HW News - NZXT BLD Responds to GN, Intel Delay Lawsuit, NVIDIA Really Might Buy ARM
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EDIT: I do not agree on Steve picking on NZXT here. I didn't see tremendous risk written anywhere, just risk, which is true, there is risk not just to memory as he said, but to the CPU and motherboard too especially if the motherboard or cpu is made to (accidentally?) run outside of specs. Memory does run hotter when OC, I have memory kit boxes that say so and in a case with limited airflow it is the case.
Date: 2020-08-05
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I bought a 3500 custom PC from nzxt at the beginning of this year. Started having random crashes with multiple different error codes at the end of June. Called nzxt and they confirmed I would get a shipping label by the end of the day. I never got it, so I tried calling every day for about a week to no avail. I submitted another ticket, and after some time got an email response in which they, again, said I would get I return label and I was approved for RMA. No less than ONE MONTH LATER, after many calls and emails, I FINALLY got the shipping label. For ground shipping. I live in Georgia and they are in California. The original estimate for getting my PC back was one month, but it took them a whole month to send the label! I was originally told I would get the label on July 1st, and actually got it on August 4th. Do not bother with nzxt. The whole point of going through a builder is for the support and warranty, and they don t even bother to hold their end of the deal up.
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I bought a 3500 custom PC from nzxt at the beginning of this year. Started having random crashes with multiple different error codes at the end of June. Called nzxt and they confirmed I would get a shipping label by the end of the day. I never got it, so I tried calling every day for about a week to no avail. I submitted another ticket, and after some time got an email response in which they, again, said I would get I return label and I was approved for RMA. No less than ONE MONTH LATER, after many calls and emails, I FINALLY got the shipping label. For ground shipping. I live in Georgia and they are in California. The original estimate for getting my PC back was one month, but it took them a whole month to send the label! I was originally told I would get the label on July 1st, and actually got it on August 4th. Do not bother with nzxt. The whole point of going through a builder is for the support and warranty, and they don t even bother to hold their end of the deal up.
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imon
For the virtual crowd thing, I can provide a bit more context (I recently declined a Senior SWE position with one of the companies doing digital compositing for sports events).
Real-time composition of digital items into sports events is extremely bleeding edge. Most of the startups are doing advertising replacements (i.e. generating multiple video streams with localized advertising form a single video) since that is where the money is.
There are hardware solutions that work well, but they need to be attached to each of the cameras on the stadium (so price & clunkiness is an issue).
I wouldn't expect Silver Spoon to have access to this technology, so in that context, the fact that it ended up working as well as it did is actually impressive.
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For the virtual crowd thing, I can provide a bit more context (I recently declined a Senior SWE position with one of the companies doing digital compositing for sports events).
Real-time composition of digital items into sports events is extremely bleeding edge. Most of the startups are doing advertising replacements (i.e. generating multiple video streams with localized advertising form a single video) since that is where the money is.
There are hardware solutions that work well, but they need to be attached to each of the cameras on the stadium (so price & clunkiness is an issue).
I wouldn't expect Silver Spoon to have access to this technology, so in that context, the fact that it ended up working as well as it did is actually impressive.
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FlyingPhilUK
nVidia aquiring ARM seems really interesting - but I can't see how this plays out well
- and I say this as someone who generally likes nVidia
If it does go through, then it seems that nVidia will aquire some good ARM IP
- and design teams
- but ARM is small beer compared to nV
- and nVidia doesn't need Mali
- and it's hard not to see how this won't just push all the other ARM licensees to go for RISCV
- possibly a lot of the key personel at ARM will jump ship to Apple or Qualcomm...
Of course, nV has a lot of very clever people working for it, so they presumably have a plan....
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nVidia aquiring ARM seems really interesting - but I can't see how this plays out well
- and I say this as someone who generally likes nVidia
If it does go through, then it seems that nVidia will aquire some good ARM IP
- and design teams
- but ARM is small beer compared to nV
- and nVidia doesn't need Mali
- and it's hard not to see how this won't just push all the other ARM licensees to go for RISCV
- possibly a lot of the key personel at ARM will jump ship to Apple or Qualcomm...
