If Only I Could Stay Up

Have to get to bed early tonight, which is a shame because I am looking forward to the official information on the RX Vega GPUs from AMD. There are a number of features and technologies it has I would like to take advantage of, but need some more information first. Most importantly is pricing, which we might learn tonight, and performance, which we should be learning in the near future as reviews come out. Hoping it will be good, because the graphics card market could use some disruption at the high end (though breaking through the mindshare of NVIDIA is going to be very difficult, no matter the stats). Navi may be what will really break green-team dominance, but Vega still needs to be a success by some measures, and it probably will be. The trick will be getting people to recognize those successes.

A Nice Surprise this Morning

It is pretty neat to wake up and discover a new Thor Ragnarok trailer. It may not have the sensor of humor of the teaser, but it does a good job topping it for action and actual plot. What is interesting for me is that I tend to analyze trailers by focusing on what the order of the scenes most likely will be in the movie. If my guesses for this are correct, I am not sure if we have really seen much of any of the final act of the movie. Sure we are now seeing some of the fight between Thor and Hela, but I suspect there is more that will come after this, including the involvement of Sutur that we have now seen. It is possible that will be before the fight, but then why does Asgard not appear to be burned yet?
Time will tell.

I have returned

Didn't realize a month has nearly passed since the last time I posted something here. Have just been so busy, and even now there is still some work to do, but it is at a place that it can easily enough be left for some moments.

Let me think, what have I been up to... finished up some recordings for The Body on Games; have been doing a fair amount of work with LaTeX to use the modular design it allows for a curriculum I've been writing; and looking forward to the news out of early August. Just this past week AMD finally revealed some information about the upcoming Threadripper CPUs, and I am decidedly happy because I want to throw x264 at some 32 threads.

The Ryzen Threadripper 1950X will have 16 cores/32 threads, a base clock of 3.4 GHz, a boost of 4.0 GHz, and, making it all the better, a suggested retail price of $999! This thing will tear through so many tasks with ease and speed to spare. Combined with 64 PCIe lanes and these should be simply awesome.

Well, better get back to work, and make a post on the TBOG Blog (I'm now scheduled through October). Hopefully I will not forget next week!