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Indeed but the underlying principal is to mitigate against morons who go straight to “what about my legal rights”.
 
ICDP said:
Indeed but the underlying principal is to mitigate against morons who go straight to “what about my legal rights”.
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Which can be seen, by some, as an "anti-consumer" approach (in that it protects the company from the consumer) whereas it's more of an "anti-litigious idiot" approach.
 
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Which can be seen, by some, as an "anti-consumer" approach (in that it protects the company from the consumer) whereas it's more of an "anti-litigious idiot" approach.
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I remember reading about the woman who sued McDonalds over the hot coffee. It turns out it was a mix of her being an idiot and McDonalds had set their coffee machine to a temperature well above the recommended maximum.

Having recently got a Sapphire 9070 XT pulse with the hidden foam, I can confirm it is indeed easy to miss but only IF you decide to ignore the big yellow sticker. But removing it took a bit of careful force. At worst you might bend some fins but I imagine some idiots will still find a way to wreck their GPU.
 
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My Pulse 9070 XT has just been delivered - I'll take especial care to follow all included instructions while unboxing / installing it this evening.
 
Lol no more 500 ish 9070xt on ocuk, they bumped the prices up, even tho amd has officially said they shouldnt be putting prices up. It isnt a launch only price i think they said.
 
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It's SATA ports for me. I still have á couple of internal HDDs for bulk storage and a couple of 4TB SSDs as well. Some boards don't even offer 4 ports any more!
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Same here. I hate how modern motherboards have at most 4. I don't think any of the X870 motherboards have more than 4 SATA do they?

I play to use my old PC for a home server build (naturally needing a lot of SATA HDDs) and the motherboard I bought 10 years ago for £120 RRP here on OCUK has 8 ports!
Though admittedly only one M.2 slot that I never used. Outside of the fact it doesn't support ECC memory, all of the expansion makes it perfect. Meanwhile the current AM5 PC has half the SATA ports and far less expandability... forgot GPUs... motherboards have it far worse paying way more money for far less. But I have heard there's M.2 to SATA adaptor cards which can help solve that issue (cos we also get less PCIe slots these days too unfortunately). Now if only I had an old GPU for hardware encoding and also to boot the damn thing, due to the Xeon having no integrated graphics.

Back on topic (despite all of today's general discussion and hype being arround the 9950X3D release), has anyone seen how tiny the PCBs are for these 9070 series cards? Some of the tear downs show that many of the 9070/XT designs are similar to the 5090, small PCB with massive blowthrough heatsinks attached.

A good example is this teardown of a 9070 non-XT here (I guess they also couldn't get an XT).

I wonder if they are just getting efficient with the PCBs or if the GPUs are just overbuild for what they are.
From some reviews I see some silly low temperatures at load in the 50s and 60s.
 
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It even has a yellow warning sticker telling people to remove the foam.
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In fairness with my 1080Ti the clear plastic on the backplate also had instructions to remove it printed on it, but I didn't see that until I removed it from my PC when I "upgraded" it.
On the plus side I've got a lovely relatively dust free backplate on my boxed 1080Ti...
 
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In fairness with my 1080Ti the clear plastic on the backplate also had instructions to remove it printed on it, but I didn't see that until I removed it from my PC when I "upgraded" it.
On the plus side I've got a lovely relatively dust free backplate on my boxed 1080Ti...
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I installed this one then looked at a picture I took before and thought bugger tape all over it that I never spotted
 
mahius said:
Back on topic (despite all of today's general discussion and hype being arround the 9950X3D release), has anyone seen how tiny the PCBs are for these 9070 series cards? Some of the tear downs show that many of the 9070/XT designs are similar to the 5090, small PCB with massive blowthrough heatsinks attached.

A good example is this teardown of a 9070 non-XT here (I guess they also couldn't get an XT).

I wonder if they are just getting efficient with the PCBs or if the GPUs are just overbuild for what they are.
From some reviews I see some silly low temperatures at load in the 50s and 60s.
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Nvidia has been doing this for years. The RTX3070TI had a rated board power of 290W:
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition Review

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is designed to bring the fight to Radeon RX 6800 non-XT. To achieve their goal, NVIDIA maxed out the GA104 GPU design and switched to faster GDDR6X memory. Unfortunately, this also resulted in an increase in power consumption and heat output.
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The RTX4080 Super has a board power of 320W@
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition Review - Savings of $200

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4080 Super introduces a noteworthy $200 price reduction compared to the non-Super 4080, placing significant pricing pressure on AMD's RX 7900 XTX. Despite this, the performance gains vs RTX 4080 non-Super are only marginal, we expected more.
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The PCBs are very compact on them.
 
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