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Hello so I have followed LTT since they first became LTT. Like many people on here I love tech. I build and fix computers but also deal with making custom electronics, 3d printing and a ton of other techy stuff. I used to do youtube videos (38k subs) on some of it and hope to again soon. But my life kinda took a crash in the last few years starting with a really bad, emotionally abusive relationship, then losing the place me and my Elderly Dad lived at as the landlord lost all his properties and decided he needed to move into the place we were renting from him. And in the middle of it I suddenly went deaf in my right ear which later it was found out that I had a sizable, rare brain Tumor called an acoustic neuroma. It's a slow growing thankfully non cancerous tumor that grows on the hearing nerve/vestibular system (The organs in the ear that controls balance.) It is in close proximity to the Brain Stem and Facial nerve too. I had no idea I had this tumor for many years until one morning I woke up and suddenly the room was spinning, I couldn't control my eyes as they kept drifting off to the right side and it was like that my ear was stuffy and I couldn't hear out of it. It was the weirdest thing as I fell asleep just two hours before and was fine and then just suddenly deaf and not able to walk. The doctor I seen later when the condition didn't improve said it's likely the tumor just finally got big enough to cause blood flow to be cut off to my inner ear and basically caused a stroke. Suddenly, severely and irreversibly damaging that part of my ear. It is a long story that I would be happy to tell though here unprompted probably isn't the place. But I was slated to never hear out of that ear again because of that damage done and the size of the tumor already made (originally) surgery that didn't completely destroy my Cochlea (Hearing Nerve) impossible to do. That is significant as though I could never naturally hear again from the damage a cochlear implant (Via the cochlea) could allow me to hear via artificial electrical stimulation from a electrode inserted into he ear that bypassed all the damaged parts. So basically I was screwed... In what was a sorta absurd situation I got sick with an ear infection (In my good ear) right before my surgery and had to be hospitalized. At the hospital a doctor seen me about my ear and recommended my to Michigan Ear Institute for a follow up for the infection and about my tumor. He told me there was a new experimental surgery that they were doing there to remove my type of tumor and do a cochlear implant at the same time which amazingly meant that I could potentially hear again. Honestly it was hard to get my hopes up but I took a gamble. There was so many challenges that happened along the way including a belief that my tumor was too big and the damage too much for me to get an implant but Michigan Ear Institute made it happen. They were completely amazing and managed to not only completely remove the tumor with no damage to my facial nerve (The main complication which could leave half my face paralyzed) but also install the cochlear and have it end up working. Not only working but apparently I have been one of the best taking canidents they have had so far. Everything went pretty much the best it could in a horrible situation. Part a blessing if you believe in that thing based on the crazy circumstances that lead up top the surgery. And massive part for the amazing professionals in the medical field that were there for me. The surgery involved of course removing the tumor, a cochlear implant but also a Labyrinthectomy where they completely removed the Balance Layberenth (Vestibular System) in the affected ear which post surgery was quite a trip. Because of the lack of signaling to my brain from the removed organ it caused not only for my balance to get suddenly much worse again and loss of eye control after years of adjusting, but also a indescribable feeling like my body was split down the middle and was falling in two separate directions. That is something I'll tell you what... I had to do pysical therapy to be able to walk again and see right again but apparently that also went great as I was able to get out of the hospital in a couple days instead of a week or more that it usually takes. Again this was definitely in part of some awesome nurses at the hospital that were helping me walk and do therapy pretty much as much as I wanted. Things were looking up but the Cochlear couldn't be switched on for a couple of months so even with it installed I couldn't know if it would work at all which my surgeon was doubtful based on previous cases (But still did it on my request which is amazing.) The first 3 months were BAD. I had constant neck and back spasms post surgery that made it almost impossible to sleep. Walking was difficult, the headaches and migraines were unbearable. I would wake up constantly feeling like I was falling or flipping which is probably a big part of the neck and back issues as I was always tense... It was again as I said... BAD... Then shortly after surgery another tragedy happened which is my dog Ceaser, my best friend of almost 16 years went from being fine to passing away in less than 24 hours. He was very important for my already poor mental health and that just really set my on an even worse road. I already wasn't able to sleep more than a couple to a few hours a night (Not an exaggeration) from the headaches, back and neck spasms, balance issues and such... But I also developed some type of panic disorder where I would wake up constantly in night soaked in sweat, breathing hard. Apparently people around me said I would sometimes scream or yell myself awake. I don't know what the dreams were but it made my already terrible sleep worse and made the issues with the pain take on a whole new level. And everything feed into itself. Night anxiety bleed into day, and eventually I couldn't even manage to watch videos, play games or do anything really without a constant dreadful feeling of being on the edge of a breakdown or Anxiety or Panic attack. Not to get too far of track though. At this point I have been doing much better. I started on an anxiety medication which also is used to treat chronic nerve pain and amazingly after years of pain my head and neck are doing amazingly better and though I am groggy a lot the medication has seemed to of gotten my anxiety and panic attacks mainly under control. Everything that happened in the last couple years is pretty much why I stopped youtube, I just need to try and manage myself right now. Which brings up why I wanted to ask you about the Cochlear thing and if you are interested in talking about it/Making a video on it. I, before I quite Youtube, really REALLY wanted to make series of videos on my cochlear implant, what it is like hearing with it. How it progresses with time. Answer FAQs on it and such for people wanting to get one themselves. Hopefully to alleviate fears for some, and answer questions for others. Along with help spread awareness of options like my surgery... Because if not for my complete chance run in with that doctor in that hospital I would of went with a different surgery and been deaf the rest of my life... There was no fixing the damage done had I gone a different route. Maybe some other people can be spared that too. And because of my unique position of being able to hear okay in one ear and have a cochlear in the next and also being able to do sound editing I can make approximations no one else can of what the cochlear implant sounds like to me. One of which I made and will attach below of what it sounded like when it was FIRST turned on. After getting used to it longer though it is much more natural sounding now because of the brain basically decoding the electrical signals... It's weird but your brain is hearing naturally in one ear and a different language in the other which it then autonomously converts over to making sense... I would like to make the updated sound file soon and like I said show people what it may sound like. Additionally I was made curious by your recent videos on the sound blocker whether it would affect cochlear patients which would of course be horrible. And interested in the CT scanner for the External unit which may be cool and not something you could normally do. I also have these cool Xray images that show the internal cochlear implant (What is under my skin) and also my twisted vertebrae... Anyways, sorry for the rant. I tend to always overwrite or talk when I mean to be short. Hopefully that doesn't take away from what the message I am hoping to spread. I appreciate you all reading whether from LTT or just people on the forum. Thank you. I will try and answer any questions anyone has on Cochlears too if you all like :) Stereo_Cochlear_What_it_sounds_like.mp3

