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I have a buddy that worked at Sprint 15-20 years ago. They took a large division of a couple hundred people out for a big lunch event. While they were all out, they revoked all the badge access for those folks. They let them in one by one and gave them one box to collect their personal items.
but like, why did they do it? Is it normal for employees to go full postal and form a militia inside the office upon hearing about their termination? If they were expecting it then was their company culture really so incredibly toxic?
My guess is they are really afraid of potential sabotage from disgruntled employees, so much so, that they inform them only after all security measures are already in place. Super scummy, and it implies guilt too, because a good company would not be afraid to part peacefully with it's workers.
This kind of thing happens all over the place. This is why the younger working generation doesn't give a crud about a 2 week notice. "If the majority of employers won't give one to you, why would you do it for them?"
DELL laid off an entire team mid flight back in 2007! The team had been flown out to, if I remember, South America to train new employees at a new location. It turned out they were training their own replacements! They landed jobless and were not allowed back on company property to retrieve their belongings, they had to wait for DELL to mail them to them.
Yep, I haven't seen one of those "publicly" available since the first time I was in the Army! (It isn't public, just internal, though you can try to FOIA. One of the best was the one the doctors keep on supplements; they could point you right at something at GNC and tell you exactly how to maximize results and minimize risk of hazards!)
The thing about the Google Search Engine, it absolutely sucks now compared to 10-12 years ago. You get a jank combination of ad sites, completely unrelated results, and sprinkled in somewhere it *might* direct you where you were wanting to go. Gotta get that ad revenue bois
The only way for Google to continue to grow profits was to enshittify. At least in this case it is well documented and researched. Sometimes it *isn't* just nostalgia clouding memories, it really is products and services truly getting worse for the consumer/user.
you have to google somethign and put reddit, although ai spam bots are catching onto thta and making bs reddit spam now to. This latest a.i. apoclypse is turning into the Kessler Syndrome for the internet. Instead of space junk keeping us trapped on earth it's a.i. spam keeping us from answers
Corsair's going to be extra upset when they realize that GTA VI is initially only releasing on consoles. They, like the rest of us, still need to wait a couple more years for the PC version.
@@Fiwek23452 what kind of delulul coment is this lmao also i LOVE how you mention gta 4 for some reason and completely ignore the gta 5 lmao, i guess because it doesnt fit your delulu narative ?
Who? Linus? That Finnish guy who wrote the first linux kernel? I blocked LTT the same day I said good buy to Tom's Hardware, PC perspective and couple more I don't remember.
IIRC the current CEO of Intel is personally acquainted with Mr. Sebastian, and was extolled on that latter's platform due to their personal relationship when he first took the reins of the company. In retrospect, we should've seen this coming.
@@melodyofthelexicon you must be young and/or fresh meat. anyone with decades of experience working at F500's is very familiar with corporate greed and its effects
@@os10v311 Sorry, that comment wasn't directed at you, it was directed at the person in the replies who very obviously deserves it, lol. Don't know why it didn't at them.
@GamersNexus oh ya thanks for reminding me, I have to go do my weekly round of aimlessly buying anything Amazon recommends me. Gotta get those savings!
Man, a shame it cut out at 11:08, Steve going on progressively more passionate rants is something that fuels our souls. Maybe put it as an end-of-video bit in the future? 😛
@@GamersNexus Goblin Grenade with Krenko in play is straight up broken, and I love it. Weirdly no one wants to play against me when I get out my goblin deck...
@@gjsmo I've been told by friends and family that I'm not allowed building my MTG arena goblin deck irl because it's "too strong." All it does is dump goblins out of my hand at breakneck speed! It ramps so fast that I don't even bother running removal in the deck.
Remember seeing them at pops in Springfield Illinois when they first started out. Boy was that a show. Tore up the drums and had to be one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Worked at Corsair for almost a year in Miami, until they announced moving their production to Georgia... with rumors that were rolling around for months that this was happening, but kind of gave us the news that we would be closing in about 4-6 months, pretty much Fall of last year. Reasons were pretty much, as it was alleged to me... lease was ending, not being renewed, too pricy to renew and the Georgia building (that used to be SCUF, another company that Corsair acquired) was bigger... and speculation from some upper management & fellow employees, that were not going to make the move, that minimum wage is much lower in Georgia than Florida... and in Florida we did have an amendment get passed that every year Minimum Wage will be increased by a $1, until 2026, currently it's $12 an hour... it'll be $13 later this year... so by late 2026 it'll be $15, while Georgia's is $7.25 with no amendments in the horizon looking to increase it. The move is being speculated besides the location being bigger, cheaper, it's also because they can negotiate with employees and new hires much lower wages and have more employees at one location... but also means much more new training and inexperience, and slip-ups in the short term. Most of the hands-on workers did not move to the Georgia location, just 'some' upper management... and some that work from home, mostly customer support and some IT as far as I'm aware when talking to lots of people during my exit. ...and my experience there hands-on and how the company operated in the Miami branch, in terms of management. It really felt like the company was being ran by Origin PC & Origin PC former staff (the culture apparently was no different and it was the same management & behavior as when they were just Origin PC at the Branch, because it was originally Origin PC before they buy out by Corsair), and my time there, we operated like we were a $10k company instead of multi-millionaire/multi-billionaire company... very deaf/blind to innovation... wouldn't listen to QAs very important quality suggestions... worked with some guys at QA that suggested for years about putting a draining valves on their Cryo machines to easily drain the liquid cooling, and upper management were unwilling to listen until Gamers Nexus blasted them out in the open in front of everyone that's when they decided to make the change, it's hilarious and embarrassing... very sloppily and management delt with a lot of stuff like throwing shit at the wall until it stuck as cheaply and stingy as possible... I'm not surprised hearing that their quality has downgraded over the years in the present time, when I've seen firsthand how we operated while there.... and the status quo of operation is to almost never break cycle or bad behavioral patterns of operation that have been forming for years... that have only contributed to the regression of the product and quality. They're unwilling to make big quality changes until something bad happens in the public, very reactionary. Very corporate downward spiral as you would expect from companies as they become more bloated and have new hires or new management that weren't there from the beginning and are just thinking about the short term profit, instead of the long term longevity and success of their business.
I’d be willing to bet Corsair pays their janitors higher than minimum wage, regardless the issue with Corsair is the same issue with PC Electronic companies period, outsource to cheapest Chinese/third world manufacture that has the loosest laws on human rights violations, this always leads to a decrease in quality for a time, eventually it’ll get better, but whether Corsair will have the time to do that before shutterings only time will tell.
Dell used to have truly unbeatable customer support. I went to college a mile outside the middle of nowhere, and they sent a technician out to me on several occasions to fix my Inspiron 6000 at no cost to me besides what I'd paid for the warranty. Really hate to see them do a 180 over the last two decades.
Dell still have really good support if you pay for the tier where the technician comes to you to fix things. I doubt the audience for this channel need that level of support though. And the call centres on the lower tier are still perfectly capable of dealing with normal issues like DIMMs getting dislodged in shipping. The LTT secret shopper videos discovered issues with _buying_ a Dell, the support once you had it was fine, they just knocked a few points off because the woman had an Indian accent and Canadians are just like that.
