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This rumored Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 VRAM upgrade would discontinue the original WWW.MSN.COM Plenty of recent rumor rumblings have revealed a possible update to the GeForce RTX 3080, which would give the GPU a 2GB VRAM upgrade. I guess I missed this news before, but after seeing the news abut Nvidia halting production on some cards and looking into that, I came across this. The timing for this news seems to be pretty close to the timing for the source of info the other news about halting production is based on so I assume they are related.

Not quite, they are claiming a few "inside sources" have confirmed that Nvidia stopped manufacturing the 3080 and 3090, but the article also points out that Nvidia is probably launching a "super" refresh soon so why they would speculate that Nvidia is trying to rig the market to prevent the sale of used GPU instead of just switching over to manufacturing the refresh instead is a mystery to me. It seems contradictory that Nvidia would try to prevent the sale of used GPUs by creating a situation that would make their next GPUs even more expensive, thus just making used GPUs a more viable option. IMO the real news here is that Nvidia is probably doing a refresh soon.

I don't think Nvidia needs an excuse to sell their next cards for more given how things are going. If they want to increase the price, they can just do that. With chip shortage and manufacturing setbacks, a lot of other companies have increased their prices. If it's true that a super refresh is right around the corner, I'd guess they are just gearing up to switch production over to that. If their worried about people buying the 3000 cards used from miners later on... Idk how they could really hope to prevent that. No matter what their next card are, it seems safe to assume they will be faster and better for mining therefore mines will upgrade to them and sell their older GPUs. If the newer cards are even more expensive, that will just make people want to buy older cards even more. Assuming it's true that Nvidia halted production of the high end GPUs, the reasons this article comes up with are 100% speculative, though definitely believable for Nvidia. Edit: the article you added is just about Nvidia's website being ineffective at slowing down bots so they stopped selling the more valuable cards on their site since it seems all the card Nvidia.com sold went straight to scalpers.

Doesn't Nvidia sell them at MSRP? How would this help Nvidia? After reading through the article and the article that is the source for it, it definitely sounds like something Nvidia would do but it doesn't make sense to me that Nvidia would need to artificially keep prices high and supply low now when that's already the case. The GPU price crash that happened before that the articles keep saying Nvidia is worried about happened because of a big drop in Bitcoin value at the time. I don't think anyone is expecting that to happen again now. While this kind of behavior seems like the kind of thing Nvidia wouldn't think twice about, this seems pretty speculative and I'm skeptical that Nvidia really is price fixing when the price is already so high while they have an EU anti trust investigation looking to block their purchase of ARM. I'd think Nvidia would be smart enough to be on it's best behavior. I can't find any other news sources for this and following the sources in the articles eventually leads to a YouTube channel.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nvidias-2440-billion-takeover-of-arm-faces-in-depth-investigation-from-eu/ar-AAQ0Vmn?ocid=BingNewsSearch&PC=EMMX01 I haven't been following this too closely but IIRC the EU was looking at this to figure out if they wanted to make it a higher level issue and potentially try to block the acquisition and now it seems that is indeed the course this is headed for. Seems like a terrible merger that should definitely be blocked. Nvidia will definitely lock down arm as much as they can if it happens given their track record.

I've also seen rumors that it will be closer to the 3080. We'll find out soon. It might be sort of a mixed bag. I could see it being generally slower than the competition but also having stronger and more integrated AI upscaling.

Rumors are MSRP will be $800, but MSRP hardly seems to matter right now. I don't think the early adopters issues will be too bad since I think the architecture is similar to what Intel has been using on IGPs IIRC.

That's cool tho, once you get into the game you start learning a lot even if it's just from watching the numbers move around. No one wins at it all the time but over time hopefully you will win most of the time.

I did a quick search, I couldn't find the side panel either. I did find this: [Small dent on side panel]Corsair 5000D Airflow Tempered Glass Mid-Tower Black WWW.EBAY.COM <p>[ Small dent on side panel]Corsair 5000D Airflow Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX Black.</p><br /><p>Small dent on side panel</p><p>Comes with original box.</p> If you want to spend ~$150 you could buy this and just use it for the side panel which should be the same as yours.

U.S. Department of Justice Likely to File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple WWW.MACRUMORS.COM The United States Department of Justice is accelerating its antitrust probe into Apple and there is... it would seem when the apple v epic thing kicked off, a lot of other questionable business practices from apple were exposed. **Puts stop order on apple stock**

Xbox Reportedly Developing a Wu-Tang Clan Themed RPG - IGN WWW.IGN.COM A new action-RPG focused on the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan is reportedly in development, and will feature music created by members. I guess Microsoft really is branching out... sounds dope.

