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does it count if all they did was just steal the design and change the name?

can't wait for the mtt s80 "tea eye"

You should be able to run the games. May have to lower the graphics to a minimum, but should work. This also depends on what cpu you're using 🙂 

Its only scalping if you buy it

Its only scalping if you buy it

Its only scalping if you buy it

Its only scalping if you buy it

Its only scalping if you buy it

Its only scalping if you buy it

It's not a current issue. 
 
The SATA connector can supply 4.5A of current on 3.3v,  5v and 12v ... the fans consume around 0.1A .. 0.3A on 12v  (maybe double this for a few seconds when they start spinning)  so even with 6 fans connected to it the sata connector would be able to supply the amount of power. 
 
The adapter seems to be using that slide switch to limit the voltage going to the fan by messing around to how the 12v and ground wires of the fans are connected to the sata connector. 
I would guess HI speed means  12v goes to 12v in sata connector, ground to ground.
For LOW the switch may replace the ground with 5v,  12v and 5v becomes ground, so the fan "sees" 7v and spins slower... but some power supplies really don't like that, and on some models it can even damage the power supply internally.
 
On those Corsair fans, the 3 pin connector should be connected to such adapter, while the cable for rgb control should go to the proper fan controller.
Now here's the thing ... if inside the fan, the ground for the motor is joined together with the ground for the rgb leds, it could be that connector for rgb control has the ground wire connected to ground, but when you're switching that to LOW you're connecting the ground wire of the fan to 5v. So, basically, you're creating a short circuit between 5v and ground, and the weakest element in the chain will fail - either the trace on the circuit board going to the sata connector, or the thin ground wire of the fan... 
Anyway, just guesses, 
 
I would get a multimeter and with just the adapter connected to a sata connector, I would measure the voltage across the pins in each header, and see what voltage is when in LOW mode. Then measure voltage between a known ground point (ex the metal case of the computer or the middle wires in the old molex hard drive connectors) and the ground pin in the fan headers ... if you see 5v on that pin when the adapter is on LOW mode, then it's like I said above.
 
 

Ive used that exact same hub with zero issues in builds but with generic fans
 
Could be faulty components in a batch they shipped.  Those fans run at either 7v or 12v perhaps thats just a shitty resistor and its building up far to much heat resisting?  What is LOW rated on the hub?

Its only scalping if you buy it

Yes its scalping but just like with 3090s this is a luxury prestige purchase where the price is not determined by the quality or function of the product but by the amount of weird fanbois who like spending way too much money on things because of the branding or the status that comes with owning such an unneccessarily expensive piece of merch.

I dont know enough to get further than I did, mine was very shadetree and luck of the lottery (I have 5 1700's overall and 2 of them are just flat out OC performers.  Its like they were intentionally binned as 1700s but could have been 1800x's no problem (at stock voltage I can keep them at 4.0 constant etc)
 
Keep up the lords work!

I used to be #1 on most GTX 1660 benchmarks, but at some point my competitors found new black magic tricks to boost their scores even at lower clock speeds than i was running -_-
 

Nice job!  I was once #5 for the R7 1700 OC for a long while when that chip came out, last I looked I was in top 12 but I kind of left OCing behind lol (just ran out of time to really get into the weeds of it).
 
But this post gives me the itch lol.  I havent tried OCing on my RTX 2060 or RX 6700 XT yet at all.

You can overclock on top of the boost to get even better gains...

There is a common notion in the community that graphics card overclocking is dead - It's not dead
Overclocking now days is different than the traditional pump more voltage for higher frequency and you are done though you can still do that if you want but it's not the most effective way to do so in the day and age of sophisticated boost algorithms.
To get significant gains you also need to learn how boost works and use that to your advantage,
For example on NVIDIA GPUs the boost clock rises the colder you go as long as there is headroom to the power limit.
Not only the boost clock rises on colder temperatures, but the overclocking potential rises as well on top of the increased boost clocks.
Another thing is to find out the bottleneck on your graphics card - If the VRAM is bottlenecking the GPU you should overclock the VRAM first then the GPU.
 
Here is an example from Cyberpunk 2077:
 
Before:

 
After:

 
 
From 64 FPS to 76 FPS = A performance increase of 18%
 
Notable differences:
Temperature: 59C vs 50C
GPU: 1965MHz vs 2130MHz
VRAM: 4001MHz vs 5000MHz
 
Also i got the highest GTX 1660 Geekbench compute score in the world:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/6238503
 
So no, graphics card overclocking is not dead.

Meanwhile I still haven't been able to take the Cat to the range. Very sad 😞
 
Is quitting my job so I have time to go shooting a viable option...?

I came from bilibili, China, and I haven't seen gunQAQ (guns are banned in China, so I think it's safer here than anywhere else, at least there will be no news of 5-year-olds shooting their parents.) And Don't @me (Doge)

What motherboard?
 
Some boards turn off a couple SATA ports when an NVMe drive is installed, as they share PCIe lanes.  Move the HDD to another SATA port to test.

People who need [X] done go on fiverr because it's a well known platform, search for people who can do [X], if you do [X] you'll come up in search results and they might hire you. It's a platform, that results in discovery and handles the exchanges between parties, and that charges for that. 
Usual and straightforward.

I use Fiverr ALOT.  Its amazing.
 
Video editing, photo editing, artwork, content creation, music, sound effects etc.
 
I think its an amazing outlet for me to connect with people across the globe to collaborate and finish projects.

Right now at Micro Center you can get an amazing deal on Zen 4 with a free DDR5 kit included with processor purchase, as well as $20 off an AM5 motherboard (with the 7900X combo the motherboard savings are even greater):
 
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Ever encounter a door that you can't open?

The "MasterKey" exists for a reason 🙂
 

Bit of a Mossburg guy myself, nice buy, beautiful. 👍