If I though corsair made something of quality, I’d buy from them. But after they made their icue eat system resources like no other and their headphone being garbage, and everything else being cheap borderline chinese knockoffs, nah fam
@@goldenhate6649Their PSU is still top tier, not the best for their budget, but the most available of their tier. Yes, Superflower is just as good, and often cheaper, but how many people know about Superflower? we're not even talking about availability, where like in my country getting SF PSU is like hunting for whale vomit
@@goldenhate6649They used to provide quality products before going public. Now they're beholden to the degenerate shareholder class, which means their products inevitably went through enshittification.
Maybe I'm the only one that uses Gigabyte anymore, but every single video I've seen talking about the new microcode update only mentions ASUS and MSI as having BIOS updates with the new microcode, when Gigabyte has had it as well since the 7th. So far it's solved my instability problems with my 14900ks, so good sign.
Not me :) i still have to underclock for everything to not constantly crash which probably means mine is just fried. Nice solid amount of money down the drain
@@NeowMeow yeah they did state if it's already fried then it's fried and microcode update likely isn't gonna update. RMA as soon as you can since they extended warranties and all.
Corsair is also messing up on the pricing of their new fans. Holy hell, they've always been expensive but the newest ones are crazy. I couldn't imagine spending $300 on just 6 fans.
Yes and its not like there cooling products would deliver s tier performance they are good enough but a good chunk away from the competition in aios/fans/psus while beeing the most expensive ones. And the same company sells the 4000d airflow for the price of 1,5 icue fans its mindblowing.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 Arctic(AIO and Fans) is way better imo and cheaper, tho astethicly i understand why some people prefer prettier ones, auch as corsair,lianli or bequiet products. Cause Arctic fans feel a bit lower quality from the material and the Arctic RGB ones are defnitly not as fancy as other RGB fans
considering the max you can get from a 20 amp 120VAC outlet is 2400 watts, that ranks up there with car amplifier labels ("250 watt amp" that uses a 25-watt jellybean TDA2040/LM1875 IC), lol. The PSU industry would never slap a higher ratting on a PSU than it can handle, never happened before (the entire reason Jonnyguru started testing exactly that back in the day), lol.
It CAN be fine if majority share holders are a person or group who was already employed before going public. Otherwise, and I can't believe people in charge still haven't figured this one out, the entire system is built to trade long term profitability for short term stock price increases. And you can only trade in your future for so much until you have nothing left and you're bust. Another reason CEOs give themselves such enormous bonuses: They milk the companies future at a smaller scale and plan to leave just before it collapses, which will by then of course be the new CEOs fault and -Bobby Kotick- generic CEO can get away with having a reputation in business circles as anything other than a beligerent fool, because when they were in charge, on paper, number did go up
And I didn't even mention that the entire premise of the system is that infinite growth is apparently possible, which it obviously isn't. "Layoff storm number 643 ruining a couple hundred lives comes as a surprise to all of us, after the first 642 and our lack of change during these truly turbulent times"
They all went to the same colleges that taught them how to destroy Corporations and instead work for the government,. lol. Like any good lil Commie would.
I just bit the bullet and turned off P-cores turbo boosting entirely. I know it makes my 13700kf basically a 9700x, but who cares, I don’t run games above 90 frames at 1440p anyway due to heat
Fortunately my P.o.S. MSI motherboard is for AMD, not Intel. Because MSI just *loves* f**king with your BIOS settings whenever you install one of their "updates" (such as enabling Insecure Boot even though you intentionally have it disabled (thereby keeping your Linux system from booting), screwing up your Grub bootloader and forcing any MSWin partition to be the default boot option (and since they screw up Grub, it's effectively the ONLY boot option). I'll update my MSI BIOS when they stop being dickwads, and leave my configuration alone. (and let's not even mention their crap GF65 gaming laptop, now completely dead).
My MSI Katana laptop came with Windows Update warning last week and it was a bios update. Accepted it and it did the updated the bios. If something similar goes for desktops then there wont be a problem. Also, most people who faced issues were running servers. Not a 75 years old grandpa, who wouldnt need 13th or 14th gen anyway
@@goldenhate6649 Yes. I installed by a mistake this MSI's new bios update and my 13700kf started to give a bluescreen even after watching UA-cam. Had to revert back to older bios update. Now the system is running nicely again. I have never had any cooling problems nor bluescreen problems before the microcode 0x125 update.
The MTG sidetrack and Slipknot reference during the Intel clarification of the clarification regarding the announcement clarification part made my day. Thanks Steve!
To every ASUS owner, CHECK YOUR BIOS SETTINGS!!! Many of their beta "forgot" the Intel profiles and performance/extreme both are set to: ICC Unlimited = Auto / ICC = 501 / P1/P2 = 4049W and some models even are back to 1.1AC
4:25 What corsair doesn't realize apparently, is it's not just economic conditions. There is NO need for the majority of people to upgrade for many years down the road. Software and games are so optimized now that a 10 year old GPU/CPU can probably still run the majority of what people play as long as there aren't driver issues. Developers aren't trying to put out graphically intense games, they're trying to release something playable for as many systems as possible, including cross platform and crosss generation.
One thing I noticed in my (now behind me) working days was that there is a pervasive attitude among upper management. I believe it must be part of the curriculum in elite management courses. "If we could just quit MAKING things, inventory, R&D, and personnel costs would plummet. Then more revenues could be utilized for management bonuses." Hence, massive layoffs.
just a heads-up to EVERYONE who is expecting to RMA its intel 13/14th gen CPU. if you used liquid metal, dont bother. using liquid metal on the IHS voids the warranty. even though its un-related to the stability issues, they will not be reimbursing anyone using liquid metal.
@@Terran.Marine.2 if you RMA your CPU, they will do ANYTHING to void warranty (companies HATE they have to face warranties) and if they cant read the code on the IHS they just say ''meh its damaged, you caused the damage, not our problem'' even though i sent it in in the original box, with the codes on that box.
Corsair takes money from quality and shoves it to marketing just to find out that the only reason people paid extra money for more expensive stuff because of the quality. Well played, well played.
I can say one thing about Corsair, If they have gone from a Privately owned to Publicly traded company it makes things much more difficult. Micro management take on a whole new meaning. When I worked for a company that did this it changed everything about how things had to be done. After the change to get anything for work to be done there has to be a paper trail that reports how and why everything happens. To include the time to do the process and logging it. Hopefully they have less growing pains than we did. Not that it excuses lower quality.
If there's anything I've learned from being a tech guy, it's just how hard everything comes crumbling down the moment Wallstreet takes control. Finance people do not know anything past marketing and as long as they hold significant power in a company, it will deliver garbage products and mistreat their employees.
22:16 older europeans might remember "Standard Oil" by the once-common gas station brand name here: Esso ... which was just the initials of Standard Oil turned into a "word" lol
Corsair also has terrible Power supplies. They want you to pay $270 for the RM1200x, then pay even more money for warranty. Meanwhile, the Seasonic Focus GX-1000, is $130, and COMES WITH a 10-year warranty on purchase. Corsair doesn't even compete.
