People sure leave out details when they say "use a silver kill coil". Silver should not be used in any loops containing nickel plated blocks, but yes would work absolutely fine if just bare copper blocks.
No I wouldn't say money has been wasted...
I still have Swiftch Lok-Seal fittings in active use that I bought around a dozen years ago and their custom variant of the DDC pump lasted me till 2022.
Turning to the main point...
When I bought my first, and for a long time only, piece of EK...
Yeah that was covered in my original post :D I still do custom loops, but strictly because I enjoy the hobby. I don't pay EK-esque prices though, all Bykski/ other Ali stuff.
Yeah the performance gained per dollar spent really isn't there for custom loop anymore. But there certainly are other reasons. Some like puting together custom loops like any other hobby where the money spent is probably not returned in any...
Correct.
Corsair is going the route of rebranding a lot of stuff - i.e. slapping a sailboat logo on and marking it up on their radiators which are just Hardware Labs L-series.
Corsair's fittings OEM is Bitspower, which actually does work out...
EK continues to masquerade as some high end (with high prices) watercooling company and people keep gobbling it up. Meanwhile they have some of the worst quality control and general quality I've seen whether it's their plating, quality of...
Sure I guess if you want to throw in real Titans as GeForce gaming cards. I really am just speaking on the GeForce stack sans Titans though. Add Titans because they occupy this bizarro slot between gaming card and prosumer card, sure. But really...
I have a late 2019 Intel-based MPB that I keep in my desk drawer for when I need screenshots for guides and such and it is certainly more than usable, but Nov 2020 M1 MBP blows it away in every measurable aspect.
That is garbage to me because I have a Macbook Pro which I often run a mobile triple screen setup off of on battery with an iPad Pro and a LG Gram.
In this configuration, the resolution and screen quality available dwarf the PC as does the...
You could play it single player no problem, but a lot of parts of the game (such as map events, expeditions, operations, etc.) are built around multi-player. I honestly haven't done much story to be honest - I'd guess from that perspective the...
No no I don't think you understand. Past several gens aside from the initial 4070 launch, it was the 70, not the 80 card that matched the previous gen flagship in performance. 20-series was another bad one but I think got better over time where...
Also their base price is higher, which makes the lack of RAM less forgivable. Like I get if there's some cheap craptastic computer that is trying to hit a low price that has a small amount of RAM. I still don't like it, as it won't give the user...
This absolutely. The M1 was a huge change coming from Intel. I had an Intel i9 based MBP from work and it frankly sucked. Then got the M1 Pro MBP and the battery life is great and the machine does everything I need it to. Since the M1, the M2 and...
The other half is, if you have an M1 based Mac for 90% of the consumer base there is no need to go to an M3.
If you are a corporate user there are few reasons to upgrade to an M3 from either the M1 or M2 variants. Unless you specifically need...