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[NeverBackDown]

Gigabyte announced in their newer lineup of boards meant for Creators with style, Vision D.

First one not based on Intel is based off AM4 B550

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550-VISION-D-rev-10#kf

128GB ECC memory support, Full Speed TB3 USB Type C, Wifi 6, dual 1GB Ethernet ports with link aggregation support, 14 phase VRM, etc

NO RGB!
This board is loaded with stuff. How it's not a x570 is beyond me. On top of all that it looks slick. White! Tom will love this!

Full gallery here
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550-VISION-D-rev-10/gallery#gallery

 

[Bartacus]

Damn, that's almost Mac-like. I kinda like the aesthetic going on there, or the lack thereof, depending on your view point. Very plain Jane, no nonsense.

 

[AlienALX]

Thank god it's not SLIVER. That's lovely.

 

[Dark NighT]

Looks good, i hope Gigabyte made the vrm massive overkill to compensate for those heatsinks that aren't really heatsinks. Does look nice tho!

 

[grec]

The XIII remake has been listed for preorder on GoG and Steam, £5 normally but currently 66% off at GoG so £1.69!

 

[WYP]

The XIII remake has been listed for preorder on GoG and Steam, £5 normally but currently 66% off at GoG so £1.69!

The remake is £35 on my Steam.

 

[grec]

Sorry I may be looking at the original/"Classic" that's just been listed I think, even so £1.69 is a steal imo

 

[WYP]

Sorry I may be looking at the original/"Classic" that's just been listed I think, even so £1.69 is a steal imo

Yeah, I think you are looking at the Classic version. Still a great price though. If the remaster was that little I'd wonder how the devs would ever make any money.

 

[Dicehunter]

Someone did a rough estimate and based on the size of the disc drive and USB drive of the PS5 it's going to be a big boy.

Source - https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/h7cmty/updated_console_sizes_compared/

 

[Warchild]

I honestly wouldnt be surprised if its been done intentional in order to exaggerate the "PS5 Slim" at a later time.

If this hardware is at its limits, slimming this could be difficult, but if you bloat the original, its not that hard.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Really not that big its just tall. Especially the non drive version. Volume is probably similar to other consoles tbh

Might just be me but I just don't see it being that much bigger tbh

 

[Dicehunter]

I honestly wouldnt be surprised if its been done intentional in order to exaggerate the "PS5 Slim" at a later time.

If this hardware is at its limits, slimming this could be difficult, but if you bloat the original, its not that hard.

I reckon down the line Sony will release a PS5 Pro with the full GPU like the XBSX has and make the chassis a bit shorter but wider, Maybe, Time will tell.

 

[grec]

I honestly wouldnt be surprised if its been done intentional in order to exaggerate the "PS5 Slim" at a later time.

If this hardware is at its limits, slimming this could be difficult, but if you bloat the original, its not that hard.

They don't need bloat to easily slim these devices, the slimming comes from the fact they can use more efficient nodes later on and therefore much smaller coolers/cases.

Similarly they don't need to "Leave performance on the table" to create later Pro models. Tech moves on, Microsoft will just use a smaller node and create a chip larger than is even physically possible now with their "Pro" model.

We probably won't see Slim/Pro models until we've been at 5nm for quite a while, probably some late derivative of it or a stepping stone to 3nm.

 

[Dicehunter]

They don't need bloat to easily slim these devices, the slimming comes from the fact they can use more efficient nodes later on and therefore much smaller coolers/cases.

Similarly they don't need to "Leave performance on the table" to create later Pro models. Tech moves on, Microsoft will just use a smaller node and create a chip larger than is even physically possible now with their "Pro" model.

We probably won't see Slim/Pro models until we've been at 5nm for quite a while, probably some late derivative of it or a stepping stone to 3nm.

I think we will see a PS5 Pro model, MS having the "fully unlocked/uncut" chip is a selling point and once the process becomes a bit cheaper, No company is going to sneeze at the ability to gain extra revenue.

 

[Warchild]

I think I will pick one up though. Hopefully with PS Now, I can catch up on old titles.

 

[Dicehunter]

Zen 3 may be delayed until 2021 apparently due to high demand for Ryzen 3000 so no real rush for Zen 3, Reports Taiwanese newspaper Digitimes which is one of Taiwans biggest tech news sources.

https://wccftech.com/amd-allegedly-delaying-ryzen-4000-series-zen-3-cpus-to-2021/

 

[Avet]

Zen 3 may be delayed until 2021 apparently due to high demand for Ryzen 3000 so no real rush for Zen 3, Reports Taiwanese newspaper Digitimes which is one of Taiwans biggest tech news sources.

https://wccftech.com/amd-allegedly-delaying-ryzen-4000-series-zen-3-cpus-to-2021/

I don't see why would they. Intel is probably launching Rocket Lake S in early 2021. Why wait? If they go out in October along with the launch of new GPUs it will be the culling of Intel.

 

[Warchild]

I don't see why would they. Intel is probably launching Rocket Lake S in early 2021. Why wait? If they go out in October along with the launch of new GPUs it will be the culling of Intel.

wccftech should be banned from quick news. Its literally a site based on rumors with nothing but "internal sources"

 

[Avet]

wccftech should be banned from quick news. Its literally a site based on rumors with nothing but "internal sources"

They did say it is a rumor from Taiwan and they stated opinion. So take it with a bag of salt.

 

[Warchild]

They did say it is a rumor from Taiwan and they stated opinion. So take it with a bag of salt.

What I was trying to imply is that I could say AMD just bought Intel and then site it as an internal source which is what they usually do. Easily refutable but it gets the hits.

here is the bad translation of it.

"Motherboard industry said that the Ryzen 3000 series is hot, and Supermicro has also extended its life cycle, and it is determined that the new generation plan will not be launched in September. It will use the TSMC 7nm EUV Zen 3 architecture Ryzen 4000 series processor, the fastest 2020 Mass production will only begin at the end of the year, announced at CES in January 2021, and it is currently unknown whether the process will be changed to 5 nm EUV."

And yet they bloat an entire article on this. Furthermore, WCCFtech states there are reports that AMD might skip 7nm and jump to 5nm... They presume this from one sentence which doesn't even imply anything. Usman is a world leader in spreading false info, just look at the history. He even snipes at other sites when they get something wrong.