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ran ddu installing driver now will quote you again if the problem happens again if i dont ,good news

13900KS 6.1Ghz 4.8Ghz 
G.Skill Trident Z 8000Mhz at XMP with its own loop water cooled
4090 Suprim X at 3200Mhz +1500 Memory
3 loops total and 50 fans, one for each major component (GPU, CPU, RAM)
Z790 Apex with TB4 add-on card and AE-5 Plus Sound Card
Rest in the sig
 
Borderline redneck engineering:

My file server, AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 1.8 GHz, 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz, RX6600 (This photo is outdated, I'm using a Dell 1707FP now with an HDMI adaptor, I don't have the stand though)

This is my setup:
Lenovo 100e Chromebook 2nd Gen

This is not an actual picture of mine, just one off the internet
    Screen Size 11.6 Inches Color Black CPU Model MediaTek_MT8127 Ram Memory Installed Size 4 GB Operating System Chrome OS Card Description Integrated Graphics Coprocessor Integrated CPU Speed 2.1 GHz

The whole setup with both PCs. 
 

I'm calling the police.

Budget (including currency): roughly $2200 USD including windows for just the PC itself
My second PC build ever decided to take my time with it, feedback is appreciated:
https://pcpartpicker.com/b/L7qp99
 

Dont ask me bout the scissors, chaos, gpu or why I screenshoted some pictures, I'm lazy, k?

 

Been folding since the 1st of the month and noticed the user @IkeaGnome so had to share my old build before it died 😅 RIP my Ikea build

Budget (including currency): old hardware + new PSU/SSDs, estimated 450$ USD value
Hardware
1700X 16gb of RAM
RX480 8gb
 
I figured I would share this build, I remember being a kid and seeing sketchy looking milk crate PCs and thinking I can do better, now I am an adult who acts like a child and decided I still want to make milk crate computers, I mostly made it to honor my RX480, I wanted to put it in a build that made it pop in a nice way, I use to have two but I sold one to a gamer in need for cheap during the mining shortage and they were going for 500$, It was from my first crossfire setup I had never had a multi-GPU configuration before, people say it was a waste of money, but what I figured was any games that could use crossfire I could max out the game, any games that did not make use of crossfire that I'd play were not demanding enough to need the performance and I could easily max out with one GPU. to all the gen alpha people it may look trash but I remember seeing a liquid cooled double milk crate build with tubes all inside and outside and thought it was sick, the only milk crate that tops this from what I've seen, if anyone can find photos of that let me know, it was in an old Yogscast video from a LAN party on an old war ship, that should date my age lol, I can't find that video anymore

My fancy setup lol my dell lattitude

I7 13700k
Rtx 4090
32gb ddr5 6000mhz cl32
2x 2tb samsung 980
1x 1tb sam 980 boot 
1200w msi psu 
 

This defo isn't replacing my normal PC even though it currently sits where my PC resides, frankly I'm not sure where it's gonna end up. It DESPERATELY needs a Pure Rock Slim 2, the 6700K sits at 95-100C... In TF2. At some point I'm sure I'll be able to afford it but that time is not now.
 
Specs: Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.2GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1866MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro, HP Pavilion a6137c case
 

Photo time!
I know it's daytime outside, I have to close the curtain so the camera don't freak out.
Also, I don't actually use the laptop turned aside like this, it's just for the picture.
Keyboard is a really old Logitech wireless set plugged in to PS2 on Dell and sits on top of Dell for storage, usually sits in front of laptop or lap for use.
External drive enclosure (with a WD 2TB SMR) sitting on top of a modified OneAc Reference Ground Unit acting as a power strip is only temporary.
 
Specs:
Thinkpad X230T with Ultrabay 3 + Dell Optiplex 70980
 
Thinkpad have i5-3320M with 12GB of DDR3 at 1600MHz, paired with Samsung 860 Evo SATA 500G and a 256GB Liteon mSATA drive. It triple-boots Win Xp Tablet Edition, Win 7 and Win 10.
 
Optiplex (picked up from recycling center for free; thats why it have mismatching front bezel) have i7-10700 with 8 + 16GB of DDR4 at 2666MHz, paired with:
Over Linkreal PCIe x8 4-port NVMe M.2 SSD Adapter (PCIe switch, not a RAID controller) in x4 slot:
* BIWIN SSD (512GB)
* CA3-8D512-Q11 NVME LITEON 512GB
* SAMSUNG MZVLB512HBJQ-000L7
* WDC PC SN730 SDBPNTY-512G-1027
Motherboard (Intel SATA/PCIe premium controller):
* NVMe KXG60ZNV256G NVM
* NVMe SAMSUNG MZVLB256 (boot)
* WDC WD7500BPVX-60JC3T0 [0:0]
* TOSHIA MQ01ABD100 [0:1]
* HL-DT-ST DVD+ RW
and triple boots Win 10 Pro.
 
Most if not all the drives I get for "free" either from recycling center or from previous laptops that stopped working. The only drive I bought is the boot 256GB.
 
Monitor is a .. Dell .. something something. 1600x1200, not as square as the last 1280x1024, and despite not 16:9 is okay. DVI for Dell and VGA for X230T.
Dell outputs full 1600x1200 while X230T outputs dual 1366x768. It can't really drive full 1600x1200 externally, and mismatched vertical pixel count is pain.
 
Everyday Use:
I daily the X230T. The Optiplex act as file server + GTA machine. Offscreen I have a S230U I play exclusively Bloons Adventure Time Tower Defense. My Thinkpad T14S I use it mainly to torrent things and play other games. The Latitude 2600 I use it to access floppies (if any). And my Dell Inspiron 3511 is for backup.
 

Contemplate this mess. Case is on the way. 

Oil is fine just wipe it off. Make sure it is fully dry before you turn it on

Decided to have another look at everything again today. It is not the gpu making the sound. It is the psu. I am rather relieved!

MSI was able to make an agreement with Unwinder, there have been updates since the whole fiasco.
 
There really isn't any other option out there.

This topic will likely be locked/deleted but I want to make sure anybody reading this understands LMG is more than just Linus. If you want to buy the products, buy the products. If you want to still consume their content, do so. There are 100+ other non-Linus people working for LMG that likely are not part of the core issues being addressed right now.

I feel like instead of investing in a graphics card, you should invest in a new case / power supply. So you do not have to deal with the proprietary issues in the future. I imagine your asking these questions because you don't feel like spending more money then you have to on the computer; but these upgrades would make your computer much more upgrade friendly. 

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.

Here is my little corner. 

This is my Windows XP Setup.
 
CPU: AMD Sempron 3200+
RAM: 2x 2GB Corsair 800Mhz DDR2
Mainboard: MSI k9vgm-v AM2
GPU: ATi Radeon X1800 GTO Connect3D
Case: InWin V500 (now modified with a front 120mm intake fan)
PSU: Silverstone 300W SFX
Storage: Toshiba 160GB HDD
(Waiting for my DVD Drive)
Monitor: Hyundai L72D
Keyboard: Logitech G11
Mouse: Some Logitech office mouse