Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "JayzTwoCents" channel.

  1. When newegg declined to reveal how many people they had refunded for problems last year, I switched off to everything they said moving forwards. Good video Jayz.
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  2. Never expect pro consumer behaviour from a corporation. This is a naked cash grab, but it feels like end stage capitalism to me. They appear not to care whether they permanently kill the market, or make it inaccessible for new users. Seems incredibly short sighted to me, especially as AMD is not the dominant manufacturer.
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  3.  @sebastianbalog  Zoom meetings, podcasts, skype to family, chat to game buddies.
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  4. I bought a $1400 motherboard end of last year. Expandability was my primary purchasing factor. My previous one was a server board for the number of SATA and memory ports, but I didn't want to go dual processor again. You're right - prices are insane.
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  5. Blaming programmers for trusting this piece of code seems as unreasonable as blaming an IT manager for not knowing undiscovered Windows vulnerabilities. There's a limit to how much any programmer can know, and when you have code that is trusted by the planet's largest organisations, you'd kind of assume it's safe.
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  6. Jayz, there is a situation that could be even worse. If the drive is locked in time, that's annoying but at least you can accesss the data presumably, but if the drive uses whole drive encryption such as bitlocker, it needs write access to even READ from it.
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  7.  @insignia406  Yes. They gave partners two weeks to go from cards to development of extra stuff, and they forced them to use this type of connector.
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  8. When did you become such an utter shill? This is one of several recent videos where you review the very company sponsoring you. There was a time when you would have recognised such a blatant conflict. Your credibility is plummeting. What left, a video reviewing whether the jayztwocents channel can be trusted?
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  9. 100% nvidia's fault. If they'd given vendors more time before launch, they could have ironed this out.
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  10. Oh come on, let's not make out that AMD are our friends all of a sudden. They were not so friendly during the GPU drought. This IS great news, and as a Threadripper owner, I'm exceedingly happy, but they're simply responding to market forces and trying to steal Intel's thunder. Just a few months ago, you were rightly complaining about the way that they were killing Threadripper as a consumer product. Personally, I still think the latest Intel processors look very attractive for low core applications.
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  11. The exposure can be set in the software. Looks to me to be oversaturated rather than overexposed. That can also be adjusted.
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  12.  @dievas_  My case has a glass front. Even if a Dremel could take that out, I'm not wrecking a great case for an oversized card.
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  13.  @AsheramK  If the lower jaw is immobile, that would not be the case would it? The only reason the lower jaw presses is because it is free to move.
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  14. Honestly, I don't think E-waste factors into anyone's computer buying decisions. I'm not saying it doesn't matter. I just don't think people can afford to care. And don't next gen CPUs from BOTH manufacturers usually require a new motherboard?
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  15. I foresee deserved European regulations limitating the power drain of graphics cards as China did with crypto mining. This is outrageous. Across Europe, we were forced to change the lightbulbs in our houses because 60 watts was considered environmentally unfriendly, and this card draws 10x as much!
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  16. Sitting here on an 1100w PSU, 64GB RAM, ROG ZEnith II mobo, RTX 3090 GPU, Threadripper 3960X, and probably 100TB storage, but I don't think any of it is overkill. After all Minecraft isn't going to run itself!
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  17. @Carl Gunderson Reputational damage is worth more than $5 million though.
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  18. Twice the memory.
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  19. My system was not a billion miles off that price when I first built it. I've enjoyed every second I owned it. Massively increased my productivity, and it has been very future proofed. My biggest problem over time has been cooling, which has degraded over the years.
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  20. Not to be mean, but I'm really not into millions of stats and charts. I respect him deeply, but Steve's content is utterly overwhelming, and the last thing we need is more people going that route IMO. I don't watch you to find out what's happening along power lines to a fraction of an amp. I watch you for mid-level stuff that ordinary people can understand. If your content becomes too rarified, I'll definitely stop watching. The contrast between your channels is what gives you value. I NEVER watch any of Steve's stuff with all the charts; I just skip to the conclusion, and if even that is super nerdy, I stop watching entirely. Frankly, it all seems like tech willy waving and rarely provides information of actual utility in making a buying decision.
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  21.  @erroristic  "still can't get around fact that people actually go out and buy a 2k$ gpu" Some people are so desperate to wave their dicks that they will pay it, others NEED that power. I need that power, but refuse to buy in this cycle because of the way they treated us on the 3000 series, and I'm positive that many others feel the same way. Yes, there's an oversupply - of the previous generation. For many people, performance is money. Unfortunately, nvidia has a unique technology position in the market, and until software manufactirers start using whatever AMD is using instead of cuda cores, nvidia will continue to be the only game in town for lots of people.
