Things that make zero sense

[Mooshi]

What are some quirks in tech related products make you confused as to why things are they way they are?

 

Fractal 804

 

 

Wide is an understatement when it comes to this case. With that said, to have the max heatsink height of 160mm is pitiful, especially since 165mm is the norm for nice tower coolers. Come on, Fractal. How can you make a case this wide with support for dual rads in the roof, but not even have support for popular towers such as the top end kit out of Noctua or even more modest coolers from Enermax? Zero excuses! I shall scratch this off my want list because of this glaring oversight.

 

In contrast, the still wider than normal, but nowhere near the ridiculous levels of wide Silverstone TJ08-E can support tower coolers up to 168mm in height.

 

 

Your turn, LTT. What are the products that have a design flaw that you can't overlook?

[Shd0w2]

Whats with the woman in the background?

 

 

My design flaw thing would be Asus, they have some really nice looking laptops, which are very prone to damage.

[AlwaysFSX]

Come on, Fractal. How can you make a case this wide with support for dual rads in the roof, but not even support for something like a Hyper 212 EVO?

Maybe because they had the idea that you can run an entire custom loop in there for a cpu and dual gpus and never need a 212 EVO?

[Lord Pantaloons]

Check your facts, the 212 Evo is 159mm tall

 

http://us.coolermaster.com/product/Detail/cooling/hyper-series/hyper-212-evo.html

[Fred Castellum]

Nothing really comes to mind at the moment. 

[Mooshi]

Whats with the woman in the background?

 

 

My design flaw thing would be Asus, they have some really nice looking laptops, which are very prone to damage.

 

She clearly has a Noctua twin tower cooler and isn't pleased.

[tp95112]

Fractal 804 has alot of hard drive cages perfaps really good for a nas

[SAV1OUR]

4 core lga 2011 cpus something like a i7 3820, why just why? 2011 was made based around 6 core cpus so why bother making 4 core cpus when their already everywhere eg 1150

[The Crazed Child]

I've said this in another thread but the Gigabyte Brix Pro comes with a drivers disc even though it doesn't have an optical drive.

[Mooshi]

Check your facts, the 212 Evo is 159mm tall

 

http://us.coolermaster.com/product/Detail/cooling/hyper-series/hyper-212-evo.html

 

The forum was being buggy when I went to edit it as I was thinking of another tower cooler. I actually tried to edit as soon as I posted, but I got hit with a lovely "Sorry, you don't have permission ..." blah blah blah. The Forum has been acting weird lately.

[Unhelpful]

4 core lga 2011 cpus something like a i7 3820, why just why? 2011 was made based around 6 core cpus so why bother making 4 core cpus when their already everywhere eg 1150

No... That makes perfect sense. If you want the same performance but want a ton more PCI-E slots. It makes sense.

[Glenwing]

Gigabyte and their premium gold-plated HDMI ports  :huh:

[SAV1OUR]

No... That makes perfect sense. If you want the same performance but want a ton more PCI-E slots. It makes sense.

you may as well invest the extra $200 to get a 6 core to speed up performance 

[Unhelpful]

you may as well invest the extra $200 to get a 6 core to speed up performance 

Some people don't need the extra speed. Just need the PCI-E slots. It makes perfect sense. Market for everything.

[Glenwing]

you may as well invest the extra $200 to get a 6 core to speed up performance 

 

Easy to say when it's not your $200.

[_ASSASSIN_]

Gigabyte and their premium gold-plated HDMI ports  :huh:

butt gold maeks thym leik 100x tiems fster amirite?

[Enderman]

4 core lga 2011 cpus something like a i7 3820, why just why? 2011 was made based around 6 core cpus so why bother making 4 core cpus when their already everywhere eg 1150

So that people on a budget could buy an LGA2011 motherboard and have room to upgrade to 6 cores in the future when they have more money. If you get a 4770k there is no room to upgrade it.

[SAV1OUR]

So that people on a budget could buy an LGA2011 motherboard and have room to upgrade to 6 cores in the future when they have more money. If you get a 4770k there is no room to upgrade it.

well there is the refresh but other then that yea but if your going to spend $400 now then $600 later you pretty much loose $400 you may aswell invest the $200 the first time to get everything at once

[Enderman]

butt gold maeks thym leik 100x tiems fster amirite?

Yeah it does, it improves the conductivity between the two connectors, because connectors usually are not perfectly shaped to contact on 100% of the surface area. Only a small area actually touches between the two cables. The gold makes it easier for current to pass through this 'bottleneck'

[_ASSASSIN_]

Yeah it does, it improves the conductivity between the two connectors, because connectors usually are not perfectly shaped to contact on 100% of the surface area. Only a small area actually touches between the two cables. The gold makes it easier for current to pass through this 'bottleneck'

yeah I know that it doesn't make your display look better or anything it's just for connectivity sake.

[Enderman]

well there is the refresh but other then that yea but if your going to spend $400 now then $600 later you pretty much loose $400 you may aswell invest the $200 the first time to get everything at once

some people want a 4960x you know...

plus you can resell the CPU to get the money back

maybe you want a working computer right now, and in two years upgrade to a new CPU

[Enderman]

yeah I know that it doesn't make your display look better or anything it's just for connectivity sake.

And swag.

[AllstaRawR]

I've said this in another thread but the Gigabyte Brix Pro comes with a drivers disc even though it doesn't have an optical drive.

 

They... they what?! That is hilarious.

[jezza39]

I've said this in another thread but the Gigabyte Brix Pro comes with a drivers disc even though it doesn't have an optical drive.

 

Motherboards and stuff also come with driver discs without having a built in ODD. They probably assume people have external USB ones.

[The Crazed Child]

Motherboards and stuff also come with driver discs without having a built in ODD. They probably assume people have external USB ones.

And it'll be that way because DVDs in bulk are cheaper than USB drives in bulk.