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Newegg stock price falls 17.7% after Chinese owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities — company insists it’s operating normally and ‘in accordance with the laws’

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Tustin is one of their better stocked stores, from what I've read. Watching walk-thru's of Tustin made me realize that the new Santa Clara store didn't get the top-end treatment.

Newegg stock price falls 17.7% after Chinese owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities — company insists it’s operating normally and ‘in accordance with the laws’

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Love 'em, but yeah, I'm shocked by what they *don't* carry sometimes. Maybe it's a function of only stocking high-volume parts that keeps their prices down, but it's a little annoying. Was looking for some <80mm fans, anything, even more expensive Noctua's. Nope. Any kind of USB DACs, any kind. Nope. Selection of fans and heatsinks is a little disappointing too. Shitton of AIOs, and a narrow selection of fan makers. Headphones, mice, and keyboard selection is a little meh too.

Newegg stock price falls 17.7% after Chinese owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities — company insists it’s operating normally and ‘in accordance with the laws’

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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Launches on Jan. 29 for $499

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TSMC warns Nvidia and Broadcom of capacity squeeze as AI chip demand surges

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ASUS 800-series boards are killing Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips, five dead CPU reports in two weeks

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Absolutely not worth ditching the 7800X3D for a 9000. Unless of, of course, you're an absolute baller competitive FPS player with a 500hz monitor. I'm gonna ride my 7800X3D until the Zen6 X3D is nearing end of life, then buy one.

DDR5 RAM prices now over 4x higher since September 2025

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To be fair, it's easy to extend the life of DIY grade PC components: Lower power targets 10%. You'll lose far less than 10% performance and gain a ton of security. That said, me saying "it's easy" is tone deaf because the average person isn't using DIY grade PCs, they're using laptops or office grade PCs, which are famously not nearly as repairable or open to tweaking.

HUB - The RTX 5070 Ti Has Been Killed Off

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I bought a 9070 XT, my SO Bought a 9060 XT 16gb, I convinced two of my close friends to upgrade to 9070 XTs, and I've got a few customers who have bought 9070 XTs from my advice. Everyone but me have been lifelong NV users. So far everyone loves them.

AMD sets Ryzen 7 9850X3D review embargo to January 28

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Right, the Intel "KS" SKUs. Or Extreme, in the past. Almost never a reason to buy them other than "Oh no, I can't hold all these bundles of $100 bills!" kind of money and bragging rights.

AMD sets Ryzen 7 9850X3D review embargo to January 28

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Yaawwwwn. AMD, I know you're not listening, but if you were to, no one cares. Just release the damn thing and get your money. 9950X3D-2? Now that would be something to get some attention. 6 months ago.

Gamers desert Intel in droves, as Steam share plummets from 81% to 55.6% in just five years

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Depends. AM4 proved that tons of people wanted to upgrade well into the future on their same board/RAM. Evident by the demand for Zen4 (5000 series) to be back-supported to 300 series chipsets. And how mobo makers had to make BIOS updates that were one way, meaning they'd lose support for Zen1/1+ CPUs, lol.

Gamers desert Intel in droves, as Steam share plummets from 81% to 55.6% in just five years

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Exactly. I've done this with AMD platforms many times, all the way back to the year 2001. I bought my AM5 board mid last year, well after the 9800X3D came out. I did it with the intent of getting a cheap(er) 7800X3D. Hold onto that until the Zen6 X3D chip is getting near EOL, and buy one of those to get my AM5 board to 2030-something.

The Arrival of CHEAP 10GbE Realtek RTL8127 NIC Review

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> I am also in the area, and that sonic service is only to select areas, not to everywhere lol Yeah. Like I said, it's rolling out. I didn't say "it's currently available to everyone." >which costs an arm and a leg for 10gb set up from the nas to the switch to the router. It doesn't. And even at it's fairly reasonable cost, what's reasonable or unreasonable to you or I isn't the same for everyone. And just because you personally don't have a use case for 10Gb LAN doesn't mean others don't. Others clearly do, especially those who are playing with or doing dev work on AI clustering or large scale self hosting. >which to that kind of people, is this the saving that will push them over the edge to pull the trigger on a 10g upgrade? It lowers the barrier of entry into doing it. How in the wide, wide world of sports are you going to **COMPLAIN** about that?

The Arrival of CHEAP 10GbE Realtek RTL8127 NIC Review

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>most places dont have a WAN 10 gb link Ok? Who said you needed 10Gb WAN to want/use 10Gb LAN? Also, fiber is rolling out across the world. In some places 10Gb is just offered standard as the *only* option, not some expensive upsell service. I'm in one such area, San Jose. Sonic offers 10Gb/10Gb fiber to residence for $60. No cheaper or more expensive options. No install fee, no equipment rental. They provide the ONT and run the fiber to where the hell you point them to. Honestly it was the most refreshing experience I've had in telecom since working with a single-man owned/run dial-up operation in the 90s. We called him Wizard, because he was.

