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Bit iffy about RTX A4000 - can I still use it for gaming? Anyway, it's not available with the nvidia employee gear store, and I can barely find a local store that has it on stock. But there is a 3090 Ti in the list for 1250$. And I do work with large scenes, but no, it's mostly a hobby thing. So I guess the options now are 3080 Ti vs 3090 Ti?

Budget (including currency): 2000$ Country: Israel Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender (Cycles), UE5, a bit of ML/DL (specifically computer vision), some physics simulations, light gaming My current build: i5 6600k, tiny overclock 32GB RAM 1070 8GB My options: 3080 Ti Founders Edition at 1,034.18 USD - got a friend who can get me an employee discount. includes shipping and taxes random used 3080 Ti on Facebook Marketplace go for 900$ 4090 FE at ~1700$. also includes shipping and taxes For comparison: 1,054.55 USD for an Asus TUF 3080Ti 1,058.22 USD for a Zotac 3080Ti most 4090 cards go for 2500 (these prices are without taxes. but to get it, i'll need to haul my ass to the other side of the country - a 12-hour bus ride, 50$ total, which is not really worth it) Some details that might be relevant: I really will not be upgrading for the next 5 to 7 years anyway. I'll upgrade the CPU sometime next year. I want to deal with the GPU first because rendering with blender cycles is so slow that I cant work with it at all I only have one GPU slot but that will change that when I upgrade my CPU Not interested in getting an AMD GPU because I'm waiting for RTX Remix and I use Moonlight a lot

yea, I'm not expecting full performance I'd even live with sub-720p as long as modern games run smoothly, and those are the exception. Most of the things I want to play are more than 10 years old, anyway.

I'm flexible with the size and weight. No more than 2kg tho, I might as well get a laptop at that point. I'm slowly leaning towards the Surface tablets but the Windows license is gonna be a waste since I don't want it

I want a Steam Deck alternative that is available in retailers all over the world and I ain't waiting Valve Time for them to figure out how international shipping works. Preferably with the option not to get Windows, but it's not a deal breaker. I don't want a discrete GPU. Screen size - 10-13" Battery life - 6+ of light work like taking notes is nice. is that too much to ask? Ports - needs to have full USB-A, 3.5mm jack, and USB-C charging Budget - ~1500$ Weight - should be around 1kg or less without keyboard Gaming requirements - 720p 60fps at high (or 1080p medium) for AAA games like Mass Effect: LE. or just full speed PS3 emulation Bonus - Replaceable RAM/storage would be great. Stylus support would be nice, too. There has to be something like the ThinkPad X12 Detachable out there, no? Please?

Nothing on the March 11 WAN show. I do distinctly remember him saying on Feb-ish that the issue was on the Intel Israel side which is unsurprising lmao I feel like Raptor Lake is gonna come out before this video

As someone who still has a PSVita and regularly plays games on it (my current train commute is 3 hours each way), and as someone who used to be an international student who had to live out of a single suitcase, I've had my eye on portable PCs like the GPD Win ever since the first one came out. My issue with the steam deck, aside from the ridiculous hype and the borderline-religious fanaticism of its followers, is that it looks like it'll snap clean in half the moment I put it in my bag. And the fact that it doesn't have any mobile data connectivity in 2022, like wtf, the original Vita had a 3G module. Sure, it was useless, but it's there! And the fact that it's not available for purchase in my country.

I remember a LMG video where the sponsor was a service that let you rent out a remote server in various locations all over the world and I remember it being pretty cheap. I only saw it once a couple of months ago. I think they had a promotion on a specific server capacity in France or something like that. Does that ring any bells to anyone? Alternatives are also welcomed. My only requirement is that I can rent a cheaper slower server like a Celeron but I can go nuts on the storage (doesn't have to be SSD, I just need something reliable), and they're not US-based (EU is fine) because I live in GMT+2.

