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  1. How is making a build for Hasan not more specific than a Trump build? By your logic this build itself went too far. It's clear people are only okay with this collab because they agree with Hasan to varying degrees. Also people keep comparing this collab to one with someone like Shapiro or Crowder, but they're pretty mainstream neoconservatives. Wouldn't someone on the far right be a better comparison since Hasan is considered far left? I doubt the lefties saying that this video collab was fair game and all in good fun would say the same if it was a build for someone like Nick Fuentes or Richard Spencer. I'm in the camp of this video was a mistake because it tacitly says "hey we're sorta cool with you and your side of politics, but we just don't want to be open about it". I'm just tired of people bringing politics into everything. I used to love that Linus was never political about everything on any of his platforms, but he's gotten more outspoken about certain topics over the years and it's annoying. Specifically in regards to U.S. politics that aren't tech related on his personal twitter (but there's been a small amount of it on the WAN show too). It's just annoying.
  2. I feel stupid even asking this question as there are countless posts all over the internet discussing the issue, but I feel like a lot of the people on this forum are more intelligent/knowledgeable than users on others. I've seen different subredits having opposite opinions on the issue, so I wanted to see what people here think. Is XMR mining with my CPU worth it/going to damage it long term? Mine stays around 70C and sometimes lower depending on the temp outside, but it makes me about a dollar day more or less depending on the various factors. As someone who doesn't make a ton of money at his full time job I'll take any amount I can get BUT my CPU is a 5900x which was $500 (and I'd rather not have it die with how the market is right now). I need to try running Clock Tuner for Ryzen to see how that impacts power draw/hash rate, but what do you think? Is it worth it? Do I need to be concerned about shortening the lifespan of my CPU if I was planning on using it for 4ish years? I mined Ethereum back in the day for maybe 6ish months and that GPU worked flawlessly for years, but CPU mining is something I'm less experienced with.
  3. Turns out the 99% rubbing alcohol works pretty well. I switched to using that and shop towels (had to get the alcohol on Amazon because it's sold out everywhere I looked). Still a laborious effort, but is working much much better than 70% or 90% were.
  4. Yeah that makes sense! Hadn't considered that when I started using it. I'll try a higher percentage and see if that works!
  5. Hmm the higher percentages have been a bit harder to find lately thanks to Coronavirus, but I guess I'll go out and hunt for some
  6. Haha nope! I've seen components from smokers before though! Those things get gross
  7. Was cleaning off my old dusty motherboard with 70% rubbing alcohol and paper towels and after drying it has this weird whitish residue on it. I assume it's the dust (or something the dust is made out of) that's now smeared out across the mobo. What's the best way to clean this off? Just keep trying to use rubbing alcohol and paper towels until it's all gone or is there a better way to do this? I've done several passes and it doesn't seem to be getting much better. The paper towels seem to turn yellowish after being rubbed on the mobo for a bit if that's relevant.
  8. Working on a new build in a Fractal Meshify Define C and it's got 5 spots for fans. Two front intake, one rear exhaust, and two on the top. I've set the two front for intake (duh), the rear and top rear for exhaust (duh again), so that leaves me with one blank spot where I could put a fan (the front most top position). I've already got a fan I can place there so I figure why not, but would it be better to have an intake or an exhaust in that position? If I put an exhaust I'm a little concerned it could take away some of the air before it reaches the CPU cooler, and if I put an intake I feel like It'd be blowing some of the intake air down away from the CPU maybe? Maybe I'm just overthinking this and I should just put it as an intake, but any thoughts/guidance from you guys would be much appreciated!
  9. I think most likely I"ll go with 140mms just because I like how much neater the shroud will make the case look, but I will factor this into my decision! Won't be building for awhile as I wait for Zen 3
  10. The Fractal Design Meshify C's front can accept either two 140mm fans or three 120mm fans. Assuming I want things to be as cool as possible in my case should I go with the two or three? I assume 140mm fans are more powerful, but the fact that you get 3 of the 120s makes me unsure of which to go with. Any thoughts on which would be better for a cooler PC? Edit: Okay so turns out I should've googled this first because I'm definitely going 140mm. You have to take out the PSU shroud to go with three 120mms. My bad wish we could delete posts lol
  11. Does a lack of cache matter on the Sabrent 4.0? That's the reason I started to second guess myself on picking that drive. This'll be a boot drive I'd likely have for a solid 6 years (that's an educated guess based on my previous builds).
  12. So I'm planning a new rig for Zen 3 and (probably) and RTX 3080 (depending on what AMD releases). Figured I'd build a nice system because I have the money and I do photography/video/design work on top of gaming. What are some of the best choices out there for NVME SSDs between the $150-200ish price point for 1tb? At first I was going to go with a Samsung 970 Evo, but then changd my mind and was going to go with a Sabrent Rocket 4.0. Was wondering if I could get people's thoughts on these two drives or other possible good choices out there. There are so many SSDs to choose from that I've been getting overwhelmed looking at the options and suggestions would be much apprecaited. The build is going to end up being a Ryzen 9 with the updated replacement for the 3900x unless AMD changes up the offerings
  13. Might be a dumb question, but do they typically release the new motherboards (x670) at about the same time the new CPUs come out?
  14. Yeah that was a concern for me as well. Do we know anything about the changes to that chipset? I've done literally no research on that
  15. Yeah the VRM's were my main concern really. I figured they would be good, but at the end of the day I'd rather ask a dumb question then not ask and have an issue.
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