JakeOfOz

Summary Over 10% of Blizzard Activision employees are very unhappy about the reaction the company gave about recent allegations. In a letter to the company -which has been signed over 1000 times- they voice their concerns about the reactions and lawsuit the company has started. They also call for a serious reaction of the board, and for Frances Townsend to step down as Executive Sponsor of the ABK Employee Women’s Network as a result of the damaging nature of her statement. Quotes My thoughts It seems there is quite a bit going on at Activision Blizzard. The initial response and lawsuit already was quite a heavy reaction to allegations, and saying that some of those were "a long time ago", does not give the impression that they care. With over 1000 of your ~9500(?) employees this unhappy, it might cause some serious rethinking of your stragegy and management positions. Sources With copy of the letter: https://kotaku.com/over-1-000-activision-blizzard-employees-sign-letter-co-1847364340 https://www.engadget.com/activision-blizzard-employee-open-letter-221223475.html

The amount of data is very small indeed, but they do have to maintain a connection with your router. This will cause more traffic. So while your bandwidth may stay relatively unimpacted, it may cause more packet loss and/or higher ping

So every device, from your washing machine to your fridge, should have wifi and an app these days. What would be the impact of, say, an entire household of smart devices on your network speeds? Assuming you don't have a cable connected to your gaming pc, it could have quite an impact if there is too much traffic

Yea correct. I also added separate coolers for the memory chips. For cooling: in the new setup the cooler is rotated 90 degrees, so the fans also pull some air over the VRM heatsinks.

Do you like to tinker? Slap a CPU cooler on it! works fine and extremely silent. Or you can look for something like a Morpheus cooler, check out @Demonic Donut's thread: I did it the CPU cooler way:

Awesome stuff! Do you have any pictures? Temps are great too! I put a CPU cooler on my 5700xt inspired by one of Linus' vids, my temps are not that much lower. except on the memory. I'd advise you to maybe put some other heatsinks on there. I have copper ones, and they do the trick well. I'd really like to see how your card looks though. Edit: Link to my build (LTT forum)

If you're willing to tinker and put in the elbow grease, would you recommend this over just slapping a CPU cooler on the graphics card? (I'm biased because I already used a CPU cooler, inspired by the mod you did some time ago)

you are correct, don't know what got to me... I've got the snap version of iCloud, but it's indeed just web containers. iCloud also sees it as a browser. I was hoping there would be a way to map those folders to Dolphin (or any file manager). Or some other way to sync the folders

So I'm considering going back to Linux, probably to KDE (since that was the first distro I ever used). I currently use both Windows and MacOS (MacOS mostly for work), and iCloud drive works great for me. I'm looking to see if there is any iCloud drive support for Linux though. Any suggestions?

Well it depends of course (it usually does ). If you stick with the more renowned brands, you have a higher chance of getting better quality components. On the other hand you're throwing away any form of warranty with these sort of projects, so then a penny saved is a penny earned. You could also say that with better cooling, even lesser quality components will last longer. In the end it's your own choice. I happened to already have this card before I decided to mod it. If I'd have to do it again I'd stick to a known brand, but perhaps a cheaper one.

Well, it didn't fit with the motherboard. The fins of the cooler would hit pins on the board. That made me decide to turn it. But with the DIY case I made I switched it back for the good cooling though!

I just did one in 3dMark: The graphics score for a regular 5700XT is 9182, I got 9867. Not really 2080 territory yet (11185 to be had), but my temps this time never even got to 70. Though the junction temps were usually at around 108 degrees during the benchmark... Wonder where I could improve further, I'm not really experienced in overclocking to be honest.

Inspired by the Frankenstein GPU Cooling video I decided to make my own version with the RX 5700 XT I already had, and a Scythe Mugen V CPU cooler. Since I had the room in my case I figured that it would be a nice option to keep it quiet. TL;DR? scroll all the way to the bottom to the last picture. That's the final result My system I have the following parts (currently) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Scythe Ninja 5 Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D PSU: Corsair RM650 (2019) SSD: Kingston A2000 500GB GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X Case: Corsair Graphite 600T The plan I like big air coolers (and I cannot lie), hence the Scythe Ninja 5 on my CPU. So the goal was to get quite a big CPU cooler on the Graphics card as well. Also works magic for heat capacity and dissipation. To keep cost a little bit in mind, I settled on a Scythe Mugen V PCGH edition. I've used Scythe coolers for a long time now, they've never disappointed me. Prep Get all the stuff together. I figured I needed some heatsinks for the VRM and vRAM, so I ordered those in advance. Together with thermal compound, isopropyl alcohol, gpu-pwm fan cable adapter and thermal adhesive tape. That last one is to stick the heatsinks to the VRM and vRAM. Also: I have a bit of a workshop in my garage. You'll want a drill press, angle grinder, vise, and ideally a bench grinder. The magic Well, The start is basically pulling your GPU apart. Not very difficult thus far, mostly interesting to see how they built and cooled this thing. Her it is without cooling, a MSI RX 5700XT Gaming X: Then to fit the bracket: The bracket needed new mounting holes, as well as the cross bar that pushes down the cooler on the die. Relatively easy with a bench press, although the metal used is quite durable I must say. Good quality from Scythe After that it's basically fitting and glue-ing the heatsinks to all the chips (TIP: check where the default cooler had thermal pads to see what needs cooling): And slap the fans on, with the adapter to the GPU-fan plug: Final installation Note that the fans are on sideways. This is intentional (well, now it is at least) since it wouldn't fit against the motherboard otherwise. It would then effectively block all other fan headers on the board, and the fins would touch all sorts of stuff which made me fear shorting something. It's quite a big thing now: By moving the PSU to the (unused) drive bay, there is space for this huge cooler now: Upgrade 1: vRAM cooling Probably not really necessary, but I wanted to cool the vRAM the same as the other chips, so I bought more copper. removed the top cooling plate and custom cooled the vRAM: (bending the pins was needed for space) Upgrade 2: make my own 'case' As you can clearly see, there is a lot of cooling tower in that case. I went through all the trouble of building it, so why not show it off more? Also: the CPU cooler is still hanging from the motherboard, clinging on for dear life. I'd like both coolers in the same orientation. So I decided to build my own rig to make it better. Added in a PCI-e riser cable to make it work, and ended up with this: Results: Silence and performance! I currently run the highest that AMD let's you overclock this thing. Which is 2150 MHz at a power limit of +20%. VRAM is at 1800 MHz, since I get a screen flicker above that. The temps never exceed 75 degrees (Celsius) at any load. (except junction temps when it's boosting, but that seems to be OK) But the best thing is the silence! I have it on my desk, next to my head, and all I can hear is a bit of coil whine. But NO FANS whatsoever! The End Let me know what you think!