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[Assistant] Is uhm, is actually printed already. So it's got a little LTT logo on the front. So this was done with kind of like a splatter effect in the original design. I kind of went, ah yea, you know what I think it...


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[Assistant] It, it obscures the, it obscures the text. It, you know, changes the branding, but I love the colors. Um, and then the design on the back is super cool. It's kind of like retro inspired. Lloyd did it. Oh, that's sweet.


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[Assistant] That's actually awesome. So it's a blown up CPU. I think he did an amazing job of the concept. I love the color palette, but I was like, hey, I think we should do this and this and this and getting to be part of that, uh, that design process and working with creatives like Sarah and Lloyd.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the engineers, Bridget, Hannah, Matt, uh, that team is like over 10 people now, I think. It's crazy. Working with those guys is...


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[Assistant] Is so much fun, like creating something physical is just different, it's uhm, and so I've been having a lot of fun with it and just finding problems and solving them, like the backpack is such a great example.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, we just found a problem. Like, there's not a tech backpack that really speaks to the IT techie, you know? There's a thousand camera bags.


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[Assistant] But there's no like, hey, I need a tablet and a laptop and somewhere to put my, my switch.


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[Assistant] And maybe even like handheld PC, we need all these sleeves, right? So, we're able to, we're able to tackle that. So I uhm,


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I'm really enjoying that. I'm also really excited about the lab. I think the lab is gonna change online media with the vision that I have for it. We have some amazing applicants. I have someone in mind who I want to run it, who is O...


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna, I'm just, just gonna really enjoy being part of that. Like I'm not, I'm, I don't have the education to do a lot of what those guys are gonna do, right?


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[Assistant] But what I do know is enough to ask questions and enough to learn and I'm really excited to learn again.


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[Assistant] So I wanna bring in a team of people to, to teach me more. And that I can teach about, you know, what the consumers need and how we can present that, present that data in a way that's palatable and useful. And I just think it's gonna be so exciting. So that's, that's what really gets me out of the bed, gets me out of bed in the morning right now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, we don't do internships. Sorry, it's just like, there's so much confidential information around here and it's so disruptive to our workflow. We're just, we haven't reached the kind of scale where we can make it make sense for us yet. I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] I tried to follow along with the Linux challenge. I couldn't get an eGPU and couldn't get all of my monitors to work at the same time. Any suggestions for where to look for solutions? I mean, honestly, that was the problem for me.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, that was the problem is there, there you run into a weird edge case and it's hard to find an up-to-date solution. Luke, did you, did you flag that because you've solved it?


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[Assistant] How have I not seen this? Uh, this was flagged by Jonathan F here. Have you seen this? Apparently it's got like detailed schematics and stuff. So this is an open source DIY laptop for hacking, customization, and privacy. It's thick.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's uhm, that's pretty interesting. Uh, okay, full disclosure guys, I am an investor in Framework. Uhm, okay, so that's out of the way.


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[Assistant] Oh boy, what can I say about this? That, hm, I can see why Framework took the approach that they did, making it kind of, you know, sleek and a little more, uh, consumer, uhm, a little more attractive to more like your average consumer.


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[Assistant] 64 bit development tool, teaching tool. Can you, can you?


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[Assistant] There's no socket. So it's a free scale IMX 85MQ with four arm cortex A53 cores. So this thing is not powerful. This is more about just, uh. How much does one cost to order? It's like a grand.


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[Assistant] Well, that makes it a little bit of a tougher sell for me. Yeaah, it's 1100 euro.


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[Assistant] Oh, a-assembled is 1300 euros, so it's 200 bucks for assembly. So that's a bit of a- If you're buying this, you should probably assemble it yourself, that's like, the whole point. Tougher sell for me, uhm, pretty cool, definitely cool concept though. Good to have others in the space, at the very least. Absolutely, absolutely, can't agree more.


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[Assistant] Victor, I'm a first year at UBC whose grades aren't good enough for CS. Alright, fair enough. Any good ideas for an enthusiastic tech nerd? I just love coding and software design, just bad at studying for exams. Thanks for all you guys do.


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[Assistant] I was curious if you guys could try to pronounce my username. Gaming Dominarie. Oh, that's not that hard. I'm pretty sure I got that right. Ever thought about doing LTX East?


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[Assistant] Honestly, right now, we're not even sure if we're ever gonna be able to do LTX at all again. I mean, you can't plan things. Uhm, how are you supposed to, it takes a year to put together a convention like that.


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[Assistant] 10 months, if you're, if you're, if you're in a hurry. Like it's, it's non-trivial. You can't just decide tomorrow you're gonna run a convention, and when you don't know if there's gonna be some stupid outbreak again,


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[Assistant] How are you supposed to book things? How are you supposed to buy and rent equipment and materials? I just...


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[Assistant] I don't know what to do, to be honest with you. I'm extremely grateful, again, back to having the coolest job in the world, I'm extremely grateful to you guys that I have a job where I don't need to be in the events business because it looks like an absolute nightmare.


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[Assistant] I don't know how they'll survive. I don't know how I could in good conscience hold an event right now knowing that it's going to turn into a crock pot of disease. But I don't know how I could not if my entire business was reliant on me hosting events. So my options are...


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[Assistant] Potentially, you know, put others in harm's way, or put myself in harm's way. Great, it's the, it's the trolley problem, except I'm in front of the trolley. Like I don't... Perfect! You're in front of the trolley and you have the lever. What do you do now?


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[Assistant] Probably quite early, but what kind of features do you think we'll see in the SE3? Do you know what the SE3 is, Luke?


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[Assistant] Alright, well that should give you some idea how much I know about what might show up in the SE3. I wouldn't be surprised if it does not get an OLED display again now that Apple has so few features that they can use to differentiate a lower tier phone. I, I wouldn't be surprised to see it get, uh, an LCD display again. Other than that, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I really don't know what I could say. They might recap it with really limited storage options.


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[Assistant] That is not something I'm gonna be able to come up with on the spot because other than Linus Tech Tips, which was come up with by my former boss at NCIX because they wanted something that was similar enough to NCIX Tech Tips, but separate enough from the NCIX brand that if I said anything stupid, they could just blame it on me. Uhm, all of our,


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[Assistant] All of our branding has actually been pretty...


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[Assistant] I won't say well thought out, but it has at least been carefully considered. You know, tech quickie was a joke.


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[Assistant] It's a play on words. It's a tech wiki. So the idea was that it would be a repository of information about various tech terms and technologies. And then there's a sex joke built into it. So it's a tech quickie. Right? Because the videos are supposed to be short. So it's tech wiki, but tech quickie.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then Techlinked. Okay, that one we didn't put much thought into. There were a bunch of names for that internally, but we settled on the one that was rubbing salt in the wounds of my former employer, because Netlinked was the name of NCIX. That's what the N was short for, Netlink.


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[Assistant] So when I created the show Netlinked, it was supposed to be the viewer's connection to Netlink, and we were linked over the net.


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[Assistant] So you were netlinked. You know, so that was the idea. So techlinked is just lol, see you later netlink.


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[Assistant] Short Circuit was, uh, done kind of by committee. I don't think I came up with that one. It's good. So, it's, I think it's really good. It's, it's short and it's...


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[Assistant] An overview. That was where the circuit came from. It's a short overview.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think of what other branding we have. I mean, carpool critics did get rebranded to they're just movies. I came up with carpool critics because I really liked the casual vibe that they had because they were actually carpooling when they came up with the idea of it and they would just talk about movies in the car and they were like, oh, this should just be a podcast. Uhm, but they're just movies. They feel better represents the tone of it. Am I missing anything?


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[Assistant] A float plane, yeaah. I don't know what the heck to call it. It'll either take off or it'll float, but it definitely won't sink like the vessel that preceded it, so that's the name there.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mac address. So Mac address I actually thought was pretty clever. I can't remember if that one was me or someone else, but it's where to go for everything Mac. And also it's a, it's nerdy enough that I think it speaks to what type of Mac viewer we're trying to attract, not just


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[Assistant] The, it's magic, don't tell me it's anything but magic viewer. We want people who are like, I get it.


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[Assistant] I don't even remember if I had anything to do with. I don't know if I came up with them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in many, in many cases, I don't think I came up with ShortCircuit. I might have been the one to come up with MAC Address, but I'm not, I'm not sure. I'm gonna call that one, maybe 30%, it might have been me. ShortCircuit, less than 5%, that was me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I'm really proud of our team. I think we do a really good job of it for a company that's not focused on that. We don't hire outside consultants to do our design work.


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[Assistant] So like, MAC addresses branding was done by Sarah, uh, TechLinked and ShortCircuit were, I believe, both done by Lloyd. Uh, like, we just do everything in house and we, we just spend time. We, we try to get it right and I'm, I'm really proud of it.


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[Assistant] Channel super fun. Channel super fun. Channel super fun. It is what it is.


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[Assistant] It's a channel, and it's not just fun, it's super fun. Like, that's the only rule.