The programs I mostly use are Matlab, Lumerical, and Comsol, but I'd listen to input from people who use other simulation programs that don't support GPU acceleration. Suppose money (and RAM) is unlimited. Should someone working in scientific simulations get a CPU with more cores or faster single core performance? fwiw, we have two servers in my lab: One running a TR1920x and one with a Xeon E5-1620. But it's not really fair to compare them, considering they're made 5 years apart...

Neither. That is a bit complicated to explain and I'd rather not to because it's irrelevant to the question. The strangest thing is that I'm getting mixed answers for this one question...

I know that switching modular PSU cables between different brands is bad, never do it, etc, but extensions are fine. I assume that the usual use case of extensions that you attach it at the end of the cable that came out of the box. My question is, can you do it the other way around? Suppose we have a PSU, say, the Corsair SF600 (because that's the one I plan to buy). It's modular, everything on the PSU itself is a bunch of female ports, and it comes with a bunch of male-to-male cables. Once you attach the PSU cables, you get a bunch of males that can connect to the components on the board/hard drive/GPU, etc. What if I attach a male-to-female cable on the PSU, and then attach the male-to-male cables that came with the PSU's packaging? Will that be as problematic as switching modular PSU cables between different brands? If that wasn't clear, here's a doodle: Usual modular PSU scenario: +----------+ +-------------+ | | | | | PSU O <- +------------------------------+ -> O component | | | (cable that came with PSU) | | +----------+ +-------------+ Usual modular PSU scenario with extension, I assume: +----------+ +-------------+ | | | | | PSU O <- +------------------------------+ -> O--------------+ -> O component | | | (cable that came with PSU) (extension) | | +----------+ +-------------+ What I want to do: +----------+ +-------------+ | | | | | PSU O <- +--------------O <- +------------------------------+ -> O component | | | (extension) (cable that came with PSU) | | +----------+ +-------------+ The cables in question here are the 8pin PCIe cables and SATA. I'm planning to get the extensions off AliExpress, btw. If there's a place to get better cables (ketchup and mustard cables are fine, nothing fancy) from a place that has international shipping, I'd love to hear about it.

Relatively speaking, a lot. It's also under warranty for two more years. A brand new 1060 6gb goes for 1200 shekels without taxes, or 329 USD. A brand new 1070 (again, tax free) is twice that price. I'm getting this 1070 for 1000 shekels (274 usd). That's the price of a 1050Ti in my city (with tax). At least I only have to travel for 2 hours by train to get this one. Going to the tax-free zone means that I have to travel for 6 hours by bus to buy it. This one, it was the only SFX PSU I found in the country I was living in at the time. Planning to repurpose it for a mini-server at some point. Full system build. The actual case is a Jonsbo v2 but I have a PCIe extension cable. Buying a new case is not an option yet.

I'm about to buy a miner's old 1070 but it turns out that my current PSU doesn't have the right connectors. My current CPU is a i5-6600k, no overclock, not planning to do OC. Location is Israel, budget is 74usd (so that I don't have to pay taxes). I can't find anything locally, so I'm buying on Amazon. I found a 450W Silverstone SFX (non-modular), but that's the only one I found. Maybe there's something else I missed? Thanks.

Awesome list, thank you very much!

Israel: http://ksp.co.il is one (pick Eilat in the branch list). There's a bigger search engine https://www.zap.co.il/ but I'm not sure if it works outside of the country. For Russia: https://market.yandex.ru/ is the best but it's only in Russian. I know that it's hard to generalize about brands, but my first laptop and tablet were both Acer, and both died after exactly 1 year and 1 month. They're very affordable, they're not bad products (for the price), but still.

Will be used mostly for office stuff/LaTeX, remotely connecting to my work and home PCs, entertainment while I'm bored in planes and airports (needs long battery life), and last-minute presentation editing. I also like playing games from 2003. No smaller than 13". Touchscreen/stylus support and maybe LTE could be useful. Optional: if it can run some basic Comsol simulations (uses lots of RAM and CPU, no need for a good GPU), that'd be great. Budget: 1000-1300 USD Buying in either Israel, Russia, or Hong Kong, but I would prefer to buy in Israel for local warranty assurance. I also don't like Acer in particular.