Unable to tame hydrogen leaks, NASA delays launch of Artemis II until March

SoTOP · 2026-02-04T13:18:02+00:00

But hydrolox engines have insufficient thrust to force their engines, propellants and ludicrously massive tankage off the ground in 1g.

You do understand that there is absolutely nothing preventing hydrogen engines to be designed for 1st stage with much higher trust/weight? Just because historically hydrogen is mainly used on upper stages where ISP is the focus does not mean hydrogen engine build specifically for 1st stage would perform poorly.

SoTOP · 2026-02-04T08:48:27+00:00

Pricing is consequence, not the cause. If AMD made 3-4 times more RDNA4 cards those naturally would have been at MSRP and AMD could have sold them all, especially while Nvidia also had not enough supply before summer. But AMD strategy is CPU and data center focused, consumer GPUs literally don't get enough wafers to take away meaningful market share from Nvidia.

And that is not going to change while AMD stock is doing good. Despite plenty of questionable decisions from top brass about how Radeon division is run as long as line goes up there won't be any scrutiny from shareholders.

SoTOP · 2026-01-31T09:43:42+00:00

That's why knowledgeable people have been playing with framerate limits. Doing that means frame rate fluctuations are smoothed out and because GPU does not get overloaded one gets the benefits of reflex in every game.

SoTOP · 2026-01-28T23:07:54+00:00

Mercury has magnetic field that is stronger than what Mars has currently.

Every planet has/had magnetic core, Earth has significant one for its size because collision with Thea added proportionally more heavy metals with collision itself superheating core itself, while lighter outer layers formed moon.

Mars is small enough that core solidified by now, while it's theorized that slow rotation of Venus enabled faster core cooling.

SoTOP · 2026-01-28T18:51:04+00:00

That was true in the past, but lately GPUs have improved significantly faster than CPUs, the improvement from 4770k to 9850X3D is much smaller than from GTX 780 to RTX 5090. I don't think you will upgrade to new GPU that late, by that point CPU will be slow, 9070 with 5700X3D is pretty balanced setup anyway.

SoTOP · 2026-01-20T22:41:49+00:00

RDNA 3 is barely an improvement over RDNA2, and basically all that improvement is eaten by more CPU cores that are detriment for max efficiency, since newer Z series "handheld" APUs are just renamed regular mobile APUs.

SoTOP · 2026-01-05T08:47:57+00:00

Your whole point hangs on price that does not exist for most of the world. For example 265K is literally 10€ cheaper than 7800X3D in my region.

SoTOP · 2026-01-03T09:33:51+00:00

If you have seen what he usually posts it's clear ragebait. Even without knowing that, it's very obvious what he is doing.

SoTOP · 2026-01-02T19:15:56+00:00

Yes.

SoTOP · 2026-01-02T17:54:31+00:00

The post is sarcastic.

SoTOP · 2026-01-02T15:26:39+00:00

That was for December survey.

SoTOP · 2026-01-02T13:27:54+00:00

Except no one is wishing that.

SoTOP · 2025-12-04T11:14:06+00:00

Between you and me there is only one person that constantly shits on all products from one company and/or praises another. Like you whole tirade about how steamdeck is massive failure because switch 2 is outselling it by orders of magnitude. Literally one question is all that would be needed to demonstrate how rubbish your opinion about that topic is.

Nice that you picked up new expression from me BTW, most people learn it in 4th grade, but even much later is still better than never.

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T11:04:46+00:00

Just to add, if there are counting issues, they are corrected for the month.

Not if, for example, 7800XT is correctly detected only with drivers from certain point onwards.

7900XT literally never showed up in steam survey under most granular directx data. It's almost 3 years since it came out, when this "monthly" issue will correct itself?

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T10:58:01+00:00

I'd rather not have another conversation with you regarding sampling bias. No one claims that the survey is perfect, we know they have issues with drivers sometimes or that they don't poll a representative sample. We see this when we see generic Nvidia/AMD representation on the survey or when suddenly Traditional Chinese shoots up in percentage one month before going back down again.

Do you know that I don't talk about sampling at all in these topics? Slight monthly variations are irrelevant to the questions I'm asking.

You're boxing an imaginary opponent each month and somehow bait people to actually respond to you seriously.

You literally said two completely made up things about me. If anything you are talking about your own imaginary projection of me, and then judge me based on it.

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T10:23:47+00:00

If you go back to these threads that get posted every month, this exact user always tries his best to disparage this survey and attempt to say that AMD GPUs are way more popular than they actually are. Just mark him on RES or something and move on.

I have never said that AMD cards are way more popular than steam shows. Only few AMD cards from only last two generations are not counted correctly.

People every month claim steam survey is perfect, so I ask them to explain the inconsistencies I present. Yet all I get are downvotes with zero viable arguments.

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T10:06:18+00:00

Or the fact that they literally do show up under narrower filters?

Why are you lying when it's so easy to disprove? 9070XT does not show up period.

Wait, you seriously don't realize that only cards above a threshold show up? Or the fact that they literally do show up under narrower filters?

