Wife PC Upgrade NIGHTMARE

[WhitetailAni]

3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

It's a very old thing from the Slashdot days (way back when they were hugely popular, google "the slashdot effect" for more info) when it was sort of a silly contest to be the 1st to post on an article.

Well, I know nothing about that.

It's still fun.

[Pitboy64]

How about a Techquickie on this Asus Thunderbolt 3 issue? 

What did you find out about that, and what exactly is the problem?  And are there any work-arounds?  Someone else on this thread discovered on their own that it wasnt a Thunderbolt 3 issue but was actually a DP issue and there was a fix.  Can you look into this as well?

first time Iv'e heard about this ... and I just bought a Z490 Hero Xll, partly because of the Thunderbolt 3, and I'm waiting to buy a video card to do the build.  Should I have buyers regret, or incorporate a fix into the build?

Did I buy the wrong board?

[Middcore]

2 minutes ago, Pitboy64 said:

How about a Techquickie on this Asus Thunderbolt 3 issue? 

What did you find out about that, and what exactly is the problem?  And are there any work-arounds?  Someone else on this thread discovered on their own that it wasnt a Thunderbolt 3 issue but was actually a DP issue and there was a fix.  Can you look into this as well?

first time Iv'e heard about this ... and I just bought a Z490 Hero Xll, partly because of the Thunderbolt 3, and I'm waiting to buy a video card to do the build.  Should I have buyers regret, or incorporate a fix into the build?

Did I buy the wrong board?

 

There's no guarantee that the other person in this thread who discovered their issue was actually DP-related is having the same problem as Linus. Linus's description of the problem was pretty brief, and while he's not all-knowing when it comes to tech I'd like to think he tested pretty thoroughly to determine the cause of the issue before he invested a weekend and thousands of dollars worth of hardware in fixing it.

 

That said, I feel like Linus's use case for Thunderbolt, where (if I remember correctly) he's trying to run the entire system through it from another room, is fairly unique. So unless you're trying to do something similar I wouldn't worry too much. 

[dogwitch]

2 hours ago, samcool55 said:

AsRock, which used to be the budget brand from Asus, makes better high-end stuff these days.

How the tables have turned.

which they spun off to. into its own company.

now asus got a massive bad pr for their name on consumer side.

so they made tuff brand,rog,

mind you i will never own them again. for mobos. never once had 1 working correctly.

[Middcore]

7 minutes ago, dogwitch said:

which they spun off to. into its own company.

now asus got a massive bad pr for their name on consumer side.

so they made tuff brand,rog,

mind you i will never own them again. for mobos. never once had 1 working correctly.

Yes, ASRock has been an independent company for a long time now, as hard as this is for some YouTube commenters to grasp. ("But they're owned by Pegatron!" Yes, and Pegatron was spun off independent of Asus a decade ago.)

 

Every TUF or ROG product still has the Asus branding all over it prominently so I wouldn't say that was an attempt by Asus to evade a poor brand reputation. I have seen people who actually think Aorus is a separate brand from Gigabyte, though. In any case whether you like them or not, I would say for a lot of people the Asus brand name still carries "prestige" and a lot of their products tend to be marked up over the competition with an "Asus tax" accordingly

 

 

[BoxTurtle]

I just watched this video and I was wondering why there needs to be a display port in on his wifes motherboard. If you don't know what I am talkng about go to 4:55 in the video where he mentions it. 

[sub68]

pretty specific build.....

[ahuckphin]

Beautiful B-roll. Filming the screen on the ASROCK motherboard yet it does not flick. I say that's impressive. 

[dogwitch]

3 hours ago, Middcore said:

Yes, ASRock has been an independent company for a long time now, as hard as this is for some YouTube commenters to grasp. ("But they're owned by Pegatron!" Yes, and Pegatron was spun off independent of Asus a decade ago.)

