Sir Beregond

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.

My problem is I have parts but the build dragged on so long I wish I waited on said parts. For example scored a 5600X early, but now MicroCenter has $450 5900X's.

Well isn't that handy, nice lol.

I haven't shopped at Newegg since probably 2011-ish. I did win a Shuffle when they first started those for a 5600X, but given how the build got put on hiatus for so long, I coulda just waited and got a 5900X at MicroCenter. The whole 3rd party reseller thing really soured my view. I do often sign up for the shuffles just to see what happens. Won a 3080 once then laughed when they wanted $1400 for it. It was $1200 on Best Buy. Still bad price, but yeah. Passed...

Very interesting results. Not surprised the heatkiller pulls ahead under super heavy loads, but clearly would be ok under standard uses. How are you measuring the flow difference?

Very interesting. I was curious to see how this would play out. A pin grid style like this is very old school way to make blocks.

It's definitely come a long way on that front. I'm still not quite ready for the switch though given some of the games and stuff I use.

Hot damn (or cold damn ), nice stuff.

Don't mind me, I'm still on 8.1 Pro. Well I know Mac was on "version 10" for what, like 2 decades? All I know is it hasn't force updated my work computer and my work is not really controlling it much. I'm still on some MacOS version from like 2018 that is fully unsupported now. Don't know why Microsoft feels the need to force update really. Haven't they already gotten their money? Here's an idea, quit removing features I like.

That's a hit. I am not a laptop guy and very rarely use one personally, but many more people use them then desktops. Sad day.

Banted! Because I am adding my own spin.

Bant for getting me to say bant.

Banned for spelling it "bant".

I think the main stat that was being looked at was the Corsair flow rating marked as 800L/h while a regular D5 like from Aquacomputer for example is 1500L/h. Source:

Forgot about this satire channel. I remember seeing the 4090 video. That said, I agree the idea of a socketable GPU chip is interesting.