Zirkov

Assuming the Billet Labs story is true (I wasn't there and so were 99,99999999999% of you either) LMG should rectify this TODAY.
 
The buyer of the block is known, that person should have the decency of returning the block directly to Billet Labs pronto. On confirmation of receipt by Billet Labs, LMG should refund the buyer in full. Some reasonable timeframe should be allotted for the buyer to do so, but if the buyer chooses to not return the prototype (s)he should be called out publicly. If the buyer turns out to be a competing manufacturer, or even an employee of a competing manufacturer, said manufacturer should be called out publicly outright for knowingly buying this prototype of a (potential) competitor. They should also never use anything they learned from owning this prototype in their own designs. LMG must put safeguards in place that no prototype (of any kind) in future will ever be let out into the public and must always be returned to the owner/inventor.

"We can't spend a few hundred bucks to make sure we're not irreparably damage a companies reputation"
Seriously? To make 100% sure before you fuck over a startup you can't spend an hour or two to double check your results?
And then you SOLD the block at an auction causing them to be stalled as they no longer have their best prototype! What the absolute fuck????

The part where it is alleged LTT auctioned off a prototype water block they promised to return is troubling. That requires an official response.

what will we do without twitter.........

Why do you think this is not fair?
This kind of manual bruteforcing is not that different from googling, is it?
Before: You don't know the answer to this specific question. After: You know the answer to this specific question. Tomorrow: You probably forgot 80% of those questions and answers and moved on. Both ways give you the answer to the question which you didn't know before. Why do you think it is the way that matterrs?
Googling the answers does not mean that you got a gaming spirit or whatever, same as brutforcing.
You can be a non-gamer and still google all the answers, and you can be a gamer who just tried 20 times over and over until you finally got it.
What's the difference?

Thats, to be frank, all on you. The event was teased before first announcement in WAN Show. And all the information I have is either from WAN Shows or from those who got chance to participate this first drop. About which part has Linus lied here? Or how can you call yourself "diehard fan" if you are still clueless on how and why this even is made like it is. Sounds like you are just entitled and salty.
 
How much more personal data you have provided by not being able to participate? Lol, get your story together before posting it.
 
Salty-McSaltiness here. You know, he doesn't have to do any of this. He could have just go by, keep making videos. Your kind of people are the few who ruin the fun for everyone. Like Linus said, if he gets too much negative feedback, he is sending all hardware he has back. Probably losing money doing so. And I wouldn't blame him for doing it if your type of people would be more common. Good thing you are like 5th in this thread.
 
Uh, what? You had some personal life issues, Linus makes one good deed to everyone and you decide to personally blame him because he personally let you down? Are you serious?
 
Ever heard of bots and scalpers? Pretty much all the ways where you register beforehand and then that list is cross-checked can and will be cheated on. And checking some 10k entries by hand would take forever. And the stock of some 100 items would still have to be somehow divided. Are you gamer enough in that group? Or even in top100? Were you in first 100 who entered and were confirmed? I bet that if they would have done it that way, you would still be whining here.
 
Oh, so thats the reason... you aren't just salty. You are plain old jealous.
 
No. You missed a drop because you weren't dedicated enough. I don't personally watch videos as they go online, I only knew drop happened because this thread suddenly had 150 new replies.

He said on the WAN show that there would be other drops, at different times of day for those that have jobs and to account for time zone differences. If you're subbed to the channel and watch the videos you'll find out when. He's also said this is only for his most hardcore of fans (basically), and that it's a reward to those that watch the content.
 
It's not nearly as hard as you make it seem. If your typing skills aren't up for it, sure, that's unfortunate, but that's kind of on you. I also don't think they have to be that good. They didn't sell out for something like 20 minutes. Lots of time, if you were right there and ready to buy. They also post in the LTT Official part of the forum when a new video goes up (sometimes before the video goes up, sometimes at the same time, occasionally after) so that can be a way to find out as well.
 
As for the rest of your rant:
It wasn't a very cryptic message. He gave the way to get to the site, and the clue was easily found with a 2 second Google search.
It's not supposed to be dead easy. How exactly did he get your personal data? Not everyone was going to get one. He had what, 100 cards? There were thousands, if not tens of thousands of people that wanted one. If he didn't care about you to even a slight degree, he wouldn't have bothered setting this up at all. He didn't lie about "us" getting a chance to buy the cards. They all sold. So those people did get one. You didn't, and while unfortunate, it doesn't negate the fact that others did. Your son still has something to play on. That's a lot more than some have. I've never seen such entitlement. You're super salty about not being able to buy a luxury item, and frankly, that's a little weird. If you're so busy with your family, life and issues, maybe spending money on a graphics card shouldn't be your first priority anyway?

