Darkpriest667

TSMC already said they will not reduce the order. It will be up to Apple and Nvidia to reduce the supply but they are on the hook for the chips. You don't get to reneg on a business contract that you signed. Also this report is incorrect. AMD has not said they are cutting back.

Because of the scarcity principle it can and probably will outperform the market. As a store of value I can't think of anything better. Back on the other place we all used to hang 10 years ago folks were telling us to get into it and me like many others were nay sayers. I wish I had, I wouldn't be typing this right now that's for sure.

Probably a lot. They're using PCR 5 to collect boot success data and that is a big no no but they did it anyway. If they give so little care about how a system can be secured, then I assume they really don't care about the browser any more than how much data can they collect and sell about you.

The reasoning is the bandwidth/throughput of SODIMM is much smaller than CAMM. they don't want it to be proprietary. They'd like for it to be adopted as the industry standard in notebooks and mobile systems.

Hey, vote in different elected representatives is all I can say. They make laws that require voltage and amperage requirements that you can't meet with standard ATX motherboards and 1.5V Memory (plus all the other components.) Like i said in my earlier post. If you think you can do better please design one and send it to [email protected] LOL They can make boards that handle it, the problem is those violate legalities in certain large jurisdictions (California and most of the EU) as an OEM system manufacturer.

Second post -- Steve has a tear down of the Alienware R13. He's not wrong about most of what's said here. Remember, Alienware is consumer.

They're doing it to meet specific requirements in multiple jurisdictions. They'd use a non-proprietary form factor on things like Motherboards and power supplies but they were burned in large numbers on the consumer/client side by customers replacing parts themselves, breaking or damaging the system, and then claiming warranty service. It happened enough that Dell began designing it's parts the way it does now. I believe the RAM thing is the same thing. I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure both with RAM and SSDs this has been happening in numbers enough that the design engineers have gone back to the drawing board to figure out how to stop it. Consumers buy their own ram or SSD and plug it in.. it draws higher amperage and voltage than the board and slot were manufactured for, it kills the board, customer claims warranty. It costs millions a year. When your margins are as thin as they are. They have to stop that behavior, the only way is to make stuff proprietary or soldered to the board. Why is the amperage and voltage throughput so low and tight? Ask regulators in states like California. They're all 80+ gold or higher with most being 80+ platinum or titanium. Steve did admit that the PSU in the G5000 (which is a low end consumer gaming system) was well above average in the PSU categories except in ripple which it was average. The business class and enterprise class systems are even better and would easily beat out almost anything we buy with the exception of some really high end Corsair and Seasonics. Most of us would probably get out of customizing our systems if we had to meet the same regulatory requirements. This is why the new NVIDIA 12 pin and 4000 RTX TDP rumors are so funny to me. The 3090ti already can't be put in the gaming systems OEMs ship out legally to like 5 states in the US and parts of the EU. Now they want the xx80 and the 78xx (for AMD) of the next gen to push 600 Watts? insert "yeah ok" meme gif here.

I cackled.

As someone more intimately aware of what you all are talking about you need to understand two things about Dell. 1) Their primary concern is for business class customers not consumers. Those customers typically pay for extended prosupport and prosupport plus warranties a) They make 10 times as much selling Enterprise class hardware like blade servers and the like than they do on the client side of hardware like desktops and laptops. The Enterprise class service from Dell is top notch, NO ONE has better enterprise customer service for hardware. If you have a part down they guarantee in North America 4 hour turn around. GUARANTEE IT. 2) They are obligated, by law, to be energy efficient with every part on client hardware. The standard consumer ATX boards(and power supplies) we use in our rigs do not meet those specifications for the most part. So this "Steve" from Gamers Nexus Ewaste argument is arduous and pedantic at best. Steve doesn't know a damn thing about OEM requirements across multiple jurisdictions for client hardware. I do because it's part of my job. If Steve, or any of you, want to offer your expertise and design a new board schematic that can produced at volume with literally a .5% margin and the parts go go with it that can be universal in several models of system. PLEASE DO IT. Dell doesn't just produce 1 million ewaste boards they produce 1.5 million because their parts delivery (prepandemic) was 24 hour turn around on client. That means you have to have a # of parts strategically placed all over the world in case something fails. That's why some of their servers cost, and I mean literally, a million dollars. 4 hour turnaround time on parts meaning they built the thing 2 or 3 times if you bought one. EDIT -- by the way to Dell, Alienware is a consumer product not a business class product and that DOES make a difference when it comes to parts availability.

Getting married, but got a vasectomy

What happened to the green movement? I mean hell they won't let Dell sell Alienwares in California unless they meet a spec that is pretty ruthless (BTW the default alienware profile with a 3090 and 12900k only pulls 435W from the wall)

Yeah, and AMD's is still better.

You ever run linux you'll never buy another Nvidia card again. Nvidia's proprietary driver BS makes them a pain in the butt on Linux, Yes their (AMD) software AND drivers are actually better. I was spoon fed "muh Nvidia drivers better" for over 10 years before learning the truth the hard way.

Which is hilarious because the REAL money is in servers and EVERYONE uses RHEL on their servers. So they SHOULD get priority. I typically dont do any radical overclocking or mods so it runs stock most of the time.

2600k. I think I bought it in.... March of 2011. I had it until August of 2016 (it's still in a system a friend let's his daughter use) It was just a BEAST.