GeminiJ13

Thanks bro !! Will do

Yes.

Just about any 3080 that you want from a reputable manufacturer.  ASUS, MSI, EVGA.  Or the equivalent AMD 6000(x) GPU to the 3080 from the same manufacturers.  One of these will serve you well for the next 3-5 years and get you all the frames you need.

Paste is not pre-applied on a Noctua cooler, but it will come with a tube of Noctua paste. OEM paste is not the absolute best that you can buy, but it will be within a couple of degrees C of the best paste, so for most people, the included paste is just fine.

Thanks! I’ll attempt that.

If the programs can be loaded to the ram this won't matter.
The difference is only when loading.
But also with some big programs that are using the drive while running (like 3dmark) it would be slower (when loading) as it needs to copy some files to the main hdd for caching.

Getting both PCIe riser parts costs a total of around $25 USD.  I did a cost estimate for the whole thing minus a controller and it came to $1,944.60.  6.5 times the cost of a new console.  I don't know how they can justify the title of this video.  It makes zero sense.

So i made an account just to complain about a free contest, so yes yes I'm petty.

Let me get to my reasoning though.
 
Linus Media Group, in its position as a reviewer of all things tech, should be well aware of the massive abridgement of human rights that is social media privacy policies.

It is frustrating then, to see LMG endorse this abridgement by forcing users to apply to the contest through social media. (see photo) I find the practice of compelling people to use social media in this way abhorrent.

What makes this even more galling is that the terms and conditions state that anyone worldwide may enter. (see photo) That is clearly not the case though.

Now I can understand requiring an email address, as there must be some way to contact the winner. Fine. But, there is no need to require social media when captcha or other protections would have worked as well.

Honestly LMG, I expected better from you and I am disappointed.

Why did you guys at LTT have to upload 4 sponsored infomercials this week? Does this guarantee no sponsored vids for the next 2 weeks?

There should be zero controversy surrounding this. The government did all the prosecuting, and the guy was trying to sell the disks for four dollars apiece. He himself admits this. End of story. Open and shut case.

As I understand from skull_leader's comment.
 
1. Say you went to a refurbished store to buy a laptop, and you want windows on it.
 
2. You ask the refurbisher if they have a laptop with genuine windows on it. If they have it great! You pay a little extra and get a laptop with genuine windows.
 
If not, no problem, you pay less but you have to buy a retail windows license on your own.
 
3. So you say you want the laptop with genuine windows on it. He gives you a laptop running Windows and tells you the Windows on it is genuine. You can check the key.
So how do you check if the refurbished laptop has genuine windows on it?
 
You check the validity of the serial key at Microsoft.com right?
WRONG.
The laptop may have an OEM key intended for another laptop!
 
Many times an OEM key will appear valid at Microsoft.com, but once Microsoft realizes that the key is not for the laptop it was originally intended for, they will block it.
 
4. But you are a smart buyer. You know a laptop with genuine Windows will come with a genuine recovery CD with a Cerificate Of Authencity.
You ask for the Genuine CD with COA from the seller. He gives it to you and you are satisfied the laptop is running genuine Windows! 
 
Great!  But you would not buy the laptop if it did not come with genuine Windows right?
 
This is where Eric Lundgren comes in. He would make counterfeit CDs that looked exactly like the genuine CD with COA. So a buyer would buy a laptop thinking he bought a laptop with genuine windows that came with it.
 
He would scam you into thinking you bought laptops with the recovery disc that came with the laptop. But he actually copied the contents into a blank CD, imitated Dells trademark on it.
 
He says that he even gave the original OEM key that came with the laptop, so he was not doing anything wrong!
 
So as a buyer, you were getting the laptop with the original OEM key but a counterfeit CD.
 
Counterfeit CD so what? You got the original key right?
 
Wrong. You bought the laptop under the impression that it came with the original CD. Eric Lundgren did not tell you he was selling you a counterfeit CD. That is the scam!

It was suggested in the last WAN show that Mr. Lundgren was not given an opportunity to stop his operations with something as simple as a cease and desist letter. Although Microsoft might not have verbally warned him, US Customs did tell Mr. Lundgren that his activities were illegal. The below blog adds much to the conversation.
 
Article quote: "
In the last few days there have been several stories about the sentencing of Eric Lundgren in a case that began in 2012, and we have received a number of questions about this case and our role in it. Although the case was not one that we brought, the questions raised recently have caused us to carefully review the publicly available court documents. All of the information we are sharing in this blog is drawn from those documents. We are sharing this information now and responding publicly because we believe both Microsoft’s role in the case and the facts themselves are being misrepresented.
But to start, it’s important to state our principles:
We fully support refurbishing and recycling of computers and have robust programs to support this. There are many individuals and companies who do great work here. We have programs that support refurbishers. Altogether these programs have more than 3,000 members, recycling millions of PCs. While we’ve cut back substantially on the number and types of piracy cases that we bring, we remain committed to protecting our customers when we see others working to deceive them – especially when they’re acting unlawfully. We often pursue actions, for example, against phone scammers who masquerade as technical support to trick and defraud customers. We similarly remain concerned when counterfeiters seek to deceive consumers, even more so when they’re seeking to profit from this activity."  
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-facts-about-a-recent-counterfeiting-case-brought-by-the-u-s-government/

That's what I would pay for it, but the cpu and gpu alone on ebay are $400. It depends if the seller knows this or not.

Based of  used prices this is worth anywhere from $700 to $1000(BTW the PSU is overkill and adds unnecessary value. You ccan build a better pc new for the same price