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The Cooler Master 590  had the same fan mount on the right panel.  I believe there were a couple more. Plus, some cases whit left-panel side fans that you could interchange with the right side panel. 
However, none that I remember had a built-in motherboard tray fan. The Zalman Z9 had a ventilated SSD mount on the back, not sure if a fan could be mounted there - but probably wouldn't align with the socket anyway.
 
Yes. I mean, not if your socket and VRM temps are under control. But if you do have a VRM temp issue, then yes, blowing air over the VRM area, whether from the front, from the back, or both, will make a difference. Case airflow won't be enough, because there can still be a pocket of hot air stagnating over the VRM area, below the rear exhaust, kind of caged between GPU, CPU cooler/RAM, and topmost motherboard components (including VRM heatsinks themselves). Again, overbuilt motherboards with low power CPUs will show no difference at all. But, for example, practically every AM3+ board with an 8-core chip (and unless you got an FX-9xxx, you should overclock it) would benefit drastically from specific, local VRM airflow. I'm talking 20ºC-like improvements (albeit with front-side cooling in my tests), I'm talking lower CPU temps (and lower socket vs die delta) because, without the fan, the VRMs where getting so hot they were heating the socket. I'm talking about preventing this when overclocking:
 
(Notice the CPU was not supported by the board, and even for FX-8xx chips the manual would tell you to use top-blow CPU coolers instead of towers, precisely to provide VRM airflow. Same problem with AIOs -no Liquid Freezer II back then).
 
 
Bottom line: it doesn't make a difference as long as there isn't a difference to be made.

So it's still the same Windows install you were running on your old hardware? Generally I recommend reinstalling when you change motherboards, because all kinds of odd stuff like this can happen.
 
Is your CPU cooler making good contact? If you do a soft reset immediately after it crashes, does it run for as long before it crashes again?

Ended up pulling an all-nighter, kept task manager open but minimized the whole time, was mostly just window shopping, didn't play any games, average temp was in the low 50's, didn't feel a warm breeze on the top of the case (top mounted rad). Yeah, it didn't do the 50% thing, so I figure this'll be the farmer's fix (can't remember the exact phrase, but temporary fix working good enough it's now permanent) till I reinstall windows, just need to remember to not close task manager. 

 

How much of the world's total power consumption is accounted by personal computers, though?
 
People who make (a lot of) money from computers and pay the corresponding power bill care much more than consumers about efficiency and density, and they aren't exactly rushing away from Epycs and Quadros yet. There are reasons for that, as @igormp points out. That may change, but make no mistake, ARM isn't some form of magic when it comes to transforming power into useful outputs. Just like driving a pick-up truck for your daily suburban commute is stupidly inefficient, yet you can't replace it efficiently with a fleet of beetle-like cars when it comes to actual heavy lifting.

How much of the world's total power consumption is accounted by personal computers, though?
 
People who make (a lot of) money from computers and pay the corresponding power bill care much more than consumers about efficiency and density, and they aren't exactly rushing away from Epycs and Quadros yet. There are reasons for that, as @igormp points out. That may change, but make no mistake, ARM isn't some form of magic when it comes to transforming power into useful outputs. Just like driving a pick-up truck for your daily suburban commute is stupidly inefficient, yet you can't replace it efficiently with a fleet of beetle-like cars when it comes to actual heavy lifting.

Visual Studio is essentially a glorified text editor. What kind of performance issues are you facing?
 
If you're struggling with compiling whatever you develop there, then it will depend critically on what you are doing with it. I mean, a Python "Hello world" project done in VS will fly in potato-level hardware... Conversely, compiling an office suite from source will take a bit longer, with or without VS...

From https://frontiergroup.org/resources/fact-file-computing-is-using-more-energy-than-ever/
 
"In 2020, the information and communication technology sector as a whole, including data centers, networks and user devices, consumed about 915 TWh of electricity, or 4-6% of all electricity used in the world."
 
"Data centers consumed 240-340 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2022..."
 
"Globally, cryptocurrency mining consumed 110 TWh of electricity in 2022."
 
