Tech Gaming Hardware discussion (& Hardware Sales) thread

[Slobodan]

I hope his house burns down.

Steal the 3080s then burn his house down

 

[GSP_37]

High res + high framerate was noticeable in a vid not related to videogames.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Well this guy claims to be making 20 grand a month before his electric bill to 6,500 a month or something after. Its made up of 78 RTX 3080's and stories like this just makes it harder to find GPU's.

He’s taking a big risk too though. In the article I read it said it was going to take like 6 months for him to pay for all those cards. Who knows how long the price is going to stay high on Bitcoin wot what’s going to happen with the value. I actually don’t know a lot about mining, so I’m not sure if the value of mining is tied to the actual value of not

 

[mixmastermo]

He’s taking a big risk too though. In the article I read it said it was going to take like 6 months for him to pay for all those cards. Who knows how long the price is going to stay high on Bitcoin wot what’s going to happen with the value. I actually don’t know a lot about mining, so I’m not sure if the value of mining is tied to the actual value of not

From what I understand, the difference between mining bitcoin and investing in it is that with mining, you have the potential to earn bitcoin, while with investing, you are buying bitcoin.

 

[Blayt7hh]

From what I understand, the difference between mining bitcoin and investing in it is that with mining, you have the potential to earn bitcoin, while with investing, you are buying bitcoin.

I understand that. Mining you make money letting your machine run equations verifying block chains or something and are paid for their service in Bitcoin; or something like that. What I meant though is I don’t know how closely the value of mining is tied to the value of coin: although now that I say it all together it’s pretty obvious that’s it’s tied and a crash could really hurt that guy.

 

[jefferz]

Pair it up with the B550 Vision and their new RAM and you've got a nice looking build.

New LTT video has the card in it. It's a sharp card. They did a white build with it and it suffered from what I mentioned above, the whites don't match.

 

[Madmick]

DDR5 RAM seen for the first time in the wild. Intel is implementing extremely conservative base clocks. This appears to be the new normal for all CPUs in the post-smartphone age. A new war will be not just the overall efficiency of the IPC, but the efficiency of the dynamic overclocking per core to match any given workload.

Intel's Alder Lake-S CPU Hits 4 GHz, Flaunting DDR5 Memory
The future is looking brighter for next-gen Intel desktop

A never-before-seen Alder Lake-S processor sample (via momomo_us) has surfaced with improved specifications and DDR5 support. The hybrid chip seemingly sports the same 16-core, 32-thread configuration as an early sample that appeared back in October, potentially helping Intel climb up the rankings of our CPU benchmark hierarchy.

SiSoftware detects the Alder Lake-S part as a 16-core part, meaning there are eight Golden Cove cores and eight Gracemont cores onboard. The configuration coincides with one of many possible Alder Lake-S combinations that appeared in a coreboot patch. Unless Intel has another combination in the pipeline, the 16-core Alder Lake-S should be the flagship SKU.

The new Alder Lake-S sample reportedly features a 1.8 GHz base clock, 400 MHz higher than the previous leaked sample. It's uncertain if the two are the same processor or if Intel has managed to improve the previous chip's base clock. On this occasion, the software was able to pick up the processor's boost clock speed that's apparently configured to 4 GHz. The cache configuration remains unaltered: We still see the 12.5MB of L2 cache and 30MB of L3 cache...

The new benchmarks certainly restore some faith in Alder Lake-S. It seems that Intel has been playing with the heterogeneous chips to see how far they can go. Alder Lake-S will land in the second half of this year. So there is, admittedly, more than enough time for further improvements. In the meantime, Intel will release its Rocket Lake CPUs to fend off AMD's Ryzen 5000 processors.

 

[Madmick]

And five years later NVIDIA is still supporting the best pre-packaged HTPC product on the market. The PS5 controller support is a nice touch as presence of the haptic feedback feature seems to be throwing quite a few platforms that have supported the PS4 controllers for a loop:
Nvidia Shield TV now supports PS5, Xbox Series X/S controllers

If you’re an Nvidia Shield TV owner, another update is headed your way. Shield Experience Upgrade 8.2.2 brings support for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S controllers to Nvidia Shield TV.

The 27th in a long line of software updates for the Android TV-based Nvidia Shield series brings support for two new controllers. Specifically, those are the controllers that ship with Sony’s new PlayStation 5 as well as Microsoft’s new controller for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.

