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Yeah, they're fine. No better or worse than any of the other AMD AIBs

RM's are newer, solid PSUs, should be as good or better than your TX. Fully modular too, so possibly a bit less cable clutter than your TX, depending on what cables you do or don't use. 

You have an igpu, plug your display cable into the motherboard and start it with two sticks. If it still gives you gpu error or other error, then it’s most likely some weird motherboard issue:

I would get the MSI B550 Gaming Plus, its by far the most popular out of the 3 and its a very solid board.
That being said, all 3 will do the job equally well! You won't be able to tell what board you have when you got the system up and running, neither of these boards are bad.

CPU yes.  Ram no.  I believe 3600 CL 16 is the upper limit of speed for AM4.  
But even with your 5600X, the 2080S will be the bottleneck in this system, especially above 1080p.  A 5800X3D won't fix that.

I'll take "victim blaming" for 500 alex

"Trust me Bro'!!!

contacting linus personally, and resolving it quietly. is the exact opposite of "proper journalistic practices", what an absolute narcasistic arrogant buffoon

Billet sent us a quote. I don't know or care how they arrived at the value. If they're good, I'm good.

As for what steps we're taking, you're talking about an outlier issue that has happened once in 10+ years of operation. There won't be a new SOP to ensure we don't accidentally auction stuff. We just need to tighten up some documentation.

Calling people delusional is just going to reinforce their belief that this is a hit piece and not something borne out of genuine concern for the community.
 
That said, there's definitely a lot of takes in here where people are acting personally attacked and that's a little out of touch.
 
The video is good natured. The message isn't an attack, it's a concern. And after trust me bro, Steve said point blank he was no longer treating ltt as an individual but the corporation that it is.
 
Corporations don't care about your feelings. Corporations aren't people. Corporations don't get handled with kid gloves.
 
They get publicly discussed, and allowed to make their own decision on how to respond to that discussion.

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

Joined 12 minutes ago, screen name is "Retire", signs their one single post here with "in short, get fucked".
 
To anyone complaining that I and other people doubt how constructive the comments of these new joins are, I present to you the comment above.

Doublecheck the settings in your BIOS.  It should default to the highest GEN automatically, but there is a setting in there to change it down to the lower speeds if you needed to.
 

i would suggest a fresh install of windows and also i would update the BIOS if there is an update 

We need some more infos, What exactly happens, when it crashes? What is the exact hardware configuration?
 
I use the exact same board and it had an overclocked Ryzen 5 3600 in it and now a 5800X3D and it has been rock solid so far. Even when folding proteins for months 24/7.

You could technically remove all the plastic from this plug, and just connect the metal pieces onto the pins of the mobo, and be fine. However, the plug is way more easy and secure. So as long as the inside of this plug, and if the motherboard connector seems to be clean/clear of foreign metal bits, it should be fine. Even if the plastic would be slightly burned.
 
If it were burned a bit, but doesn't blow up anything and doesn't burn anything anymore, there has been an issue with the PSU (but not anymore) Keep using this thing if you don't have issues.

Looks completely fine to me, I see absolutely nothing wrong. Sharpie markings are common. Safe to use.
Sharpie markings or ink is common on Corsair RM series, its Quality control markings.

Flip your top Radiator to exhaust and you will have neutral/slight positive and will be the ideal setup. 

i wouldnt blow steam at any electronics. the oils can condense inside the monitor and can cause corrosion and/or a short over time (maybe not even that much time)

oils do stick to stuff, so after enough time it will goop up your gear.

Possible? Yes but for your usecase you will gain exactly nothing but increase power consumption and most likely even a buggy premiere gpu select that suddenly starts using the 580 for no reason.

Did not know that. Thank you for the clarification. I will be getting a rework station in the near future, as I have to replace some mosfets on a separate laptop, but I do not think that I will be adding the GPU to this model.

Just making sure you understand this isn't a socketed PCIE card like on a desktop.  It's soldered to the motherboard of the laptop.

To clarify, you are trying to repair the GPU on an 8 year old laptop. Is that correct?
If so, I assume you have a BGA reflow/replace machine. 

Your best bet will likely be finding a parts-only donor unit, ideally with a cracked screen, and harvesting the chip off that. Otherwise you're looking at ordering them by pound off Alibaba from a recycler.