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lol, Well,now that I've been called, "stupid","dumb","selfish",MAYBE the name caller would like to address the ACTUAL points of the post? The points had nothing to do with Social Media censoring people. It had to do with AWS removing a client who had paid for their service because they disagreed with SOME of the things on the clients app. Are WE here at extremehw.net by any chance hosted on AWS? If so,then who knows if we may not be the next to be removed because we don't conform to Amazon's "look". As for being thrown out of a bar,or not having to bake a cake,the difference is that there are thousands & thousands of other bars & bakery's that the customer can go to if denied service.As for Cloud/web service providers,the big 3 are AWS,Google,and Microsoft. AWS removed the client and Google removed their app from their store.I don't know if Microsoft had it in their store or not,but do you think they'd willingly pick up what the other 2 dropped with that publicity? We keep hearing about "the right to access to the internet"but nobody talks about who actually CONTROLS what we're able to access. And please note I've NOT brought politics into this OR been nasty in any way.

lol, believe it or not,I've actually had a system using RD-RAM. The 1.3 Ghz P4 willamette and I've STILL got the ram I purchased for it. My complaint was the cost compared to sdram sticks.

What happens the next time Amazon doesn't agree with someone? The Screenshot shows the MS services hosted on aws,what if they have a dispute with MS?They can say that MS doesn't play nice and they feel their customers will be safer without that influence and 'POOF!" companies using MS on aws are shut down. OR if a court action goes against them in the U.S. "With over 6,500 government agencies using AWS, we understand the requirements U.S. government agencies have to balance economy and agility with security, compliance, and reliability. In every instance, we have been among the first to solve government compliance challenges facing cloud computing and have consistently helped our customers navigate procurement and policy issues related to adoption of cloud computing. AWS provides commercial cloud capability across all classification levels: Unclassified, Sensitive, Secret, and Top Secret making it possible to execute missions with a common set of tools, a constant flow of the latest technology, and the flexibility to rapidly scale with the mission." Suddenly aws will be suffering speed issues,servers going down,etc,until the govt. reverses it's stance in Amazons favor.Then "Bamn" everything will be working normal again. THAT'S what can happen when the service supplier is the 1 deciding who gets the services.

I always felt that a private/corp run internet was better than a state run internet because,duh,the lack of censorship. Now I'm beginning to wonder if maybe a democratically state run internet may not be better.At least then,customers would be protected by the law and due process not just being able to randomly be removed because it fits an agenda or market line. Two separate stories in the same news journal with opposing view points,but regardless they say the same thing.The companies at this time can do what they want. THAT should scare us. https://qz.com/1956380/amazons-parler-ban-displays-big-techs-power-over-online-speech/?utm_source=YPL https://qz.com/work/1956070/internet-infrastructure-companies-should-be-public-utilities/ ?

https://fb.watch/2ZyMXWqFST/ has some results with the new Snapdragon 888 chipset vs the 865 chipset.

"I'm proud to be a Coin Mining Scalper..,I'll get my cards ANYWAY that I can..." ? The song that'll soon be heard echoing on every tech site around the world as gpu supplies dry up.

FOCUS people,the thread isn't about how much money Apple makes vs Amazon,ect., it's about the companies supplying parts and building electronics having poor management @ the top and it effects the workers. These companies moved to India to A. get around tariffs from China,B.Get around the Import duty that India charges on all electronics."Assembling handsets in India enables smartphone vendors to avoid roughly 20% import duty that the Indian government levies on imported electronics products." In other words,your $1000.00 iphone cost $1200 in India if it's assembled anywhere but there.

I let it ck my hardware a couple times a year so it can keep up with the game releases if I want to ck how the required/recommended specs fair against my comp.I have 2 different comps with the same steam acct so it detects which comp it is I'm on.

lol, just don't let it be RD-RAM

Steam hardware survey results

Maybe trying to make this look yummy to the people? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-replace-its-many-mail-variants-with-one-outlook/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=26489920132515480536915462877029&mid=13224373&cid=1295433119 "Microsoft looks to be finally moving to a true, single Outlook client, but it may not be available as part of Windows 10 until 2022, according to a new report."

