This PC almost stumped me... can you guess what went wrong??

Today we take a look at a PC that is experiencing some REALLY weird issues after nearly catching fire... can we fix it?
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[@ZachRE88]

“I put an ROG sticker over the thermaltake logo” 😂

[@lukeperryglover]

That was great!

[@darkSorceror]

Those 5 seconds of video make the whole flight from Alaska and back worth it

[@lukeperryglover]

@@darkSorceror For sure! Having a usable PC would definitely make it worth it haha

[@darkSorceror]

​@@lukeperryglover Latest tip from Jay: upgrade your Thermaltake hardware by putting ROG stickers over the branding!

[@mr.fizzac3957]

🤣

[@unknown-gaming3985]

LMAO that animated explosion's made me jump

[@jonathan__g]

It totally made me jump too. I always now expect it for the iFix it spots when mentioned but never else.

[@knives6683]

yeah I shit my pants on headphones

[@darktimes9489]

Forgot to turn it off and on again?

[@deeztoes8517]

Same lol

[@rob1253]

I would have enjoyed it but I had to rewind because of a poorly placed YT advert.

[@kieranmcgrath7103]

As a former mechanic, "throw parts at it and see what happens"...too real.

[@ezanchi5422]

You have to add to that: "Throw parts at it, charge all of them to the customer, and see what happens"...

[@tcs007]

"If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!"

[@gamamew]

@@ezanchi5422 That's the correct way to do the job

[@glutenfreegam3r177]

Only a shit mechanic repairs cars in this manner. Sadly, by the time "mechanics" like yourself actually fix the car, you have no idea what the actual repair was as you have just R&R'd so many different parts.

[@tcs007]

@@glutenfreegam3r177 The fact that this obvious bit of sarcasm went completely over your head tells me a lot about you. God Bless.

[@kylefisher831]

"Don't buy a Gigabyte power supply..." Cut to me staring at my 750w Gigabyte power supply full of stress

[@Lascari98]

Jay: "Don't buy Gigabyte power supply". Me looking at my Gigabyte power supply: "Well shit"

[@ze-ph9774]

Me: *removed gigabyte psu from cart in online shop* - Crisis averted.

[@hahahahahha8458]

same bro

[@JeskidoYT]

Gigabyte makes power supplies?

[@hairychesticles1]

Evga has good PSU's. Had a 650watt platinum one that was rly good. I also now have a 1300watt gold raited one and my only complaint is the 140mm fan is fairly loud tho i thnk flipping it over will fix the sound

[@mimitchi86]

@@JeskidoYT I had no idea they did until watching this video. I always thought they just made the graphics cards people buy when the Asus and EVGA cards are out of stock.

[@dominictonisson1946]

“ask me how i know” *plays the video of jay getting electrocuted for 10min*

[@bhavyakabade]

What's the video? Link?

[@theilleststylez5866]

@@bhavyakabade kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWeVp5-pfqytj5Y

[@theilleststylez5866]

@@bhavyakabade its quite literally him getting shocked shocked any and pretty much every where for about ten minutes straight .

[@theilleststylez5866]

and i wrote shocked twice ... some how

[@gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298]

Shocked, not electrocuted. He didn't die lol.

[@martinagustinsilva6481]

2:40 "don't buy a gigabyte power suply", me having a recently burnt gigabyte PSU 650w bronze 80 plus without warranty ... "ohh ... that information would have been useful ... sooner "

[@Cherokie89]

"Customer states: Computer making arcing noise and letting out the magic smoke. Technician: Could not replicate concern." That will be 100 dollars.

[@cachepilll286]

exactly

[@DarkerSavant]

Sometimes it can't be replicated and the time trying still has to be compensated.

[@Cherokie89]

@@DarkerSavant I was a mechanic for years. I get it

[@Seorful]

@@DarkerSavant Still it is pretty annoying for a customer. While the technician need to be paid for his time, the customer basically received nothing for their money.

[@loganmorace839]

@@Seorful id rather the technician fix the problem even if it takes an abnormal amount of time. I'll pay 400000 dollars just fix it please

[@Real28]

"just throw parts at it and see what happens" Yes. Yes. This is why I keep old hardware. It's vital to good troubleshooting.

