As we watched Radical Ryan Shrout yesterday, I think many folks hopes of Vega were a bit dashed. My personal thoughts were that it would be on par with GTX 1080 and hopefully a little bit better, but it seems to have possibly missed that accomplishment. Ryan said yesterday during his stream, “So far, compared to the GTX 1080, it is slightly slower to even.” Now this is not the full blown “gaming” card, but his is not a full blown professional level card either. AMD’s odd marketing seems to put it somewhere in the middle. That said, I think this card will be fairly representative of what the consumer gaming RX Vega will bring. Heat and clocks still seem to be an issue with AMD’s architecture. Ryan has his full review posted.



For the gamers out there, reading this and hoping to be uplifted and excited about the RX Vega product, it’s a tough sell, no getting around that. There is still potential for the hardware, despite the much higher power consumption that it requires over competitive GeForce options, if the Radeon Technologies Group is willing to price it to make an impact.

Like we saw with how AMD’s Polaris was marketed, a lot of its success is going to very much depend on the RX Vega is priced.

Ongoing Discussion

Source: [H]ardOCP – PC Perspective Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Review

I have been watching this thread in the HotDeals forum for a couple of weeks now. Some enterprising capitalists have found a way around the mining craze that is running up GPU prices in the last month or so, in order to get their hands on cards or cash, or both. While individual video card prices are in the stratosphere, fully built systems have not be heavily impacted by this due to purchasing agreements set up months in advance by system builders. Buy that fully built system, part it out on Ebay, reap the rewards of free hardware or cash.



Customize to your heart’s content, but add the free upgrade to RX470, and then buy a second one for an additional $119. That’s key to getting about $600 to $650 back of the purchase price by selling both RX470 on Ebay for $325 each (inflated prices due to the miner craze).

Discussion

Source: [H]ardOCP – Parting Out New RX470 Built Systems for Fun and Profit

It looks like the Dutch are lining up behind the Mexico, UK, Amazon, and Ebay when it comes to selling set-top boxes loaded with Kodi and third-party addons that allow for the streaming of copyrighted content. At least in this situation we see it trying to be reeled in by cutting off the source rather than trying to put the end-user in jail or in the middle of a bunch of lawyers.



Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is reporting that 200 entities selling ‘pirate’ media players have ceased trading recently. The development appears to be a direct result of an April 2017 ruling by the European Court of Justice, which found that selling piracy-configured devices is a breach of copyright law.

Discussion

Source: [H]ardOCP – The Dutch Hate Kodi Boxes Too

I am sure that many of you will argue that RadioShack had a very large hand in its own doom, some of its creditors that got screwed in the bankruptcy are now pointing a finger directly at Sprint as playing a big part in the slow multi-year death. By the way, can I get your name and address while you reading that article?



The lawsuit alleges that in 2016, Sprint used confidential information obtained from RadioShack to open 200 competing stores near RadioShack’s best locations, sinking any comeback for the electronics chain. “Sprint’s action destroyed nearly 6,000 RadioShack jobs,” said the lawsuit.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Sprint Killed Off RadioShack?