Not looking for LESS expensive per se,(I paid roughly $600 after taxes for my non Super 2070 when I bought it 5 months after release) What I'd like to see is a second generation of a card NOT being released less than a year after the first with better performance @ a cheaper price.THAT really triggers buyers remorse and makes people bitter towards the maker when they release THREE cards in 3 years time. 10/2018 sees the 2070 released,07/2019 sees the Super variant with 32 more Tensor cores ect., on it.And 10/29/2020 sees the RTX 3070 released. Will we see another in 10/2021??? When will the card a year madness end? My previous card purchase was a GTX 970 in 2015 and only reason I really looked to upgrade was the RTX and DLSS features.So to have my purchase "outclassed" less than a year after it's release by it's own company @ a cheaper price kinda hurt. When I upgrade again, Intel may FINALLY have a card competing or if AMD is still doing well,I'll look at their offerings.Nvidia has taken my final dollar on a NEW purchase unless it's the ONLY choice.

And that's why there will slowly be fewer builders. I know I certainly can't toss out a grand just for the gpu in a build.They're cutting their own throats.

While it seems to point a bad finger towards Apple,note the links include the info that Apple took action against these manufacturers.My main point was that even though the companies were moving to India,they were STILL using the same type of business practices as before. The reason Apple was the company mentioned instead of 1 of the others,is because the riot at the iPhone plant was what brought the story to my attention. Edit: This is a better story than the previous link that wanted a trial... https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/19/apple-puts-contract-partner-wistron-on-probation-after-violence-at-india-plant/

Another Apple supplier has been caught doing bad things, First it was Pegatron in China (see engadget link for THAT story)https://www.engadget.com/apple-pegatron-suspension-labor-abuses-china-111030340.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMK8DrWk3AluDwhZf4CMv9hDzSTengnzC_Am9Mc5fJxuN1-c0NQK6BeOPw8DQoycZymOVqpQBKoqOc4vYkqO7q-94yepcKf4gZDYcBu1dwd1hkhnkIq0v-HmQQ3oCJnCszQjr_4SQxRVWvWhuOUy2OWcGFTLmx8TJgeImi3v0dMr&guccounter=2#:~:text=Apple has suspended one of,work night shifts and overtime. Then we have Apple moving to India where it seems more of the same starts happening.(it seems all these factories are being run by Taiwanese based corps) Wistron has a plant in India with a major screw-up that forces Apple to suspend their dealings with them until they get their house in order. https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/19/apple-puts-contract-partner-wistron-on-probation-after-violence-at-india-plant/ Meanwhile,Foxconn is all set to open a factory in India(or already has by now) so people won't have to worry about their iPhones coming from China... https://www.indiatvnews.com/business/news-apple-begins-production-of-iphone-11-in-india-make-in-india-636669 Will work conditions be any better? from the example seen at Wistron,I'd guess it'll be the same ole,same ole.....

I'll just say this, on Amazon,no cards are available @ list price in the RTX 3xxx series, on Newegg, out of 3 pages of cards in that series, ONE card was available from a 3rd party seller for $500.00 over the MSRP listing @ PNY. The vast majority may wait,but you still have a load who buy as soon as they're available. We ALL know people who know what they're doing,unfortunately there are a lot more people who read the box trying to figure if it's better than what their kid already has,or they ask the sales person(shudders)who just directs them towards a more expensive card.? Perfect example,when my friend got his comp & we were looking for a used card for it,I suggested a GTX 1060 with 6Gb of memory cause he doesn't game,but if he decides to it would handle older games fine,& even newer games on lower settings. We were having trouble finding 1 so he was gonna get one with 3Gb of memory(cause he'd probably never use all that memory anyway lol) so I had to explain that it had a less powerful processor in it & that was part of the reason we were going with the 6Gb card,for the more powerful gpu also. He was like "but aren't they both the same since they're 1060's??" I just shook my head and said it's Nvidia and they do that 2 people. Not everyone ck's as deep as they should.

The missing Tensor cores will make the difference I believe. "RDNA 2 isn’t as efficient at ray tracing as Nvidia’s second-gen technology, though. Turning on ray tracing drops frame rates by roughly 38 to 45 percent on the Radeon RX 6800-series cards, compared to 28 to 37 percent on the GeForce GPUs." "The biggest missing piece for Radeon? DLSS. Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling feature uses dedicated tensor cores to upscale games using AI, letting the games render at lower resolutions to increase performance. DLSS 2.0 works like black magic in games that support it, clawing back most or all of the frames lost to ray tracing’s hefty performance impact. The Radeon RX 6800-series lacks an answer to Nvidia’s tensor cores or DLSS." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3597535/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt-tested-5-key-things.html

lol, Since Apple got left out of that,FB decided to pull them into the light again. ?https://www.techspot.com/news/87995-facebook-takes-out-full-page-ads-slamming-apple.html "Facebook takes out full-page ads slamming Apple's iOS 14 anti-tracking feature" They're so anti small business....

