On the Deepcool AK400 Digital: At least I think it's the first look for a PH tech channel; haven't seen it from anyone else.
Nvidia's latest driver, version 531.18, appears to have a bug that causes high CPU usage after exiting games.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-latest-drivers-increase-cpu-usage-after-closing-games
For the whole year 2022, AMD, Intel, and Nvidia sold around 37.86 million graphics processors for desktop AIBs, down sharply from approximately 49.15 million units in 2021, according to Jon Peddie Research. In fact, 37.86 million units is an all-time low for discrete graphics desktop graphics boards. To add some context, sales of standalone graphics cards for desktop PCs peaked at 116 million units in 1998, based on JPR data.Β Β With 30.34 million desktop discrete graphics processors sold in 2022, Nvidia maintained rather strong unit shipments and grabbed market share away from AMD.In fact, the company's desktop GPU unit sales in 2022 exceeded its shipments in pre-pandemic 2019, but 2022 was not a particularly good year from unit shipments point of view.Β By contrast, sales of AMD's Radeon add-in-boards dropped to 6.76 million units, their lowest point ever.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-maintains-lead-as-sales-of-graphics-cards-hit-all-time-low-in-2022-jpr
The price of SSDs is in rapid decline. Anyone who has been following the market for the last few months should not be surprised. We've long known that a glut of NAND flash memory and lowering manufacturing costs are now being passed along to the consumer, with typical reductions of 15 to 30 percent in just the last 60 days.Back in October, analysts predicted that, by mid-2023, the price of drives woulddrop by 50 percent. At the time, major suppliers such as Kioxia and Micronannounced that they would reduce the production of NAND to keep supplies lower.However, there's only so much that a memory manufacturer can do to limit outputbefore they are losing money by maintaining idle production facilities. Β
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-prices-falling-march-2023