EVGA Queue 3.0 rewards loyal, high-spending customers
https://wccftech.com/evga-queue-3-0-rewards-loyal-high-spending-customers/
So basically, if you spent a lot of evga products, you get priority in the queue system thus really helping mainly scalpers and miners. There goes another avenue of being able to try and get a GPU. The biggest problem Lovelace/RDNA 3 will have is everyone will be prepared. When Ampere/RDNA 2 launched, no one really knew how it was all going to end up. So we had evga having a decent queue system, retailers selling GPUs without tacking on useless nonsense, sometimes at a slightly higher $50-$100 above MSRP, people on ebay/craigslist/etc selling their old gpus for reasonable prices.
But when Lovelace/RDNA 3 will launch... Oh boy! Evga already said f all yall with this new queue system. Newegg is still doing combos and many other retailers joined in. You want a 4090? Hope you like retailer mark up + an additional $600 OLOy DDR5 4400mhz ram! There are also no reasonable GPU prices to be found in the used market and the increased bandwidth coming from both Lovelace and potentially RDNA 3 will be miners wet dream.
If the current cryto price sticks as it has gone down and the government regulation goes through along with Eth going to staking, then we may have a period of time where things could come back to being close to normal for Ampere/RDNA 2 before Lovelace/RDNA 3 launch. Imo, if you are desperate to get a new GPU and find a good deal, I'd consider getting current gen even if Lovelace/RDNA 3 performance rumours sound insane... Cause the prices sure will be!
Intel adds twenty ARC Alchemist PCI IDs to open-source Linux Mesa drivers
A #Battlefield2042 Cheat provider is suspending it's services to the game... And no... It's not because of Anti-cheat.
— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) January 12, 2022
It's because the games performance makes the cheats not work properly ? pic.twitter.com/IuHMNSWMfe
That's one advantage of having a shat game I suppose...
God of war pre-release benchmarks:
https://www.computerbase.de/2022-01/god-of-war-benchmark-test/2/#diagramm-god-of-war-3840-2160
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