Never understood all the fanboyism for Corsair PSUs. Sure they're good and all, but no better than the higher-end offerings from the likes of Seasonic or SuperFlower. They're just more expensive because of the name, and perhaps the easy availability of custom 3rd party cables for them has some appeal. But for an average Joe who just needs a reliable PSU without custom cabling or anything fancy there is no need to overpay for a Corsair.
Came in the comments to mention, the RM I have right now came with a 10 year warranty, and when I started looking for replacements, I noticed the newer ones don't. Seasonic's do, Be Quiet!'s upper ranges do, and they both have good scores on the Cybenetics database. It's sad to see yet another company known for quality engineering being hollowed out by marketing consultants and private equity.
@@concinnus Nope. Device is enabled in the UEFI. However, Windows doesn't list it in the device manager anymore. No, it's not hidden. Yes, drivers were reinstalled. Yes, Windows was reinstalled as well. It's bonked for sure. Oh and before I forget: Rolling back the BIOS doesn't fix it either. And skill issue as a systems integrator with 30 years of experience? I'm gonna rule that out ;)
@@HansLollo That's wild. As for your experience, obviously I had no idea. And in that light, a trivial problem was more likely than a bizarre problem, and trying to help seemed worthwhile.
On behalf of everyone here like me that appreciated the humor behind the MTG rant...I dub thee nerd sir. Giant metal nerd. (no the slipknot reference didn't get by me either)
By far the most important thing in this update is the Google case. People should pay attention to this. This country needs strong anti trust enforcement.
I suspect the result will be like the DOJ v Microsoft antitrust case -- more publicity and more benefits for the offender, and nothing to those who were harmed. As a reminder, the DOJ greenlit the merger between Sirius and XM, claiming that the merger would not reduce competition, despite the fact that it would literally reduce the number of satellite radio companies from two down to one.
@@oct2274….that’s the joke? Microsoft *also* want you not to care about anti trust? Anyway, my Alexa suggested I should order more Corsair products instead of reading about the google case.
@@toddblankenship7164 Even after several generations of severe hardware failures? At this point, I can't see a single reason to buy Intel unless you know you're replacing the CPU soon anyway. It's just going to break a couple years in.
@@plebisMaximus I've had Intel for MANY generations with no issues (i7 8700k, I9 9900k, I5 9600, and the I9 10900K). I run those in my mine and my 3 sons gaming computers currently and they all work GREAT. the voltage issue is 13th and 14th gen only and it's fixed from the testing that's been done. I'll be getting the best Intel or AMD CPU in my next upgrade coming up very soon and usually intel is the best performance for gaming when I do this upgrade. I'm on a 4-5 year CPU cycle and 2-4 year GPU cycle depending on what games at the time are demanding and what im playing. I absolutely do not think any corporation as large as intel has anything but money in mind so I know what im getting into.
I can't wait for your end of year T-shirt, its going to infamous among big tech 😆 You're also cementing the yearly issues so no one ever forgets, like the internet tends to do.
as a (possibly) snooty British guy I would say he wasn't condescending. He was bored/terrified about losing his job. He sounded already checked out and checking job listings... Either way I'm glad I didn't have to listen to that earnings call... flashbacks to horrible corp cr*p
Corsair is a key player and influence in the PC industry. However, instead of working with other PC brands to establish open standards that promote the interoperability of various PC components from different brands (which would drive down the cost of production for all brands), Corsair chooses a closed proprietary system in pursuit of maximizing profits. Ultimately, this traps and frustrates consumers. The trend, in the tech industry, of developing completely closed, proprietary "ecosystems" corrodes the health of the entire tech industry, which hurts everyone...including Corsair.
Every company says "the market is down" and "it's external factors". The market isn't down, everything corsair sells is so wildly overpriced these days that they get beat by smaller privately owned companies. Same with pretty much every other company selling tech hardware. They are all chasing that "permanent growth" through overpricing, cut throat cost-cutting and adding subscriptions to every little thing they can imagine. Then it blows up in their faces but oh well "the market is in a decline i guess".
The market is down, it's very much down from an artificial once in a lifetime high, but Corsair's failures are not due to external factors. Everyone's extreme greed back in the COVID "era" is now biting them in the butt.
They are all bullies. When they say "we have lost (or down) in the first quarter" all they mean is from last year. What they did last year is related to what in the market? It's not so they are simply under the believe that a company is supposed to always have a great escalating year. I'd say that is complete b.s. to think that way unless the company is spending as much as it made last year. Thats where the concern begins...
@@JollyGiant19 You mean when the artificial money was there to compensate? No buddy the market is absolutely crashing, the only ones doing well are the ones with money who can exploit the newbies getting laid off left and right.
I'm still using an icue version from 2019, lol. i refuse to update that crap since this was the only software version from back then that didn't randomly decide to use 5-10% of a cpu thread for no reason.
Maybe if they actually sold good products specifically with their peripherals people would buy their products but NOPE they make some of the worst peripherals on the entire market and only they are to blame
For real. I had to downgrade to iCue 4 bc the iCue 5 update started destroying my cpu worse than intel, any time I changed mouse dpi (which I do frequently with my mouse's "sniper button" even outside gaming) cpu usage went way up. Problem has apparently been around for months before I got the forced update and corsair has just been ignoring it.
Why does UFD Tech now refuse to mention GN/Steve anymore? They are not putting him down, just refuse to mention them. GN has been doing such amazing work regarding Intel. Either way, good video.
Maybe because ufdtech regurgitates unconfirmed rumours for clicks and just general misinformation, whereas Steve actually researches and provides solid information? I sense salt. Maybe I have a bias towards ufdtech I find the content and general presentation too obnoxious
maybe Sebastian told him not to? idk, but I did notice it as well. however the guy successfully evades my comments in the comment response day in and day out. maybe because he thinks I'm a bot.
When the economy is collapsing it's standard for leftist to ramp up in fighting. But this started back with accusations of getting early favorable sample reviews by Brett.
I've got a Corsair Obsidian case from years ago. It's sturdy and I see no reason to get another. Sad if they aren't as good these days. I like their PSUs too.
You should add more colors to the solder mats, desaturated colors because bright solid colors as the background of what you are looking at can create eye strain and my eyes was only comfortable with the original color mat in this video. Being it will be the background for hours for some people they could be worse than a generic pale blue mat that's completely flat and less heat resistant. Just a suggestion.
@@M_CFV Their software is shit, but that's razer also. Had to return my brand new corsair keyboard after firmware update bricked it. Never updated the replacement and it works fine 4 years later.
I have a RMA open with intel for a 13900K. After 22 months of hell with this cpu keep crashing I have asked for refund . I have zero hope of a replacement 13900k not being exposed.