 

Every TUF or ROG product still has the Asus branding all over it prominently so I wouldn't say that was an attempt by Asus to evade a poor brand reputation. I have seen people who actually think Aorus is a separate brand from Gigabyte, though. In any case whether you like them or not, I would say for a lot of people the Asus brand name still carries "prestige" and a lot of their products tend to be marked up over the competition with an "Asus tax" accordingly

 

 

true. its like zotac. they use to me no name. then made a name for themselves. then cheap out on some models of gpus.

[Chuck Claunch]

So it's a single thunderbolt cable back to her desk?  What's the little break out box on her desk?

[Tortillin0077]

sponsor for this video has a funny definition for what constitutes a giveaway lol...

[Quackers101]

james get a third eye!

 

Hope for a video on watercooled motherboards and if they are worth anything at all.

As others seem to have the same issue with the same motherboard Linus tried to use first, and if this is a common problem.

[Spotty]

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What a garbage 'giveaway'. I can see why they disabled the like/dislike counter on the video.

 

 

Gee, I wonder why

[ProjectBox153]

3 minutes ago, Spotty said:

What a garbage 'giveaway'. I can see why they disabled the like/dislike counter on the video.

 

Gee, I wonder why

I didn't even realize who the sponsor was until I saw this (originally watched the video on FP). That's a crappy giveaway for sure. 

[Quackers101]

wow, remove that giveaway.

thats crap.

[Luscious]

"I like Asus"

 

I thought I did too until I bought one of their motherboards - a Rampage V Extreme.

 

Sata ports that keep dropping out, USB that will randomly disconnect my webcam (and mess up my audio inputs in the process), an integrated RAID controller that will drop the entire array whenever it feels like it wiping out your data if you have no redundancy, onboard wifi and BT that doesn't work and the bad placement of edge connectors making you bend pins when you have a GPU installed in that last slot.

 

The irony is that this was their top of the line enthusiast board - you would expect them to cut no corners on a flagship product and offer something with no compromises.

 

Boy do they have a lot to learn. I sometimes wish companies like these would just change their name to Rising Sun Electronics, because you know, they haven't exactly woken up yet.

 

BTW: The board isn't that unusable and it does actually have things that I like. I've found workarounds for the glitches, but my point really is a top spec board shouldn't require workarounds and should just work as designed and expected.

[OwayBaway]

23 hours ago, James said:

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My wife's computer won't wake from sleep properly. I've narrowed the issue down to ASUS' implementation of Thunderbolt 3 on their motherboards...but actually addressing the issue turned out to be a lot of work!

 

 

 

Ooof that sucks

[nathanjaker]

Does anybody know what tubing he used in the video? He mentioned it was "an extremely nonporous walled tubing" that he used in a previous video

[weyim40349]

Does anyone know what's the secret Thunderbolt thing he was using on his PC upgrade some years ago but that he couldn't disclose?

[GimmeGaming]

Is it just me or do Linus and crew kill a lot of motherboards. I was thinking about the one in the 20k desk pc also

 

[MadITgeek]

I wonder. um, why cant Linus use like ANY thunderbolt 3 PCIE card instead of a ENTIRE NEW MOTHERBOARD

like holy first world problems

 

something like

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GBZL93X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=zamcons-20&linkId=bdab9f9b859ed8b9cd2156984cebafe3&language=en_US

 

am I missing something??

[ProjectBox153]

10 minutes ago, MadITgeek said:

I wonder. um, why cant Linus use like ANY thunderbolt 3 PCIE card instead of a ENTIRE NEW MOTHERBOARD

like holy first world problems

 

something like

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GBZL93X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=zamcons-20&linkId=bdab9f9b859ed8b9cd2156984cebafe3&language=en_US

 

am I missing something??

Those don't work with just any board. 

[MadITgeek]

This is true. but I'd think the Asus mobo he was using would be. be pretty crazy that a PCIE thunderbolt card does not work with a motherboard that has one onboard...

[RoseLuck462]

I thought his wife had a a Mini-ITX build in a horizontal case that the monitor rested on.