Ratburger08

A day or 2 ago, I watched the sponsored LTT video about the Acer Nitro 5 (on sale at Best buy for 650, or 690 with tax).
 
My first impressions were that of anyone who buys a laptop for light gaming. It's not sleek or slim, and it's got red on it. Sounds about right. 
 
But in the day of thin and light laptops, it's wholly refreshing to see a laptop with a removable plastic cover, revealing an empty user-replaceable ram slot (to take the laptop from 8gb to 16gb of the already installed 2666mhz ram). Also discovered, upon searching a bit more, was a full-sized M.2 slot. Whether it's an NVMe capable slot or just a regular SSD slot is beyond me, but it fit my 840 250gb drive in just fine anyway. And yes, it was recognized by windows, and is undergoing drive cloning as we speak, because I DESPISE booting off of HDDs in 2018 (I mean really).
 
So as of this posting I have not actually played any games on it yet, but have been very pleased so far with the quality and speed of this little it that could. 
 
Thank you Linus, and Acer. Maybe not ALL the sponsored videos are just shill crap
 
Will update later with more impressions after steam and a few games are installed. 

If you don't have things you frequently access, then SSHDs aren't worth it.

No. SSHD's are only good if you have a regular HDD for a boot drive. There's typically only a couple GB of cache on an SSHD, which makes them faster than a standard HDD for things like booting or apps that you constantly use on a daily basis that isn't on your NVMe, but for mass storage, just go with a regular HDD. 

2400 vs 2666 is virtually nothing.
 
 

@Revan654 can you shoot me a message on who it is that purchased these cables? I would like to get in contact with them and resolve the matter of course. We sell a lot of cables and our RMA rate is very low, but we are still very proactive about fixing any issues that arise. It is unfortunate that we do have mistakes, but again we do take care of them. I do see this is the PSU end so the crossing cables is for the manufacturing pinouts of course, but do you have any feedback you would give for improvements? We of course always listen to feedback and try to improve.

Go home OP you're drunk.

It's cyclical.. 
 
Some company releases a good/exciting/interesting product, and I say it's good/exciting/interesting, then I get labeled a fanboy of aforementioned company.
 
That company's competitor does the same, and I do the same thing.. then I'm "switching sides".
 
How about this? I'M NOT A FAN OF ANYTHING SO THERE IS NO SIDE-SWITCHING FOR ME TO DO!
 
I'm not on "a side" and anyone who thinks I am needs to take a LONG, HARD look in the mirror and figure out why they see the world in terms of "which side someone is on".. because if you think of things that way you're probably a fanboy. And that's sad.

I believe they changed it so you have to do it in game now.  Walk to where you want it now and there is a little HUD icon on the floor.  Select it, and place your ship.  
 
It is about as user friendly as a wood-chipper full of angry badgers, but it is just their first pass at an in game Hanger Management system.  It will get better over time. 
 
Side note this same system is how you can change load-outs on your ship in the PU on the fly.  So for that it works much better.

So you're making this point on the very thread that makes this as much of a problem for people remaining with intel?
 
Good for you: managing to hide a glaring flaw of intel behind a pseudo-witty retort that makes absolutely no sense in the context on which is posted.

Didn't ati die forever ago ? 

So I'm sure this has been discussed alot but I need to hear it from someone that writes for or plans the LTT videos. 
 
After watching the nth video that Linus does building a PC (sleeper build) with an i9 of all things, I came here to wonder out loud. Why has LTT, in my knowledge, not done an AMD featured build? Yes I know about the supercomputer Linus built at AMD not long ago and yes I know about the exclusive Radeon and TR reveal at the comival, but damnit, I just don't see why not?
 
Would I have liked to see an AMD/Nvidia system in the sleeper build? Yes. Will LTT ever release a video with a freaking Ryzen chip in a system that THEY built (not Alienware) ON PURPOSE? well that remains to be seen. 
 
Again, sorry for the ranty, whiny nature of this post but I like diversity. Be great to see a system built that doesn't get Intel more ad revenue to blast my Facebook with their "scalability" adverts. Psh. 

We've had a few Ryzen builds in the plans for a while but somehow they keep hitting snags. 
 
An i9 was used in the Sleeper because it was the top consumer processor on the market at the time of building (once Threadripper drops it will be interesting to see how that changes things).

I can't wait for Linus to drop something while recording the video..  /s 
 
 

Off topic, but also not. This is why I use floatplane and the forums instead of YouTube...

Bam.
 
Also we've got a value gaming build guide with Ryzen 5 that keeps getting the filming date pushed out because this place is a disaster and we're super busy.
 
As for the Sleeper PC, Threadripper isn't out yet. We'll see what happens in the future.
 

I've had 2 thread replies and 1 private message reply from Linus and it always feels awesome

Ah, I understand that then.

See, I love old Apple hardware, don't mind updating it with sleeper builds like this, but modifying the exterior just feels... so dirty and wrong.

I am usually against pre-orders, but I think it is justifiable for Vega.  We know roughly what performance will be.  If you are happy with the performance estimates for the price, go for it!
 
We also know what Vega will mature very well with drivers and game optimizations.  AMD has announced new game optimization tools to make it easier for devs to fully utilize Vega.  Estimates put Vega a little ahead of the gtx 1080, but I think it is reasonable to assume it will match the 1080 ti within a few months, and continue to age like fine wine.
 

vega sounds like a viable option, but I don't see personally the benefits over a 1070 with the leaked performance that would justify the cost.
But you are speaking with one of the few people on the forum who still use  a 970 and I'm not thinking of upgrading it because of the exact same reason. Price doesn't justify the performance gain atm for me personally.

Wait for benchmarks if you've waited this long for vega you wouldnt mind waiting to see its price per performance 

i won a free dell oem ps/2 keyboard 

Hello everyone, 
 
My first post here, so be gentle if I sound a bit dumb or foreign lol. 
 
Anyways my PC I've built is a mix of new parts in a cheap case. Not my choice for case, but I'll upgrade that later, probably. 
 
The spec sheet is as follows:
CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 1700x (OC to 3.8ghz)
Cooling - Corsair H100i V2
MOBO - Gigabyte AB350N-WiFi
RAM - 16gb of GeIL EVO X DDR4 3000mhz (not compatible, runs and 2133, RIP)
Graphics - GTX 1070 FE
PSU - Silverstone 750w modular
Case - Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX
Storage - 2x 250gb SSD (Intel and Samsung), and 1tb WD disk drive
 
I also use a FUNC KB-460 and Logitech G502. And I'm hooked on my Logitech G430 headset. 
 
Additionally, I added an RGB can cover because I got it for free and why not? Lol
 
 
 

NZXT Manta

I reached that with a CM Seidon 240m, haven't tried higher with the h100i yet, stay tuned