Considering Intel has known about the likely issues with cpu degradation and failures for a while, one would think they would already have a change in place to distance themselves from this exact issue once it brews widespread distrust... hmm, like, if they already in advance were preparing to change their associated "iX" branding to "Core X" for example, to emphasize a large shift in hardware association. Oh wait a second
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10:36 - 11:12 😂😂😂😂😂 No the Editor didn't leave it all in 😞
Gigabyte also released new bios Update microcode 0x129 to address sporadic Vcore elevation behavior announced by Intel
Nice Slipknot reference. Why am I not surprised about you being into... all of this?
Love you mats i use them for cooking to
@@catacocamping874 Is this safe? Please be certain that non-wood matting may not be viable for kitchen use, especially if you're cutting into the surface.
I will need the full, unedited version of that Magic card rant.
THIS please
100%
Yes, give please
@@Imarealzombi According to the Spiffing Brit there is no 12 hour limit, the timeline even handles video lengths of days...
and all unedited not PC hardware rants too
Intel:
Take responsibility❌
Damage control ✅
yea i switched to amd after that lmao
@@zigalanimations382🧢
The greatest technician thats ever lived
@SalemTechsperts Yep, it's time to move over to Team Red.
@@Queste68 😆😆😆😆
I have a buddy that worked at Sprint 15-20 years ago. They took a large division of a couple hundred people out for a big lunch event. While they were all out, they revoked all the badge access for those folks. They let them in one by one and gave them one box to collect their personal items.
That is actually insane. Talk about dystopian.
@@GamersNexus 😂 are you actually surprised, though?
but like, why did they do it? Is it normal for employees to go full postal and form a militia inside the office upon hearing about their termination? If they were expecting it then was their company culture really so incredibly toxic?
My guess is they are really afraid of potential sabotage from disgruntled employees, so much so, that they inform them only after all security measures are already in place.
Super scummy, and it implies guilt too, because a good company would not be afraid to part peacefully with it's workers.
This kind of thing happens all over the place. This is why the younger working generation doesn't give a crud about a 2 week notice. "If the majority of employers won't give one to you, why would you do it for them?"
DELL laid off an entire team mid flight back in 2007! The team had been flown out to, if I remember, South America to train new employees at a new location. It turned out they were training their own replacements! They landed jobless and were not allowed back on company property to retrieve their belongings, they had to wait for DELL to mail them to them.
Dell quietly went to Broadcom to sell them VMware.
They have always been kinda shitty. 😂
Only in the land of the free
That's how things are. Especially if you don't have a Union and some way to do collective bargaining. Just go find a new job.
Don't pretend unions are some kind of silverbullet. They are famous for retaining incompetent employees and engaging in all forms of corruption.
That is incredibly scummy.
The "Fade to black while Steve rants" is such an incredible running gag omg
Hardware failure tracker? That is an INCREDIBLY useful resource! Thank you for compiling that, that's incredible.
Absolutely! We send out occasional emails as well for new failures!
@@GamersNexus - But if the box that hosts the tracker fails, how will we know? Do you have a hardware failure tracker failure tracker?
@@RFC3514then it must be powered by a 13th/14th gen Intel CPU.😂
GN is for the people.
Yep, I haven't seen one of those "publicly" available since the first time I was in the Army!
(It isn't public, just internal, though you can try to FOIA.
One of the best was the one the doctors keep on supplements; they could point you right at something at GNC and tell you exactly how to maximize results and minimize risk of hazards!)
The thing about the Google Search Engine, it absolutely sucks now compared to 10-12 years ago. You get a jank combination of ad sites, completely unrelated results, and sprinkled in somewhere it *might* direct you where you were wanting to go. Gotta get that ad revenue bois
Tell me about it. It's fucking horrid now especially with AI.... and people now 100% believe first result from searches............
Google Search has become AOL Search. Bing AI actually was pretty good until the SEO guys gamified it and made it about as bad as Google Search
The only way for Google to continue to grow profits was to enshittify. At least in this case it is well documented and researched. Sometimes it *isn't* just nostalgia clouding memories, it really is products and services truly getting worse for the consumer/user.
2011 was best
you have to google somethign and put reddit, although ai spam bots are catching onto thta and making bs reddit spam now to. This latest a.i. apoclypse is turning into the Kessler Syndrome for the internet. Instead of space junk keeping us trapped on earth it's a.i. spam keeping us from answers
Corsair's going to be extra upset when they realize that GTA VI is initially only releasing on consoles. They, like the rest of us, still need to wait a couple more years for the PC version.
Take Two love their double dips
You are wrong, PC gaming is bigger than consoles atm and take2 will just release it a few months after the console release just like gta4
@@Fiwek23452?
@@Fiwek23452 what kind of delulul coment is this lmao also i LOVE how you mention gta 4 for some reason and completely ignore the gta 5 lmao, i guess because it doesnt fit your delulu narative ?
@@Fiwek23452 take your meds man
“I push my fingers into my eyes”
Nods knowingly
*sound of hitting a barrel with a metal bat*
Glad I wasn't the only one to pick up on that
dont forget how he then said "the only thing that could slowly stop the ache"
For a moment there I thought he slipped but I think knot
@@Shadow0fd3ath24 but its made of all the things i have to take.
Even LTT got the message that "Just Trust Me Bro" is not a valid warranty policy. Intel should take notes 😂
Who? Linus? That Finnish guy who wrote the first linux kernel? I blocked LTT the same day I said good buy to Tom's Hardware, PC perspective and couple more I don't remember.
IIRC the current CEO of Intel is personally acquainted with Mr. Sebastian, and was extolled on that latter's platform due to their personal relationship when he first took the reins of the company. In retrospect, we should've seen this coming.
@@phillgizmo8934 Tom's Hardware is a good buy?
"becoming a leaner company" means those who are left get the extra work of those who were laid off
No, it means eliminating bullshyt jobs.
those were already cut in 2008, doofus
Apparently you don't know what corporate greed means.
@@melodyofthelexicon you must be young and/or fresh meat. anyone with decades of experience working at F500's is very familiar with corporate greed and its effects
@@os10v311 Sorry, that comment wasn't directed at you, it was directed at the person in the replies who very obviously deserves it, lol. Don't know why it didn't at them.
4:00 If the prices of the items increase, people will increase the refresh cycle of the item. Expecting a better lifespan obviously
No, no, no. Just buy it! The more you buy, the more you save!
@@GamersNexus, the more you buy, the more you save🖖
Do you think intel want me to replace my 7700k yet?
@@oldm9228how dare you stay 6 generations behind
@GamersNexus oh ya thanks for reminding me, I have to go do my weekly round of aimlessly buying anything Amazon recommends me. Gotta get those savings!
Man, a shame it cut out at 11:08, Steve going on progressively more passionate rants is something that fuels our souls. Maybe put it as an end-of-video bit in the future? 😛
Goblin grenade was such a fun card!
@@GamersNexus I never played a game with that. But BG3, yeeting goblins from high walls, at other goblins below, was certainly fun!
@@GamersNexus Goblin Grenade with Krenko in play is straight up broken, and I love it. Weirdly no one wants to play against me when I get out my goblin deck...
@@gjsmo I've been told by friends and family that I'm not allowed building my MTG arena goblin deck irl because it's "too strong." All it does is dump goblins out of my hand at breakneck speed! It ramps so fast that I don't even bother running removal in the deck.
