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Klyith posted:so, he upgraded from a reasonably powerful invisible PC that should probably just have used underclocking to avoid throttle* into... a fire hazard that uses a PSU that expects active cooling with no case and no fan. doesn't seem like a great idea to me! He does acknowledge that the PSU needs active airflow, and there's a lot of air coming through that area, particularly with the plastic strips he's got in as guides. I would never, ever, do what he did, and was surprised that he didn't have that big of a disclaimer about "Do Not Do This" as he shucked the PSU. However, he's clearly a very capable guy, so I guess we'll wait & see.
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well why not posted:He does acknowledge that the PSU needs active airflow, and there's a lot of air coming through that area, particularly with the plastic strips he's got in as guides. If those 44mm fans are inaudible, then no, I don't think there is a lot of airflow. While he's got a ton of them, small fans suffer more with reduced RPM than large fans. It's hard to know for sure because he doesn't show any numeric details about the setup like what the fan RPM was; if he only did his garbage bag test at full speed it's not valid. Fans aren't linear, and the garbage bag is testing static pressure more than free air flow. I don't really know whether the group of fans that are ducting to the PSU are sufficient or insufficient, but from the extreme lack of info I don't think he does either. well why not posted:so I guess we'll wait & see. I mean I don't believe it's going end in flames, as PSUs have overtemp protection and rarely light on fire even when abused. If anything bad happens it'll likely just safely die. I do think the setup is going to result in reduced lifespan for a number of components, especially the PSU. Stuff is going to be hotter than it would be in normal cases due to the indirect and low airflow. Many things, particularly caps, have less life when hotter. But he's also a youtuber who probably doesn't care about keeping the same components for years. And imo it's a bad example for a DIY channel to make stuff that needs "do not attempt this" disclaimers without more info. And mostly I think there are much better ways to do it, that I think would still look great without doing something that's an unqualified bad idea.
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Jan 19, 2021 01:15
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Dennis is a monster and I love him
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Jan 19, 2021 01:18
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It's a stupid YouTube setup, no one is ever going to replicate these meme builds. There's no need to scrutinize it heavily.
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Jan 19, 2021 01:19
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Yeah I doubt even 1% of his audience has the skills, resource or willing to make that thing. It's presented as instructional but nearly no one would/should make it. It's a neat project, but ultimately a flex like most YT projects. His BBC voice and chill vibes make it feel more like a lesson than it really is.Klyith posted:
Fully agree with this, he should've stopped the video and said "do not take apart power supplies" IMO.
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Jan 19, 2021 01:30
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Also didn't he drop like $500+ on Noctua fans on that build. Nobody's going to do that.
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Jan 19, 2021 01:41
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Strapping all your components to a table that’s a giant metal passive heat sink, however...
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tl;dr I'm only disappointed because that guy did repurposed laptop projects and I thought those were great aesthetic design, usefully instructional for a diy, and admirable for a way to recycle / reuse a busted laptop. Alas, the content machine demands that you top yourself every week. Romes128 posted:Also didn't he drop like $500+ on Noctua fans on that build. Nobody's going to do that. He got em free, sponsored by noctua.
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Jan 19, 2021 02:06
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Klyith posted:so, he upgraded from a reasonably powerful invisible PC that should probably just have used underclocking to avoid throttle* into... a fire hazard that uses a PSU that expects active cooling with no case and no fan. doesn't seem like a great idea to me! Oh hell yeah, when he started hacking that PSU apart my balls crawled up into my abdomen.
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Jan 19, 2021 10:17
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It’s okay if there’s an issue with the PSU he can just diagnose it by shorting it with a paper clip
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Jan 19, 2021 22:29
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the corona quid posted:It’s okay if there’s an issue with the PSU he can just diagnose it by shorting it with a paper clip ...you don't?
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Jan 30, 2021 04:16
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Pretty great watching linus tell his wife that he has to buy $50k worth of gamestop stock
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Jan 30, 2021 20:47
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This title... god drat. Steve is super done with NZXT.
