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Early buyers; must feel like a relief.
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Early buyers; must feel like a relief.

You must have seen the news recently about GPUs getting more expensive because of the rising costs of the VRAM that they use, specifically GDDR6 (Radeon), GDDR6X, GDDR7 (Nvidia).

While the 6 got pricier, 6X and 7 shot up over 30%! And ofc, as always, Nvidia's partners won't just absorb the extra cost, they'll take advantage of it but not raising the price upto the extra cost of the VRAM that they are paying, but for the whole damn graphics card! No, the RTX 5070 Ti VRAM's price did not rise by $400. Even if their costs rise by $50, they'll use that as an excuse to charge many times more.

Those of you who bought earlier OR right after the news spread at relatively lower price, congrats on your timing 👍 Enjoy.

P.S. Don't be disheartened if your warranty-'protected' malfunctioning gpu is not replaced during these times but instead refunded for by the lower msrp price. Because, corporations do be like that, have already done so with SSDs.

u/MilkSheikh007 — 4 days ago
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Never imagined there'd be a worse period for us than the coin-mining times.

Idk if I am wrong in thinking this, so please point out if I am, but the memory inflation affects not just RAMs and SSDs, but GPUs too as evidenced by the GDDR6X and GDDR7 memory price increases that have led Nvidia's 'partners' to raise their graphics cards' prices by over 10% somewhat consistently throughout the different models. I won't allege 30% since that is less common. And 10%+ or so plus for the GDDR6 Radeon.

It affects thumb drive prices as well. Prices of thumb sticks went up by around 90%; so the price is near double compared to before for 32GB to 256GB sticks. I check aliexpress sometimes.

And now motherboard makers are saying that motherboard small parts are more expensive, and so motherboards will see a price hike too. All of a sudden, capacitors are overpriced!? Makes me think of conspiracies that they are actually trying to play this greed-game more widely by 'fixing' the prices!

I know we all don't need a $20 thumb stick (previous $10) immediately and heck, some of us could even borrow a stick from a friend to install an OS and done, return it back. But can't build a PC without new RAMs, SSD, both of which are essential parts. Even if you want to go DDR4, it's still going to cost you almost double for those parts! Gen 3 SSDs? The same problem, double the price!

In my opinion, ethically, a corporation's responsibility should not disruptively be towards one type of a consumer, the B2B AI-server companies, while de-prioritising the others, single consumers. It should be towards all of us. No, money should not be blindly chased, in any sphere of life. The memory manufacturers over-prioritising their production for the AI-boom has led to us consumers facing the problem. B2C consumers (us) have also been a major market for sales just like server companies pre-AI boom, but the memory makers did not respect this ratio. Not over-prioritising the AI-Server companies would not have accelerated AI-investment at such a rapid pace, sure, but on the flip-positive side, that would have led to lesser lay-offs/unemployment rate around the world, and a lesser pace of market disruption that we see today and economies would better absorb that. The abyss of corporate greed....smh... they don't really know what level of profit % will really satisfy them.

The meme's not really making fun of the situation. Thought I lite-rant a little more just to clarify. The meme-faces are possibly of those individuals who are playing a direct part in keeping the prices high. As usual, I always say, if it's possible for you to maintain your existing PC parts and not need to upgrade immediately, then please don't upgrade. It is us consumers who together hold the higher power and can change the market trajectory. The memory makers need us for their Q1Q2Q3Q4 profits. 2 Quarters with drops in sales and it is they who will beg us to buy.

u/MilkSheikh007 — 10 days ago
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Unpredictable counter-move.

'Normally', when a company, in any industry slips up with sudden price increases or other forms of "oopsies", we can see that their competitors take advantage of this to try to win hearts, but not AMD, when Nvidia slip up, AMD become even more competitive in beating them in slipping up!

