Duothus

Thanks everyone, All they offered was either a full refund and return or a 50% refund. There was no exchange involved and honestly even if I asked for an exchange who's to say they wouldn't make the same packing mistake again. I decided to keep it and take the partial refund. At least I got my shipping costs back which means at 46CAD, this guy was a steal to begin with. I'm going to pop it in and see how it goes. I will try and smoothen out the edge. It is shallow and on the surface. This processor will be in a old side desktop which is more a gaming system than my main work horse. The idea was to convert it into a render engine since I have it lying around and the motherboard accepts xeons. The renders I do will be more for personal projects, my little mad scientist's lab if you will. All my student and commercial work happens through my studio laptop. If the desktop runs well, I'll make the switch . Again, thank you to all who responded, you guys got me through this without a scratch (pun intended). I'll update this thread to let you know how it goes. Stay frosty.

cool. thanks.

Woah, I did not notice that. I'll give it another look.

I agree about packaging. And there was even a message saying that customs checks begin before the item arrives at the border. They need to do more than bubble wrap and card board for sensitive items. But I'll do some tests and check, thanks.

haha. happy little accident then.

hahahaha. I found that funny and relieving. How do i know if it is off?

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Thanks, I'll give it a try once i hear back from the seller. I don't really have the equipment to lap it right now.

Hi, So I am upgrading a desktop pc from an i7-5820k to a xeon 2660v4. I will be using this system for rendering in maya. I bought the cpu at a really good price at 73CAD from Amazon. The seller used DHL to ship the item. I was so excited to receive it but as I was unwrapping it, I noticed a cut through the bubble wrap that went deep down to the product. I unwrapped it and the cpu plastic bag had a cut on it. I prayed that it was just the bag. But when I took the cpu out, it had a nasty gash on the heat spreader. It was so disheartening. I contacted the seller on Amazon but I also wanted to check, in case there's any issue returning it, if this was significant damage or just cosmetic. This likely happened during customs check. I wish they would take more care with these packages, but I'm guessing they don't really care. Please check the attached files for reference. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

So with time constraints and no availability I’ve gone for the gigabyte aero. Back in the day I always thought it was the closest to a pro windows system. It has an i7 8 core processor and an Rtx 3070. The screen will exactly what I need for grading and the nvidia studio drivers will make it ideal for running the software I need. I’m actually looking forward to it and have a good feeling. thanks for all your input. It’s been very helpful.

I’ve been in the industry for about ten years now. I’ve never really faced that issue. I’ve used adobe and resolve for the better part of five years now on a custom built windows system and it was easy to shift between premiere and after effects to do complex compositing. Also a client would always ask what I was using and they had no issues as long as the job was done. The last time I used fcp was version 7. There’s nothing outside of fcp that has any consequence, for me at least, since I’ll be working in vfx with software that is cross OS. since I’m back to being a student, with the pandemic and some classes being online, a home system needs to be powerful enough. Macs are way too expensive for the config I need. And realistically, what I will be studying and ultimately transitioning into as a career, I need to be involved in the games that are coming out, and a Mac would not give me the best of both worlds. I wish it did, but that’s the reality. But, if I do have to adapt, then as a professional I will. Nowadays though it’s easier to translate work across software, and the only software that isn’t cross platform is fcp. Since Macs run adobe as well, there shouldn’t be too much of an issue. thanks for the input.

I’ll try and look for them. Thanks.

Very true. The only problem though is that the 4000 series is paired with the previous gen nvidia cards. And the difference between 20 series and 30 series is astonishing.

Yeah, I was looking at those as well. But if I'm here, I should try my best to get the new ones. There's an asus g15 on the US Newegg site which is exactly what I need, but they said they won't deliver to canada, and the Canadian Newegg site has nothing, lol.

Yeah, I’ve decided to avoid origin for now. I did find a zephyrus g15 with a 5900hs and 3070 but newegg won’t ship to Canada, and the Canadian site doesn’t have it in stock. So I’m back to square one. I could wait a couple more days but ideally it would be nice to have it before my course starts and I can set it up.