Episode Details

Wallace Santos joins to discuss running an SI, and upcoming AMD, Intel, and Nvidia generations.
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0:00 Who is Wallace? What made him start a System Integrator Company?
10:55 PC Gaming since 2002 - How has this community changed?
20:17 What do you think about the Secret Shopper Videos?
23:26 Why are some OEMs and System Integrators so bad?
31:34 When did the COVID shortages first hit MAINGEAR?
40:32 Nvidia Selling Graphics Cards directly to Miners
45:04 When did Ryzen become popular? Is Intel getting Mindshare back?
49:58 Is the mind share shifting back to Intel?
54:06 How does MAINGEAR price their GPUs?
57:42 SI Laptops - Where they come from, challenges, rising TDPs
1:06:07 RTX 4090 TDP - When would MAINGEAR have issues supporting it?
1:15:41 Would MAINGEAR consider making a Steam Deck competitor?
1:20:06 Planning for Raptor Lake, Zen 4, Lovelace, RDNA 3, Meteor Lake, Zen 5, Battlemage

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wallace-santos/
https://twitter.com/santos_wallace
https://maingear.com/about/
https://youtu.be/-VVC1NOgqeg
https://maingear.com/product/maingear-vybe-custom-q4-2021/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Laporte
https://youtu.be/VRFEr3rAizY
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bitcoin-mining-nvidia-cmp--gpus-30-million-order
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/boards-kits/nuc/nuc-assets/nuc-laptop-kits-queens-county.html

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