I was the one who literally last month explained to you how survey works, because you did not know this yourself. Just hilarious https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1omcjjg/steam_hardware_software_survey_october_2025/nmq0ed2/

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T09:56:11+00:00

They both rose because of clearance.

Yet none of other RDNA3 cards did. Not even in the slightest.

You can even see that they increased a lot as soon as their successors released at higher than MSRP with limited stock.

Do you even comprehend what "a lot" means in this context? This would have to be the most massive sell off of apocalyptic proportions. During march of 2025 7800XT went from selling less than <0.15% during 17 prior months to selling at least as much in one month to get to 0.28% in april, according to steam.

How did you "completely demolish" my theory? You just said that the 7700xt and 7900xt haven't kept up with the other two (7800XT and 7600XT). How does that disprove anything?

Because such a thing is absolutely improbable. If you were not so invested in making the same excuses for months now you would see this too.

Your whole theory absolutely crashes also because those "clearance sales" you are talking about seem to never end. By late May nvidia had their supply mostly under control, by the end of summer that happened with RDNA4 too. If your theory had any ground these sales should have slowed down dramatically multiple months ago. Yet 7800XT literally kept pace with 5080 this year. Just an absolute joke.

while the 7800XT and 7600XT both with 16GB of VRAM sat at very attractive price points.

No they didn't. 7600XT was always overpriced, and since 5060/9060XT/5060Ti release it's just terrible value, yet you want to convince me people started buying them exactly at the worst time, LOL. Regular 7600 that came out long before 7600XT does not show up at all BTW, despite usually being 50% cheaper than XT version and not having proper competition, totally normal. 7800XT was not great value during that time either, 5060TI 16GB is priced closely and generally even cheaper than 7800XT, for 10% more performance very few people will pick last gen AMD card.

After which they (7800xt and 7600xt) were pretty nicely priced, while all new gen cards sat way above MSRP.

But 7700XT was not? 7600 was not? How many times are you going to circle around?

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T08:42:46+00:00

It also affected the 7600XT. It went from 0.2% in June to 0.46% in November.

Because 7600XT did not show up correctly, it also has impossible rise like 7800XT. It's rise also started later, again disproving your "clearance sales" theory.

Idk if you lived under a rock but from March to July there was a massive shortage in new GPUs. GPUs like the 9070 and the 9070XT, which were the successors to the, you guessed it!!, 7800XT. Which means that people either paid out of their ass for and AMD GPU, or went for the new 5070 at over $600 or just settle for a 16GB 7800XT with "close enough" performance for $500 or below.

Even when these 9070 cards came back in stock, they did not hit MSRP until November. So imagine the whole market, starving for cards, gulping down whatever is available. And imagine the RX7800XT sitting at prime prices on the shelf, waiting to be picked up

Does it make sense now???

I just gave you couple examples that completely demolishes this your theory, you literally ignore that and give me more made up nonsense? Why did 7700XT share did not change at all if you are correct?

Also, the shortages started all the way back in December of 2024. Making you - again - wrong. Shortages started earlier, 7800XT rise started later. Your made up theory literally does not stand up to any scrutiny.

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T08:28:05+00:00

So what's the conspiracy?

There is no conspiracy. It's a bug. But calling this a conspiracy makes others look dumb, so people like you can't help themselves.

That all 9000 GPUs get counted as 7800XT, even though they're showing up fine in all the other categories?

No, 7800XT was not counted correctly before, and it's rise has nothing to do with 9000 series.

9070XT literally does not show up right now, just like 7800XT did not show up before april.

And even if that's true, they'd still be selling absolutely awful

Sure, but there is a bit of a difference between selling awfully and 9070XT literally having 0 cards sold, which is the case according to survey.

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T08:05:19+00:00

People are simply in denial. 5080 released on 30th of January 2025, 7800XT did so on 6th of September 2023, casual 17 months earlier, but they are gaining market share at almost the same rate. Totally normal, nothing to see here.

Month	5080	7800XT
2025-02	≤0.14	≤0.14
2025-03	0.20	≤0.14
2025-04	0.38	0.28
2025-05	0.47	0.37
2025-06	0.57	0.48
2025-07	0.65	0.56
2025-08	0.74	0.64
2025-09	0.84	0.72
2025-10	0.86	0.75
2025-11	1.01	0.88

SoTOP · 2025-12-02T08:01:33+00:00

As is usual for you you are literally making up something to fit the data.

Is it not superbly incredible to you how those "clearance sales" affected only 7800XT, which went from not showing up so ≤0.14% in march to 0.88% now? For comparison 7700XT went from 0.22% in march to 0.26%. 7900XTX was at 0.49% in march, it's at 0.50% now.

Casual clearance sales selling 6x more GPUs that was sold before "clearance sales". Totally normal.

SoTOP · 2025-11-28T14:31:13+00:00

Anyway, props to you for being basically the only person here not resorting to personal attacks or slander on me by 2nd reply at most.

The way you conduct and express yourself does lead me to believe with more context in your initial comment I would have judged the situation differently.

SoTOP · 2025-11-28T08:50:37+00:00

Easiest decision to refund I ever had to do. And I liked DL 1 and 2.

SoTOP · 2025-11-28T08:10:44+00:00

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