Hey, what do you call tech news that shows up three times a week and then has
little jokes in between everything so sometimes you don't know what's real and
what's a joke? TechLinked? What do you call that? TECHLINKED? YES!
AMD'S Radeon 7900 series GPUs are just
about to hit store shelves and reviews have given us something to get a little
excited about, but just a little. Duck. Wow! They're coming. But just a little
because that's how much stock AMD is making available at launch. While the
7900 XTX looks like it's slightly better value for money than the RTX 4080 in
raster performance, it's worse in ray tracing while being hotter and more
power hungry like the 500-year-old witch I dated a while back. Check out the
review on Linus Tech Tips for a fuller story about the graphics card, not not
the witch, but the perpetual question remains, will you even be able to get an
RTX 7000 GPU at launch? Team Red has said that they're planning to ship
200,000 units of the RTX 7900 series and
that might sound like a lot, but that's only a small fraction of the 10 million
or so cards overall sold every 3 months.
For more perspective, the RTX 4090 sold over 100,000 cards in the weeks after
launch and that's why we mock Team Green more often than Team Red on this
channel. If there's a graph mapping product sales to to overall mockery
allowed, it's like one to one. Did you date the witch so you could get a 7900 XTX?
What do you think? Eckeo frames. Intel
has indicated it's not planning to challenge the high end of the GPU market
anytime soon. Cuz they can't. Which may have something to do with the
fact that every time AMD tries to do that, this happens. Referring to the
previous previous story. Team Blue is apparently going to be concentrated on
the mid-range segment for the foreseeable future with Intel's head of
graphics Raja Koduri saying their customers want a single power connector
instead of the complications that come with more powerful cards that might need
more juice or connectors than their power supply can handle. Oh no, now
there's two of them. It's really just about the connectors. That's the only thing. Ironically,
Intel's current A770 and A750 both have
not one, but two PCIe power connectors,
although the hope is that will change in the coming years to make things a little
easier on gamers. And seeing as how Intel is new to the discrete GPU market,
it does make sense for them to build a brand around value for money instead of
extreme performance with a price tag and power bill to match. Look, they can make
a flagship killer GPU any day of the week, okay? It's just about market
segments. Take an econ class, numbskulls. And a Canadian judge has
allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed against Epic Games for the crime
of knowingly designing Fortnite to be as addictive as possible, as opposed to
most other games, which are not addictive at all and frankly barely even
fun. The aggrieved parents say their kids aren't sleeping or eating because
of how much they've been playing. And they got angry when their parents tried
to limit their game time by putting a lock on the computer. Honestly, sounds
like the kids should be suing the parents at this point. I mean, it's just like, "These are my video games."
The judge in the case has said that Fortnite could have dangers associated
with it, drawing parallels with the addictive nature of tobacco that the
industry didn't warn its consumers about. But the judge fell short of
describing Epic's actions as deliberate. I mean, they could have made the game
addictive by accident. Like, "Whoopsies.
Whoops. Whoops. Put some loot boxes in there. Ah." Unsurprisingly, Epic is planning to
fight the suit, though I wonder if they'll just pay a settlement and charge us all 5 cents more for skins. Now for
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them because it's a bit rude. Twitter Blue is back to solve the impersonation
issues it caused in the first place, complete with differently colored check
marks for businesses, governments, and individuals who may or may not be
notable. That's what my check mark says now. You're not notable? We don't know
if he's notable. Maybe. Regardless, expect to pay more if you sign up on an
iPhone. The price is $11 paid through the iOS App Store instead of eight bucks
elsewhere because it's only right that Apple punishes their user base for not
knowing better. iPhone. Doing whoops. If
you're in the market for a mid-range CPU, some new benchmarks for the soon-to-be-released Core i5 13400
indicate it's up to 30% faster than its predecessor. Pretty good considering
we've gotten used to very incremental improvements between CPU generations. Of
course, this is just in Cinebench, so I'd wait until more reviews come out
after launch before I fly down to California to personally shake CEO Pat
Gelsinger's hand. I always do that when they make good CPUs. Hey, man. They never let me through the
doors. EVGA famously pulled out of the GPU market before the launch of the RTX
4000 series, but you can actually get your hands on a prototype 4090 that the
company made. It's being auctioned off for charity on the EVGA forums with all
proceeds going to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, but be prepared to pony up as
the highest bid was 8300 US dollars at
the time we wrote this. I know the generation of RTX cards are overpriced,
but yeesh. Jeez Louise, I that's that's steep. I
don't I don't know. Microsoft is finally ending all support for Windows 7.
Although you might already know the OS stopped getting free security updates a
couple years ago, the OS was so popular that Microsoft kept allowing people to
pay for updates. This is going away next month along with Microsoft Edge support
for both 7 and 8, which is interesting considering Windows 7 still claims about
10% market share worldwide. I'm sure this will go fine. And are you
absolutely sick of getting nailed by lightning bolts and blue shells in Mario
Kart at the worst possible time? I would if I had friends.
Well, the latest Mario Kart 8 update has finally added the ability to switch
items on and off in versus and battle modes like you can do in Super Smash
Bros, which is great. But why did it take so long? Probably because Nintendo
was too busy coming up with more lawsuits they can make. They're creative. It's their passion.
The creative litigation. We can see this guy. My passion seeing you come back
here for tech news, especially when it's the one after this one on Wednesday.
That does the opposite of grind my gears. Mhm.