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[Assistant] Renovating our second story house in the US and wanna run ethernet cables for all rooms. Do recommend Cat 8 for future proofing and where should I get it from? Infinite Cable. I don't believe Cat 8 is actually rated for higher speeds than Cat 6a. Is it?


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[Assistant] Ah, blah, blah, blah, blah, ten gigabit per second and lower at a hundred meters, yeah. So...


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[Assistant] Oh no, okay, it's rated at up to 2 GHz. Wow, okay, that's pretty cool. So I don't know what the cost difference is. If it was me, uhm, I actually didn't, so I did wire my house recently and I just ran Cat 6A.


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[Assistant] So I think 10gig, oh man, I'm gonna regret this, but I think 10gig is the most that a con- a residential


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, is he gonna say it? Luke, is he gonna say it? I don't know. I think 10GIG is all that a residential address could ever need.


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[Assistant] Right? Like I'm not talking total switching capacity. I'm talking per link.


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[Assistant] And remember, remember, my house has conduit in all the places that I intend to put computers. I can run frickin' 100 gigabit fiber if I really feel like it.


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[Assistant] So, you know, whatever, I'm good. But in terms of what I actually need for a network connection.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm gonna go multi-gig internet as soon as I possibly can. You know what I think is gonna happen is more, I mean, did you notice that Micra, I don't know how this slipped under my radar, but Microsoft stealthily added peer-to-peer to Windows updates? It is so-


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[Assistant] It is so awesome. I freaking love it. It is so much faster and there's going to be so much less congestion. We just need to go to more peer to peer. If my next door neighbor in my apartment complex


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[Assistant] Why am I not just pulling it off of their machine? The power savings, right? Like the energy savings, the network congestion savings.


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[Assistant] Freaking game changer. We need to get, we need to get more of that going. I'm super into it. And, you know, yes, there's a, there's a small cost to my neighbour. But that's the thing about peer to peer is they also reap the benefit of it. When they download the next big thing that I got first, I'mma share it back to them. I love it. I'm super into that.


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[Assistant] So, short answer, no. I would not bother to go with cat 8, uh, personally, especially if there's an additional cost. If it's the same cost, yeah, sure, fill your boots, right? What do I care?


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[Assistant] Uhm, the most expensive mistake I made at NCIX as a category manager


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[Assistant] Okay, I guess I made a few. Uhm, there was the time that we blew like, three or four grand on these cases that I had priced, like hundreds of dollars below cost.


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[Assistant] From, uh, it was either Mountain Mods or, uh, I think it was Mountain Mods.


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[Assistant] So that was, that was a big, big oopsie. Uh, there were also some times when I, I brought in inventory that just didn't move and we just had to sort of bundle it out at a loss. So I made, I made many thousand dollar mistakes. I don't think I ever made a $10,000 mistake though.


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[Assistant] So I actually had a pretty clean track record. My biggest mistakes were usually down to data entry as opposed to decision making because I'm not a very detailed


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[Assistant] Shut up, Luke. I'm not a very detail oriented individual. I tend to be more of a big picture.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, is Teams even on this laptop? It's not.


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[Assistant] If you emailed me a, you know what? If you uploaded it to floatplane.


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[Assistant] Then I could, you just publish it on floatplane without notifications, cause that's a feature we have. And then I'll just fire it up on floatplane. Which I'm excited into. Alright, we have a plan.


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[Assistant] We have a team working on Channel Superfund, Jacob W. It's just been a little bit slow. Uh, why don't we, why don't I do a topic while, while you're figuring that out?


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[Assistant] The Wordlepocalypse. This was put in by Jonathan Horst. What does your Wordle grid look like today? Okay, there's this discord I'm in that nobody has shut up about Wordle. I haven't actually looked into it. I know nothing about it. Uhm, you may have seen these grids posted by friends on social media for the word puzzle game called Wordle.


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[Assistant] That's created by developer Josh Wardle for his partner, and it's a simple, non-monetized game that is completely web-based. This means knockoff Wardle apps started appearing in Apple and Google's app stores almost immediately, some with one-week trials and $30 subscriptions. The developer of one of these knockoffs, Zach Shack,


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[Assistant] This created a firestorm on social media where Schacht doubled down on his legitimacy, questioning that Wardle has a trademark on the game. His Twitter account is now private.


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[Assistant] On Wednesday, Apple removed all copycat Wordle apps from the app store, and in a neat turn, the creator of an older Wordle app, which is still in the store, Stephen Cravota, committed to donating the proceeds from his app's new popularity to boost West Oakland.


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[Assistant] But Sony has allegedly decided to build more PlayStation 4 than originally planned. Might be roughly in the neighborhood of a million PlayStation 4s. Originally, they apparently wanted a quick generational transition, but the chip shortage means


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[Assistant] There aren't many PlayStation 5s and work from home slowed or delayed production on a number of PS5 exclusive titles. So they're just...


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[Assistant] There aren't that many PS5 exclusives, uhm, but several will launch later this year. Below is what's out right now. Astro's Playroom.


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[Assistant] Demon's Souls, Destruction All-Stars, Death Stranding Director's Cut, I mean the regular version is on PS4, so I'm not sure if that counts, and Ghosts of Tsushima's Director's Cut, which again, the regular version is on PlayStation 4. That is for Sony?


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[Assistant] Not much of an exclusive game list. So the idea is to get more people into the PlayStation ecosystem in whatever way Sony can. The issue is that, as Luke pointed out, PlayStation 4s, uhm, are also sold out.


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[Assistant] So considering the PlayStation 5 catalog is basically doubling this year, our discussion question is, is this too little too late? Is this basically manufactured e-waste? Luke, what do you think?


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[Assistant] You know what? I like it. Solid take. Solid take. Are you ready to show off the... Are you ready to show off the configurator? Uh, yeaah, I'll just post it as is right now. Okay, alright, I'm gonna fire it up. So it should be visible publicly, right?


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[Assistant] I'm refreshin'! I'm refreshin'! He's working on it.


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[Assistant] We're gonna be talking about, uh, cryptocurrency mining on cars shortly.


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[Assistant] Man, it is just getting to next level cringe.


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[Assistant] How many rando crypto schemes are going on lately?


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[Assistant] I just don't even know, on techlink today, we talked about Jack Dorsey's new thing.


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[Assistant] Tesla owners have devised methods to turn their eco-friendly electric commuters into cryptocurrency. Model S owner Chris As-lesi? Figured out a way to power his Antminer S9 ASIC using the battery fi- oh, seriously? Okay, that's not using the Model S to mine crypto. That's just...


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[Assistant] Plugging a crypto miner into your car.


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[Assistant] Allowing him to mine that sweet, sweet Ethereum. Okay, this headline was extremely misleading.


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[Assistant] He gets to run his mining machine for free. He's also mining Monero on the car's Intel Atom-based SoC via an in-browser miner. And that's going to be contributing about this much of the overall, uh,


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[Assistant] By hacking the Model 3's software, Ravel has gained access to the CPU and then piggybacked 5 GPUs that connect to the car's battery.


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[Assistant] It's a computer with wheels, he says. It's so simple to hack. Unfortunately for Raval, he doesn't have unlimited charging so he has to charge his Tesla at home so he still has to pay for all the electricity that he consumes.


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[Assistant] Considering that lithium ion batteries degrade over time, this seems like undue wear and tear on the vehicle. Yes, thank you very much, uh, whoever prepared this topic, uhm, new writer who is, uh, named as of yet.


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[Assistant] Uh, not to mention the loss of efficiency from charging and discharging a battery before delivering the power to the system. This whole idea is fun, I guess, but not practical. Discussion question.


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[Assistant] What? It's next level cringe. However bad you think it is, Luke, let me just reassure you. It is way worse. Way worse.


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[Assistant] What? What do you mean? Do we have notes on this? No, no, there's a full video coming about this very shortly. However bad you think it is, it's worse. I promise you. That is my personal Linus Tech Tips guarantee.


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[Assistant] Does the user profit from it? Yes. Okay.


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[Assistant] We did a whole, we did a whole investigation. We benchmarked it. We, we dug through all the fine print. It's gonna be, it's gonna be one heck of a video.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're not gonna be able to do all the merch messages today. I'm sorry guys, we just plain can't. Uhm, Radeon GPUs, once availability is better, we're excited to use them more. Luke.


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[Assistant] Has Linus ever come into work on a bad BO day, or is he as tidy as his OCD makes it seem?


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[Assistant] I actually keep a stick of deodorant in the little pen holder thing by my desk, because I am pretty cognizant of my smell. And I'm, uh, I'm a religious teeth-brusher. Uh, I, I honestly, I, look, I don't want to get judgy right now.


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[Assistant] But people who like, don't brush their teeth regularly? I can't.


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[Assistant] I'm so sorry, but I cannot. I cannot be near you. I cannot be, I cannot be in an enclosed space with you.


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[Assistant] It's awful. You need to brush your teeth all the time. Okay, Alex says, would y'all do a new video on the new DLSS features? Yes, we'd love to. It's not on the docket just yet, but we do want to cover it at some point.


