A Catastrophic Failure of Manufacturer Oversight: A Personal Story

I recently had a problem with my NZXT case that turned out to be an NZXT problem. It's ironic, as I've spent countless hours researching and troubleshooting issues for my viewers. The issue was caused by the power supply's failure, which led me to flip the power switch on and off several times before I finally figured out what was wrong. This experience left me feeling frustrated and disappointed with the manufacturer's oversight.

The Power Supply's Failure: A Preventable Disaster

The failure of the Gigabyte power supply was a preventable disaster. The voltage regulator in the power supply failed, causing it to explode in a dramatic fashion. I was lucky to have escaped any physical harm, but my equipment was not so fortunate. The power supply's failure is just one example of the many problems that can occur with poorly designed or manufactured products.

A Lesson in Manufacturer Oversight

As a content creator and influencer, I've seen firsthand how manufacturer oversight can lead to catastrophic failures. When brands reach out to us for collaborations or reviews, we're often skeptical about their products due to past experiences. We know that even the best-made products can fail due to various factors such as manufacturing defects, user error, or environmental conditions.

The Problem with Preventing Failure

Preventing failure is not a simple task, especially in the context of consumer electronics. With millions of units sold worldwide, it's nearly impossible for manufacturers to test every single product for every possible scenario. However, this doesn't excuse the fact that many products can fail due to design or manufacturing issues.

A Venting Session

As I reflect on my experience with the failed power supply, I feel compelled to vent about the frustrations of dealing with poorly designed products. It's like being in a therapy session, where I get to express my emotions and work through my feelings. I know that I'm not alone in my frustration, as many of my viewers have shared similar experiences with their own products.

The Importance of Reasonable Builds

As a content creator, I've come to realize the importance of creating reasonable builds that cater to my audience's needs. With so many budget and performance options available, it can be overwhelming for beginners to navigate the world of PC building. My goal is to create content that helps my viewers make informed decisions when choosing their next build.

Summer Builds: A Time for New Beginnings

As summer approaches, I know that many people will be looking to build their first PC. Whether it's for college or just a new hobby, the summer months can be an exciting time to explore the world of PC building. My goal is to create content that inspires and educates my viewers, helping them navigate the complex world of PC building.

A Word of Caution: Be Cautious with New Products

As I look back on my experience with the failed power supply, I want to caution my viewers to be cautious when dealing with new products. Just because a product has received positive reviews or has been touted as revolutionary doesn't mean it's without its flaws. Always do your research, read reviews from multiple sources, and be aware of the potential risks associated with new technology.

