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that they're so weird NVIDIA canceled the launch of the 12 Gigabyte RTX 4080
and now supply chain sources are saying that the one surviving RTX 4080 the 16
Gigabyte model will be getting a price cut it's the last of its kind I can't
imagine how sad it is with lots of people having paid out the nose for a
new 3000 Series card during the pandemic it's not super surprising that the
high-end 4000 series cards that have been released so far haven't sold all
that well so a price adjustment on the RTX 4080 makes some sense especially
since NVIDIA will have a new crop of lower priced AMD cards to compete
against soon and they are raring to go Young Blood watch out it doesn't look
like NVIDIA is having too many stock issues so you should probably be able to
get the lower priced 4080 for whatever the new MSRP will end up being hopefully
it will be more than the recent five percent cut the card got over in Europe
which was mostly due to the changing value of the Euro and not at all because
Jensen is scared of Dr Sue so hopefully it'll be achievable
the price yeah to pay for it hopefully
someone will be able to pay the price yeah the PCI Express special interest
group or PCI Sig which develops the PCI
spec has given us all the big it wasn't me
regarding the controversy over melting 12 volt high power connectors come on
they weren't even in the room they were hanging with the boys they could have
been a cold one it couldn't have been them in a statement PCI Sig said that
the manufacturers are responsible for the overall design safety and
Manufacturing obviously of their products putting the blame squarely at
NVIDIA and their graphics card Partners feat without directly saying it they cut
Corners all the time they don't even have an eye in their freaking name
to be fair to Team Green it seems that most of the melting connectors were not
inserted correctly into the graphics card although I could probably still
find a way to blame them for that when you could have come to the house you
could have made sure so if you have a card that uses the connector it's worth
triple checking that it's gone in all the way but you'd also think PCI Sig
could have come up with a spec that was a bit easier to install although that's
not so simple I mean USB a ports are everywhere but and that's the most
unintuitive thing ever if you're going to go all the way with your GPU make
sure you go to makeup point you treat them nice that's right get them some
flowers yeah Nintendo has come out and apologized for the Myriad issues that
affected Pokemon scarlet and violet at launch and even better they'd come out
with a patch it just just replace the game with breath of the wild the new
version of the game 1.1.0 contains a number of bug fixes
however most players seem not to have no more bug Pokemon no they're gone
Metapod most players seem not to have been able to tell yet how much it's
actually helped as the bugs were widespread including low frame rates
short draw distances and missing textures Nintendo kept most specifics on
what the bug fixes actually are under wraps so I suppose you'll end up knowing
them when you see them or you'll know them when you can't run double speed by
connecting an extra controller anymore I'm some fans think the issue might be a
memory leak as this has been responsible for weird texture behavior and plenty of
non-nintendo titles but regardless of the real reason hopefully this patch and
others moving forward will be
super effective Thunder now for quick
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ryzen 7000 hasn't been with us for very long but it looks like we're going to be
getting a new crop of 7 000 series chips next month at CES 2023 they're gonna
it's corn crop it's gonna be corn AMD is expected to release some non-x chips for
those of you looking to save some money as well as chips with 3D V cash for
higher performance but unfortunately we won't have them in time for Christmas
because January still comes after December I told them they should change
that could it it doesn't make any sense if you thought AAA titles were already
expensive be prepared to pay even more as you'll now be spending up to 70 bucks
on the standard editions of certain Xbox titles Microsoft deciding the increasing
technical complexity of these games is the reason because the more stuff you
fit on the disc the more dollars are generated it's a code thing I don't know
it's like oh it's crypto C plus yeah okay Sony has already been charging 70
bucks for some of its games but of course thinking of the price is 69.99
might make the painful buying experience a little nicer or confusing we don't
live in a country that has a penny or that doesn't haven't heard this meme
before if you own a pixel 7 or pixel 7 Pro there are a couple of major new
features heading your way as part of an update rollout this week a big one is
the Google one VPN which you'll be able to use for free normally free vpns are
kind of sketchy they might be selling your information or something but this
one seems safe because Google because it it doesn't mask your location but it'll
still give you a more secure experience you'll also be getting clear calling and
AI powered feature that's supposed to make calls in noisy places sound better
if you don't have a pixel 7 just yell HBO Max could be dropping the
HBO but in name only although what other
name would they it's your boy Max yeah the streaming
service is merging with Discovery plus as they're both owned by Warner Brothers
and reports indicate that the newly merged service is just going to be
called Max my buddy Max and have you ever wanted to bring the experience of
working in a business class seat home except with more leg room and a nicer
display every day Cooler Master wants to
give you just that with its new gaming and productivity pod called the orb X
aside from just a cushy seat work table
and monitor mount you also get built-in surround sound USB ports and wireless
charging I think that's excellent
X because there's an x no because it looks like a freaking egg oh no word yet
on pricing but can you really put a price on looking like Emperor Palpatine
I can't I can put a price on coming back for more Tech news on Wednesday and it
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