That's interesting, but we still don't really know how much of that total is from home computing. Let's see what the US Energy Information Administration has to say about it: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-electricity.php
 
In the USA, home computers and their related equipment account for only 2.3% of residential energy usage. That's only about 34.5TWh. Heating and cooling take up the most energy usage compared to all other categories by far. So, home computers, at least in the USA, consume a lot less electricity than you might imagine. This makes sense - the average user doesn't have a high-power i7 or an RTX 4090, they're more likely to have an i3 or i5 and a basic graphics card, if not just integrated graphics.
 
The people who run datacenters don't take energy efficiency lightly either. They have massive electricity bills to manage, so getting the most computing power per watt is going to be a priority.

Bingo. I often think of Andrei Alexandrescu's remark, I believe in at least one iteration of his presentation "Fastware" https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alexandrescu+fastware . Something like:
 
"When I was at Facebook, power efficiency was job one. At the scales and workloads we ran, if you could improve the power efficiency of a process by 1%, you could save your annual salary in the reduction of one month of one center's electricity bill. We constantly A/B tested all these approaches, different server architectures, programming languages, ARM chips, more exotic hardware... Time after time, we almost always found that the way to save the most power was to go fast - use whatever hardware and software would complete the task in the shortest possible real linear time - and then sleep. Or, in practice, pack that task into many fewer servers."
 
Which is not to say that most consumer computer use - Web browsing, comms, light gaming - is the same as general purpose computing. Efficiency per se isn't the same problem as accomplishing the given task at low "cost". You may well be able to get around happily on one or two orders of magnitude less power, by putting ARM Linux on a docked tablet or phone or an Android box, or using an X86 Chromebook or netbook. I daily drove an X3 Steam machine for a while and was fine.
 
Also, though I personally make a hobby out of following the frontiers of green tech and reducing my power use and other forms of waste, individualized climate guilt is corpo propaganda. Seek and destroy incandescent lightbulbs, get efficient home heating/cooling if you're in control of it, use sleep mode when you're away from your machine, drive ICEs as little as you can. Congratulations, you're done. Anything else, done for the rest of your life, will be wiped out by a single empty flight across the Pacific to maintain the paperwork on an airline's landing slots, or the smelting of aluminum to make this year's Wal-Mart branded Christmas decoration. Your entertainment isn't killing the planet.

Or even uncomfortable. Like every time I go to a place heated up to 25ºC in winter, when we're all coming from the streets with warm clothes, and then find it cool down to 17ºC in the summer, when people arrive in shorts...

Anyone who still has their TV continually connected to the internet at this point is insane.
 
Plug (wire) it in temporarily if you need a software update to fix a bug. Otherwise, never ever.

Things I don't have to worry about cause roku doesn't operate in italy, but also cause a PC is better than any "smart" media box/dongle/TV.
 

How much of the world's total power consumption is accounted by personal computers, though?
 
People who make (a lot of) money from computers and pay the corresponding power bill care much more than consumers about efficiency and density, and they aren't exactly rushing away from Epycs and Quadros yet. There are reasons for that, as @igormp points out. That may change, but make no mistake, ARM isn't some form of magic when it comes to transforming power into useful outputs. Just like driving a pick-up truck for your daily suburban commute is stupidly inefficient, yet you can't replace it efficiently with a fleet of beetle-like cars when it comes to actual heavy lifting.

Called it. It's been painfully obvious for a while now that the Titanic MG was heading towards its iceberg moment. The sheer amount of grandiose delusions pushed forward by the egomaniac-in-chief, in a desperate attempt to brush the mounting catastrophic failures under the carpet... Everything from the flawed, overpriced, alpaca-filled backpacks to the massive commercial failure of the screwdriver (see how they had to reduce the handle length to cut costs), from cancelling LTX (clearly due to no one attending) to embarking in that bottomless pit of money called "Labs" (or is it? Has the IRS paid a visit yet?), from the law-bending tax write-offs to hiring a sock-puppet, experience-less CEO (why the f* is he there? Isn't it supposed to be someone recognizable?) to save face, everything predicted the disaster that finally happened.
 
Speaking of write-offs, remember how his pink car would appear in videos all the time? It supposedly got thrashed and replaced by this luxury car he keeps talking about but no one has seen. Yeah, right, "thrashed"... sounds like insurance fraud to me.
 
I'm sure Colton regrets not getting fired for real before the downfall. At least I'm glad not to see Yvonne in the video, obviously she was smart enough to jump ship before it was too late (which also explains Luke moving back to the basement).
 
