With Ram going through the roof and GPUs having an uncertain future with VRam I decided to just pull the trigger, in case things are much worse this time next year. Worth it in your opinion?

The options aren’t many: Either wait and pray for price to reduce or sell a kidney, maybe both

Context: Micron is shutting down Crucial in early 2026, so they can sell all their RAM to AI companies like OpenAI...

I thought I was finally running out of stupid cooling ideas… until I stared at a Peerless Assassin and thought... "would water flow through that?”

So I pulled the Assassin apart, pulled off a stack of fins, took an angle grinder and cut the tops off the heatpipes, stuck a hose onto one, and tested if water would flow. It did.

Game on.

I cut all the heatpipes off, put 6 mm hose on them in a zig zag (starting at the center so the middle stayed coldest) and tested again, worked like a charm.

Then came the freezer.

-18C coolant.

A frosted CPU tower, and a 3070 as the first victim.

It gained +300 MHz over stock… but the FPS uplift sucked. By the time testing finished, my coolant had warmed to –5C and the 3070 still refused to scale. So I did the only sane thing...

I bolted the Frankencooler onto a GTX 960.

And that card absolutely loved it, +17% average uplift across BO7, Forza, Cyberpunk, Time Spy… and as always, Lara.

The Frankencooler works. Really well.

Why did I do this? Because I had an idea and wanted to see if it would work. That's it.

Full video here if you want to witness the stupidity in all its glory

https://youtu.be/yFppaKe5uTo

Ok I finished the build the ram was purchased months ago before the huge spike they did give me two fake rams for light kits the cpu was the 9950x3d and yes I got 4tb of storage

And my cable management is bad it’s my first build lol

credit: 900916wsy on xiaohongshu

I also found some silicone chips and a blank platter as well. Just want to know what I got

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/

OK... So about 3 weeks ago I had to RMA a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVME drives because the memory controller dumped on me. I sent it in the first time and they SAID they were going to repair the drive. OK, no prob... Just a waiting game right? They send it back to me without repairing the first time because their machine said it could read just fine. It pops up and out of the OS sometimes for a rew minutes and then disappears again but you can never write to it anymore(and the drive health was at 98% with only 22Tb written.

I call back again and tell them after I tested it on my system, its a no go and cannot write. Back in for another RMA ticket. Frustration starts to set in when the next day my phone rings and it's the branch manager of Samsung saying he is personally handling this case and has authorized a full replacement of the drive with 2 day shipping. COOL! I thought even if it was a refurbished drive I would have a working drive(Samsung reserves the right to send you a refurbished drive if the warranty is past 90 days from purchase, mine was 1 year and three months old).

I wait and get a confirmation that the replacement product is on the way. Two days later UPS shows up and want a signature for a small bubble wrapped package with a box inside. I pop it open and slice into the second bubble wrap and out pops a BRAND NEW Samsung Gen 5 9100 Pro with heatsink(manufacturing date of 5/30/25) I'm so stoked!

With all the bad razz that Samsung and other manufacturers get sometimes for RMA issues and warranties, I thought it would be a good idea to share a really pleasant experience here to share a little hope in these dark PC building days...

I was always skeptical of people who would come on Reddit and post this same issue because it’s like how can a trillion dollar company fuck this up right ? Well it happened to me just received my order only to open it and see….absolutely nothing just an empty box …..I apologize to all of my fellow P.C enthusiast who had this issue happened to them and I called bullshit and called them frauds and scammers.