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If the option to extend Win10 support past October 2025 is cheap enough for individual users, I might just stick with it. Have a long time yet before I have to worry about it.

I would like to give an honorable mention to HD 4850/4870. The GTX 260/280 were another NVIDIA blunder from a price : performance standpoint and ATI made them pay. When was the last time NVIDIA had to reduce prices 23% just a couple weeks after launching a product? Those were the days! It's...

It was awesome, but at the time was severely starved of memory bandwidth (even with DDR). The GF2 opened the floodgates with crappy compression but was still starved. I think that's why it has more longevity but it's not like the GF3 didn't destroy the GF2 as well. We're talking about a time...

I was one of madmen who waited on the delayed DDR at launch. SDR pft. 🤣

Pretty sure my 3080 will be my last ride given trends in GPU prices. Just being honest with myself given how slow my upgrade cycles are now. Thanks for the memories [H]. Guillemot Voodoo Banshee VisionTek GeForce256 DDR Creative GeForce2 GTS 64MB Creative GeForce2 Ultra VisionTek GeForce 3 Ti...

TD2 is another example of art direction beating pixels. I wish more devs would take note. I walked away from this one yet again after the disappearing weapon bug hit me badly, but it's always been beautiful.

Gen Z doesn't even know what a printer is and this is HP's response? They are going to have to pay a generation to even use one soon. When I say I have a printer at home, I get lots of looks but at least it's not an HP.

Once they started adding strings to all of the benefits that used to be premium, the clock was ticking for us. We canceled Prime and have started to lump our orders for $35+ for free shipping. They kick and scream and even try to trick you into signing back up for Prime on every order, or trick...

I owned several Plextor burners but never actually bought a Plextor. The trick was finding rebranded gems on the cheap after rebate (of course). RIP.

Like with HDD->SSD, the leap to OLED itself is what matters. People get way too hung up on bells and whistles and Rtings feeds these insecurities.

Got this for free with my A380 that's not being used for gaming. Not sure if it will make it out of the backlog if I'm being honest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/zw5l6l/rx_7900_xt_flickering/

How much productivity are you losing waiting for a $400 price? I always thought if you need this many cores, you're making money from them.

Are you just going to continue to be the gatekeeper for this topic or would you mind letting everyone offer their opinion? I won't mind if you don't reply.

I'm sorry, but this is just depressing. Nearing the end of a hobby for me. What the industry is tell me is we're an afterthought now while this tech has better things to do at higher margins. It was a fun 25 years or so.

Just wanted to drop this here in case anyone wants to add resizable bar to an older machine for Intel ARC GPUs: https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI I added it my X99 HTPC for use with an incoming A380. Was a little confusing, and there were gremlins, but I got it going. EDIT: My A380 just...

You're complaining about the quality of an applicant pool plummeting and not considering the possibility good candidates aren't getting through your "simple" system. Try something different. The lazy response is "oh it's everyone else."

Whenever I hear stories like this, I encourage people to try to apply for a job at their company and go through the same BS they're putting applicants through. Hiring and interviewing processes have become a race to the bottom.

One of the greatest Black Friday scores ever from Best Buy in 2002 and it was a model that overclocked like mad because of the memory chips used: Visiontek Xtasy GF3 TI200 ($199.99 - $50 MIR - $50 Instant Rebate = $99.99) Wish I still had it for OP.

Now put that $1k from 2004 in an inflation calculator!

I quit TD2 for the second time recently because of the constant crashing. I don't know why I put up with it for so long. I had a nice stretch of stability before S5 and then it just went straight to hell after the patch. Heartland looks terrible so this IP might be dead to me. Bummer.

This thing is the new 3300X. Grab one if you have MS nearby IMO. Blink and it'll be gone.

Does anyone here read quarterly reports? Gaming was still 31% of Q1 revenue. At current valuation, Wall St will be royally pissed if there's no longer any gaming market. Yes, AI is growing but they need to figure out a way to service all of these markets to stay diversified or they're leaving a...

I was looking into new TV technology recently and the latest and greatest is something called MicroLED. The 110" from Samsung is currently $150k and you can buy it in a showroom like it's 1988. Kinda makes you laugh at the price tag of the 4090. The luxury market is out of most of our leagues.

Greatest family rivalry since Trader Joe's and Aldi.

I'm likely playing out the life of my current system with backlog and noping out of this mess. I just don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe Intel saves us but I'm not sure since they always seem to be a gen behind.

This article is so tone deaf, and full of techno-babble, the memes from AMD just write themselves. NVIDIA needs to get these game companies back in line with proper ports or buck up and spec their cards to match the competition who are brute forcing it.

I don't know if I'd call them lemons, but they definitely took the wonderful idea of 5800X3D and ran it into the ground in true AMD fashion. Someday we'll find out why they really slapped 3D cache on 3 SKUs when 1 when would have been fine without most of the headaches. I don't blame AMD for...

I remember when I jumped on the Sandy Bridge launch and then they had the SATA degradation issues. I RMAd all that stuff and rebought after the fix. Hopefully this all leads to a recall and the consumer doesn't have to be left with a conundrum and insecurity about the future. It's the right...

Yeah, the biggest issue I had with A3D was the performance overhead at a time when we didn't have much CPU power to spare. I think your comparison to ray tracing today is appropriate. Same pitfalls. Much longer runway this time to figure things out. Here's a blast from the past...

Then they'd just need to exhume Aureal and we'd be all set!

All I kept thinking throughout this video was thank goodness for bulletin boards. I'm glad they came decades before social media and Discord.

Great video and retrospective. I was pretty surprised when he mentioned Kramden in the video, which I know well. I had no idea GN was based out of Cary, NC.

Well said. It used to be like that with Fry's before they went belly up. You'd come onto Hardforum and everyone within driving distance of one during a big launch would make it impossible to discuss the cost/value of anything. We get it guys. If you live close to MC, you used your brains and...

You spent more than 20% for +20% and now and have Gen 1 AM5 hardware. I'm glad I went with the drop-in upgrade while things get refined and prices stabilize for the next few years. Enjoy though.

Exactly.....for 400 MHz.

For sure. My last two CPUs before AM4 were 2500K and 5820K. Basically zero overclocking is hard to accept. Even on 7800X3D, the press is going nuts over some crazies getting 400MHz out of it using custom clock generators. LOL. +400MHz was cool in 2001.

It's a set-and-forget CPU. Overclocking has been dead for a long time on a percentage/value basis. The days of getting 50% performance for free are clearly over.

There's no overclocking with X3D (without extreme measures). Day 1 chips will be the same as the last ones produced for majority of users.

Agreed. If AMD had offered a 5600X3D, I would have grabbed that over the 5800X3D in a heartbeat. I wasn't after cores. I was after the cache.