The Legacy of PC Building: A Journey Worth Continuing

Despite the frustrations and setbacks that come with building PCs, I still believe in the joy and satisfaction that comes with creating something with your own hands. Whether it's a budget build or a high-performance rig, the journey of building a PC is worth continuing. With each new project, we learn and grow, pushing ourselves to create better products and solutions for our audience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys jace2sense here and I just kind of want to come at you with a talking head more of a venting piece for my own mental state at this point and speaking of state I'm referring to the state of emergency that is literally the PC industry as a whole right now and as an Enthusiast it's extremely infuriating extremely frustrating to try and be able to like just enjoy any of this crap right now when you got companies that are just absolutely dog right now the new mv7 full tower PC case from fantex creates the perfect picture frame to show off your system insane airflow and direct GPU cooling creates the best possible environment for modern high power gpus while the internal and external Cable Management Systems make building and maintaining your system extremely user-friendly the integrated drgb lighting is controlled by an included dual Channel brgb controller with all new effects allowing you to make your system Uniquely Yours to see the full spec lists and options follow the link in the description below so prior to the pandemic like things were great you know um PC components were not the cheapest but they were affordable there was people build new computers every single day tons of emails from fans that were excited to build their first computers and asked me for recommendations on games and just everybody was happy views were up likes were up and I'm not talking about like views were up and likes her up in the sense of like hey our Channel's successful I just meant it's a good gauge as to what the industry is like kind of working towards in terms of consumers and how consumers are being receptive to it based on lots of people looking up content trying to educate themselves to get ready for their builds or make the most out of their builds likes were up because people were just happy with what was happening in the industry for the most part anyway no one's ever fully happy with an industry but things were good so with the pandemic going you know I think manufacturers felt like oh the consumers would just be happy to get their hands on anything at this point so you started to have QA QC issues products that were just faulty and I feel like RMA slash bad out of the box was just much higher than we had ever seen typically those numbers are in the thousandths in terms of like percentages and that's there's there's an acceptable failure rate of bad out of the box in any industry that number continued to go up then you start to get brands that are cutting Corners like remember the Asus tobacco debacle with the uh x670 or yeah x670 board no X6 z690 AMD Intel fighting with names now but the z690 boards and the upside down resistor you know that was just causing fires and meltdowns and crap and the terrible way that in my opinion that was handled um by Asus on dealing with getting that all resolved um you got the Nvidia shortages with the graphics cards and then the Market manipulation with Nvidia intentionally shipping less units to keep the price up at a time when they were already at like 100 markup and it just was gross so people could not get their hands on stuff at inflation all of that having a computer for playing games on was not something that was a priority to people so you had folks that were just kind of jaded with the idea of ever having a computer so they just are you know they're not interested anymore which is totally understandable if you got to pay rent and put food on your table you're not gonna go out and buy a computer because you can't eat a computer in case you can but it's not recommended what I'm saying is you can see where things started to really kind of decline um you had you know MSI that was involved in like Insider bulk sales to cryptocurrency mining farms and it just just got gross and grosser and grosser from there so then you fast forward to uh where we are today and the most recent news I'm sure you guys have heard about is the um 7800 x3d CPU issues I didn't put a video out on that because to be honest I wasn't even in the country I was on a family trip when all that was going down and the News was literally breaking like the day I was leaving the country so there was nothing I can do about even trying to figure any of that out but I'll be honest with you uh Steve at Gamer's Nexus in collaboration with Wendell at level one techs and a few unnamed Engineers that were a condition of anonymity for obvious reasons did an amazing piece on this and I think there's gonna be another part to it um the first part is 40 minutes long where they really Drive drill down into the root cause of the problems which to be honest is like six different problems that are shared um shared responsibility between the motherboard manufacturers and AMD itself I highly highly recommend you go and watch that video it's getting a lot of traction and it's important because it's the these these manufacturers have to be held accountable and once again who is at the top of like the issue so if you draw a chart and Steve loves charts there's plenty of charts in that video go if you're if you're a chart fanatic and a chart Enthusiast then go and watch Steve's video because there's no shortage of charts ever in his videos but anyway who do you think also has shared the most blame in it Asus unfortunately so this kind of brings me into today's topic which is just the State of Affairs that we are currently in with computers and how just fed up I am you know I talked about on my am5 platform which I built for my system at home which is running a 7950x 3D I'm all worried now I'm like okay regarding the soc voltage stuff I should go in there