New MacBook Pro chips deliver desktop performance with better power efficiency APPLEINSIDER.COM Apple's new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips in the <a... I Interesting to watch this play out. Cool that Apple made a good chip but it seems sorta wasted since there isn't much to do with it on an apple device. Still, interesting to see the state of ARM SoC tech.

A quote from Warren Buffet: "Don't try to predict the bottom." I would also be somewhat happy about a big dip because I'd be ready to buy into it but there is plenty of profit to be made in the mean time. If Intel dropped more I would have bought in, but it looks to be stable now. Still seems like a great long term buy but the short term is hard to feel as confident about.

Artificial intelligence: 2D images transformed into explorable 3D worlds | New Scientist WWW.NEWSCIENTIST.COM A neural network can turn a selection of photographs of a scene into a 3D world that can then be viewed from... Imagine if they could do this with msfs2020...

Edit: little correction on the pics. The further out one is real, the rest are very accurate data driven renders.

Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings - Big Think BIGTHINK.COM Move over, Tattooine, and instead feast your eyes on GW Orionis, where the largest dust rings ever seen settle an ancient exoplanet debate. ALMA, in which ESO is a partner, and the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope have imaged GW Orionis, a triple star system with a peculiar inner region. The new observations revealed that this object has a warped planet-forming disc with a misaligned ring. In particular, the SPHERE image (right panel) allowed astronomers to see, for the first time, the shadow that this ring casts on the rest of the disc. This helped them figure out the 3D shape of the ring and the overall disc. The left panel shows an artistic impression of the inner region of the disc, including the ring, which is based on the 3D shape reconstructed by the team. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Exeter/Kraus et al. The video is obviously a 3D render but based on extremely accurate data which is why it looks so real. The further out image is real, the rest are data driven renders. Long story short, this is the first time a trinary star system with a planet orbiting around it has ever been seen. It's just lucky that it's also one we can get really cool pictures of. The existence of the planet is somewhat controversial because it has to exist but cannot be found. Normally when a star forms it will end up with an accretion disk of material orbiting it, and that is essentially the same here but because the accretion disk is orbiting a trinary star system instead of just one star, it ends up with this huge tilted wave that makes it look like something out of a sifi movie. As I understand it the planet has not been found but it has to exist based on the orbits. Presumably they can detect the effects of it's gravity.

Sure any GPU will sell but can they make enough to make a decent profit during the chip shortage era is the question, right?

Nice, curious to see how much your temps drop. I just order an SSD from amazon (for a customers PC, hard drive is failing) and there were a lot fewer options available for fast shipping. Supposedly this holiday season is going to be really rough for amazon for multiple reasons. I wonder if I should order an couple spares SSDs for now...

NVME RAID 0 would be pretty crazy haha. Ultimately I think it would be really niche because there are a lot of other dedicated PCIe options if you need something faster than a typically NVME solid state drive, but it would be really cool.

My too. Upgraded both my PCs around the time the ryzen 5000 series came out and got some used 3000 series CPUs right around the time early adopters would be upgrading from 3000 to 5000. When I got my ryzen 3600 it was $160 used. Now the cheapest one I can find used is $210, almost a 25% increase for a used part in just ~ 6 months. I initially upgraded my first PC to a 3800x and didn't really plan on doing my second PC yet, but from looking at parts for my first PC I noticed it looked like prices were going to go up so I did my second PC right after and I'm glad I did.

Intel stock heads for worst day in a year after earnings cause margin concerns WWW.MSN.COM Intel Corp. shares plunged toward their biggest one-day loss in almost exactly a year Friday after the chip maker's earnings report showed lower profit margins that are expected to last for years. More Intel news. Posted about this in the investing thread, but it seems newsworthy on it's own. Personally I think Intel's long term strategy is very strong and when their new fabs come online it seems like they'll be in a really good position but in the short term Intel may have rocky roads ahead with chip shortages and all that. I've got to imagine building new fabs and trying to enter the GPU race is a serious way simultaneously has to have an impact. Kinda funny, I saw an article a few days ago recommending Intel as a buy but it seemed like the author of the article was really underestimating AMD's ability to compete. A lot of articles about tech stocks seem to lack the kind of understanding of the state of tech markets that most PC nerds like us would probably be pretty familiar with.

Looks like Intel stock is on sale today: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-reports-impressive-third-quarter-2021-financial-results.html Looks like their down 11% on earnings report at the moment.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger predicts the chip shortage will last until 2023 WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Speaking ahead of Intel’s Q3 earnings, Gelsinger told CNBC: “We’re in the worst of it now , every quarter next... First time I've heard 2023, seems entirely plausible though.

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I can't tell you how many faucets I've seen with poor quality components that only make all the issues with faucets worse. I didn't own a Dremel until I got deep into faucet replacements.