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  1. Tripamang

    AssHat 2022 Voting Round 2!!!

    Foler vs. Gavinmad: Foler Lithose vs. BrutulTM: BrutualTM Soygen vs. Zapatta: Soygen Masakari vs. BoozeCube: Masakari Araysar vs. Mr. Sox: Mr Sox Izo vs. Mudcrush Durtfeet: Mudcrush Durtfeet Bandwagon vs. Sanrith Descartes: Bandwagon Dicktrickle vs. Blazin: Dicktrickle Rajaah vs. Hoss...
  2. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Gigabyte AORUS FO48U is on for 799$ right now, 48" OLED panel, 3 yr warranty. I've got one on back order, hopefully its not too crazy for my desk but I can easily be 80+cm from it so I'm hoping it's fine. Now I just need a 7900xtx or a 4080 to drive it.
  3. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Graham Hancock has a new series on Netflix called "Ancient Apocalypse" that's pretty good. I'm a few episodes in and he's making a strong case for his theory so far. Definitely an interesting watch.
  4. Tripamang

    AssHat of the year, 2022 version!

    Well done sir, you have my vote.
  5. Tripamang

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  6. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    My issue is it's 8,000 x 2250 not 7680 × 4320, so about 54% of the pixels, far below what people think of when they hear 8k. Not to say that it wouldn't be a sweet monitor, but it's really marketing BS.
  7. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    The 8K they're quoting is a lie, and it's an ultra wide 4k, not true 8k. So 2x the resolution of 4k.
  8. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Looks like I spoke too soon, LTT seems optimistic that it's within spitting distance of a 4090.
  9. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I was hoping they would put enough pressure on the 4080/4090 to drop the prices of the whole range down several hundred dollars and you'd start seeing higher performance in the mid range at bargin prices. Chiplets on paper looked like a good way to hit the performance ball park with a 20-30%...
  10. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    I could be wrong but looking at the hardware specs the 7900XTX is probably below or trading blows with the 4080. I'm sure it'll be good bang for your buck but it's not hitting Nvidia where I thought it would. Best case scenario here we see the 4800 drop down to 999$ and the 4900 sticks to it's...
  11. Tripamang

    Welcome to Wrexham

    I watched the whole thing, I enjoyed it minus all the woke nonsense. If you like this show at all just skip episode 17, it's so stupid it almost ruins the series.
  12. Tripamang

    The Peripheral

    I really enjoyed the first couple episodes but as other people have said since this is the Westworld crew they're going to burn through the captivating content pretty rapidly. Once the mystery of what the people in the future want with people from the past runs out I expect this will take a nose...
  13. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    There is an updated Unsolved Mysteries series and in season 3 they have an episode called "Something in the Sky. It's about a bunch of UFO's spotted in Michigan around March 8th 1994 where a large number of UFOs were seen grid searching all over the state then eventually collecting on a spot of...
  14. Tripamang

    American Horror Story

    Newest season is just one giant gay story, it's so gay that I'm pretty sure it's going to be cancelled.
  15. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    James Fox's new movie Moment of Contact came out yesterday, it's about a case in Brazil where a tic tac shaped UFO crashed and two occupants were captured by the authorities. It does a really good job of laying out the time line with witnesses, everything from the crash site down where the...
  16. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    The worst part was the driver support for new games wasn't usually there for a couple weeks sometimes and even then game devs would sometimes require fixes that would take longer. Quite often I'd be done a game before support was available.which made being an early adopter of 2560x1600 terrible.
  17. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    We have a pretty good idea of what you would need to travel faster than light, I don't think it's beyond reason a civilization more advanced than us could master it. If you go faster than FTL you can arrive before you left. If they have anti grav tech, it would imply they are already capable of...
  18. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Anything potentially sensitive, salacious (if you're the right people) or contentious is curated out to 40-50 pages then the search just stops returning results. What made search engines useful has been twisted and censored into oblivion. Short of knowing extremely specific search terms a decent...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    It will be interesting to see how the prices change after amd launches the 7000 series. AMDs bill of material is expected to be much lower and the performance difference may not be that much. AMD could try to take market share and it could be a major hit to Nvidia's bottom line, or they could...
  20. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I fully understand the subject, I started the virtual currency thread here and I was one of the first thousand or so people to use Bitcoin. I appreciate your view point but it's a warped perspective of what's possible. Right now we have the tech to make anonymous ids validated by snarks, where...
  21. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    How is it more centralized? I'm so confused what you mean by this. What does decentralized mean to you? Zcash and Monero are both anonymous, there is nothing stopping people from using them. All the pieces are there for a cash like society with digital transactions.
  22. Tripamang

