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I feel like I missed something, when did Linus first drop that he bought this place?

Code red emergency: the YouTube channel is f'ed up, has Elon musk and Tesla on it

Ya, with my order wizmo had no update, when UPS had already picked it up and it had left CA.

My screwdriver finally arrived today! Initial impressions are very good, ratchet is really light and the magnet is very strong. Worth the wait, in my opinion. @Alex T88, I hope you get yours soon (and everyone else waiting as well).

Happy new year to you and everyone else here! My order is safely in the hands of UPS (who has been pretty good and timely to me), ETA is still Jan 4th, latest update is that it's arrived in PA (I live in NY, so almost here!)

Ughhh you are not having good luck with ordering things.

That sucks, I definitely understand why you're upset. Ya, I should've thought about how it would come across. I just felt like I needed to counterbalance all the upset messages.

And an update on my order: #388***, picked up by UPS, ETA is updated to Jan 4th.

You're right, back-order is the right term. I wouldn't call general knowledge of the "scrappiness" of LMG and of the inaccuracy of their timeline, "valuable and exact" information, but sure, I'll apologize for not sharing that months ago. I'm not trying to defend Linus, or his team, and they don't need me to. All I'm doing is trying to put a different light on the issue, to encourage someone to not stress over things such as this. I sincerely hope so, that was my only goal.

Order #388***, black shaft, got my shipment notification on Dec 19. Wizmo tracking says it left Vancouver on the 23rd, and UPS tracking expects it to arrive on the 27th (I live in the US). Honestly? I knew what I was signing up for when I got it. I knew it was a pre-order. I knew the black shafts would take even longer, because they are pretty much made-to-order. I know they're a small company, still figuring out the massive undertaking of shipping hyped-up products. When I placed the order, I was well-aware that it was an "it'll show up when it does" situation. So I'm not mad, or disappointed. In fact, it'll be like a surprise present I forgot I was getting when it arrives. If you ordered it as an xmas present, I understand the frustration, but otherwise? I just forget about it, check my email and the forums once in a while, and once the screwdriver shows up in my mailbox, I will be excited to use it. Until then, . And a lesson to take away from all this? Pre-orders might not make the best time-sensitive gift.

Order #388***, black shaft, got my shipment notification on Dec 19. Wizmo tracking says it left Vancouver on the 23rd, and UPS tracking expects it to arrive on the 27th (I live in the US). EDIT: UPS has received it, now the arrival has been updated to Jan 4th.

I hope that's not the issue - my motherboard is $400! Practically I doubt it's a power issue, as my motherboard is an X570 that's made for overclocking (beefy VRMs and such), and I just got a new 850w Asus PSU to handle the new card, and I made sure to use 2 separate cables for the 2 8-pins on the gpu. How would I isolate a power delivery issue?

So I just got an AMD RX 6700 XT, to upgrade my system which currently has a GTX 1050 ti, with a R5 3600 and 32gb of ram on a Asus Crosshair VIII Hero X570. I have 2 PCIe Gen 3 m.2 SSDs as well. I want to keep my nvidia gpu in the system, to run things that need CUDA cores, and to add extra grunt for things like folding@home. (I have 2 monitors, but they both will be connected to the AMD.) My issue is, the nvidia gpu does not want to run in the 2nd pcie slot, as in it doesn't show up at all, in device manager or even the bios. Here's what I've tried so far: I did DDU with just the nvidia in the top slot, and downloaded the latest drivers for each gpu (but didn't install). Put the AMD in the top slot, moved nvidia to the 2nd. Only amd showed up, installed amd drivers. Shut down and swapped nvidia and amd, restarted, both showed up, installed nvidia drivers. Shut down, swapped back (amd top, nvidia 2nd), both showed up and played fine. Opened up 3dmark, immediately got a BSOD, caused by GPU-Z according to the error code. Restarted, nvidia gpu is gone. Swapped again (nvidia in top slot), both show up, re-install nvidia drivers. Swap back (amd top), nvidia not showing up. And that's where I'm at now. I've tried disabling and enabling resizable bar, running with just the nvidia in the 2nd slot, and they don't work. For some reason, nvidia doesn't want to work in the 2nd slot. I can try swapping back and forth again, see if it fixes it, but it's annoying. I have 2 sides to my question– why doesn't the nvidia card want to work in the 2nd slot? Is it a motherboard limitation? PCIe lane allocation? But then why does the amd work (at least, it turns on) in the 2nd slot? And the other side is, can I run the amd gpu in the 2nd slot? I don't think that's an ideal setup, but if that's what it takes I might do it. I'm just worried about things like resizeable bar not working, programs defaulting to the nvidia gpu (because it's in the main slot), and PCIe lane allocation, because I've seen videos where GPUs in an 8x slot perform worse (the 2nd 16x slot is electrically an 8x). Later today I'm going to try swapping them around again, but I don't have time now, so I figured I'd ask to see if maybe there's something I'm missing.

