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    Wtb: 3080 3090/ fe / ti, 6950X i7 cpu, & DDR4 3600+ sets 4x4gb min

    what's the goal here? collectibles or building a working rig? it sounds like you want the original packaging out of a Rampage or Extreme11; that's gonna be really hard to come by ten years in lol. arguably the box is worth more than the motherboard itself now, because I can't imagine anyone...
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    FS: GSkill DDR 5 Memory

    ygpm
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    FS HP Zbook

    ygpm on the laptop
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    Can RTX-4090's still be found brand new?

    Because 4090's are made on the same process node as 5090's. If they kept making 4090's, they'd be throwing away $500 for every one they made. Also, let me know where you're finding $2200 5090's because I'd like to buy a few :)
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    AI Markets Were Deceived To Believe In DeepSeek’s Low Training Costs; They Are Actually 400 Times Higher Than The Reported Figure

    This is hilarious Nvidia shilling. DeepSeek's capex into the hardware they used for training was a lot of money, but the actual GPU hours they burned in training this specific model was only a few million dollars, as calculated against current cloud pricing (it's actually less if you only count...
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    RTX 5090 Actual Performance Improvement - 6 FPS in CyberPunk

    Blackwell's success will be predicated on whether neural rendering actually works for gaming. I can speak from experience as an engineer in the field that the general technique is real and should be taken seriously - basically, the idea is rather than waiting for frames 5 and 6 and then using...
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    AMD deprioritizing flagship gaming GPUs — Jack Huynh, senior vice president & general manager of Computing & Graphics Business Group

    AMD getting serious about AI is a good thing for everyone because AI has been the first reason for regular users to buy a new computer since like...2017. on device AI is certainly not the world changing hype the venture capitalists make it out to be, but I would put it at a comparable level to...
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    Is Anyone Playing Games On A i9 13900k/kf or i9 14900k/kf Without the Microcode update?

    get the firmware update. the chip shipped with too aggressive of a power/clock target to hit benchmark targets and degrades over time. some code paths, especially shader compilation, seem to really stress the cores. it's not going to die over 4 hours but over thousands of accumulated hours you...
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    Nuc with x16 slot ability vs prefab mini itx, in hot environment, best choices? 100G ethernet later

    Do you know how hot it gets inside the dome during the day? The CPU might not mind 50C+ ambient temps, but the board and power supply might not be too happy.
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    If i buy a Digital Storm Velox Machine now with a 4090 card, will it be upgradeable to the RTX 5090 ?

    The OP is free to spend their money how they want but unless you want to show off to your friends how much money you have there are much better deals on 4090 prebuilts - depending on the brand you can save anywhere from $1000-$2000.
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    Upgraded from an i7-3930K I had since June 2012, and wow

    exactly my point. the benchmark results are being skewed by ISA extensions which are extremely benchmark friendly (the GeekBench crypto benchmark is notorious for this) and E-cores which only help if your workload scales to 12+ threads. if it doesn't (and a lot of workloads don't), I would...
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    Upgraded from an i7-3930K I had since June 2012, and wow

    there's definitely something going on, there's no way a 13600K is _four times_ faster than a six core Sandy Bridge and even less chance that a quad core 15W i7 can match a 4.6GHz six core Sandy Bridge - Sunny Cove has something like 1.5x the IPC of Sandy Bridge but the 3930K has two more cores...
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    B & H Refusing refund because "Bent Pins"

    I think a lot of horror stories are because the techs at the RMA shop bend the pins and then reject the warranty because of bent pins. Asus was/is particularly notorious for this, they are absolutely ruthless when it comes to enforcing physical damage rules against returns and receive a lot of...
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    [DEAD]Very [HOT] 7900X3D $330 @ Antonline

    I'd rather spring for a 7800X3D. The 7900X3D fills a legitimate niche of wanting OK multicore performance, OK gaming performance, and a good price, but the problem is games are lassoed to the CCD with extra cache so for gaming, it runs like a six-core CPU. That would be fine, except...the...
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    Intel Xeon Scalable Gets a Rebrand: Intel "Xeon 6" with Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest Start a New Naming Scheme

    A much needed rebranding. The precious metals based scheme was utter chaos, with at one point something like 100 finely segmented SKUs. Conroe to Haswell at least had feature parity across the entire stack (except for the two socket-filler SKUs each generation with no turbo or HT), but once...
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