@@gjsmo Krenko is such a fun card.
12:48 "if you look at that list, there's some without K's or F's. They typically save those for U." 💀
Steve's "Wizards of the Coast rants" are always EPIC!!!
Thanks Steve, for updating us about Intel's updated update to their updated warranty update
We're happy to update you about the update that Intel updated on its warranty update, and glad you noticed our update update!
@@GamersNexus Being updated is tight.... wow wow wow... wow
@@th3R0b0t"I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back."
I am up with this downdate.
STAY ON INTEL!
They are still better in EVERY WAY.. They are CHEAPER, have more performance and are energy efficient unlike amd who are so behind
Oil, Tobacco, Internet, User data. i love monopolies, i have all the 4 train stations now!
Four train stations, one owner.
You be spending $2000 on that last blue street with a hotel when you have been avoiding it the whole game just to go bankrupt instantly
@robertobokarev439 that's my secret, I own the whole board and let everyone pay to play just so they can lose to me!
He who can destroy the spice ultimately controls it.
@@warzIbanez”My spice, my Arrakis, my dune”
Lol. The slipknot references 12:16 were absolutely brilliant xd
Came here to say the same thing lol
Steve: "If the bullshit goes on I'M NOT GONNA MAKE IT!"
It triggered my Slipknot spidey-sense. My brain instantly went to "why is that familiar and why am I thinking of slipknot?"
Same!...I was like, wait a minute 😂😂
Remember seeing them at pops in Springfield Illinois when they first started out. Boy was that a show. Tore up the drums and had to be one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Any update on Openpleb? Been quiet on that front and can't really see if it's achieving anything?
Worked at Corsair for almost a year in Miami, until they announced moving their production to Georgia... with rumors that were rolling around for months that this was happening, but kind of gave us the news that we would be closing in about 4-6 months, pretty much Fall of last year. Reasons were pretty much, as it was alleged to me... lease was ending, not being renewed, too pricy to renew and the Georgia building (that used to be SCUF, another company that Corsair acquired) was bigger... and speculation from some upper management & fellow employees, that were not going to make the move, that minimum wage is much lower in Georgia than Florida... and in Florida we did have an amendment get passed that every year Minimum Wage will be increased by a $1, until 2026, currently it's $12 an hour... it'll be $13 later this year... so by late 2026 it'll be $15, while Georgia's is $7.25 with no amendments in the horizon looking to increase it. The move is being speculated besides the location being bigger, cheaper, it's also because they can negotiate with employees and new hires much lower wages and have more employees at one location... but also means much more new training and inexperience, and slip-ups in the short term. Most of the hands-on workers did not move to the Georgia location, just 'some' upper management... and some that work from home, mostly customer support and some IT as far as I'm aware when talking to lots of people during my exit.
...and my experience there hands-on and how the company operated in the Miami branch, in terms of management. It really felt like the company was being ran by Origin PC & Origin PC former staff (the culture apparently was no different and it was the same management & behavior as when they were just Origin PC at the Branch, because it was originally Origin PC before they buy out by Corsair), and my time there, we operated like we were a $10k company instead of multi-millionaire/multi-billionaire company... very deaf/blind to innovation... wouldn't listen to QAs very important quality suggestions... worked with some guys at QA that suggested for years about putting a draining valves on their Cryo machines to easily drain the liquid cooling, and upper management were unwilling to listen until Gamers Nexus blasted them out in the open in front of everyone that's when they decided to make the change, it's hilarious and embarrassing... very sloppily and management delt with a lot of stuff like throwing shit at the wall until it stuck as cheaply and stingy as possible... I'm not surprised hearing that their quality has downgraded over the years in the present time, when I've seen firsthand how we operated while there.... and the status quo of operation is to almost never break cycle or bad behavioral patterns of operation that have been forming for years... that have only contributed to the regression of the product and quality. They're unwilling to make big quality changes until something bad happens in the public, very reactionary.
Very corporate downward spiral as you would expect from companies as they become more bloated and have new hires or new management that weren't there from the beginning and are just thinking about the short term profit, instead of the long term longevity and success of their business.
I’d be willing to bet Corsair pays their janitors higher than minimum wage, regardless the issue with Corsair is the same issue with PC Electronic companies period, outsource to cheapest Chinese/third world manufacture that has the loosest laws on human rights violations, this always leads to a decrease in quality for a time, eventually it’ll get better, but whether Corsair will have the time to do that before shutterings only time will tell.
Wow
@@acethemechanic2653 Most fast food places cant even get workers for less than 15 an hour. So yeah id be willing to bet Corsair pays more.
24:08 That Dell memo is very telling of the product support nightmare that Home users can expect in the future.
If we have to believe Linus' secret shopper videos it's already horrible anyways.
I read that with your voice
Dell used to have truly unbeatable customer support. I went to college a mile outside the middle of nowhere, and they sent a technician out to me on several occasions to fix my Inspiron 6000 at no cost to me besides what I'd paid for the warranty.
Really hate to see them do a 180 over the last two decades.
Dell still have really good support if you pay for the tier where the technician comes to you to fix things. I doubt the audience for this channel need that level of support though. And the call centres on the lower tier are still perfectly capable of dealing with normal issues like DIMMs getting dislodged in shipping.
The LTT secret shopper videos discovered issues with _buying_ a Dell, the support once you had it was fine, they just knocked a few points off because the woman had an Indian accent and Canadians are just like that.
@@СусаннаСергеевнаWell that is certainly an opinion.
Corsair: Sells overpriced garbage
Market: Nah
Corsair: This is Rockstar’s fault
Rockstar: Sells overpriced garbage
Market: We love this!
Rockstar: We're ruining modding because we hate gamers.
Market: Excellent! I hate myself!
Their power supplies are definitely not garbage
Corsair suck
Def overpriced I agree. Lots of other pc companies really have put pressure on them!! So happy.
@@peebrayen6564 I usually only buy their power supplies. Their other stuff seems a bit overpriced for what it is.
Basically no one is buying Corsairs jacked up prices and garbage products. BECAUSE WE HAVE NO MONEY.
If I though corsair made something of quality, I’d buy from them. But after they made their icue eat system resources like no other and their headphone being garbage, and everything else being cheap borderline chinese knockoffs, nah fam
@@goldenhate6649Their PSU is still top tier, not the best for their budget, but the most available of their tier. Yes, Superflower is just as good, and often cheaper, but how many people know about Superflower? we're not even talking about availability, where like in my country getting SF PSU is like hunting for whale vomit
Corsairs own system builders don’t even make a living wage in Georgia, let alone enough to purchase the products they produce.
@@goldenhate6649They used to provide quality products before going public. Now they're beholden to the degenerate shareholder class, which means their products inevitably went through enshittification.
Thank the Biden/Harris administration for that. So who are you voting for in November ? If not Trump you only have yourself to blame.
Maybe I'm the only one that uses Gigabyte anymore, but every single video I've seen talking about the new microcode update only mentions ASUS and MSI as having BIOS updates with the new microcode, when Gigabyte has had it as well since the 7th. So far it's solved my instability problems with my 14900ks, so good sign.
