Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by scns on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:44PM (#28292388)

Hm, don't want to side with with Gigabyte here, but drawing a conclusion from a test of a PSU enduring 120% load for an extended period of time failing would not make me dismiss all their products.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by gruez on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:24PM (#28294496)

>from a test of a PSU enduring 120% load for an extended period of time failing

That's from gigabyte's response, not the accusations levied against them. In GN's testing, they found that the PSU failed at 60% load after 72 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aACtT_rzToI&t=1427s

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by scns on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:30AM (#28325255)

Well, that is definetly not okay. Would never consider buying something else than a motherboard from gigabyte, but i prefer Asus anyway.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by hughrr on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:55PM (#28294894)

They're fucking shit. I've had to replace once twice here and it's less than 50% of the stated load.

There's a Be Quiet unit in there now like the rest of the PCs in my place.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by sundvor on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:56AM (#28300482)

Have been happy with their Aorus GPU, a 1080TI Xtreme, however their software suite turned into a pile of shit.

I will not buy another Gigabyte / Aorus card for that reason.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by hughrr on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:11AM (#28300618)

The cheap gigabyte cards are fine. I’ve got a bottom end 1660 and it has been good. But I only use the stock nvidia drivers with it.

Just the power supplies are dog crap.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by sundvor on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:06AM (#28310569)

The card is fine, but if you want to control the oh so annoying lighting...

Fortunately Afterburner will let you take control of the fan etc with a custom profile.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by hughrr on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:38AM (#28311737)

I had a problem with the lighting in my Logitech mouse. I desoldered all the LEDs :)

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by e40 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:53PM (#28293227)

Not to mention said test is in a general purpose computer and we're talking about a monitor here, with a fixed load.

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