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That is the beauty of the subjective nature of this issue. Neither side has to come to an agreement on anything as neither side is doing anything wrong. Miners are simply consumers that are using their product differently to how you believe it should be used. No different than the kids that go out and lower their Honda Civics, cut their exhausts by several inches then pretend they are characters from Fast & Furious. Honda didn't intend for them to make a poor attempt at turning their Civic's into a street racing phenomenon, but the will of the consumer was strong enough to endeavor to persevere, in spite of what most of us would consider to be a "stupid" and "pointless" endeavor.
 
Now scalpers... that is an entirely different issue, however I am bound to make some enemies here with yet another unpopular opinion. What most of you call "scalping", I call capitalism. They are taking advantage of an opportunity. One can spend all day arguing the morality of it, but at the end of the day, scalpers would not exist if there were not a market for it. Otherwise, they would be sitting on hardware that nobody is buying. You can't blame the miners on this, because they care too much about their ROI that they refuse to overpay for GPU's upfront, so someone is clearly making the scalping worth it for the scalpers.
 
With that said, I should probably add a disclaimer before people rush to assume that I myself am a scalper. I am not, still waiting to get my hands on a 3080 for personal use that doesn't belong to my testing facility. Much like the rest of you, I have to wait and refresh websites for availability and do the hokey pokey every time I go online. I've made several physical visits to my local Micro Center store in the hopes that they'd randomly have one in stock but it has yet to happen.
 
My point is, I personally do not take what is going on personally, nor do I choose to cast blame at any party in this shortage. In an ideal world, the scalping issue would be addressed by both the retailers (in-store purchase limits, online order limits per household / billing information) and manufacturers (producing enough product to meet the demands in the first place). The mining "issue" as far as I am concerned, isn't one. They, as consumers, are no less entitled to the same hardware we are as gamers or overclocking enthusiasts. That said, this "perceived issue" can only ever be addressed by manufacturers meeting the supply needs of all parties involved or for that crypto bubble to burst. You know, that thing the "experts" have been claiming was going to happen for several years now?
 
To those of you that will inevitably say "The more GPU's they make, the more the miners will buy", remember, there is only a finite amount of power and space available. They'll hit that wall eventually, or society will evolve to handle crypto mining in space, lol.

This one really made me smile.
 
Yesterday the Dutch gambling commission (KSA) won a 12 month court case against EA over them selling lootboxes in Holland. And when I say lost I really mean LOST!!
 
It all started in early 2018 when the KSA ruled that lootboxes do in fact come under current Dutch gambling laws and as such should be subject to the same restrictions as other forms of gambling in the country. They gave publishers an ultimatum, change the way lootboxes work/stop selling them in Holland by June 2018 or face the consequences. EA disagreed and refused to do so (which makes no sense since they did pull them from sale in Belgium).
This is where the story gets interesting. The June 2018 KSA deadline came and went with no action from EA so the KSA made good on their promise, in October 2019 the KSA fined EA 10 million euros for breaking Dutch gambling laws. EA saw fit to challenge the decision in the Dutch court system forcing the KSA to suspend the fine and announcement of the judgement until the case was settled.
EA's argument was three fold. There's no official way to cash the prizes out, Fifa is a game of skill and not chance and that there's no scientific evidence linking lootboxes with gambling addiction. The courts disagreed on all 3 counts.
 
Unlike in other countries, Dutch law says that if a game of chance can be cashed out in any way, it doesn't have to be officially sanctioned, as long as the prize can be shown to have a real world market value, its gambling. Essentially EA created the game and by extension facilitated the creation of the market for the games prizes.
 
They said that players can choose to ignore the rest of Fifa and focus entirely on Ultimate Team which is 100% a game of chance.
 
Finally they said that evidence does exist and even if it didn't, that doesn't matter. Dutch law says that all games of chance will automatically be assumed to be harmful.
EA went on to argue that restricting lootboxes violates their rights to property and freedom of expression. Do I need to say any more? To quote Yong Yea "If I rob a bank then claim I was just expressing myself I still end up in jail". Obviously the courts saw right through this one.
Finally EA argued that disclosing the ruling and the fine to the public would damage their reputation. Yeah, no shit. You do a bad thing it damages your reputation. You know how to avoid that EA? Stop doing bad things.
EA was given 6 weeks to appeal. It took them less than 24 hours to say they intend to appeal
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-10-29-ea-fined-10m-over-loot-boxes-as-dutch-court-sides-with-gambling-authority
 
Slowly but surely its beginning to happen. Holland and Belgium have both ruled against EA under current laws. The UK are looking at amending laws to fit lootboxes in. The EU parliament is looking into it for a Europe wide decision and law makers in the US have been sniffing around.
 
It cannot come soon enough for me.

Those things look like they were found on the side of the road, and given the age of the second one, they very well could have been. I would not hook those up to anything of value.

I don't know of any titles outside of Shadow of The Tomb Raider that support DX12 mGPU, but it seems to scale well: https://hardforum.com/threads/dx12-multi-gpu-live-and-well-in-shadow-of-the-tomb-raider.1967930/. 67% gain with dual cards at 1440p, 91% gain at 4K. 

It's not dumb when you're wandering into 4K territory with ray tracing and everything maxed out. Maybe for someone 60fps is the "golden baseline", but there are people who are willing to put graphic cards like RTX 3090 into SLi to get higher framerate. You can't possibly get that kind of framerate with single card.

Those numbers make little sense to me. Gamers Nexus did a live stream and overclocked some RTX 3080 cards on air, seeing almost the same results in Port Royal than the supposed 3090, makes me think they either had the wrong card or did something really wrong in their testing process. There is no way the performance is that bad.
But then they would have had to use a modified 3080 driver, likely not being able to address more cores on the chip so that makes sense I guess.