[@Montisaquadeis]

A few extra parts that you know work are great to keep around. Never know what might happen to either your system or a friends system

[@LatvianVideo]

@@Montisaquadeis Old parts from my brothers upgrades will be my pc. I will work in the summer and buy a mobo for the ryzen 3 1200 that my brother recently upgraded from

[@Nanomusheens]

@@Montisaquadeis We moved my friend's Alienware Aurora R4 to a Corsair case and luckily I had the PSU from my previous system since the Alienware one was too tall to fit. I'm glad I don't throw systems/parts out unless they are so old that they are useless.

[@gamesandsoftwares1441]

i refuse to throw away a working piece of hardware you never know when you might need it to replace a faulty part while waiting for another one and yes troubleshooting , ik for a fact that those are working and that helps alot

[@iMaRouLi]

5:20 scared the shit out of me actually

[@ihatecelerybuilds]

i have to do that with my pc every day bc my case didn't come yet it's annoyingand kinda sketchy every time i do it

[@WastedMoment]

I legit was like "Oh shit something had to of happened' and then I saw it, and fucking died of laughter.

[@judha8043]

yeah same

[@Ender_Wiggin03]

Lol, I've done that before in the past with no issues, but that explosion was funny.

[@BlisterEye]

Damn it Phil, got me too

[@MeticulousTechTV]

This made me really miss my PC repair days. Back in the mid-late 2000s, when way more people still used desktops. Worked for local small shops doing hardware repairs like Jay is doing here on desktops and laptops. Those were the days, if only it paid better... Thanks for the nostalgia, Jay!

[@spec_opsgaming]

The little "bwoosh" when you bridged the pins on the motherboard killed me lol, i actually hurt myself laughing and i thank you

[@MrNside]

"Guess what's wrong..." Informs everyone that there's a riser cable in the original build right before figuring out that the problem is a bad riser cable.

[@knytetech7732]

Yeah. I repaired computers for years, and from what he listed as problems, it was almost definitely a GPU issue. The moment he uttered the words "riser cable" my immediate reaction was "well there's your problem"

[@shubham601]

He did mention Thermaltake P3. That was your hint.

[@beetlelandyoutube6965]

Jay: Talks a lot about alaska being the problem The riser: Well hello

[@briant6669]

That riser comes with TT p5 cases and it caused me the exact same problem.

[@CheapBastard1988]

@@briant6669 Yeah Thermaltake is Ali Express quality but available from other shops. People consider it a reputable brand but it isn't worthy of that.

[@Pahhu]

"Have you tried troubleshooting your state?"

[@gardian06_85]

he said that the weather could be an additional factor that exacerbates the riser cable issue, he might not be wrong about the weather, and he did find the riser to be an issue, and that does not remove the weather as a possibility. i would suggest any PC be on a power supply serge protector anyways regardless of the local climate.

[@kevinnarvades1279]

@@gardian06_85 I've lived in Alaska for a long time. There's a lot of things I've done over the years that would make Jay cringe and facepalm with my computers. Weather has never played a factor. In fact, winter time probably made my computers live as long as they did (over a decade) because I didn't have to worry about overheating issues by just cracking a window open. I even thought humidity would play a huge factor, but it didn't.

[@crash11235]

GREAT troubleshooting. As someone in the biz, I appreciate your tenacity in identifying the problem.

[@SteevJones-]

"NZXT knows a thing about riser cables and potential fires" This comment has aged very well in light of recent events over at Gamers Nexus🔥

[@dropkickdrones4569]

Jay my computers not working. “You need to move out of Alaska”

[@noob.168]

Ask the Verge guy to just apply more thermal paste.

[@BreadMan434]

Satan: "Whos the new soul?" Demon: "Remember that Verge guy who built a PC? And dumped all that Thermal paste?" Satan: *starts sprinting* "fuck fuck fuck fuck, shut the gates, keep him away from the 7th circle"

[@noahhastings6145]

Me, who just built a PC with a Gigabyte power supply: o.o

[@FalseF4CZ]

Boyyyy better have warranties on all of your parts

[@2lvss]

O.o

[@blitzcrocodilegaming4666]

I have one too but my pc isn't built yet... Time to send it back!

[@DeadlySil3nt1]

Same here, looks like I'm taking them up on the 30day unopened return policy

[@tgoodwin21]

Are they that bad? I have one too.

[@IAmChrisAMA]

10:25 I think that was just display drivers installing while going through setup, mine does that usually every fresh install.

[@slackerdc]

"I'm going to shut this down the right way" as he's holding a RUNNING video card in his hand.

[@Twinrehz]

Is your video card *RUNNING* ? Well you better catch it, before it gets away!

