WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.120 Hey, what do you call tech news that shows up three times a week and then has 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:10.200 little jokes in between everything so sometimes you don't know what's real and 00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:16.640 what's a joke? TechLinked? What do you call that? TECHLINKED? YES! 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:18.680 AMD'S Radeon 7900 series GPUs are just 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:23.560 about to hit store shelves and reviews have given us something to get a little 00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:28.240 excited about, but just a little. Duck. Wow! They're coming. But just a little 00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:33.120 because that's how much stock AMD is making available at launch. While the 00:00:30.520 --> 00:00:37.960 7900 XTX looks like it's slightly better value for money than the RTX 4080 in 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:42.920 raster performance, it's worse in ray tracing while being hotter and more 00:00:40.080 --> 00:00:47.040 power hungry like the 500-year-old witch I dated a while back. Check out the 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:51.160 review on Linus Tech Tips for a fuller story about the graphics card, not not 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:56.440 the witch, but the perpetual question remains, will you even be able to get an 00:00:53.640 --> 00:01:01.520 RTX 7000 GPU at launch? Team Red has said that they're planning to ship 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:03.600 200,000 units of the RTX 7900 series and 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:09.000 that might sound like a lot, but that's only a small fraction of the 10 million 00:01:05.800 --> 00:01:11.840 or so cards overall sold every 3 months. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:17.120 For more perspective, the RTX 4090 sold over 100,000 cards in the weeks after 00:01:14.720 --> 00:01:20.680 launch and that's why we mock Team Green more often than Team Red on this 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:25.560 channel. If there's a graph mapping product sales to to overall mockery 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:31.840 allowed, it's like one to one. Did you date the witch so you could get a 7900 XTX? 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:33.840 What do you think? Eckeo frames. Intel 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:36.920 has indicated it's not planning to challenge the high end of the GPU market 00:01:35.880 --> 00:01:41.640 anytime soon. Cuz they can't. Which may have something to do with the 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:45.720 fact that every time AMD tries to do that, this happens. Referring to the 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:48.840 previous previous story. Team Blue is apparently going to be concentrated on 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:52.840 the mid-range segment for the foreseeable future with Intel's head of 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:57.240 graphics Raja Koduri saying their customers want a single power connector 00:01:55.560 --> 00:02:00.440 instead of the complications that come with more powerful cards that might need 00:01:58.880 --> 00:02:03.880 more juice or connectors than their power supply can handle. Oh no, now 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:10.440 there's two of them. It's really just about the connectors. That's the only thing. Ironically, 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:13.480 Intel's current A770 and A750 both have 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:15.160 not one, but two PCIe power connectors, 00:02:13.480 --> 00:02:18.280 although the hope is that will change in the coming years to make things a little 00:02:16.600 --> 00:02:22.080 easier on gamers. And seeing as how Intel is new to the discrete GPU market, 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:26.920 it does make sense for them to build a brand around value for money instead of 00:02:24.600 --> 00:02:31.200 extreme performance with a price tag and power bill to match. Look, they can make 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:34.680 a flagship killer GPU any day of the week, okay? It's just about market 00:02:32.760 --> 00:02:38.840 segments. Take an econ class, numbskulls. And a Canadian judge has 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:43.600 allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed against Epic Games for the crime 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:47.840 of knowingly designing Fortnite to be as addictive as possible, as opposed to 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:51.240 most other games, which are not addictive at all and frankly barely even 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:55.160 fun. The aggrieved parents say their kids aren't sleeping or eating because 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:59.560 of how much they've been playing. And they got angry when their parents tried 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:02.640 to limit their game time by putting a lock on the computer. Honestly, sounds 00:03:01.760 --> 00:03:07.920 like the kids should be suing the parents at this point. I mean, it's just like, "These are my video games." 00:03:06.600 --> 00:03:11.720 The judge in the case has said that Fortnite could have dangers associated 00:03:10.239 --> 00:03:15.360 with it, drawing parallels with the addictive nature of tobacco that the 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:19.720 industry didn't warn its consumers about. But the judge fell short of 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:23.880 describing Epic's actions as deliberate. I mean, they could have made the game 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:25.480 addictive by accident. Like, "Whoopsies. 00:03:23.880 --> 00:03:29.400 Whoops. Whoops. Put some loot boxes in there. Ah." Unsurprisingly, Epic is planning to 00:03:28.040 --> 00:03:35.680 fight the suit, though I wonder if they'll just pay a settlement and charge us all 5 cents more for skins. Now for 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:39.640 Quick Bits, brought to you by MANSCAPED. 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Pretty good considering 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:57.240 we've gotten used to very incremental improvements between CPU generations. Of 00:04:54.840 --> 00:05:00.600 course, this is just in Cinebench, so I'd wait until more reviews come out 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:05.000 after launch before I fly down to California to personally shake CEO Pat 00:05:03.200 --> 00:05:10.240 Gelsinger's hand. I always do that when they make good CPUs. Hey, man. They never let me through the 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:14.880 doors. EVGA famously pulled out of the GPU market before the launch of the RTX 00:05:12.520 --> 00:05:19.400 4000 series, but you can actually get your hands on a prototype 4090 that the 00:05:17.320 --> 00:05:23.760 company made. It's being auctioned off for charity on the EVGA forums with all 00:05:21.880 --> 00:05:29.240 proceeds going to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, but be prepared to pony up as 00:05:26.200 --> 00:05:31.000 the highest bid was 8300 US dollars at 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:34.960 the time we wrote this. I know the generation of RTX cards are overpriced, 00:05:33.080 --> 00:05:40.080 but yeesh. Jeez Louise, I that's that's steep. I 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:44.040 don't I don't know. Microsoft is finally ending all support for Windows 7. 00:05:42.440 --> 00:05:48.400 Although you might already know the OS stopped getting free security updates a 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:52.360 couple years ago, the OS was so popular that Microsoft kept allowing people to 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:56.880 pay for updates. This is going away next month along with Microsoft Edge support 00:05:54.320 --> 00:06:01.040 for both 7 and 8, which is interesting considering Windows 7 still claims about 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:04.800 10% market share worldwide. I'm sure this will go fine. And are you 00:06:02.520 --> 00:06:08.960 absolutely sick of getting nailed by lightning bolts and blue shells in Mario 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:12.280 Kart at the worst possible time? I would if I had friends. 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:16.680 Well, the latest Mario Kart 8 update has finally added the ability to switch 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:21.000 items on and off in versus and battle modes like you can do in Super Smash 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:24.560 Bros, which is great. But why did it take so long? Probably because Nintendo 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:29.800 was too busy coming up with more lawsuits they can make. They're creative. It's their passion. 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:34.040 The creative litigation. We can see this guy. My passion seeing you come back 00:06:32.200 --> 00:06:38.200 here for tech news, especially when it's the one after this one on Wednesday. 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:41.400 That does the opposite of grind my gears. Mhm.