I was shopping around for cards relatively recently so I have looked up some data on power consumption of these cards. 9070xts that rival 5070 tis are typically OC models in 350W territory. However these numbers aren’t all that useful as they are only maximums. Real consumption will vary heavily from game to game and even setting to setting. For example in cyberpunk at 1440p with almost max settings with RT (but no path tracing) my 5070 ti is showing its consumption to be around 180W, if I turn on DLSS5 it goes to around 250W, still a bit from the 300W limit. I only saw it hitting the limit in furmark, but that is designed to do that. I’d expect similar behaviour from other cards, including AMD.

I’d expect it to not run at all, no? Otherwise why are we not seeing ddr5 only mobo/CPU compatible ddr4 sticks?

Yes you do, unfortunately. After that you don’t have to have an internet connection however. Since I am only streaming games from pc this arrangement works for me.

On my Oculus quest 2 I blocked all Facebook domains, it’s the best thing I’ve found so far. And I regret not doing it earlier, the most recent update that got pushed to it has a hideous UI on to if so the old bugs that remain unsolved…

From what I’ve seen they are leading in power consumption as well. Yes, 5090 is more power hungry than any AMD consumer GPU right now but it also comes with adequately higher performance.

By now there are several generations of 502’s, from what I’ve seen online the earlier ones used more durable switches. I’ve used Proteus spectrum myself for close to 8 years and all buttons still work fine. And if say it was used quite heavily, both for gaming and WHF. I’ve only replaced it now because it was ugly and the rubber on the sides is gone completely in some spots.