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Personally, I have had very good customer service with EVGA and their cards are very strong performers. I have also had good luck with AORUS cards.

But I thought Steam Good, Epic games bad!

Those Lenovo Thinkpads are pretty good. Like @emosun said they are going to have a shorter lifespan than a traditional PC. I have a Lenovo Y500 from 2012 that is still running strong. Keep in mind that the P520 has a 64 bit memory bus so you may have varied performance in CAD applications depending on the complexity of the project. Alternatively if you find a laptop with the P620, that has been bumped to 4GB vram with a higher bit bus, which may be more preferable. There are a couple of MSI workstation laptops that have this card in them. I would recommend looking up reviews of the P520/P620 working in your CAD application and seeing how they perform. If the P520 does exactly what you need and meets your expectations then I think the laptop above is fine. Although the price is a tad bit steep. Edit: A quick search on Newegg I was able to find a couple laptops with stronger GPU/CPU but less RAM and Storage space. Also slightly cheaper than the Lenovo listed above.

I currently have a 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee with the 5.7 Hemi. 162K miles and still pumping. Total repair cost in two years of ownership has been 84 dollars.

If you want to play Cyberpunk 2077 on bleeding edge hardware and do not want to buy a current 2080Ti, then wait for the 3000 series or something from AMD.

Being objective in 2019? Bold Move Cotton.

Happened to YongYea as well. What was Google's mission again? "Don't Be Evil"...

Well the RTX technology was new in consumer grade GPU's, so effectively everyone who bought RTX was an early adopter to the tech. It's not unrealistic to expect rapid changes with new tech.

I didn't realize there were still 2080Ti's that were artifacting from the factory. Good luck with the RMA.

I don't think Nvidia would really produce this card. Maybe they are banking on those early 2080Ti adopters to feel obsoleted and pay again for these expensive cards. The speculations though are at least somewhat realistic, which is saying a lot considering its WCCFTECH.

Coming from the greatest salt mine WCCFTECH, an update to AIDA64 Extreme showed a new GPU that could be a 2080Ti Super. https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-super-graphics-card-tu102-gpu-spotted/ IF the Rumor is true, this is the 2080Ti I expected during the launch of RTX. This new chip may be more exciting than the 2080 Super launch which was not very impressive compared to its non super companion.

3900X for sure

Now if only we could get Google to stop censoring via its search engines in the rest of the world.

F.E.A.R also seemed to have very punchy audio with guns landing on the ground sounding louder than them actually firing. But that may be due to me running it on Windows 10.

G.SKILL is launching a new family of the RGB Trident Z RAM sticks with the new 'Neo' name. These sticks feature slightly changed looks on the heat spreaders but still have all the same RGB functionality of previous Trident Z sticks. G.SKILL also announced the frequencies and timings of the new kits. Pretty interesting to see how Ryzen 3000 chips will scale with the faster performing memory and how that will actually reflect in gaming/production workloads. Personally, these look like standard Trident Z's to me and I've never been a big fan of the RGB on memory. https://www.guru3d.com/news-stg-skill-announces-trident-z-nmemory-series-for-ryzen-3000-x570-platform.html

I left auto update on for the longest time but then one of the patches ended up breaking my audio configurations and it took me a significant amount of time to correct that problem. After that I disabled the auto update and update once a month. But before that, the auto update had no problems at all, outside of being moderately annoying with its update notifications.

I remember back in the day I had a Windows XP machine with an awesome sound system and subs. Doom 3 is the game that always comes back to my mind whenever I hear really great audio. Doom 3 and F.E.A.R made me realize how much proper strong audio will add to the immersion in a game.

Does the laptop run hot? If it does, it could be bad thermal paste. I used to have a Lenovo Y500 and it got so hot on the air outlets that you could not touch it without nearly burning your hand. I replaced the thermal paste and it was far more effective at dissipating heat.

Then there is me on a 5920K that won't go higher than 3.7 on all core without blue screening.

I owned a 2016 Camaro SS and I have own many Jeep Grand Cherokees. I've owned volvos and subarus. I just have never been a fan of compact cars or crossover suv's. I would love to see a company make a EV competitor to the Camaro/Challenger/Mustang that is fun to drive and great to look at. I will never buy an EV if the only EV i can get is a compact car or a Tesla because I find Tesla's reliability to be questionable.

If this is what cars in the future will look like then I don't want to live on this planet anymore. I really don't like the styling many companies have done with EV's. Even Tesla seems to miss with the styling of some of the models. I don't want to drive something that looks like it came out of Dr.Seuss's nightmare.

Ehh idk, personally I have not been very excited about RTX/Super/Navi. I'll likely wait another gen before replacing my 980Ti.

I thought the E3 demo specs were being run on a Titan RTX?

You are making assumptions that I care Cyberpunk is allowing trans and non-binary characters, I don't. The whole setting of the game revolves around body modification. It makes sense in the context of the game allowing you to heavily modify your character and play the way you want to play. The outrage at Cyberpunk 2077 was that SJW's felt the game was misrepresenting transgenders in the game via the poster seen in the screenshots. Like you said previously, the game allows you to create trans/non-binary characters, so why the fake outrage? Don't complain about not being represented and then complain when you are. BF5 context is WWII, an era where women were forcefully restricted from serving in the front lines of war. There were instances of women forming militia in France and the Russian sniper squad but DICE never focused on these aspects. The US and the UK never allowed women to serve in the front lines. So when people saw the woman with the prosthetic arm in the trailer they were outraged as it broke the historical context of the game. If DICE had said "This is an alternate view of WWII", people would of probably let things slide a bit easier knowing there were going to be other things that did not make sense with the setting of the game. Instead they said "This is our interpretation of WWII and if you don't like it then you are uneducated" and then told customers "Don't buy it if you don't like it." Guess what, people didn't buy it. DICE claimed their interpretation of WWII was justified and the user base deemed that it was not. Bioshock a game about the collapse of the utopian society created the political setting. Once the setting was created, all of the politics within the game had context to the political setting the game was based in. How do you think people would of reacted if they saw messages of transgenderism in the 1950's setting where the concept of transgenderism had not existed yet. Would those messages of contributed to the game, or dectracted? Should I be angry at Diablo 2 for forcing me to play a woman sorceress? No, because I don't care about that shit. Why is it wrong for people to expect to stick to the context in which the games are placed? This is not an issue about the 'Straight White Man'.

My point was DICE tried to rewrite history with BF5 and then called their audience 'uneducated' after the overwhelming majority was against it. There is a reason why BF5 is the worst selling Battlefield title. There is a difference between a game being set in a certain political setting and forcing identity politics down the consumers throat.