Yea I posted that earlier, pretty dumb of Dell. Gonna take a few generations of AMD winning for these mainstream companies to come around.
In other news...
New Crypto Currency uses SSDs and Hard Drives to mine instead of GPUs.
"According to the latest HKEPC report, an emerging cryptocurrency, Chia, is mined with storage space and miners in China are buying up hard drives and SSDs at an alarming rate. The mining process of Chia requires a large amount of free space and runs many reading and writing operations. These miners have been purchasing massive amounts of hard drives ranging in capacity from 4TB to 18TB."
https://wccftech.com/hard-drive-and-ssd-shortages-may-occur-in-the-near-future-if-new-cryptocurrency-succeeds/
No component on PC will be safe
Intel Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K & Core i5-11600K CPUs Land on Silicon Lottery, Pre-Binned 8 Core With 5.1 GHz All-Core OC For $879 US
https://wccftech.com/intel-rocket-lake-core-i9-11900k-core-i5-11600k-cpus-silicon-lottery-pre-binned-flavors/
Imagine spending more than 5950x money on 8 core. Granted 5.1ghz all core but still...
Days Gone Director John Garvin Says Metacritic Score Is Everything to Sony
https://wccftech.com/days-gone-director-john-garvin-says-metacritic-score-is-everything-to-sony/
Personally not a fan of this direction where smaller games from Sony like Gravity Rush that can get moderate sales and score can no longer be a thing. While it wasn't a big franchise, it certainly was the game that made me purchase a Vita at launch.
Lord of the Rings MMO by Amazon has been cancelled.
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1383499208699703304?s=20
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850