• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I’m amazed that they’re still trying to trudge forward with the shit 12V High Power connector. There clearly is too much margin for error in the tolerances somewhere.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      23 days ago

      Nvidia literally doesn’t care about the consumer space anymore. It’s like 10% or less of their revenue now. They stopped reporting it as its own category it’s so bad.

  • WackyHeartFluid@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Seeing a lot on PNY stuff on fire with denied warranties. It’s really put me off owning any of their stuff in the future.

    • Dunning Kruger@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      I had a terrible time trying to RMA an unstable 4080 with PNY.

      I had to pay shipping to send it to them twice because they denied the RMA the first time. After many weeks of emails with a representative who was clearly not interested in helping, the only way they said they would reconsider was after I paid $200 to have a PC repair store also test the card and then write a report telling PNY exactly the same thing I had been telling them all along.

      PNY did end up replacing the card after I sent it in the second time, but their warranty policy says RMA’s may be replaced with refurbished cards from other RMA’s, so who knows how long the new one will last?

    • Ptsf@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      5k is almost less than that gpu alone goes for now brother… New dawn new age.

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      24 days ago

      Yeah gen ai,

      Fucking gen ai drove up the prices and now I can’t afford to upgrade my pc from 8 years ago. Because single pieces are 300 percent higher then 2 years ago.

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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      24 days ago

      The cost of RAM and GPUs are up a shitload. This would likely be a $2500-3000 build normally, before gouging. The x090 series I think we’re getting as high as $1500-2k by themselves, before “inflation” which was ridiculous.

      If it were boxed for a year, it was inflated prices but not a bad as now, it could likely be $6-7k now. I reluctantly bought ram last August at $180 for 64GB DDR5, which made me cringe, but Newegg still carries out, and it’s over $1000 now 🤮

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        24 days ago

        The x090 series also are actually rebranded x080 Ti series, not a new tier above the old top tier. They had a few generations of superb performance improvements so they just sorta decided to fool everyone.

        The 2080 Ti was the TU102 die. 3090 and 3090 Ti is, similarly, GA102, not 101. Same as the 80 Ti. Starting 40 generation, there’s no 80 Ti anymore.

        • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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          24 days ago

          I wish!! Work devices… I’ve been buying PCs with DDR4 RAM to avoid the price gouging at this point.