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"That's also why we brought in an experienced manager, Terren, who is off-site this week or I would have brought him in to chat with you guys as well" Not a lot of room for interpretation there. If you wanna see how to handle a massive mistake in the same space, look up "CGP Grey was wrong" on youtube. That's also how actual journalists (not people who publish glorified ads like the 3090 8K video) do it. They issue a retraction. The rest isn't even worth replying.

Excuse me, do you mean to tell me that Terren, who's now supposed to run the company, the fly on the wall, hasn't been on site on the single most crucial week of your business (7:11 in the video)? I haven't logged in here to dogpile at all even though this controversy has basically shot LTT's crediblity in my eyes, but come on! How am I supposed to believe he's nothing but a figurehead now? From what I'm seeing, this is an extremely polished script, but one that doesn't do it for me personally. At all. If anything it makes it worse. - Zero addressing of stuff like the Short Circuit reviews-that-aren't-reviews (so it's okay if we call an ENTIRE company's products just "good" uncritically). This is really bad, because SC videos do influence customer decisions, even though you pretend they don't and are glorified unboxings. That's BS. I myself relied on them, naively. - ECC Squad is exploiting free volunteer work. - Renewed focus on in-person meetings, for example. Or, in other words, making it impossible to work remotely again. Bad for the employees. - Stealth replacing videos does not notify the bulk of the people that saw the erroneous content on release. Video corrections don't work if you're not paying attention. Both are easy copouts. There need to be more severe actions. - The entire HR section of the video is a complete fluff piece, followed by an appeal to emotion. Yuck.

I think that it's more of a legal concern. I'm no lawyer, let alone US law, but the EU went down hard several times on Microsoft and Google for pushing their own apps and squashing competition with methods similar to the ones Epic describes in the suit. They would have a clearly winnable case if they equate a smartphone with a computer - unlike with a games console, which the defendants at Sony\Microsoft could just argue is like a DVD player and needs anti-piracy measures to justify its walled garden.

I'd check my PSU if I were you, unless you're planning to upgrade it anyway. Why the 3090 and not the 3080, anyways? You're overpaying for a card that's not really meant for gaming.

Yeah good luck finding chinese stores that ship to India when your country is almost at war with them. Superlux on the other hand is taiwanese, and they generally make good stuff. https://www.amazon.in/Superlux-Semi-Open-Dynamic-Over-Ear-Headphone/dp/B07GH5S92N/ I don't know of any reviews of this, but I trust them enough to make a good headphone. https://www.amazon.in/Samson-SR850-Studio-Headphones-2-Pack/dp/B005PMXF46/ For some dumb reason a single Samson SR850 (a rebadged Superlux HD681) is not in stock, but a two pack is, and at a decent price too. Got a friend who wants cans? Ideally the original HyperX Clouds would have been a good option, but theyseem to go for higher prices than when they initially came out - and that's not a surprise, they're rebadged Takstars that sound damn good, with an awesome detachable microphone setup.

Man, no SSD? Must be rough. If you're feeling frisky, and since you're on the older 1151 chipset, you could try one of the BGA -> LGA1151 notebook chips that was recently featured in the ruthless economy PC. Anywhere from 4 cores/8 threads, with overclocking (seems to be Gigabyte\Biostar only for Non-Z boards), to 8 core/16 thread (if they work on your board). You'll need to tweak and be patient, but the gains are worth it. Heck you don't even need to flash the BIOS, ASUS boards always have it socketed so you can just pop it off and request a new one from the seller.

I don't know if the 1usmus tool came out yet for us peons, I think it's a closed beta. In the mean time, invest in an aftermarket cooler. Even a Hyper 212 and\or chinese imitation will take you farther than the wraith stealth. Remember that Ryzen really likes to run under 65-75°C (although you're not damaging it until it hits 95°C), unlike Intel's which don't mind 80-90. Your PSU should be more than fine.

nVidia is not (yet) a monopoly, but if this ends up killing AMD's desktop graphics, which it may well do if they underwhelm and\or stumble on the software side, then you better believe we'd have Intel-like generational "leaps" forever, they're already leaving tons of performance and efficiency on the table for profit by going with the older 8nm process. The only positive thus far, especially if AMD no-show, is this is going to bolster Samsung's chip fab and prevent TSMC from becoming an actual monopoly (another scary outcome).

The only leg left to stand on for AMD is process and power advantage. If they can bang out a 3070 competitor at better wattage and undercut it, they'll be good, but I have my doubts. This is very bad for competition.

Thanks to x86 stagnation there's been little to no point in designing games for anything more than 4/4 CPUs lol. It's kind of insane to think at the longevity a Sandy Bridge part has now, compared to something like a Pentium being pretty much obsolete by 1997 or even a Prescott P4 being a dinosaur by the 2010s.

They look like an older pair of BT headphones, so that means they'll likely lag. No bueno for gaming unless you have a wired mode you can use while gaming specifically. If you're buying, at that price just get an HyperX Cloud of some kind. They're good headsets.

Check ZOTAC's lineup. My RTX2070 Mini has it but I don't know that they ever updated this SKU to SUPER. EDIT: I'm sure there's a 2060S from ASUS and one from KFA2. Multiple 2070s, no Supers that I can spot.