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I’ve been quietly reading and listening to the events of this past week, and because of how LTT has affected my life I wanted to leave a quick note.
 
I have been lurking around LTT content for over 10 years now (and a forum member for nearly as long). I found Linus when I was building my very first PC in high school, using funds from my first summer job.
 
I have followed the early exploits like HighLANder, whole-room watercooling, Vessel - it’s implosion and the Phoenix of Floatplane rising from the ashes, LTT’s merchandise efforts and now labs.
 
This incident was unfortunate and I don’t think Linus or the team are suddenly mustache-twirling evil, but this has crossed the rubicon in that I’m now painfully aware that I’m not watching a couple of Canadian tech nerds building a mineral oil PC in a kitchen.
 
This is a large organization, with the problems and caveats that comes with. It behooves us as viewers to reevaluate our parasocial relationship with what is not a person, but a business.
 
I am glad the team seems to be taking the recent criticisms seriously after initial missteps. But this is going to forever change how I view content from the LMG team.
 
It’s corny, but I as I said - I grew up with Linus and the team, their infectious love of tech resulted in my path through college and now my work at $BigTechCompany, and I know I’m not alone.
 
I hope they can reconnect to and recognize the trust and the value people had there. But it may be irreplaceable.
 
I guess we will see what the future holds.

I look forward to putting one of these chips to the test with WireShark, and see how many hardcoded phone home instructions there are.

This is getting comical. It looks like a cartoon steak.

In fairness, one (of many) contributing factors to Nvidia's steam dominance in recent years has been due to their high end cards being easier to source than AMD cards due to AMD's advantage in crypto mining.  I.E I'm sure more gamers would have bought Vega cards if they weren't being hovered up by miners the second they appeared in stock.

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all.

EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all.

EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all.

EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all.

EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all.

EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

Even easier, make the RTX 4080 12GB China/Asia only SKU and just do a one off sale there of all inventory. Nvidia has done such a thing before lol

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all.

EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all.

EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all.

EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

This is fascinating.
 
I am not going to believe for a second that Nvidia did this out of the goodness of their heart (don't make the mistake of Anthropomorphizing a company) so my immediate question is - what pushed this decision?

My intuition pushes me to two things: 1. the Intel Arc launch and 2. Board partners finally hitting a point where they simply can't continue giving in to Nvidia's whims - see EVGA.

I also wonder how much of the wind was taken out of Nvidia's sails (or, rather, sales -- haha) by the spectacular ongoing contraction of crypto.
 

Summary
Nvidia are pulling the 4080 12gb card.
 
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My thoughts
For a company as head strong as Nvidia, this is welcome news. Everyone and their granny could see through the Fauxty80.
This does mean however they're left with the only XX80 card being unapologetically $1200, which is ridiculous.
 
Sources
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/12gb-4080-unlaunch/

Sadly, it's not in the US. SMS is going to stick around as long as its the fallback for Apple's messaging app.
 
It's the only way to send a message from an iPhone to Android (or vice-versa) without installing a 3rd party app (which iOS users won't do).
 
 

I think this could make netflix without ads more expensive, the lower paid ad tier could be used to increase prices on higher tiers without ads.
 

Summary
The VESA industry group seems to have decided that response times and ghosting need a standardized spec, similar to how it standardized HDR specs a few years back. The result is "ClearMR" (site link: https://www.clearmr.org), which aims to provide a simple single bullet list item to give a general expectation of a monitor's speed and clarity.

 
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My thoughts
I always appreciated how RTings and BlurBusters stepped in to provide 3rd party oversight, but it would be really fantastic to have certified information regarding display clarity on the box from the get-go.
 
It really shows how far display tech has come as well -- the fact that the industry is willing to do this also shows that they feel the need for another price differentiator, because who cares about refresh rates when your options are between insanity like 360hz vs 400hz?

The downside, of course, is that these badges may be used as a way to create artificial "halo" products and increase prices. But I suppose that was going to happen anyway...
 
On a final note, the Ars article is really great, especially the sections showing the test images. Really neat stuff, and even if marketing is driving, its clear that some serious tech chops are getting put into this under the hood:

 
Sources
https://www.clearmr.org/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/vesas-latest-standard-grades-displays-on-motion-blur/

Gigabyte. I recommend them as they really appreciate their customers. So much so, that firework displays are included with their products. It is their way to say thank you and celebrate

Specially that if it require a test to certify you now wont end up buying a monitor that claim 1ms response time when actually testing you get 8ms.
 
Same thing as gas mileage thing. It was out of the wazoo until they standardized it. It wont remove all the crap out there. Knock off will still lie but at least respectable brands should be more consistent and easier choice for the consumer. I now just hope everyday stores start displaying small guide/pamphlet for the consumer that explain what is HDR certification, ClearMR, GSync, etc so that EVERY consumer can know what they are buying no matter if you are aware of latest tech or not.

Not bad at all for a single generational jump.
But I want to see how many more frames can they get out of CS:GO.

What's wrong with the HDR certification? 
 
 
What's wrong with having a certification for lower tiers?
Also, according to VESA, most 60Hz screens won't even be able to reach ClearMR 3000 certification. So not only is the ClearMR 3000 certification a clear indicator of "better than most common monitors, but still not that good", it also makes it easier to compare against monitors with slightly higher certification.
For example having ClearMR 3000 exist makes it easier to compare that product vs one that has ClearMR 4000 certification.
 
 
There is nothing wrong with having lower tiers of certification. The more granular scale the better. 
 
 
Also, I think people greatly overestimate how good monitors are with handling motion blur.
BlurBuster has good tests of motion blur and while they can not be compared to the ClearMR tests, this is what a various refresh rates looks like in their tests. Even 120Hz monitors looks like a blurry mess.
 
This is what the Gigabyte M34WQ looks like at 144Hz without overdrive turned on:

 

Finally. Has been too long with the "response time" crap that fucked up when VA panels came out and everyone moved from BtW to GtG shit to make better marketing points rather than something useful specs.
 
Those not knowing "response time" used to mean how long the pixel takes to change from black to white or vice versa and everybody was fine with it because TN panels easily went to <1ms and IPS panels started from bit over 5ms but quickly dropped to 3ms range and lower. Then came VA panels that were utter garbage when it came to BtW response time, we were talking over 10ms response times but they were cheap and had almost as good color reproduction as IPS panels. So someone took a long look at the testing and found out that nothing limits response time testing to be BtW and decided that it is just as good if it's just some random darker gray color changing to lighter gray color and the great fucker named "GtG response time" was born and even the utter garbage VA panels could boast "<1ms response time!" in their marketing.

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