Hmmm,without pre release reviews,how are ALL the people who crashed Nvidia's site for the RTX 3080 launch (just as an example)supposed to know that's the card they want? Maybe they'd wait for the RX6900XT if it had been available early enough to preview before the 3080 launch? You can't say there AREN'T people out there who buy on day1, or even pre order when possible. Look @ xbox and PS5 pre order sales just for an example. Sadly,the common consumer doesn't seem to spend alot of time researching hardware anymore,it's a case of wanting the newest,brightest,as soon as possible.Why else would consumers have bought the first gen RTX 2xxx series,replaced it with the RTX 2xxx Super,then moved to the RTX 3xxx? We all know someone in that category of buyer.If it's latest version they want it. Maybe you want them to base their purchase choice just on what the manufacturer releases to the public? We went that route already with the GTX 970 having 4Gb of high speed ram.(Nvidia claimed at the time that there was an error in communication between the company’s engineers and its technical marketing team, but that it had not been intentionally misleading. The class action suits in question were brought against the company almost immediately after NVIDIA made the important (and more than a bit painful) disclosure that the initially published specifications for the GTX 970 were wrong. Specifically, that the card had an unusual memory crossbar organization where one ROP/L2 partition was disabled, giving the card only 56 ROPs instead of 64. Furthermore, this meant that the last 512MB of the standard 4GB of VRAM could not be accessed in a contiguous manner, impacting how it could be used.) But,no one would bother ck'n out reviewers....... LOL, maybe we should just agree to disagree on this one.

I haven't heard ANYONE say nvidia didn't have the right to say who could and who couldn't get the early release cards for review. I think what pretty much pissed off everyone was Nvidia closing the letter by saying that if they changed their "editorial direction" nvidia would be open to restoring them to the receiving list of F.E. cards. Seriously,are they gonna start doing that to everyone who writes a bad revue about 1 of their cards?You can't say this isn't making people wonder if they'll start doing that,or even worse,if they're only sending cards out now to the people they KNOW will revue the way they want the card to look? These were my FIRST thoughts when I heard the email that was sent.That,and "I wonder how long they've been thinning the herd?" EDIT: BTW, these 2 screenshots show how PR people try to recover from a screwup,even to blaming the covid lockdown. Short letter is 1st email apology,2nd is follow up.

Just in case anyone has issues and is wondering if it might be the avx/avx2 restriction and or their cpu, here are the ones that support those architectures.

As to Nvidia's RTX is the be all/end all future of gaming. Here's what I could find that was valid as of around mid Nov,2020. RTX enabled games... #1. Amid Evil #2. Battlefield V #3. Call of Duty:Black Ops Cold War #4. call of Duty:Modern Warfare #5. Contol #6. Deliver Us the Moon #7. Fortnite #8. Ghostrunner #9. Justice Online #10. JX3 HD #11. Mechwarrior 5:Mercenaries #12. Metro Exodus(and The Two Colonels DLC) #13. Minecraft #14. Moonlight Blade #15. Mortal Shell #16. Pumpkin Jack #17. Quake II RTX #18. Ready or Not #19. Ring of Elysium #20. Shadow of the Tomb Raider #21. Watch Dogs:Legion #22. Wolfenstein: Youngblood #23. Xuan-Yuan Sword VII Coming soon or just released #24. Atomic Heart #25. Boundary #26. Bright Memory: Infinite #27. Convallaria #28. Cyberpunk 2077 #29. Doom Eternal #30. Dying Light 2 #31. Enlisted #32. F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch #33. Grimmstar #34. Project X #35. Sword and Fairy 7 #36. Synced: Off Planet #37. Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines 2 #38. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

The cpu's with more than 8 cores they tested actually showed a loss of performance,so you may want to ck it both ways. See where the 5950x took a hit after it was modified in the screenshot for example.

? The entire time I was like,THANK-U! Somebody else who sees this the way I do!