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    Epic Counters an Analyst’s Claim That Players Only Use It for Free Games, Stating That It Hit an All-Time Sales Record of $400 Million in 2025

    They are giving almost 90% back to the devs/publishers so under $50 million.
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    The FPS Review Weekender: AMD Blocked Reviewers From the RX 9050, and the Benchmarks Explain Why, Plus 9 More Hardware Reviews

    AMD, ever heard of the Streisand Effect? :D
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    Motherboard Prices Are Expected to Increase amid Slower Sales and Rising Manufacturing Costs

    Only issue is that it's Gigabyte. They don't have the best reputation. Who knows what kind of cheap PSU they have paired with that in the enclosure. There will be a performance hit but it would still be faster than a 5080 and of course, more VRAM.
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    Geforce Giveaways

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/3600153323455848/ Best of luck!
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    From GeForce RTX 4080 with 32GB VRAM to RTX 2080 Ti with 22 GB, Modded GPUs with More Memory Gain in Popularity Overseas

    https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ai-bubble-is-it-a-bubble.2635358/
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    GeForce RTX 50 Series Sees Price Hikes Across Asia, NVIDIA Cancels Pre-Price-Change Order, and One Retailer Says Buy Now, Supply Is Unstable

    In other news, Papa Jensen is pushing a new scam: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HcfohF8BJ/
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    GeForce RTX 50 Series Sees Price Hikes Across Asia, NVIDIA Cancels Pre-Price-Change Order, and One Retailer Says Buy Now, Supply Is Unstable

    In the gcc compiler, there's actually two optimization targets for arrow lake, one arrowlake and the other arrowlake-s which leads me to believe that maybe the mobile chips are using slightly different silicon? No other generation of Lake CPUs has two different targets for the same client CPU...
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    GeForce RTX 50 Series Sees Price Hikes Across Asia, NVIDIA Cancels Pre-Price-Change Order, and One Retailer Says Buy Now, Supply Is Unstable

    That is indeed a bargain and a really sweet machine. Especially the HDR display with those beautifully high nits. I wish I had spent my last 10 years with something like that. Probably spent a lot more than that trying to chase better HDR TVs and PC hardware.
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    Sony Remains Undecided on the PlayStation 6 Release Date Due to Ongoing Global Component Shortages

    I personally won't mind another 5 years of PS5 Pro. We need to stop and smell the roses. A PS6 would be prohibitively expensive and it would end up being just as half assed as the original PS5 and unable to meet any of the advertised claims. Zen 7 or 8 and RDNA 5.5 should be the target for PS6...
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    Tradepub ebooks (updated weekly)

    https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_aice147/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_aice136/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_aice262/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_wile915/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_wile911/prgm.cgi...
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    Motherboard Prices Are Expected to Increase amid Slower Sales and Rising Manufacturing Costs

    Always get an extended 3 year warranty with a laptop. Gaming laptops have a propensity to fail or develop annoying problems, especially ones from HP and Lenovo.
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    AMD Announces Availability of Instinct MI300X Accelerator and MI300A APU for High-Performance Computing and Generative AI

    Pretty big and unexpected news. Weird that they chose AMD even though they have great success making their TPU accelerators. This is something they might be doing only due to time related pressure because they have enough money to deploy their own licensed ARM CPU cores if they wanted or develop...
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    Free games thread

    Almost 5GB demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fUx6RS8CzwUzmaOPbuy3xoLbdcYF9RwU/view Download quick before Konami forces it to be taken down! My mini review so far: I was thrilled to see that they remade the old intro almost exactly as it was, just with better sound and graphics and music...
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    Valve Could Ditch Using a Custom Processor for Steam Deck 2 in Favor of One That Might Outperform the PlayStation 6/Xbox Project Helix

    We'll never really know what's truly possible thanks to nvidia pushing their path tracing tech. The original Larrabee project was based on Pentium cores (yes, modified 586 cores!) and ran this: This post explains what Intel did wrong with their effort and failed to generate excitement for...
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    Valve Could Ditch Using a Custom Processor for Steam Deck 2 in Favor of One That Might Outperform the PlayStation 6/Xbox Project Helix

    AVX512 was conceived to make faster rendering possible on CPUs. Too bad they pivoted to business use cases afterwards and fragmented the hell out of it.
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