I was doing some benchmarking in unigine heaven while testing undervolting and noticed if I focus on a different application on my second monitor my gpu usage and heaven fps go up. EX: focused on heaven I sit around 165fps and 45% gpu usage. focused on explorer or opera my heaven gets 300-450 fps and my gpu usage goes to around 75%. I would expect gpu usage to go up if I went to another window but not for my fps to increase. Is it just because my gpu has to work harder so some goes to heaven or something else EDIT: isn't exclusive to heaven, also occurs in furmark so I maybe I have vsync on somewhere? I might just be missing something, just confused and curious Thanks

Went out for drinks and food last night, had less than most, but more than enough. Hadn't drank in 3 months so I got wasted. Now I am 35, depressed and thank god for uber. I started with 2 brothers and somehow I collected the entire family last night. My older bro booked us skydiving and I said yes for 1pm. If I die msg my mom and she will give u my paper clip collection and 3 used rags.

Hello, people of the LTT forum, I was thinking that why don't PCs use endothermic reactions for cooling PC components? If you don't know already, an endothermic reaction is a reaction between two elements forming a compound, this reaction makes a negative temperature change by using the energy of the surrounding environment for the reaction between the two elements. This quite obviously makes the environment cooler. Now, in theory, if we made the surrounding environment say a CPU for example we could cool the CPU with the reduced temperature from the endothermic reaction. The problem with this is that we couldn't use a traditional, copper-block water cooling design. This is because the elements and the compounds produced from the reaction would react with the copper block. For instance, if we used an ammonium nitrate solution it would create copper nitrate which would corrode the block itself. We could use a nickel block but in a production and manufacturing sense, it would be expensive. My Proposition is, is it economically viable to make a cooling solution of this kind or does it already exist?

