PC News: Best Buy GPU Shenanigans, Intel Arc Roadmap, Ryzen 6000 Mobile Reviews & More
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Date: 2022-03-15
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Aint1S
Best Buy, the only place I've returned a 1060 to and not actually see it taken out a promotional purchase and then see it reapplied to my account!
Call their card service and they say it's a store issue. Go to the store and they say it's card issue! Call the card service and they say hi back to the store. Go back to the store and they turn me back around to card service. After fighting for a month, card service says, --You should have dealt with this sooner, we CANNOT fix the charge as it's been too long! -- I ate that GPU by using their card and they knew that they had it returned!
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Best Buy, the only place I've returned a 1060 to and not actually see it taken out a promotional purchase and then see it reapplied to my account!
Call their card service and they say it's a store issue. Go to the store and they say it's card issue! Call the card service and they say hi back to the store. Go back to the store and they turn me back around to card service. After fighting for a month, card service says, --You should have dealt with this sooner, we CANNOT fix the charge as it's been too long! -- I ate that GPU by using their card and they knew that they had it returned!
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kousaka
Ballistics got shafted by vendors like Dell. If I had ordered my wife's xps17 with 64G ram, they would have shipped it with the ram running at optimal speeds. But since I upgraded it myself, the ram runs at a slow speed, and Dell blocks me from optimizing the speeds. So her $3500 laptop runs Photoshop a bit faster, but overall her laptop seems a bit sluggish compared to it running 16G optimized. It is the exact same ram sticks Dell puts in when they upgrade the ram. So why won't they let it run full speed when you install it yourself?
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Ballistics got shafted by vendors like Dell. If I had ordered my wife's xps17 with 64G ram, they would have shipped it with the ram running at optimal speeds. But since I upgraded it myself, the ram runs at a slow speed, and Dell blocks me from optimizing the speeds. So her $3500 laptop runs Photoshop a bit faster, but overall her laptop seems a bit sluggish compared to it running 16G optimized. It is the exact same ram sticks Dell puts in when they upgrade the ram. So why won't they let it run full speed when you install it yourself?
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Purple
I'm starting to think that the Alchemist line of GPUs will be only on integrated graphics. Everything Intel does on GPUs is to supplement the features of their CPUs, and to have the best lineup of mobile CPUs. They might throw in one or two models of discrete GPUs but this is a side hustle, and I doubt Intel even want to compete with Nvidia/AMD in this arena long term.
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I'm starting to think that the Alchemist line of GPUs will be only on integrated graphics. Everything Intel does on GPUs is to supplement the features of their CPUs, and to have the best lineup of mobile CPUs. They might throw in one or two models of discrete GPUs but this is a side hustle, and I doubt Intel even want to compete with Nvidia/AMD in this arena long term.
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John
Oh no, I have been buying nothing but Crucial Ballistics (sport) memory directly from the manufacturer. Now I had used GSkill memory a decade ago but times change and I really like Crucials line of memory products
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Oh no, I have been buying nothing but Crucial Ballistics (sport) memory directly from the manufacturer. Now I had used GSkill memory a decade ago but times change and I really like Crucials line of memory products
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Santino
shame to see the ballistix line discontinued. they were my go-to because you always knew that they had micron dies in them, eliminating the guesswork when adding sticks to a system
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shame to see the ballistix line discontinued. they were my go-to because you always knew that they had micron dies in them, eliminating the guesswork when adding sticks to a system
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My
I personally can't wait for Intel to get their GPUs on the market. It's about time we have a 3rd contender besides Nvidia and -ATI- AMD.
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I personally can't wait for Intel to get their GPUs on the market. It's about time we have a 3rd contender besides Nvidia and -ATI- AMD.
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