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Worked for me.

I've called him out on it several times. No go. Sadly, his video is the current bane of my existence at the moment, as it's everyone's go-to source to "disprove" my findings. It's not even my findings. It's not even DigitalFoundry's findings. This has been known for quite some time. The thread i keep linking on OCN was done over a year before the DF video was released. I had a friend on Skype making that claim before even that thread came out. I am just as guilty as everyone else that makes the "memory speed doesn't matter" claim, because I too made those same claims before i tested it myself.
 
That's the point of this post too. Do not just take someones word for anything. ALWAYS test it yourself. Find out for certain if it helps. If it does not work for you, request their testing methodology so that you can repeat it. If they fail to share it, then clearly they are not trustworthy. If anyone doubts the memory thing, it's easy to test. 
 
I only wish people would take the 30 or so minutes it takes to do this simple test, and help spread the word. Until @LinusTech takes another look at this subject, and does it properly (no GPU bottlenecks, monitor minimum FPS, don't have terrible memory bandwidth with quad channel, etc) then I will have to keep repeating myself. Luckily, I reached out to a few newer tech reviewers to give this test a try, so that we can get more sources on this test. I only told them to monitor minimum frame rates, and to test the impact with XMP profiles only (no manual overclocking) so that it is fair. I did not tell them which games to run either. That way, viewers will see the impact on random games, and if its worth it that way. 

Part of the trouble here is that most people aren't going to test the claim because largely they're not interested in whether the claim is true or false, but merely what they're told. A lot of people who discuss computer topics online know just enough to be "dangerous", so to speak. They know a little and think they automatically know a lot, and think their ability to search Google is a viable substitute for the years I have actually building computers. I conversed with one such person on this forum and was able to readily show him how little he actually knew.
 
As I've already said, many see Linus as some kind of "authority" on PCs without realizing that he is one of these "dangerous" people. His latest video on YT for reflowing solder on PCBs shows that. He's a content creator. He looks good in front of the camera (to a degree). To the best of my knowledge, he was never a recognized expert with regard to PCs and electronics, though he comes across as such, and his charisma and his videos provide that air of authority as well. And Luke's videos aren't any better with regard to information. I'd love to know how they script some of those videos, and whether they consult actual professionals for doing so, or if they just search Google.
 
Their videos do, however, play to people looking for a quick answer to a complicated question. They largely don't want to think, but they will take whatever LTT says and then turn around and act like they know what they're talking about.... I've seen that time and again as well.

Hi There!
In my opinion you (Luke) are doing it wrong in the workshop. Love the concept, but would like to see the following things changed, it might change the output of the episodes.
I'll go trough the 3 episodes: fan placement, cable management and thermal compound application.
 
One thing I have to comment on all of the episodes is, that I would have used a hotter CPU, like the 4770K or 4790K, they put out way more heat, compared to the 6700K.
 
The "Case Fans" episode I don't have any gripe with, you did it right (scientifically), you kept everything other than the amount of fans constant. Nice! Tho, still a hotter CPU, would be better.

The "Cable Managment" episode I do have some comments on.
First, you didn't check how the GPU boosted, and as we know it boosts when it has the cooling headroom, so it would be interesting to see how that changed as you stuffed stuff into the case.
I personally have seen benefits from cleaning my cables, tho that was in a Lenovo M-series case (it's s**t). My CPU dropped about 5 C.
And again the hotter CPU, please.
 
The "Thermal Compound" episode I also don't have any gripe with, other than the hotter CPU.
 
Hope you change the CPU to a hotter one and when checking GPU temps you log how much it boosts
 
Regards
A long time (lurking) viewer

its not only the latest videos either.
Take the RAM speed testing Linus did back in 2014/early 2015....  Then Digital Foundry, and @MageTank, within a short short timeframe BOTH disproves LInus's findings AND conclusion. Other tests also suggest RAM speed does matter in games, some games more then others.
 
Have @LinusTech, redone his video in light of this or even commented on these findings publically?? No.....
Meaning every person who watches that video (as it is readily availible to the public) will be misinformed.
 