and maybe double check some stuff to see what it's actually running at because they were finding a software reported versus actual with probing that is also very inaccurate and over cooking CPUs it has me honestly feeling like I made a mistake by going with AMD am5 was a huge undertaking for AMD because you've got multiple CPU platforms being supported on the same chipset of course am5 uh socket and then you know the newest chipset which is x670 or the x670e whatever the same chipset so it's just becoming kind of convoluted where the motherboard manufacturers are making mistakes with their bios that are actually causing physical damage and failure on AMD CPUs but AMD wasn't involved enough with the manufacturing of the motherboard biosys to make sure that everything was correct they sort of were just like here's some here's some guides and then the motherboard manufacturers didn't follow those guides and you get what you have now basically in a nutshell and then just straight up failing um checks and balances slash fail safes into the motherboards that are just not working at all because they weren't programmed to work properly it's kind of the most important part I digress I'm backing up here these issues coming out about you know am5 um the 7950x3d only having a single CCD with um 3D V cache which we didn't know until the review and that kind of led to us me going well now I have to make a choice do I want the most compute power with the 7950x or do I want the most gaming power with the 7950x3d and then I have to make this trade-off and it's just gross graphics card side of things pricing is just absolutely out of control Nvidia is completely disconnected from reality on what people can't afford to pay versus only catering to those that can afford to pay whatever Nvidia wants to charge again further jading the industry now I'm an industry advocate for the consumer I always had been I always will be and I will always call out these brands on the shitty moves that they make whether they're sponsors or not because that is my number one priority is to you guys and making sure that you're making right decisions rather than the popular decision if you will because look it doesn't matter if you're Intel team Intel team AMD or team team Nvidia you're going to have the Fanboys that are out there advocating with their pom-poms jumping up and down with their mini skirts excited about whatever brand it is they're excited for regardless of how that brand has been because of blind fanboyism and I'm always going to be against that but the problem is none of these three brands are have their hands clean right now of any sort of issues or controversy to be fair though I feel like the least controversial company right now is Intel and their biggest issue for the longest time was just they weren't innovating enough or fast enough and their prices were staying too high versus what you were getting versus the competition but hindsight being perfect 2020 we can now look and say um the move on am5 was probably a bit too ambitious for AMD at the moment it will stabilize it will iron itself out the problem is if you're an early adopter and that bleeding edge technology and it's bleeding edge for a reason you are still working through all these problems like I am with my system at home remember the whole Expo Ram stuff I couldn't run my my Ram at Expo and I've got a little bit of an update on that too by the way um it's one of those things where the biggest complaint about Intel is 3900k was its temperatures and you know what with some creativity some voltage tuning and just turning off some of the crazy over voltage over um current slash moving the Intel Fail-Safe values which motherboards do kind of out of the box now you can easily dial in amazing temperatures and still get all your clocks the problem is a lot of Manufacturers now just air on the whole side of stability by let's just pump all the voltages to the max let's just pump all of the um you know all the things that affect temperature like voltages and frequencies and stuff let's just push all that out as far as we can for stability reasons pump the voltage yeah you can absolutely I've done videos about tuning voltage and being able to bring the temperatures way down without losing any performance whatsoever that's the worst thing you have to say about Intel right now I mean they did innovate a little bit by adding e-core P core it's not the first time they've done that they've done that a while back with some notebook CPUs but it is matured it is fast not so much efficient the irony that you're still pulling 300 watts from the socket on something that has what's called e-cores in there but you know at the current state of affairs I would take a less efficient system that's stable over a system right now or a platform right now that has just got it's just got so many Gremlins in it this current generation for AMD is akin to a new model year of a car and you guys know me in cars I I love cars and that's my analogies I always come to and you always hear people say never buy the first model year of a redesign for this very reason because once you have all this stuff coming out it's in my opinion happening a little too quickly I think for amd's team to stay on top of to make sure the motherboard manufacturers are not making mistakes and that will be obvious when you watch Steve's video about what's happening with the 7800 X 3D CPUs bulging and or blowing up and or exploding your motherboard and such so I I just I'm frustrated like you guys that I want everyone to be able to enjoy PC gaming PC gaming is something I've been doing since I was five years old and and I don't I'll still be doing it if I ever live to be 80. I'll still be doing an 80. because that's just who I am it's how I'm wired and I think there's plenty of people watching this video right now that know exactly what I'm saying and feel the same way there's people out there that have probably experienced PC gaming either at their friend's house or something like that and they want nothing more than to have a gaming