Recent content by Firedrops

Oh, TIL this thread was about CPUs, not GPUs. Well done, AMD's honor has been defended.

The amount of new AIB designs being launched this late in the generation is... unsettling

Are these cost savings in the room with us right now?

Have you already forgotten how many products 7000 series products AMD launched at the same price AND same performance as 6000 series? They cannot help but compulsively and comically overprice their launch MSRPs. Across the stack, this generation can be summed up by: AMD: 5-10% faster raster...

I'm very surprised that it's Asrock behind this

I'm 100% sure they're intentionally revamping and/or fudging their own published naming conventions every other generation to keep things confusing.

Radxa makes some interesting stuff, but they are very uncharacteristically low-stocked and overpriced. Combining with the compute module, this is priced quite far above embedded N100 boards, and is within spitting distance of regular desktop i3+ITX combos. Except with about 10% the speed and no...

What's with the USA flag? Only MURICAN QLCs can be modified?

seems pretty reasonable... why did the share price puke like all their fabs were hit by meteors?

The pinnacle of innovation, tailored solutions, and sustainability: selling commodity components with your sticker in Best Buy in particular!

Uh oh. Last time they marketed something as cost optimizations, they launched a product stack that's 20-40% overpriced and regressed in price/$ vs the previous generation.

> if you can overlook the lack of integrated graphics, a smaller L3 cache, and most importantly, the lack of PCIe Gen 5, and four fewer PCIe lanes. That's quite a big ask, unless this chip costs like 30% or less vs the G variants. We all know that's not going to happen.

FWIW this is what I was comparing against. 1800p 120hz OLED, 32GB RAM.

This is about USD $300 more than a similarly specced (8845H 32GB/1TB) Lenovo Xiaoxin/Ideapad 14" which is in stock for pickup/shipping right now. Seems like a bizarre margin to try to justify with the tablet/kickstand gimmick.

I had $15,000 set aside for a nice mobo but I only buy XTREME Prestige Limited Edition Ultra Deluxe SUPRIM INFINITY Diamond Ultimate Mythic or above editions. This is disgusting peasant mobo.