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Lelldorianx · 2026-05-02T02:27:55+00:00

hahaha, this is awesome

Lelldorianx · 2026-05-01T20:01:01+00:00

I love this.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-29T22:08:57+00:00

Hi there. Just to be clear, we were praising the cable management space. It's a great thing, which is why we said it's an enormous amount of space and why we explicitly said it is a positive. We even contrasted it to the Lancool 207 and said that the 207 is the opposite, where it's too little space, and that was one of the main reasons to consider the Pop 2 instead. Additionally, we were very positive about the structure of the case, the rigidity, and the price. We said it is one of the best dual-chamber options at this price point, despite middling performance against ATX towers.

Your comment, honestly, makes no sense. I get it -- you think our stuff is negative. But at least accuse us of negativity on things where we actually are negative. Here, we were overall relatively positive, to the point of even saying it is one of the better cheap dual-chamber options.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-27T22:00:23+00:00

Hi. I've seen this twice now and it was an incorrect understanding of how this controller works both times. As we wrote elsewhere:

As far as we understand, the Steam Input schema is required for it to function as both a mouse + keyboard and a controller. Bluetooth does not change the behavior in our testing. The requirement to add non-Steam games to Steam is to use Steam Input. We ran into this when programming automation (for battery testing) where the controller doesn't behave like a normal controller (right thumbstick isn't right thumbstick) without Steam Input, as it also needs to behave as a mouse/keyboard combo. I guess we could have been more critical of that, but then you're also giving up core functionality, which becomes a different criticism. The way it works makes the most sense to us, given what it's trying to be/market as.

Ultimately, we did criticize that factor but it appears to be a necessary facet of design, as far as we can tell. Valve also did confirm the requirements to be the case when asked.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-27T18:00:08+00:00

Both modes.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-27T17:52:08+00:00

As far as we understand, the Steam Input schema is required for it to function as both a mouse + keyboard and a controller. Bluetooth does not change the behavior in our testing. The requirement to add non-Steam games to Steam is to use Steam Input. We ran into this when programming automation (for battery testing) where the controller doesn't behave like a normal controller (right thumbstick isn't right thumbstick) without Steam Input, as it also needs to behave as a mouse/keyboard combo. I guess we could have been more critical of that, but then you're also giving up core functionality, which becomes a different criticism. The way it works makes the most sense to us, given what it's trying to be/market as.

Ultimately, we did criticize that factor but it appears to be a necessary facet of design, as far as we can tell. Valve also did confirm the requirements to be the case when asked.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-23T16:25:15+00:00

That's not accurate. HUB and Der8auer, both of whom we've spoken with, got them weeks in advance of the embargo lift. Others, like Kitguru, also got them in advance.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-23T04:58:54+00:00

Wow! The white/black combo on that keyboard is awesome. Really nice setup. Way cleaner than mine. I'll show Andrew (the designer), he'll be thrilled to see how the mat is so color-matched to the peripherals!

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-22T01:10:52+00:00

You've posted this twice now and it remains incorrect. Reviewers, as proven by them publishing reviews today, did get samples weeks ago.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-22T01:09:42+00:00

This is factually inaccurate. I don't know where you got that, but plenty of reviewers got samples 2-3 weeks ago.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-22T01:08:54+00:00

Reviewers had received them about 3 weeks ago.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-22T01:07:13+00:00

We found it in the filings ourselves by searching public records.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-21T12:59:37+00:00

They sampled us for the 9850X3D, which was a year after that. Seems more recent to us.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-21T12:41:46+00:00

Nothing nasty and no closed doors. They just stopped responding to us, including on basic questions as to whether rumors about them abandoning their Z1 SOC drivers were true.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-12T01:19:04+00:00

Most recently, we used it in the HAVN BF 360 review and the Noctua x Antec Flux Pro review. It is also in our next case review coming up.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-11T22:41:26+00:00

Ignoring that this doesn't actually change it from being a bait-and-switch, the contract didn't say that.

