Nvidia unexpectedly dropped three new graphics cards in its recent announcement. The 3070, 3080 and 3090 at price points which are just as impressive as the cards themselves.
The 30 series Ampere cards are a new generational leap for graphics cards which have a lot of people excited. Noticeably quiet, but imminently expected to launch its Big Navi architecture cards is AMD.
And it seems AMD is getting ready, given they’re doing publicity stunts in Fortnite and seemingly, staging them as well.
Well, Nvidia just well and truly dropped the microphone with its announcement of the Nvidia RTX 30xx series cards. One of the biggest announcements of all is the lower tier of the new cards the RTX 3070 will allegedly have double the performance of the current-gen flagship 2080 Ti and is only $499 USD.
In Australia, we pay more for technology in general. After the conversion, GST (government tax on goods and services), people are probably assuming the price won’t work out to be too nice for us Australians.
Passwords are insecure. Even as password awareness has increased and password practices have shifted towards creating stronger passwords and using password managers such as 1Password, a password is only as good as its complexity, uniqueness and security of the application or website.
You can enforce stronger passwords, but you can’t enforce uniqueness. Password rules just make people change their passwords from: password123 to password123! — I’ve educated my dad on passwords, but he was notorious for creating basic passwords as most of our parents are.
Long story short, I needed to downgrade from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Home and as I discovered, it’s a bit of a tricky situation that requires editing the registry. If you want to downgrade from within Windows using the Media Creation Tool and not have to create a USB key, this is what you will have to do.
In my situation, attempting to run the Media Creation Tool resulted in some error about not being able to upgrade (even though I was trying to do a fresh install). The following steps worked on my machine and should work on yours as well.
But, can they run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 at its highest settings?
The Nvidia RTX 3080 starts at $699 and the performance is being promised as twice that of the prized gaming graphics card the Nvidia RTX 2080.
If that’s not good enough for the avid hungry gamer, Nvidia also announced a new monster RTX 3090 which is double the price of the RTX 3080. The difference being, the RTX 3090 promises to support 8k gaming, nevermind the fact most people are not gaming at 4k in 2020.