I Hope you HATE Buying Graphics Cards - WAN Show January 8, 2021

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Visit https://www.squarespace.com/WAN and use offer code WAN for 10% off Learn more about Kite at https://lmg.gg/t0Bi7 Download Kite today at https://lmg.gg/9qpo7 Keep your feet dry and get $25 off each pair at Vessi with offer code WANSHOW at https://www.vessi.com/wanshow Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of SirTobiGoodboy) 0:37 Recap of topics 2:00 Intro 2:13 Carmen Sandiego 4:46 GPUs getting more expensive 5:16 Import tariffs increasing prices 7.5% to 25% 6:20 Tariffs implemented in 2018 and exemptions expired 7:00 Shipping costs increasing 7:50 Canadian computer prices falling 11:12 General tariff and trade discussion 11:52 Foxconn US factory 15:40 Price Creep of GPUs 17:40 Now is the time to pick up gaming laptops 18:20 RTX 3080 MaxQ far slower than desktop 18:43 RTX 3000 power efficiency is not enough for laptops 19:45 GPU prices will never be competitive again due to the shortage debacle. 21:06 GTX 1080ti performance equivalent for RTX 3080 MaxQ 22:02 Performance parity gone between desktop and laptop 24:49 Detailed specifications 26:40 Potentially confusing marketing and nomenclature 29:19 GPU rating system proposal 39:20 Sponsor Spots 39:24 Kite 40:07 Squarespace 41:05 Vessi 42:27 LTTStore 47:05 WhatsApp Facebook data sharing 47:54 Video calling tangent 51:19 Self image and body modification tangent 1:11:11 WhatsApp Facebook data sharing 1:11:16 Data to be shared 1:12:34 Ikea created mockups for new consoles (unclear validity) 1:13:11 Trump permabanned on Twitter 1:13:45 Many other apps and websites banning Trump 1:15:47 Switch Pro leak/rumor 1:16:49 Superchats 1:18:17 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	That's not what I meant to do at all.
0:02.0	Okay, oh, bollocks.
0:05.0	Sorry, I'm moving you a little bit
0:06.8	because you're actually a little bit too high.
0:08.8	Oh shoot, is it started. It's starting!
0:15.0	Welcome to the
0:17.0	When show ladies and gentlemen.
0:18.0	We have got a fantastic show lined up for you today and hope that you enjoy it and I when I say hope I mean hope because like I don't have anything
0:29.2	objective that would make me think that you're going to enjoy any of this.
0:32.7	It's all bad news.
0:34.2	It's all bad news today.
0:36.1	People enjoy bad news though.
0:37.6	Rumor.
0:38.5	Invidia RTX 3080 max cue could be 74% slower than a desktop version of the same card. That is, that would put it in line not with last gen's flagship, but the one before that.
0:57.3	In other news, the desktop kind that is highly performant are about to get much more expensive thanks to Trump administration
1:05.3	tariffs. Womp, Womb. Just one more. Hey, how you doing on the way out what else we got Luke it was only a matter of time we saw
1:17.2	it sort of happen with Oculus and now we're seeing it happen with what's app what's
1:20.8	app is going to start compulsory information sharing with Facebook.
1:26.2	And also there's a rumor that some switch monitors found evidence of a switch pro coming up, which will be able to do 4 k in docked mode 4 k in docked mode wow wow
1:38.3	what I want to know is where's 120 hurts in docked mode and you know else I want to know? Where's the intro? Where's it at? Oh, that is. Oh, wait. Oh, it's actually not working.
1:48.8	Oh, that's awkward. Oh, geez. Oh, geez,
1:55.0	geez, Luke.
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