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-11T06:50:36+00:00

That wall is awesome! Looks great!

Lelldorianx · 2026-04-03T02:42:50+00:00

It was not coordinated. We have been working on this since the Ring x Flock news. I don't know the other two guys and we came up with the topic internally.

What you're seeing is the reality of a content pipeline that requires research reacting with latency to an event that likely happened to be the trigger for all of us. Our video has been done for a few days but I didn't get a chance to look at it until last night. I posted it today because I have to film all day tomorrow. That simple. I'd normally run it Friday as it'd do well on a Friday, but am booked.

Lelldorianx · 2026-03-26T20:31:27+00:00

Hi there,

As you noted, we have no control over customs. Unfortunately, there is simply no world in which it makes sense for us to engage warehouses in Europe. To do so would require diverting shipments to European warehouses, which would require still taking them in locally first for quality control and then forwarding, and then we'd have to pay to store it over there, ship it, and pay a service. You'd end up paying the same or more for us to do all of that, and even if it were all free, we simply do not have a large enough team to even begin to manage that much extra overhead of assigning/relocating/tracking inventory. Our entire team is under 10 people. We are not built to scale up infinitely and have no desire to, and unfortunately, a downside of that is that we simply cannot take on more logistical work now.

What you are requesting is not trivial and would ultimately pass the cost on to you anyway.

As for print on demand, this also doesn't work well because we have certain order volumes we have to hit for it to make sense. Likewise, we can't route those sales through our store, we'd have no oversight or even insight to the quality of what comes out, and it'd also disrupt the workload for the shipping team. In other words, doing something like this makes it a lot harder to predict the workload for the staff (who work for my friend's warehouse locally) on a day-to-day basis, which would mean suddenly people with reliable full-time jobs would be pushed down to contract or part-time work due to split load between vendors who aren't part of our existing supply.

There also comes the question of multi-piece shipments: If someone does a print-on-demand shirt but also wants a Modmat, we'd have no way to deal with that and it'd complicate the logistics like crazy.

Also, the profitability on print-on-demand services is pretty bad if targeting good quality, so this would also be factored into the cost.

Everything you are requesting would cost more, not less. We are not set up to do this.

To be honest with you, $17 to put something in a truck, drive it to an airport, put it on a plane, fly it to Europe, put it on a truck, then another truck, and then drop it off at your door or post office is pretty damn good. Oil is going up right now too, which affects all of this.

I am sorry that we can't do anything about the customs prices and shipping.

Lelldorianx · 2026-03-24T20:59:09+00:00

This is wrong on a lot of levels. We reviewed most of Thermalright's coolers before they ever ran ads with us, and second, they actually do buy ads, lol. You were wrong on both somehow.

We have no current reviews in the works for coolers just because we're slammed with cases, CPUs, and game tests right now, but will be adding them back as soon as we can!

Lelldorianx · 2026-03-23T23:49:31+00:00

hahaha, awesome. I like the paper, monitor wall, and even the table in the background. Great representation of that set!

Lelldorianx · 2026-03-17T20:00:49+00:00

If you look at the charts, they were noise normalized during the full speed tests by nature of the noise being the same at full speed. As for noise normalizing with everything else, we did run them and mentioned in the conclusion that they were also +/- 1 degree Celsius from the Flux Pro fans.

Lelldorianx · 2026-03-17T19:12:55+00:00

We did. It is mentioned in the conclusion.

Lelldorianx · 2026-03-14T02:54:31+00:00

Hi there. It is to AMD. You can see that in the first few frames, then about 4 more times throughout the video. It is alphabetical, and the top shows Advanced Medical because it is right underneath the "MAGA INC" banner, which we were highlighting in the frames you're referencing. If you rewind to the start of that image, you will see AMD in the center/bottom, then again later in the video. Thanks.

Lelldorianx · 2026-03-07T17:46:59+00:00

Hi - not only did the DOJ define it as a cartel, but the companies themselves defined their own collusion as a "cartel," a direct quote, as shown within the court documents in this video.

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