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[Assistant] They, that might not be a DP 1.4 link in it, so sometimes the Thunderbolt port is connected to your onboard.


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[Assistant] Which doesn't have DP1.4 or something like that. So that could be something to do with it. It also could be that the monitor simply doesn't support DP1.4 on that input. I'm not 100% sure. Could be the hub you're running through is not DP1.4.


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[Assistant] Uh, MaxS asks, what's the next TV monitor technology that you're excited to see come to fruition? Uh, I, I, uh, honestly that Quantum.OLED that Samsung's showing off. Yes, they sponsored a video, full disclosure, but it looks flippin' amazing.


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[Assistant] I'm super jacked. Uh, no more game show episodes planned, Jonathan. Will you develop sandals to go with the socks, Linus? I think you know the answer to that.


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[Assistant] Is it possible to get captions done for LTT videos? The auto-generated ones can take up to 24 hours to appear. I cannot function without subtitles.


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[Assistant] Given that they will be automatically generated in a day, we've...


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[Assistant] Wade the benefit of creating them ourselves and decided not to.


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[Assistant] Um, at this time, uh, the, the automatic ones are, are good enough for the vast majority of use cases and it is very disruptive to our workflow to do them ourselves.


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[Assistant] Not that soon, we are working on it. Uhm, own label stuff like this, like this is a blank hoodie, but it's like our own LTT label. That's going to- wait, did we do LTT?


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[Assistant] Oh, interesting. If we're gonna bring on other creators at some point, we should probably do, like, create a warehouse label. I should have thought of that. And we can't have, like, uh, I don't want to name any names.


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[Assistant] We could, but one of the things that we want to figure out over the next year is how to do a lot more of our printing on demand. Right now we stock a lot of printed garments and it's really stupid.


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[Assistant] It would be way less, it would be way more efficient for us to just stock blanks and then print them sort of next day or in two days and then ship out orders.


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[Assistant] So we would want to have all of our stock of blanks be consistent. That's something we kind of got to figure out.


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[Assistant] Uh, yes, we want to add the size that people are wearing to the pictures. When will background play or picture in picture on floatplane iOS be coming? I mean, when will developing for iOS not be horrible?


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[Assistant] Have you guys had any failures that have inadvertently led to new ideas or products? Uhm, I feel like everything we've done has been kind of intentional.


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[Assistant] I mean, okay, here's something that's happening. The GPU Wasteland, uhm, limited edition mousepad we did.


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[Assistant] We saw some tweets where people were saying, oh, I just immediately wanted to color it in. And so we're actually working on doing a coloring sheet that we're going to have available as a free item with your order once we get them. So you will hopefully, I think you probably saw the note from Nick about that, Luke.


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[Assistant] We will hopefully have a feature where you guys will be able to select your free item.


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[Assistant] So you'll be able to choose between your sticker pack or the coloring, GPU wasteland coloring sheet, and then I want to add like pins and stuff like that in the future as well, which I think would be really fun.


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[Assistant] Griffin B, as a laptop connoisseur, what would you put as your laptop tier list? Uh, yes, XPS 13, I'm particular to the 2-in-1s, full disclosure, I'm an investor in framework, obviously I love their mission.


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[Assistant] So yea, framework, great as long as you're willing to compromise some things, right? Like, it's not a convertible. It doesn't have a touchscreen. There's things like that. It doesn't have a dedicated GPU. I think the Flow X13 is mwah. Those are some of my favorites.


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[Assistant] Uh, hey guys, been watching since USB reviews and unboxings from the park.


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[Assistant] I think that we've probably made the joke about Yvonne, you know, being tight with the purse strings too many times because you guys gotta understand that she's been very supportive of everything that we've done.


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes she'll ask, hey, do you really need that? And if we say yes, then, you know, it's her job to, in many cases,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, enable us, like she, she takes it really seriously to enable us to achieve whatever it is that we're dreaming of. She knows that she's great at those fine details and keeping the machine running smoothly. But she also knows that compared to her, I have this like,


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[Assistant] And, uh, so she trusts me, I trust her. And, you know, everything from, you know,


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[Assistant] Every major, major decision, you know, buying our first camera, buying this building, uhm, we don't do anything unless we agree on it. And that goes for work, that goes for parenting. Uh, I, I saw a lot of examples growing up of parents who


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[Assistant] Uh, we're not a good team, and I saw a lot of examples professionally of leaders who were not a good team, uhm, and


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[Assistant] To me, as soon as you create an environment where people are undermining each other,


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[Assistant] It's just a matter of when your downfall will come, not if. So, we agree on things, we do them together, and we either win together or we lose together, it's that simple.


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[Assistant] Uh, Joel F. Don't be afraid to lay, lay it on me for some custom Beat Saber song recommendations. Oh, bloody heck. I don't, I don't have my, I don't have my library handy, so it's really hard for me to make recommendations. But if you tune into one of my streams, I promise I'll do one in the next week or so.


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[Assistant] Then I will, uh, I will get that for you. I'll show you some of my favorites. Uh, no Jason R, we do not, unfortunately.


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[Assistant] We are, uhm, cautious right now. We have not stopped working with them, but we haven't done as many spots for them because they've made some moves lately that we're keeping a close eye on. So we are, we are in a holding pattern right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, Chris M. Upcoming solar car app Terra. I'm very skeptical of what a solar car would


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[Assistant] Uhm, no ZacS, not at this time. Do you recommend getting the new Intel chips or waiting to see what Ryzen 7000 looks like? Ryzen 7000 looks like it's gonna be bangin'. So that's pretty exciting. But Alder Lake? It's pretty bangin'. So that's pretty exciting. I don't know what to tell you.


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[Assistant] We're finally at a point when there's no wrong time to buy because there's something great now and there's something great coming. I don't know how to lose.


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[Assistant] Uhm, have you tried a barter king style thing where you start with PC parts of a fixed value, see what you can trade up to within a week? Honestly, because PC parts are so commoditized, I just don't see it being successful.


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[Assistant] It's not one of those things where maybe you could trade someone a bicycle for a broken ATV and then fix it or something because they really need a bicycle. Like it's just not really like that. Uh, what keyboard are you using these days, Luke?


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[Assistant] Uhm, yes, we do want to do a T-powered PC for Spiffingbird eventually. It's on the list, but there's just been so much going on.


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[Assistant] And no plans for a GPU pillow at this time. Uh, no idea when short sleeve long sleeve will come back because it's probably going to be reliant on when we can get our own long sleeve blanks. We're just not gonna rely on...


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[Assistant] We're just not gonna rely on the suppliers that we've had to deal with up until now. It's just been horrible.


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[Assistant] Do you think GPU prices have reached a steady state? Uhm, Nvidia did come out and say that they're expecting things to stabilize towards the end of 2022. The funny thing about that timing is that it seems to coincide with when Intel's gonna ramp up their production, not when...


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, NVIDIA is going to come to the rescue. I don't know if NVIDIA had an opportunity to come to the rescue, but uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Hopefully this year we'll see things kind of come back to normal and I'm really hoping that Intel is going to help.


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[Assistant] Now Samuel M says, if Intel isn't using their own fabs to produce Arc, will we even really see a change in GPU availability? I think we will because they're going to be using a different node than all of the other current gen GPUs. So this is net new capacity that is going to be coming online.


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[Assistant] Andrew W says, you shouldn't have giv- you have given me the power. You shouldn't have. You let me type anything I wanted into a box, and now I will type in this box something I didn't need to. Hey, thanks. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Jacob W, you'll have to maybe tweet at Nick if you want to know when restocks are coming. Love the lanyard, had mine for three years, I work on diesel generators, this is the first I've had that survived. Heck yea.


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[Assistant] Don't get it caught in anything, cause it is strong enough it'll like, not break. It will pull you in, probably.


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[Assistant] Paul says, wanted to give a quick shout out to Visual 6502. It's a transistor level simulation of the MOS 6502, which powered the Commodore 64 among many other things. Visualized in your browser.


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[Assistant] That's pretty cool. For more transistor level goodness, go to siliconpron.org. Oh, that's super cool.


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[Assistant] Joshua, I had my birthday last week. Received my first order on my birthday. I'm loving the crew neck sweater, mate. Way more than I should have. Can't wait for short-circuit hoodie. Would you recommend buying the Extreme Edition pillow? No, absolutely not. The Extreme Edition pillow.


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[Assistant] Item. This is not practical in any way.


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[Assistant] The, having a pillow this big, full of alpaca wool.


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[Assistant] That serves no purpose other than to be a decoration. It's silly.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna recommend it. It's there, and you can buy it if you want. 10% of them are already gone, and we are not going to restock them because they're ridiculous. But, uhm, Joshua asks if there's anything else on the store that I would not recommend. No, I think everything else I can stand behind. Any plans for betting? Yes, we would love to do betting.


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[Assistant] I won't catch you live, but we'll listen to the show in the car tomorrow. Shout me out since I know you saw this. Alright, Justin C. What are the chances of an LTT green screen desk pad?


