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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.

So let's recap.
 
- people in the management criticize the quality of her work, as they should be since it's their job
- she doesn't like it and starts complaining about her superiors
- they point out that their management is made up of accomplished professionals and she's a newbie that could be fired anytime
- she gets offended at the fact that they didn't fire all the senior management because she was complaining
- she alleges that she was "inappropriately grabbed" whatever it means
- she's perplexed by the fact that LTT cares about what public faces put in the video and weather they will stick with the brand

Actually a great response. Not going to get into mudslinging in employment matters online but she’s perfectly capable of legally pursuing the matter and proving it. OTherwsie, just another tweet in the wind

Oh no, a high workload at a demanding job. This has never been seen in the history of capitalism.

This is an old thing. i think this has been debated to the end, like also the sexual harrasment case (with that 3d print youtuber, i think she is called YU) there is no evidence in anything. there is indications, so this is completely different thing that what is being discussed here.
 
there is also always two sides, are the load too high, or are the work ethics too low. i think it can be hard to get to the bottom of this.

Does this topic takes anti-suggestions? A Canadian computer company basically had me loose a job, my savings and more.
 
There is a company calling themselves "Canadian computer 'developers' " who basically just sell clevo designs, and nowadays makes you pay extra for unlocked BIOSes.
 
I won't name them until I get the "greenlight" it's okay to speak of anti-suggestions, but here it is, spoiled to avoid "visual spam" if anti-suggestions aren't okay:
Edit: TLDR:
A Canadian based computer company sold me a non-working computer for ~6,000 USD on paper total, that I tried to RMA at my expenses despite them trying to ghost me during warranty, that still didn't worked, and then intentionally have been ghosting me since.

You guys should try lttstore.com

Dear customer. It is obvious that you hate our product so much that you have endless time to follow all posts on most popular forums about K5 PRO in order to share with everyone your bad experience, instead of spending a few minutes to actually try what we sugested to you. Unfortunatelly we don't have equal free time to argue with you since we wish to offer support to customers who are actually are using our product and do follow our sugestions. We pointed your mistakes and we explained how critical is to do everything perfect if you wish to get good results on new high end boards like yours. For other boards it is not a big deal but for boards where already manufacturer used best thermal material it is important to do everything perfect. So every time we notice that you might be missleading other users with your experience where you didn't follow our instructions we will have to point your mistakes so that people who are really using K5 PRO can apply it correctly. We hope for your understanding. 

i suspect what happened is that u applied so much that the paste got in the way of the cooler achieving proper mounting pressure
perhaps your GPU die might've overheated on some part and died
or perhaps the paste pushed some SMD components away from the PCB, so when u wipe the paste away, make sure u dont throw any potentially unlodged SMD away too

huh? Whats wrong with 4gb? I'm using a 4gb card right now. Its perfectly fine for 1080p gaming or 4k content consumption. We need more cards with modern hdmi and displayport ports that support the latest standards while also being cheap. This would be perfect for anyone wanting to watch or edit content in 4k and only do little to no gaming. Some older cards don't support 4k 60hz at the full color space with HDR or can't handle more than one display at a high resolution.

You are dead on, I used to build systems just for fun, and give them away because used parts were a dime a dozen around here.
Now with prices what they are (and no end in sight to this) it's sucked all the fun out of it.

My thoughts are,  I hope they have enough production capacity to last a little bit before they sell out.  My guess is that article forgot to mention the time machine also announced at ces 😕
 

 
Sources
https://www.techadvisor.com/news/pc-components/amd-radeon-rx-6500-xt-3811932/

thats a horrible thing to say

banned because I found this months later

This video is a bit misleading... 4 cores, but all the CPUs are hyperthreaded so its a bit misleading.. you should test.. you know.. the actual 4c/4t CPU you guys showed in b roll, the 4690k. 

I think there are better questions to couple with this:
 
Will a 4 core CPU hold you back in gaming/CAD/rendering/etc if you have a modern GPU?
At what point does decreasing returns rear its head when climbing the core count?
 Is the cost benefit there to migrate from a four core CPU to a potentially entirely new platform?

well this one doesn't seem to be fake so that's nice, just got to wait a little bit till I can sort a board to see if it's working or not, if not i've got a 2 year warranty on it so I'm golden either way 

Summary
Ever the headline of news articles the world over, cryptocurrency, is yet again in the news for large swaths of funds getting stolen.
 
Quotes
 
and maybe my favourite quote from the article
 
Yes because people who went through the trouble of stealing $611m worth of crypto is really going to just return it because you asked them nicely (see: begged)
 
 
My thoughts
I find it interesting that the released the wallet address of where the funds ended up, not quite sure what they think people are going to do with them, except hope that someone will try and hack the money back. For being lauded as "decentralized" and "safe" this sure happens lot.
 
is this going to stop people from using it and praising the block-chain? lol no. But don't kid yourself thinking that your money is protected because of the technology behind it.
 
There need to be vast improvements to security if cryptocurrency ever wants to be treated seriously.
 
Sources
https://www.newsweek.com/611-million-cryptocurrencies-stolen-massive-hack-1617999

Never pause a Linus Tech Tips video.

why can’t Linus make this his intro tho??

im using firefox rn to read this

I've used FF as my main browser since... before Chrome was even around. And I'll continue to use it as long as I can.

You do not need a 750W psu. A quality 650W unit is more than enough. Nvidia recommends 550W for an i9-10900K system with an RTX 3060.
 
If you decide on a 5600X make sure that you pair it with a good motherboard. Sacrificing psu quality to free up budget for a 5600X would be  mistake.