Sir Beregond

So how's Dying Light 2 treating you @schuck6566? I only played the first one for the first time in 2020. Story was kind of meh, but enjoyed the gameplay a lot.

Yeah, on OCN some people had to scrub the inside of the tubing with a brush to remove those loose bits that were ending up in the blocks.

Unfortunately. Some people haven't had problems, the biggest thing is just inconsistency in manufacturing. Some of it is incredibly dirty out of the box with issues like you are experiencing. It often times is also not quite in spec with labeled OD/ID and you'll also see a ton of people say they have issues using non-EK compression fittings with it.

This is one of the common problems you'll hear people have specifically with EK ZMT tubing. In the future, I'd opt replacing it with Tygon A-60-G or Watercool EPDM tubing and kiss those problems goodbye. People resorted to buying brushes that fit the inside diameter of the tubing and cleaning it that way. I highly doubt it was simply putting the tubing over the barb and more just a problem with the inside of the tubing.

Sources: AnandTech, Techspot, Toms Hardware

I'll take a look again. Don't think they had the color I wanted. I don't do arrgeebee.

Yeah honestly wasn't sure if that was something they were still doing.

Yikes.

Never heard of them, will have to check it out.

Yeah, more or less my point about them. It's abysmal.

One thing I always found fascinating is the more what I guess are considered fringe or pseudo by the mainstream scientific community, but I always find the ideas some put forth about lost civilizations where it was possible for very advanced civilization with advanced technology to have existed, but was just so long ago, wiped out by cosmic/climatic calamities and we all started over. Anyway, whenever they discover stuff like this, makes me think of that.

Intel I think just needs to work on their marketing. Also Alder Lake might just be a case of having that crown but you need a new platform to buy into it. Lots of people sitting on AMD stuff already. AMD needs to be careful not to get too greedy and ruin all the goodwill they earned from the community. Zen 3 prices frankly sucked, and RDNA2 sucked even worse in that respect and the 6500XT is a travesty of a money grab. As for stocks/crypto, yeah I was 19 in 2010 and 21 in 2012. I didn't understand mining, or how to buy crypto, let alone what you do with it after (storing it). Was just such a new concept. As for stocks, wasn't like there was Robinhood and similar apps like we have now. I had no idea how to open some investment/trading account, as far as I knew you needed some minimum number, had to buy whole shares (which fine, that's ok at $2), and trades were like $15 weren't they? I was so lost. Sigh. All the things I could have done to make money had I figured out how to do it. Edit: To add to the GPU discussion, yeah AMD is really bringing it back with the raster performance. But at launch, given the feature disparity and such, I thought the RDNA2 launch MSRP's were ridiculous. Forget all the stuff that happened since with pricing/market, and let's pretend everything is actually MSRP. $650 for a 6800XT looked like a "win" but come on, how was that fixing the price creep. That was just them cashing in as high as they thought they could get away with using Nvidia as the baseline. Anyway, I hope Intel can bring it with their GPU division. I'm pretty skeptical given what I've heard on drivers, but we clearly need more than 2 players in the space.

Annoying cards? By themselves they were great, when I tried Crossfire, I really did not enjoy the experience trying that on my HD 5770's. When Skyrim came out, I bought a GTX 670 to replace them, but that 2GB wasn't enough for the mods...That was annoying and I regretted not grabbed a 7950 instead.

I mean, if they can do something to get mining off of GPUs again the way ASICs did for Bitcoin, sounds good to me. But that's just one aspect. Mining itself is just terrible at this point from an environmental/power perspective especially now as power gets much more expensive.

I seriously regret not buying a ton of AMD stock when it was $2. I didn't really know how to do so back then which was also my problem with Bitcoin back in 2010.

You can do that? Nice. What was the cost difference if you don't mind me asking?

So looking at this, the 6-pack Bitspower works out to $5.99/fitting while that Bykski is $6.99. So guess it works out. Looking at other fittings though, they definitely screw you on the 90's. Looked that up and it was $20 lol. So for those I might look outside Bitspower. I don't know...bonus time is March so got some time to figure out what else I am ordering to finish this damn thing.

Thank you both, that really helps. I think I'll just grab the Bitspower then along with some 90's and maybe an extension or two.

Looking at 14mm hardline fittings in gold - mainly looking at PerformancePCs. A lot off stuff appears to be out of stock, so looking for options and to make sure I am not getting something bad. I know @Avacado likes the Bykski anti-off ones with the large single o-ring. The problem I have with these is that while the 14mm does look gold, the corresponding 12mm and 16mm gold fittings look more orange so making me wonder if its just a bad photo. 14mm - Gold 12mm - Gold I then saw another model from Bykski and one from Barrow that looks like the kind of gold finish I want, but obviously different o-ring style. Not sure if either of these are any good? (Nevermind on thee Barrow, I see it is now out of stock). Bykski 14mm - Gold Lastly, saw Bitspower, but was unsure given the small compression rings, but its really just about the o-rings with hardline right? Also these are "true brass", but look gold to me in the pictures? Not sure. Bitspower 14mm - True Brass So what would be your choice?

Yep shouldn't matter at all.

Well I have an X570 board, so at this point will just call my upgrade grabbing a 5900X or a 5800X3D if those pan out decent without thermal issues (which the 5800X already has being that the heat generating area is more dense then the other chips).

Could also be straight up incompetency but that would reflect a bad process allowing that to happen. Given the comments, sounds like this is not a one off case.

Yeah, have not heard good things about Newegg customer service lately. Glad you at least got that sorted, but 3 dead kits of DDR5 really sucks.

Noticed a lot of NVME SSD's move to "email for price" on my local Micro Center's website.

It's not about the hardware. Businesses should not be on Windows XP still in 2022. My guess is that's what those C2D and C2Q machines are running. Anyway, at a certain point it does make sense to drop support for stuff that's 15+ years old.