Rage Set

I am on the side of GN. Both Steve and Linus have an egotistical mindset, however, Steve usually uses his for the good of all consumers. I have commented on his video that I will be supporting him and I have also privately email him (he responded to me in both). I told him I wanted to support his work because I now know these videos are going to hurt him and his team. LTT is a powerful corporation and Steve's videos will have major ramifications. He knows it. Some of LTT's fanbase are claiming that these videos were Steve's last ditch effort to somehow damage LTT's lab efforts (i.e. Steve is somehow afraid that LTT labs are going to kill his technical reviews). Laughable.

And now the Tech Tuber war have started. Gamers Nexus/Hardware Unboxed Vs LTT. Essentially, old school tech testing vs tech entertainment. Going to be very divisive on YT. EDIT: Jayz is staying far from this potential conflict, lol. 2nd EDIT: I can't believe how much of the tech tuber community is on Gamer Nexus's side. Of course, the LTT fanbase is calling GN and others out. I curious to how the LTT "CEO" is going to handle this. Unfortunately for Steve at GN, I think his video about LTT is going to hurt him, even though this is very much constructive criticism in its purest form. There are too many kiddos that watch and love Linus and his antics.

From Mr. Fox's review: "It is an excellent option for anyone that doesn’t need to liquid cool their graphics card and memory. At this point, I would consider a custom loop for cooling only a CPU to be frivolous expense for most purposes when there is an AIO that works as well as the EK Nucleus AIO CR360 Dark." The main advantage of a custom loop is to add additional heat producing components. A really good to great AIO CPU cooler can match a custom watercooled CPU loop when coolant temps normalize, yes even with a MO-RA3 rad. It just takes longer to heat soak the custom loop with a MO-RA3 rad.

X299 Dark strikes again. My X299 Dark sits in its box, dreaming of being benched once again. One day...

Thanks. It is for sale locally. I had to really tame my desire to go full custom loop on this build, otherwise I would be keeping it. Saving bit by bit to get me a set of Vespid Prime lenses.

I have built many all white PCs for clients, but never for myself. The main reason is how the color ages on different materials. A couple of years of use and most white components become dull and discolored. Keeping the build clean is much harder, as it will showcase dust far more than darker colors. I agree with you, you have to really want an all white build. Perhaps why the ASUS Strix 3090 OC White card is still in demand...it goes for 1k whereas most 3090's are around 750 to 900.

Introducing the OMG ARGB WOW All White PC - This PC can blind the crap out of you with the amount of ARGB elements - Now lets see if someone bites. I think due to its $2200 price, there are not going to be a lot of buyers.

I must admit, EK's AIO tend to be good to really good...usually better than almost all of their competitors. Their experience in watercooling shows with the coldplate design. I am a fan of their discontinued semi-open Phoenix line of AIO's (they were essentially a premade loop with a DDC pump and their EK quick disconnects) but I haven't tested the new one I just got. I only purchased it to have something on hand to test the CPUs I am buying second-hand. Does it rival a normal 360 custom loop?

Sold all of my "spare part" PC builds. Now I am going to build my all white SUPER ARGB OMG WOW PC featuring the Asus Strix Z690 D4 mobo, Asus Strix 3090 White edition and 12900K. I was going to do a custom loop, but I know that will only increase the cost. I have elected to pick up a white AIO. It will be for sale locally, but I will make sure to take a few photos for you all white build fans 😂 On Prime Day the SN850X was $229.99 when I picked it up. I am not sure if Camelcamelcamel takes Prime Day deals into account. I am kicking myself for not buying a couple more at that price. Now is the time to buy as much storage as you can, because most of the NAND flash producers have slowed or stopped production to force prices to go back up.

I admit AMD's drivers can be buggy, especially when overclocking a card near its silicon limits. With that said, that 6900XT is technically a 6950XT. Same core, as you know. The software likely saw it as a normal 6900XT and put in those limits.

So they admitted the adapters have a higher chance of melting. I think someone in CableMod's legal dept needs to tell this guy to shut up at this point, because all he is doing is providing more evidence for a potential lawsuit....yes even if they are repairing all damaged GPUs. I can see someone wanting damages based off loss wage potential and more.

You are correct on that. Buyers are looking to exploit all preowned hardware. It's definitely a buyer's market out there. For example, I briefly put up for sale, my Asus Zenith II Extreme Alpha, 3960X and 128GB (8 sticks) of G.Skill 3600MT RAM for $2100 (all of that cost me around 3.7K). I had people offer me 1000 or even 800 for everything. I decided to keep it and turn it into a server.

I found my new server case for my AMD TR build. The ENTHOO PRO 2 SERVER edition. It is coming to market in mid August and I am going to pick up two closed editions. I really wish they included more 3.5'' drive cages than they do...this is supposed to be a server case. I am going to put my X299 mobo in the other and make another storage server.

