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I don't know if I would consider it 100% confirmed from that one message, but I sure hope it goes ahead.

There might be the occasional wink and 'lttstore.com' as Linus takes a swig from his bottle, but no actual ad spots.

Hi Prawny and welcome to the forum The ad spots are cut out on Floatplane if you would like to view videos without them.

The Labs and HR team have bigger fish to fry, yes. Floatplane is for all intents and purposes a separate business entity. Why not give it a try and contact them? If they ignore you, you can come back here and make a post about it.

What about the current circumstances makes you think Floatplane would ignore your support query?

Yes - it was only recently that YouTube introduced the 1080p 'High Bitrate' option. What Linus said about this in the past may have been true at the time but may no longer be true.

If support immediately responded with "woops my bad, we will fix this immediately", then there is no need for this post. There doesn't need to be a 'discussion' unless they don't fix the issue.

-moderated content removed- Why not send this to Floatplane support and ask why your audio quality isn't what you expected? It could be as simple as an editor making a mistake when exporting the video, and I am sure they would be happy to sort out any issues you are having.

Linus mentioned in yesterday's Floatplane stream they had a meeting on Wednesday to discuss which colours to make the Floatplane shirt. So I would say it's definitely coming soon

Thanks Adam - I am guessing that if we received the initial email from adam@lttstore.com but not the follow up from support@lttstore.com then you received our responses OK?

This is usually caused by bad ram - try running memtest86

Two most likely things would be: 1.) Faulty RAM - Try running memtest86 to confirm 2.) Bad GPU driver - Try uninstalling it using DDU in safe mode and installing a fresh driver

I've seen this happen before when the CPU cooler wasn't mounted properly, so the CPU would hit it's thermal limit within a few minutes of booting and do a hard shutoff. Did you put new thermal paste on your CPU cooler? Is it mounted securely?

Any time I've seen this before, the GPU had hardware issues. It could be driver issue though since you just installed a new version - you could try uninstalling it in safe mode with DDU, then reinstalling the previous drivers version to see if the issue persists.

There are different types of Windows licenses, with the main consumer types being 'COA' and 'OEM' licenses. OEM licenses are comparitively cheap, but any change in major hardware components (CPU or motherboard, RAM/GPU are usually OK) will invalidate your license as it thinks you have moved the install to a different machine. These licenses usually come with prebuilt/refurb machines, or are sold by dodgy resellers online (they are only supposed to be sold already installed on machines by Authorised Microsoft partners). COA licenses are the proper ones - they are usually more expensive but allow the install to be moved between machines without invalidating the license. It sounds like you had an OEM license.

The most obvious solution would be to get 4 USB DACs You can get cheaper ones than this but you get the idea: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiio-E10K-Headphone-Amplifier-Black/dp/B00LP3AMC2/ This will rely on each program you use being able to output to a specific device, and not just the Windows default audio output.

Try opening up Power & Sleep settings, then Additional Power settings, then 'Choose what happens when I close the lid'. Is it set to sleep, or hibernate? A workaround for this would be to set it to 'Do nothing' when you close the lid - meaning it will only sleep when you press the power button and will never lock up on a black screen like that.

DDR stands for Double Data Rate. CPU-Z is reporting your Data Rate as 1600MHz. Double of 1600MHz is 3200MHz.

Unless you are using the motherboard 3.5mm jacks for your mic/headphones - motherboard audio jacks can suffer from electrical interference and manifest as a whine. This does not include USB.

It's coil whine from your PSU. Good news is it isn't a problem - your PSU is fine apart from the noise. Bad news is, there isn't any way to fix it other than replace the PSU. It's luck of the draw whether or not a PSU has it or not unfortunately, can also effect GPUs & motherboards.

Check Windows Event Viewer for critical 'Kernel Power' logs and see if they give any more information. Also try running memtest86 to see if your RAM is OK. Other than that, it could be a bad power supply.

I meant your GPU core voltage, (like with CPU) to achieve higher clocks you have to increase the V going to your GPU to make it stable. From your description it does sound like an unstable GPU. Download GPU-Z to double check what the default clocks are for your card, then set them to match that exactly and see if it's stable then.

The fact your are intermittently getting good FPS would imply something is throttling - and since your GPU is the only thing getting hit hard I'd say it's that. It's running cool enough - but you said it's been overclocked - it's probably not getting enough power. Is your FPS stable at stock GPU clocks?

Is it definitely booting the USB drive? Make sure it is at the top of the Boot order in your BIOS settings, above your normal boot drive.