Not me :) i still have to underclock for everything to not constantly crash which probably means mine is just fried. Nice solid amount of money down the drain
@@NeowMeow yeah they did state if it's already fried then it's fried and microcode update likely isn't gonna update. RMA as soon as you can since they extended warranties and all.
I have a gigabyte board right now, but NEVER again. After experiencing their UEFI menus... never again...
Won't solve the intel corrosion issues if you lose the coin flip though.
@@ShapeshifterOS that (supposedly) was an earlier problem addressed long ago. If you buy Intel now, that shouldn't be a thing.
The fade out and back in on the MTG story made me laugh. That was nice.
the Duality of Steve, using quotes in most creative ways yet making them work perfectly
It's Volume 3 of Intel's Subliminal warranty verses.
Thanks, Steve!
I loved that quote
The Intel in I
@@MiGujack3 In my oxidation I wait and bluescreen
Corsair is also messing up on the pricing of their new fans. Holy hell, they've always been expensive but the newest ones are crazy. I couldn't imagine spending $300 on just 6 fans.
Yes and its not like there cooling products would deliver s tier performance they are good enough but a good chunk away from the competition in aios/fans/psus while beeing the most expensive ones. And the same company sells the 4000d airflow for the price of 1,5 icue fans its mindblowing.
Arctic fans are at least as good, and much better price.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 Arctic(AIO and Fans) is way better imo and cheaper, tho astethicly i understand why some people prefer prettier ones, auch as corsair,lianli or bequiet products. Cause Arctic fans feel a bit lower quality from the material and the Arctic RGB ones are defnitly not as fancy as other RGB fans
The Magic the Gathering reference followed by the reference to Duality (Slipknot) made my morning, lol.
That fade to black was magical :D
12:20 Slipknot reference goes hard. Thanks Steve.
I love the Slipknot reference in 12:16 LOL
Was gonna say SOMEONE had to have picked that up.
I wasn't there yet, but saw a comment containing "duality" was wondering does it have something to do with Slipknot or just coincidence...
@@Петърчо There is no such thing as coincidence.
@@chupasaurus, Gibbs' rule #39 🤌
At this point, just make 2500 watts PSU and slap "RTX 7090 certified" on the side. We're circling back to early 2000's marketing style.
Good times … good times 😢
considering the max you can get from a 20 amp 120VAC outlet is 2400 watts, that ranks up there with car amplifier labels ("250 watt amp" that uses a 25-watt jellybean TDA2040/LM1875 IC), lol. The PSU industry would never slap a higher ratting on a PSU than it can handle, never happened before (the entire reason Jonnyguru started testing exactly that back in the day), lol.
1 problem all the houses need to be rebuilt to support 3k watts. who pays 4 that in a world where money is tight?
Why do people think 240v doesn't exist in North America?
A computer that plugs into a 240v outlet would be cool
Corsair was doing perfectly fine before going public. I wish nothing but the worse to all publicly traded companies.
When stock price determines company direction, leads company down the path of self destruction. IE Boeing
@@jamesocker5235Boeing got brainworms when they ate McDonnel-Douglas.
It CAN be fine if majority share holders are a person or group who was already employed before going public.
Otherwise, and I can't believe people in charge still haven't figured this one out, the entire system is built to trade long term profitability for short term stock price increases. And you can only trade in your future for so much until you have nothing left and you're bust. Another reason CEOs give themselves such enormous bonuses: They milk the companies future at a smaller scale and plan to leave just before it collapses, which will by then of course be the new CEOs fault and -Bobby Kotick- generic CEO can get away with having a reputation in business circles as anything other than a beligerent fool, because when they were in charge, on paper, number did go up
And I didn't even mention that the entire premise of the system is that infinite growth is apparently possible, which it obviously isn't.
"Layoff storm number 643 ruining a couple hundred lives comes as a surprise to all of us, after the first 642 and our lack of change during these truly turbulent times"
They all went to the same colleges that taught them how to destroy Corporations and instead work for the government,. lol. Like any good lil Commie would.
Steve with random rant on MTG and Wizards 🤣 love it! If Steve started a podcast nerding out on DnD and MTG I’d listen!
12:19 casual slipknot reference. Love it.
Last week: How many people will update their bios?
Now: How many people will update the update of their bios ?
I just bit the bullet and turned off P-cores turbo boosting entirely. I know it makes my 13700kf basically a 9700x, but who cares, I don’t run games above 90 frames at 1440p anyway due to heat
Fortunately my P.o.S. MSI motherboard is for AMD, not Intel. Because MSI just *loves* f**king with your BIOS settings whenever you install one of their "updates" (such as enabling Insecure Boot even though you intentionally have it disabled (thereby keeping your Linux system from booting), screwing up your Grub bootloader and forcing any MSWin partition to be the default boot option (and since they screw up Grub, it's effectively the ONLY boot option).
I'll update my MSI BIOS when they stop being dickwads, and leave my configuration alone.
(and let's not even mention their crap GF65 gaming laptop, now completely dead).
Idk but I appreciate the beta testers 😊
My MSI Katana laptop came with Windows Update warning last week and it was a bios update. Accepted it and it did the updated the bios.
If something similar goes for desktops then there wont be a problem.
Also, most people who faced issues were running servers. Not a 75 years old grandpa, who wouldnt need 13th or 14th gen anyway
@@goldenhate6649 Yes. I installed by a mistake this MSI's new bios update and my 13700kf started to give a bluescreen even after watching UA-cam. Had to revert back to older bios update. Now the system is running nicely again. I have never had any cooling problems nor bluescreen problems before the microcode 0x125 update.
The MTG sidetrack and Slipknot reference during the Intel clarification of the clarification regarding the announcement clarification part made my day.
Thanks Steve!
Happy to hear that! Makes it fun for me to work those references in.
@GamersNexus Those were my two favourite parts of the video
@@GamersNexusdefinitely need more mtg references lol
Corsair's going to have an even rougher time explaining that GTA VI is not releasing on PC at launch? Unless they know something we don't?
To every ASUS owner, CHECK YOUR BIOS SETTINGS!!! Many of their beta "forgot" the Intel profiles and performance/extreme both are set to: ICC Unlimited = Auto / ICC = 501 / P1/P2 = 4049W and some models even are back to 1.1AC
4:25 What corsair doesn't realize apparently, is it's not just economic conditions. There is NO need for the majority of people to upgrade for many years down the road. Software and games are so optimized now that a 10 year old GPU/CPU can probably still run the majority of what people play as long as there aren't driver issues. Developers aren't trying to put out graphically intense games, they're trying to release something playable for as many systems as possible, including cross platform and crosss generation.
12:14 That Slipknot reference cracked me up while I was eating a hard-boiled egg.
🤣🤣🤣
One thing I noticed in my (now behind me) working days was that there is a pervasive attitude among upper management. I believe it must be part of the curriculum in elite management courses. "If we could just quit MAKING things, inventory, R&D, and personnel costs would plummet. Then more revenues could be utilized for management bonuses." Hence, massive layoffs.
just a heads-up to EVERYONE who is expecting to RMA its intel 13/14th gen CPU. if you used liquid metal, dont bother. using liquid metal on the IHS voids the warranty. even though its un-related to the stability issues, they will not be reimbursing anyone using liquid metal.