Imagine burning through all that Nvidia shilling money so quickly... I guess you actually needed a special screwdriver to screw up this hard, huh. What a loser.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PS: It was genuinely one of your funniest videos!.

Based on my enjoyment at the time of playing them and my tendency to return to some them:
 
Sid Meier's Colonization
Sid Meier's Civilization (and several of its sequels)
World Circuit (a.k.a. Grand Prix)
Desert Rats (ZX Spectrum)
The Great Escape (ZX SPectrum)
Fallout 3
Europa Universalis (a couple of incarnations, can't remember which is which)
PC Fútbol (series)
Football Manager (series)
Striker
Starcraft
Carrier Commander
Monkey Island 1&2
Simon the Sorcerer 1&2
Alone in the Dark
Gunship 2000
Panzer General
Wolfenstein 3D
Half Life
Medieval Total War
Doom 1-3
XCOM & XCOM 2
Red Baron
 
In some cases, I know I've played much better games, but at the time they blew my mind

Based on my enjoyment at the time of playing them and my tendency to return to some them:
 
Sid Meier's Colonization
Sid Meier's Civilization (and several of its sequels)
World Circuit (a.k.a. Grand Prix)
Desert Rats (ZX Spectrum)
The Great Escape (ZX SPectrum)
Fallout 3
Europa Universalis (a couple of incarnations, can't remember which is which)
PC Fútbol (series)
Football Manager (series)
Striker
Starcraft
Carrier Commander
Monkey Island 1&2
Simon the Sorcerer 1&2
Alone in the Dark
Gunship 2000
Panzer General
Wolfenstein 3D
Half Life
Medieval Total War
Doom 1-3
XCOM & XCOM 2
Red Baron
 
In some cases, I know I've played much better games, but at the time they blew my mind

Electronics that have broken in my mother's car over the past 2 years, with no involvement in accidents:
-Left mirror camera
-Automatic tailgate open/close switch
-Rotary encoder to enable 4WD
-Button to retract sunroof
 
All electronics. 
 
Also, a real mirror will look way better than a camera and screen. Optical is always > digital. Why add screens and cameras anyway if a mirror can do the same job cheaper and better.
 
Electronics that add useful features, like lane assist, are appreciated. Electronics that can be ignored or turned off and have a manual override, like the automatic tailgate and camera system, are fine. 
But when a critical part of a car is dependent on tiny electronics, with no alternative... 

Yes, we're already a few years down the road where cars are getting worse with each new generation because they're moving further and further away from making functionality a priority. Replacing a foolproof physical mirror with a camera and display that can both fail is not the way to go. Or replacing dedicated buttons for AC control or windscreen wipers with a submenu on a touch screen...
 
Not to mention that every tiny bit of useless technology they put in jacks up the price, which you can easily see by some models like the Audi A6 (which represented a standard mid-range family wagon some years ago) starting at 57,000 € nowadays in it's base configuration. And if you know German car brands, base configuration means you're lucky if it includes AC. EVERYTHING is optional and configurable. So a decent configuration with maybe a different color will quickly go over 60-70K. What normal family can afford a 70K car?
 
So while some people may not be bothered by these "features", they're still paying for them.

Cathodes were absolutely the primary thing, but there’s a ton of stuff that was done with PCs cosmetically before rgb was the norm.
Even relatively recently, full color scheme builds like pre 2016 or so. Corsair made that really accessible around the time of haswell. You could color match all your corsair parts:


You could’ve gone further with whatever color scheme you wanted, with leds being fairly minimal. Could go full blue with that build using an HX1000i power supply, blue corsair vengeance ddr3, gpus of the time offered different color schemes like this sapphire Vapor-X R9 290x



 
And this is just what you did with high end PCs of the time. Color matching. RGB makes the same thing easier but if you were going for aesthetics, you bought components that matched different color schemes. And because that was the norm, there were way more options in terms of colors for motherboards, gpus, ram, coolers, cases, fans etc. Now it’s just black or white with rgb with some outliers, but before, you had options. 
Ive got parts lying around for a black and yellow pc build, avexir ddr3 with yellow leds, an asrock z97m oc formula in black and yellow, sapphire toxic r9 280x’s in black and yellow, and so on. You could do the same with a lot of builds.
 

