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I think it's the above average and below movies that are really going to get beat down in the streaming age. If the movie is some kind of amazing 9.5 / 10 type movie, or has stellar word of mouth, it's going to do fine in the theater. If it's, say, an 8/10 or less, people are going to wait for...

Burst and Sustained matter, but does Gen 4 vs Gen 5 matter much? 7.5GB /sec vs 12GB /sec is a difference that may not make a difference. If you're reading 1MB, the actual read is going to be around .0001s (100 micro seconds), which means the drive latency starts to become a very sizeable chunk...

For single user scenarios (like those of us buying for gaming machines), does anything matter besides Queue depth 1 and thread 1 and random access latency? PCMark 10 Average access time and Crystal Disk Random Read and Write Q1T1 seems to be the most important measurements.

That will teach me to not check the first page. That said, I'd love to see the review include Samsung drives. The Samsung 970 Pro 1TB beat the 980 pro in a number of latency benchmarks due to being MLC instead of TLC flash - would love to see how it stacks up today.

what useful do we get out of a watercooled Gen 5 NVME like this? Sequential read / write may go way up, but random read, latency, etc, is basically unchanged or worse from Gen3, right?

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...