Recently I have been noticing that there is something off about my system. Things such as much lower performance in gaming than I would expect and general tasks in windows taking far too long to respond. For example I opened the file browser yesterday and actually had to wait for it to launch. Within the past year it has had a brand new SSD that received a fresh copy of Windows 11 Pro. I have checked every conceivable driver update, did some googling for answers, and closely monitored system telemetry through Hardware Monitor (CPUID). I haven't been able to figure anything out. This issue has made me wish that there is a software that could help me narrow down the possible issue. But we all know that there are a million "pc health checkers" that are either malware completely or include malware or malicious intent. So I figured the best thing to do would be to reach out to the community and see if anyone else has found a solution. Below are the PC specs: Ryzen 5800x (AIO water cooled) Asus 3070 OC MSI MPG B-550 32 GB of Corsair DDR4 @ 3200 MHz 2 TB 980 EVO PRO (no manual overclocking or mining has been done on this system)

Hi, this is my first post, I recently bought an Acer ED320QR 32' Curved monitor. I know I know...crap monitor but it was black Friday and I needed an upgrade. I am now regretting that decision because the smearing and ghosting on this monitor is awful. I'm looking for help getting recommendations on a different monitor. Any help or feedback is appreciated!

Why does utorrent access favorites folder everytime i add a new torrent. I have turned on controlled folder access settings in windows defender so it blocks the action. Is this application running abstract code behind the scene, cause i don't understand the purpose of accessing my favorites folder for adding in a new torrent. Does anyone else had it, i tried to search google but find nothing relevant.

Hi everyone, I recently built a new pc in a micro atx case (Corsair Crystal Series 280x) and my mom strongly wants to let Fedex take care of the packaging and shipping of it as I'm about to go across the country for college. The issue is that I have a gut feeling that if I do this my computer is going to arrive terribly broken. Any thoughts or experience regarding something like this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

This is a little unique. I am attempting to upgrade my old laptop to make it faster. I want to know will upgrading RAM speed improve my laptop performance? NOTE: It has an Intel i7-8550U (4 core), 16GB RAM (one stick, one unoccupied) @ 2400 MHz. BTW: I use this PC with a monitor and I multitask. I will have a lot of programs and tabs open at once.

hello, my wife just got her new case today, i put the pc all together and when i plugged it in the fans spun and the lights worked- BUT with my back turned, and my excited wife drooling at the pretty colors, she started tapping away at the remote that controls the RGB fans and now they dont work- WHAT DO I DO??????? ive tried every small trick i can think of to fix this. are the fans shorted out? or would it just be the small board used to power the fans that shorted out? we need proper airflow for the pc, stock cooler, PSU and GPU fans run but no effort from the case and no response from the remote either.

Hey guys I was wondering if there was a official cat tips thread or forum on the site. I didn't find one but I might have missed it. I recently got a cat and I think it would be nice to have a place on the site for the community to gather and enjoy the cats

So I have been looking around for a new mobo. And I thinking about buying the MSI B550 TOMAHAWK. But all I can find is MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK. What does the “MAG” stand for.

Hey Guys Need Some advice about WaterCooling PC so Im going to upgrade my Pc by June changing from intel to AMD Ryzen,So Whats the Best Budget Watercooling kit in the market,i want the Sillicone tubing so it would make me easier

Which would be better , i5 9400f or R5 3500 , if I want to pair it with GTX 1660Ti for gaming and a bit of editing/streaming maybe??? Or should I go with R5 3600 get some cheaper graphics card??

So currently my setup is an i5-9400f, 1070, 16gb ddr4 ram, an ASRock B365M Phantom Gaming 4, two 60hz 1080p monitors, 1tb m.2 and 1tb HDD, I was curious what people think would be a good upgrade? I keep going back and forth, and I'm hoping someone might even mention something I've forgotten. Any and all help would be appreciated, as well as specific products you might recommend!

