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Thank you for making this post to quiet that bafoon trying to cause drama for drama's sake. We gotta keep on top of the trolls, great job! Linus bashes where bashing is necessary, he is outspoken because he's wealthy and has broad influence that no longer require him to write literally paid reviews that many of the smaller content providers often do. He is in the position to be able to call a spade a spade. I also appreciate this same approach from Hardware Unboxed and GamersNexus. Honest, unbiased reviews.

Hmmm....a quick look at their Net Operating Cash Flow for 2020 shows 938.66%, or for comparison an increase of 854.68% over the same data from 2019. That figure will likely be higher for 2021 as new data is released. You still so sure that good 'ole NewEgg is really having a hard time just trying to scrape a buck here and there? Remember, that they are essentially a Chinese owned company and without getting too much into details, let's just be clear that profit is #1 above all else. I used to trust and admire NewEgg, but not after this and you can cite as many angles as you want, but the reality is that they are literally choosing to prioritize profit over consumer loyalty. The 'Shuffle' is a pure cash grab as other's have poined out, forcing customers to purchase stock they really want to move - nearly every 'bundled' monitor they offer with RTX3080/3090 are 1080p, which is a resolution that is far from ideal with these GPU's that are designed to run 1440p/2160p to avoid being underutilized. But I digress....

Great post and makes sense to me. Why would intel post 1.52V if they expected CPU's to die or degrade quickly at that voltage? And I'm sure that is Intel being conservative so chances are they could go a little higher, but the legal team likely ensured they covered their ass! The same applies to motherboard manufacturers who's 'auto-overclocking' options tend to run voltage much higher than an experienced manual overclocker would. But they too are covering their asses so there's no way they would allow the BIOS to run unsafe voltages because that comes back on them. I read so much about "you must not go above 1.35V" and I take this advice with a grain of salt as it comes from old timers who are basing this on older architectures and back to the day when people actually kept PC builds for 5-8 years as a 'normal' life expectancy. I doubt many enthusiasts/gamers keep their builds more than 2-3 years, and degradation is unlikely during that time if kept within intel specs. On a personal note, I have a 8086K that will do 5ghz at 1.33V 24/7 on all cores, 5.1ghz at 1.37V on all cores, but seems to really struggle to achieve 5.2ghz without bumping voltages to 1.42-1.43V which isn't a good trade off IMHO for that paltry 100mhz. I use a Corsair 150i Pro AIO which is an 'ok' cooler. I haven't delidded, as delidding will only help with temps, but won't change the voltage requirements of this chip. If I could get this thing to 5.3-5.4ghz under 1.5V then I would consider delidding to control temps, but it's a catch 22 situation here as I won't ever know until I delid as the temps would be too high under stress testing without the delid. Maybe when the warranty is up I'll delid, but most likely will have moved on from Coffee Lake by then.

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I've been searching for mod ideas for this exact case and was going to cut a design on the front panel, but had not considered the sloped sides. When you say that your temps are now the same as they were with the entire front removed, is that literal? I wonder if front section cut outs would still be better than side vents like this? I have my 1080ti never above 58C, but that's with a voltage curve and a lot of time finding the lowest voltage I could be stable at my desired clock speed (2063Mhz) - this is of course with the front panel removed completely. I want to make sure that I do not go over 61C max (Pascal throttles more seriously at 63-64C and gets worse the higher you go so keeping below 61C is optimal). Appreciate your feedback and thanks for sharing your design.

You do realize that the profile you created in OTT is using the regular exe for Pcars2 and not for VR? So none of your SS changes are actually applied to the game from OTT. All you are getting is standard 1.0 SS applied from the in game settings...... You need to add pCARS2AVX.exe as a game profile in OTT. PS - you should be able to set higher settings than you have for a 1080.... Cheers.