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With ads, like I said, I don't mind'em. They put bread on the table. But they get excessive more often than not in LTT's videos.
I may only be >3 months old but I can tell you that we get in flame wars far too often.

About the ads, I can't say whether they aren't necessary but when they take up a quarter of the video...

I recognise what the OP is saying but as LTT grows its inevitable that Ads become more prevelant to pay the bills. How big is the team now? If you dont like it there are plenty of other tech youtubers who do not operate this way.
 
Personally I skip all the ads on Youtube and do not watch each video and have seen the channel become a infomercial for tech products as they rarely say anything negative.  
 
The OP is brave saying what he has, the LTT Forum community can be very toxic (almost as bad as the people who troll Reviewtechusa) and some will defend everything Linus does
 
They are drawing out Scrap Yard wars 3 because its the reason why most people watch Vessel

Honestly I kind of prefer the simpler videos, I dont want to watch 3 hours of him explaining how a cooler works or going through every cable on a power supply
 
I just want him to go "hey look heres a cool product, it works great" 
 
There are channels that spend an hour digging into menus if you want that, I like the Linus and team can deliver concise and to the point videos about a product, yes sometimes they could do MORE information, perhaps they do too many videos, but honestly the videos are long enough as is
 
 
I will admit, I watch it more for entertainment and to see cool stuff, more than I watch for actual information 

I think Linus has to expand his portfolio (maybe new chanels) to offer different content for different groups of people. I really enjoyed the quick and dirty unboxings in the old days and I'd really like a dedicated series for such content, maybe even with another host.
Another idea would be just new hardware reviews and benchmarks (CPUs, GPUs SSDs etc.)
A third could then be the reviews if innovative or interesting tech items, which linus seems to prefer lateley.
Just clearly seperate your content and produce more of it (in total 2 or more vids a day). That's probably Linus' plan anyways but there you go...

@LinusTech
@Slick
 
I agree with this almost 100%.

I agree with some parts. I think I actively started watching Linus' videos about a year and a half ago. At first the advertising at the end of the video didn't really bother me because I had seen the video and could close it no problem. But they they started doing advertising at the start and I had to ffw to where the actual video started and then in some longer videos they also put advertising in the middle and I just couldn't anymore. 
 
I'll still watch a Linus video if I want to watch a review video about a certain product, but I'm not watching every single video anymore. Instead I became pretty active on the forum here.

I agree with 70-80% of this

Hi,
 
I have been following LTT for the past 3-4 years. I was very amused as well as informed by the kinda 'crappy' videos in the back room of NCIX of this odd looking guy taking a look at stuff I was interested in buying / wanted more information about.
 
But I feel since LTT became a company, rather than a simple YouTube channel, things have changed for the worse.
 
Let's start with the videos.
While production quality has certainly increased, ~1/3 of the videos is advertisment, videos are split into parts, most likely in order to get that ad money (the sponsor messages) times n(parts). Not only is it rather annoying to watch a video in parts coming out weekly, it's also breaking the flow of the experience.
Next, the content of the video seems to be targeting an increasingly younger population. There's a lack of actual information and for that matter technical know-how.
Compared to channels such as TS for example, Wendell alone probably knows more than all of LTT combined.
One example would be the VM build for 2 gamers on one machine. Using commerical software, instead of something such as KVM or w/e. Followed by the server running Windows. really... this can easily be done on Linux, and through setting up Linux on your server to do your external rendering, you could have made tutorial videos along with it. But ya. Audience getting younger and so on.
 
Which brings me to the WAN show.
As it started in the garage, it was a nice show to watch. You had a nice catch up on the weeks information. Now it's basically 90mins of fooling around and ad banners / product placement / sponsor spots.
I know companies see you as influencers, and considering your rather young audience, you probably are, yet you kinda lost the path you were on when you started.
 
As you can see, I once really liked LTT and the direction it was heading. I even contributed to the first funding campaign for the forums, eventhough as a student I barely got any cash.
But after the success of the 'First Blood' initiative, basically you went looney, asking for 50k and god knows what.
 
The last thing to address would be the forums.
Appart from being obviously insecure, and thank god I use some rng pw here, the community has really gone down hill. It used to be a friendly place, people trying to help eachother and so on. As for what you can read now on a lot of other forum from the same sector is 'Don't go to LTT if you want decent answers.' And from my experience, I gotta say, it kinda became exactly this place. Someone posting a build, and 15 people flaming the OP as well as eachother.
 
I gotta say I am sad to see what happened to LTT and I will no longer be active on these forums after this post.
As well as unsubbing from the videos, as I really do not enjoy any of them anymore. Perhaps I am too old for this kind of content? I do on the other hand closely follow TS as well as participate in their Patreon, so my guess is I kinda grew out of LTT, maybe because I'm double the average age?
 
Be it as it may.
 
Sad to see this community / LTT go where it is heading.
 
Regards,
 
Scia

Actually this is a good example.
 
Of the fact that in this case pci-e is just interface and it does not say a thing about performance of actual storage device, despite all the marketing claims. There are pci-e 4.0 ssd-s already available which are slower than high-end 3.0 ones... yet you have to pay extra for 4.0 support simply because its something new and shiny.
 
And sata, when it first appeared, was the same. IDE/UDMA133 had 133MB/s max transfer rate, SATA1 - 150MB/s and HDD-s of the time did not reach either. And stuff like ahci/ncq was not in sata1 either. Literally the only practical benefit of sata1 was nicer cable. Yet sata hdd-s were more expensive since they were new. For no good reason other than being new.
 
IMO it is a good idea to avoid wasting money on stuff like this.

2x8 for proper Dual Channel usage to maximize memory performance. 

It should work out of the box.

This exactly, i'm tired of change for the sake of change.  I'm using a bunch of Chrome extensions just to keep things how i like them and use the old versions of things lol

The problem is how slow pci is. You can give it a shot, but im guessing it will be too slow ot bue usable.

Well nothing will really happen. There's not a CPU in it to do anything. Though some boards will let you at least update the BIOS without one.

That's the kicker isn't it?
GPUs are out of stock everywhere and what is in stock is insanely priced. 

Is that a laptop CPU in a desktop
"A shop near me" always makes me nearly cry. I've seen some shops near me charge £100 for a 250GB HDD replacement, they could have at least put an SSD in for that price. I would advise you to do this sort of stuff your self, there are lots of tutorials online and it is really easy to learn. 

Thank you very much

Finally replaced my super old desk that have been partially chopped to accommodate my steering wheels many years ago. 
 

 
Gonna do more cleanup this weekend to clear those things behind. Hopefully i got the energy for it. 
 

Indeed, the yellow exclamations disappeared after updating drivers. Thanks!

Ideally RAM stick should be identical in specs and in brand if possible or you may run into issue like you have now. You should have asked before buying
 
* Reset bios
* Test each ram separately with memtest
* Maybe underclock ram until everything is stable
 
I would return the RAM and try to find an identical to the old one.

look at your processes, does anything seem out of check? anything hogging up ram? 

but to be honest, this looks pretty normal for windows.

My PC used to look like this
 
and yes i did have issues with my rad mounted like that... this was a few years ago... and i moved it to the front instead of it's orignal position.. and instantly lost cooling potential.. so i moved it back, but this is the photo i got so deal with it xD
 
My dad built this... we were going to do it together.. but he did it before i even got there ;-;
 
Glad my build today.. looks so much better than what he did
 

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CPU - i7 6700k
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GPU - EVGA GTX 980 SC (Painted White)
Cooler: Corsair h100i SE Platnium Edition
Elgato HD60 Pro
 

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