Raimondo called out Nvidia Corp., which designed chips specifically for the Chinese market after the US imposed its initial round of curbs in October 2022.

“If you redesign a chip around a particular cut line that enables them to do AI, I’m going to control it the very next day,” Raimondo said.

The GeForce RTX 4090D could theoretically make our list of the best graphics cards, if it’s not limited to China.

Must be music to Intel’s ears

Well I just picked up the MAG321UPF and it came with a dead pixel on the top center and 2 other bad pixels. Also I realized why it is cheaper than a M32U. The thing has no speakers.

I’m returning it today for a refund.

More like a sabotage attempt by Intel

Yeah, but the T700 is still the fastest 4TB drive. Nobody has beaten that

That’s what I assumed. I was hoping there was someone else who has had similar experiences and who had their own successes.

I just go with /r/NewMaxx ‘s advice

Article suggests Jan 31st launch (same time as when holiday returns expire) so it will probably be announced during CES

XFX should have gone with MERX this gen to further expand their lead

Yeah, 32" are heavy. I have a M32Q from a few years ago and I always make sure to use 2 hands and know where I moving it to and from. It also has 2 stuck pixels that every other week unstuck themselves for about a year now.

The 7900XTX beats a 4090 in Topaz AI, at least in benchmarks

Still annoyed the Gigabyte M32U is still above $610, which is still higher than the record low of $570 last year. You also have new entrants like MSI MAG323UPF that is priced cheaper and offers 165Hz refresh rates at 4K

I mean the average cost of a 4090 is now $2000 USD so rather than products depreciating, the brand adds further value to itself while further expanding profits.

It’s going to be interesting seeing how this case unfolds since SeaSonic just jumped into the ring with their RGB Magflow fans:

https://www.techpowerup.com/315850/seasonic-to-launch-new-magflow-120-argb-fan

Same thumbnail as https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/17mqfow/samsungs\_nextgen\_3nm\_and\_4nm\_nodes\_on\_track\_for/

I thought Nvidia has an exclusivity deal with Micron to ban AMD from using GDDR6X?

Corrosion and ASUS, name a better combo

“I asked them is there a technical reason for why 12th and 13th gen parts aren’t supported and if not will they be included in the future? Their response to that question was as follows: Intel has no plans to support prior generations of products with application optimization. That’s a really garbage response to be perfectly blunt about it.”

This APO feature will die in obscurity since Intel will realize 14th gen is not being adopted and unless they want a repeat of XeSS, they will cut their losses and decide not to invest resources into a feature that barely anyone uses.

Yeah CPU performance is not really important since it will only be used to access SATA drives and possibly a HBA card. I was not aware the AsRock Rack AM4 boards had a motherboard iGPU either, since the iGPU will only be used to see the OS. I will probably go with one of the cheaper 5000 series CPUs in that case with AM4, since I do want more CPU lanes for the M.2 and I/O. The higher lane count is needed to access 2.5" SSDs and preferably at least 16 drives. Yes, DDR5 ECC protection is not really good enough so the board will need to support actual ECC DIMMs (i.e. only ASUS and AsRock Rack).

I think the board price is expected to be expensive regardless of whether it is ITX or mATX since with LGA1700 you have only the W680 mATX or ITX, AM4 requires a relatively expensive PRO chip or AsRock Rack board, and AM5 is just expensive. That being said, AM5 seems to only have the downside of high idle power draw whereas the other 2 options seem very limited in board or CPU choice if pricing is ignored.