Of course, nV has a lot of very clever people working for it, so they presumably have a plan....
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Martin
Dear Gamers Nexus, can you do recap on XMP and warranty? Higher spec (4000+) XMP kits put outrageous voltages on the VCCIO/SA like 1.40-1.50V which is way outside Intel's specified safe zone and not a 'slight bump'. All 4000+ kit's I tested were slapping 1.40-1.45V on the controller when XMP was enabled.
Yet these kits still sell without issues. I'm kinda in doubt in this one as NZXT has a point, feels like XMP might degrade and kill the CPU over time, how does Intel validate it?
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Dear Gamers Nexus, can you do recap on XMP and warranty? Higher spec (4000+) XMP kits put outrageous voltages on the VCCIO/SA like 1.40-1.50V which is way outside Intel's specified safe zone and not a 'slight bump'. All 4000+ kit's I tested were slapping 1.40-1.45V on the controller when XMP was enabled.
Yet these kits still sell without issues. I'm kinda in doubt in this one as NZXT has a point, feels like XMP might degrade and kill the CPU over time, how does Intel validate it?
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eloj
19:36 Just ask NZXT for data about the risks of XMP. Big claims require big evidence. I for one would love to see it. Never mind all the other issues, like the memory being made to run at said speed+voltage to begin with, I have never seen nor heard of any memory or even memory controller burning up due to running at the voltage that's in the profile that the memory stick manufacturer put ON THE STICK TO BEGIN WITH.
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19:36 Just ask NZXT for data about the risks of XMP. Big claims require big evidence. I for one would love to see it. Never mind all the other issues, like the memory being made to run at said speed+voltage to begin with, I have never seen nor heard of any memory or even memory controller burning up due to running at the voltage that's in the profile that the memory stick manufacturer put ON THE STICK TO BEGIN WITH.
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Chubbysumo
Sounds like Intel as a company is starting to flail much like AMD did back with bulldozer. This is what they get for sitting on their laurels all those years riding out being a market dominator. They could have been innovating, putting out more cars, putting out smaller processes, and instead, they continue to make 22-nanometer and then 14-nanometer for far too long just to melt the money train.
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Sounds like Intel as a company is starting to flail much like AMD did back with bulldozer. This is what they get for sitting on their laurels all those years riding out being a market dominator. They could have been innovating, putting out more cars, putting out smaller processes, and instead, they continue to make 22-nanometer and then 14-nanometer for far too long just to melt the money train.
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Swine
NZXT puts these systems together for you. That is the fundamental service on offer. If there is a risk in running these systems as advertised, that risk belongs to NZXT, not the customer.
The only way that NZXT could redeem themselves here is to remove all mention of XMP in their warranty documentation and to actually enable it prior to shipping.
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NZXT puts these systems together for you. That is the fundamental service on offer. If there is a risk in running these systems as advertised, that risk belongs to NZXT, not the customer.
The only way that NZXT could redeem themselves here is to remove all mention of XMP in their warranty documentation and to actually enable it prior to shipping.
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kain
why should investors get refunded ??
if they did ANY research, they would have known intel has a long history of bad, crappy, shameful, filled with lies, cherry picking numbers, ETC marketing
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if i spend 200 dollars, and loose it all...... im screwed..... but if im rich, and invest 2 million.... i get it all back????
wut?
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why should investors get refunded ??
if they did ANY research, they would have known intel has a long history of bad, crappy, shameful, filled with lies, cherry picking numbers, ETC marketing
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if i spend 200 dollars, and loose it all...... im screwed..... but if im rich, and invest 2 million.... i get it all back????
wut?
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Sox4life
I watched one of the games on Fox and it was awful. The fans glitched onto the field, a box which I imagine is use for the greenscreenlike ads was all over the screen, reporter's audio was out of sync, and fox added their own crowd noise which was waaay too loud and you couldn't even hear the announcers (not that anyone cared)
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I watched one of the games on Fox and it was awful. The fans glitched onto the field, a box which I imagine is use for the greenscreenlike ads was all over the screen, reporter's audio was out of sync, and fox added their own crowd noise which was waaay too loud and you couldn't even hear the announcers (not that anyone cared)
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