DESCRIPTION: Please help (: Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2348M Processor 2nd Generation (3M Cache, 2.30 GHz) Processor Bus Speed: 5 GT/s. Ram: 2GB DDR3 1333MHz. Hard Disk: 500 GB (5,400 rpm) Screen Type: Toshiba TruBrite® HD TFT High Brightness display with 16 : 9 aspect ratio and LED backlighting. Screen Size: 15.6 Inch Screen Resolution: 1366X768 Display Card: Intel® HD Graphics 3000. Display Card Memory: memory amount : up to 781 MB shared memory with 2 GB system memory installed, and up to 1,696 MB with 4 GB system memory, (with a 64-bit Windows® 7 operating system). Optical Drive: DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) Drive. Ports: 1 x HDMI-out supporting 1080p signal format , 1 x external microphone, 1 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x headphone (stereo), 1 x RJ-45, 1 x external monitor Web Camera: 1 x integrated 1.0MP HD Web Camera (1,280 x 800) with built-in microphone. Memory Card Reader: 1 x Multi-Card Reader (supports SD™ Card up to 2 GB, miniSD™/microSD™ Card with adapter up to 2 GB, SDHC™ Card up to 32 GB, SDXC™ Card up to 64 GB and MultiMedia Card™ up to 2 GB). Keyboard: keys : 102 , Flat matt black keyboard and 10-digit numeric keypad Pointing Device: Touchpad with multi-touch control supporting various scroll, zoom and launch functionalities at your fingertips. Ethernet: Fast Ethernet LAN 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX. Wi-Fi: 802.11b/g/n. Bluetooth: Bluetooth® 4.0. Battery Type: 6 cell lithium-ion ,up to 5h30min (Mobile Mark™ 2007). Operating System: Free Dos./windows 7 32bit

I've been watching ltt and other tech channels for like 3 or 4 years now and I still just feel like I haven't learned enough about hardware and everything, and I do want to learn more about it Is there some way to know more about it? Where do you suggest to start?

I'm a first year in CS with a few questions to find an ideal PC. Which specs to go for? Reliable brands, things to avoid. Should and how can I back up my files? External SSD, NAS, both? which ones are particularly reliable? For my school, I have the following requirements: Processor: 8th gen inter core i5 RAM: 16GB DDR4 Ram Hard Drive: 500GB 7200RPM Sata or 240GB solid-state (SSD) Graphics Card: 2GB AMD or Nvidia discrete graphics card LCD Screen: LCD capable of 1920x1080 resolution Wireless: Dual-band 802.11 ac/g/n Operating system: Windows 10 Professional 64-bit or Windows 10 Education 64-bit (available from IST Software) Battery: 8 hour min Warrenty: 3-year warranty If you have any tips or advices for any of the questions, any computers that'd fit within a reasonable price range online ect. please let me know!! I'm pretty new to researching for computers so any type of help would be tremendous If you want to give me a direct response since this is my first forum you can DM me in discord: Gerald#6744 Thank you so much for looking at this post! :)

All those in response to my previous thread. CALM DOWN!! I asked Linus for permission. You don't know what has happened behind the scenes CALM DOWN. Also, he inspired me, so I will say it again CALM DOWN.

Here are some of the questions I would love to get answered, What is python VirtualEnv? (I know it's somehow related to pip but that's all I know) What are some python GUIs/Game Engines with high customization? (and good looking) other than tkinter, kivy and pygame. EDIT: The Game Engine Part is to use in 2d Does anyone know a good tutorial for SKLearn? Would a external amp and dac improve the standard $50 headphones? Are there any good wooden cases on the market? TIA

