Wrapping Up 2022 Hardware Discussions - Die Shrink Telegrams

Hi Tom Something Ive always wondered, whats the story behind the computer in the photo at the top of your patreon page?

Alex

Hello Sir Tom and Mr. Dan, Do you believe Nvidia's tactics attempting to permanently inflate prices and shift all the SKUs down, or up depending upon perspective will stick? Personally I hope it blows up in Jensen's face. AMD is no help either. It seems every time they have had a chance to take M.S. since the launch of RX5000 they Blow It! Why is that or am I trippin? This time they follow Nvidia into SKU shifting. They need to Start fresh with axing the Radeon Branding! And fire the entire marketing dept. IMO. They owe ATI nothing at this point. Just AMD or Ryzen GPU will do. Lastly do you think something went terribly wrong in the bringup of Navi 31 and will they come hard for the HALO with a refresh? Thank you.

Stephan Hart

Hi Tom and Dave, any thoughts on the new RTX 6000? Specifically about how it has the same amount of VRAM as the last generation, and does AMD plan on competing with it?

FrogOnUnicycleVape

How was the A4000? Ever since the crypto market has crashed and miners are out here selling A4000s like theyre virtually useless at dirt cheap pricing, after putting a little bit of TLC into the card, would you recommend such a powerful single slot card to small form factor/ITX builders which I know includes yourself with that beautiful sliger case of yours. Or perhaps in those ridiculous 5L or 7L builds?

Tim K

Have you tested the A770 recently? I've heard there have been improvements with some games. Given the price, would you recommend the A770 over the 3060?

ManBearPig

Hey Tom and Dan. What GPU becomes the next 1060 now that next gen games are starting to push again and resolutions are increasing!

Swiggles

Uhhh…gaming on a low end card is not ideal! I’ve been on a 6600 for a while waiting for the 7900 xtx release. I recently started to game at 4k. How did you cope with an even weaker card than mine at 4k??

PCDog

Hey Tom, just upgraded to the 13700K and honestly I'm surprised how efficient it is. I have it at 5.2ghz and even stressed tested it only used about 175 Watts (I know that's still alot) but compared to what was said in reviews it much better, just had to make some tweaks in the Bios

Kinihun25

Hey Tom and Dan (if he’s there). Have you seen that there are finally real sized oled monitors coming out? LG has the 27GR95QE-B a 27in 1440p 240hz monitor for $1000 which is available for preorder December 12th. Asus has also teased their own version of this panel on Twitter and the full unveil will be at ces 2023.

T&D, now that you guys have had time with the 6500 XT/RTX 3050. How do you feel they stack up? We're over the crazy times right now, do their prices align with performance? I personally think the 3050 is priced WAY too high still (pretty much the same price as 6700/some 6700XT models in Canada). 6500 XT while having certain restrictions seems to be a better buy for entry level gamers overall.

CompressedAIBlocks