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Also, please don't connect a 3080 with a single split PCI power cable. Bad form. I did that with my 3060ti and paid the price.

I remember a few years ago that XMG laptops were simply rebranded Clevo laptops. I haven't kept up to date but do they actually build/develop their own systems nowadays?

*still in beta*

Okay was the 4 page litany in the original post about the legality and whatnot really necessary? As far as I understand they sent a simple request to Nexus, not an agressive demand and it doesn't sound like anyone at any time threatened anyone else with legal actions. And it doesn't sound like CDPR'S message was intended to cover any legal bases but was simply a short message towards the public explaining why they made such a request of nexus. I'm alright with calling people and companies out when they're in the wrong, but this just feels like you're looking for fire where there isn't even smoke.

Well that would mean it's perhaps good at radiating heat away from the body, but I reckon covering yourself in a heat conducting metal in the african savannah wouldn't help to keep you cool, quite the opposite

I doubt it's any good when it comes to conducting heat. If it was, then... well this wouldn't work very well.

And don't buy a company billions in debt like ATI.

True, but consider how long that would take for literally hundreds of claimed videos. Also, who's to say that the song he replaces it with might not get claimed in another few years?

YouTube creator Matt Lowne is a relatively popular Youtuber in the Kerbal Space Program community. Very recently, pretty much all of his channel's video's have received copyright claims by SonyATV, referring to a song he uses in many of his channel's intros. According to Matt Lowne, this song called "Dreams" was originally listed in the YouTube Audio Library and could be used under creative commons license, but it seems that the rights for this song may have recently been acquired by SonyATV. Following this, it seems that SonyATV has issued corresponding copyright claims for videos on his channel dating back years. https://twitter.com/Matt_Lowne/status/1195373518415945728 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjVJ3Cznec I have no knowledge of something similar happening previously, but this could set a concerning precedent? How many other creators may have this song on their videos? What happens when other songs receive the same treatment?

Probably because they fear getting sued from just about every corner: companies that operate messaging services on Android, pretty much every mobile carrier in the world would be after their arses, the EU would probably stick their noses in there for anti-competitieve practices, probably Apple seuing them as well for good measure (pretty sure they'll find something to whine about again),... Either way, they would probably get more than a couple lawsuits and million dollar fines stuck up their multi-colored nostrils.

Well what did they expect would happen when they licensed their engine to Amazon? ?

Olympus with their xD memory cards, same goes for Fujifilm and their SmartMedia cards and others. Proprietary hard drives for the xbox 360, do those count? WMV/WMA/AAC/... file formats. Literally dozens of compressed archive formats.

Of course? If you have the budget to splurge, a better graphics card will get you better performance, that's a given. However it all depends on the games you play and your budget. Do you want to play beautiful RPG's at 4K with ultra settings at 30fps? You're better off investing in a high-end graphics card and not to splurge on the CPU. Or do you want to play FPS titles in 1080p with high framerates? Invest in a high-end CPU and settle for a mid-range GPU. Let's say you have $800 to spend on a CPU and GPU (let's ignore the rest of the system for the sake of simplification): at this budget you could either get a Ryzen 5 2600 with an RTX 2080 or you could get a Core i7 9700K with an RTX 2070. Both combinations are perfectly reasonable choices, they just serve another purpose.

Let's agree to disagree and leave it there

I'm not? If you check most sources that have benchmarked the ryzen 3000 chips against 9700k / 9900k overclocked, then literally 90% of games will hit 5-10% higher framerates on Intel. With that AIO he should be able to hit a solid 5GHz if not 5.1GHz on that CPU easily. Sure, GPU wise I can't really argue... then again even at 1440p, a 2070 will run most competitive FPS titles at 144Hz no sweat, unless you absolutely need your ultra graphics. Even my old 1070 maintains a solid 165Hz in Overwatch, Fortnite, Apex, etc... at medium to high settings.