GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

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Excuse me my point was it's $3000 more for some anime theme than a regular 5090.
Lmao. They used to give stickers for FREE when you bought a FX or Phenom in Japan/China (HK I think). They also had real life people dress up as the mascots...
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Japan had TSUKUMO run an ad campaign with extra products (seethis).
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I don't remember if Intel had a mascot, pretty sure they didn't and I was too poor to check. Reddit has ayyMD for extra brainrot.
 

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One thing I'm surprised motherboard makers haven't done is sell add-on heatsinks to their boards in custom colours or designs. 90% of the high-end boards now are covered in heatsinks/spreaders but are only ever available in black, white, or silver. Meanwhile cases are starting to come in more and more colours.
 
Excuse me AMD used to do this all the time. At least ATI's ruby wasn't a high schooler.
for western demons they made cool looking 3D renditions of pretty girls or machines and sometimes monsters.
shame they don't do it outside that very same specific market that has been doing that shit for a while now, if intel battlemage had a cool looking femme fatale model i'd buy it in a heartbeat, not because nvidia and amd are smoking some rancid weed to make gpu's while giving their all in for AI bullshit.

RX 9070's tests are out.
 
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Do Saudi princes even play games? I thought they spent most of their money paying flying in OF and IG whores.
If a Saudi prince likes a streamer, they’ll just drop like $10,000+ donations like it’s nothing.

Money to a Saudi prince is like water to an Atlantean. Even if they only played N64 emulator games, why not just spend an ungodly amount of money on the PC? Not like it matters to them :story:
 
Did anyone see this yellow turd?
It's so sloppy that it's an insult to the chemical element.
washed gold? fucking hell, i'd prefer a 99% silver one instead of this shite, their brushed gold one looked way better.

Do Saudi princes even play games? I thought they spent most of their money paying flying in OF and IG whores.
they most likely pay people to play their games and only play a few things that interest them.
 
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If a Saudi prince likes a streamer, they’ll just drop like $10,000+ donations like it’s nothing.

Money to a Saudi prince is like water to an Atlantean. Even if they only played N64 emulator games, why not just spend an ungodly amount of money on the PC? Not like it matters to them :story:
 
They're not quitting yet.

I genuinely wonder how much of their problem is due to absolutely fucking up the branding beyond all recognition. Nerds plugged into the tech scene do not always grasp how you have literal milliseconds to communicate something with a brand name, and if you fail in those milliseconds, you just lost sales. "Series" is absolutely the worst brand name you could come up with. It's such a bad brand that it's not even obvious that's a brand. It's the kind of word that people will mistakenly add in on their own.

It's not trivial. Nintendo discovered after the fact that many people thought the "Wii U" was just a tablet attachment for the Wii. How many people didn't realize the "Xbox One S" and "Xbox Series S" were different products? You can find a ton of listings on various digital storefronts for an "Xbox One Series S," a product that doesn't exist (usually what is shown is an Xbox One S).
It's especially impressive given the fact that Microsoft's other product with retarded naming, Windows, is still coherent enough that when you say a specific version, people immediately recognize it. 98? Yeah that really old one. Me? Yeah that old one but shit. XP? Yeah the best one with the green field wallpaper. Vista? Yeah the worst since Me. 7? Yeah that was the best OS ever. 8 and 8.1 were such a blur that barely anyone remembers it. Now 10 and 11.
98 > Me > XP > Vista > 7 > 8 > 10 > 11
Zero logical sense, yet still immediately recognizable.

Now let's look at all the major Xbox consoles:
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One
Xbox One S
Xbox One X
Xbox Series S
Xbox Series X
So, now you have to retroactively call the first Xbox something like "OG Xbox" because Microsoft has diluted the Xbox branding so badly, Xbox 360 was the only name that was immediately recognizable (especially with how badly Sony fucked up the PS3 launch that gen), and then it goes downhill.
Xbox One. Okay, that alone could perhaps make some sense if not for the fact how easy it is to confuse with the "OG" Xbox.
Then their low-end and mid-gen refresh naming came in, S and X. So you have three different products where the extra letter or lack thereof defines which specific product it is, and it all can be confused with the very first one.
And then, Xbox Series. I swear whoever did the branding at Xbox had zero background in advertising and marketing. If you were to cut the Series bit, well shit, Xbox X and Xbox S, that sure as hell wouldn't be confusing.

It's like with USB standards, you have to have a cheatsheet on hand to tell which is which since the names are so fucking confusing.
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So, now you have to retroactively call the first Xbox something like "OG Xbox" because Microsoft has diluted the Xbox branding so badly, Xbox 360 was the only name that was immediately recognizable (especially with how badly Sony fucked up the PS3 launch that gen), and then it goes downhill.
This is a cursed timeline. Wake up and enjoy the Xbox 720 launch.

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