Badly Browned

What the heck is "SEP"? I've heard of MSRP and SRP, but never SEP. A quick google search doesn't seem to yield anything useful.

Generally, the people in the article are complaining that it's hard to raise a family in the Bay Area even with a tech industry incomes. I'd actually agree. As someone who lives here, it's really damn hard to be a new homeowner and start a family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently there was a story here about a Palo Alto Housing Planning and Transportation commissioner resigned because she couldn't afford to raise a family in Palo Alto, and both she and her husband worked in the tech industry. Anyways, with the recent Tech Industry boom, the population here was booming with new workers but the rate of new housing construction actually decreased during this time. So the housing crunch ended up with housing prices outpacing the increases in income as there simply isn't enough inventory. I read recently here that in 2016 that the minimum qualifying income for a homeowner in San Francisco was $250,000/year. Get into the Santa Clara County area (San Jose + surrounding cities) and you were looking at $180,000 minimum qualifying income. I know of people, particularly those who lost their homes in the 2007 recession, that are making $100k+/year but are living paycheck to paycheck right now. To find housing that's comparable to the medium price of housing for the state of CA, you have to go areas like Salinas or Hollister, which are 45+ miles away from Silicon Valley, and I know of more than a few people who commute from those areas into San Jose for school and/or work.

My god. Are we going to have actual competition now?

Usually, but sometimes it takes some elbow grease to take it out. Just saying it makes more sense than a screen that apparently can be scratched by a fingernail, which is what a sub-3 Mohs would entail.

Yeah, regular glass has a hardness of ~5.5. So unless this thing isn't glass, there is no way a copper pick should be scratching it. At 2-2.5 we're talking about fingernails being able to scratch something, which for a screen designed for touch and pen controls is obviously not ideal. My guess is what looks like scratches are actually bits of his tools themselves getting rubbed into the screen. I've done this myself while testing hard minerals. I'll think I have scratched a mineral with a nail or something but it's actually the other way around and the nail is the one getting scratched. So maybe they are not technically scratches, but the end result of a non-pristine screen is still the same.

My favorite Zelda games in no particular order (I haven't played them all though): Ocarina of Time Wind Waker Majoras Mask A Link to the Past Twilight Princess

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Ah ok, I missed that bit of news. Still, I would be surprised to see GeForce Volta cards before Q4 2017. Then again, I didn't expect Titan X(Pascal) in early August either...

Unless I'm mistaken on release date, with Volta not scheduled until 2018, it's almost assured that Nvidia will release a 1080ti in 2017 to compete with Vega. So, I wouldn't expect the 1080ti to come out until next year.

Titans were always a waste of money (for gaming), but even moreso now since AMD isn't bothering to compete this generation and Nvidia can do what they will.

$1200 for Titan X, so probably $900 MSRP for 1080ti (which means it will actually sell for $1000), bleh. I guess Nvidia taking advantage not having any competition on the high end right now...

The GTX1060 is based on GP106, but the chart says GP104.

Well, I do agree that $700 doesn't appeal much to me. Like I said, the Founders looks like an early adapter tax to me. I'd like to see how the 3rd party prices really shake out, considering they are supposed to have an MSRP of $600. I expect the Titan P to launch at $1000. The Titan line has been stable at that price point and I do not expect it to change. Since the 1080ti will use big Pascal, I expect it to maintain the $100 price difference between the x80 and the x80ti that we saw in the 900 series. So I expect a 3rd party MSRP of $700 for the 1080ti. To note, the 780ti also released at $700. That said, perhaps Nvidia will decide that going to HBM2 in addition to GP100 justifies bumping up the price on both the Titan and Ti. If Nvidia sticks to their release schedule, the Titan P should come first, and if that one is coming with a $1100+ price point, the 1080ti will likely match the price increase as well. That's why I think it's important for AMD's Polaris to come out swinging and keep Nvidia competitive on the prices.

Unless you want to get like 300fps at 1080 or something crazy, I don't think the 4790k will be bottlenecking the 1080 anytime soon.

From what I understand, the Pro has marginal performance improvements but better reliability/longevity (with a longer warranty to go with it).