GeForce RTX 50 Series Sees Price Hikes Across Asia, NVIDIA Cancels Pre-Price-Change Order, and One Retailer Says Buy Now, Supply Is Unstable

Peter_Brosdahl said:
18" 1500 nits G-sync screen, 64 GB memory, 2 TB NVMe, with an added slot that I moved a 4TB from my old laptop to, for ~$4200.
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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.
 
Yep, only 3 real complaints with it but otherwise it puts a smile on my face everytime I fire it up.

1. Ram speed. According to specs it's 5200, and I confirmed it, but GIGABYTE's BIOS limit to 4800 MHz. Not really an issue for gaming since it already does 150+ FPS using DLSS quality, and well over 200+ FPS w/ DLSS performance using the new models, for most things at max settings and 70-100 FPS when native or DLAA.

2. AI crap. I don't really use it and there's some stuff built in but the updates can be insane. Between Intel and Gigabyte some can take a long time to download and install.

3. HDR setup. It's kind of a must to use the WIndows configuration utility to get the best IQ but as is somewhat common with laptop HDR displays, the brightness automatically adjusts when browsing and switching tabs, but stays stable when gaming. Takes some getting used to.

4. Upgrading/installing SSD. As reviews show, there's around two dozen screws to remove before you get access but also be very carefull with the RGB and its connecting ribbon. Patience is key here and while I didn't have any problem there many plastic tabs that could be broken along with other RGB stuff.

A "cool" thing I'll add is that while I can set it to balanced or performance mode and the fans will ramp up in typical laptop style, getting very loud, and its a hoot to see the GPU pushing upwards of 2700MHz w/ CPU ~5.0 GHz, I can set it to quiet and performance is still exceedingly good, and quiet while temps reach much more desktop-like levels, 75c or below vs the 90s often seen with gaming laptops.

I kinda of got on an hate bandwagon for Intel for a bit but I can say that I'm extremely impressed with the 275HX processor. Overall it seems to perform competitively well against the 5800X3D and perhaps 9800X3D for gaming purposes @ 2500x1600. I'll probably never run technical tests to back this up but when I switch from my desktops, which I play at 4K with true RTX 5090s, to this, gameplay very much feels the same.
 
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I kinda of got on an hate bandwagon for Intel for a bit but I can say that I'm extremely impressed with the 275HX processor.
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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 family.
 
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Forget New Graphics Cards, NVIDIA Is Launching New Trading Cards

NVIDIA is launching not one, two, or three but, wait for it, fourteen new trading cards to celebrate those times when it was known for releasing graphics cards. The PC community is somewhat known for its nostalgic tendencies as well as historical preservation efforts, so kidding aside kind of...
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The trading card thing made the tech news a while back. It's just some chachki bs to give away at conventions. I haven't been to one that Nvidia has been at since 2018... I'll get some if I go. The item they were giving away in 2018 to everyone that knew to ask was the Nvidia engineer rulers. Those were neat. Now... trading cards? Really? Whatever. maybe they are neat who knows.
 
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