Crunchy Dragon

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

Real ones remember when it was called NCIX Tech Tips

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

I would prefer not to take away a prize from someone who uses the forum more than I do. So please take my name out of the running. 
 
I've only been here for 6 years or so, but I am massively proud of the folding community and how we have grown together. So if you fold for TeamLTT Thank you so much, and if you would like to join our sub-community and help solve some of the biggest questions in medical research then come over to the folding community board. 
 
https://linustechtips.com/topic/902973-folding-community-board/

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

Real ones remember when it was called NCIX Tech Tips

It's crazy to think of the days when Linus was still working at NCIX. I remember the live streams were also hosted in Linus's garage, even during winter lol.

My take is that during the pandemic, Nvidia learned that people will buy their GPUs at scalper prices. Because of this, Nvidia increased the price themselves because they figured they could make more money per card without necessarily shipping hardware that justified the higher prices.
 
I guess people aren't as willing to pay scalper prices as Nvidia thought they were.

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

it'll probably run as long as SATA provides enough power for the GPU, but I personally wouldn't trust it with anything crucial.
 
Make sure whatever PSU you buy in the future will work in your PC. Companies like HP and Dell are pretty notorious for having weird proprietary things that make their systems difficult to upgrade.

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

This, plus if the software is reporting identical temperatures for load and idle, there's an issue with it somewhere.

It's crazy to think that I've been watching the channel for nearly 9 years, and been on the forum for just over 6.
 
Time really does fly. I still remember the first few LTT videos I watched from searching "how to build a computer" on YouTube back in 2014. What's crazier is seeing how far technology has come since then. I've been in the scene long enough to remember when you could buy a 128GB SSD for the same price as a 1TB SSD nowadays.
 
The channel and company growth has been insane, too. LMG has come a long way from the kitchen set most of us know and love.
Here's to the future!

This, plus if the software is reporting identical temperatures for load and idle, there's an issue with it somewhere.

Check using HWInfo. HWMonitor has always had problems and I don't trust it.

Why do you feel the need to spend the money? why not save it?
 
I can maybe understand if they're gift cards though. I spent an Amazon gift card on some things I absolutely did not need, including upgrade parts for my 3D printers. That's a fairly expensive item that has proven to me that it can be very useful, you might consider getting one if you're looking for ways to spend money. $300-$400 can get you something pretty nice like a CR-10 V3. It's also, much like a PC, an endless money pit if you let it become one. Always an upgrade to do or a part to add.
 
https://www.amazon.com/CR-10-V3-Motherboard-Installed-300x300x400mm/dp/B07XYVD2C1/

Wow, time flies. The forum was only 3 years old when I first started actively reading tech news posts, and I originally joined at the end of 2016. I took a break for a couple years, but this place is still just as active and helpful as it was back then. I'm glad that it's lasted this long, and I'm glad that the team running the forum does such a great job keeping it going. Looking forward to the future!

The LTT Forum is now 10 years old! What started out as an experiment hosted in Linus's garage has now become a thriving community of tech enthusiasts, with some pretty impressive numbers, thanks in no small part to all of you!
 
The forum has come a long way from the incredibly unstable VBulletin 5 beta that we started out with in 2013, and I hope you will agree that it looks far better today than it did back then:

 
The forum exists because of its awesome community. As a small way of giving back, we're going to give away some 1 year Gold Contributor memberships, which give you Floatplane access, based on recent activity on the forum. The giveaway criteria are:
5 will be randomly assigned to the authors of posts made in the past 3 months (so your chance of winning is proportional to the number of posts you have made in the past 3 months), to give something back to everyone that makes this community awesome. Posts removed by a moderator, and posts in Test Posts, do not qualify. 10 will be randomly assigned to members who joined the forum in or before 2015 and have made at least one post on the forum in the past 3 months, to thank our most loyal members. 5 will be given to the members with the most posts that were marked as the best answer in the past 3 months, to say thanks to the members that give the most back to the community. Posts where a member marked their own post as best answer are excluded. Winners will be drawn later this week, and notified via PM by me. The full list of winners will be published here once all winners have accepted their prize.
 
All winners have now been contacted and received their prize
 
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My take is that during the pandemic, Nvidia learned that people will buy their GPUs at scalper prices. Because of this, Nvidia increased the price themselves because they figured they could make more money per card without necessarily shipping hardware that justified the higher prices.
 
I guess people aren't as willing to pay scalper prices as Nvidia thought they were.

Suspect you can only get x8 on GPU slot or the second long PCie slot, that's why

Which PCIe slot is it in? If it's not in the top x16 slot, you'll be in an x4 PCIe slot which is limited to the speeds that you're seeing.