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:eek: Looks like they made a typo in their press release, should be $399

Minimum bill is 5PB/month, so $18750/month starting price for anyone wondering

It looks designed for business/commercial environments, the kind of environment that still uses VGA...

Looks really well thought out, lots of things moved around: * Front fans are really unrestricted, 140mm and ARGB * Back grill is very open, basically the whole case has been optimized to reduce air restrictions * Motherboard shifted down to give more clearance up top for radiators and the like *...

Enterprise/DataCenter SSDs do have capacitors a.ka. hardware PLP (Power Loss Protection), though for m.2 it'll be double-sided and much more expensive than consumer drives. All drives have overprovisioned space beyond "100%", generally at least the 7.37% difference between GiB (gibibytes) and...

The Tournament edition is actually priced well, especially for Razer... Doubling or $100 price premium the price for wireless is a huge price jump for what it is. I have the Wolverine Ultimate and the extra buttons and their placement really help make games more playable for me, helps me make up...

They did advertise the 9700X having 12% higher geomean gaming performance vs the 5800X3D, instead you see only like ~3% gain for 20% more power... They heavily implied efficiency gains, but it loses to last-gen's 7700 65W CPU, 2~3% gain for 15% more power... It claimed 4~31% higher perf than...

No? Most testing shows basically no gains from PBO in gaming. The issue with these new CPUs is how they were marketed, they shouldn't have promised unattainable gaming improvements and focus on marketing productivity or something. Reviews should have compared them to 65W Zen 4 ones not 105W...

Literally the third word... :p

Ah yes, so you want an 11" 4k TV and a 22" IMAX screen at the movie theater, because you're that guy that stands 12 inches from the screen at the movie theater

This essentially fixes all the nitpicks I had of the hardware of my Ally

Desktop hyper-standardization was great until now, but it does feel clunky and inneficient nowadays. CAMM2 may be the best way to keep upgradeability without tempting manufacturers into SoC designs, but I have to agree, having 2 module slots to prevent e-waste and have upgreadability seems like...

Glad to see the DisplayHDR 400 tier actually mean something now in v1.2...

I dislike QLC as much as the next guy, and I have a weird obsession with Optane even though I have no need for its performance/endurance but... QLC isn't the devil, and not all QLC is made equal. Most people do not need to be worrying about hibernation or pagefile or even write endurance as...

QLC isn't necessarily bad, especially for read sequential workloads like many do with HDDs, though a lot of consumer-grade ones suck. This single 60TB 2.5" SSD has decent latency and 65PBW endurance (36TBW/day for 5 years). It has 7000MB/s for seq. read and 1M IOPS 4K-QD256 random read.