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[Assistant] Oh, interesting. Yeah, I thought that was kind of interesting. Cool for like streaming board game nights and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Green Screen Deskpad. I actually kinda like it. That's, uh...


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, where's my, okay, do you want to do a couple of merge messages while I send that to Nick?


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[Assistant] Oh, you know what I could do actually, I bet this is done processing now. Oh, it's not done processing.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's fine, because I've got another way to show it. Check this out. This is the DeskPad Configurimelator. Hold on, I'm gonna start again at the beginning. So, we're gonna be adding this to the store. Luke, do you wanna talk them through it?


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[Assistant] So I thought that was a pretty cool, pretty cool idea and I think it's going to make it a lot easier for people to make sure that they get their configuration just right.


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[Assistant] I mean that's our main, I think that's one of our main advantages is having all these different sizes, but I think for a lot of people it can actually end up being a disadvantage because it can be kind of overwhelming. Like there's all these different sizes and it's really hard to visualize. We've had people message and go,


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[Assistant] Wow, this is a lot bigger than I expected. I mean the dimensions are on the site, but I get it.


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[Assistant] That happens, right? Like, oh man, what's that thing Yvonne bought?


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[Assistant] Uhm, yes, we're gonna do excess shirts. It'll happen. Uhm, great job on the colored merch messages, where does floatling come from? Ah, we talked about that earlier. In the past, Linus talked about sending out the tall and thick to the community, I'd love to help. Yeah, you know what, matter of time.


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[Assistant] What, you're not gonna spend a bunch of time gaming on Virtual Boy? What's wrong with you?


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[Assistant] I've been rewatching past WAN shows, which has been making work tolerable. Quick question, any plans for pullover hoodies? Lol, wearing one.


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[Assistant] Not a fan of zippers, uh, yes, yes. This design is coming to the store shortly, and it's gonna be frickin' awesome! How far out are the short-circuit hoodies and a restock on black short-circuit long sleeve? Uh, the hoodies are, hmm, okay. You know what, I don't want to, I don't want to promise anything, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] What are the chances of hiring a dedicated sysadmin or a dedicated IT team? Ah, I mean, it's probably the kind of thing we're gonna have to do eventually, but not yet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, today as your fans see it, Floatplane is a subscription-based video streaming platform. Is it more than your fans see or will it become more? Are there any goals for the company that you are willing to share now or in a Floatplane-focused video?


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[Assistant] A lot of developers at my company use laptops, especially Macbooks, to do programming. Would you consider adding more compile benchmarks? Absolutely. Once the lab is up and running, we want to really flesh out our benchmarking suite.


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[Assistant] Omar says, not probably that much, every once in a while it's fun to do something, but uhm, not for the time being. As for where's Riley with more tech longer, what a wonderful question.


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[Assistant] Uh, he definitely will be working on it. We might need to grow the TechLink team in order to facilitate that. We're gonna see how things go in the new year.


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[Assistant] Ah, green screen desk pad, already talked through that. Just been waiting for a reason to get my spout lid. Hey, nice. Uhm, please open a storefront soon. Yes, I- we would love to. I- I do want to do LTT store, not com. Like an in-person store.


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[Assistant] Michael B asks, do you think console makers will ever support ultra-wide monitors? A lot of games already ultra-wide, would it be difficult to add to consoles?


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[Assistant] Man, even just like the Xbox Series S generated so many complaints from developers having to target multiple performance profiles, I, I don't, I don't see it happening anytime soon.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Hunter C asks, No, it's a problem with what performs well on Facebook. I don't make the rules.


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[Assistant] I don't have a working car, but I have two luxury pillows. For crying out loud, Anonymous, you are not the target audience for this. You're supposed to have a working car first, then you buy a luxury pillow.


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[Assistant] Noah D, last, last merch message for the day. I know you like the Lambo so much, why not check out some student racing series? I'm part of a Formula SAE team in the US, I thought it'd be cool for you guys to come check out some of the tech behind some higher level. That actually sounds super cool, but I'm not going to be traveling anytime soon, so I don't want to promise anything.


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[Assistant] Hey, thanks Jordan H. And that's the last one. So I think that's it for the show. Thank you guys for tuning in. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye!


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[Assistant] What's up y'all, welcome to the WAN Show, we're gonna have a fantastic


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[Assistant] Cause we're gonna be, we're gonna be talking about it. We're gonna be talking about our largely positive review of the RTX 3080 Ti when the vast majority of the rest of the tech press said it was not


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[Assistant] A very good bargain. Uhm, okay, yeaah, we're, hoho, we're gonna dig right into that. In other news, AMD's Computex keynote was awesome, and there's a lot to discuss about how much SWEET technology AMD has coming down the pipe. What else we got today?


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[Assistant] That's funny. That's a fu- that's a funny play on that.


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[Assistant] That's a joke. I like it. Good joke. Good joke. Let's roll that intro.


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[Assistant] Uh, right, right, we have, uhm, sponsors, uh, like this one. Seasonic! Ridge Wallet! Tuxcare! That's good stuff.


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[Assistant] Alright, naturally we're gonna have to jump right into the biggest, meatiest, most delicious topic.


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[Assistant] And that is, of course, the backlash we faced over our review of the RTX 3080 Ti. And man, there's a lot of- everyone, even internally, is getting in on this one. This is in the Wanshow doc.


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[Assistant] Uh, Anthony prepared it. Of course, as you guys know, Anthony is our GPU editor, so he was the one who benchmarked the cards.


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[Assistant] And actually wrote the bulk of the review. He and I sat down together as we always do and talked through it. We were both happy with, uh, with what we had put out there and, uh, of course you guys did not agree so much, but even Riley's getting in on it.


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[Assistant] He's got comments in the doc. He's like, hey, make sure you emphasize this part. So let's go through it.


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[Assistant] Our review of the RTX 3080 Ti was largely positive.


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[Assistant] Based on our position for the card, which is that it's pretty much a cheaper version of the RTX 3090, which if you guys remember, had an MSRP of 1500 US dollars.


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[Assistant] And it's not like this is based on nothing. All of its core specifications are within 2.5% of the 3090, except for the frame buffer size, which is half. And we talked about this in the video.


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[Assistant] The fact that it has half the frame buffer means that if for whatever reason, like say for example a global silicon shortage, uhm, NVIDIA was having trouble getting enough of the GDDR6X memory that they need to put on the board, they would be able to make twice as many 3080TIs compared to how many 3090s they could build.


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[Assistant] Performance testing put it at or above the RTX 3090 in most scenarios, so uhm, our takeaway was that yeaah.


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[Assistant] Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Luke, stop. Just relax. Everyone relax. Good value, you have to listen to the rest of the sentence, for anyone who was looking at the RTX 3090 for gaming.


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[Assistant] Hardware Unboxed called it a shameless money grab, saying Nvidia failed to read the room.


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[Assistant] Hardware Canucks proclaimed that the 3080 Ti was not a new hope for gamers. But, okay, why?


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[Assistant] As it turns out, people thought the RTX 3080 Ti was going to be more similar to an RTX 3080, and that it would be priced accordingly.


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[Assistant] Not only that, but the perception is that these GPUs would otherwise be destined for RTX 3080s. And what's happening is rather than taking 3090s and making more of them, Nvidia is taking what would have been 3080s and marking them up.


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[Assistant] So as a result, reviewers have pointed out that the performance is a mere 7-10% better than the RTX 3080 for a hefty double the MSRP. Almost. So it's $1200 versus $700.


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[Assistant] That looks an awful lot like the scalping behavior that we and other tech outlets have decried over the last months. But...


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[Assistant] The problem is that it is not a beefed up 3080. It is a very, ever so slightly nerfed 3090. Uh, both of those cards, the 3080 and the 3090, do use a GA102 GPU, but they are not entirely the same thing. And we've already had the conversation about the RTX 3090's pricing.


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[Assistant] Is really high, and it was really high before. And the intention, which has been...


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[Assistant] The rumors have been swirling about a 3080 Ti for months. The intention was clearly to plug the massive gap that AMD's RX 6900 XT blew in Nvidia's lineup, coming in at $999.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, there's all of that. And actually, you know what, I'm not quite done with that because, Gamers Nexus, I love Steve, but, saying gamers are being robbed blind,


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[Assistant] Is, uh, sort of implies that they are being robbed. You don't have to give Nvidia your money.


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[Assistant] And in fact, if you are a price sensitive buyer, I would go as far as to say that you should not be shopping for a top tier, absolute, highest spec GPU.


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[Assistant] Which to me, this is. It matches the performance of the 3090.


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[Assistant] Why are you, why are you even having this conversation? This is clearly a Halo part, and a twelve hundred dollar, twelve...


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[Assistant] $1250 or whatever it worked out to. A $1200, $1300 price point for a top spec, absolute top of the line GPU is hardly a new concept. Even before there was a worldwide silicon shortage. So it's like, yeaah, sure, fine, it's not a great bang for the buck. Was it ever going to be?


