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It's very dependent on what you like they are quite different as they have a different feel and texture, the paracord being more cloth based and the nylon a plastic with a larger weave to the paracord. 
 
This should give you kind of an idea visually (bottom is paracord), personally I like nylon as it's stiffer as mentioned:

So I thought the burning smell was from the GPU. Turns out the burning smell was from molten plastic around the 6 pin and 8 pin connectors. Now, I'm not sure whether the PSU/cables are faulty or the GPU is faulty or if they're both faulty, but the burning smell was not a capacitor, diode or VRM like I previously thought.
 
I only noticed this when I bought a spare GPU off eBay to tie me over in situations like these when I noticed the pin was melted on the 6pin connector. From the pictures, you can clearly see that the connector has melted on both cables. (Both 6+2pin adapters originate from the same cable).
 
I am angry to say the least because I spent a lot of money on the PSU so if it is indeed the PSU's fault then that's quite worrying.
Weirdly enough it happened to two pins on two separate splits. I already RMA'd my GPU which was received today, so I'll know within a week whether anything is wrong with it.
 
What do you guys think?


 

Yeah I've RMAd my PSU

Rig name: Orange Beast
CPU: Phenom II x6 1090T @3.9GHz
GPU: R9 390
RAM: 8GB
Score: 7.7
 

 
Shocked that my CPU still holds up to these tests. It's nearly 6 years old!

First off hey Luke!
 
How much did Linus's 8 SSD raid cost him when he got it?
Will I end up in another LTT video?
What's the longest amount of time the WAN Show PC's actually just worked?
Why is Linus's picture for a lot of things his fake Steve Jobs photo?
Did any other people's LTT NF-F12s not come with the note from Linus?
Luke, how many times have you been fired?
Why don't you use the main Twitch channel for 3D printing streams?
Are there going to be more videos with Linus rapping in them? The stormtrooper rap was pretty damn good.
Why don't you run all office traffic through a VPN to reduce the chance of getting taken down by an attack of some form if your IP is found and shared?
Are you going to read this entire thread?
For Jon: why do you know everything?
For Colton: Why do you put yourself down as being worse than Nick Light?
For Berkel: Where did you get that fake Aussie accent from?
For Luke: How's the 2600k going and how far have you managed to push it in terms of clocks?
For Taran: how's the RSI going?
For Dennis: how's the mattress? Answered but not my question alone.
For Linus: any further cat expenses from foam consumption?
 
Bold questions were answered in the video
 
Thanks LMG!

A lot of assumptions being made here.
We don't take money to do reviews. We never have.
We take money to do advertisements, which are never labeled as reviews.
NVIDIA provided the graphics cards (and Cooler Master sent cases and coolers, ASUS sent motherboards, Intel sent CPUs, Kingston sent SSDs and RAM, Swiftech sent water cooling gear) for our editing workstations for product placement in the whole room water cooling series of videos we produced featuring this hardware extensively.
In the grand scheme of things, $6000 of graphics cards (don't imagine that's their BOM cost on them either) is a great deal for 1-2M impressions on a series of videos about using them.. but those videos were NOT a review. They were about a clearly sponsored (we said it was more than once) outrageous project.
As for sending "keeper" vs "loaner" units of hardware, yeah for many products we just don't do loaners anymore, but more than anything else this is to do with me not feeling like it's worth my time to play email tag for shipping labels and spend an hour driving to FedEX and filling out stupid international bill of landing and commercial invoice nonsense over like a $100 item that costs more to send back than to just not bother with anyway.
That and quite frankly even a negative review (for some reason) often generates a lot of sales for the manufacturer.. so as far as I'm concerned they can eat the cost of the item and I'll do whatever I want with it when we're done reviewing it - whether that's continuing to use it personally (Pebble Steel and iPhone 6 come to mind) - or re-visiting it only when we need to re-do our comparative numbers (here's a lesson on why this is necessary and we can't just re-use old numbers)
And on the subject of the Pebble and iPhone 6 - these are both items that were NOT provided by the manufacturer. One was purchased for my own use and the other was provided by a separate sponsor who makes skins for phones (dBrand), but I didn't necessarily mention this at the time because who cares? It doesn't colour my impressions of the device.
Here's an item I wasn't allowed to keep and won one of the two editor's choice awards I've ever given out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1uj6wQTu58
Here's an item was allowed to keep that I ripped apart saying it was worse across the board than the two similar products from other manufacturers that I compared it against: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O1aCNrjV64
Here's an item I was allowed to keep that I basically ripped apart on camera and sent it back anyway because it had so little value to me I didn't even want to give it to a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AgcltUM9s
And I could do this all day..
You may notice that most of the items we review we are fairly positive about. There is a reason for this, and it has nothing to do with being paid to review it.
I don't generally bother to review stuff that I already know is stupid junk.
The bottom line is this. You can either trust me or not trust me. Ultimately that's your deal. My job is to do what I do, and the people who recognize it for what it is - my opinion being given to you - will follow, and the others can go find someone who maybe they think "hasn't sold out" but might just "happen to agree with them" to listen to. Enjoy.

I wish saying something was "too hard" was a legitimate excuse in my job too.

Does this mean we're going to 120/144 already? Because that better damn well be what he means.