Whilst his intentions may be good, the execution of these videos made by LTT as a company is lacking. And it may seem like the videos, whilst intended to help the general public, may in some cases end up hurting the general public by giving them the wrong answer.

Neither is the Mythbusters. Which is a TV show, which ALSO could have gone sloppy (despite catching flak for it) and kept going. Instead, said TV show goes to great lengths to stay CONSISTENT and to ELIMINATE OBVIOUS VARIABLES.
 
none of which has been done in several of the latests LTT videos.

And at the same time, they also revisited their testing when problems have been pointed out to them or angles they didn't consider -- such as by the President of the United States. So the question is whether LTT will do so. Many look to them as an authority on PCs. That basically places an onus on them to get things right to maintain their reputation. They're good with product reviews, and seem rather thorough from the product reviews I've watched, but when it comes to these videos where they're dispensing information, frankly they're getting things wrong in rather trivial ways -- performance rather unbecoming of professionals.
 
Not thinking that a variable will matter or matter much, @Yoinkerman, does not mean the variable should not be controlled. Absolutely you should still try to control as many variables as you can account. They're called "variables" for a reason. If you can control for it, you do so. If you can't, you mention the variables you could not control, since those variables, while accounted, could still affect the results. And, again, as many have looked to LTT as an authority on PCs, that implies an obligation to get it right since their audience will be relying on that information down the line.

Except he is doing it wrong because he's not controlling for variables and making wide generalizations from limited testing.
 
They're testing on the latest-gen CPU instead of one that runs hotter. They're testing on only one CPU instead of having several systems. They're trying to say that cable management doesn't matter except to make a system look pretty, without checking whether the processor and/or graphics card might be throttling to maintain a lower temperature. Same with the CPU thermal compound application. It didn't seem like they check for fan speeds or throttling. Go back several generations and you'll have systems and components that didn't have throttling as a safety measure. At minimum they should've disabled any thermal throttling options in the BIOS if that's configurable (motherboard dependent, I believe), and set any fans to run at a constant percentage if the fan is PWM. For the GPU, they should've also seen about disabling any throttling if possible, or checked if there was a lesser boost clock compared -- again, safety measures to protect from overheating.
 
Their fan placement test was reasonable in that it showed that fan placement can make a different to temperatures, and that there's a threshold beyond which more fans won't make much of a difference. They also weren't using the greatest CPU cooler on the block for that test, so any differences were more pronounced. But they still should've controlled for any safety measures the BIOS would take to keep the CPU from cooking.

I cringed a bit when they did only that short test in the cable-management test. Poorly managed case lets dust build up on the wires and which can dislodge and be sucked to the GPU or CPU heatsink. A huge dustball all of a sudden hurts more than evenly spread layer of dust over time in my opinion. I just mean, leave it for a year and re-run the test. Also the mastercase is one of the best-case scenarios in terms of cooling. Do the same on a tiny case with poor optimization, maybe.

Hi There!
In my opinion you (Luke) are doing it wrong in the workshop. Love the concept, but would like to see the following things changed, it might change the output of the episodes.
I'll go trough the 3 episodes: fan placement, cable management and thermal compound application.
 
One thing I have to comment on all of the episodes is, that I would have used a hotter CPU, like the 4770K or 4790K, they put out way more heat, compared to the 6700K.
 
The "Case Fans" episode I don't have any gripe with, you did it right (scientifically), you kept everything other than the amount of fans constant. Nice! Tho, still a hotter CPU, would be better.

The "Cable Managment" episode I do have some comments on.
First, you didn't check how the GPU boosted, and as we know it boosts when it has the cooling headroom, so it would be interesting to see how that changed as you stuffed stuff into the case.
I personally have seen benefits from cleaning my cables, tho that was in a Lenovo M-series case (it's s**t). My CPU dropped about 5 C.
And again the hotter CPU, please.
 
The "Thermal Compound" episode I also don't have any gripe with, other than the hotter CPU.
 
