This.
Noctua threatening to sue ThermalFake over who has the best fan based on the Gentle Typhoon is as laughable as Apple raging at Microsoft for "copying" the GUI concepts they both copied from Xerox.
It's even more comical as Phanteks have recently released their T30 which like the Toughfan...
In fairness it wouldn't just be useful for games that only had Glide or software as the render options. There are plenty of games from the 90s that have Direct3D and/or OpenGL options but look much better in Glide.
This is of course assuming that the 3080ti will have the same unlimited mining performance as a 3080, because if it's higher that 4.7 USD a day becomes 5-6 USD a day.
The drive may have gen3 like sequential speeds, but gen4 sequential speeds are pretty much irrelevant unless you have two drives and spend all day moving *.ISOs between them just to see the numbers.
What really matters is the other speeds /iops as this is what dictates real world performance...
You have to understand that things move much slower in the enterprise sector than in the home user/small business market, hence why many if not most enterprises are still transitioning from W7 to W10 (and why Microsoft still offer paid support for W7 enterprise). And in the Enterprise sector...
IE 11 is just over 7 years old, and will proberbly be around for many years more as its slmost certain it's only going to be W10 Home/Pro that drops it not W10 Enterprise.
You're thinking of what the connectors are rated for in the PCI-E specification, but the physical connectors are actually rated much higher in their design specification (what their designers/manufacturers say is safe) but the PCI-E spec errs on the side of caution. It's usual for GPU...
Taking a truckload of cash to make it Apple exclusive for the first couple of years was a really dumb move by Intel, it gave USB time to evolve and catch-up.