who would've thought that it would happen... (checks stats) yeah, it was EVERYONE. Gee, maybe someone needs to learn some supply and demand basics by this point. The tenacity!
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i really wish I could have eeked out one more GPU upgrade before the shit hit the fan..but GPUs are at the point now where you gotta upgrade the PSU to upgrade the GPU since power draw demands are getting absolutely donk.
Weird aside, but I have a 14900k which just eats power. About 400ish watts draw during CPU benchmarks for total ststem draw. I had a 1000w psu and finally got a 5090. Now a 400w cpu + 600w gpu should not work- but it did. I did stress test both at the same time and hit 1100w, but it lived. Thing is, most games do not stress borh CPU and GPU at max at the same time, so real world usage I was always under.
Still, I want headroom, so I got a deal on a 1500w psu. New PSU is more efficient, and running the same simultaneous cpu/gpu benchmark I hit about 960w, so the efficiency bump kept me under my old psu limit. It did lead me to get a new PSU, but technically it would have been mostly okay.
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Oh I didn't even think of this. There are so many companies that could get into trouble because of this, and they will all get mad at the AI bullshitters.
Wonder if we'll be getting consumer grade SoCs that are CPUs with integrated RAM.
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Honestly, probably a buy opportunity for good ddr5 motherboards. When the bubble bursts then you can buy the ram for pennies.
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