VideoCardz: "Leaked FSR4 INT8 version runs on RDNA2 and 3 with 9–13% lower performance, image quality below FSR4 FP8 but still above FSR 3.1"

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> FSR 3.1 in quality mode or better at resolution > 1440p It really depends on the game. FSR 3.1 can look pretty awful *depending on the game.* Leaps and bounds ahead of FSR 2, don't get me wrong. And I was glad to have 3.1 when I had my 6700XT. But if you don't need a huge FPS boost, FSR4 INT8 can be very helpful.

Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip firm

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Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip firm

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Intel's flagship Core Ultra 9 285K is down to its lowest price ever, at just $475— Intel's fastest current-gen gaming chip is $125 off this Prime Day

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AMD stock skyrockets 25% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker

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It's really not. The ideal that wealth can be destroyed or created is a perpetuated misconception that the ultra-wealthy and corporations use to take advantage us normies.

AMD stock skyrockets 25% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker

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>create wealth This, this right here is the problem. "Wealth" isn't created. Products are created, services are created/rendered, wealth is accumulated through the transactions of the other two to outside parties.

AMD stock skyrockets 25% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker

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AMD stock skyrockets 25% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker

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Zenith251@reddit

We, not just as a society, but as a species should never allowed the normalization of selling and buying debt, borrowing money against shares, or any of these nebulous financial transaction trickeries. Hell, even the concept of a loan has societal implications that are negative. Driving asset inflation, for one thing.

[PCGH] 180 GPUs in 16 years: HUGE benchmark comparison 2009-2025

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Literally only 1/4 tests was CPU limited, at only for the top 1% of the performers in that test. You're complaining about a problem that is legitimately not there.

Asus releases major updates to ROG gaming laptops with stuttering and performance interruption fixes

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Microsoft microfluidic cooling (etched microchannels on the chip)

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[Gamer Nexus] NVIDIA's Monopolistic Takeover

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ASUS Concept PCIe Slot Delivers 250W Power via Front Connector

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It's what happens when you try to save $0.10 across millions of connectors: 12vhpwr. They could have spec'd it like a beefier 8-pin PCIe cable, but instead they spec'd it like mutant 2x8-pin and reduced the safety margins along the way.

Best $300~ GPUs, Radeon vs. GeForce

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There are currently three 9070 XT's for sale *by* newegg for $669 right now. Compared to the $789 for the 5070 Ti. I could understand why someone would buy the 5070 Ti over the other if they were always the same price. But for less? I'm taking the 9070 XT. And I did.

Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB professional GPU listed at $599, in stock and shipping - VideoCardz.com

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NVIDIA Moves to SOCAMM2, Phases Out Initial SOCAMM Design

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NVIDIA Moves to SOCAMM2, Phases Out Initial SOCAMM Design

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That isn't just relevant, that's a tactical bunker-buster missile strike on this comment thread. (though I am not "an expert" in this example, just an enthusiast.)

NVIDIA Moves to SOCAMM2, Phases Out Initial SOCAMM Design

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12v-2x6 solves near enough to zero of the issues with the 12vhpwr connector that you could say they made no change. The issue is that they're moving an amount of power of a connector so small that it doesn't meet a safety factor of 2, *and* has no load balancing built into the spec. A reminder to everyone: Nvidia had load balancing worked into their FE cards, and seemingly the entire spec of the GF 30 series. From 40 series on, they've entirely eliminated load balancing on the cards. They *intentionally made it worse,* blamed it on the cable and implemented a "fix" that costed them (by them I mean their board partners, mostly) nearly nothing compared to restoring load balancing to the boards.

NVIDIA Moves to SOCAMM2, Phases Out Initial SOCAMM Design

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Do you know what a CPU is? Do you know what some major manufacturers of CPUs and SoC are? Can you name even 3 Linux distros? Congratulations, you're well, well above the average person you run into in a grocery store.

NVIDIA Moves to SOCAMM2, Phases Out Initial SOCAMM Design

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NVIDIA Moves to SOCAMM2, Phases Out Initial SOCAMM Design

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>Camm is not mainstream, this is the 1st time i heard about SOCAMM which is already phased out. What is "mainstream?" If you're someone who lurks this sub, you're already *significantly* more knowledgeable about computer hardware than the average person. You're going to find a ton of people here who have been begging and hoping for SOCAMM to take off in laptops.