It's not the CPU, people.

USB 2x2

The best way to "lock down" a child's phone is to just not give them one.

Anyone that's rocking a 1080p panel will do more than just fine with a 1070/Fury in basically any game.  Honestly my old RX 470 did very well at 1080p, and I'll go back to recommending those to literally everyone once prices become sane again.
 
Esports titles?  I can hold CSGO above 120fps at 4K with a fury and the settings maxed out.  Overwatch I have to turn things down a notch or two to keep things above 60fps at 4K (again, on a used Fury Nitro I bought for $300).
 
The things that gamers have been sold on are pretty hilarious.  Uncomfortable, tacky, and cheaply made racing seat computer chairs (gotta have that lateral support to sit still for 4 hours bro!), "A 5GHz 7700k is necessary for gaming", high refresh TN panels that look like shit, and the idea that you NEED 144hz in order to not suck at counterstrike.  Once you're on the bleeding edge (and getting paid to play videogames), any advantage, perceived or otherwise is worth it, but most people are nowhere near that level.
 
If you really think those extra frames are gonna make you play better, turn the settings down a bit and watch your score not change at all.  Or spend a few minutes tuning the settings to find your preferred balance between "this is running smoothly enough for me" and "I like pretty graphics", exactly the same way PC gamers have been doing it forever.

Actually, National Geographic as been a magazine since 1888 (source). The cable channel has been only around since 2001 (source).

So Gamer's Nexus tried to do their damnedest to get a card to blow up, but in the mean time, they tested using various configurations with Furmark (which is unrealistic) and Metro 2033.
The gist is:
This is not a temperature problem. Gamer's Nexus' test at their worst case (given 40C or so of directed airflow) resulted in the PCB getting up to 120C but the VRMs stayed at about 110C and the card survived for at least 1000 seconds. This was also running Furmark. Given a normal use case, even without the thermal pads and BIOS, the VRMs were topping in the 90s. They also measured using thermal couples at key hot spots. The VRMs can tolerate temperatures up to 125C. The chokes (which is what one of the thermal pads covers on the heat sink side) can tolerate a ton more heat since it's just copper winding (of course, if the insulator material melts that's another story but at that point the card is probably toast anyway). They went into discussion on some myths, one of them being the thermal padding on the heat sink side makes things worse because it blocks airflow to the VRMs. The point they made was that "air channel" is so restricted anyway by components it doesn't matter, there's already a thermal pad over the VRMs, and adding the thermal pad improves the thermal conductivity significantly anyway. EVGA reported that their defect rate is 200 parts per million, or 0.02%. Basically, for every one million cards, 200 of them have showed up defective. This is within acceptable tolerance for the consumer world (i.e., the FTC isn't going to get on EVGA's ass) The caveat is of course this is a number reported by EVGA The other caveat is that this number may only be counted for if people actually submitted their cards through the RMA process, so it may be higher. EVGA is suggesting the reason why you hear about it so much is because this is the way the internet works, and some people may have cards that aren't a problem, but there's something else wrong with it and because this is all over the news, they think the card is at fault. They had a conversation with someone (Bill Zoid? I dunno) mentioned that it's most likely the capacitors and it's likely EVGA received a bad batch. The explanation Bill gave was that the capacitors get damaged somehow (overcurrent perhaps, which is likely when you're trying to overclock the card hard) and the capacitor starts to degrade. When a capacitor fails, it fails to one of two ways depending on the type: open or shorted. The type used in this case fails to a shorted state (and no, you cannot simply get a capacitor that fails to an open state because the characteristics change) and the capacitor blows. This is independent of temperatures Their conclusion is manufacturing defects or similar. They still gave knocks on EVGA for not having the thermal pads and BIOS already. So there's the data, there's your information. Whether or not you want you still want to purchase or recommend a GeForce 10 EVGA card is up to you, but at least go in informed and not as a blind sheep who'll believe whatever sensationalist news story pops up on the feed.