Sir Beregond

This came in yesterday. Will run it with my 4790k system. Need to find a DVI to HDMI adapter though lol.

I don't think this is surprising news. GPUs were the bulk of their business, so without those it makes sense that they need to shrink considerably. If that means they are also leaving the motherboard and PSU space, then I don't know. What else do you have at that point. Bad news all around. Wish I bought more EVGA stuff throughout the years.

Love that. I liked that movie. Cool bat!

See that is the needle moving corps like Nvidia is hoping for. Consumer to say hey $1000 80-class branded cards? No problem. Its not "too bad". It's $300 more than the last gen on a lower tier chip and mem config, but its "not too bad". No doubt. Nvidia's FE cards the last 2 gens are rock solid in their engineering (though may leave overclockers wanting - my 3080 Ti is very power limited vs three 8-pin models), but they are absolutely direct competing with their AIBs. AIBs are getting lower and lower margins each gen which I believe is a huge reason EVGA called it quits. Nvidia on the other hand are getting massive margins.

I mean Nvidia raised base MSRPs sure, but the AIB's then thought it was cool to add $200-$300 on top of that. Looking at you Strix cards. Back in the day I bought a GTX 980 Strix and it was like $10 more than a base/reference model 980. Where the hell is this +$200-$300 coming from is what I want to know.

Dumb AIB pricing for their top OC models with the biggest coolers as if the 4080 needed them. ASUS seems to be the biggest offender.

I aspire to be at least half as cool as you some day. Love all the updates with the builds, but also just the awesome space you've created for them.

Speaking of getting cheaper. 2TB 980 Pro is $100 now:

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Should be, its just a refresh of Raptor Lake, but I am hoping that means it has enough of a boost to be worth calling 14th gen.

Even I am getting tired of ranting.

Great write up! I will definitely be looking into this when my daily rig needs more storage. Gen 3 speeds are fine for me for that. I was really disappointed that the Asus Dark Hero board only came with 2 nvme slots. I'll have to double check my radiator clearance for the x4 slot though.

Preach it. I was really excited last year as there were quite a few comps I was able to participate in with just my current hardware. This year I think there might be one? I don't have a place to store a bunch of random old hardware bougt on eBay like others do, nor does it make sense for me to spend my money there when I can be setting up a test bench. I was very disappointed in this year's comps for Team Cup. There is basically nothing I can participate in with what I have on hand.

Oh...nice SR-3...

My bad!

Time for you to go raid the LN2 stash across the street. I think @Avacado and @Fluxmaven will back me up on this one.

I like how the box for that first card says it is designed for extreme graphics vs say regular graphics.

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I've got basically nothing on this year's list.

Thought the refresh was still getting called 14th gen. I could be wrong. The refresh is what I mean.

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Motherboard are just in a weird spot these days. Feature wise, the tiering makes no sense anymore. Stuff you used to get on $150 motherboards are now $600 motherboards. As for ASUS. I know they've been in some heavily publicized drama recently, but as far as I am concerned that kinda crap happens with all the big brands whether ASUS, MSI, or Gigabyte every so often. Doesn't feel like anything new to me. As for your own experiences, that's different and I totally understand that. Personally I had a slew of really bad experiences with both MSI and Gigabyte boards around 2007 and 2008 and have run exclusively ASUS boards ever since. Aside from one P55 boards that had some oddities with Crossfire, honestly I've had rock solid performance out of them. And this is ranging from P45, P55, X58, Z97, H97, X570 boards from ASUS. I agree. Honestly as a gaming rig I just went with Gen 3 drives. Gen 4 drives are cheaper now, but I didn't see a point in any tests I saw and you likely won't until Direct Storage really becomes mainstream.

This one was actually good. Its got the Bethesda engine jank (plays like FO3 and Oblivion), however the developers were Obsidian, not Bethesda. It's a good game.