Tech Overwrite

A great start to the day🙈 So how's your day going?

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 5

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So yesterday night's video has proven a little controversial in some quarters... which was never my intention - I avoid clickbait as much as possible 🙂

Corsair gave me a response to the video (which I copy below) but I wanted to make a few quick points first:

1) Thanks to everyone for the comments and feedback on last night's video. Some people commented that by focussing on high amps, I missed the point of the product - i.e. that it has thermal sensors for protection. However I mentioned how the cable works right at the start (and throughout the video too). And in my mind, high amps = high heat, so I still think that my testing methodology was broadly correct.

2) Also even after reading some of the feedback, in my mind it still doesn't quite explain why the cable's protection _sometimes_ tripped, and _sometimes_ did not.

3) As a result, I'll aim to shoot a follow-up video to this, with some extra testing, later this week (or early next week). I'll include tests with the side window on (which should drive up thermals), and also with a heat gun, and see how that affects things.

Anywhoo, thanks again for the feedback. This is what Corsair said to me:

"The cable in the video works exactly as it is intended to, and there seems to be some confusion on this. While you are monitoring the amperage sent over the wire(s), the sensor inside the ThermalProtect cable is a temperature sensor and not an amperage sensor. The idea being that the main concern is to prevent physical damaged caused by cables and connectors reaching higher-than-rated temperatures. In all of these circumstances, the cable shut the power to the GPU off before any physical damage occurred - which is the purpose of the cable. In short, this cable does its job by monitoring temperatures and shutting off when they get too high. The fact that it took different amounts of times in your test to reach the over-temperature condition could be explained by several uncontrolled factors like recent load on the cable, cable temps at start of test, ambient temperature, airflow over the cable, to name but a few. "

1 month ago | [YT] | 3

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I just wanted to say a quick THANK YOU to each and every viewer and subscriber - your support means a lot 😊

I remember posting just over a year ago (December 2024) when I hit 2k subscribers... so to now be over 10k is really appreciated.

While it can be tricky sometimes to balance life, work, and my two YouTube channels, I'm enjoying this journey a lot, and have some big plans for future videos.

Thanks again!
Tristan / Tech Overwrite

2 months ago | [YT] | 16

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Oh hey, it's me after waking up 🫨

Kidding... sort of. Anyone else playing Resident Evil Requiem? The graphics look insane so far.

3 months ago | [YT] | 3

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Well... this sucks 😬

RAM prices are up 400%. NVMe costs are spiralling. Popular GPUs are getting killed off.

It honestly feels like PC building is becoming harder by the month. But... is the hobby actually dying? 🤔

While the price hikes ARE awful, if your PC is half-decent, you can still play some great games and enjoy them.

Just my opinion though. How're you feeling about all this latest PC news?

5 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

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I've got a bad case of CBA tod -

5 months ago | [YT] | 3

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I have a BIG New Year's Resolution: 8k

(/s, Happy New Year's everyone 😊)

5 months ago | [YT] | 3

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If I win the lottery, I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs...


(Joke, I'd buy 128GB of DDR5 instead...)

6 months ago | [YT] | 3

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Is anyone here interested in random electrical repairs? I haven't been before (due to my lack of skills!), but two months ago I bought a fancy new £250 light (the Amaran Verge Max)... and it broke with minimal use.

Basically the USB-C port ripped off from the internal daughterboard inside the device, despite me being ultra careful with it.

The retailer was messing me around, so I ended up dismantling the light, and pigtailing a 65w USB-C cable/charger into the Amaran light's internal power supply cables - and it worked!

It's a bit of a janky repair, but it was a fun project, and my first real repair like this :)

P.s. Some of the Wagos are gone now - they were for temporary ease of testing)

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6 months ago | [YT] | 5

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Pro tip: if you leave your network switches dangling like this, you get faster download speeds

6 months ago | [YT] | 8