At least those would be useful for the people wanting them. No need for an AIO if a 4090 cooler was somehow compatible with the mounting/VRM layout.
Scammers have already returned 4090’s to retailers with just the cooler inside for weight, and just kept the GPU. They have no need to even attach some other card to it.
It’s going to be nasty if these things flood the second-hand market in the future. Sustained high temperature operation combined with likely substandard power delivery with questionable reballing quality. What a perfect recipe.
As Admiral Cartright said definitely a SMD capacitor.
Problem is there’s so many unpopulated points on that board that you would have to spend an hour eyeballing them to find the one it came from. The good news is he’s right, the board will almost certainly run fine without it.
But try to be more careful with your hardware, a simple slip of a screwdriver can cause that with those small SMDs, and you really don’t want to chance fate with SMDs on say a GPU…
There’s been a gradual shifting away from really old designs on equally old and/or ‘hardened’ process nodes, simply due to the age, cost, and performance gap. Also older chips didn’t have the redundancy, self-correcting, and failover capabilities of modern processors, so some of the perceived risk from using much more modern nodes and chip designs is being offset by the redundancy modern chips can provide.
That’s crazy that turning down the game quality causes better graphics in multiple edge cases, such as the signs, streets, reflections, and background elements. I could see one being a glitch that got missed, but multiple instances really screams that this was a very, very premature game launch. The game studio should’ve launched this as an “Early-access” title on Steam.
I’ve heard that, and it’s plausible. But keep in mind the MCD’s are made on 6nm which AMD isn’t using for CPUs. Also AMD is fabricating some APUs and EPYCs on TSMC 4nm already.
If AMD is suffering from limited wafer supply at 5nm then it absolutely has to adopt a lower volume, higher performance crown targeting approach to its GPU designs. Regardless of whatever the supply is today, wafer supply in the future is not going to be improving as everyone and everything funnels into the same future TSMC node groups.
Starting to really dislike this 100% or 0% mentality, even if it’s just being used as the vehicle to carry the article. It’s what’s so wrong with the world today. It’s a gross oversimplification of reality.
That aside, I agree with the premise. With RDNA3 AMD established that it wasn’t willing to compete on price, 4000-series pricing left the door wide open for AMD to undercut and wholly outsell NVIDIA hardware by offering better price/performance value. But AMD choose to not take advantage of it, and oddly instead copied NVIDIA’s upselling strategy with its own pricing choices.
Strangely AMD made that decision despite realizing cost-savings from migrating to a chiplet design. If AMD is no longer willing (or able) to compete on best value, then as the article implies AMD needs to start competing for the performance crown again. AMD needs to at least pick a strategy and do something, because it simply doesn’t have any spare graphics marketshare left to waste.
No, backlight zones isn’t any sort of thing to make a standard out of so I don’t see that happening. Adding zones adds cost, and OLEDs are rapidly coming down in price so I think FALD monitors above 1152 are going to continue to be an expensive rarity. Sellers aren’t going to want to make them and a year later risk having OLED prices undercut what it cost the vendors to manufacture them.
The InnoCN 32M2V has 1152 zones and is down to $600, same panel as the ASUS PG32UQX. The zones are more like postage stamps, not perfect squares.
Micro-LED sounds amazing, but I’ve not seen anyone say it won’t require the same local dimming zone technology. If it’s too costly to make every mini-LED directly controllable then it’s certainly too costly to do the same with micro-LEDs I would imagine.