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    Sonos Unveils Era 300 and Era 100 Smart Speakers

    I'm hoping play 3's and play 1's don't get booted to the S1 app to sell more of these
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    AMD to Increase Xilinx FPGA Prices by up to 25%

    AMD pushed me to move away from Spartan 6 months ago due to future cap I know they used to FAB on Samsung 45 nm. I moved to ARTIX-7 based on heads up from AMD, which is cheaper and more capable but like all new FPGAs has power sequence requirements and more supply rails which are always a...
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    CD Projekt Stock Has Dropped Over 75% Since the Botched Release of Cyberpunk 2077

    Advent Rising, wow firing up the wayback machine. Good memories
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    The US CHIPS Act: Why Intel Supports It

    = $$$$
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    TSMC Reports Record January Revenues

    As someone in north American automotive electronics please be Renesas(Asia first) or NXP (assholes) for a culture change
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    Editorial Bitcoin Drops Below the $40,000-mark, Raises Hopes of Graphics Card Availability

    Mine keeps borking power supplies, regret getting rid of my titan xp. Be careful what you wish for. As a CI electronics engineer I endorse this. Based on my experiences more often thermal cycles kill faster than heat unless electronics were abused or poorly designed. Ele Caps usually are the...
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    Fractal ion+ 860 and EVGA FTW3 3080

    Been having once a week hard crashes. Before I replaced old 1050 failing supply was often. Should I put the effort to put in 1000 HX corsair refurbished replacement? 3900x and 360 aio (also did with d15) and strix e x570. I should but am feeling lazy. Have a 40 inch phillips monitor to...
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    Early Signs of AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Price Cuts Emerge

    I'll trade you prescription drug prices for tech prices
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    CORSAIR Launches New M65 RGB ULTRA Gaming Mice

    There are a bunch of videos out about fixing corsair mice since they use garbage grades switches. I myself don't have that time so i pile them up one day thinking i'll get to them. Wish i didn't like corsair mice.
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    Silicon shortage is so bad, that Pentium 4, Core 2 Duo and Pentium Dual made a comeback

    Its not just Silicon its also the packaging/leadframes and diffusion that are causing issues
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    Corsair Warranty support really slow

    Sounds like it, yeah sorry Corsair should have given you a fairer shake. lol and true. Glad I was able to get a 3080 from EVGA before the wait list blew up and didn't have to get a bundled power supply from Giga We'll see how this Fractal supply hold up. They seem to be pretty stand up.
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    Missing component on pcb ZOTAC RTX 3080 Trinity

    Are you asking on the boxed part or the one to the right?
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    Missing component on pcb ZOTAC RTX 3080 Trinity

    Agree its a ceramic cap you have circled in the pic. Value ??? Try and email Zotac and ask them, they may reply. If you do replace, solder it with hot air and not an iron. Ceramic caps soldered with an Iron failures are a when not an if.
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    Corsair Warranty support really slow

    all good points True, that is me being an entitled American (we are not center of the universe :) ) They did finally reply and say they are replacing it and apologized for the delay. Credit where credit is due, they stepped up.
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