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[AngryGoldfish]

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/109544-amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-makes-100-loss-msrp-says-report/

As per usual, you can flash the Vega 56 to match or come close to a Vega 64 GPU.

Also, as expected, AMD might be losing approximately $100 per Vega 64 GPU sold, at least until Hynix joins the HBM2 production lineup. AMD not only screwed its GPU fanbase and thus itself indirectly, it also directly screwed itself.

 

[Vipermk2]

SanDisk Announces 400GB microSD Card for Future Smartphones – Features Massive Capacity and a Massive Price Tag.

Samsung’s 256GB microSD cards took pride in featuring the largest capacity for cards of such sizes, but their bragging rights have been taken by SanDisk, who has just announced a 400GB microSD card for smartphones and tablets. If that was not good news for you, the company has started taking orders for this high-capacity memory card, but you should take a good look at the price tag before moving on.

Read on Here

 

[AlienALX]

https://www.techpowerup.com/236659/...herboard-bios-broken-dynamic-vcore-up-to-1-7v

Mmm, yummy yummy voltage ! the reason why I will never buy another Gigabyte board.

 

[Eddie long]

wow that's a whole truck load of voltage , ouch

 

[WYP]

SanDisk Announces 400GB microSD Card for Future Smartphones – Features Massive Capacity and a Massive Price Tag.

Samsung’s 256GB microSD cards took pride in featuring the largest capacity for cards of such sizes, but their bragging rights have been taken by SanDisk, who has just announced a 400GB microSD card for smartphones and tablets. If that was not good news for you, the company has started taking orders for this high-capacity memory card, but you should take a good look at the price tag before moving on.

Read on Here

I can see people buying this for a Nintendo Switch. How many games can fit onto a single SD card?

https://www.techpowerup.com/236659/...herboard-bios-broken-dynamic-vcore-up-to-1-7v

Mmm, yummy yummy voltage ! the reason why I will never buy another Gigabyte board.

Gigabyte has had voltage problems on a few of their boards now, I remember Tom saying about voltage oddities on the ITX AM4 board that he tested in his review.

Then again this could be misreported voltage in software?

 

[NeverBackDown]

Very interesting news on Ryzen beating Intel in revenue.
Link

 

[NeverBackDown]

http://wccftech.com/assassins-creed-origins-1080p60-mode-xb1x/

Ubisoft confirms that AC: Origins will have a 1080p60 mode option if players want smooth gameplay over 4k30 graphical quality. Only confirmed for Xbox One X at the moment.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

What a novel idea!





























... wait what?

 

[NeverBackDown]

Vega mining at 43.5MH/s at ~248W Power Draw

Not sure how much truth there is to this. Even after the AMD driver update. But they did say they also got these results too.

If this turned out to be true, I would have a dedicated mining rig before you could blink. I'd make profit in less than a month.

 

[Warchild]

Maybe posted already but one German etailer confirmed they now send more Ryzen CPU than Intel.

Good news for us all

Source

 

[WYP]

Vega mining at 43.5MH/s at ~248W Power Draw

Not sure how much truth there is to this. Even after the AMD driver update. But they did say they also got these results too.

If this turned out to be true, I would have a dedicated mining rig before you could blink. I'd make profit in less than a month.

Yeah, the 248W is just what is alleged to be GPU power draw, with no idle GPU or system power accounted for. Beyond that, similar gains in mining efficiency using any GPU can be achieved using the same methods. The 130W rumour is complete nonsense/hokum.

This is simply moving the GPU further down the efficiency side of the power/performance bell curve. All major miners will do this to lower power consumption.

http://wccftech.com/assassins-creed-origins-1080p60-mode-xb1x/

Ubisoft confirms that AC: Origins will have a 1080p60 mode option if players want smooth gameplay over 4k30 graphical quality. Only confirmed for Xbox One X at the moment.

Interesting. It is nice to see 60FPS modes in games, but the concern will always be how stable it is.

Maybe posted already but one German etailer confirmed they now send more Ryzen CPU than Intel.

Good news for us all

Source

It is interesting, though I wonder how much Intel's drop in sales is due to Ryzen and how much is "wait for Coffee Lake". It will be interesting to see how this develops over time.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Almost started crying like a little girl watching this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgqz8Je7P0s

I miss Geralt so much. Truly wish they make another Witcher without ruining the series, probably impossible. The ending to Blood and Wine and then watching this truly hits home. Greatest ending and greatest game I ever and will ever play. CDPR created a masterpiece.

On an unemotional note, since this is created by CDPR they did show and hint at certain things. We will never know if it's canon or not, but it's the closest answer we are ever likely to get. I'm going to copy and paste a YT comment(since i would just be writing what he/she said anyway). YT comment was posted by Martin Drake
SPOILER ALERT IF YOU DIDN'T FINISH THE GAME
-Ciri became a Witcher. ( she moves very homey, and acts like she is living there with Geralt and the others, plus Geralt has a brown Roach, which means he and Ciri never visited Emhyr. So she can't be an Empress anyway.)

-I believe, Geralt didn't end up with Yen or Triss. ("Regis usually broughts ingredients for Triss" and the sentence "they grab Yennefer and lock themselves in her lab" is refers that they all lives in Corvo Bianco, or nearby.)

-As for the other characters, Keira and Lambert lives. The Baron lives, which means the children died sadly. Sarah and Johnny moved to Toussaint as well. Ves was saved. Anna Henrietta and her sister lives, and Olgierd too. Roach is still glitching. Everyone is happy 

 

[NeverBackDown]

Threadripper's Story

This is a pretty interesting article on TR. On it's inception and how it didn't even exist until a year before launch. It's pretty lengthy. But I enjoyed it.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Yeah, I think even AMD were surprised at how well Ryzen performs and how scalable it is. It's like you said months ago, Threadripper was never announced.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Yeah, I think even AMD were surprised at how well Ryzen performs and how scalable it is. It's like you said months ago, Threadripper was never announced.

Yep and now we know why it was never announced. Let alone that it was pretty cheap to get into the new CPU lineup, they and there board partners are more than likely reaping in large profit margins. Which I am okay with. AMD needs to profit A LOT as we all know and we need as many board partners as possible to keep the AMD ecosystem afloat.

 

[AlienALX]

Apparently memory prices will continue to increase until at least end of 2018.

Not what you want to see when drinking your morning tea/coffee but there you go.

 

[AlienALX]

South Park TFBW gets harder if you choose a black character.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...iculty-slider-changes-the-colour-of-your-skin

 

[Warchild]

South Park TFBW gets harder if you choose a black character.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...iculty-slider-changes-the-colour-of-your-skin

I think its the other way around. Changing difficulty darkens the skin. Same thing really but controversially close to real life maybe?

 

[WYP]

I think its the other way around. Changing difficulty darkens the skin. Same thing really but controversially close to real life maybe?

Yeah, but I don't see South Park fans caring. I don't think this will harm sales, it might actually help them by reminding more South Park fans that the game exists.

Is this more or less controversial than the "Jew Class" in the previous game and the many other antics that occurred in it?

 

[Warchild]

Yeah, but I don't see South Park fans caring. I don't think this will harm sales, it might actually help them by reminding more South Park fans that the game exists.

Is this more or less controversial than the "Jew Class" in the previous game and the many other antics that occurred in it?

Oh god no. It won't harm sales at all. I think the opposite infact. We all know South Park borderlines on lawsuit material. This is just another one to get us interested. I'lll be picking it up for sure. Loved the Stick of Truth.