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Jan 31, 2021 21:44
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I don’t watch Bitwits stuff anymore but his video saying he’s getting divorced was super sad. Guy looks like he hasn’t been eating and you can tell it hit him hard.
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K8.0 posted:This title... god drat. I hadn’t heard about that, but that is amazing how poo poo that design is. I do boards, pcie included, and it seems completely irresponsible to not have a large cutout of the 12v plane around any screw holes. Really the hole should also have plated areas (including in the hole but I guess that would raise the cost per board) with the holes larger diameter than the included screws so it doesn’t grind thru the material. The screws should just engage to whatever the pca is being mounted to. Stuff like this is why cheaper manufacturers like nzxt give me the willies.
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priznat posted:I hadn’t heard about that, but that is amazing how poo poo that design is. I do boards, pcie included, and it seems completely irresponsible to not have a large cutout of the 12v plane around any screw holes. Really the hole should also have plated areas (including in the hole but I guess that would raise the cost per board) with the holes larger diameter than the included screws so it doesn’t grind thru the material. The screws should just engage to whatever the pca is being mounted to. I'm not really sure why NZXT has gotten any reasonable sense of goodwill from the community, the RGB and fan controller poo poo they released under the "CAM" software suite basically bricking and making booting with most of the AIO's a crapshoot situation. The Shift and ShiftX both being 2x the price of any competitor and having some of the worst airflow and performance, along with another absolute dogshit bottom of the barrel riser cable. NZXT is and will always be a cheap brand.
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Jan 31, 2021 22:37
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nerdrum posted:I'm not really sure why NZXT has gotten any reasonable sense of goodwill from the community, the RGB and fan controller poo poo they released under the "CAM" software suite basically bricking and making booting with most of the AIO's a crapshoot situation. The Shift and ShiftX both being 2x the price of any competitor and having some of the worst airflow and performance, along with another absolute dogshit bottom of the barrel riser cable. Getting into custom cabling and being pretty lax on quality and testing seems like a recipe for allllll sorts of liability issues. To say nothing of rolling your own AIOs, kind of want those to not have any unforeseen issues! Good to know they have some actual serious issues rather than just my vague suspicions. Thermaltake is another one I usually looked at a bit shifty-like, but I have nothing to back that up and I’m not dialed into the scene to know what dodgy stuff they are up to.
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Jan 31, 2021 22:41
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priznat posted:Getting into custom cabling and being pretty lax on quality and testing seems like a recipe for allllll sorts of liability issues. To say nothing of rolling your own AIOs, kind of want those to not have any unforeseen issues! Thermaltake has been accused of copying case designs from Fractal and Caselabs a couple years ago. Google it, a ton of stuff shows up.
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Jan 31, 2021 23:01
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Romes128 posted:Thermaltake has been accused of copying case designs from Fractal and Caselabs a couple years ago. Google it, a ton of stuff shows up. I already wasn't buying their stuff due to just the hunch they sucked, but good to have those confirmed!
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Jan 31, 2021 23:15
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Romes128 posted:Thermaltake has been accused of copying case designs from Fractal and Caselabs a couple years ago. Google it, a ton of stuff shows up. Did they at least copy good designs well?
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Subjunctive posted:Did they at least copy good designs well? So well everyone called them out on it. Really though, I don't know about the quality of the copies. It was a little before my time in PC building. From what I've read it was around 2015.
