Reader Mail for March Loose Ends
Added 2021-03-31 23:15:38 +0000 UTCAnother month, another 30 days of hardware leaks and gaming discussion. Any lingering thoughts about the subjects from March 2021? PUT THEM BELOW!
Tom will get to a handful of Patreon questions at the beginning of the show before he gets into the SuperChat questions. Be thoughtful, use good grammar, and be concise. If you are, Tom may just read your question live.
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Put this in reader mail and I will say more, but long story short - Burn in hasn't been an issue for years. I would argue worrying about burn in is like when people worried about SSD's dying before harddrives before too many read/writes. It's not a real concern for good products anymore imo.
Moore's Law Is Dead
2021-04-02 00:24:57 +0000 UTCTom you commented on your OLED on broken silicon, how is it and are you a advocate for a OLED to be gaming monitor. BTW im thinking of getting a samsung W4k 60 hz at costco I saw or save for a nice OLED. Scared of the burn in, thing.
Dr Forbin
2021-04-01 23:01:49 +0000 UTCIt feels Q6 of 2020 is continuing relatively smooth, no big news (in 2020 standard), so calm before storm feeling here... perhaps some big disruption cooking in pc tech, we cannot see yet, but soonish...
Timo H
2021-04-01 22:37:17 +0000 UTCHey Tom, What games are you playing at the moment? Was just playing Command and Conquer Generals for the throwback, did you ever have a crack at RTS games? By the way, itβs 11:15pm in the UK. I can only assume this livestream timing is some kind of sick joke π Have a good evening!
Authoritarrr
2021-04-01 22:07:31 +0000 UTCAs CPUs/GPUs go down the chiplet path, what's stopping someone from making their own chip that integrates all these different chiplet onto? Assuming they know what all the pads on the silicon leads and can be put onto a motherboard like an APU. Drivers? Power draw? Software? Or hardware locks?
Treble Sketch
2021-04-01 05:07:16 +0000 UTCPat Gelsinger stated in his Intel business update that Alder Lake desktop was coming before mobile. What are you thoughts on that decision? Any more info about ADL being able to stand up to a Zen 3 "plus" competitor?
2021-04-01 04:13:32 +0000 UTCHi Tom (and Dan - if he's there) I hope your move is going well. Are we going to see your new background in the new place or will it continue to be the static background from Peoria?
Brian Steiner
2021-04-01 01:26:12 +0000 UTCIf we got big enough we actually would totally do live shows and meet and greets.
Moore's Law Is Dead
2021-04-01 00:49:18 +0000 UTCHey Tom, I'm an electrical engineer and have noticed that the silicon shortage is more widespread than I originally thought it would be. Everything from voltage regulators to logic gates are running out of stock with 30+ week lead times. Do you think shortages of the power delivery ICs will start contributing to more product scarcity, not just for GPUs but motherboards and PSUs too?
Logan B
2021-03-31 23:23:58 +0000 UTCI managed to get through a friend a 5900x at MSRP, since I cannot at the current time upgrade my GPU (and you know why) will my RX580x with 8GB bottleneck? I will be running 32GB ram 3200 cl16 with an Asus ROG Crosshair x570. Tom, I love and support your channel with my meager dono every month and in return get great content and yes even some knowledge. Thank you. PS looking forward to MLID fan forum in a few years after 10k patreons for the meet and greet!
Dr Forbin
2021-03-31 23:21:15 +0000 UTCIs the low end dead ,unless you have managed 2nd hand deals? Do we some fantastic Apu taking the low end soon with say am5
Kiwi Phil
2021-03-31 23:18:06 +0000 UTC