[@Ramog1000]

ah yes, he is going to shut it down for good. And then he will burry the system in his backyard xD

[@maddog2010p]

i approve of the sticker being applied over the thermaltakes logo... jay 2020 lmao

[@killerash13]

I look soo much this series of Jayz fixing broken pc.

[@stevenrussell6920]

I'm loving the repair videos. Keep 'em coming.

[@CallardAndBowser]

I actually jumped off my chair when he grounded the start pins together and the flaming explosion popped up ! LOL I was so intently leaning in towards my monitor watching him do it. LOL 🤓

[@RajPraveen1312]

Same, lol

[@davevk5pl952]

And an advert started at that exact time.

[@zuckdaddy1596]

I just upgraded my PC today, and went through hell trying every troubleshooting method I could think of. Turns out, I forgot to toggle the switch on my power supply 🤣

[@mattevans1643]

Lol, that's how it was for my first build, i thought i killed it, and then flicked the power supply button and it worked. My second build was a little more complicated. The board wouldn't boot from the case powerbutton, and i couldn't figure it out. I thought the board was dead, but jumped it with a screwdriver and it started right up. I took the front IO out of the case and pressed the power button on the pcb and not the case. And it worked. Figured out the problem. The button wasn't properly aligned with the button on the PCB. That's just one of the many problems i had with that case. It was the Lancool 2 orignal version. After many other problems like gpu seating being impossible, i had to get rid of it. I don't know if all the Lancool 2's were like that, but mine had no way to mount the gpu, as the motherboard PCB was basically touching the side of the case, and there was no way for the fingers on the pcie bracket to get in with going through the board.

[@xil3ntkha0s]

Lol I was helping a coworker troubleshoot his PC over text. He said the monitor doesn’t show anything. After about 10 mins I ask if the HDMI cable is connected from the graphics card to the monitor. He’s like oh it’s supposed to go to the monitor? 🤣🤣🤣

[@justjaaay696]

Welcome to the club

[@JustDann]

Ahhh you did the bitwit

[@LatvianVideo]

I will build my pc tomorrow, hoping it will go smoothly, and the cooling will be enough, as I will have total of 2 fans in the case, cpu fan and a 80mm server fan, probs will put it on the cpu cooler for now too, because my fans will come after a month. I will def run it without the side panel for now

[@wicked6826]

I love and miss Alaska! I spent a couple years there stationed at Fort Wainwright. That was were I built my first PC that I am still currently on. Thanks for all the hard work this month Jay!

[@MustangSkar]

Thank you very much for the content Jay and crew, It's really appreciated, Deep down from my heart I hope you all had an amazing Christmas, And I hope your new years is fun and exciting!

[@kloklojul]

"get good riser caples" good riser cables cost more than my graphics card lmao

[@BreadMan434]

*looks at bank acc* My bank acc: "this bitch is empty, don't you dare"

[@YourSkyliner]

They cost only like 50 bucks though..?

[@kloklojul]

@@YourSkyliner so does my gtx 980

[@lapasteque899]

@@kloklojul where tf u got a 980 for 50 bucks ?

[@BreadMan434]

@@lapasteque899 the shady guy down the road, selling it on craigslist.

[@timmarks8941]

Loving 31 days of techmas. Thank you for all your hard work entertaining and educating me during COVID lockdown.

[@bullzeyes23]

great educational video Jay. Thanks

[@aef6259]

I really like these troubleshooting videos. Keep them coming!

[@golinie259]

Love these diagnostic, low editing videos that show the process. Hope they continue long term despite the lower views

[@Mr3ppozz]

I really like them too... it's awesome content and we can all learn something

[@davidhyde-cummings9584]

Just wanted to say thanks to all of you for bringing so much extra content this month. It's been a bit of a crap year for most of us, and the constant content and entertainment has been a real joy and is very appreciated. Cheers everyone and Happiest of New Years.

[@thetormentor2000]

I Love these videos !! Keep up the amazing work Jay!

[@electronicchronic9324]

Your team does great work Jay. Phil's laugh is priceless....

[@yoelezequieldemedici2545]

Man, you made me jump with the "explosion" on the screwdriver :P

[@doomslayer1295]

"the snow covering the house and being blown over and the wind all create static energy, Ask me how I know." Well, how do you know?

[@alejandropadilla3511]

Electrocuting himself with electricity nonstop a couple vids ago

[@Kjeleman]

I also want to know. I think he is confusing thermal insulation with electrical insulation here.

