HW News - AMD Silently Launches RX 6400, Zen 4 Pre-Production, GPUs Back In Stock

In the news this week, Dell plans a proprietary DDR5 solution, rumors for upcoming Intel, AMD, & Nvidia products abound, and we launch a charity shirt in support of kitchens for the hungry.

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00:00 - Recap of the Week
01:22 - GN Ukraine Charity Shirt
07:13 - Dell Expands Proprietary Nightmare to DDR5
10:57 - Nvidia Ada GPUs Supposedly Enter Testing
12:44 - Smart Modular AIC to Expand Optane Support
14:50 - Nvidia RTX 30 Series Restocked at MSRP
19:03 - CPU-Z Adds Support for Upcoming CPUs
20:13 - Corsair Announce DDR5 SO-DIMM Kits
22:22 - AMD Shadow Launches the RX 6400 for DIY
26:09 - EK Cuts Workforce by 25%
28:29 - Zen 4 CPUs Now in Pre-Production

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[turbofanlover]

GPU prices are still totally insane...MSRP or not.

[farmboy]

Dell once again never disappointing to disappoint.

[covante]

"Surely no one would change this!"

Dell about to launch 127mm fans.

[rks]

Hold on, am I crazy or EVGA is only "restocking" the most expensive versions of their products, and the ones actually worth buying are still unavailable??

[adriankoch]

The way AMD treats the low end with GPUs, I would not be surprised if it was connected via PCI Gen 4 x2.

[rougenaxela]

Back in 2015, $350 bought you a pretty nice moderately high end GPU. Adjusting for the actual proper overall inflation of the USD dollar, you'd expect similarly high end for the time card be around $425, yet prices are something like 3 times that. It's utterly loony.
With prices as they are, no way I'd buy any new GPU. Heck, a used GTX 1080 Ti looks like a more appealing upgrade path than anything new. As long as you don't care about certain bells and whistles it'll be a decent bit faster than an RTX 3050 while being a comparable price.

[sultanofsick]

Bragging about restocking product at MSRP A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, and oh yeah the MSRP was already inflated, is the most tone-deaf thing I've heard from a company in a long while.

[Anthonybalog]

Been watching you for years. Keep up the good work brother

[hovant]

Gonna take a stab that the next generation of GPUs aren't going to be compelling because shareholders got greedy over the shortage

[EkiToji]

Great to hear cards can be had at MSRP but unfortunately MSRP of all the new cards is even overinflated. I definitely want to upgrade my RX 580 but until a solid mid-grade card can be had for around $250 I don't see the point.

[bgezal]

On the subject of Dell memory.
Anyone remember the IBM PS/2? They had 72-pin DIMMs but inserting a regular one didn't work, you had to buy the overpriced IBM part number.
I worked tech at a PC parts reseller business that figured out that changing the ID pattern on the regular DIMM's made them compatible. There are 4 zero-ohm bridges that can be resoldered. We sold so many of those "hacked" DIMMs at a profit for both us and the customers.

[startedtech]

Man I was expecting the RX 6400 to be like $129.

[pokeguy]

EVGA just emailed me a few weeks ago to tell me they finally had stock of the 3080, and when I went to check they were gracious enough to scalp me a mere $300USD over msrp. Thanks EVGA, good to know a used 1080 on ebay is running about 300 in total, which I naturally bought instead :)

[Juurus]

The GPU shortage lowered my standards so much that I don't feel like buying a new one anytime soon, even at MSRP.

[tjsynkral]

There's a sweet irony in the ad read for BeQuiet being 10db louder than the rest of the audio

[marcogenovesi]

Dell, always at the bleeding edge of straight to landfill technology

[davidbruce]

I think the GPU restock has alot to do with the fact that they believed they were going to be competing with Intel Arc GPUs around this time.

[Highyeena]

Only issue I have is, with just a little research, it appears Dell is aiming to make CAMM a standard -- and if it works as well as they claim, DDR6 or supercharged DDR5 in CAMM form factor even in desktops could *well* outperform DIMM. We'll just have to see how it goes.

[smolapril]

dell is trying make CAMM a standard. due to its thin profile, ultrabooks can now have replaceable memory. they did work with intel and other memory manufacturers.