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[Assistant] When was the last time we had an ADTi card that was like bang for the buck?


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[Assistant] Hold on a second, I'ma, I'ma check something real quick. 2080Ti MSRP at launch. Just curious.


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[Assistant] So the 2080 Ti launched at $999 plus.


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[Assistant] I hope this isn't ENUS. Yea, and on Nvidia.com, the latest pricing for a Founder's Edition, because remember Founder's Edition is not necessarily the lowest price variant, a Founder's Edition is $1200. So, yea, it's...


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[Assistant] Not a great deal. But what did you guys think was going to happen? That Nvidia was going to somehow, I mean they've had earnings calls, they've had investor calls, they've said this shortage is going to last throughout the rest of this year. So did you think that they had somehow managed to...


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[Assistant] Uh, so it's like, yeah, that sucks. That really sucks.


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[Assistant] So 1080 Ti is an interesting one because it used the same GPU as the Titan of that generation and launched, however, I forget how many months later than the 1080, but it was based on a completely different GPU. Uhm, Nvidia, I'm trying to remember.


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[Assistant] Uh, cause there was that, there was that trend for a while where ever since from Maxwell on, we were, for a little while we were getting


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[Assistant] You can kind of, you can kind of go back in Nvidia's history and find examples to prove either point. What I'm trying to say is that this is not without precedent at all. So 1080Ti's MSRP at launch was actually $700, yes. And that was the top performance card at the time. Yep. So anyway, hold on, let's...


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[Assistant] So, okay, moving on a little bit here to the concept of MSRP itself. What an MSRP is, is a manufacturer suggested retail price, and I don't expect our average viewer to have this context, but


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[Assistant] Nvidia's manufacturer suggested retail prices are sort of a big load of bullsh-


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[Assistant] Uhm, and there's a couple of reasons for that. So number one is that NVIDIA doesn't manufacture anything. So...


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[Assistant] What's a manufacturer suggested retail price from someone who doesn't actually manufacture anything? TSMC makes the dyes.


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[Assistant] Uh, Micron or Samsung makes the DRAM or whoever else.


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[Assistant] Someone like, uh, Foxconn, uh, is going to make the actual boards. I know Cooler Master is heavily involved in OEM manufacturing of things like coolers. Uh, in some cases, GPU coolers. NVIDIA actually manufactures


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[Assistant] Nothing. They contract everything, which doesn't mean that they don't have great technology or that they don't have a role to play in the pricing of products based on their technology, but what it means is that they actually don't have to give a s*** if any money gets made at MSRP.


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[Assistant] Because where Nvidia makes their money is in the sale of the GPUs and I believe the memory is usually included as part of the package that Nvidia allocates to their various board partners. Nvidia makes their money at actually an earlier stage in the stream.


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[Assistant] And it's only with the more, more recent edition of Founders Editions that Nvidia has even gotten involved in being a board partner for their own products. So Nvidia makes their money at this completely separate tier and leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of as low as, I've heard as low as like 1%.


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[Assistant] Remember too, that just because a board partner COULD hit MSRP, doesn't mean that they actually want to focus on that board, because a lot of the time, the way that a board partner, like an EVGA or an ASUS, uh, wants to differentiate their product, is by making it better than the bare minimum that Nvidia specified. So,


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[Assistant] What interest does an Nvidia board partner have in shipping a product that they believe to be not up to the standard that gamers who are spending, let's say $1,000 or $1,200, it doesn't matter. Whatever the standard of build quality, a gamer who's paying that much would want to spend at no margin.


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[Assistant] What is in it for them? All they stand to do is make no money and potentially damage their brand.


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[Assistant] Great. I'm an EVGA. I'm super into that, right?


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[Assistant] Wrong, obviously. So that's why you often see the launch cards come in at MSRP, or at least reasonably close, and then unless there's a glut of supply,


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[Assistant] And not enough demand, what you'll see is you'll see these super clocked, or stricts, or classified, or, or, or, you know, what's that, aorists, or whatever. Yeah, you'll see all these other variants pop up at anywhere from 50 to 100 to even like 200 dollars over the MSRP. That's because Nvidia doesn't care.


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[Assistant] About their partners making margin at MSRP. So MSRP's in the first place are


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[Assistant] Gamer's Nexus' take is that the MSRP difference is comparable to the RTX 3080s at the time of launch, and that scalping will scale accordingly, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's not typically how it works in the, in the second hand or in the, in the secondary market. So uhm, I mean,


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[Assistant] I know a thing or two about shopping for used GPUs. We've now done, what is it, eight scrapyard wars or something along those lines?


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[Assistant] And if there's anything that I've learned from all the time that I've spent, not just filming Scrapyard Wars, but also being a bargain hunter on the secondary market when I was building PCs for friends or clients or for myself, I would often flip hardware so that I could just like try everything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then, you know, not actually have to pay for it, because if I just buy it and sell it for the same as what I pay, then effectively I got to use it for free, right? I just have the cash flow tied up. So, I've been, I've been playing this game for a long time. I don't know how much used hardware, uh, Steve has ever actually bought in his life, but the way that it works is typically it's way


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[Assistant] Way more closely tied to actual real world performance and what else is available on the market. And that is the way, and that has always been the way.


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[Assistant] So something that performs way better, has more of a value proposition, regardless of what the MSRP is, is typically going to be worth way more, and something that has a lesser value proposition is typically not going to just scale, you know,


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[Assistant] By the, according to the same percentage of inflation over MSRP as another product would. I have never seen it work that way. The reality of it is, the secondary market is a more pure


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[Assistant] I don't know what he's, I really don't know what he's basing that on honestly. So now let's talk about


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[Assistant] You know, whether the $700 MSRP RTX 3080 actually even exists. So here's some Asus MSRP's as of March.


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[Assistant] Without tariffs. They've got the Strix OC RTX 3090. That is an $1,849 card. We've got their RX 6800 XT. That is $909. This is Asus' MSRP. Remember this is the actual manufacturer.


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[Assistant] We've got the Strixo CRTX 3080 at $899, and then we've got the Asus Dual RTX 3070 at $649. That is $50 less than Nvidia's MSRP for the 3080, but remember that that is Asus' low-end 3070. Then there's the tariffs.


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[Assistant] So anything being shipped to the US from China is subject to, oh what is it again, I forget, if it's 15%, I can't remember, we had to deal with this for a verified actual gamer program, but it's substantial. So, corrected for tariffs, those MSRP's are now $2200 for that Strixo C3090.


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[Assistant] Over a thousand dollars for the 6800 XT, uh, Nick just messaged, he says it's around 25%. Yeaah. Over a thousand dollars for the RTX 3080 and 679 dollars for the 3070. Now.


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[Assistant] Something that is also really interesting that we learned from verified actual gamer program is not every card coming into the US is subject to the tariffs.


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[Assistant] So EVGA, for example, was able to get way closer to the original MSRPs of the 3070s that we sold through verified actual gamer program because those boards were manufactured in Taiwan.


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[Assistant] But, here's a problem. Remember, you're Nvidia, right? Think about, put yourself in Nvidia's shoes. You have a lot more forces weighing on you than just what gamers would like a card to be priced at. Like, something as simple as a capacitor.


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[Assistant] Could easily have gone up in price 200, 300, 400% because of the worldwide electronics supply situation that's going on right now. So you have, you have pricing pressure on you. It's obvious that DRAM pricing pressure was a big part of the reason for the existence of the 38ETI. Like,


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[Assistant] There's a reason they cut it in half from the 3090 and kept everything else basically the same. So you could have pricing pressure on you. You could have pressure from, uh, your, uh, resellers, for example. Uh, you know, they might say, hey,


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[Assistant] Don't price these things too low because, you know, let's say I'm, uh, let's say I'm a micro center, for example, and I'm looking at it going, you know, why am I not able to take advantage of any of the margin that clearly the market will bear in these products? And Nvidia might say, look,


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[Assistant] We're gonna prioritize gamers over your concerns there, you know, forget it. You guys should be happy to have GPUs at all. And great, they can do that. But they also have other forces on them, like say for example their board partners. Let's say for example that I am a...


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[Assistant] Ah, I'm trying to think. Okay, let's say I'm Pallet. To my knowledge, Pallet manufactures all of their boards in China. So, oh wait, shoot, Pallet might be a bad example because I don't think they're in North America anymore. I know they were for a bit. I'm gonna have to double check. I'm sorry guys, give me a second here. Pallet. They might have pulled out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's like one RTX 2060 dual or something like that. Whatever. Uhm, I can't think of anyone else off the top of my head. It's not terribly important. The point is, Nvidia has board partners that do the vast majority, if not all, of their board manufacturing in China.


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[Assistant] If Nvidia were to set an MSRP that is literally below what that board partner could achieve,


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[Assistant] Once the tariffs are applied, which remember are about 25% and you can, if you're American, you can thank your government for that. If they were to do that, they would be putting that part board partner at a huge disadvantage compared to their other partners. I'm not saying that Nvidia did or did make pricing decisions based on this. I'm saying that it's something that they have to consider.


