That is for sure true. And this variance that creates the “binning lottery” people talk about (and why there is some people that will pay premium for specific high binned parts)

So in this case, the rop were not detected because of firmware? Strange, but at least would be solvable. Let’s see if this situation for the 5090 is the same

If the spec does not follow the expectations, I assume they have to recall those. Right? If not, someone is asking for an official recall and get their rears destroyed.

There is a lot to be said about the 50 series so far:

• reviewers by en large are extremely fed up with this situation (msrp is a value, street value is way more inflated. This skews a lot the review process)
• people simply cannot get them (mostly scalpers for now I would say)
• if we check in a vacuum the msrp and performance between 40 and 50 series, in the same segment is not an impressive uplift
• the 5090 PCB is a massive fiasco (if you do not know what the problem is, check buildzoid video on the 12x6 connector and PCB issue). And by the looks of it, 5080 might suffer the same

My opinion regarding the pricing issue is going to be decided in the next months. If people cave for scalpers or pre scalper prices, price anchoring will be in full effect for next release. If people as a collective get a back bone and don’t cave in, prices will have to be more normal than this nonsense. Still the connector issue for 5090 really needs to be addressed in an official capacity for nvidia to do something about it.

Last time I heard, no drivers were available yet. So… You are getting a brick at this point.

That is an expensive door stopper that will evolve into a gpu

This is true not everyone out there has the capability to go out and have something like Linux, or the best version of windows 10 on their machines. But most people here are either knowledgeable enough, or have enough patience to try something like Linux out. If you know people that are in this position with their current machines from windows 10 to 11,and are not tech savvy, help them, and try not to be patronizing. Help them out by installing something like mint or Ubuntu and walk with them on the system, as many times as needed. If they cannot get used to it or find something that simply won’t work, don’t try to force Linux on them. Just find the best windows 10 version and install it. At some point if something doesn’t work anymore on windows 10 and they want to keep the machine, they will reach out to try Linux again, or, they will try to sell the machine they cannot operate with anymore (or give away, depending on the situation). Either way, help people out but don’t be abrasive if things do not work out the way you wanted.

You are not wrong here. However, this is a double edged sword. By running windows 10 after a good while (let’s say, after 1 year of eol) you are risking for malware that is going to be non patched on windows 10. Of course, if you use the PC mostly for gaming and get stuff mostly from the usual places, I really doubt you get anything. If you work with documents however with macros and stuff, or you might have questionable internet hygiene or foreign external devices like usb on a frequent basis, do not get close to an out of date system

I have to say, in general this doesn’t happen too often. But if you are afraid of this scenario specifically, my advise is either use a separate partition for the home folder (this is where all user installed things go, as well downloads, documents and pictures by default) and make a backup in some other drive with something like timeshift, or use something a bit more advanced namely immutable distro. I will give a bit of advise here: immutable distros can be extremely unintuitive, so if you want to try and understand it, go for a VM and take a weekend playing around. For gaming, bazzite comes to mind for this specific case.

That is far the only blunder we should account for. I still remember that:

• they basically ruined NBA games for people that like that stuff (I don’t play, but making something like that and be the NBA slot machine instead is straight up terrible)
• they sent lawyers to people’s homes to bully and hand over seize and desist letters
• they went several times after modders that basically made a WAY better job than 2k slop (several of those times for GTA modders)
• and the list goes on

Frankly I don’t really play anything where 2k, Activision, ubisoft and ea touches (and I am sure my list is not complete. Also, anything denuvo can go take a hike). They all deserve to go under. I just wonder sometimes people getting excited to work on projects on these places to be squashed by the realities of “number go up” from these soul suckers.

You are most probably right. We have seen several times already making a lead was not hard, they just decided not to. I mean at this point “amd never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity” is an absolute meme, and quite frankly, correct

Frankly? I can’t tell. It looks like they are constantly trying to get away with the most egregious option every time and expect to be “the lesser of 2 evils”

This is also a good point. Since nvidia made an absolute colossal paper launch, amd has to gain to go the other direction

OK AMD, you have the cards, you know where nvidia falls in the market with the other cards (or have very accurate expectations), now price this decently from day 1, no exceptions

Not sure if in your area is a thing, but a 4090 second hand at a decent price should do it

For the people looking to upgrade: always check first the used market in your area. It is quite obvious for now the best thing to do is just try to get 40 series from the drones that must have the 50 series

Yep, that is why I referenced jelly time. From what I understood from most people out there, the latest exclusive to 5000 series frames gen feels like walking in gelatin, because it has that much smearing

This gen is going to be known for 2 things:

• jelly time
• the succession of the tis (or ties, like the other presentation)

My plan is to go there at least once a year, so that would work for me

From my experience in the past, ups are done to be constantly on, and as far as I know, usually they have failsafe mechanism in case something is not working as intended. Laptop batteries do not have such extensive protection from what I know. However, if an ups is getting old (around 5 years or so) is probably best to change the batteries (if the model allows it)

That is true, however there are 2 things

• battery of this machine is toast (holds up for half an hour or less)
• as someone mentioned in another comment: unattended laptops with batteries can be actually bad. Batteries on certain cases can leak and cause fires, so for me, if it can work without it great, otherwise I have to drop the idea