[@Sterdog10123]

Jayz is on a static kick right now because of the Linus video that he feels he did first. I'm sure like another poster said that he was confusing electrical and thermal insulation. A house covered in snow still can be well grounded. The dry air can hurt but no more than in a desert and humidification with good grounding would solve any issues in Alaska.

[@xxcr4ckzzxx840]

@@Kjeleman kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWeVp5-pfqytj5Y There is your answer.

[@nicholasvinen]

@@Kjeleman he is, but to be fair, good electrical insulators are often also thermal insulators and good electrical conductors are often good thermal conductors. Pure ice should be a good electrical insulator.

[@GeneralM13]

i think what Jay meant to say: Get a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) never heard of a UPC before :P it's basically a battery you put between your PC and the the outlet and it prevents your PC from shutting off when the power fails, the proper ones also filter power and protect against brownouts and such! I've heard so many stories of people having to replace hard disks, motherboards etc, told them: Invest into a UPS before you repair/upgrade i've been using an UPS for 20+ years now and 1 of them prevented a lightningstrike from taking my entire PC with it, all that was broken with my PC was the onboard Ethernet port, the UPS survived the entire ordeal! (the lightning took our router and 2 hubs with it too XD) depending on brand they might seem expensive, but they will save you a LOT of money in the long run!

[@karlbennett3518]

12:05 i was creasing thats gotta be the best language blooper if ever heard

[@JasonSpamulusUtting]

Hardware Canucks just done a vid about riser cables worth a watch.

[@Gassit]

Yep, I saw that too, very interesting stuff. Maybe Jay hasn't heard about the Gen4 riser cable problems yet.

[@dashkataey1740]

In that video, they talked about some of the problems from the riser cables if both motherboard and gpu are pci-e 4.0. A lot of the issues this computer was having were the same kind of issues they were talking about. I'm wondering if changing the bios on the motherboard would have fixed the problem.

[@PabzRoz]

@@dashkataey1740 Idk if it would have fixed all the issues but when Jay installed the riser cable it started glitching out and gave him a black screen. I'm almost positive if he manually set the bios to gen 3 it would have fixed that issue completely. Kind of a shame he didn't think of it because I was really curious and though he would lol.

[@Bratfalken]

That one was an eye opener well worth watching!

[@russianbear5089]

I had to get rid of my p3 because of the riser issue with gen4, even with forcing it to gen3 in bios, did not work properly even then

[@omigasunX]

5:21 just a little tiny explosive jump scare..,

[@Stupha_Kinpendous]

At 5:21 when you bridged the power prongs, and had the little 'splosion, KZbin immediately went to an ad for Glenmorangie single malt scotch. I was all, "WHOAAA!!!"

[@maxwelldarnell3361]

Hey Jay, tell you're friend , thank you for your service. We do appreciate it! Thanks for all the videos this month. I have enjoyed and learned alot.

[@Tjoeb123]

Jay: "Congratulations to the team" ...*only Phil claps*

[@Wraithdagger]

"then they give you crap" I think the last Thermaltake product I owned was a PSU that died in less than a year.

[@deletice]

Lol

[@jamesjackson6813]

I have a Smart Pro RGB psu frrom them, it's given me no issues at all.

[@DZeroENT]

More great info, thank you.

[@hardwarebudgeteer1225]

Love this content, the troubleshooting stuff is where it's at!

[@dollarstorehardy1317]

Jay: "Get good riser cables" Me looking over at my P3 with factory cable: "I should fix that"

[@coryvincent6249]

My P3 with factory cable has been working great since day 1 (18 months old now, running a 2080 Super). I did a build for my dad with a different Thermaltake case that came with a riser cable that is having all kinds of wonkiness. I though I had eliminated the riser cable as a source of issues but this is making me think I need to revisit that

[@deathzowen8644]

@@coryvincent6249 ive got a p3 ive not had anything wrong wirh it either ahs

[@Prod1702]

I got a P3 as well with a 2080 ti using the included riser cable and no issues since day 1. Its been about a year now. I was worried about the riser cable when I first got it after looking at everything about them. Maybe I got lucky?

[@CheapBastard1988]

@@Prod1702 Maybe you got their best. Even a broken (analog) clock tells time accurately twice a day.

[@liftedsafari]

If it's working fine right now, better to just leave it alone and not disturb things.