PC but because of the inflation the cost of stuff right now it's just not in the cards for them a little bit of a plug stay tuned for a video that we have coming out later this week where we're gonna actually talk about an old system on Modern stuff showing you how to build it how to get it up to date how to get it working today and with the performance you can expect is for an old PC on Modern titles um so stay tuned for that subscribe if you are interested in that sort of video anyway moving on to my rant you've got the AMD gpus which are good and they are um they're not as fast as nvidia's counterparts and that's probably the only positive thing I have to say right now in the entire industry for PC is that the AMD gpus are good they're not going to give you the same Ray tracing performance any video graphics cards are they're not going to give you the same overall raw performance that Nvidia gpus are but they're not going to cost as much as Nvidia gpus either perfect example 50 is 50. they're getting schwifty no the 6950x right XT 6950 XT GPU is a much more compelling GPU than the RTX 4070 it's faster and it's cheaper now remember that GPU first came out it was well over a thousand dollars definitely something worth looking at if you still get your hands on it unfortunately it's a previous gen which means when they're gone they're gone so if you're waiting you might want to consider grabbing one of those but the thing is let's talk about other controversies that we've had to deal with in the last couple of years um case is Catching Fire you know the the unfortunate Riser cable issue that NZXT had to work through and again as much as like it sucks because NZXT sourced those which means that you know they didn't build it but they sourced it and unfortunately the one that they sourced had a problem but because it's an in an NZXT case it's an NZXT problem and they had to work through that um further fire issues the gigabyte power supplies that would literally um the the s or the voltage regulator in there or the ocp or recurrent protection just completely exploding itself in a very dramatic fashion so I'm going to go ahead and flip this guy back on and then hit this power supply on button oh you can see why I look back and I go in the almost 11 years now that I had been doing this channel I have never seen so many back to back catastrophic failures that were all preventable because of manufacturer oversight manufacture in patients on trying to make as much money and get as much product out as fast as possible by cutting all sorts of corners as we're seeing today and if you really want to know like wow Jay's really kind of going off it's because it's it's it one thing is fine a couple of things that's a coincidence no there are just so many ridiculous things happening like the the 40 series power plug melting on RTX 4090s all because of the the tolerance of the plug having too much wiggle even when it's clicked in causing a short or at least a higher resistance in the plug leading to Melting cables it's like where does it stop it's pick your poison at this point I don't blame people right now for going you know what maybe a PS5 is more my flavor at the moment you know it's it's just terrible I I like I said this video serves as nothing more than to me tell you guys I hear you I hear your complaints and stuff and trust me as a content creator and influencer I hate this term so much but influencer in the industry I can tell you right now whenever a brand reaches out to us and is like hey we want you to check out the et cetera et cetera I'm like you know what I'm not really don't I don't really want to because I can't trust that any et cetera Etc is not going to be the next controversy and unfortunately as a you know just an average Joe type of consumer like I am we're never going to catch these types of things that only show up in long-term very specific scenarios and the thing is like anytime something happens you know we'll get emails from viewers that are like hey my et cetera et cetera died I want you to make a video about it obviously for it should make sense that we can't make a video about every email we've ever received about somebody that's received a problem because every brand has failures and rmas and problems every single company that has ever made a thing in the exit in the entire history of May making things has had problems that's never going to change the problem is when you start seeing it become commonplace that these problems are happening in their widespread so anyway I guess if this video was to serve any one thing it's just a little bit of like a venting consider this our therapy session and you guys are my therapists where I'm basically like let me just talk let me get it out let me sort of die I guess sort of digest it as I'm saying it to see how it sounds and maybe I'm off base I don't know the point is I'm always going to continue to make videos I'm going to try and really make videos that are beneficial to you guys on you know how to just kind of move forward in this particular landscape that we currently have in front of us with the crappy crappy State of Affairs that PCS are currently in anyway if you've got a like a horror story about something you've gone through recently type it out down below um maybe it'll help you feel better just to get it out there because I know people will go off to Reddit and vent and stuff all the time the problem is that's kind of commonplace on Reddit I think when you see a positive post on Reddit that's the outlier at this point especially in pcmr and anything like build your own and all that so anyway we're gonna try and do some more like reasonable type of builds and and budget type stuff moving forward because I know in the summertime is when a lot of people tend to build their first PC because one get ready for college or two just bored during the summer and they want to play games all day long stay up till four in the morning and then sleep in until 3 P.M and your mom's like take out the trash and you're sitting there with your butt sticking up in