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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I thought there was a, there was a substantial benefit to, to using this versus v-sync on. Uhm, obviously a substantial benefit versus, uh, you know, v-sync off.


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[Assistant] Less pronounced of a benefit versus v-sync off at a really high refresh rate, which I think that's a.


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[Assistant] Well yea, I know, but it's not like a, you know, it's not like a $600 display, right? Or a $1000 display. Uhm, so, and again, for games, like whatever, you get lost in it, it's fine. Uhm, so I wasn't a huge fan of the display they chose. My guess is it was probably one of the easiest to kind of retrofit.


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[Assistant] And even if you, I actually, I want to take apart one of the ones that isn't a G-Sync monitor, because I don't know if you saw, on the inside of it, it's got an Nvidia branded PCB.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I don't know, cause like they, you know, the whole thing is, well, we just replaced the scaler. Uhm, but at least in this display, they replaced, like, it looks like they replaced just, there's this entire PCB that they've changed, but I don't know if the original also was designed by Nvidia, so that's something I'm curious about.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's why I'm curious to see what like a normal one of these monitors looks like on the inside. Cause I don't know about yours, mine was like the, all the hardware, uhm, the scaler board and the Nvidia like motherboard that it plugged into. That was all just like taped in place. There were no screws, it was just tape.


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[Assistant] So I'm just really curious to see what the unmodified Asus display looks like.


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[Assistant] So yea, no, I mean, for folks who haven't seen it before, right? Like the sweet spot for G-Sync is somewhere in that, you know, for me, I found it to be like 38 to 60 frames a second.


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[Assistant] Um, whereas normally when you're running v-sync on at a 60 Hertz panel,


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[Assistant] You start dropping below in that range and start getting like this really, really variable frame rate, uh, that's out of sync with, with your monitor. You do get this judder, right? Like it's, it's clear that, you know, whatever you've walked into a room where there's just like really detailed paintings on the wall and stuff, right? Or like there's just tons of foliage outside.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you get this shutter and you just kind of deal with it. And then with G-Sync, in that exact same situation, it kind of feels like 60 frames a second.


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[Assistant] No, so I agree, like they picked an interesting panel. I, you know, I was able to find a bunch of games where even on a 760, you know, dropping below 60 wasn't an issue. But what I found is just the experience is terrible if you drop below 30. Like it's just, it gets real bad.


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[Assistant] So you, you really need fast enough to be above 30, uh, but you know, you need the optimal combination of, of settings and hardware to make sure you're always in that sweet spot for this to do anything, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, you know, all I was gonna say is this actually, uhm, what Carmack said, I think he was the one that said it on stage, resonates really well with me now in that.


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[Assistant] Uh, game developers no longer have to target 60, right? Like they can, they can be okay dipping down to some of these lower, and that's assuming that.


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[Assistant] This is something that's, you know, supported by more than just Nvidia, but I think that's where a lot of the potential is. That and, and it's a good way of dealing with the stupidly high resolution displays, which formerly, you know, you needed to have.


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[Assistant] Basically whatever the most expensive by Jensen and Eufarari kind of, or kind of exact kind of cards were.


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[Assistant] No, so I agree with you. That's something actually I wish I had more time to deal with. So I was at some other meetings when the G-Sync monitor arrived and I got back.


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[Assistant] Basically, I don't know, Sunday morning and, you know, then I killed the first day and a half trying to figure out what was wrong with the thing. And then that left me with, you know, basically like two days to deal with all of this. So I didn't get to go in depth into input lag. But I know that's, that's a big component. I think it's a question of.


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[Assistant] You know, which end do you attack, right? I think the cell they have here with the, hey, this makes everything smoother bit. I think that's a very experiential cell that applies to a very wide audience or very broad audience. I think.


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[Assistant] And, and I think a lot of what Nvidia's been doing has been trying to go after that, you know, almost the console gamer, right? The person who doesn't really know or understand what's going on, uhm, and, and, you know, they're not playing competitively.


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[Assistant] But you know, they're going after that market. And I think, I think, you know, reducing input lag is a definite advantage. But I think, like you said, that that tailors to a slightly smaller niche.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I actually, I didn't realize this had leaked yet. So I didn't pay much attention to, you know, how accurate or inaccurate it was. They actually had Haswell EU running in IDF, at IDF last year, or crap, this year still.