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  22. Apparently the Borg are assimilating your PC.
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  23.  @dievas_  I didn't complain about the cost of the case. I complained about the suggestion that I should butcher my great case in order to make it fit.
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  24. The white coats definitely gave you more scientific credibility. 🤣
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  25. Agreed. Although there is a quality base level even then.
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  26. No equipment I own, lost value quicker than my state of the art laptop. The fact that it could not be upgraded only compounded the problem. I'd think VERY careully about buying a leading edge laptop again.
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  27. What's the difference between a class and a tier?
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  28.  @crazybrain87  So the naming IS confusing then?...
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  29.  @sultanzil  But there's three different categories and rankings and levels! So when the OP said it was easy to understand, he was wrong. The naming does not convey helpful information to a potential purchaser.
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  30. Why would it be tacky to get paid for what you did?
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  31.  @eye9have5you35  Why is it better to produce more frames? FAR more bandwidth and/or storage, and and greater compression.
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  32. £302! It's actually pretty impressive though. Needs voice commands. The extended warranty concerns me.
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  33.  @erroristic  I make money from what I render, therefore I am a professional. You appear to think you know more about the way that these cards are used than the people who actually use them. Your arrogance does make you correct.
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  34.  @erroristic  Weasel words. You presumes to know my usage case and that of everybody else better than they do, and putting a flaccid "if" in the middle of a sentence after you've just spent 4 exchanges explaining why everybody should be doing something other than they do without comprehending the slightest thing about their situation is damned arrogant. Now go away. I rate you C for clueless.
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  35. We absolutely do NOT need to be building UP to future games. Devs need to recognise that GPU prices mean they have to start programming DOWN to people's budgets and the market.
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  36.  @profosist  I don't understand your comment about versioning - I wasn't suggesting you store your back up on the SAME drive - simply another of the same type. From a user point of view, unless you are aware of this issue, these drives DO just go pop AIUI. One minute they're working, then the next they are not. The amount of time it takes to REACH that premature transition is only half of the issue.
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  37. Amazon are thieves who steal people's business. Try never to buy their own brand products, or anything supplied direct by them.
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  38. If they are 5 months into the year without a new contract, they're clearly not contrinubuting monetarily. I wonder if Jayz had a deal in place if he would still have cut them off?
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  39.  @A1BASE  Yeah, I'd say my usage was not mainstream - 3D rendering, video AI enhancement and editing, and support for lots of storage. I bought the ROG ZENITH II EXTREME ALPHA, which in the UK cost me somewhere between £800 and 900, which converts to about $1400. This was at the height of the GPU shortage so I was using a 24 core threadripper for rendering until I could get a decent GPU.
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  40.  @kg-ke1fw  We've ALL overpaid the past few years, but threadripper motherboards are kind of expensive at the best of times. I'm very happy with my purchase though.
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  41. Then why the hell did you keep reviewing their products?! If this is how badly they treated an influencer, how are they treating customers?
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  42. I'm never an early adopter. That decision is looking smarter and smarter now.
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  43. Seems so silly and performative to take out the EKWB stuff, especially when you said earlier to distinguish between the company and the products. It's almost as though this was just an opportunity to provide advertising for a rival.
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  44.  @Simon-tr9hv  I'm watching the news on framework, and I like it, but not yet fully convinced. How is it with top of the line mobile processors? I'm far more happy with my desktop. I tend to buy cutting edge then stay there until it's unusable. I'm especially leery ATM with nvidia taking liberties on pricing, so there's no chance I'll buy this gen, and maybe not even 5000 series. They're going to have to return to precovid prices.
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  45. No it didn't. Not by a long shot. Low resolution, no vesa, overpriced gimmick.
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  46. Touch screen has a viewing angle offset to compesate for where you are relatie to the screen.
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  47. Good vid Jay but it was not "stubbornness" that stopped me upgrading to SSD Jayz. I have 18TB of internal drives on my system, and data cost, security and secure erasure are factors.
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  48. A $1500 monitor and you're getting impressed that it includes cables?!
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  49. Even if I was up for buying,. which I'm not, I'd sure as hell not buy a founder's edition after the EVGA thing. I'd love to leave nvidia entirely, but I need cuda.
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  50. No Jay, it doesn't become the new standard that people are willing to pay. It becomes the standard that millions of people cannot afford to pay, and nvidia is quite willing to sell less cards at a higher price. Less effort for the same overall return, but millions of people get left behind, creating a two tier gaming landscape with vast numbers of people stuck generations behind.
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