The Best Value 9070 XT is Back! 16 Card Roundup

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Ok? So what? NV did it earlier. That doesn't magically put hardware in RDNA3 that ain't fricken there. Are you upset that DLSS isn't supported on Pascal? Maxwell? Where do you draw the line? Or are you arbitrarily drawing the line now because it conveniently fits your narrative? > it's not hard to make new algorithms perform okay on older cards. Yes, yes it is when your old cars didn't have architecture that supported that kind of neural processing. That would be like harping on a software dev for not making a program that requires AVX-512 to function work on a Zen2 chip. The hardware ain't there to achieve that level of real-time performance. It's already been proven that RDNA3, even the massive 7900XTX doesn't have the TOPS to run FSR4 at a reasonably performant level. Why do you think Nvidia tops productivity benchmarks for the last 3 generations? Because their architecture was rebuilt from the ground up to support *Compute,* where RDNA1-3 hasn't.

The Best Value 9070 XT is Back! 16 Card Roundup

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The Best Value 9070 XT is Back! 16 Card Roundup

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>"Loyal fans" should be upset with how much of a scam RDNA3 was and how FSR4 is not backwards compatible. Oh? So AMD and NV fans alike should be up in arms because the Pascal and RDNA1 cards don't support ray tracing? Or that Pascal and RDNA1 don't support DirectX 12_2? Get outa here with your sensationalist bullhockey. Extra extra, read all about it! New technology doesn't work on old technology!

HUB - Is Zen 5 Finally Better For Gaming?

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My point is, unless the cores are starved for bandwidth, you aren't going to get meaningful gains. And I've yet to find a test that clearly shows any such case. Got some sources?

HUB - Is Zen 5 Finally Better For Gaming?

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Well, all the tests I've seen with newer boards and >6000MT/s RAM haven't shown any major improvements for Zen5 in any workload. Including up to 8000MT/s. So I fail to see how making stable >6000MT/s the norm would provide a major uplift.

HUB - Is Zen 5 Finally Better For Gaming?

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HUB - Is Zen 5 Finally Better For Gaming?

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Note: this is /hardware, not /gaming or /pcmasterrace. People come here because they're interested in more than just "FPS go up." Zen5 was definitely an uplift in use cases outside of gaming.

HUB - Is Zen 5 Finally Better For Gaming?

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Zenith251@reddit

Eh. If an overhauled IO die provided some additional benefits or features to the consumer, sure. But as it stands, the only thing it would do that I can think of is provide faster RAM and higher efficiency. And what else? Maybe better USB4 support or something? It wouldn't be able to provide more PCIe lanes or anything fun like that. Both good things, but neither are going to elevate the existing CPUs a ton. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

HUB - Is Zen 5 Finally Better For Gaming?

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The 7900x/7950x would have been rofflestomped in all-core workloads by almost all of Intel's offerings if they had been capped at 105w. But I agree that AMD, AND Intel have both done the Pro-sumer no favors. Single socket TR and Xeon offerings are just too damn expensive. They've made TR platform a barely cut down Eypc, and priced it so. While sTR5 is still an intermediate platform between AM5 and SP5, it skews far toward the enterprise pricing. And don't even get me started on the AM5 "Epyc" chips.

HUB - Is Zen 5 Finally Better For Gaming?

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Act3 performance got better later after they fixed the places/stolen item caching behavior in the engine. It's still stupid demanding, don't get me wrong. But if you were early in the games release, it got better than what you experienced.

HP Scammed Us: HP Omen 45L is the Worst Pre-Built We've Reviewed

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HP Scammed Us: HP Omen 45L is the Worst Pre-Built We've Reviewed

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HP Scammed Us: HP Omen 45L is the Worst Pre-Built We've Reviewed

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Zenith251@reddit

> We stopped having those weird outside radiator mainly for looks and size We stopped making them because they're needless cost that provides benefit only in fringe scenarios. Removing a set of fans from the cases airflow model only benefits the overall PC only if; the entire PC is custom watercooled, or if a system is running under constant whole-system load and the warm air from the components is enough to push the CPU radiator to thermal throttle. That's of course assuming that the radiator is placed on as an exhaust. The issue is we have better solutions to this problem now, like using a side-intake radiator for the CPU, which can allow most of the hot air to be pushed and pulled to the top of the case before passing over the GPU region.

HP Scammed Us: HP Omen 45L is the Worst Pre-Built We've Reviewed

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There's a reason cases like that stopped being made; it's not a great idea at all. The case design apparently has little to do with why this prebuilt sucks ass, which is astounding. They fucked up in such WORSE ways that the bad case design.

HP Scammed Us: HP Omen 45L is the Worst Pre-Built We've Reviewed

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