To pair the controllers, you’ll only need to follow a couple of steps:

DualSense: Hold PlayStation and Share/Clip button until light pulses blue.
Xbox Series X/S: Hold the pairing button until the Xbox button blinks.
When connected, these controllers can be used with Nvidia’s own GeForce Now streaming service as well as native Android games. Technically speaking, it should also work with Stadia if you sideloaded the app.

Beyond PS5 and Xbox Series X/S controller support, this Nvidia Shield TV update also brings a few other tweaks. There’s new integration of Control4, a home automation system for other smart home gear. Now, those systems can control Shield TVs with the Control4 app and remote able to fully control the Shield TV and its installed apps.

Finally, Nvidia also notes that this update brings the December 2020 Android security patch and as well as a fix for 2019 Shield TV remotes for using IR to control Denon receivers.

 

[PEB]

I saw an interesting article the chip that killed Intel basically. It showed how big a leap Apple M1 chip was and cased massive damage to Intel. I am sure this deals with massive impact on AMD.

Not a great gaming chip yet but reports for people who produce content on YouTube and media production it's a game changer. Rumors of 32 core versions and enhanced acutectures coming down completely crush X86 chips.

It also delivers a key point for Apple makes it even more difficult to hack and can expand Apples ecosystem to automotive and security systems. It's a huge deal and a 5 nm chip.

I don't own any apple stuff just pointing it out.

 

[PEB]

Now we will never get our hands on RTX cards lol.

 

[jefferz]

NVIDIA reintroducing GeForce RTX 2060, RTX 2060 SUPER graphics cards

The news is coming from Overclocking.com that reports multiple sources that NVIDIA will be reintroducing the GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 SUPER graphics cards before the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 in February. Overclocking.com reports that NVIDIA has already distributed the new cards to AIBs and system integrators.

But what price will the new GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER cards be introduced at? NVIDIA will be reintroducing the RTX 2060 for 300 EUR (around $360) and RTX 2060 SUPER for 400 EUR (around $485) or so. The new GeForce RTX 3060 slots right between that, where it will debut at $329.

 

[rob mafia]

NVIDIA reintroducing GeForce RTX 2060, RTX 2060 SUPER graphics cards

The news is coming from Overclocking.com that reports multiple sources that NVIDIA will be reintroducing the GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 SUPER graphics cards before the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 in February. Overclocking.com reports that NVIDIA has already distributed the new cards to AIBs and system integrators.

But what price will the new GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER cards be introduced at? NVIDIA will be reintroducing the RTX 2060 for 300 EUR (around $360) and RTX 2060 SUPER for 400 EUR (around $485) or so. The new GeForce RTX 3060 slots right between that, where it will debut at $329.

well, that's one way to get more wafers. not that i'm criticizing this, the market can use as many GPUs as can be found.

 

[jefferz]

 

[Slobodan]

This looks like a PC @Clippy would buy.

 

[Clippy]

This looks like a PC @Clippy would buy.

I get my computers from @weed

 

[PEB]

Intel is going to continue producing a majority of their chips and apparently as bad as their efforts on 10nm Keller apparently made some significant effort on chiplets and performance threading but the big one is a former lead from Intel is returning to Intel because of Pat Gelsinger requesting him and Pat having worked with him. These are major minds who on their own could have launched their own companies or in Pats case running a multibillion dollar company VMWare and in fact has been showered with hundreds of millions of VMWare stock. His return is not really out of the need for money just that opportunity was too much for him to pass up. Glenn Hinton return is big because he brings major skills to help move Intel on smaller form factor and it will cost tons but since Pat is an engineer he understands the problem.

 

[jefferz]

well, that's one way to get more wafers. not that i'm criticizing this, the market can use as many GPUs as can be found.

TSMC still has the 12nm machines sitting around, may as well utilize them

 

[rob mafia]

TSMC still has the 12nm machines sitting around, may as well utilize them

yeah, that's what i mean. while their 7- is deadlocked and samsung's 8nm having yield issues... might as well bring them back. nothing to lose.

 

[ToxicShocker]

I've never seen a stock image that looked so dated

 

[My Spot]

I've never seen a stock image that looked so dated

World at War came out in 08. <Lmaoo>
And the last time I went to GS they were crammed with "swag" like those stupid Pops.