I mean.... "AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity" said some tech enthusiasts. I'm glad the reviewer community have heavily criticised their 4GB GPU move here in 2026.

u/MilkSheikh007 — 11 days ago
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Maybe it's better to take a look at the backlog once in a while, eh.

I have, for many days, ignored my personal backlog and have bought games now and then when there were discounts. I've even bought a game back in 2021 which I still did NOT play! How many of you have done this and want to focus on your backlog soon? :D

u/MilkSheikh007 — 19 days ago
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AMD in 2026, "here, enjoy a 4GB RDNA 4 graphics card"

https://preview.redd.it/s0w2c3lz40gh1.png?width=984&format=png&auto=webp&s=d51370b43838ab6757d22ce837a876e386cc7b13

Is it really acceptable to offer a 4GB version of graphics card in 2026!!??

I get that this is the low end offering and that there is a memory supply crisis out there too, but does that mean permanent design choices such as only providing 4GB VRAM in graphics card need to be made in 2026!? Heck! Even 8GB is not enough for some of the latest titles, at 1080p, in medium to high settings! The stutters are experience-hindering! What is a gamer expected to enjoy with 4GB? Older games pre-2020? While there is nothing wrong with that, shouldn't he then just take a peek into the second hand market? What value proposition does this new gpu variant then present? 🤦‍♂️

I can understand that a graphics card can be targeted for e-sports titles mainly, but this isn't the only major type of games esports gamers play all the time. Their experience will be horrible in the newer titles now and beyond with only 4GB VRAM. Even reducing graphics settings will not be enough in some games to remove the stutters!

This was truly an L move from AMD Radeon. I understand that there is also an 8GB variant that goes with this gpu and that might make sense for some gamers only if the price is well below $200, but the existence of a 4GB card alone is a 👎 Criticism where it should be due, folks, and this is definitely not a hate-post. There are low end gamers like us that exist and it's a concern for us.

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u/MilkSheikh007 — 23 days ago
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AMD in 2026, "here, enjoy a 4GB RDNA 4 graphics card"

https://preview.redd.it/hwklam6130gh1.png?width=984&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d6166222f0dd399c863a3693cdf2bb0acb0a763

Is it really acceptable to offer a 4GB version of graphics card in 2026!!??

I get that this is the low end offering and that there is a memory supply crisis out there too, but does that mean permanent design choices such as only providing 4GB VRAM in graphics card need to be made in 2026!? Heck! Even 8GB is not enough for some of the latest titles, at 1080p, in medium to high settings! The stutters are experience-hindering! What is a gamer expected to enjoy with 4GB? Older games pre-2020? While there is nothing wrong with that, shouldn't he then just take a peek into the second hand market? What value proposition does this new gpu variant then present? 🤦‍♂️

I can understand that a graphics card can be targeted for e-sports titles mainly, but this isn't the only major type of games esports gamers play all the time. Their experience will be horrible in the newer titles now and beyond with only 4GB VRAM. Even reducing graphics settings will not be enough in some games to remove the stutters!

This was truly an L move from AMD Radeon. I understand that there is also an 8GB variant that goes with this gpu and that might make sense for some gamers only if the price is well below $200, but the existence of a 4GB card alone is a 👎 Criticism where it should be due, folks, and this is definitely not a hate-post. There are low end gamers like us that exist and it's a concern for us.

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u/MilkSheikh007 — 23 days ago
▲ 4 r/operabrowser

Winning in silence.

https://preview.redd.it/ys6xpi13i4fh1.png?width=1644&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad05b0ea169c64be3c05793552b98a094ec8f4f9

https://preview.redd.it/rdqu17p3i4fh1.png?width=1635&format=png&auto=webp&s=06d533e8519f40e502beb7eb8ada45bae2d48825

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Opera has been helping its users silently without much noise on social media about its native ad-bIocker and tracker bIocker functionality. Compared to that, Brave is way too noisy about its default functions. Sure, one must advertise their own function but in that regard, Opera is silently cooking it.