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[Assistant] So, Nvidia still sells Founders Edition cards at the launch MSRP. That's one of the biggest arguments against our take. But there's a problem with that. Uhm, good luck getting one, right? Like if you can get one, great.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's been basically, it's been basically impossible. I mean, Nvidia has-


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[Assistant] What? Siri, I'm not talking to you. Uh, yeaah, it's been basically impossible to get your hands on one of those in the first place, let alone now. And besides, if you do, great! Do it! My advice would be the same.


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[Assistant] All I'm saying is, if you are in a particular price band, and you find a GPU in stock at MSRP, including the 3080 Ti, you go for it. And if you're sitting there going, well, it's a bad deal, then don't buy it.


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[Assistant] If you had to, if you had to calculate how many FPS per dollar, you are not the customer for a 3080 Ti in the first place. So why are you mad? What's the point of getting mad? Like, I remember this, I remember this.


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[Assistant] I came into my job at NCIX as a buyer, right? As an enthusiast.


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[Assistant] But a sensible enthusiast, right? Like I never, I never went out and bought, you know, uh, an Athlon 64X2.


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[Assistant] 4800 plus. You know, an FX processor, right? I'd never bought an Extreme Edition. The only times I ever bought top tier GPUs were...


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[Assistant] Temporarily. Like, I still remember the time I bought two 7800 GTXs. Like, spent my, emptied my entire bank account as a student on two 7800 GTXs because there was this guy that I like had done other smaller deals with.


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[Assistant] That I knew was just a baller and he would sell them at like,


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[Assistant] Crazy prices, like he'd take a $400 bath on these things compared to what they were worth, just to like,


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[Assistant] Get rid of them, because money just meant nothing to them, so I bought them at way less than what they were worth. I ran them for like two weeks, terrified that some news was gonna come out, that a replacement was coming and the value was gonna tank, and then I flipped them. I was like, that was fun, I tried SLI, that was super cool, see ya later. Because,


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[Assistant] Right, so I came into my job at NCIX having only really like, experienced really high-end, top-spec hardware as like, a fun, scary experiment. And I thought, I thought going in, I was like, nobody actually buys that stuff, right? It's like,


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[Assistant] Look, I'm smart enough to read the review on a non-tech, you know, you should get the Q6600 if you want basically the whole shebang in terms of performance instead of springing for the QX6700, I can't remember if it was a 67 or 68 at launch, but the point is instead of spending


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[Assistant] Twice as much on an Extreme Edition, you should get 90 plus percent of the performance for half the price, and then you should just overclock it if you really want more performance, obviously. That was my, that was my point of view. But I had never had the experience of actually seeing the sales members and realizing, oh wow, people actually buy that stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a completely different set of buyers out there to whom the difference between a $3,000 computer and a $6,000 computer is not particularly meaningful. That's the customer that the 3080 Ti was created for. It is what it is. And even if you're not that customer, honestly,


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[Assistant] And this is maybe an even more controversial take. Let's say that you don't have any money, or you don't have that kind of money to spend on a GPU.


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[Assistant] If I found a 3080 Ti and I, like, desperately needed the money and I had no problem scalping, then I should just buy it. And then I should resell it.


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[Assistant] 3080Ti, if you see it in, if you see it on a shelf at MSRP, pretty much no matter who you are, you should just buy it.


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[Assistant] If you're someone who's in that price range shopping for a GPU, you should buy it. If you're someone who's not in that price range and you're willing to scalp it, then you'd be crazy not to buy it. It is what it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're not, we're not supportive of that. We've gone out of our way. We've spent a lot of time and money. I mean, the Floatplane team has spent a lot of time and I've spent a lot of money paying them to develop the verified actual gamer program. Every single GPU that came into our hands from manufacturers went out.


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[Assistant] Add MSRP, in some cases we were making as little as 3.5% profit. I don't care. It was about getting cards in the hands of gamers. And the verified actual gamer program, even though we haven't done any drops, is still very much alive.


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[Assistant] So if manufacturers actually wanted these cards to go out on MSRP, we would be happy to enable it.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying, the take, you might not like it, but you also just might not be the customer for that product.


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[Assistant] So, uh, there's a couple more things here. Riley has a really good note in that budget gamers frustrated by more freakin' high-end cards are certainly justified in being frustrated. I mean, totally. It's very clear from the launch of, uh, what is it, the RX...


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[Assistant] 6600? What's the, what's the mobile, yeaah, the RX 6600 mobile that AMD just launched. It's clear that AMD had a mainstream GPU that was developed, uh, and they just, you know, never released a desktop product based on it because


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[Assistant] You know, clearly if they have a limited amount of silicon, they were better off just producing their higher end products.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and I'm, I'm sure Nvidia was ready to rock with replacements for the 1600 series and 1650 series as well, or yeaah, sorry, the 1600 series as well. But...


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[Assistant] I mean, at that point, yeaah, you can, you can be mad, but from a business standpoint, I also understand if you can't even meet the demand for your RTX 3090s, you know, why are you


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[Assistant] Why are you releasing more products? And that's something that we've said before. In this case, it's a product that seems to be designed to alleviate the supply issues, as opposed to do anything else.


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[Assistant] So, in terms of market positioning, the 3080 Ti is a less expensive 3090, and that makes it a great deal if you were a potential 3090 buyer. But, and this is another Riley note, the question is who was asking for this? Yeah, that's a great question, and I can see why people are mad.


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[Assistant] I'm also standing behind what we said, for that particular buyer.


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[Assistant] The fact that there's gonna be more of them than there were 3090s, which will help you get your hands on that level of performance at hopefully a lower price at MSRP instead of from a scalper is a good deal. So...


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[Assistant] To be clear, I'm not saying Hardware Canucks was wrong, I'm not saying that Gamers Nexus was wrong. Actually, Gamers Nexus was wrong about one thing.


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[Assistant] The idea that scalper prices are just derived from MSRP and based on, yea, it just doesn't work that way. Uhm, but I'm not saying Gamers Nexus or Hardware Unboxed was wrong about it, you know, being a money grab or not being a good deal.


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[Assistant] I, I don't, see the thing is, I don't know how to respond to that. Like, I don't, I don't shape the reality, right? And I'm not being passive aggressive, I'm being extremely forthright with y'all. I'm telling you, look, this is what it is.


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[Assistant] There's a shortage. These are business decisions. This is why they made them for that particular buyer at the high end of the market, which STILL


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[Assistant] Has not had its demands satisfied. It's a good deal.


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[Assistant] For a value buyer? Yea, it's a bad deal, but you weren't the customer. It's not a value card. It's not a value card.


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[Assistant] And, I mean honestly, something that's been really frustrating for me, as part of verified actual gamer program, is every single participant


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[Assistant] Okay, every single one of them, I have asked, hey, can we do something more mainstream? Can we do a 1650 or a 1660? Can we do something that's actually affordable? And every single one of them has come back and said, I can't get you any allocation of that. And you can absolutely be furious about it.


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[Assistant] 100%. It just has nothing to do with the 38ETI.


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[Assistant] Alright, I think it's probably time for us to move on now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, let's, let's move on to, let's move on to something else. Uhm, oh my, oh man, this is hilarious. Uh, do you remember that, uh, that Luke was wrong? Like, sort of meme thing? Yeah, yeah. Do we need to do a Linus was wrong shirt?


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[Assistant] If people are gonna call me, if people are gonna call me like, it's amazing, the accusations that I get anytime someone doesn't agree with me. It's like, mine is on the take from Nvidia. I am hardly-


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[Assistant] I am hardly on speaking terms with anyone who wears a green name tag.


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[Assistant] Uh, Swapode says, come on, it's like you guys aren't even listening. I'm sorry, I don't know how to deal with this. NVIDIA hasn't sold an enthusiast card at MSRP for well over four years. Don't just blame the pandemic. NVIDIA is not a manufacturer!


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[Assistant] That's a really, really important point.


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[Assistant] Nvidia is not a manufacturer. The MSRP's are ultimately set by the manufacturers of the cards, and they are based on external factors, like what their costs are, whether there are tariffs. It is what it is.


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[Assistant] They've always been expensive. What was the price of this stupid, uh, GTX 690? I forget.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it was a grand. It was a grand back in the day. And the stupidest thing about it was that it performed worse than two 680s.


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[Assistant] And because it was clocked lower, because it was a like dual card, it just, it just made no, it made no sense. But you gotta understand.


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[Assistant] Whether something makes sense is always within the context of the time that it was released. The 690 made no sense because you could get two 680s, so at the cost of just having a couple more PCI Express slots taken up, you could get better performance by just getting two 680s.


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[Assistant] But the reason that the 3080Ti does make sense is that in the context of this time, if you can get it at MSRP, it's probably the best deal you're gonna get.


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[Assistant] And I'm sorry. And that sucks. And we really are actually doing something about it. We're trying. Verified Actual Gamer Program has put cards in gamers' hands at MSRP. We did everything we possibly could.


