Not sure tbh. My non XT pulse boosts to 2700/2800MHz every gaming session. Quite often up to 3000MHz. And that's only supposed to boost to about 2500MHz. It's been a nice surprise, it's basically an OC model without the extra cost. I find it difficult to judge at the moment, the prices are all over the place until more supply comes in, which should be soonish I think.
Oof. There's talk of more MSRP cards being available soon, not sure what the likelihood will be. I was happy with £525, the current prices are what the XT MSRP is.
Everything old is new again. “ASUS unveils first AMD B850 motherboard with hidden connectors, 600W GPU connector and updated PCIe release system”: AGP called, said something about having been somewhere and getting a t-shirt or something:
The thing about this "hide the cables" trend is that cables are darn aesthetic if they're all nicely sleeved and have those spacer things and the colours match your build. It'd be a shame to shove them all behind the motherboard tray.
I couldn't give a monkey's about cables so long as they're tidy and black. Not liking RGB I have a dark glass side, chromux black fans, led devoid GPU... You can make out components but I don't like any distraction from.my screen when I'm gaming. Dull? Maybe. Do I care? Nope.
I don't like LEDs, nevermind RGB. No lights, no windows. Still cable managed, because I'm kinda weird like that, but nothing on show.
Back in my day we didn’t have any of this fancy “cable management channel” rubbish, we ‘ad to make our own cable management! We ‘ad to split 40-pin ribbon cables by ‘and so they wouldn’t obstruct airflow! We overclocked things the ‘ard way back then, flicking tiny switches and drawin’ - yes, drawin’! - on CPUs with a pencil! Bah… Bloody kids got it easy these days, they dun’t know they’re born, I tell ye…
Pfft. I still remember gingerly taking a tape out of the player and trying to rewind it back in using a pen after flattening out the bits it had try to munch on.
I remember the craze for rounded IDE cables, when practically nobody realised that buying an extra long IDE ribbon meant you could fold and flatten it around the chassis frame, enough to make it almost invisible from an airflow point of view.
Yeah, but this stuff was new and exciting back then . “Watercooling” meant custom-made blocks, car heat exchangers, and aquarium pumps; “airflow” meant chopping big holes in your case and custom fan grilles; and so on…
Don't forget stripping out solid core twin and earth cables to use the insulation as C channel trim for the holes you just cut in your case.
So, the rumour mill says Intel has indeed cancelled the higher end Battlemage cards. I'm guessing they were unlikely to be price competitive, so the new guy (or the interim new guy/gal) shitcanned the whole thing.
Interesting. Depending how it performed and price there's a market for cards. AMD recent performance looks to have scared them off though. Did I hear something about Nvidia potentially using intel in GPU manufacturing to avoid US tariffs?
Yeah, the increased cost of production in the USA is, shock, cheaper than the tarriffs on importing components from Taiwan. Although, I'm fairly sure this was already at least partially on the cards before Darth Cheato started playing Sim Global Economy; due to the incentives in the chips and science act put in place during Biden's tenure.