It's all clickbait at this point. For productivity, especially video editing, Nvidia is in the lead. On my "workstation", I am sticking with Nvidia for GPU and Windows. I will not let CUDA go until AMD has a GPU that can "translate" CUDA for proconsumer (I understand AMD is working on this tech currently). Gaming is a different story though. I game on my 6800 XT attached to my LG C2 all the time and I don't feel like I am missing anything. Some games I run at 4K while others, 1440P. I am at a crossroads though. I want to upgrade this all AMD gaming rig. I am not sure if I am going to stay all AMD (AM5 and 7900 XTX) or go 14 Gen and Nvidia 4090 TI. I am still waiting to see when (not if) Nvidia is going to release the top Ada GPU. At this rate, I may end up going all AMD again due to pricing.

LOL. I will not use one of those huge M.2 Gen 5 SSD heatsinks even if I had the space. At that point, I would go off the deep end and buy SSD waterblocks like these https://www.amazon.com/Barrow-Storage-Waterblock-PCIE-22110/dp/B07J1T66N2

I am speechless but I have more testing to do and I have a few more different SSD heatsinks coming in. My FireCuda 530 was idling at 58C and my SN850X idled at 56C when I was using the mobo's shared "heatspreader". The 530 would hit nearly 80C during use or throttle when I was using both SSDs at the same time. The only thing I changed was the unified heatspreader - with each drive using its own heatsink, no additional fans or anything else. Using a 7 dollar (link below) Thermalright M.2 heatsink, the FireCuda 530 idles at 33C and hits 42C max during CrystalDiskMark testing. The SN850X idles at 30C and never went over 40C during my testing. Before I start celebrating Thermalright, I want to test more heatsinks. I think the mobo's "heatspreader" aka heat retainer was the problem. I'll keep you guys posted. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HRN8QXY?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

I watched it this morning because he mentioned in a pinned comment on his previous video about the audio issues. The first issue is a valid reason and if AMD is going to offer screen recording via its driver software, it should have this option. The second issue is a non-issue for the majority of users and there are many third-party macro apps that would fix this problem. The third issue is never really going to happen. AMD is not going to help its competitor nor is Intel. Adobe is going to have to fix it and considering their track record (hence why I stopped using all Adobe products years ago and switched to Final Cut and DaVinci Resolve), good luck with that. The fifth issue has been a problem since the launch of the 7000 series. I don't think AMD cares at this point, lol.

Compare it to your custom loop - as it has advantages and disadvantages over the AIO. However, if I were reviewing it for a publication, I would have a $50 to $60 quality air cooler as the first point of entry. This vantage point gives consumers a look at what they currently have, versus higher end water cooling (AIO) versus the best in custom water cooling. No need to get into GamersNexus level of detail..."Out of Box" stock settings to a "Gamer boy" OC is really all you need. I have my own private database of all of the air coolers (not many entries), AIO's and custom watercooling parts I've used over the past three years. I created it so I could have reference when I was in the early stages of a review channel/website. I got the black RGB version. I was also going to get the white version so I could create an all white PC to mess with @Papusan and yourself, lol.

I picked up the EK-Nucleus 360 during the Newegg sale to test for myself, as it appears on top of the charts in most AIO reviews. Hopefully EK improved on its fan durability. I plan on using it during test builds and when they are complete, move to either an air cooler or custom loop. I eagerly await your review. I am going to test it first with AMD.

@electrosoft I guess you can do something similar with your SFF PC? I mean it kinda defeats the purpose and I think Brian should have used a larger case. But hey, he claims it works for him. Nothing like packing a 420 AIO separately when you travel.

I CAN NOT wait until it gets colder here. Even with the rain storms we have been getting, we are still averaging mid 80's or 29C. The humidity is kicking my butt.

I have multiple fans. I believe the problem is the mobo's built-in heat spreader becoming heat soaked from the two SSD's. An EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid sits on top of the heat spreader. I got a few Thermalright heatsinks coming on Monday. This build is in my basement. Right next to my rack of servers. Normally, due to this being a basement, I don't need any extra cooling. The weather is causing what is usually a cool 60 to 65F to be in the high 70's. This case wasn't the best idea for this build. I am using the Corsair 680X (I love dual chamber cases) but I am either going to get a Define 7 XL or an actual server chassis to put it in soon. I am going to "retire" this build anyway and it will live out its days as a Proxmox server.

On the Asus Zenith II Extreme Alpha, I have both the Firecuda 530 and 850X under the same M.2 "heatsink" and I think that's the problem. While there are thermal pads to transfer the heat to this heatsink, I think it becomes heat soaked and traps the heat. It doesn't help that I have a Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 card with four NVMe drives producing heat of their own. I may have to look into a server chassis and put this build in a rack.

I have a Firecuda 530 4TB and WD 850X 4TB (got it on sale recently). I am struggling to cool them. The entire case is a furnace with 7 NVMe's in it with an air cooler attempting to cool my 3960X and 3090 Hybrid. I am going to have to rethink this build.

@Papusan When you're right, you're right. Brother Pap has been preaching almost all of the adapters out there are trash. Now you got Jay, always a few days late, going on and on about it. He also threw a small jab at GamersNexus.