Recent content by FrgMstr

Well, one must realize that supply chain is had from static.

5090 only this year in retail. No high end from AMD. Two chips, with top model being around ~7900XT perf. Q1'25.

Marees stated this, "Do they hold tight to precious margins or price the GPUs to move 🤔" Radeon GPU is making 16% margin. How much lower margin do you go? 5%? 0%? This is simply a lack of understanding how to run a profitable business IMO.

Does not address my post.

I have used XSPC rads for a long time. Never had hardly any trash in those. Never any issues either. Got a 480 in the garage if anyone is looking.

I had a friend of the family give me a new one last weekend. I gave a case of 50 to his grandfather to use at the high school he teached at 20 years ago. Had 15 in the box in the attic. He laser engraved the HardOCP logo on it.

It is funny because over in another thread people argue that ROCm is useless to invest the resources for desktop cards. That said, I agree with a lot of what you say here

Are these the "precious margins" you speak of?

IIRC Robert Krakow founded Razer and he was the owner of Everglide, the guy that sued me for making Ratpadz. If f that tells you anything about Razer...

They are down for NV and AMD, market share has remained stable globally. NV's reporting on it's earnings have always been somewhat "creative" on the gaming desktop category. Still seeing huge purchasing impacts from the Coof buying spree. Pricing impacts, and buyers waiting for next-gen as...

Both monolithic.

Been scumbags IMO for a long long time. https://hardforum.com/threads/ek-issues-apology-for-threadripper-waterblocks.1954615/

That is the clock rate you should see under general gaming usage in stock configuration.

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