They would know, how?
@@Terran.Marine.2 if you RMA your CPU, they will do ANYTHING to void warranty (companies HATE they have to face warranties)
and if they cant read the code on the IHS they just say ''meh its damaged, you caused the damage, not our problem''
even though i sent it in in the original box, with the codes on that box.
@@Terran.Marine.2 Chem test.
Corsair takes money from quality and shoves it to marketing just to find out that the only reason people paid extra money for more expensive stuff because of the quality. Well played, well played.
Investor run companies love that business strategy.
@@plebisMaximus MBAs aka, masters in bean counting strategy.
Corsair: *_insert popular copium meme_*
I can say one thing about Corsair, If they have gone from a Privately owned to Publicly traded company it makes things much more difficult. Micro management take on a whole new meaning. When I worked for a company that did this it changed everything about how things had to be done. After the change to get anything for work to be done there has to be a paper trail that reports how and why everything happens. To include the time to do the process and logging it. Hopefully they have less growing pains than we did. Not that it excuses lower quality.
If there's anything I've learned from being a tech guy, it's just how hard everything comes crumbling down the moment Wallstreet takes control. Finance people do not know anything past marketing and as long as they hold significant power in a company, it will deliver garbage products and mistreat their employees.
17:47
Steve: It's missing something though...
Steve + myself simultaneously: X!
12:14 goddamnit, guys lmao
22:16 older europeans might remember "Standard Oil" by the once-common gas station brand name here: Esso ... which was just the initials of Standard Oil turned into a "word" lol
Canada still has Esso stations. The naming scheme never really clicked in my brain though. Now that you said it, it makes complete sense lol.
didnt know that despite the petrol stations that are now exxon elsewhere are also esso in singapore! though i just call it asshole
Aren't they still using that name?
Exxon, as in "ex-SO". Idk where the n comes from. "National", "n-corporated", etc.
Corsair also has terrible Power supplies. They want you to pay $270 for the RM1200x, then pay even more money for warranty. Meanwhile, the Seasonic Focus GX-1000, is $130, and COMES WITH a 10-year warranty on purchase. Corsair doesn't even compete.
Not to mention, Corsair doesn't make power supplies and Seasonic does.
They use all different suppliers for each of there lines of power supplys. Seasonic makes very good power supplys! @Garth2011
@@NightshiftCustom Yes, they do
Never understood all the fanboyism for Corsair PSUs. Sure they're good and all, but no better than the higher-end offerings from the likes of Seasonic or SuperFlower. They're just more expensive because of the name, and perhaps the easy availability of custom 3rd party cables for them has some appeal. But for an average Joe who just needs a reliable PSU without custom cabling or anything fancy there is no need to overpay for a Corsair.
Came in the comments to mention, the RM I have right now came with a 10 year warranty, and when I started looking for replacements, I noticed the newer ones don't. Seasonic's do, Be Quiet!'s upper ranges do, and they both have good scores on the Cybenetics database.
It's sad to see yet another company known for quality engineering being hollowed out by marketing consultants and private equity.
Flashed my BIOS as recommended by Intel and poof - my onboard soundcard died. Loving this shitshow.
@@LeonNadwislanski
On Intel's side?
Yes.
Sounds like a build issue rather than a bios update burning out your sound card
BIOS updates reset everything to defaults. Might have just disabled FP audio or something.
@@concinnus Nope. Device is enabled in the UEFI. However, Windows doesn't list it in the device manager anymore. No, it's not hidden. Yes, drivers were reinstalled. Yes, Windows was reinstalled as well. It's bonked for sure. Oh and before I forget: Rolling back the BIOS doesn't fix it either. And skill issue as a systems integrator with 30 years of experience? I'm gonna rule that out ;)
@@HansLollo That's wild. As for your experience, obviously I had no idea. And in that light, a trivial problem was more likely than a bizarre problem, and trying to help seemed worthwhile.
Nice Slipknot reference :D As a metal head I enjoyed that bit lol
On behalf of everyone here like me that appreciated the humor behind the MTG rant...I dub thee nerd sir. Giant metal nerd. (no the slipknot reference didn't get by me either)
By far the most important thing in this update is the Google case. People should pay attention to this. This country needs strong anti trust enforcement.
I suspect the result will be like the DOJ v Microsoft antitrust case -- more publicity and more benefits for the offender, and nothing to those who were harmed. As a reminder, the DOJ greenlit the merger between Sirius and XM, claiming that the merger would not reduce competition, despite the fact that it would literally reduce the number of satellite radio companies from two down to one.
I google'd it and google told me the google case is unimportant.
Copilot told me not to worry about it and to keep watching UA-cam shorts.
@@dsandoval9396 you mean gemini, copilot is microsoft
@@oct2274….that’s the joke? Microsoft *also* want you not to care about anti trust?
Anyway, my Alexa suggested I should order more Corsair products instead of reading about the google case.
Thanks Steve!
Bhanks Bteve!
And now back to you, Steve!
Thanks Snowflake
Gordon double-flipping off the camera , letting us relive the employee's point of view through the lay-offs is quite accurate. Bro has seen it all
Jokes in this episode were too good, esp the slipknot reference hahahaha
10:08 That side eye got me laughing
excellent editing
We absolutely need another installment of "Is Intel screwed?" as this time there's actual merit to that question
They shit the bed but qaqc should be all over it now. I'll be watching next gen vs amd the best gaming performance wins my next purchase.
@@toddblankenship7164 Even after several generations of severe hardware failures? At this point, I can't see a single reason to buy Intel unless you know you're replacing the CPU soon anyway. It's just going to break a couple years in.
@@plebisMaximus I've had Intel for MANY generations with no issues (i7 8700k, I9 9900k, I5 9600, and the I9 10900K). I run those in my mine and my 3 sons gaming computers currently and they all work GREAT. the voltage issue is 13th and 14th gen only and it's fixed from the testing that's been done. I'll be getting the best Intel or AMD CPU in my next upgrade coming up very soon and usually intel is the best performance for gaming when I do this upgrade. I'm on a 4-5 year CPU cycle and 2-4 year GPU cycle depending on what games at the time are demanding and what im playing. I absolutely do not think any corporation as large as intel has anything but money in mind so I know what im getting into.
The editors didn't leave the entire story in there. 😢
I can't wait for your end of year T-shirt, its going to infamous among big tech 😆 You're also cementing the yearly issues so no one ever forgets, like the internet tends to do.
I can't wait for my gold skeleton shirt!
we need (no we demand) a separate video on the Goblin grenade story !!!!
Fps per watt/joule is so important to me for cpu and gpu, second only to loudness measurements (luckily they sometimes overlap)
Trevor: Just ignore the bodies.
Corsair: Am I just a body to you?
Just when I thought Corsair couldn't get any snootier, they get some condescending guy with a British accent to do their earnings call.