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[Assistant] We started a computer hardware store. Like, what do you- what else can I possibly do? I can whine about it. I can walk out of a press conference. Do you think Nvidia-


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[Assistant] If I walk out of their press conference, they literally donate, like, I sent an email saying, hey, thanks, it was really refreshing that you guys were super straightforward in your manner of communication over various aspects of this launch. Because Nvidia, we have a long history of them basically


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[Assistant] And just communicate clearly. I've said it on many occasions. And so I was, I was really pleased that they were just forthright in their communication for a change.


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[Assistant] And, I didn't even get a response. Straight up, didn't even get a reply. Don't imagine for a second that I'm somehow on Nvidia's payroll here, or that I'm somehow cozy with Nvidia. That's actually not the way it works. Anthony attended the briefing.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I just don't know what else, I just don't know what else to say to people sometimes. Go have your conspiracy theory, right? Like, there's nothing that I can say to make you believe me and think.


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[Assistant] ZY says Linus' argument is deceitful because he's ignoring the performance of the 3080 non-TI. Uh, your argument is deceitful because you are ignoring the real world pricing of the 3080 non-TI.


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[Assistant] The 3080 non-TI is not available for $6.99 US dollars. Go buy one then. Good luck.


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[Assistant] It is what it is. Like, I understand this is having a huge impact on people's enthusiasm for computer hardware. Like, we see it.


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[Assistant] Like we see it in the sentiment in our community, but this is beyond our control.


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[Assistant] The good news is there's some cool stuff. Why don't we change gears and talk about AMD, because AMD has really done a lot.


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[Assistant] Let's start with FidelityFX Super Resolution. Finally, it's coming. AMD has an upscaling feature that's positioned to challenge Nvidia's deep learning super sampling, offering up to two times the performance in games at 4K with ray tracing turned on.


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[Assistant] Their keynote showed godfall, uh, with a 59% increase in performance at 4k at ultra quality.


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[Assistant] However, it's important to note that super resolution is not just a copy of DLSS. Which isn't necessarily a good thing.


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[Assistant] So, it actually supports hardware from both AMD and Nvidia, which is cool. So it launched the features supported on RX 6000, RX 5000, RX 500, and GTX 10 series and newer Nvidia GPUs. And Ryzen processors with Radeon graphics on board are actually supported too. But it uses a different upscaling technique.


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[Assistant] Doesn't use an AI model like NVIDIA's.


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[Assistant] So developers are responsible for implementing the FSR code in their games and they have full ownership over the final product, which means that how good or not good it looks could come down to the game developer's implementation.


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[Assistant] But what it also means is that AMD doesn't need to partner with game developers to get FSR in games.


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[Assistant] Like DLSS, it has multiple quality modes, so you can set it to ultra, quality, balanced, or performance, and ultra quality can boost frame rates 50% or more while retaining as much detail as possible, and then as you go down, each performance mode gives you a higher frame rate at the cost of image quality.


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[Assistant] In May, AMD published a patent for gaming super resolution that revealed a hybrid supersampling approach that will combine linear and non-linear upscaling technology. So the original low-res image passes through a linear upscaling network.


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[Assistant] And then a non-linear upscaling network at the same time extracting different bits of information through each path.


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[Assistant] And then FSR then combines these images to create a pixel grid that expands on each pixel for a high res image. So then after some cleanup, you're gonna get your reconstructed image. The patent also confirms that super resolution will work on multiple devices. Say for example, a computer. Okay, we knew that one. Or a gaming device, or handheld device, or set-top box, or TV.


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[Assistant] So that's pretty neat. Right now, AMD supports over 100 GPUs and CPUs and has a release date of June 22nd. Like the rest of the FidelityFX suite, you can access the setting in-game for supported titles as long as you have a supported graphics card.


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[Assistant] Like, low res slides from AMD's presentation about it, it really doesn't look very good.


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[Assistant] It just didn't look that sharp. I mean a big part of why DLSS works so well is that Nvidia works with the game developer to get samples.


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[Assistant] of what the assets are supposed to look like at high resolution and then uses that to inform how it upscales the lower resolution native rendering that the GPU is actually doing.


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[Assistant] So, without that machine learning element,


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[Assistant] I mean, realistically it was, it was never gonna match the results of deep learning supersampling, but,


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[Assistant] A lot of people are never gonna look that closely at it, and as long as they get more FPS, then I guess they're gonna be happy. It's just, uhm...


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[Assistant] When, yeaah, whether it's, yeaah, Digital Foundry is probably gonna look into this a lot, whether it's AMD or Nvidia, whenever they come out with a feature that's like, hey, like those guys have, but we've got it now too, you gotta kind of go, okay, but do you? Do you really though? Is it really?


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[Assistant] And it's such a funny thing that we're going back to rendering hacks.


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[Assistant] I mean, do you remember back in the days of like...


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[Assistant] Oh man, you gotta go way back to like Nvidia's FX series, right?


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[Assistant] Like, when they were, they were just way, way behind the performance and importantly the image quality of AMD's Radeon 9000 series.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there were all kinds of little driver tricks that the hardware press at the time were finding out that Nvidia or ATI, as they were known back then, were implementing.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, whether it was shortcuts that they were taking when they detected certain applications like benchmarks or whether it was, uh, you know, cheaper, lower quality, um, rendering approaches that they were sort of quietly implementing in the driver without telling anybody, uh, these days,


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[Assistant] Or not these days, I should say. Then, for a long time, after getting called on it so many times and committing not to do it, Nvidia and ATI-AMD both cleaned up their act for a very long time. And then the funny thing is,


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[Assistant] We're now kind of going back to those days where not only do we accept that both AMD and Nvidia are using their own sort of divergent paths to hackily make their performance better, we're embracing it. I mean,


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[Assistant] From, from like a, from a purist standpoint, where, you know, to me, if you're gaming at 4k, uh,


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[Assistant] If you're not actually rendering natively at 4K, are you really gaming at 4K?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I-I-I find it kind of amusing that even people like me are coming around to it, because the reality of it is, in a fast-paced scene,


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[Assistant] Most people are not gonna notice the difference between DLSS and native resolution rendering.


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[Assistant] They're just not going to. I don't know that the same will be true of FidelityFX Super Resolution, however, just based on what I've seen so far, which is not much. It looks like it might end up just looking like Vaseline smeared over the screen, but...


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[Assistant] Matthew Way gets it. There's nothing robbery about buying a luxury product. Yeah, it's not a good value, but nobody's forcing you to buy it.


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[Assistant] I mean, as, as part of our, oh man, I don't want to get back on this topic, but as part of our script review for that video, Anthony and I went on eBay, and we took a variety of GPUs, 2080TIs, 2080s, 3080s, 3070s, and we went through and we went, okay,


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[Assistant] What is the actual real world street price for these things? And compared to those, it's a great deal.


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[Assistant] Uh, in other good news, back to AMD, uh, new APUs. So this is really exciting. We did a video about AMD's Ryzen 5000, excuse me.


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[Assistant] I was really frustrated to find out that, well not to find out, I was really frustrated that AMD had this product with good onboard graphics, uh, Zen 2 cores, and it was an OEM only part.


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[Assistant] Now, usually, you think back, Luke, like, to all the OEM-only parts that we've seen over the years. Uh, remember NVIDIA's GeForce 800 series?


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[Assistant] Yeah, me neither. Yeah, 300 series. Oh, am I thinking of 300? Oh, I'm sorry. Whatever. Oh, I think it was both. Was it both? I think so.


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[Assistant] 8,000 series? Maybe it was 8,000. Sorry, 8,000 series. Did I say thousand? Doesn't matter. The point is...


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, remember these product generations that have been effectively skipped, except that they actually did exist, but only as OEM-only parts that were basically just rebranded the previous generation thing. Absolutely nothing changed, just to make it seem like it was newer and better.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right, okay, right. So those are the kind of thing that I am used to seeing as an OEM-only part.


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[Assistant] But then AMD comes out and they've got what in my mind was one of the best CPUs in their lineup.


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[Assistant] For value gamers, at a time when gamers need value products, something that they can game on today, while they wait out this storm, and they went and they made the things OEM only, they had them, but you could only get them in a pre-built system from a Tier 1.


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[Assistant] Well, AMD answered my prayers here, and the 5600G and 5700G are extremely exciting products.


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[Assistant] Uh, the 5600G is 6 cores, 12 threads, Zen 3, Vega 7 graphics. It's got the same 65 watt TDP as the 5600 non-G.


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[Assistant] Which doesn't exist anymore. So the 5600X and except it has onboard graphics and there's just...


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[Assistant] There's just no downside to me. These look like a fantastic way to go because you get the benefit of onboard graphics and you basically don't have to pay for it.


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[Assistant] Your motherboard probably has outputs on it already. Uhm, darlin', off you go on live, out you go.


