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Sidenote: Failure To Launch: The Abrupt End of the Geforce RTX 4080 12 GB Model

Yesterday, a surprising announcement came down from Nvidia. Surprising both for its content but also the braggadocio on display – Nvidia is “unlaunching” the RTX 4080 12GB… Read more “Sidenote: Failure To Launch: The Abrupt End of the Geforce RTX 4080 12 GB Model”

This one is kind of just a fun personal story, because I spent most of the day fending off our dog as deliverypeople came one by one… Read more “Sidente (Sort Of, I Guess?): My New Desk/Office/Streaming Setup Planning and Parts”

Initially, I wanted to write this as a series of posts about each manufacturer and topic, but they feed into each other in ways that are worth… Read more “Sidenote: Catching Up With All The PC Gaming Technology Announced and Rumored for Later This Year”

I’ve written a ton of WoW posts and a growing number of technology posts in my Sidenote series, but never have I been able to mash-up the… Read more “Sidenote: Potential System Upgrades You Could Use for WoW: Shadowlands”

On some level, I want to like laptops. I’ve spent a good chunk of my professional life armed with a laptop for work, not always, but once… Read more “My Personal Story of Laptop Ownership, Bridging Into All The Gaming Stuff at CES 2020”

While I’m working on putting together some more game entries for my games of the decade, I felt like doing a single-post, condensed listing of the best… Read more “Gaming Tech of the Decade – A Condensed List of My Best Things in Tech”

A few months ago, I wrote a fun story about upgrading my main computer to the new Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core processor. With the time that has… Read more “Sidenote – The Post-Launch Evaluation of the Ryzen 9 3900X”

Friday was a day I was very excited for, but also dreading. I decided to take a plunge and purchase the Ryzen 9 3900X, upgrading my desktop… Read more “Sidenote – The Story of My Upgrade to the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X”

Reviews depend on narratives – at least, most consumer product reviews do. Tech enthusiasts read reviews for a lot of reasons – but many of us read… Read more “Sidenote – Ryzen Third Generation Reviews”

The processor technology war is heating up in a way it hasn’t since the late nineties through early 2000’s, and that is really exciting. My last post… Read more “Sidenote: AMD’s Zen 2 and the Bizarre Lack of Response from Intel”