SnakeEater

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.

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.

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.

Yeah that makes sense! Hadn't considered that when I started using it. I'll try a higher percentage and see if that works!

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

Haha nope! I've seen components from smokers before though! Those things get gross

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.

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!

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

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

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).

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

Might be a dumb question, but do they typically release the new motherboards (x670) at about the same time the new CPUs come out?

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

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.

Planning my first new build in about a decade and am swinging for the fences. I'm thinking I'll likely go with the 4900x or 4950x (or whatever they end up calling them). I might also just get a 3900x/3950x if the upgrade doesn't seem worth the price per performance. The MSI Tomahawk seems like a great motherboard all around for the price point I'm interested in. It's got great thermal performance and all the features I want on a motherboard. Thing is I'm not super knowledgeable when it comes to any potential pitfalls if I end up going with Zen 3. I don't normally pay super close attention to the newest tech coming out so I don't know if there's anything I should be wary of. Is it safe to assume that this mobo will work great for a possible Zen 3 since it works great with current gen? Might be a stupid question, but I'm only a hobbyist https://pcpartpicker.com/product/WKdrxr/msi-mag-x570-tomahawk-wifi-atx-am4-motherboard-mag-x570-tomahawk-wifi

Anyone here read Japanese? The side by side comparisons were exciting, but I wish I knew what the text said

Very valid points. I'm more concerned with spreading the cost out over time then getting the best possible deal ever so I'm not too worried about getting the best deal. Price could go up as well you never know

Thanks guys! I'll research the options out there and probably end up pulling the trigger! I can definitely test it in my friend's system using Memtest86 to make sure it's good before letting it sit there for a bit.

Why those timings in particular? Does it perform that much better?

Ahh that's a good point. Never even considered that angle. I could test it in a good friend's system though

So I'm working on a new PC build that I'm going to slowly build over the next 4/5ish months or so. I've already purchased my case, and Newegg is currently having a sale on memory so figured it might be a good time to pick that up too. The issue is I'm not sure what CPU I'll end up going with since AMD Ryzen 4000 Desktop isn't out yet and it'll be probably a few more months before I pick up the CPU. Am I fine to purchase memory that works well with the current series of Ryzen 9 CPUs or would it be smarter to wait to see what the new CPUs are? This might be a really stupid question, but I'm not nearly as smart as most of the users on here and could use some guidance regarding this. Planning on making a pretty powerful rig to handle my gaming and professional design/photography/video editing work and I see lots of comments on memory on pcpartpicker about how specific RAM works well with X series of CPUs. I was eyeing this ram since it's fast, and has good timing. I know it's not B-die, but the extra price of B-die just doesn't feel worth it to me: https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232907?Item=N82E16820232907

I'm a semi pro photographer who recently upgraded to a nice IPS display from a garbage old TN panel I used to have. I'd like to finally after all these years get a monitor calibration tool so that my editing and any prints are as accurate as possible. Is there any real reason to go with one monitor calibration tool over another? Seems like at the end of the day they all would largely do the same thing to me, but I haven't done much research yet. Any guidance as to recommended calibrators or further research would be very helpful!

Recently started a new build for a friend and everything went fine until I got windows installed. Then after a brief period (sometimes up to ten minutes) the whole system would crash and the fans on the GPU (RTX 2070 Super) would suddenly be spinning at high speed. The system wouldn't lose power during the crash and the GPU fans would run perpetually on high until I shut down the system and restarted. I tried running Heaven at one point and that seemed to work well as a trigger for the crash so it definitely is GPU related. I turned off XMP to ensure that wasn't the issue, updated the drivers to the latest, then removed those drivers and tried using older ones after that didn't work, and then I took the card out of the new system and put it into my old and got identical crashes (I used DDU before swapping to ensure we had a clean start and I updated drivers in the second PC as well). It seems to me that possibly the card is just DOA? I'm willing to try any other suggestions at this point. Is there anything else else I can try and if not what do I need to do to confirm this 100%? And if it is DOA where do I go from here? Do I just return it to Amazon, or contact the manufacturer? Not sure which of those two is the better option in this scenario as I've never had dead hardware show up before. I'm planning on putting my old GPU into the new system later today to make sure it works, but based on what's happened so far I assume it will. The build giving me problems: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card Case: Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply The old build I used to test the GPU: CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4 GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Storage: Crucial M4 128 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB NITRO+ Video Card Case: Zalman Z9 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

I will try that later today! Seems like if the card crashed in my system then most likely it's the card right? The only other thing I could really think of is maybe both systems don't have strong enough PSUs? Mine has a 750 Watt Gold PSU though so I'd be surprised if that was the cause