Called it. It's been painfully obvious for a while now that the Titanic MG was heading towards its iceberg moment. The sheer amount of grandiose delusions pushed forward by the egomaniac-in-chief, in a desperate attempt to brush the mounting catastrophic failures under the carpet... Everything from the flawed, overpriced, alpaca-filled backpacks to the massive commercial failure of the screwdriver (see how they had to reduce the handle length to cut costs), from cancelling LTX (clearly due to no one attending) to embarking in that bottomless pit of money called "Labs" (or is it? Has the IRS paid a visit yet?), from the law-bending tax write-offs to hiring a sock-puppet, experience-less CEO (why the f* is he there? Isn't it supposed to be someone recognizable?) to save face, everything predicted the disaster that finally happened.
 
Speaking of write-offs, remember how his pink car would appear in videos all the time? It supposedly got thrashed and replaced by this luxury car he keeps talking about but no one has seen. Yeah, right, "thrashed"... sounds like insurance fraud to me.
 
I'm sure Colton regrets not getting fired for real before the downfall. At least I'm glad not to see Yvonne in the video, obviously she was smart enough to jump ship before it was too late (which also explains Luke moving back to the basement).
 
Imagine burning through all that Nvidia shilling money so quickly... I guess you actually needed a special screwdriver to screw up this hard, huh. What a loser.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PS: It was genuinely one of your funniest videos!.

Emphasis mine. This is exactly what I mean though. Consent is just a word that means 'permission' in general. Of course, an affair doesn't have your partners permission by definition. But it's just that, the generic definition of permisison (or consent). A very different meaning.
 
To take that to some definition of consent over the sexual act between 2 people requires some sort of projection/extrapolation. Likewise with the scotch joke. Saying you have lots of sex when you're drunk has absolutely zero to do with partner consent. It can, if you're talking about the other party being too intoxicated to give consent.  But to poke fun at yourself over bad decisions when drunk is still separate from assautling a women. We're pasting this stuff in there, as far as I can tell.
 
As stated earlier, I'm all for discussion of whether LTT videos need this toilet humor at all. That's a fine stance to have.
 
But when you make a cheeky joke about an affair, or about yourself  being promiscuous when you drink, and somehow trying to tie that to "sexual assault" or "joking about consent" makes literally zero sense to me. It's implying (either intentionally or unintentionally), or at least risking people inferring, that LTT made some sort of rape (or even rape adjacent) joke, and I think that couldn't be further from the truth.
 
I don't know man. It's just where I fall on this one. General appropriateness aside, it just seems like a reach to use some of the wording in this thread for the jokes made. I really think it's only hurting the 'cause', not helping.

Using the word consent in general isn't the same as making a joke about sexual consent (or lack there of) with a partner. I just hard disagree it's a consent joke in the manner you mean. Again, if we want to talk about sexual innuendo and blue humor in general, that's a fine conversation. But I don't agree that it's making light of consent at all.

Called it. It's been painfully obvious for a while now that the Titanic MG was heading towards its iceberg moment. The sheer amount of grandiose delusions pushed forward by the egomaniac-in-chief, in a desperate attempt to brush the mounting catastrophic failures under the carpet... Everything from the flawed, overpriced, alpaca-filled backpacks to the massive commercial failure of the screwdriver (see how they had to reduce the handle length to cut costs), from cancelling LTX (clearly due to no one attending) to embarking in that bottomless pit of money called "Labs" (or is it? Has the IRS paid a visit yet?), from the law-bending tax write-offs to hiring a sock-puppet, experience-less CEO (why the f* is he there? Isn't it supposed to be someone recognizable?) to save face, everything predicted the disaster that finally happened.
 
Speaking of write-offs, remember how his pink car would appear in videos all the time? It supposedly got thrashed and replaced by this luxury car he keeps talking about but no one has seen. Yeah, right, "thrashed"... sounds like insurance fraud to me.
 
I'm sure Colton regrets not getting fired for real before the downfall. At least I'm glad not to see Yvonne in the video, obviously she was smart enough to jump ship before it was too late (which also explains Luke moving back to the basement).
 
Imagine burning through all that Nvidia shilling money so quickly... I guess you actually needed a special screwdriver to screw up this hard, huh. What a loser.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PS: It was genuinely one of your funniest videos!.

