Mr. Fox

Thank you for the update, brother. You will continue to be in our thoughts and prayers. We are reaching an age where things like this can really be stressful (emotionally and financially) for us and our loved ones. Our mortality becomes more evident to us and we become thankful for small things we once took for granted. Circumstances like this have the potential to strengthen our faith or produce uncertainty, fear and doubt. Keep the faith, brother. We are standing with you in spirit as you walk through this thorny pathway.

That really sucks. It's bad enough that there are so many hackers, scammers and identity thieves that are foreigners, but a fellow American doing it makes them that much more worthy of brutal and merciless retribution. Their predatory mindset is very similar in practice to serial rapists and child molesters and they deserve capital punishment. Did you sell your 5090 FE or did something happen to it?

Zotac makes some of the best 50-series GPUs. Build quality and PCB design are excellent. Glad you chose that one. The scammers of the world all deserve a bullet to their head. Did the scammer have a foreign accent or did his speech sound like he was from the area he claimed to be from?

My daughter has become addicted to gaming again like she was as a teenager (she is 39). When I gave my X870E Strix/4090 build to one of my sons as an upgrade/trade for his B650/7700X/3060 and gave that to my daughter she was hooked. The gaming rig that I gave to my grand daughters (her kids) was a B850/9600X/1080 system. I snagged a good deal on a RTX 3070 FTW3 https://www.overclock.net/posts/29586464/ (about $210 USD shipped). I am going to use that to upgrade my daughter's system and move her 3060 into her girls' system as an upgrade for them. And, then take the 1080 from their system and use it to upgrade her husband's system (which I gave them a couple of years ago) that is sporting a X79 Gene Rampage/Xeon E5-1680 V2/RX 590. So, that's going to be a sweet deal for all of them. Each system will be getting a 35-45% bump in graphics performance from where they currently are with their current GPUs.

@Papusan I hope they are getting everything sorted for you. Staying in the hospital while they run tests and "monitor" things is very boring. Let us know when they let you go home, brother.

Turned out nice. Will look pretty slick once the bubbles in the reservoir dissipate in the next day or so. Although very similar in size, this case weighs roughly twice as much as the Phanteks XT M3. The chassis is structurally very rigid. I am going to find out if Svet can remove the power caps the idiots at MSI put on this board. I need to be able to pull at least 100W more from the CPU than what the firmware allows. Newsflash MSI retards... this is not a laptop.

You are like family to us brother, even though we've never met face to face. I'm thankful that they got this issue before it got you. I will include your family in my prayers because I'm sure that this is stressful for them.

I'm going to be moving my "guts" from Banshee out of the Phanteks XT M3 to an O11D Mini V2 this weekend. I'll be using an Alphacool 240 flat reservoir with a VPP Apex pump installed into the side instead of fans to keep it cleaner. Length and height are similar but the O11D Mini V2 is wider with about 1 inch more room behind the mobo tray and a little bit taller with more room above the mobo with the mobo shifted down to the lower position. Basically the equivalent of one PCIe slot taller above the mobo for added radiator/fan space. The primary motivation is material quality. The XT M3 metal is very thin and the plastic front and top panels are flimsy. I guess that is why it is so inexpensive. It's not a bad case overall, but it is a little bit chintzier than I would like. Plus, I am just an O11D addict at this point. Build quality and ease of use on all of the O11D cases is unrivaled.

You are in our thoughts and prayers, brother. Get better fast.

It was one for sure. One of the first things I said when he texted me. Pretty brazen that the scammer even had the balls to call him and speak to him. When scammers get that comfortable and brazen a bullet or knife is the best cure for their filthy and worthless existence.

Brother @tps3443 dodged a scammer bullet yesterday. Glad you were not a victim, Brother T. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29585246/ The scumbag posted the same scam on a Swedish web site. https://www.blocket.se/recommerce/forsale/item/22104267?ci=4

If you want to build one for the 5080 Prime that would be sweet in my mATX build. Then the CPU, RAM and GPU would all be custom loop in a SFF chassis, which is extremely rare. The Phanteks XT M3/V3, O11 Mini and Gamdias M4M are only a few SFF cases that are designed with enough intelligence to allow such a build. It allows you to compromise a whole lot less than SFF typically demands. I don't feel like I am missing much or making concessions/sacrifices for the sake of size.

Yes, I was subscribed. It just got buried in the ocean of subscriptions. I look forward to watching your videos.

Yes, I think that is a fair price for the world we are living in now. Hard to beat. I am pretty sure I subscribed to your YouTube channel but I don't find it in my gigantic list of subscriptions. What was your channel's name?

Doing well. I hope all is well with you and your family.

I have not seen any for pin imbalance, only overcurrent protection, which I fixed by increasing the MVP2 threshold to a higher value in the firmware.

This old lady has an excellent voice. (I say old... she is probably my age. Yeah, I'm old. So is Brother @Papusan. We're still awesome.) Touching song about the loss of her son. Edit: I take that back. She is 10 years older than me. Dang, she looks pretty good for 73. What a voice. (Yeah, it's AI but I have no reason to doubt that it is her voice or image.)

Just another A$$zeus gimmick. Different, more expensive, but not really a better product. Something shiny and new for the ROG fanboy club. At the end of the day you still have a failure-prone petite arson connector.

I let my daughter and teen grand daughters know, but they were too late for the free offer. Not my kind of game, but definitely their kind.

100% - if you're not first, you're last. They're no longer first. At least not in my playbook and mine is the only one that matters. Screw 'em... I don't care what they want or think about anything.