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I have the same mic I just plugged it in and let her rip.

I did but the 8700K is so old it fell off from age.

What resolution are you currently gaming at? I think you'll be fine to wait for the 5000 series to see if it is worth it. You can always adjust the settings if frame rates are not to your liking.

Hello, I have an HP OMEN 015 with the AMD 4800H and 1660ti combo. Laptop is a little over a month old and has been running fine until last night. Now whenever I play a game or even open program like OMEN Command Center the CPU clocks drop like a rock to 400mhz and it will stay there as long as I play the game. If I minimize the game I can see on afterburner the CPU speeds up to 1400mhz and will occasionally boost up to 4300 like normal. Temps are staying the the mid 50's range so it is not thermal throttling. I had to perform a BIOS update when I got the laptop but like I said it has been mostly trouble free. The only issue I was experiencing was a ton of javascript errors with discord but that was fixed with the latest Windows update. Any idea on what is happening here? I usually have a desktop as my main but my home was destroyed during Hurricane Laura so my desktop is currently in storage (no idea whether it still works or not) so besides my phone this laptop is currently all I have computer wise. Thanks for the help.

ThermalTake Tower 900, when I saw the case I thought wow look at this tank with all these five star reviews and I bet if buy it I'll never have to worry about upgrading my case ever again. Well outside of open loop builds this thing is not really friendly to anything else. The lines on most AIO's are either not long enough or in my case the pump head is to big. This was a rookie mistake and I'm not gonna lie I might just toss the case and replace it.

So I played myself when I performed my first build and I did not stop to think if the head of my AIO (DeepCool Captain 360ex) would actually fit though the rubber cable grommets inside my case. So for the past several months I have had to leave my bottom panel off and now I'm looking to remedy that situation. I'm not sure how to remove the connections from the head of the pump as they seem glued in so I figure just a cut and spice job would be best. I have some double ended barb fittings and brass unions that would work but I'm wondering how that would affect the flow of coolant. Other than using those barb fittings and unions what could I use to splice these lines back together? Thanks

I did my research before I purchased my 360 unit and for the most part the leaking issues have been addressed. If you buy from Amazon make sure you buy from Deepcool and not a third party seller. Doing this will help make sure you do not end up with a 1st gen cooler which was prone to leaking. The 2nd gen units have different fittings along with a change to a non conductive coolant. That being said here are two things you should know. The pump head is so big that it will not pass through most cable grommets. For most people this does not mean a thing but for some this can be a hassle to overcome. Also the cooler is a mix of performance and aesthetics so if you plan on heavily OCing the CPU I would look else where. My 8700K with a 5.0 ghz OC runs pretty toasty. Cooling benchmarks are hard to find for Deepcool but rarely are they leading the pack when you do find a comparison chart.

I held off on replacing my 1080ti because I did not see the value in the 2080ti especially when considering the price jump from the Pascal cards. Now if the new Super edition can eek out about a 15% increase in performance (doubtful) over the regular 2080ti I will probably bite the bullet and upgrade. Plus this will allow me the opportunity to start piecing together a open loop setup.

Yep, purchased new last year when I did the build.

Quick rundown is that I have MSI 1080Ti Gaming Trio X in a ThermalTake Tower 900. My CPU is an 8700K being cooled by a 360 AIO with the GPU of course being of the open air design. The GPU has always ran warm at stock settings (80+C) in room with an ambient temperature of 23-24 degrees but I figured all this was due to my ignorance of putting an open air GPU in a Tower 900 (first build). Setting an aggressive fan curve with the fans hitting 100% throttle at 76 degrees did nothing. I upgraded my fans by replacing the stock TT front fan with a Corsair HD140 and added a secondary HD140 beneath the GPU. Still my temps remain unchanged so I decided to pull the all three glass panels off the case. So now I pretty much have vertical test bench with a roof and while temps are slightly better the GPU still runs around 79-81 degrees Celsius. This is while playing games and not placing the card through a synthetic load torture test. If I OCed the card and remove the temperature limiter it will a spike to 86 degrees within 60 seconds of starting a game. The Trio is suppose to basically be a Gaming series card with a Lightning cooler and according to reviews is one of the coolest running 1080ti open air cards. The temps I'm seeing are nowhere close to what I have seen in the reviews though.

2009 Scion xD, purchased new and will replace with something I actually want to drive when it dies...if that day ever actually comes.

My Tower 900 requires a dusting and filter cleaning and being that it is a giant cube that weighs over seventy pounds loaded I'm not gonna be carrying this thing down some stairs for routine cleaning. I solely cannot use canned compressed air because that would just move a whole bunch of dust around in the room it resides in. I was thinking about vacuuming it out but a shop vac I'm afraid is so strong it might damage some components on the board. Plus I obviously do not posses the adapters for getting into every nook and cranny with a shop vac. Just wiping it down is gonna take some time plus there will be areas that I just cannot gain access to with a microfiber towel. Do those little micro vacs work well for this type of situation? I have gotten those before as cheap Christmas gifts but that always croaked after a few uses but again they were not what I would consider a quality product form the get go.

Hello everyone long time LTT viewer here and deiced to finally join the forum. First Linus video I remember seeing is the review he did on the Everki Titan laptop backpack.