[@pwnage175]

4:11 He gave that card a good old rub =))

[@karldee7269]

Tnx Jay, i love these kind of hardware symptoms videos. it really helps us a lot to troubleshoot PC hardware. thanks again bro ur the man!

[@Duo26]

I enjoyed watching all the videos this month.

[@HeyHeyItsJayTay]

Ok Jay, I'm asking "How you know?" 😂

[@---capybara---]

Last time I was this early everything was in stock

[@daniel92my]

even that early things weren't in stock

[@keithcitizen4855]

Never time seen a thousand views a minute congrats boxing day special gone days in advance , that stock needs response yeh for sure

[@daniel92my]

@@keithcitizen4855 what????

[@1999jassim]

So never?

[@joran4612]

So you havent been early?

[@sc00bieskylin34]

Really enjoyed all your daily videos, been some really good content. not watered down at all. Epic effort Jay and Team.

[@Zrksys]

your this years way of making these videos is on another level jay, thanks for keeping me sane this year due to the joy of watching your videos

[@CheapBastard1988]

TLDR: Don't use Thermaltake products.

[@razaelll]

I have a cheap thermaltake case and had no problems or temperature issues for over three years now. I'm happy with it.

[@embiggenedbadger4297]

I was concerned about this as well. I'm using a Thermaltake PSU for years and haven't had any problems, but it's gettin' ooooooold.

[@murdock2143]

@@embiggenedbadger4297 Mine making buzzing noise under gpu load xD and it's ooold too...

[@AXington]

@@embiggenedbadger4297 Mine blew up on me. Literally exploded with sparks and flames and blew out my old motherboard. Mine was 3 years old.

[@AXington]

I have thermaltake fans and a case (Core P3). I like both. But I DID have to change out the riser cable.

[@krazycharlie]

Me: "so Jay, how do you know it's static?". Jay: "you see that chair over there? Take a seat". Me: "er... I think I'd rather not".

[@Q_thulu]

By his reckoning everyone in alaska just runs around in a permanent state of semi electrocution

[@HeyMaruniko]

i really excited when you making these kind of troubleshooting video.

[@empathyisonlyhuman7816]

Speaking of crazy repairs. I was once tasked with trying to find out why a pc had some very weird things going on. For one, the mouse pointer would move around the screen on it's own in a very jagged and random fashion. It looked like how it might appear if a user was holding the mouse while being electrocuted. This was coupled with random crashes, blue screens, and spontaneous restarts. Upon opening the case I noticed something looked very wrong, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was. All the cables were properly and well connected. Cable routing was messy but not tangled, crimped, or stressed in any way. As it turned out, what had happened was that the last tech who worked on the system made a major booboo. They put a screw through a mounting point directly to the case without a riser. And so solder points on the motherboard were randomly shorting to the case. Upon removal, all appeared to return to normal operation. Whomever did this had to physically cause the motherboard to bend and flex in order to install this mounting screw.

[@nickroberson2780]

I seriously feel the "it only does it when they have it." Especially as an I.T. guy dealing with college age adults that weren't taught the same things as me

[@Shikimorirorokun]

This happened to me, like 4 years ago. Posted it in Tom's hardware, no reply. Figured it out myself. Got s refund for the riser cable.

[@renekesnl]

Had the same thing happening to me on an Antec Striker case. I was like this sounds familiar. Good job fixing it.

[@p3tj4]

Thanks for the vlogmass Jay it's been entertaining!

[@kaimeraprime]

i had same issue with my riser cable was fine on pci-e 3.0 but when useing a new 3000 series constent crashes.

[@LilRivergamesonYT]

Nice video! What about FBC fund and their algorithm review?

[@EvoBeard]

Jeeez the timing of the first ad! "I'm gonna use iFixit! So I'm just gonna use this to bridge the prongs as if it were a button" (little explosion animation) - Cue Ad. Oh the suspense! 😁

[@tudajfor]

Enjoyed every last one of this month's videos.

[@pesterenan]

Jay: "don't buy a gigabyte power supply!" Me looking at my 700w gigabyte power supply: 👀

[@ACOnetwork]

When it breaks, just use iFixit 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

[@moes2168]

I've had mixed results with power supplies and most eventually fail after a few years. I've had Expensive Seasonics, mid-grade Corsairs and ThermalTakes. For the Corsair and TT, they were modular and the modular boards busted on them out of no where. I converted them into benchtop power supplies. The Seasonic 1200 first had the fan fail, I replaced but it eventually stopped turning on. I'm now on Seasonic Focus. The ONLY hardware to fail has been Power Supplies. I guess get a decent name brand and keep the load in specs, It'll eventually fail and rinse repeat. Most have good protection against current spikes so just pray it doesn't take anything along with it.

