Youre probably fun to be around.

EVGA was probably killed by miners. Way too easy to send back GPUs that died of thermals.

So glad I sold mine and got a 4090 lol

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Yooo my 1070 has the same issue!

I heard that 7000's series are more limited compared to 6000s and 5000s series of and GPUs.

Having just installed a 4080 - I simply can't image the coolers being larger that that!!! LOL

The 4080 I installed is just under 14" long. Not sure if it's considered 3 or 4 cards wide.

seemed like more of a brag than a joke

Local only, so not really a big help to those of us on the internet at large.

Nice try, but the switch makes a hardware disconnection, not a software disconnect

I feel like the OnePlus 11 is a big sign of why I got so burnt out on following the smartphone industry. I still remember the days of the HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, Xiaomi Mi3 and OnePlus One where major shake ups could still happen and everyone tried to bring something new to the table.

Now, it feels like we've figured out the formula for the perfect smartphone and everyone's just been recreating it on loop.

You're litterally arguing my point here dude. There were a host of proto-"smart" phones from the likes of Nokia (the N95 that had apps, GPS superior camera etc) Blackberry etc.

Most people couldn't see the point in them and just had a regular Nokia brick, or a Razer.

Some thought they were just palm pilots with calling ability, for nerds.

There were plenty of MP3 players too (often superior to the iPod) but they were clunky, in the case of my Creative Nomad it looked like a CD player!

What the iPod touch and iPhone did, and you're correct, is make something both usable by the average non techie person with their UI, and also a status symbol that cost just enough like a pair of Nike's to make it desirable versus being a geeks toy. So yes, the UI like you said made a big impression, but it was just a row of apps for things like calculators made by Apple the capacitive screen if anything was more important at the time. Once it was mass market enough, once enough people had the device it caused a cascade of devs to jump on the app store and the rest is history.

My point is, someone has to make the VR headset equivalent of the original iPhone, to be a desirable object the rich kids in the schools all get first, a status symbol, and then the Metaverse/VR Store etc will come alive with devs and people buying and using those apps and then we will see the real creativity and living breathing ecosystem it can become.

Meta seem to be trying to brute force the marketplace before they can get the device in enough homes or get it desirable enough, in the chicken and the egg debate they have firmly picked the egg to focus on.

I don't think you can argue today's VR headsets are N95s and or blackberries, for tech enthusiasts or business use only. People are looking at them like wow so expensive and make you look like a geek. When it flips it will be wow look, so expensive, only geeks don't have the Apple iSet whatever it will be called.

The VR headset you see your parents using, the one you see kids using at school while other kids stand around hoping to have a go, that's the one that's going to kick off the VR revolution.

What the fuck is PC load letter!?

RIP to all the resellers and buyers

I can't , the printer is missing somehow

The app store has zero bearing on UI/UX. That was the result of a business philosophy decision to allow other parties on the platform. iPhones (and most smart phones in general) look, feel and control the same way, minus Apple and Android's specific differences. People liked it when it came out, basically made the playbook for smart phones and wasn't relegated to a niche product for 5 years like VR is and demand compromises from the user, because it did the job at the beginning.

I owned an iPod Touch around that time, with an app store. Minus technical capabilities, it's really, really not that much different in terms of user experience to a phone today.

Fuck the Saudis and their blood money

The first iPhone didn't have an app store. It was literally an iPod touch with a SIM card in it. You're mistaken.

Did it catch on fire though? Amateurs.

Hence the "or"

Just make the battery bigger, like three times bigger.

Bigger I'd say. The temps have been fine, and I've been gaming for basically 12 hours now.

In my experience, AMD reference cards are usually over-designed and highly tunable, whether you want to tune for speed or efficiency. They might screw up a cooler every now and again, but reference cards get aftermarket coolers made for them. The Tahiti reference board is a good example.

How big are the coolers? Same size as Nvidia or smaller?

Did I tell you? GOD HAS A ^lil DICK.