To bolster this, after the 750ti the 50 products have had pretty lame price to performance compared to the next step up, but have remained quite popular. Most people seem to argue that the lack of additional power is their main advantage and why they are popular.

I personally think people remember being happy with the 750ti and just keep buying those cards.

Nor is it always the most stable. I've had update overwrite my working video card driver and replace it with one that blackscreens on reboot.

Don't forget the added financial cost to your surviving family from chasing a few more months or a miracle cure if you live in the US.

I know masks and ICP makeup were suggested as anti face recognition tools. Did anyone actually test pebble in the shoe? I would have thought clothing to hide the gait would be the answer, burkas or JNCO jeans.

Random pattern would make you stick out, particularly when everyone else in the area has identifiable breathing patterns. You'll want to set your diaphragm pacemaker to mimic the most common breathing pattern, probably based on a sample of breathing patterns from your geographical area.

Some people would pay good money to have the breath profile of an athlete, in order to qualify them for only the best of careers.

Well, you'd get turned away at all-you-can-eat buffets.

I expect Champion Eaters have the breath-holding patterns of free divers.

Epiglottigeal toggling is an esophageal inefficiency.

> Epiglottigeal toggling is an esophageal inefficiency.

A tongue twister for the age!

I think AMD was both lucky and good. They came out with a forward thinking design that could bring them back from the brink, but I'm not sure their stuff would have sold if Intel hadn't left them an opening. Most importantly was Intel's failure to execute on 10nm, global foundries 14nm wouldn't have compared as favorably to 10nm even with more cores. And since Intel was stubbornly refusing to sell more cores on anything but their expensive HEDT platform there was a market segment being neglected.

Zen was actually, in a way, a conservative design. They specifically mentioned "performance compatibility" with Intel - they couldn't be weirdly slow in some workloads because of an exotic design. You could say that they had the luxury of not having to aim for the moon because Intel was pretty much parked on the ground, with a failing new process and no ambition to increase core count. Against the original SV ethos, against Andy Grove, just plain old greed and complacency.

Afterwards some or all of the accountability for the taken action is transferred to the amorphous entity known as AI.

I suppose a dark age would be night and therefore preceded by dusk rather than dawn.

Great info in this post with some uncommon questions answered. I have a 3060 with unimpressive idle power consumption, interesting that it varies so much.

I know it would increase the idle power consumption, but have you considered a server platform instead of Ryzen to get more lanes?

Even so, you could probably get at least 4x for 4 cards without getting to crazy. 2 m.2 -> pcie adapters, the main GPU slot and the fairly common 4x wired secondary slot.

Splitting the main 16x GPU slot is possible but whenever I looked into this I kind of found the same thing you did. In addition to being a cabling/mounting nightmare the necessary hardware started to eat up enough total system cost that just ponying up for a 3090 started to make more sense.

My first guess would be to change the Above 4G decoding setting but depending upon how old the motherboard is it may not have that setting.