[@pixels_per_inch]

Yeah, just don't cheap out on some unbranded crap and you should be fine (well not completely, but at least the risks are much lower)

[@ACOnetwork]

@@pixels_per_inch Completly correct. Do not buy cheap crap :D. I have Antec 550W power supply for last 5 years and it still works, it was arround about 70€ back then.

[@FhangMedia]

@@moes2168 I bought a 750 watt coolermaster power supply in either 2007 or 2008, completely rebuilt my PC 3 times since then and I'm still using the same PSU, the thing's a champ

[@dbunik44]

(Jay grabbing his holy 99% Isopropyl alcohol begins throwing it at the PC)...."The power of Jay compels you...the power of Jay compels you"...(PC begins to smoke and a demonic voice can be heard)...."Hey Jay it's me Linus...want me to show you how to fix this"?

[@Thatttday]

This was my fave vid of all this month

[@thatguy5245]

Thanks for all the videos this month. You did full length videos every day

[@umi4193]

Jay: "don't buy a gigabyte power supply!" me: looks behind at my next build gigabyte psu fooking hell!

[@gamamew]

Disconnect your hard drives and SATA SSDs immediately!

[@m11os]

Yep...same hahaha

[@umi4193]

@@gamamew the pc is not build yet the psu and other parts are just laying here waiting for cpu lel

[@medvidekmisa]

dont buy gigabyte anything...i had GPU and it was shitty as hell...especially coolers and cooler curve was so shit it almost crashed my card and made horible noise

[@DJSV25]

I have 3 gigabyte MB 2 Graphics cards and 1 PSU they all have been working perfectly for 5+ years.

[@rlmtech]

Hahahaha that reminds me of the time I flew with a whole cake from the Cheesecake Factory and the flight attendants were like you can’t fly with us unless you’re sharing.. we’ll see you an hour into the flight we’re leaving the seats next to you empty 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@frosty3579]

Next time, put your cheesecake factory in a victoria secret bag. No one will ask you to share then!

[@ChrisHolzer]

8:35 about the UPC, you need to get a REALLY expensive ON-LINE one, because *ALL* consumer grade (Line-Interactive) UPC's use a bypass while the main is there - meaning only an ON-LINE UPC will give you "clean" power at all times.

[@claytonvenable5888]

I Just Love the little explosion with a shhph sound I like to see and hear more stuff like that.

[@portaadonai]

5:17 I thought that explosion was real for a third of a second

[@Ilikeminecraft57]

I have a gigabyte power supply, no issues so far. Though, it came with my gigabyte RTX 3080, and if he has the same GPU as me - he probably got the same GPU/PSU bundle on Newegg :)

[@KingCopasGaming]

Shout out to Rochester,NY!

[@danderosa]

I love these troubleshooting videos! The mind can get kinda numb doing IT support for healthcare but these videos help keep the noggin' chugging with new ideas

[@ladyruff4333]

After watching the video in its entirety, I am going to guess its the Riser cable.

[@LasagnaSupreme]

"There's 4 people in this room" Me: *wat*

[@zarmaanful]

We only get to see the actor(s) in the video. There's a big filming crew behind the camera.

[@wimpyhugz_TGK]

@@zarmaanful Not really. It's usually just Phil behind the camera although Nick is there currently to help with the "31 days of videos" thing he's doing for December. Haven't figured out who the fourth person is.

[@cocojones959]

@@wimpyhugz_TGK The 4th person is the owner of the pc (Josh if I heard it right).

[@zarmaanful]

@@wimpyhugz_TGK I was trying to take it to another direction. Kinky direction

[@benskidmore6523]

Jay has another editor too as far as I know, or used to.

[@joshuathompson2067]

Love your vids jay.

[@bobbya8622]

Good job Jayz!

[@MrIeatwabbits]

Jay here to the rescue when his friends have a problem

[@Barret_Radtke]

"Good thing i don't have Gigabyte PSU just ThermalTake" T_T

[@miguelc3558]

Thanks Jay

[@TFossett]

I live in anchorage and have a thermaltake P7 with my gpu vertical mounted and haven't experienced this issue. I'm so glad you did this video so if/when my computer starts doing this, i'll know!