I want some thoughts and suggestions on the the scenarios i will list. Some things i am somewhat set on already and unless presented with a better option at a better price for same features or better or within $10-$20 So its been since 4770k since my last build which i no longer have and i am planning a new build for middle of february. Uses: What everyone uses computers for, Plex Server, Some gaming older title and some newer at 1440p 75hz, VM's as i am finishing my BS in Cyber Security, Be able to run at least 2-3 VMs Windows Server, ESXi, Ubuntu, and i sometimes run a couple Windows Images for testing purposes. I also route all my internet traffic through ICS but plan on switching to Bridge Connection once this build is complete. I transcode video daily at most 10 a day output H264 NVEnc very slow at about 4000kbps bitrate and consistent frame rate I currently use a my laptop for everything listed above which is a Dell 7559 i7 6700hq, 4gb gtx 960m, 16gb ddr3, 256gb ssd and 2tb internal and a bunch of 1-2tb external drive for plex and storage. Budget is going to be around $2000-$2200 I have been going through 3 different routes and looking doing a 9900k system, 2700x ryzen, or doing a used Dual Xeon E5-2xxx v2 system. I have a microcenter not to far away and just looking for the best bang for my buck to get what I want done. I hope this gives everyone enough insight and idea what i looking to do. Any question fire away. THANKS IN ADVANCE! Undecided Parts CPU: Intel i9 9900k, Amd Ryzen 7 2700x, Intel Dual Xeon E5-2680 v2 Motherboard: Once i decide which way i want to go i will look more into a corresponding board RAM: At least 16GB would like 32GB if i go with i9, or Ryzen I want RGB been looking at Trident Z RGB 3000-3200 GPU: This is where I want to stay in the $300 range I been looking at RX580-590 and vega 56 cards, Nvidia 1060's, this is going to be heavily used for transcoding and occasionally for some gaming, im not to worried about playing maxed out just enough to keep above 60 fps on 1440p on like Battlefield and mainly first person shooters. https://www.microcenter.com/product/506022/axrx-red-dragon-radeon-rx-vega-56-overclocked-triple-fan-8gb-hbm2-pcie-video-card PSU: Been looking at EVGA Supernova G2 750w its 80 plus gold since this thing is pretty much never going to be turned off. https://www.microcenter.com/product/470790/SuperNOVA_G3_750_Watt_80_Plus_Gold_ATX_Power_Supply Boot Drive: This is what i think i decided to go with https://www.microcenter.com/product/600420/512gb-3d-nand-m2-2280-pcie-nvme-30-x4-internal-solid-state-drive Storage: I plan on shucking 2 8tb WD easystores as they are WD Reds or equivlent white lables https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-EASYSTORE-EXTERNAL-WDBCKA0080HBK-NESN/dp/B073LK1F6X Cooling: I have a 360mm rad, D5 pump, Raystore v3 block with compression fitting and tubing I have to change the res to a tube as i am have a 5.25in dual bay res right now. Going to get this 270mm or 170mm depends on the case i select. http://www.performance-pcs.com/xspc-d5-photon-270-reservoir-v2.html Case: Is still up in the air yet but i have a few i like https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA65C6V70925&ignorebbr=1 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7TD77B2979&Description=anidees&cm_re=anidees-_-9SIA7TD77B2979-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811553043 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?reviews=all&item=9SIA8EF5VJ0261 Monitor: This im pretty set on https://www.microcenter.com/product/503139/29WK600-W_29_UW-UXGA_75Hz_HDMI_DP_FreeSync_HDR_LED_Monitor Mouse:Keyboard: Been thinking doing something more basic but i wouldn't mind suggestion on rgb mechanical keyboard and high dpi mouse but right now just looking doing another Logitech Wave Set https://www.microcenter.com/product/345160/mk550-wireless-wave-combo

Hello there. I'm extremely new to pc building and tech in general. I've been thinking about building a pc to replace my aging laptop, but wanted to get peoples opinions on whether it's worth the hassle, or if newcomers should just buy pre-built. Looking for honest opinions.

I just need help figuring out how pcs work in general at this point i got a pc from family and i havent been on a pc for 4-5 years and i cant figure out anything like how to download on other drives and why the other drive is "read only" Like i just want to play fo4 and mod it but nothing works on my pc anymore besides a few games and chrome cause i tried moving everything to the other disk

Hello, I’m a brand new PC builder. So I’m currently building a pc. I finished putting everything in place and connected the cables to where they need to be. When I plugged in my PSU and pressed the switch and the computer power button the fans barely moved then stopped (case fans and graphics card fans). Does this mean the PSU is dead?

I'm planning to upgrade my PC near the end of the year and thinking to move to the Ryzen processors this time! I'll be, obviously, gaming and doing some twitch streaming here and there so was wandering if those extra 2 cores will be worth the extra $$$ both for now and over time? What are everyone's thoughts/recommendations?