149. Ryzen Mindshare 2022, Nvidia Lovelace TDP Limits, SI Steam Deck | MAINGEAR CEO

Wallace Santos joins to discuss running an SI, and upcoming AMD, Intel, and Nvidia generations. SPON: Use “brokensilicon” for 10% off XREART Gaming Art: https://xreart.com/?ref=brokensilicon SPON: brokensilicon = -25% off Windows, dieshrink = -3% off Everything: https://biitt.ly/shbSk 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