Recent content by terroralpha

my local microcenter had more than 120 rtx 4080 "super" units in stock on release day. no idea what the exact number is, they won't say. but it was more than 120. they were all gone by 1 pm. they had 20 units of the MSI card that looks like a founders edition rip off. that one went really fast...

i know i'm supposed to root for the "under dog" AMD and tell people not to spend so much on nvidia stuff, but i totally understand why people are flocking to buy these. 4080 super models priced between $1000 and $1100 sold out instantly, and even the $1200 models sold out soon after. all this...

all the budget gamers out there who were begging amd for an RX 6650XT but wanted to pay more money for it are happy right now

6750xt $330 on stalegg right meow. was around the same price on black friday, if you buy this trash you need to get your head examined.

this is true. i have friends in south america who asked me to buy and ship GPUs to them back in december. i offered them 6800XTs that were available for $475 at the time. there were also 6950XTs for $650. but they both DEMANDED nvidia GPUs. i ended up buying an asus 3070ti tuf for $560 and an...

wrong. in germany it costs 553 euro. the rest is sales tax. nvidia is not charging you that sales tax, your government is. i got news for you, we in the US don't pay $600 either. if i were to go and buy this trash GPU right now, i'd have to pay around $650. we get charged sales tax too. just...

you guys shut it! daddy huang needs a new leather jacket so you better fork over that $600 for your rebadged 4060 like you're told.

if they could, they would. AMD said that they could make a GPU that can match up to the 4090 in raster performance, but the power draw would be too high. so they didn't do it fun fact, if you take a custom 7900xtx with three 8 pin power connectors, push all the power and OC sliders as high as...

i know you're meme-ing, but sustainability is more about the power draw of a product. things like ethical raw material sourcing, making products recyclable and efficient production facilities are more important. having said that, i don't have any confidence in intel doing any of that correctly...

there are a million different brands you can get this same exact case under. i bought it as a "gamemax spark" case. paid about $60 shipped at amazon for it. it didn't come with any fans but i didn't want their fans anyway. it also comes branded as "Jonsbo D30". sometimes the front or the top is...

has anyone tried soldering on 8-pin power connectors onto these boards? i've seen a few 4080 and 4090 PCBs that look like they can take 8-pin power connectors

I guess asus was just paying to plaster the EK logo on their products since it seems that they were the ones manufacturing them. I had an asus x570 board with a Built in “EK” VRM water block. It started corroding within a few months. Fortunately the heatkiller CPU block I was using survived.

You’d be surprised how much money you save when you’re not throwing thousands and thousands of dollars at “influencers” like EK does. alphacool is able to sell their products are a better price because they aren’t spending insane amounts of money on marketing. I paid about $120 for my...

Same exact story with a 6800xt a friend gave me hoping I’d be able to fit. VR basically unusable. I think AMD just doesn’t want to commit resources to what is essentially a small percentage of users who are going to buy nvidia 99% of the time anyway.

wait what? what does the temperature of the card have to do with heat output? rtx 4090 temps stay in the high 50s or low 60s but they burn through 420-480W. 600W if you OC and increase power target. those cards will still turn your room into a sauna in a couple of hours. meanwhile there are...