Once more we have confirmed that the chip that we call GT300 is on schedule to launch in 2009. The way it looks now the chip should be launching roughly in November timeframe and of course it will be a high end product.
Nvidia has put in a lot of effort in order to beat ATI and keep the performance leadership, as this is something it cannot afford to lose.
EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
AMD has long been the best value option if you're looking for a new GPU. Now even their latest Radeon RX 7000 series is getting cheaper.
In the past yes but last gen amd has gotten cheaper and there new cards are on the horizon making 6k even cheaper.
The arc cards are no longer made by intel but asus/asrock has some the next line battlemage is coming out prices tbd.
Do to the longer software development its always best to go amd over intel if its not to much more money even though intel is a strong gpu i own 2/4 card versions.
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
Not gonna buy, so I don't really care
Hopefully NVIDIA and ATI start paying off or buying devs to make PC exclusives to take advantage of the new hardware. Because as of now, there isn't much of a reason for a pc gamer to upgrade past the current generation of video cards...
Oh I want this...
Graphically PC games still stay fairly in sync with consoles as many major PC games are released on console as well, so when the new generation of consoles come along they have a major graphical leap almost overnight (eg: when the 360 launched suddenly PC games took as jump in visuals such as Oblivion).
This console generation looks like it will be prolonged for a while because of the recession, so I doubt visually there'll be too much advancement in the next few years for PC even though more powerful hardware keeps coming out regularly.
That's why I recently bought a PC despite DX11 coming soon - prices are fantastic for both CPUs (I got Core i7 920) and GPUs (My choice was 2 x ATi 4890s in Crossfire), and I doubt DX11 will have much of an impact for a years as even DX10 isn't very prevalent in games yet as the current consoles don't support it. DX10 in PC games is still generally just a bonus or slightly improves performance.
So yeah, after all that, I can't justify spending a lot to get an Nvidia GT300 or ATi 5000 when current hardware is going to last for a good while due to the state of the industry. And hey, down the line can just add another card if needed for multi-GPUs.
I will just wait for a mainstream price high end card like how the 8800 GT was to come out before I get a new PC.