Philz69

What a terrible response. Tripling down on the Billet Labs situation without offering anything of value about the rest of the issues is unacceptable. You simply tried to deflect responsability and point at others. I have personally cancelled my floatplane subscription following this debacle.

What a terrible response. Tripling down on the Billet Labs situation without offering anything of value about the rest of the issues is unacceptable. You simply tried to deflect responsability and point at others. I have personally cancelled my floatplane subscription following this debacle.

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

then this makes things much simpler 
- parallel will provide more water flow but will not provide redundancy if you want that (although I doubt that)
if you are currently having it feed direct from res to pump to blocks you can have it (if there is an extra outlet on the bottom of that res) res separately to both pumps than splitter fitting (technically you are joining but whateves :P) then blocks
 
and if you can have it so the blocks are fed from the top (starting from cpu instead of gpu)
that will likely help as well, but might not be needed
also if you can't get another of that same exact D5 do what you can to see if the specs for the pump itself are the same (i.e head pressure and flow rate) if they are not see if you can tone down the better pump to match the less with PWM
 
p.s. It was late and I had a feeling I was going to/was be rude and a couple people on this forum appear to be emulating Linus senpai's whole attitude (and yes I know Linus is joking when he does it) of: *sees Luke move the camera feed on the stream to hide Linus but not Luke and proceeds to whine like a linus starved of attention 

Clean off the PCB with 99% isopropyl alcohol to remove any corrosion or residue from the fluid, it will also displace any water that is left there or under the SMD components.

Holy mother of god, i am stable only at 1.45v on 5ghz on my 4790k

Holy mother of god, i am stable only at 1.45v on 5ghz on my 4790k

In my experience, removing any king of boost state and running at a constant clock yielded me 30-40mhz more ( without touching the voltage ) on my 780. I have no idea if you can remove AMDs GPU boost equivalent with a custom bios though

You cant go over 1.212v on stock bios. Everything you can do in stock bios is pretty much 100% safe for 24/7 use if your temps are ok!i used 1.35v daily on my GTX 780 for a long while, except i was watercooling.

I might try to persuade them that I can't sli with my lonely 780ti, so I have to send in my other for a 980ti.
 
I can dream right?

I'm hoping to get a 980Ti hehe. 

The real question is, does it Blend?

Around $500 is about right to start a good quality loop for dual GPU's your might be closer to $600 or so starting. As for fluid changes it's recommended to do them every 6 -12months, usually closer to 12months or if you see issues with the fluid. Leaks aren't common once you put the loop together and do a preliminary leak test if nothing occurs then it's unlikely one will appear. 

The CX750M is a PUQ-B unit internally, which is a good platform in the mainstream segment in itself. Of course, the CX variant is a bit cost down in comparison to other units that uses this platform.
 
Since you already gotten it (not to mentioned, for free), just used it. The CX750M is capable of power a single GPU setup like the R9 390

At 3GB of vram the 780 is right there at the 1080p sweet spot right now. And its performance is in between the 960 and 970, though much closer to the 970 than the 960. You would be getting absolutely hosed in those trades. The only GPU it makes any sense to upgrade to from a 780 would be a 980 Ti.

You're completely fine with that psu

these cards last 10 years easily don't worry about it just enjoy it and have fun it will end up in a box in a closet or a shelf somewhere down the road and will still be in working condition...you just think too much...enjoy your life.

GTX 780 is more powerful and much better than a GTX 960
And the GTX 970 is only slightly faster than the 780 and certainly not worth the upgrade.
 
Worthy upgrade to a GTX 780 would be a GTX 980 (even that ain't worth your money IMHO) / GTX 980ti / Titan X

keep your 780. 760 gets rekt by a 950

Don't even try..... The maintenance and the time is not worth it. It is a cool idea but is there any pumps that can work with it??? Linus' two pumps barely held up! Just saying!

I have the AX1200i, so I'm bias... But The Corsair Ax1200i is an amazing unit and is regarded as one of the best. I'd imagine the Seasonic is just as good, so it's just down to your personal preference. 
 
Given that you've ordered another already, I'd say stay with the Corsair. 

they are both great psu's dont bother with it....

That is one fine PSU. Take it

Agreed completely.
 
To be honest, I would rather deny ISIS oxygen, in the form of MOAB's dropped from B-52's. Has a much more immediate effect.

VPN's don't mean a thing if you cut all the lines to that country.
 
Which would involve a physical solution instead of software.