You can tell a PZ screw from the extra four lines in the head (see picture), I've seen a ton of screws that I thought were phillips but were actually pz, I pretty much use them interchangeably though.

Beginning of Wave 3, #388xxx, black shaft and a bunch of other stuff, so far nothing after the initial order confirmation.

There's a youtube channel called Torque Test Channel which does torque testing (surprise) on tools, they sell t-shirts and posters with that same expectations list: https://torque-test-channel.preview.teespring.com/listing/bolt-expectations-poster?product=623 It's funny but so true

I'm definitely coming from a different perspective than you. I'm what you might call a "shade tree mechanic". See the truck in my profile photo? I've done a ton of work on it, on the engine, brakes, etc. So I have a ton of different tools, which have overlapping purposes, but sometimes one is just what you need, and the other is just not enough. If I was using a screwdriver, and the screw or bolt was too tight, I would right away switch to my wrench. Still too tight, switch to the impact wrench. And so on. I have a bunch of batteries, and permanently mounted chargers in my garage which almost always have a fresh battery on them ready to go. I'm not saying this just to flex, I'm saying I realize I agree with you – if I had none of this, and was just trying to get something fixed now, the screwdriver I pull out of the drawer had better be good enough to do anything I might throw at it. I've spoiled myself, though, so I take for granted now what I didn't have years ago. Sometimes, even with all these fancy tools, a good old hand tool does the job better than anything else.

Personally, I find it much easier to grab my drill or a proper socket wrench if I need more torque. It's hard to apply enough downward pressure to keep the screwdriver from camming out while your twisting it with a ton of torque. And as long as you know your way around a drill, shouldn't be any safety concerns. A gentle trigger finger goes a long way.

Here's the video where they did that:

It doesn't have to be babied, there was an event where people tried to twist the screwdriver as much as they could, couldn't break it. True, but in that case I would reach for my chunky harbor freight screwdriver. The LTT screwdriver is primarily designed for computer work – not that it can't handle hard work, but you shouldn't be buying it if you want to take off lug nuts And it was designed to compete with the Snap-on orange ratcheting screwdriver, which also doesn't have a spot for a wrench for torque. Also, in general, for high torque applications you do not want to use a ratcheting screwdriver. Solid shaft, or even those 1/4" hex bit to square drive adapters, is for that.

That is the very nature of backorders. The issue is, that you need money to ship a product, but you need to ship a product to make money. It's a catch-22. So instead of taking out a loan from a bank, or going into debt, Linus (and pretty much every backorder ever) charges you up front for an order that will ship in the future, so they get an influx of cash, which they can then use to ship out the orders. It might not be ideal from the customer's side, but Linus has been very transparent about the struggles of small companies shipping massive quantities of products, and this is what they have to do. Linus isn't just sitting on piles of cash, trust me. Between these products, and their aggressive growth (especially The Lab), if anything, they're in debt.

Update: CPU has dropped to 0%, ram at 500 mb with Real-time off. Turning real-time on makes it instantly spike back up. I would rather not leave the antivirus off though (ya know, it's there for a reason...), and anyways real-time turns itself on after a bit. So is my only solution to find a different antivirus to replace defender?

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried everything you said, but it hasn't helped. When I turn off Real-time protection, CPU usage drops to around 10%, and RAM usage slowly drops to 2gb (from 6, every time I unlock the computer defender is using a different amount, but still a lot), but it doesn't go down to normal levels. When I turn real-time back on, it jumps right back up. Maybe there's some way to see what it is defender is doing when it's spiking?

Microsoft Defender is right now using over 11 gigabytes of RAM (I have 16). It is unfortunately beating Chrome and Firefox put together. Oh and CPU usage is around 30%. I tried turning off every setting under "Virus & threat protection settings". I tried adding Defender's own files, and MsMpEng.exe, to the exclusions. I added DisableAntiSpyware to the registry under Windows Defender, tried setting it to 0 and 1. Nothing is helping, the RAM usage is literally climbing through the roof, to the point where Firefox starts crashing. Is my only solution to use a different antivirus, thereby disabling defender? How can I figure out what is causing it to shoot up? I'm running on Win10 Pro 20H2.

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