Sir Beregond

Just picked up a 1TB nvme for $60 at Micro Center. Was not the cheapest one they had - they certainly had 1TB drives for $40-$50. But I needed a TLC drive with a DRAM cache. As for 2.5" SATA SSD's, the 1TB Crucial I got for like $100 a couple years back is now $50.

I'm telling you...he is carelessly discarding his avocado pits around the gears that the servers run on.

And this is why Nvidia doesn't care that nobody is buying 40-series (aside from the 4090).

Much faster now, thanks E!

I wonder if maybe they are going to do a Titan.

Yep, I think that's a perfect analogy for this. Everyone and their mother is starting their own AI based stuff but in the end it will be a few that really take it over, and it's definitely not going anywhere. Its just going to start permitting everything whether big or small.

Oh now that would be interesting if it had 24Gbps memory.

Well I have a friend who leverages AI tools/ChatGPT heavily for his business. On a larger scale, I don't really know. I generally feel like AI is here to stay.

Oops, I misread that voltage. So they lowered it? Interesting. Man...$2100+ for consumer graphics. What a world.

True, but when was the last time we saw such a poor selling GeForce series (with the exception of the 4090)? They aren't lowering prices, or doing anything to move said inventory, so they seem perfectly fine leaving prices as it is and just reallocating silicon to much higher priced/margin AI/data center parts. If that changes next year, sure, might see a 4090 Ti.

All excellent points. Even air cooled, these coolers are monsters, and like you said, power and temperature were not really the limiting factors here. That's always been voltage with Ada. I was not aware they quietly introduced a new slightly higher voltage die. Really I do wonder how expensive this will be. The regular Strix OC is already at a $1999 MSRP locally. Just seems to be an ASUS tax, because of all the reviews I read about various partner models, seemed like the Supreme X from MSI was the top performer (in terms of stock/OC performance), but that list didn't include things like the HOF.

I still don't think we'll see a 4090 Ti. Nvidia happy to move that silicon supply to AI/data center.

Seem a good stop gap until they revise that 12VHPWR design. I know this is being attributed to being user error, but I have to say at what point do enough users have an issue (assuming they otherwise did everything correctly - no daisy chaining and plugged it in until it clicked) that it becomes really a design problem? Just my $0.02 Also I never heard of anyone with melted cables on 3090 Ti's, so why does this seem to be an only 4090 phenomenon?

Looks really good. It sounds like you and I have extremely similar chair preferences. Yeah the Knoll chair just sucks. The armrests swing outwards with no adjustment aside from up and down, and rocks back with the chair, unlike the Leap. I likewise was not a big fan of the Aeron, but it was at least a tolerable chair. For me, what make the Leap V2 top tier is the 4-d armrests and the way the recline works and how you can set how far it goes. To add to that, the fact the seat bottom just sort of slightly tilts back and forward along with the recline, it just works for me. That said, I'm about 6' and none of my shorter coworkers like the Leap, so guess it really just depends. With their 10% off sale, I came out at $584 out the door for a remanufactured V2 Leap. I'm boring, just got the black frame and black fabric. I am trying their Bioknit fabric. I am a little unsure if I'll like that or not, but going to give it a try. My friend has one of those and admittedly its the most comfortable of the racer bucket seat type chairs that I've tried. But at the end of the day, it's still just that, and way overpriced because of that in my opinion.

Seems pretty solid for $300.

You pretty much hit all the right points for why that chair sucks. Yeah I agree, the Leap armrests are top tier.

100% agree. I've used the Leap at 2 offices now which is how I knew it was what I wanted when the time came. Likewise have used quite a few from POS generic chairs, to the Aeron (not my favorite personally), and the absolute worst chair I've ever had the displeasure to use, the Knoll Generation at one job which I would describe as the worst job ever. Your post reminds me that I need to look for a new carpet chair mat. My last one, the edges kept curling up so I sent it back.

Been needing a new chair for like 2 years now. Finally decided to pull the trigger with Crandall's 10% off sale to get a proper chair. God knows I need it now that I work from home 100% of the time (though sometimes I go work at other places just to get out).

Came in 3 different packages from 3 different places, but looks great.

Good they chose to lower the price, but still seems a "slot into Nvidia's pricing" type of move, but I imagine the other peice is that there is still a ton of 6700's and 6650 XT's out there.

Except chicken.

Reminds me of the chicken in a can.