Called it. It's been painfully obvious for a while now that the Titanic MG was heading towards its iceberg moment. The sheer amount of grandiose delusions pushed forward by the egomaniac-in-chief, in a desperate attempt to brush the mounting catastrophic failures under the carpet... Everything from the flawed, overpriced, alpaca-filled backpacks to the massive commercial failure of the screwdriver (see how they had to reduce the handle length to cut costs), from cancelling LTX (clearly due to no one attending) to embarking in that bottomless pit of money called "Labs" (or is it? Has the IRS paid a visit yet?), from the law-bending tax write-offs to hiring a sock-puppet, experience-less CEO (why the f* is he there? Isn't it supposed to be someone recognizable?) to save face, everything predicted the disaster that finally happened.
 
Speaking of write-offs, remember how his pink car would appear in videos all the time? It supposedly got thrashed and replaced by this luxury car he keeps talking about but no one has seen. Yeah, right, "thrashed"... sounds like insurance fraud to me.
 
I'm sure Colton regrets not getting fired for real before the downfall. At least I'm glad not to see Yvonne in the video, obviously she was smart enough to jump ship before it was too late (which also explains Luke moving back to the basement).
 
Imagine burning through all that Nvidia shilling money so quickly... I guess you actually needed a special screwdriver to screw up this hard, huh. What a loser.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PS: It was genuinely one of your funniest videos!.

Called it. It's been painfully obvious for a while now that the Titanic MG was heading towards its iceberg moment. The sheer amount of grandiose delusions pushed forward by the egomaniac-in-chief, in a desperate attempt to brush the mounting catastrophic failures under the carpet... Everything from the flawed, overpriced, alpaca-filled backpacks to the massive commercial failure of the screwdriver (see how they had to reduce the handle length to cut costs), from cancelling LTX (clearly due to no one attending) to embarking in that bottomless pit of money called "Labs" (or is it? Has the IRS paid a visit yet?), from the law-bending tax write-offs to hiring a sock-puppet, experience-less CEO (why the f* is he there? Isn't it supposed to be someone recognizable?) to save face, everything predicted the disaster that finally happened.
 
Speaking of write-offs, remember how his pink car would appear in videos all the time? It supposedly got thrashed and replaced by this luxury car he keeps talking about but no one has seen. Yeah, right, "thrashed"... sounds like insurance fraud to me.
 
I'm sure Colton regrets not getting fired for real before the downfall. At least I'm glad not to see Yvonne in the video, obviously she was smart enough to jump ship before it was too late (which also explains Luke moving back to the basement).
 
Imagine burning through all that Nvidia shilling money so quickly... I guess you actually needed a special screwdriver to screw up this hard, huh. What a loser.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PS: It was genuinely one of your funniest videos!.

It's not even reviews: product placement is the most effective form of marketing. Say Linus wants to make a janky CPU cooler? Companies will be desperate to provide them not just with a top-tier CPU, but also motherboards, PSUs, RAM kits... They don't need them to advertise them, praise them, or anything other than use them, and perhaps list them in a part lists at some point in the video. Their presence alone in the video instills a latent demand in the viewers. This then helps companies in two ways: 1) increase demand for higher-tier products, at a price range most people shouldn't / wouldn't be buying otherwise; 2) create a halo product effect, leading buyers to get whatever product from the same brand they can afford, unconsciously expecting it to be better than a similarly priced competitor.
 
All this is more important than reviews, hence why intel would send an 18-core, "walk-in-the-rain" CPU for Linus' 3-year old daughter PC. The best illustration of this is an LTT video from back when Zen hadn't launch yet. In that video, Linus went over the products bought in Amazon using LTT's affiliate code. In that video, the best-seller CPU was a K i7, despite every LTT video telling viewers they didn't need more than an i5 for gaming, nor a K chip unless planning to overclock (which probably also wasn't worth the cost in FPS/$ terms). The explicit message was against Intel desires ("don't pay 50% more for an i7, get the i5"), but all the i7s and HEDT builds in the channel were able to overpower the explicit message.
 
In the end, the whole tech youtube ecosystem (and similar ones for other industries) strived and consolidated on the basis of channels acting as marketing arms for manufacturers, not in the blatant shilling or "paid reviews" sense, but in this, more indirect way: companies were willing to sponsor the channels and supply parts for their projects because their mere existence was good for business, regardless of what they said about one particular product or other.