    The Astronomy Thread

    If you want another laugh, Orion had its test flight in 2014 and that's on top of its redesign in 2010. Boeing is just garbage and should be excluded from bidding on anything.
  23. Tripamang

    The Astronomy Thread

    Clearly you've done zero research into this and you're talking out your ass. Just go back to negging everything your menial mind fails to grasp.
  24. Tripamang

    The Astronomy Thread

    They built a test machine to make sure they could get it to work, now they're scaling it up for bigger payloads. It replaces the first stage of the rocket, so it still requires a second stage to get to orbit. What the fuck are you talking about?
  25. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I mined for years non stop with my 1080 and it did eventually stop working. I baked in a toaster oven as @Brahma suggested and it came back to life. This makes sense because one of the expected points of failure would be poor solder joints that eventually weaken and break under thermal load...
  26. Tripamang

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Even in the hard sciences more than half the paper conclusions are bullshit, it's infuriating. I'm not sure if academia people are just too agreeable or what, but I've known a handful of people who have published horseshit, that horseshit got a nice amount of references and everybody involved...
  27. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    If this passes it may go down as one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in US history. Of all the people to be in charge when this happens you've got a dementia patient leading the US so if there is ready tech sitting there it's going to be in his hands and potentially his legacy...
  28. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    The AI doesn't think unless something is asked of it and it doesn't have real thoughts just tricks to leverage the data it's been trained with to maintain context. It's like talking with a human with perfect recall of trillions of data points but it can't come up with anything new, it has no...
  29. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    It was mostly witnessed by kids, what did you expect? I love how you pick the drawings of children but leave off the ones showing the indentations in the grass where the kids say a craft landed. It's probably one of the better accounts of a landing because it was witnessed by so many adults and...
  30. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Luis Elizondo and Gary Nolan have both mentioned in recent days of wording being worked on to offer amnesty to officials involved in the UAP cover up. Supposedly this is the last remaining road block before full disclosure as the people in charge of these programs have broken the law to maintain...
  31. Tripamang

    RIP Araysar

    Shocked face.. pans to fucking body bags. No context, no explanation, just setup for pure emotional response, it's hard not to laugh at such obvious garbage. I would bet my left nut those were all Russian collaborators the Ukraine military/Azov battalion executed and since they're trash people...
  32. Tripamang

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    They're planning to sell them at a loss just to gain marketshare and they have millions to sell. Plus they're targeted at the mainstream market as the highest end card they have might rival a 3070 but the bulk of GPU sales are 3070 and below so I expect they'll sell tons it's just at what price.
  33. Tripamang

    RIP Araysar

    @DickTrickle if you don't think war zones are a means to siphon off weapons for resale you're either nieve or ignorant. So long as the people signing the paper work get their cut they couldn't give two shits where they end up. Billions of weapons bound for UAE/Saudi Arabia have armed all sorts...
  34. Tripamang

    RIP Araysar

    They're probably selling them.
  35. Tripamang

    Raised by Wolves

    I really like this show for a whole host of reasons.
  36. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    We'll have to agree to disagree. When I really dove into the subject there was a great amount of evidence that some sort of advanced intelligence is operating on the planet that doesn't originate from our civilization. I came at this as a skeptic that was convinced it was bullshit and I was...
  37. Tripamang

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    The only place we know of with that's produced intelligent life is earth and modern humans have been kicking it for 250-300k in terms of fossils as much as 800k years using the genetic record. With the correct societal forces you're maybe 200-300 years from stone age culture to something that...
  38. Tripamang

    Favorite Awesome and Absurd Action Movies

    If I remember right first act is the Asian chicks kidnapping, second act they call everybody into the mob boss' house and they leave the quasi retarded guy to mind the phone. Retard answers the phone when they're at boss'place, they find out where he is with the trace buster buster and Lou...
  39. Tripamang

    The Astronomy Thread

    I think the NASA budget once Starship starts flying is going to be very interesting. It's going to be real hard to justify a lot of these long term slow moving projects with all these complex expensive weight trade offs. The cost to fly is so expensive that everything has to be perfect right now...
  40. Tripamang

    The Astronomy Thread

    Throw away starship and just consider currently available tech, 4.1 billion is same cost as 27 falcon heavy launches at 150 million per launch but we'll be generous and round it down to 25 launches. That gets you 64 tons to LEO per falcon heavy launch and if you were you assemble your ship in...