This may be true, but if you google melted 8 pin connectors you will also find those so that's not the solution either then. Anything will break somehow eventually, if the amount is too high they will change it sooner rather than later the problem is getting to know the amount of defects vs...
saying something is important does not mean anything more then just that. Early AM4 mobo's were barebones and could barely hold 1 gen worth of UEFI in their bios chip, how many people have bought a high end 5xxx series CPU for an entry level 3xx series board?
DIY is a small (but fun) part of...
It's not because 1 device can't do more then 1Gb/s that faster connections are useless, if you have a lot of heavy users in you household everyone get's decent speeds on their device.
I had a 300 Mb/s connection until recently, my provider upgraded all their 250/300 Mb/s customers to 500 Mb/s...
Well I have not bought a lot of games the last couple of years, I find the current games pretty lackluster, this year I bought Doom the dark ages, Mortal Kombat 1 and BL4 ir memory serves, last year the wow and DIV expac, nothing else comes to mind directly.
I do get some console games gifted...
I would not be surprised they were working on a different solution to this, but they need to get everyone at pci-sig to agree on the new standard.
and of course changing this would probably royaly piss off some PSU makers as they would be stuck with a ton of matrrials they can't use anymore.
I have played most of the Deus ex games but imo they are not that great, the new ones are pretty tough imo, don't think I finished any of those, might have finished the first one, can't remember, too long ago.
They want you to think you have multiple options to get things done, and that's all...
I would rather see a 5080 ti then a super which can't be much "superer" when it's already the full die but I guess a card with more memory for the same price or cheaper like the 4080 super which was 200$ cheaper msrp then the regular one/
Availability might suck in the USA but there have been...