XTX for 960 euro when the euro was stronger in the beginning of August. https://www.xe.com/fr/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=EUR