the air asleep in your bed maybe that was just me and that was actually last week thanks for watching guys as always we'll see in the next one stay tuned for that really old PC trying to play Modern stuff I think that one's gonna be funhey what's going on guys jace2sense here and I just kind of want to come at you with a talking head more of a venting piece for my own mental state at this point and speaking of state I'm referring to the state of emergency that is literally the PC industry as a whole right now and as an Enthusiast it's extremely infuriating extremely frustrating to try and be able to like just enjoy any of this crap right now when you got companies that are just absolutely dog right now the new mv7 full tower PC case from fantex creates the perfect picture frame to show off your system insane airflow and direct GPU cooling creates the best possible environment for modern high power gpus while the internal and external Cable Management Systems make building and maintaining your system extremely user-friendly the integrated drgb lighting is controlled by an included dual Channel brgb controller with all new effects allowing you to make your system Uniquely Yours to see the full spec lists and options follow the link in the description below so prior to the pandemic like things were great you know um PC components were not the cheapest but they were affordable there was people build new computers every single day tons of emails from fans that were excited to build their first computers and asked me for recommendations on games and just everybody was happy views were up likes were up and I'm not talking about like views were up and likes her up in the sense of like hey our Channel's successful I just meant it's a good gauge as to what the industry is like kind of working towards in terms of consumers and how consumers are being receptive to it based on lots of people looking up content trying to educate themselves to get ready for their builds or make the most out of their builds likes were up because people were just happy with what was happening in the industry for the most part anyway no one's ever fully happy with an industry but things were good so with the pandemic going you know I think manufacturers felt like oh the consumers would just be happy to get their hands on anything at this point so you started to have QA QC issues products that were just faulty and I feel like RMA slash bad out of the box was just much higher than we had ever seen typically those numbers are in the thousandths in terms of like percentages and that's there's there's an acceptable failure rate of bad out of the box in any industry that number continued to go up then you start to get brands that are cutting Corners like remember the Asus tobacco debacle with the uh x670 or yeah x670 board no X6 z690 AMD Intel fighting with names now but the z690 boards and the upside down resistor you know that was just causing fires and meltdowns and crap and the terrible way that in my opinion that was handled um by Asus on dealing with getting that all resolved um you got the Nvidia shortages with the graphics cards and then the Market manipulation with Nvidia intentionally shipping less units to keep the price up at a time when they were already at like 100 markup and it just was gross so people could not get their hands on stuff at inflation all of that having a computer for playing games on was not something that was a priority to people so you had folks that were just kind of jaded with the idea of ever having a computer so they just are you know they're not interested anymore which is totally understandable if you got to pay rent and put food on your table you're not gonna go out and buy a computer because you can't eat a computer in case you can but it's not recommended what I'm saying is you can see where things started to really kind of decline um you had you know MSI that was involved in like Insider bulk sales to cryptocurrency mining farms and it just just got gross and grosser and grosser from there so then you fast forward to uh where we are today and the most recent news I'm sure you guys have heard about is the um 7800 x3d CPU issues I didn't put a video out on that because to be honest I wasn't even in the country I was on a family trip when all that was going down and the News was literally breaking like the day I was leaving the country so there was nothing I can do about even trying to figure any of that out but I'll be honest with you uh Steve at Gamer's Nexus in collaboration with Wendell at level one techs and a few unnamed Engineers that were a condition of anonymity for obvious reasons did an amazing piece on this and I think there's gonna be another part to it um the first part is 40 minutes long where they really Drive drill down into the root cause of the problems which to be honest is like six different problems that are shared um shared responsibility between the motherboard manufacturers and AMD itself I highly highly recommend you go and watch that video it's getting a lot of traction and it's important because it's the these these manufacturers have to be held accountable and once again who is at the top of like the issue so if you draw a chart and Steve loves charts there's plenty of charts in that video go if you're if you're a chart fanatic and a chart Enthusiast then go and watch Steve's video because there's no shortage of charts ever in his videos but anyway who do you think also has shared the most blame in it Asus unfortunately so this kind of brings me into today's topic which is just the State of Affairs that we are currently in with computers and how just fed up I am you know I talked about on my am5 platform which I built for my system at home which is running a 7950x 3D I'm all worried now I'm like okay regarding the soc voltage stuff I should go in there and maybe double check some stuff to see what it's actually running at because they were finding a software reported versus actual with probing that is also very inaccurate and over cooking CPUs it has me honestly feeling like I made a