Looking at EVGA's lineup they're not going with the reference PCB design but rather the traditional design and their water-cooled versions look just like the 20-series.
 
https://www.evga.com/articles/01434/evga-geforce-rtx-30-series/
 
I doubt there will be much of a market for aftermarket water blocks for the reference PCB design considering no AIB seem to be using it. The weird shape of the PCB would cost considerably more to manufacture a block for too.

If y'all are wondering what I look like 'till I turn 20 this October 3, here's me at the San Marcos Guitar Center with a Gibson Les Paul Custom (by far my favorite) that carries an eye-watering $4,799 price tag. And the custom-custom version is set to be even higher once I am employed and have the cash on hand
 
Though I wish I can put on a better smile though. I don't smile so good. 
 

What with their active ongoing genocide I still don't understand why the rest of the world has not engaged in a complete and total trade embargo with China, as well as completely blocking them on the internet. Surely there is some way of doing that.
 
Sooner or later the rest of the world is going to have to start taking them seriously, they certainly are hostile to almost the entire planet, albeit not overtly.
 
One wonders whether or not our "representatives" are merely this ignorant, or are in fact complicit. Please note I am not calling out any single group, party, or individual. I mean as a whole.
 
At the least, we need to have a major coalition going to build and maintain a global wifi network that is free to use, as well as an initiative to drop or smuggle laptops with solar chargers, into nations like China and North Korea.

That's a cool feature if it's under full user control. Not liking it if vendors fake it themselves to raise score in benchmarks. Frankly, motherboard benchmarks shouldn't even exist outside of testing if motherboard is doing anything funky (like above thing) or what feature set it offers. Nothing else. Ever single motherboard benchmark I've seen involved performance differences so small it literally didn't matter.
 
So, when I'm picking motherboards, features are the only thing I look for, NEVER performance. It's pointless anyway, no motherboard can ever make a big difference unless it's designed badly and underperforms compared to the rest or it lacks features that I want (like arrangement, cooling design, slots on it, IO ports, fan headers etc).

Bunch of stuff came in the mail. Most prominent is that GPU water block 😍

Also pro tip, don't use the washers. Raises the PCB too high to enable proper contact.

Bunch of stuff came in the mail. Most prominent is that GPU water block 😍

Also pro tip, don't use the washers. Raises the PCB too high to enable proper contact.

Bunch of stuff came in the mail. Most prominent is that GPU water block 😍

Also pro tip, don't use the washers. Raises the PCB too high to enable proper contact.

What I suspect: gaming on PCs will have a partial handicap for a while.  While the gap in real-world performance might not be as cavernous as the raw specs would suggest, PCs will have a lot of catching up to do on storage technology.
 
Remember, most PC games are still based around spinning hard drives.  It's going to be a long time before game devs can assume that PCs have NVMe SSDs inside, and it's still unclear how the necessary overhead of a standard PC will limit those drives' potential.  One thing's for sure: if you're hoping to play games that behave like they will on the PS5, you should make the leap to all-NVMe storage when you can.

You f#cking Donkey 🦥 !
 
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The dual lock with enough surface area, even hanging vertically downward it can take quite a lot. In it's ideal application you want it to be in shear as that can take a lot of force. 
 
This should put you at ease, it's maybe a 2" by 6" area of dual lock.
 

If they don't have any mounting options the easiest would be to just use a plate and double sided mounting tape or 3M dual lock to adapt them onto a mount either it being purchased or something that is home made. 
 
Using a ball mount or dual jointed arm would provide you all essentially unlimited degrees of freedom. 

Been a while since I last posted one of these, so here ya go guys ?

Servo drivers are usually used in subwoofers where great control is needed over a big, heavy driver, and you want accuracy over output, Take Rythmik for example.
 
In a studio enviroment, I don't think I know of servo drivers being used, except if a studio used rythmik subwoofers, or another servo subwoofer. With our studio monitors, we generally do need decent output, especially with main monitors, or mid-field monitoring.
 
Generally, cabinet design and construction quality will make a bigger difference than if a conventional dynamic driver or servo driver is used. So if I had to pick between the two, I would 100% go for the higher quality conventional dynamic driver speaker.
 
I have heard servo subwoofers in a friends setup, and they are amazing. Tight, Controlled, Low decay, but they take some getting used to compared to dynamic drivers. They sound different for definite, But I had to fill my large listening room/studio, so I eventually bought some Genelec subwoofers, but I heavily considered the Rythmik's.
 
I think a subwoofer with something like a 10" dynamic driver comes closer to a 15" servo subwoofer, than a 15" dynamic driver one would, due to the amount of control you can get over the lighter driver.
 
Overall, I think servo drivers would make alot of sense for something like far-field/control room main monitors (such as the Adam Audio S6X), they usually have 10" or 12" bass drivers, and I think servo drivers in place of dynamic drivers would make sense as we generally go for accuracy in the studio world, But we've got speaker design pretty nailed now. Alot of companies actually use all sorts of materials to get the drivers as light as possible, Such as Magico Loudspeakers using carbon fibre for the cones of their woofers/mid-range drivers.
 
 
 
 

Missed opportunity right there, Mercedes-AMD ?.

Original article

This comes as a bit of a shock announcement, but not in a groundshaking way. AMD have sponsored Ferrari for as long as I've been watching F1, and seeing them move over to arch rivals Mercedes is completely unexpected. 
I doubt this is going to bother the F1 community much though. Mercedes is merely looking for the best processors for their work flow, and a team constantly at the top of the sport needs that horsepower. 

Ew. ??????????????????????????
 
Permitted, but the hyperbeasts default to being bitches after thirty minutes of their existences, then they have an existential crisis.