Hope you change the CPU to a hotter one and when checking GPU temps you log how much it boosts
 
Regards
A long time (lurking) viewer

Hi There!
In my opinion you (Luke) are doing it wrong in the workshop. Love the concept, but would like to see the following things changed, it might change the output of the episodes.
I'll go trough the 3 episodes: fan placement, cable management and thermal compound application.
 
One thing I have to comment on all of the episodes is, that I would have used a hotter CPU, like the 4770K or 4790K, they put out way more heat, compared to the 6700K.
 
The "Case Fans" episode I don't have any gripe with, you did it right (scientifically), you kept everything other than the amount of fans constant. Nice! Tho, still a hotter CPU, would be better.

The "Cable Managment" episode I do have some comments on.
First, you didn't check how the GPU boosted, and as we know it boosts when it has the cooling headroom, so it would be interesting to see how that changed as you stuffed stuff into the case.
I personally have seen benefits from cleaning my cables, tho that was in a Lenovo M-series case (it's s**t). My CPU dropped about 5 C.
And again the hotter CPU, please.
 
The "Thermal Compound" episode I also don't have any gripe with, other than the hotter CPU.
 
Hope you change the CPU to a hotter one and when checking GPU temps you log how much it boosts
 
Regards
A long time (lurking) viewer

Great point
Now that I think about it, my R5 has a hinge-like mechanism and the R4 is sliding, so it prob, won't work.
 
Asking, because a friend of mine can buy the R5 side for 1/5 the price of the R4 side and he has an R4.

Back in 2009 i bought a Lenovo M58 with 4GB RAM, GeForce 9500 GT and a Q9400, so not a shabby system, but by today's standards it's slow. I did some stuff to keep it alive, but with limited money it was limited. I changed the GPU two times and ended up with a GTX 960. Added 4GB of RAM and reached the limit. Changed the HDD when it died, added a SSD and got a nice PSU.
Here's some images of the old system.


Yeah, I know it's not the cleanest cuts for the cooler, but I forgot to measure what the max height was  
So I wanted to go all in on the new system with color coordination and all that jazz. Still waiting for my LED's to arrive.
The new system sports:
16GB 1866MHz RAM
NZXT X61
i7-4790K at 4.6GHz
1TB WD Blue
256GB Adata SP900
GTX 960 STRIX
RM550 with custom sleeving
And some pictures:



 
Next update will be a bigger GPU
 

Back in 2009 i bought a Lenovo M58 with 4GB RAM, GeForce 9500 GT and a Q9400, so not a shabby system, but by today's standards it's slow. I did some stuff to keep it alive, but with limited money it was limited. I changed the GPU two times and ended up with a GTX 960. Added 4GB of RAM and reached the limit. Changed the HDD when it died, added a SSD and got a nice PSU.
Here's some images of the old system.


Yeah, I know it's not the cleanest cuts for the cooler, but I forgot to measure what the max height was  
So I wanted to go all in on the new system with color coordination and all that jazz. Still waiting for my LED's to arrive.
The new system sports:
16GB 1866MHz RAM
NZXT X61
i7-4790K at 4.6GHz
1TB WD Blue
256GB Adata SP900
GTX 960 STRIX
RM550 with custom sleeving
And some pictures:



 
Next update will be a bigger GPU
 

Back in 2009 i bought a Lenovo M58 with 4GB RAM, GeForce 9500 GT and a Q9400, so not a shabby system, but by today's standards it's slow. I did some stuff to keep it alive, but with limited money it was limited. I changed the GPU two times and ended up with a GTX 960. Added 4GB of RAM and reached the limit. Changed the HDD when it died, added a SSD and got a nice PSU.
Here's some images of the old system.


Yeah, I know it's not the cleanest cuts for the cooler, but I forgot to measure what the max height was  
So I wanted to go all in on the new system with color coordination and all that jazz. Still waiting for my LED's to arrive.
The new system sports:
16GB 1866MHz RAM
NZXT X61
i7-4790K at 4.6GHz
1TB WD Blue
256GB Adata SP900
GTX 960 STRIX
RM550 with custom sleeving
And some pictures:



 
Next update will be a bigger GPU
 

So I finally got the money need to build a new server. This server is going to be my NAS, a PLEX and Web-server hosting a lot of sites.
 