[@maurodorigoni2567]

Wish this vídeo was uploaded a month ago, before i bought my gigabyte Psu...

[@kornyfreakgames]

hahahaha same here

[@sweetgherkinz]

ohhh dang dude

[@trash3570]

I was going to buy one yesterday, glad I got an evga now

[@maurodorigoni2567]

@@kornyfreakgames haven't built the PC yet, we'll se what happens. Wish you the best of luck

[@nfugitt89]

They’re not that bad, they rank not so bad on the LTT forum PSU tier list.

[@PabzRoz]

As far as the riser cable is concerned almost all of them have an issue with the new generation GPU's due to them being PCIE gen 4. There's a bandwidth limitation which causes black screens, post issues, etc. That's why the PC gave you issues once you installed the cable. To fix this you need to set you output to PCIE gen 3 in the bios and 9 times out of 10 it fixes the issue completely. I wish you would have tried that.

[@freakmanultra]

Agreed. I had the exact same issue with my 3080. Bought a gen4 rated cable. Works perfectly

[@PabzRoz]

@@freakmanultra Someone said the exact same thing just now to Jay on his Twitter and he responded "That’s not how it works. 3.0 and 4.0 are completely compatible. "....🤦‍♂️ I love Jay, but he can be so close minded sometimes lol. Of course they're "compatible" but that's not the issue here.. if you install a riser cable that can't handle the the PCIE gen4 bandwidth then obviously it's going to cause these issues because the board is trying to communicate with the card at the gen4 transfer rate.

[@stevy2]

Luckily the difference between gen 3 and gen 4 is 1 or 2 fps.

[@FalseProphetStudio]

A recent video on what you mentioned. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gajJcnlrjc-LmK8&feature=emb_logo This is 100% an issue. As im running a vertical GPU mount kit I looked into this extensively. There is info out there of people having tested "Gen 4.0" riser cables vs 3.0 and the consensus is that current Gen 4.0 might be compatible but, i.e you can boot on Bios PCIE set to AUTO, the actual performance is worse than using a 3.0 riser cable and setting Bios to Gen 3.0. Linkup have acknowledged this and commented that that are working on a true Gen 4.0 riser cable for release is 1st quarter of 2021. I believe the issue is with the Gen 4 cable shielding requirements.

[@kirkanos771]

@@PabzRoz Actually no, it wont. Because if the gen4 transfer rate cannot be fullfilled, it automatically throttles back to the protocol below. It works this way for any bus technology. There is no problem to stay at gen3 transfer rate. This is not the cable that dictates the transfer rate but the results of trying and fullfilling a complete transaction under each protocol. Also, this is impossible for a gen3 cable to sustain the gen4 protocol. This cant be faked or work by any godlike miracle.

[@nickbotcher6390]

Love the Rochester, NY shout out

[@triple-gq6mn]

Love these videos!

[@chrls.1093]

Today's lesson : Just put your graphic card normally in that f*ck*ng slot xd

[@kylefunke9132]

Some cases require the use of a riser though

[@Doubtfull1988]

@@kylefunke9132 help yourself and do not buy those. Extra things that can break and add no extra value.

[@fredfinks]

Next on the list of stupid things: RGB, riser cards, funky cases and other stuff that, at best, does nothing to performance and worst, fucks your machine.

[@chrisweyers4764]

@@cskiller86 no /s needed, we all know its true, just like gaming chairs, and gaming storage, and gaming anything

[@Aj-hx5jn]

Noooooo it’s almost the end of techmas

[@tiladx]

5:21 - Phil, you actually got me for a little bit. Bravo!

[@kingloser1234567890]

These 31 days of Techmas have been super awesome. Thank you for the great content!!!

[@fishymuff]

Just built my first PC a month ago, heard Jay’s comment on Gigabyte power supply’s and immediately did a little research on my specific unit. Turns out that particular model (Gigabyte P750GM) has had explosive tendencies and I was not about to mess around with that. Ripped that jawn right out of my chassis and returned it with one day left on the return period. Upgraded to the Corsair RM 750W for $5 less lol.

[@gamerzentertainment9610]

this was in my recommendation for one minute. Nice

[@theSebbyGamer]

same

[@allenreid1]

not me yelling "HOW DO YOU KNOW JAY??!" @ 7:40

[@MrWylis]

That is a bloody good solve, Jay. Fair play.