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There's a Microcenter in Boone? You've got to be kidding me. Maybe it's changed since I was there in 1988. 😀

Yeah, the Series X games are beautiful on our new Sony X90J - fired up MS Flight Simulator just to see the graphics, wow. And yet I find myself playing PC games like Hidden Deep or Dysmantle. :)

Got Hidden Deep from Steam - love the game. It's a side scroller but so atmospheric, and the physics/mechanics of moving around is so well done.

If you haven't seen more modern graphics it looks more like this:

And if it's like Microsoft, they'll actually be good after 30 years.

A friend and I bought 34” Sony widescreen tubes. 230 lbs, that was brutal, specially having to move two of them. Worth it though, and no lag playing Halo.

My kid’s OLED laptop has various software to minimize burn in. You can turn it off though.

What a joke. Intel has clearly worked hard with 3DMark to make their GPUs benchmark well. Look at the new Arc A350M, nice 3DMark results and terrible gaming performance. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Battle-of-the-entry-level-GPUs-Nvidia-GeForce-MX550-Intel-Arc-A350M-Review.635422.0.html

Nice analysis! Do you know who pays for the packaging of the die? I’d imagine that’s also NVidia, that they sell packaged chips not raw dies off the wafer. So there’s some cost there.

Weird thing is NVidia card prices aren't really coming down. They seemed to have mostly bottomed at still at or above MSRP.

Fortunately insider trading is legal for Congress. Laws are for us plebes.

I’m hearing TSMC isn’t seeing any cancellations for their smallest node (3-6nm) stuff since if you cancel those you pay a penalty and go to the back of the line. But they’re seeing a lot of cancellations for lower end chips.

you figure a game developer is probably office-based, no? If so, Covid probably screwed it up like it did the movie industry. Hard to imagine everyone working from home and effectively collaborating, but what do I know. My Roblox stock has almost doubled in the last couple months, so maybe...

Reviving this cause I was considering getting a WD My Cloud Home 4TB drive, for photo/video backup: Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/294894576066 Not sure this is web based - I would just use the iPhone app to back up photos/videos. What about using Asus' app on my phone to...

You know Vanguard is almost exclusively passive funds. There is no manager buying and selling NVDA cause of its fundamentals, it’s purely based on market cap, so as it’s market cap grows, the funds have to buy more of it. This is why when NVDA starts to sell off, Vanguard funds start dumping it...

7 months ago, NVidia shareholders thought it was worth $346. Now they think it’s worth $140. Did their perception of the company’s future change that much in 7 months? Most NVDA shareholders don’t even know they own it, it’s a component in hundreds of ETFs and mutual funds, many of which aren’t...

Well, shareholder would imply they care about NVidia’s future, and aren’t just hopping from one uptrend to another.

Yes, think I mentioned that one - my kids still enjoy that one with me. We tried adding mom but that didn't go well lol.

Yes, but you can say the same thing for public school. The stuff my kids hear and see there makes Roblox seem tame.

My kids (8 and 10) loved this Roblox game where you start in a school classroom and then zombies attack the school and they have to escape. Or a game where one of you is a murderer with a knife and one has a gun, and you don’t know who til he starts murdering people. Yeah there’s no blood and...

That’s really cool, and since they don’t make monitors I expect other brands will have similar models coming.

Newegg dropped prices on some 3060 Ti's, to the $470 range. I think I'd rather have an AIB.

I didn't think it was possible to fight in this game but my two sons proved me wrong as usual. They were fighting over the stations, booting each other off the stations. But we still play it so that's a good sign. Minecraft dungeons the other one we play together. My wife likes Overcooked 1 and...

I’m looking for something similar. One interesting option is the 2022 Asus Vivobook 14-16X, since it now has a 3060. Also 90Hz or 120Hz OLED screens. But seem to be vaporware so far. The 2021s have a 3050 so that’s a big step down. In general I’d wait for 2022 models to make it out. Then...

Newegg shows the TDP in laptop specs, at least for some.

Manufacturers are having to heavily discount laptops with fixed 8GB cause nobody wants that. You see some laptops that are $500 with 8GB and $800 with 16GB.

Of course you can buy stuff on Ebay with Paypal, but you no longer have to, I just use a credit card. I mostly sell, and the money comes direct from Ebay, not through Paypal.

Just replaced my 2060 with a 3070. What would be a good game to give it a workout? Metro Exodus looks great. My 165 Hz monitor is finally getting up there.

I think it’s from the past, I hated them 15 years ago or something when they did a lot of sketchy stuff. It’s been fine for a while. I don’t use it much since EBay stopped using PayPal.

Yeah, the stock bubble has destroyed competition cause the big corporations just use their inflated stock to buy any competition that pops up.

Is there a fee-free alternative, does Venmo charge a fee for business transactions? Seems like most people have moved from PayPal to Venmo.

Site has been down the last hour since I first checked.

B Stock cards are getting more reasonable but new cards ok the site are still overpriced: 3060 Ti XC3 Ultra for $410 3070 Ti XC3 Ultra for $599 2080 Super for $380

Well a $1000 card probably only gives NVidia $300 revenue or something.

Gigabyte 3070 for $550. https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-3070-gv-n3070gaming-oc-8gd/p/N82E16814932449

Curious what you mean, PS5 and XBox are both coming from TSMC's 7nm right, with the XBox die being bigger? I've not heard TSMC has 7nm yield problems, or do you mean the chips are failing after exiting TSMC?

I thought it was deemed to be the move to proof of stake for Ethereum causing the change in availability a few months ago. I'm sure the end of $5 trillion in handouts also was a factor. The crypto price crash is like 5 weeks old, bit early to see the effect of that.

Yes you can easily find all kinds of cards, 3060 Ti's for $550, 3070s for $650 and 3070 Ti's for $700. Yay.

I'm noticing that GPUDrops is recently clogged up with used cards from Amazon. Wish you could tell it to ignore used cards. Bitcoin will probably bounce soon so this could take a while.

Nice to see a 3-fan 3070 under $600, besides Gigabyte. https://www.newegg.com/msi-geforce-rtx-3070-rtx-3070-ventus-3x-8g-oc-lhr/p/N82E16814137669