First, an overview of the old server.
It was made of an old HP Compaq sporting a E8400 with 8GB of 800MHz of DDR2 RAM. The storage were two old Seagate 320GB HDD's, that I have no idea how old are and an Intel 530 180GB SSD for the OS. To hold all the movies I used an external Buffalo 1TB USB3.0 drive. Needless to say it is only a matter of time before this machine dies.
Here are some pictures of the old system, with and without the properly mounted SSD(didn't have any velcro)  .




  The new server is rocking a Xeon E3 1231 V3 with 16GB of 1333MHz DDR3 ECC RAM in a Fractal Design Define Mini (I'm sleeping next to it). For storage it has the Intel 530 180GB SSD and 2 3TB WD Green and a 1TB WD Blue. The budget wasn't big enough, so there is no redundancy, only nightly backups.
Heres some pictures of the new server.


 
For OS, the old one was my server, the new one is shared, so the others have some requirements.
The old was running Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, no gui, I had no use for it. But one of the others wants a gui on the new server, so the new server is running Ubuntu 14.04 with Lxde, mainly because I couldn't get OpenBox working... And it needs a gui that doesn't draw to much power from the system.
All in all I'm happy with the new server
Here is a picture of the new and old server besides each other.

 
The old is being reused as an ARMA 2 DayZ OverPoch server

So I finally got the money need to build a new server. This server is going to be my NAS, a PLEX and Web-server hosting a lot of sites.
 
First, an overview of the old server.
It was made of an old HP Compaq sporting a E8400 with 8GB of 800MHz of DDR2 RAM. The storage were two old Seagate 320GB HDD's, that I have no idea how old are and an Intel 530 180GB SSD for the OS. To hold all the movies I used an external Buffalo 1TB USB3.0 drive. Needless to say it is only a matter of time before this machine dies.
Here are some pictures of the old system, with and without the properly mounted SSD(didn't have any velcro)  .




  The new server is rocking a Xeon E3 1231 V3 with 16GB of 1333MHz DDR3 ECC RAM in a Fractal Design Define Mini (I'm sleeping next to it). For storage it has the Intel 530 180GB SSD and 2 3TB WD Green and a 1TB WD Blue. The budget wasn't big enough, so there is no redundancy, only nightly backups.
Heres some pictures of the new server.


 
For OS, the old one was my server, the new one is shared, so the others have some requirements.
The old was running Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, no gui, I had no use for it. But one of the others wants a gui on the new server, so the new server is running Ubuntu 14.04 with Lxde, mainly because I couldn't get OpenBox working... And it needs a gui that doesn't draw to much power from the system.
All in all I'm happy with the new server
Here is a picture of the new and old server besides each other.

 
The old is being reused as an ARMA 2 DayZ OverPoch server

So I finally got the money need to build a new server. This server is going to be my NAS, a PLEX and Web-server hosting a lot of sites.
 
First, an overview of the old server.
It was made of an old HP Compaq sporting a E8400 with 8GB of 800MHz of DDR2 RAM. The storage were two old Seagate 320GB HDD's, that I have no idea how old are and an Intel 530 180GB SSD for the OS. To hold all the movies I used an external Buffalo 1TB USB3.0 drive. Needless to say it is only a matter of time before this machine dies.
Here are some pictures of the old system, with and without the properly mounted SSD(didn't have any velcro)  .




  The new server is rocking a Xeon E3 1231 V3 with 16GB of 1333MHz DDR3 ECC RAM in a Fractal Design Define Mini (I'm sleeping next to it). For storage it has the Intel 530 180GB SSD and 2 3TB WD Green and a 1TB WD Blue. The budget wasn't big enough, so there is no redundancy, only nightly backups.
Heres some pictures of the new server.


