Sir Beregond

To be fair, I am also not sure the consumer gaming graphics division really matters in the grand scheme of the company, but we'll see.

Well I do plan to pickup a 14900k for the test bench at some point after they release. Look forward to playing around on Intel again.

From on top. The plastic socket cover attaches on top of the retention bracket, hence why it would pop off if you close the mechanism with a CPU installed. I found this video, I know its pretty rudimentary in explaining things, but it shows how the cover works. It helps in alignment only so much as it also has the corner triangle on it for correctly aligning the CPU with the socket. The socket also has the triangle though. But you can see clearly how the plastic cover works. Basically all to say, the plastic cover isn't going to help you with anything you haven't already done just socketing the processor.

LGA socket covers just snap back onto the retention mechanism. They will pop off if you close the retention mechanism with a CPU installed. They are literally just for protecting the pins when no CPU is present in the socket. I am not sure how it helps with "alignment" - the CPU can only go in one way due to notches in the socket/CPU.

Agreed. And holistically they have a booming consumer CPU and server business now too. GPU is small potatoes.

Right. The cover I believe has the little corner triangle on it, etc. If your CPU is in the socket, this isn't your problem. I mean you should try a remount sure, but literally all socket covers for LGA sockets pop out when you install a CPU. They aren't really for alignment, they just protect the socket.

I'm lost as to how a socket cover is going to fix a broken CCD. The CPUs can only go in one way as far as I'm aware due to notching in the chip and socket. The socket cover is only used to protect the pins when a CPU is not installed in the socket.

Dumb move. They've been down this road before and all it did was lose marketshare overall. RDNA3 clearly had issues that kept it from hitting the performance targets they wanted. If they fix those issues going forwards into RDNA4 and beyond with multi-chip design I don't see an issue with them competing in the top end space. The biggest issue is they need to do better than just slotting into Nvidia's dumb pricing, or else be a massive discount because they've yet to reach a feature parity and are playing catchup still in RT and DLSS - which say what you want about them, do seem to matter as points of comparison at the top end.

Yep I agree. Most of the time my list has multiple LTT videos, JayzTwo Cents, and Bill Gates on Letterman with maybe 1 or 2 actual member submissions. Other times at least the podcast videos come up, though kinda old now given that's not currently active.

Hello! So I normally don't go here because instead of actual member submissions, I usually just see a bunch of LTT videos and Bill Gates on David Letterman for some reason on the video banner which don't seem like member submissions at all. But every now and then a gem pops up such as @Bastiaan_NL's excellent videos around volt modding and other things, as well as @Mr. Fox's excellent videos around overclocking. Just wondering if this was on purpose? Seems LTT and JayzNoSense is drowning out actual member submissions and those don't feel like member submissions at all, more like reposting of other people's videos. Maybe those should go somewhere else, or just be posted as a normal discussion thread? When I think of "member submissions", I would think member made videos. I doubt LTT and Jay is on EHW. Just a thought I had.

I mean the launch price of the 7900 XT was a joke, but as is often the case with AMD, the MSRP course corrects rather quickly. I agree at $750ish, its a great buy.

I was going to make a joke about spilling water on it to @firedfly expense. But obviously not the same thing as putting it in hot water for 30 minutes. Honestly seems like a fantastic idea.

I mean I'd be fine if we moved past ATX as the standard, but whatever replacing it has to be a standard too.

I wonder if its less about planned obsolescence and more that they just got addicted to pandemic level margins and as such are building everything in the stack to maintain that. The fact cards aren't selling doesn't seem to matter to them now though because of the AI cash cow, so no reason to make things sane again in their mind on the consumer side of graphics. If it doesn't sell, its more silicon allocation that can go towards higher priced AI products, if it does sell, its at a high margin. Either way consumers lose in my opinion. Well said. The 20-series also just didn't present a good enough upgrade to performance over the 10-series outside of the 2080 Ti too, so most of the 10-series and older users were waiting for 30-series. I'm glad you touched upon the VRAM scam of the 3080. This was clue #1 that the new "flagship" of the 30-series was in fact the "90 cards" which were in fact rebrands of what used to be "80 Ti" with a price hike. But they tried to market as "Titan like" to justify it. The 10GB 3080 told you all you needed to know about the truth of that lol. Didn't know "flagships" were supposed to regress in VRAM vs the prior 2 generations.

You hit the nail on the head. Regarding memory, I do think the concept of a 192-bit bus on products that are north of $500 is something awful though.

2nd matching 650 Ti Boost came in today. Hopefully these Twin Frozr III cards will work out well.

I offered to use my 5900X, but it appears it needs to be literal 4-core chips.

Aside from the 4090, which itself is cut down significantly from the full die vs say the 3090 and full GA102, the rest of the stack definitely got shafted on memory bandwidth, and added L2 I don't think really compensated like they thought it would. 4080 being 256-bit lines up with most "80" branded cards of the last decade, but the $1200 asking price sure doesn't. Everything else though? Yeah...its not good.

Yeah, this led me to think that they should have thought about a different mechanism for securing the connector against side to side tension that can just enough make it come out and have problems.

Great question. I don't really play FPS games, but that's a good idea to test. I don't actually know how to test input latency, let me look into that and perhaps I can update the review.

Yeah, needs to become a standard for that to be viable in the industry as a solution. I agree it is certainly and interesting one.

Thanks for reading! Yeah, it's expensive for sure. I've never spent north of $100 for a mouse. My current mouse was $60 I think and ergonomically it fits me much better. I also don't need to use iCUE with it as the side buttons have default values in hardware mode that are exactly what I want them to be. This was a totally new feature for me. I didn't know Logitech was doing that too. Good to see. Would love for that to be a feature in more mainstream mice. Yeah this is a weird one. I didn't outright dislike using the mouse. I thought it overall worked well, but yeah that side cluster of buttons needs work, as does the ergonomics. Large hands like mine that like palm gripping? Not ideal, which seemed weird considering the size of the mouse. Smaller hands, probably have to readjust a lot to reach some of the buttons. I think those with larger hands that prefer claw gripping will probably enjoy the mouse. Thanks for reading!

Thanks man. Yeah the grips killed the mouse for me too and the asking price is a lot.

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