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[Assistant] Sorry about that. Uhm, what was I talking about? Right, so you get a GPU, you get something you can actually use, and you don't have to pay for it. And one of the things that I actually found over the years that I didn't consider back when Intel first started putting onboard graphics directly on their CPUs with Clarkdale is that it's really good for resale value.


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[Assistant] Cause think about it, just because you're gonna have a dedicated graphics card anyway, and you don't need the onboard graphics,


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[Assistant] It doesn't mean that whoever you turn around and flip that chip to, especially now that AMD is innovating so quickly with their CPUs that you actually could feel like you need to upgrade every generation or two, uhm, whoever it is that you're going to turn around and flip that CPU to, will they?


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[Assistant] They might not, sorry. You don't. You don't what? I lost track.


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[Assistant] It is ten years old. And sure, you might be susceptible to meltdown, Inspector.


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[Assistant] But I think the GF's, uh, gaming rig is probably kind of a non-concern. Yeah. Probably a non-issue.


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[Assistant] Back to another reason that a CPU with good integrated graphics is awesome for resale is that just because you were just gonna use it with a dedicated graphics card doesn't mean that whoever you sell it to was gonna wanna do that.


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[Assistant] So having the one that has onboard graphics I've found has actually made a significant difference to how much demand there is for it once the time comes to flip it. Just something that, something that I...


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[Assistant] And wow, I'm going to, I'm sure someone's gonna dig up this clip years from now and find a way to make me super wrong about this, but that CPU could be your 2600K.


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[Assistant] That CPU could be the one you are still running in 10 years. I see no reason why not.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, so that's cool. And the fact that it's available at a price that is actually, is actually attainable is great. Apparently Gamers Nexus is in the chat.


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[Assistant] Uh, Gamer's Nexus. No one needs to upgrade every generation. Only when your current card is starting to fall behind. You know what? That's a really interesting conversation. You know, talking about how outraged people are about 38 ETI. When I'm looking at it going, how many people are really buying?


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[Assistant] Not because I can't just literally pluck one off a shelf at work and bring it home, but because I didn't need it. And there's nothing wrong with that.


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[Assistant] You don't have to have the fastest GPU. Apparently no, that's a fake Steve. Alright. Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I thought it was a real Steve. Wait, no, fake Steve, that's not fake Steve, there's a verified, it's a verified checkmark fake? I don't think so.


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[Assistant] There's a fake gamer's nexus in here. Ignore that one. So, no, real Steve is actually here. I just don't know which Steve I'm talking to right now. Oh no! Oh no!


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[Assistant] Oh man. Now, now, now I'm in, now I'm in trouble. The only way to know if it's a real Steve would just be to call him. Uhm, I'm kinda done with this topic though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we should revisit that. Maybe with the, uh, you know what, we could do it around the, uh, the launch of the 5700G, that would be awesome. Just kind of say, okay, how, how, you know, how overkill is 8 cores for gaming today? And kind of exploring that, because it will be very overkill for gaming today. And is this the kind of thing, I hate to use the F word, but is this a CPU that could be future-proof?


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[Assistant] I would make the argument based on what I know today, that it is a real solid bet to be a real great investment.


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[Assistant] The best future proofing is bang for the buck, and I'll tell you why. Because if you buy the top end one that is twice the price for 10% more performance, yes, you are going to get more of a lifespan out of that product in terms of it meeting a minimum bar of performance than if you had bought a cheaper one.


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[Assistant] But there's a couple of problems with that logic. Number one is that you bought a top spec product, so clearly you have very high expectations in terms of performance. Realistically, there is no future proofing.


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[Assistant] You're gonna resell it and you're gonna upgrade it. So okay, fine, that's just a, that's a very different, that's a very different type of, of, of customer and you just shouldn't even really be having the future-proofing conversation. You should just say,


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[Assistant] I like to spend a lot because I'm a mad baller and I'm into that and just own it.


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[Assistant] Number two is that future-proofing is not about what you buy today. It's about optimization of your funds. This is something that would always drive me crazy in the computer store. If someone would come in and they'd want to spend way more on something that's way more expensive,


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[Assistant] You quite literally have $2,000 today and $2,000 two years from now.


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[Assistant] And I would try to explain this to people, and they would just, they would fight me on it. And I would end up just letting them spend the money the vast majority of the time, but they just, they couldn't wrap their brain around with how fast the computer industry moves. And that was especially true back then. You are so much better off spending $2,000 today,


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[Assistant] Keeping that $2,000 and if, I don't care, put it in a GIC, doesn't matter. Keep that $2,000, have the discipline, keep it.


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[Assistant] And then, in a couple years, buy another one, and you will have two computers. You'll have one that is a good computer still, because it was $2,000, and you'll have another one that is faster than what you would have bought for $4,000.


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[Assistant] It used to drive me so crazy because the math is so simple. But people just, they didn't, they didn't want to hear it, you know?


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[Assistant] Oh lordy, I've got a call from one Steven Burke.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's weird. Hold on a second. It's still on the earpiece even though I've got it set to speaker.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no no no, don't worry Steve, you're not in trouble. You could never say anything that would upset me.


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[Assistant] Don't, don't worry about it. We, so the thing is, I mean, okay, for the viewers out there, you guys gotta understand, Steve and I have disagreed about a great many things. We, we are not, we're not always on the same page.


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[Assistant] And that's okay. That's the beauty of an independent press, right?


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[Assistant] A lot of people think that, you know, Nvidia or AMD or Intel or whatever, uhm, are basically bribing the tech media, but the problem is that


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[Assistant] The surest way to out yourself as a fanboy is to accuse someone else of being a paid shill.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because it basically just demonstrates that you're, you don't want to or you're not capable of making an objective argument and you would rather just throw sticks and stones.


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[Assistant] Oh man, good ol', good ol' Nvidia. Yup. Alright, well thanks, thanks for calling in, Steve.


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry Luke. Yeaah, he basically said that uhm, we should just go back to having you do all the GPU reviews, cause clearly Anthony and I can't handle it. No, he didn't, no, no. Anthony is the best thing he did. No, no, he didn't. He didn't, he didn't say that at all.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, let's, uh, oh, speaking of, uh, making more money than Nvidia would be willing to pay me, let's talk to, uh, hey, who's our sponsors for the show today?


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[Assistant] Ridge Wallet wants you to stop carrying around pointless items like receipts, old hotel room keys, and spent gift cards. With a Ridge Wallet, you will carry less, because you can't carry that much in it. That is by design. It uses two metal plates that are bound by a strong elastic band to keep your cards tightly in place, but still accessible.


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[Assistant] It's RFID blocking, has a lifetime guarantee, and is available in aluminum, carbon fiber, and titanium.


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[Assistant] And they don't just sell wallets, they got battery banks, bags, smartphone covers, and more, and you can use offer code...


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[Assistant] Whoops, my, I'm on, why am I on Tuxcare? Whoops. Ah, there we go. And you can use offer code WAN to save 10% on everything at ridge.com slash WAN. So we're gonna have that linked in the video description. The show is also brought to you by Tuxcare. And I'm just gonna leave Ridge Wallets banner up, I guess.


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[Assistant] Is that how this works? Thanks to Tuxcare for sponsoring today's video. Tuxcare helps enterprise companies take care of support, maintenance, and security of Linux systems. And the portfolio of Tuxcare services includes live patching for Linux kernels, shared libraries, virtualization, databases, and embedded devices. Uhm...


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[Assistant] They also provide enterprises with end-of-life Linux support, and they provide official support for the new CentOS replacement, Alma Linux OS.


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[Assistant] Oh man, we're gonna have to deal with that at some point in the near future here. Our, uhm, our vault is running CentOS like 6 or something.


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[Assistant] Thankfully. Little bit, little bit yikes. There's Tuxcare. Uh, Tuxcare services are installed on more than half a million Enterprise Linux systems and you can check them out and apply for a free proof of concept at the link below on Tuxcare's website. That's tuxcare.com.


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[Assistant] The show is also brought to you by Seasonic. Thanks to Seasonic for sponsoring today's video. Their Prime Ultra Titanium PC power supplies feature ultra high efficiency with their 80 plus titanium rating.


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[Assistant] They're fully modular, they feature hybrid fan control, so they are silent when they are not being used heavily, and when they do spin up their fans, they've got fluid dynamic fan bearings that mean they're still pretty darn quiet.


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[Assistant] They offer up to a 50,000 hour life expectancy along with a 12 year warranty, and you can check them out at the link below on Seasonic's website, or on Amazon, which is also linked down below.


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[Assistant] Alright, sorry, I gotta, I keep having to shift the stupid things around, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know, Pulseway always tries to get in on our server videos, so I don't know if Tux care is even going to get a crack at it. They can try though, they can try.


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[Assistant] Check this out! I actually really like this one. Sarah did a fantastic job of the design. Yeah, it's the Do Not Drop shirt. Uh, so she took some of the designs that she created for our sticker packs. Actually, I think most of them are from the first sticker pack.


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[Assistant] And, uh, made like, apparently this is, this is cool now or something, having like graphics on the, on the back of the shirt like that.