 
For OS, the old one was my server, the new one is shared, so the others have some requirements.
The old was running Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, no gui, I had no use for it. But one of the others wants a gui on the new server, so the new server is running Ubuntu 14.04 with Lxde, mainly because I couldn't get OpenBox working... And it needs a gui that doesn't draw to much power from the system.
All in all I'm happy with the new server
Here is a picture of the new and old server besides each other.

 
The old is being reused as an ARMA 2 DayZ OverPoch server

About 2 months ago I went into best buy just to look around and I was checking out the video cards I was already looking at buying the gtx 650 ti boost and they had it in stores granted it was 40$ more than new egg. So one of the people that work at best buy walks up to me and was talking to me about computer stuff and he seemed to know a bit about computers (he built his and was a gamer) and he told me not to buy it in store and go buy it off newegg and save the money. So in the mix of all the negative story's about best buy and other computer dealers I just wanted to throw a good story out there that not all of them are jerks

Why don't you just remove the, properly (D:), partition and expand the (C:)? if they have files on (D:) you could store them temporarily on a USB. There is build in tools in Windws to do this, so it doesn't require some special program

I don't have that many stories, manly because I attend a class in Math and IT, so every one there knows some IT, but a few years back I was the "tech guy" you called if you had problems.
The best story I have is that my aunt used to call the PC the hard drive and the monitor the computer...
My brother once spilled a cup of tea over his laptop... resulting in him going "dude, can you fix my computer? I spilled a cup of tea..." It fried his mobo, but the RAM and HDD was intact, so I kept those and told him it was busted, he didn't mind.
I also, not that long ago, "reanimated" an old Pentium 4 PC, just because we needed a spendable computer at parties, that people wouldn't mind broke. So at the first run I had to stay somewhat sober, which resulted in some drunk girl wanting me to explain what the different part in a computer do and how they are connected.... good thing there was no sidepanned on the computer in I had replaced it with a piece of Plexiglas so I with ease could point at the different parts. She might have understood, tried to compare it to the human body...

I don't have that many stories, manly because I attend a class in Math and IT, so every one there knows some IT, but a few years back I was the "tech guy" you called if you had problems.
The best story I have is that my aunt used to call the PC the hard drive and the monitor the computer...
My brother once spilled a cup of tea over his laptop... resulting in him going "dude, can you fix my computer? I spilled a cup of tea..." It fried his mobo, but the RAM and HDD was intact, so I kept those and told him it was busted, he didn't mind.
I also, not that long ago, "reanimated" an old Pentium 4 PC, just because we needed a spendable computer at parties, that people wouldn't mind broke. So at the first run I had to stay somewhat sober, which resulted in some drunk girl wanting me to explain what the different part in a computer do and how they are connected.... good thing there was no sidepanned on the computer in I had replaced it with a piece of Plexiglas so I with ease could point at the different parts. She might have understood, tried to compare it to the human body...

I don't have that many stories, manly because I attend a class in Math and IT, so every one there knows some IT, but a few years back I was the "tech guy" you called if you had problems.
The best story I have is that my aunt used to call the PC the hard drive and the monitor the computer...
My brother once spilled a cup of tea over his laptop... resulting in him going "dude, can you fix my computer? I spilled a cup of tea..." It fried his mobo, but the RAM and HDD was intact, so I kept those and told him it was busted, he didn't mind.
I also, not that long ago, "reanimated" an old Pentium 4 PC, just because we needed a spendable computer at parties, that people wouldn't mind broke. So at the first run I had to stay somewhat sober, which resulted in some drunk girl wanting me to explain what the different part in a computer do and how they are connected.... good thing there was no sidepanned on the computer in I had replaced it with a piece of Plexiglas so I with ease could point at the different parts. She might have understood, tried to compare it to the human body...

I would say that the CPU might be a little bottleneck in some games, but does it have to fit in a specific socket? If it doesn't then it might be better to go back one gen and get an i5-3xxx, and if you get the 7870 instead you could get a better CPU for the same money.