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priznat posted:Thermaltake is another one I usually looked at a bit shifty-like, but I have nothing to back that up and I’m not dialed into the scene to know what dodgy stuff they are up to. Thermaltake sources stuff from random chinese factories and has an entirely random standard of quality. Some of their stuff is absolutely fine. Some of their stuff is pretty poor. And some of it is this:  OTOH when the worst of the PSU crunch was happening last year I was looking at available product and found that thermaltake's gold toughpower PSUs were reviewed quite well and were a pretty good buy. If you ever find yourself looking at a thermaltake product, try to just mentally eliminate the brand name entirely. You are looking at a ███████████ product, can you find reviews for that specific product? If so you have an informed decision, if not maybe don't buy it. Romes128 posted:Thermaltake has been accused of copying case designs from Fractal and Caselabs a couple years ago. Google it, a ton of stuff shows up. Everybody copies case designs. Fractal started out with some heavy inspiration from Antec designs, but nobody said boo about it because Antec wasn't popular anymore. Thermaltake has done some pretty shameless copies, but so have other people. There's only so many ways to make cases. Thermaltake cases are just very weird in that they have some genuinely good stuff in their discount bin, but the cases that are original to Thermaltake are either extremely niche or terrible. In conclusion, thermaltake is a land of contrast.
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Lmao is that a cig lighter and a cupholder for a 5.25” drive bay, good lord. It’s like the old tech support legend of someone using their optical drive tray as a cupholder but productized, plus smoking.
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Feb 1, 2021 01:12
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priznat posted:
Cheap they may be, but this is a $350 case
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FuturePastNow posted:Cheap they may be, but this is a $350 case what Goddamn I thought this was some cheap ripoff of the corsair tiny case thingie with the riser etc. That’s madness, buy a phanteks or something!
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Feb 1, 2021 01:44
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priznat posted:what Leaving aside the... subject of discussion, w/r/t build quality, the the NZXT H1 is actually one of the best SFF cases out there - especially if you want the small form factor, but don't want to trouble yourself with the frustration and work that normally comes with SFF anything. It's as plug and play as it gets with the built in PSU and AIO cooler, and it's a legitimately great design/idea/case. Shame about the whole 'catches on fire because it was built by idiots and cheapskates' thing.
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Yeah. Note that GN actually likes the case. Pretty much all reviewers like the case. It's more the fact that there's this huge glaring flaw which could cause property damage or worse, and NZXT is dragging their feet on fixing the actual issue. Just giving people nylon screws doesn't fix the issue. They really need to source new extender cables.
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NZXT's problem here isn't being cheap, it's being arrogant. They don't want to admit how big a fuckup their riser is and was hoping steve would just do the first video and then go away.priznat posted:Lmao is that a cig lighter and a cupholder for a 5.25” drive bay, good lord. it's a "automotive accessory power and cupholder"! (also the "cupholder" has a removable dish so you could use it as an ashtray) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ErL39wqO-c
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That’s amazing, laff. Good on Steve for putting the (nylon?) screws to em. That kind of reaction they had is worse than the fuckup in the first place and should cost them customers. If they had a proper apology, recall, and fix for it everyone could just move forward. I wonder if they crunched the numbers on it and felt a recall would be too spendy or were just plain dickheads about it and didn’t care about potential backlash.
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Romes128 posted:I don’t watch Bitwits stuff anymore but his video saying he’s getting divorced was super sad. Guy looks like he hasn’t been eating and you can tell it hit him hard. huge win for his soon to be ex-wife
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Feb 1, 2021 02:50
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well why not posted:huge win for his soon to be ex-wife yeah, we only saw so much on the videos but even then she just seemed to be humouring him
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Feb 1, 2021 03:00
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well why not posted:huge win for his soon to be ex-wife looks like she's already his ex-wife by the wording of their announcements
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Is Bitwit the who calls his wife wifeysauce? Or is that a different one
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Is Bitwit the who calls* his wife wifeysauce? Or is that a different one Called*
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priznat posted:That’s amazing, laff. Probably the latter and that's a damned shame. I already have an H500, but poo poo like this makes me not want to touch anything from NZXT with a 10-foot pole. Also, I love it when Steve gets all ranty. Always a nice change from the usual vids.
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He probably kept doing his Asian minstrel show in bed. God those Lyle videos are insufferable and of course they are his most popular.
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The most popular one has a 174 comment thread full of chuds defending racism and it's just there, hanging out, not getting deleted.
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wibble posted:Linus nuked a $2000 motherboard this week Somehow I'm entirely unsurprised by this development. Was a paperclip involved?
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