| Bofferbrauer2 said: Gamer's Nexus made a documentary about the effects of the Trump tariffs on PC gaming, and the wider PC industry in general: It's a sweet 3 hours long, so plan in in advance for this double-feature. Spoiler! TL;DW: Companies won't come to the US to produce things there since there's wayyy too much volatility in the US due to Trump constantly announcing and then pausing and unpausing the tariffs that the companies in the video rather not ship to the US AT ALL anymore rather than putting up production facilities in the US to get around the tariffs, tariffs which are so punitive they can't make any profit at all anymore in the US. And even if they put the production in the US, they still have THEIR suppliers and raw material sources to consider, which are all tariffed either way, so unless they would move to the US too, it wouldn't get much cheaper anyway. Conclusion: everything that will still sell in the US will get about twice as expensive if all the tariffs that have been announced get into action. |
I'm not naive enough to not realize that this will also affect the rest of us, it's already happening with Sony's move to raise the PS5 price in other countries to offset part of the losses driven by the tariffs in the US, but there's no f*cking way I'll watch a 3 hours video about it.
Thanks for the effort and patience.
| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: User reports concerning thermal gel leakage on vertically mounted Gigabyte RTX 5080 AORUS Master |
Why it's always Gigabyte? 3090s breaking in some games, PCIe connectors cracking and now this. I'm amazed people still buy their products.
And, on an unrelated note, Igor's Lab has found something about the 5000 series AIB cards:
Thermal imaging seems to show there are 'weak point' hot spots in some RTX 50-series graphics cards
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/thermal-imaging-seems-to-show-there-are-weak-point-hot-spots-in-some-rtx-50-series-graphics-cards/
After extensively poking and prodding RTX 50-series AIB graphics cards, veritable tech demigod Igor Wallossek of Igor's Lab has discovered that there are potentially concerning hotspots on many RTX 50-series AIB partner cards.
These hotspots seem to essentially and most directly be caused by power delivery components being placed too close together on the PCBs and connected via too few traces, although it seems that at least some of this density could in part be a result of an oversight in an Nvidia guide for board partners.
That's because, according to Igor, who references an RTX 40-series Thermal Design Guide due to an NDA looming over the one for RTX 50-series ones, the guide is "far too imprecise and incomplete", especially concerning the specific area where the hotspots are occurring.
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Since the 9060XT will have launched already by then, I wonder what key gaming products they want to announce? Maybe an official announcement of the GRE? or the specs of the 9060 non-XT? Or maybe something with Strix Halo? |
It can be the Z2 chips we've heard rumors about that will power a few of the new handheld PCs.
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