Random Hardware topics

[Zed Clampet]

Spot on. Intel was failing to deliver when AMD started picking up steam in the CPU space. That's kind of what happened to Nvidia as well, AMD's graphics cards were lackluster and Nvidia saw an oppurtunity to surpass the competition and took it. AMD was mildly disruptive with their great pricing on current gen cards and held down prices a lot longer than Nvidia, so props to them for that. I do wish they'd accelerate the graphics team more, pushing them to at least *try* and surpass Nvidia. It seems like they're comfortable being in second place which is never a great mindset to have.

Nvidia has absolute truckloads, no, BOATloads of money, they could drop their single biggest investment into GPU R&D, but the returns aren't as great as if they put that money into AI R&D.

There was an article about Intel hiring a former AMD GPU architect, so maybe Intel can get seriously into this market. The person who wrote the article lamented that they were probably talking about AI, but as long as they weren't getting loose with the term "GPU" then they should be able to run games. Honestly, though, I find it difficult to blame companies for going after the AI goldrush.

 

[Colif]

most of my video cards were probably Nvidia. I just don't want them now.
Half of my CPU are intel, they just dropped the ball in recent years and even if they come back the next time, I still likely buy AMD CPU next only as I don't need all new motherboard and ram to get it.

wonder how much those will cost.

 

[Colif]

The day after I updated my BIOS last week, Gigabyte released a new one.
Its changes aren't any use to me so I will ignore it until they have a few more updates.
Improve system compatibility for BitLocker when using a dGPU card and LED lighting function. << I don't need that.

The ram price thing is a terrible opportunity for OEM PC makers to benefit from forcing people to buy their PC and stop them making their own. As normally we have a better choice than to throw money away buying a Dell or HP. If the shortage can be made to last a few years, people will get more desperate than they are now.

I hope to just ignore it as I don't need anything new now

Note: GCC - Gigabyte Command Centre.

If I unplug PC and then turn PC on after, all the RGB in my case is rainbow until GCC launches, and loads my normal colours.
If I just turn windows on normally (without unplugging PC at any stage before) the RGB is gold on the GPU and Bottom fans, and rainbow on ram, until GCC launches and loads my normal colours
If I wake it from sleep or hibernate, ram stays rainbow but I blame GCC.

Gold is the colour of all my stuff if GCC is in unsynced mode.
Rainbow is default of most rgb I own.
There are no settings for rgb in the bios so can't be that.

Unplugging shouldn't make any difference, PC should be off regardless.Fast start up isn't on in windows.
I don't have any colour scheme set in windows dynamic lighting, and its set to let GCC override it. GCC also set to not use it.

 

[Colif]

It sucks only one company makes Graphics Cards... players have no choice but to go outside I guess

the sky is falling

BTW, no one at Nvidia has actually said they aren't making any. No idea what the 5090 TI & Titan are... hmm, new cards from Nvidia this year... something feels off

No one has a working crystal ball so we don't know what 2028 brings or when the bubble bursts

unrelated: the segmented display on my Motherboard shows temps even when windows is off, so it clearly gets info from mb sensors and doesn't need software. CPU gets to about 71 at startup

 

[neogunhero]

These companies can't be blamed. They exist to make money, not benefit humanity. AI is where the money is at, even if it isn't making profit. Investors see the speculation and are willing to throw millions and billions at it. The hope is that one day there will be a killer AI app, device, whatever, that everyone will want. They are hoping for the iPhone moment of AI to bring in a new era of tech. The reality is adoption is pretty slow. Once gen AI becomes fully pay to use, it won't be as popular with the Facebook grandmas. Agentic AI is seemingly the big focus now, let our AI do menial tasks for you. Sounds good, but there's still a lot of things people will prefer themselves to do. There hasn't been a single AI feature that people are just dying to use, not like when the iPhone ushered in a huge generational leap for smartphones and singlehandedly made smartphones an absolute must-have device in our daily lives. That is what AI companies are hoping to find one day, but who knows when, or if that will ever happen.

I think this sort of focus is wrong. Instead of looking for that iPhone moment, AI companies should focus more on how it can actually benefit humanity. Health and medicine, statistics, math and science, ancient history research, outer space exploration, this is the stuff AI should be used for. It absolutely is, the companies are making AI for these kinds of fields, but the overall focus seems more about "how can we get customers to pay for this?" rather than "how can we use this technology to benefit humanity in unprecedented ways?".

 

[Zed Clampet]

It doesn't matter if Intel's 56-core Nova Lake is a power-hungry monster

because games barely use any CPU cores.

www.pcgamer.com

Welcome to the era where any game is inconsequential to your CPU.

You don't have to worry about the theoretical max power of Intel's new chips because there are no games that could use anywhere near that level of processing power. Your GPU will be out of breath and 90 degrees, and the CPU won't even be breaking a sweat.