LOL, imagine thinking you’d ever actually have a wide selection of in-stock GPUs to choose from and wouldn’t have to settle for what you can get.

By their argument, nobody’s “purchased” anything from them in over a decade!

What they’ve been doing that whole time is committing massive fraud (false advertising, violating the First Sale Doctrine, etc.) instead.

On one hand I agree with GamersNexus Steve that ‘line go down = bad,’ but on the other hand you could consider it as the flagship becoming more and more of an outlier. (In other words, if the graph were normalized such that the 80 series line were flat, then I think the lower-model lines would also be flat but the 90 series line would be going up.)

If Nvidia “fixed” it by just not offering the 5090 in its current form at all and instead having the fastest non-pro/compute/AI card be one with a lower price and fewer cores, would that make Steve and gamers happy?

There is no AMD reference design for the 9070 or 9070 XT.

The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let’s Encrypt, and F-Droid

Which brand/model card do you have? There’s no “reference design,” so it matters.

Worst case scenario, you could hook your LEDs to an Arduino running WLED instead of to the motherboard headers directly, then run something like Home Assistant, xLights, or Vixen to automate them or choreograph them to music. 🤪

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We shouldn’t have to do workarounds like that in the first place. It’s getting to be like the Stockholm syndrome people have about Windows abuses. I didn’t put up that shit, and I’m not gonna put up with this either.