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I like my tech, but when it comes to Alexa or any recording device (voice assistant) being placed in my home.... no thanks. I don't care if it makes me sound unreasonably paranoid. I am a fan of Orwellian literature and this shit is too 1984 for me.

Outside of very niche (likely enterprise) applications, I can't see this being anything good for openness, sovereignty over hardware you buy, or the enthusiast user overall. As far as AMD not being "as bad", they're certainly not perfect...

Let's not forget the time when they charged a good $1,000 for the Athlon 64 FX-51 back in the day, when they just utterly dropped the Hammer on Intel's NetBurst crap at the time (and probably Itanium, SPARC and MIPS too with the Opteron lineup)...

Usually I buy reference cards, but your Xtreme OMG Orgy Edition has me intrigued. I would like to know more..

I'll quote Kyle on this: AMD will sell every card they make this generation. I give a big *shrug* to all of this. Let's say what other people buy matters 100%. We're talking about the scale of 100,000's if not millions of cards. Whether it...

Part of my point that was overlooked, and was that if AMD wanted to make another part above the 7900xtx they could. They could make their own "Titan". They could name it the 7999XTX ULTRA XTREME nVIDIA KILLA. This is all perception. So...

Yes but not for the reasons you think, Education and parts of the Enterprise market were able to purchase the Titans make minor tweaks, and essentially end up with one of their Quadros with little effort and half the price. By dropping the Titan...

We’re all good. Called Best Buy customer support and they looked into it. The card was already at the store so they’re not sure why I received the delay email. An hour after my conversation with them it was ready for pick-up and is now sitting on...

I wouldn’t worry too much, you still have 2 weeks before dealing with potential cancellation. I’ve had a few big ticket items that ended up delayed from initial estimated date and also some that arrived early. It’s even possible the card is at...

Half Life supported Aureal. Aureal was the beginning of 2-speaker positional sound on PC. And yes, their positional sound was better than Creative.

It was AWESOME : people were saying there was a real difference when playing the first Unreal with Aureal in the PC compared to Creative's EAX. EAX was just a set of filters applied to sound while Aureal was able to calculate and replay the sound...

It wont work as microsoft nuked hardware sound processing when they rewrote the audio stack in vista. Not to mention this is windows XP era hardware so good luck even finding drivers to work. I had to stop using my Audigy 2 when I upgraded from...

Aureal called it Wavetracing and when you could find a game that supported it well enough (there weren't many), it seemed to work. The number of "rays" it could "trace" is laughable by today's standards. Like low double digits at best. Anyway...

loved Aureal. really annoyed creative sued them out of existence.

Nvidia Ampere prices have started rising again while AMD RDNA2 prices are still dropping https://www.hardwaretimes.com/nvidia-rtx-3090-3090-ti-price-rises-again-amd-radeon-rx-6900-xt-stabilizes-at-654/...

Nope every retailer includes county and city 'surcharges'. I vote down every incremental measure I see on the ballot despite my other political leanings...nuff said. We did see some nonsense voted down this time so hopefully more people are...

Waiting for the alpha pal 8045 testing…. Also the cooler needs a 6000 rpm delta fan swap that we’ll control with one of those digital dock 5.25 bay controllers.

https://twitter.com/KyleBennett/status/1595238985861066753

PowerColor 7900 XTX Red Devil. 3.5+ slots. We are truly in the era of monster truck GPU's.

I'm only cheering for competition in hopes that it gets price/performance into a better place. The reality that we live in is that people are still buying up almost everything at ridiculous prices. It seems the 4080s are showing that people are...