mistake by going with AMD am5 was a huge undertaking for AMD because you've got multiple CPU platforms being supported on the same chipset of course am5 uh socket and then you know the newest chipset which is x670 or the x670e whatever the same chipset so it's just becoming kind of convoluted where the motherboard manufacturers are making mistakes with their bios that are actually causing physical damage and failure on AMD CPUs but AMD wasn't involved enough with the manufacturing of the motherboard biosys to make sure that everything was correct they sort of were just like here's some here's some guides and then the motherboard manufacturers didn't follow those guides and you get what you have now basically in a nutshell and then just straight up failing um checks and balances slash fail safes into the motherboards that are just not working at all because they weren't programmed to work properly it's kind of the most important part I digress I'm backing up here these issues coming out about you know am5 um the 7950x3d only having a single CCD with um 3D V cache which we didn't know until the review and that kind of led to us me going well now I have to make a choice do I want the most compute power with the 7950x or do I want the most gaming power with the 7950x3d and then I have to make this trade-off and it's just gross graphics card side of things pricing is just absolutely out of control Nvidia is completely disconnected from reality on what people can't afford to pay versus only catering to those that can afford to pay whatever Nvidia wants to charge again further jading the industry now I'm an industry advocate for the consumer I always had been I always will be and I will always call out these brands on the shitty moves that they make whether they're sponsors or not because that is my number one priority is to you guys and making sure that you're making right decisions rather than the popular decision if you will because look it doesn't matter if you're Intel team Intel team AMD or team team Nvidia you're going to have the Fanboys that are out there advocating with their pom-poms jumping up and down with their mini skirts excited about whatever brand it is they're excited for regardless of how that brand has been because of blind fanboyism and I'm always going to be against that but the problem is none of these three brands are have their hands clean right now of any sort of issues or controversy to be fair though I feel like the least controversial company right now is Intel and their biggest issue for the longest time was just they weren't innovating enough or fast enough and their prices were staying too high versus what you were getting versus the competition but hindsight being perfect 2020 we can now look and say um the move on am5 was probably a bit too ambitious for AMD at the moment it will stabilize it will iron itself out the problem is if you're an early adopter and that bleeding edge technology and it's bleeding edge for a reason you are still working through all these problems like I am with my system at home remember the whole Expo Ram stuff I couldn't run my my Ram at Expo and I've got a little bit of an update on that too by the way um it's one of those things where the biggest complaint about Intel is 3900k was its temperatures and you know what with some creativity some voltage tuning and just turning off some of the crazy over voltage over um current slash moving the Intel Fail-Safe values which motherboards do kind of out of the box now you can easily dial in amazing temperatures and still get all your clocks the problem is a lot of Manufacturers now just air on the whole side of stability by let's just pump all the voltages to the max let's just pump all of the um you know all the things that affect temperature like voltages and frequencies and stuff let's just push all that out as far as we can for stability reasons pump the voltage yeah you can absolutely I've done videos about tuning voltage and being able to bring the temperatures way down without losing any performance whatsoever that's the worst thing you have to say about Intel right now I mean they did innovate a little bit by adding e-core P core it's not the first time they've done that they've done that a while back with some notebook CPUs but it is matured it is fast not so much efficient the irony that you're still pulling 300 watts from the socket on something that has what's called e-cores in there but you know at the current state of affairs I would take a less efficient system that's stable over a system right now or a platform right now that has just got it's just got so many Gremlins in it this current generation for AMD is akin to a new model year of a car and you guys know me in cars I I love cars and that's my analogies I always come to and you always hear people say never buy the first model year of a redesign for this very reason because once you have all this stuff coming out it's in my opinion happening a little too quickly I think for amd's team to stay on top of to make sure the motherboard manufacturers are not making mistakes and that will be obvious when you watch Steve's video about what's happening with the 7800 X 3D CPUs bulging and or blowing up and or exploding your motherboard and such so I I just I'm frustrated like you guys that I want everyone to be able to enjoy PC gaming PC gaming is something I've been doing since I was five years old and and I don't I'll still be doing it if I ever live to be 80. I'll still be doing an 80. because that's just who I am it's how I'm wired and I think there's plenty of people watching this video right now that know exactly what I'm saying and feel the same way there's people out there that have probably experienced PC gaming either at their friend's house or something like that and they want nothing more than to have a gaming PC but because of the inflation the cost of stuff right now it's just not in the cards for them a little bit of a plug stay tuned for a video that we have coming out later this week where we're gonna actually talk about an old system on