Asus + ROG + crazy large screen (useless if you don't have a window in your case) = stupidly expensive AIO.

Yea but my NZXT z73 is already stupidly expensive. I would have gotten the current RYUJIN since that's only slightly more expensive than the z73 and it comes with Noctua Black fans if it wasn't for the yikes worthy loud vrm fan. If they fixed all that, I'd rather deal with Asus software than both Asus and CAM.

But with no release date and the stock situation, I might be stuck

Literally just completed the game again a few days ago... Oh well. Shit happens.

Grab some 3080 shoes. 

"It’s also not clear if or when they’ll be available to buy, either, as Artifact’s website merely points to a sign-up button for their mailing list at the moment. Indeed, the only thing Artifact Studios have actually said about the shoes so far is contained in a single tweet: “We’re super excited to announce a partnership with NZXT, empowering RTFKT and our creators community to create the future of fashion and collectibles, powering our vision, community and crazy ideas with their awesome builds and love of gaming.”"

They really do give you the authentic 3080 experience

Intel just released their earnings report.

While they are flat YoY in revenue (20.2B to 20B dollar), but both the gross margin and the operational margin took a hit. The former dropped from 58.8 to 56.8 percent, and the latter dropped from 33.6 to 29.5 percent. As a result, the net income dropped from 6.9B to 5.9B dollar, and the earnings per share from 1.58$ to 1.42$.

Interestingly, PC is almost the only sector that's up (by 9% no less), while most datacenter operations are down 16% YoY.

Also, Rocket Lake is apparently already shipping to resellers, so  the official launch can't be too far off anymore. On the other hand, Ice Lake SP has only started production, so it'll take a couple months before those Xeon (and potentially HEDT) chips can launch, too.

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1439/intel-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2020-financial

Interesting numbers, thanks.

I wonder how much of that datacenter loss is because of AMD (and IBM and ARM) gaining ground, and how much because some companies decided to postpone that investment because of Covid.

Olympics probably canceled. Anyone else shocked?

I think it's more due to companies buying servers en masse during spring and summer last year to be able to get their employees to work from home. Since many bought their servers earlier or bigger than planned due to Covid, sales of servers in general should be lower this year than last year.

I do expect AMD to have a slight increase, but not nearly enough to cover the loss of sales from Intel.