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Well, the answer to that is the price of the super series and the release date of the 5000 series. If the 5080 isn’t showing up until Q4 2025, then a 4080 Super at 899 would be an amazing purchase. A 5080 Q4 24 with a 1299 4080 super says just hold out

Yes, the switched hold up wonderfully to the abuse. My point was moreso that at this point, I'll never adopt a lighter touch. Now that I think about it, my high school taught typing on typewriters which had a very heavy key press because we only had 1 computer lab due to the expense. And this...

Did you learn to type on the old bucking spring switches like the IBM model M? I have one of those on the shelf that I've had since -at least- 1990 and I used it until PS/2 ports disappeared from motherboards. Furthermore, I used and older AT style when I first started using a computer as far...

I love my Logitech G710 and G710+ with mx blues and browns, I really need to get another keyboard, so it’s time to start shopping again.

I think I've bought exclusively Seasonic for at least 15 years now. I think the last non seasonic I bought was an Antec for my Core2Quad

I can get more mileage out of ram on Linux too. It’s called zram with zstd compression

I’d be curious to see how this stacks up against thermal rights offerings at the same price - peerless Assassin / phantom spirit

AMD kind of did that (cede the high end) with Ryzen vs Intel, right? Zen 1 certainly didn't compete against high end intel. If giving up trying to compete against the X080 and X090 tiers allowed AMD to get ultra competitive at, say, the X060ti level that would be a good place for them to be...

I can't wait to see some of the final product names: GAMING 4070ti Super Windforce OC Edition

they may not want to take the risk, but they may not have a choice as nodes continue to shrink.

Maybe it’s time to go back to bare dies. Add a shim if you’re worried about cracking the die. Just getting rid of the IHS would make a big difference

Tell you what - I’ll settle with 6,500 MB/Sec in exchange for 25 microsecond latency.

I'm not sure box off sales should be the number one metric anymore anyway. I don't see much of anything at the theater anymore, but I've still seen all the MCU movies on Disney+.

An air cooler Lasts basically forever, and if the fan fails there is still a block of metal there. AIO has the potential for pump failure, eventual coolant evaporation, and they are a little less easy to mount. None are terribly big concerns, but it is something when compared to a D15

And then we're back into the budget conversation, right? The Artic Liquid freezer II 280mm is around $100 and is a full featured solution. You get better performance than a D15 by around 5 degrees while costing about the same price, but an AIO come with the overhead of being an AIO instead of...

Are the fans that come with AIO any better than the fans from a 5pack of Artic P12s / P14s? If not, then you're replacing the fans on the AIO as well - I don't think there are any AIOs with Noctua fans.

Just poking around a little bit at Tech Powerup (one of the few sites left I know of doing custom block reviews), a custom loop with high end block, D5, and 360mm radiator, is worth 15-20 c better average core temp than AIOs. Now, frustratingly, TPU doesn't use the same processor / system for...

If this is the case, and the IHS is 100% the limiting factor, there wouldn't be improvements going to a custom loop with a top end water block. While I haven't been following waterblock development over the last year or two, my assumption is high end waterblocks, with a pump like a D5, are...

The below chart from GN is an example of what I mean - the Artic Liquid Freezer II 360 with 10.2% more mm2 is only yielding a 2.6% improvement to cooling performance with fans running 10% faster in RPM when compared to the 280mm version. My guess is if you ran the 140mm fans to get the same RPM...

The question I have is - can the pump and block integrated into the AIO make much use with the extra area? I'm sure my D5 with an Optimus Foundation Block can see some benefit to the extra space, but I have little faith that a whole AIO that costs less than the foundation block gets anything...