Recent content by ymbaja

For the love of god can we move beyond 500GB??

20+ years ago I used to do desktop support for a very large government organization. As part of my job, I would vist hundreds of workstations a month. The grim encountered on some of the keyboards and phones has left me with a lifelong appreciation of just how “personal” (to put it nicely) these...

I’m putting on my tinfoil hat for this one because it makes absolutely zero financial sense…

Agreed. If upscalling worked on a 1050 ti, that’s something id get behind. But if I’m already spending close to a grand on a new card you can bet I’ll be running in native.

My guess is they are being highly subsidized by the VR companies and this isn’t to make money for the developers, but rather push sales for meta and alike.

To put that in perspective a standard 15amp, 120volt circuit maxs out at 1800watts. A 20 amp circuit maxes out at 2400 watts. 2800 watts is just insane… maybe they are preparing for the next mining run. Or home built AI clusters. Cuz enterprises aren’t buying Cooler Master.

I don’t get it. How is this any better than an air cooler? The benefit to aio is you can use larger/more fans and place them away from the heat source. Aio doesn’t magically reduce the temperature. This just adds complexity to the same space. The only possible benefit is the liquid would add...

Another key to hang out with Caps Lock & Scroll Lock…

Why yes,… yes I do. :) (ps they are a long ways from taking losses).

Amd apus have been stagnant for way too long. Maybe this will cause them to get off their duff.

Yeah but isn’t why they have smart tvs? I mean the whole point of a monitor is you already have it hooked up to a computer which is going to be infinitesimally faster than some bloated, add-fest of a smart device OS that the monitor will have.

Can’t think of a single consumer upside to a smart monitor… not one.

On a positive note, this has given me reason to once again consider PNY as a potential option (after writing them off for the past 20 years). last card I bought from them (around 2002) burnt up right after the warranty expired… left me salty for a long time. LOL

Interesting…would have been huge a couple of decades ago. To bad no one remembers how to write by hand anymore.

Well friends, it’s been a wild ride… Really thought we were here to stay after making it through that little hiccup in dark ages, but I guess in the end our hubris was bound to win out.