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u/MilkSheikh007 — 27 days ago
▲ 4 r/pcmasterrace

Back when we could get to buy EVGA and its 'Classified' variants of cards.

https://preview.redd.it/a7g6m6a7gdeh1.jpg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4acc55c9ee2211e19c55671223441147462473e8

Can anyone recall them evga gtx  285 classified series of cards? Tmk, it released back in early2009 or sometime near that time. This was THE KING at that time if I'm not wrong. We've come far from THIS 55nm to 4nm now.  This one's bus-width was huge too, a monster for its time. It's sleek black shroud was gorgeous at that time and even now for those value it as a collector's piece. A dream for enthusiasts then, for performance, a prized possession for those who collect vintage cards now. And yes, it CPULD run Crysis :P and quite remarkably too. And while none of us are particular fans (see what I did there? :P ) of blower style tech, this one's blower style fan was good enough to push out the 200W or so heat output. Anyone here holding on to their old, vintage hardware?

P.S. Kinda miss evga.

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u/MilkSheikh007 — 1 month ago
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Itch to replay Absolution - seeking good visual mods

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Hello, agents! Need your help. I want to replay Hitman Absolution. I played it the first time on GOG many years back when I knew less about mods, tweaks, etcetra. I want to apply some visual mods or any tweak that can make my experience better.

To start things off, I'd love to disable the film grain, but I could not find any such setting anywhere in the game settings or in the registry. Would love to known if there is a way to disable this.

Also, I'd like to know where I can find good mods for the game that are more on the visual side, to take off the default yellow tint so that I can see more accurate colours.

Could you guys help a fella out? 😅

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u/MilkSheikh007 — 1 month ago
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To the defenders of the 12vhpwr 16-pin GPU power connector.

https://preview.redd.it/8bjhq2y3s0dh1.png?width=271&format=png&auto=webp&s=963aebdba9de33fe61d2cb1fe24075524af25cf7

Those who defend this gpu connector design choice make statements like, "the failure rate is still below 5% (as per Nvidia) and so it's low", and "the user did not fully seat-in the power connector and so it is the users' fault". And trust me, these are possible realities.

But isn't it strange that, these 'user-end mistakes' of not being able to "properly seat-in" the gpu power connector became a 'thing' or an 'issue' right after the release/launch of this 16-pin power connector?

Did GPU users 'all of a sudden' become inept at seating-in gpu power connectors right after this connector's release and were all experts at doing so when 8-Pin GPU power connectors were the norm? 🤔

Just a thought, which I thought of sharing with those who defend this connector design :)

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u/MilkSheikh007 — 1 month ago
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Maybe it's time to pay back after all.

Be honest though, has anyone paid them for their legendary product? And how many years have you used it?

u/MilkSheikh007 — 1 month ago
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There was actually never a denial

This is more hypothetical. They always said that their new software tech was not ready for their older hardware tech but at the end of the day it took them way too long to get it to working on only one of their older hardware gen. OR, maybe there are more hidden factors at play which we users have no clue about. 🤷‍♂️

u/MilkSheikh007 — 1 month ago
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How much more or less is this still the case?

A few years back FSR 3.1 was just developed as a response to DLSS 3, and while DLSS 3 was AI based, it still didn't look so good that people abandoned native (and because developers at that time still cared about TAA unlike now). Every time an RT game was released, it was a concern for Radeon gamers who didn't really have the hardware to smoothly run it since most Radeon users back a couple years were still on RDNA 2 I assume. But now, surely the concern is less so after FSR 4.1.1's big official update, right? Even optiscaler gets updates to help Rx 6000 users gain fsr 4.0.2c.

u/MilkSheikh007 — 1 month ago
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Which time is worse?

If you were to be asked: Which inflation is worse between these two, then which would you pick? The time back when the mining period inflated the gpu prices or now when the AI era has led to artificial price increases of memory chips?

u/MilkSheikh007 — 2 months ago