Modern stuff showing you how to build it how to get it up to date how to get it working today and with the performance you can expect is for an old PC on Modern titles um so stay tuned for that subscribe if you are interested in that sort of video anyway moving on to my rant you've got the AMD gpus which are good and they are um they're not as fast as nvidia's counterparts and that's probably the only positive thing I have to say right now in the entire industry for PC is that the AMD gpus are good they're not going to give you the same Ray tracing performance any video graphics cards are they're not going to give you the same overall raw performance that Nvidia gpus are but they're not going to cost as much as Nvidia gpus either perfect example 50 is 50. they're getting schwifty no the 6950x right XT 6950 XT GPU is a much more compelling GPU than the RTX 4070 it's faster and it's cheaper now remember that GPU first came out it was well over a thousand dollars definitely something worth looking at if you still get your hands on it unfortunately it's a previous gen which means when they're gone they're gone so if you're waiting you might want to consider grabbing one of those but the thing is let's talk about other controversies that we've had to deal with in the last couple of years um case is Catching Fire you know the the unfortunate Riser cable issue that NZXT had to work through and again as much as like it sucks because NZXT sourced those which means that you know they didn't build it but they sourced it and unfortunately the one that they sourced had a problem but because it's an in an NZXT case it's an NZXT problem and they had to work through that um further fire issues the gigabyte power supplies that would literally um the the s or the voltage regulator in there or the ocp or recurrent protection just completely exploding itself in a very dramatic fashion so I'm going to go ahead and flip this guy back on and then hit this power supply on button oh you can see why I look back and I go in the almost 11 years now that I had been doing this channel I have never seen so many back to back catastrophic failures that were all preventable because of manufacturer oversight manufacture in patients on trying to make as much money and get as much product out as fast as possible by cutting all sorts of corners as we're seeing today and if you really want to know like wow Jay's really kind of going off it's because it's it's it one thing is fine a couple of things that's a coincidence no there are just so many ridiculous things happening like the the 40 series power plug melting on RTX 4090s all because of the the tolerance of the plug having too much wiggle even when it's clicked in causing a short or at least a higher resistance in the plug leading to Melting cables it's like where does it stop it's pick your poison at this point I don't blame people right now for going you know what maybe a PS5 is more my flavor at the moment you know it's it's just terrible I I like I said this video serves as nothing more than to me tell you guys I hear you I hear your complaints and stuff and trust me as a content creator and influencer I hate this term so much but influencer in the industry I can tell you right now whenever a brand reaches out to us and is like hey we want you to check out the et cetera et cetera I'm like you know what I'm not really don't I don't really want to because I can't trust that any et cetera Etc is not going to be the next controversy and unfortunately as a you know just an average Joe type of consumer like I am we're never going to catch these types of things that only show up in long-term very specific scenarios and the thing is like anytime something happens you know we'll get emails from viewers that are like hey my et cetera et cetera died I want you to make a video about it obviously for it should make sense that we can't make a video about every email we've ever received about somebody that's received a problem because every brand has failures and rmas and problems every single company that has ever made a thing in the exit in the entire history of May making things has had problems that's never going to change the problem is when you start seeing it become commonplace that these problems are happening in their widespread so anyway I guess if this video was to serve any one thing it's just a little bit of like a venting consider this our therapy session and you guys are my therapists where I'm basically like let me just talk let me get it out let me sort of die I guess sort of digest it as I'm saying it to see how it sounds and maybe I'm off base I don't know the point is I'm always going to continue to make videos I'm going to try and really make videos that are beneficial to you guys on you know how to just kind of move forward in this particular landscape that we currently have in front of us with the crappy crappy State of Affairs that PCS are currently in anyway if you've got a like a horror story about something you've gone through recently type it out down below um maybe it'll help you feel better just to get it out there because I know people will go off to Reddit and vent and stuff all the time the problem is that's kind of commonplace on Reddit I think when you see a positive post on Reddit that's the outlier at this point especially in pcmr and anything like build your own and all that so anyway we're gonna try and do some more like reasonable type of builds and and budget type stuff moving forward because I know in the summertime is when a lot of people tend to build their first PC because one get ready for college or two just bored during the summer and they want to play games all day long stay up till four in the morning and then sleep in until 3 P.M and your mom's like take out the trash and you're sitting there with your butt sticking up in the air asleep in your bed maybe that was just me and that was actually last week thanks for watching guys as always we'll see in the next one stay tuned for that really old PC trying to play Modern stuff I think that one's gonna be fun\n"