Yeah, from an American company I don't get it.
as a (possibly) snooty British guy I would say he wasn't condescending. He was bored/terrified about losing his job. He sounded already checked out and checking job listings... Either way I'm glad I didn't have to listen to that earnings call... flashbacks to horrible corp cr*p
Australian accent
Sounds like an Australian guy with a fake british accent tbh
The best part of this whole new's recap was the magic card game story we never got!
Corsair is a key player and influence in the PC industry. However, instead of working with other PC brands to establish open standards that promote the interoperability of various PC components from different brands (which would drive down the cost of production for all brands), Corsair chooses a closed proprietary system in pursuit of maximizing profits. Ultimately, this traps and frustrates consumers. The trend, in the tech industry, of developing completely closed, proprietary "ecosystems" corrodes the health of the entire tech industry, which hurts everyone...including Corsair.
we need an entire supercut video of all of steves MTG/DND rants
Every company says "the market is down" and "it's external factors". The market isn't down, everything corsair sells is so wildly overpriced these days that they get beat by smaller privately owned companies. Same with pretty much every other company selling tech hardware. They are all chasing that "permanent growth" through overpricing, cut throat cost-cutting and adding subscriptions to every little thing they can imagine.
Then it blows up in their faces but oh well "the market is in a decline i guess".
The market is down, it's very much down from an artificial once in a lifetime high, but Corsair's failures are not due to external factors. Everyone's extreme greed back in the COVID "era" is now biting them in the butt.
@@benisroodThe market is not “down”, it’s higher than it was during the COVID peek!
They are all bullies. When they say "we have lost (or down) in the first quarter" all they mean is from last year. What they did last year is related to what in the market? It's not so they are simply under the believe that a company is supposed to always have a great escalating year. I'd say that is complete b.s. to think that way unless the company is spending as much as it made last year. Thats where the concern begins...
@@JollyGiant19 You mean when the artificial money was there to compensate? No buddy the market is absolutely crashing, the only ones doing well are the ones with money who can exploit the newbies getting laid off left and right.
Maybe if corsair fixed that buggy icue software more people would buy their products
I'm still using an icue version from 2019, lol. i refuse to update that crap since this was the only software version from back then that didn't randomly decide to use 5-10% of a cpu thread for no reason.
Maybe if they actually sold good products specifically with their peripherals people would buy their products but NOPE they make some of the worst peripherals on the entire market and only they are to blame
For real. I had to downgrade to iCue 4 bc the iCue 5 update started destroying my cpu worse than intel, any time I changed mouse dpi (which I do frequently with my mouse's "sniper button" even outside gaming) cpu usage went way up. Problem has apparently been around for months before I got the forced update and corsair has just been ignoring it.
Fade to black Magic rant, Slipknot _Duality_ reference, what else do we need? This video has it all.
Steve is getting faster in speaking each time intel makes a mistake
Intel is turning Steve into Louis Rossmann
You can feel his blood pressure increasing
Steve's auto overclocking & overvolting himself with every bios update.
Bro is degrading himself with so much speech overclocking 😂😂
Look at his gray bangs! Clearly he's aging faster due to this crooked tech industry!!!
I need an open source replacement for the NVIDIA APP, and any other vendor apps for hardware as well.
Customers: you can’t just fleece us forever. We don’t have unlimited funds.
Corsair: *shocked pikachu face*
i was zoning out but the duality reference dragged me back. 10/10 good stuff
Corsair 800D still remember when that case came out. It's just wild they make cases that look the exact same
"or F's, they typically say that for you".
This was brilliant 😁👏
Steve, we love you for what you're doing with this channel. At 10:50, though... YOU GEEK! 😆
Keep it up, mate!
Never thought I'd hear Slipknot lyrics in a GN News piece in regards to a CPU warranty update.
then again when were there so many and so frequently changed CPU warranty updates? sometimes Slipknot is a must.
Steves stories needs to be put on the second channel for us all to listen to! i love the rant parts and stories
Love that they were like yeah doesnt affect.. It may affect laptops
That sneaky Slipknot reference... :D
I'm here for Steves Magic ramblings :D
i love the fade out from magic card stuff :D
Lol love the CCG rant, and great use of the goblin grenade card Steve.
The Slipknot Duality refernce had me dying lmao
that Lenovo tablet is interesting, when the intel side dies the snapdragon will still allow you to use the device lol
I installed the BIOS beta update. The good news is that things crash 25% less now. I guess that's progress...😄🌴
Why does UFD Tech now refuse to mention GN/Steve anymore? They are not putting him down, just refuse to mention them. GN has been doing such amazing work regarding Intel. Either way, good video.
Maybe because ufdtech regurgitates unconfirmed rumours for clicks and just general misinformation, whereas Steve actually researches and provides solid information? I sense salt. Maybe I have a bias towards ufdtech I find the content and general presentation too obnoxious
Where did he avoid mentioning Steve? That's a bit concerning.
maybe Sebastian told him not to? idk, but I did notice it as well. however the guy successfully evades my comments in the comment response day in and day out. maybe because he thinks I'm a bot.
When the economy is collapsing it's standard for leftist to ramp up in fighting. But this started back with accusations of getting early favorable sample reviews by Brett.
I've got a Corsair Obsidian case from years ago. It's sturdy and I see no reason to get another. Sad if they aren't as good these days. I like their PSUs too.
You should add more colors to the solder mats, desaturated colors because bright solid colors as the background of what you are looking at can create eye strain and my eyes was only comfortable with the original color mat in this video. Being it will be the background for hours for some people they could be worse than a generic pale blue mat that's completely flat and less heat resistant. Just a suggestion.
I agree. One or two forms of Grey would be helpful too. Most screws, nuts, washers, and brackets will show up clearly against grey.
Corsair makes lousy, overpriced products yet blames vapour ware and others for its lagging sales. Not a good turnaround strategy.
They make good keyboards tho, that's about it though I'll admit
@@M_CFV Their software is shit, but that's razer also.
Had to return my brand new corsair keyboard after firmware update bricked it. Never updated the replacement and it works fine 4 years later.
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Their keyboards really are good enough that even Hipyo Tech recommends them.
Crazy world we live in.
25:48 ~4.5 Kilograms
What's a kilogram?
@@CptJistuce non freedom unit
@@ataksnajpera Ahhh.
I have a RMA open with intel for a 13900K. After 22 months of hell with this cpu keep crashing I have asked for refund . I have zero hope of a replacement 13900k not being exposed.
Remember how bad breaking up Bell was for the consumer but sure helped the government.
Didn't expect Steve to quote Slipknot there
AMD and Intel are good case studies for "damage control" tactics. That would be such a good topic for a college student.
Corsair doesn't even know Corsair is dead and has given up 100% on the industry. I agree Corsair is basically delusional.
Considering Intel has known about the likely issues with cpu degradation and failures for a while, one would think they would already have a change in place to distance themselves from this exact issue once it brews widespread distrust... hmm, like, if they already in advance were preparing to change their associated "iX" branding to "Core X" for example, to emphasize a large shift in hardware association. Oh wait a second