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[Assistant] They had it running just as a DDR4 demo, um, so, so samples have been out there, so I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, people got wind of it.


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[Assistant] And I think we might get that with, you know, it sounds like they're going to do socketed Broadwell and bring Crystal Well on board, but I'm guessing they won't, you know, they won't improve Crystal Well at all. It'll still be the same thing we have today. Uhm, but I, I don't know that I'm more interested in that personally.


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[Assistant] Uhm, do we need 8 cores on the desktop? Yea, if you're doing like a lot of, like,


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[Assistant] Really, really heavy professional video work. I can see that being very, very exciting. Uhm, and, and you know, I'd be fine with it if it weren't out of sync with the rest of the desktop stuff, right? I don't like this whole, yeah, you can get something that's, you know, a little better, but it's a year out of phase with everything else.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, I don't, I'm just not a fan of it. Like it's, it's, uh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm just not a fan of the trade-off. Like, I don't, for me, I would wait for Broadwell Desktop. It'll be cheaper and likely be close enough. Although, you know, 8 cores is nice. I won't, I won't, I won't hate on that too much.


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[Assistant] Okay, cool. Yeah, no, thanks for having me. Uhm, you can find, uh, me sometimes at AnonTech.com. That's A-N-A-N-D-T-E-C-H.com. Uhm, or on Twitter, which is at AnonShimpey. Uhm, A-N-A-N-D-S-H-I-M-P-I. Uhm, and yeah, congrats again on everything, man. You've been doing a good job. And, uh, thanks for having me on.


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[Assistant] Yep, I'll be just completely demoralized and just tired and...


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[Assistant] Oh, you don't, like you can't, you just, uh, you're just eternally late. Like I'm already late to my first CES meeting, like that's just, you just have to assume that that's the case. You embrace the lateness and, and you know, you'll, you'll be okay.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's not gonna go over well. They'll probably like, have you beaten or something.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's some creepy stuff. Wow, I just dropped another piece in my lap. That's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] I'll drive back out here. That sounds pretty good. You have cake on your shirt. I have cake on my arm. And on my hands. And on your face.


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[Assistant] Uh, show here, and uh, I know you, so it's okay to ask that. My biggest problem actually, and I'm gonna answer your question in a long-winded way.


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[Assistant] I think that's to be the most offensively rude thing you could say to me. Mainly because it's something that I basically, I'm doing it, there's a reason for it. Uhm, I have my reason. You may not know what it is. Many people may not know what it is.


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[Assistant] It's just better for everybody not to see what goes on behind the glasses.


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[Assistant] Designed for an open source firmware for a long time and it's like the 54 GL.


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[Assistant] I agree, I agree with him there, because that was my statement. I was like, eh, you know, Belkin, I've never been a big fan of Belkin's hardware.


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[Assistant] Yeah, not, not get the Cisco stuff, at least not the lower end, not the lower end equipment. Uhm, you know, and then, you know, later on we may, we, we talk about building your own router, you know, getting PFSense and, but then you're, you're actually taking an old computer and those things are power hungry. Yes.


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[Assistant] Uh, that firmware, you have that option, you can get into SSH, you can get into the command line and go really, go really crazy with it.


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[Assistant] I think it was a mass drop. They showed up and we were hanging out with them, which was a crazy conversation. That was just, uh, the guys from Fractal, Kyle was there from, uh, from New England and, you know, a bunch of these other cats just came in and out and we were like, cool. And then we were looking to bump into you, but you guys were over at the other hotel and it was just like,


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[Assistant] Absolutely, yeaah, like I said, even with Logan and I, we were there for two days, but we spent most of Thursday, well I was there for two days, but we spent most of Thursday and Friday in the north and central hall and we tried to get to the south hall, but we got there like as they were shutting down, uh, which was kinda nifty because we bumped into some random


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[Assistant] To prepare myself in the event that somebody else may want to or maybe we can all be aware of these kinds of things. You get something that, you know, you're talking about losing your cat and that right there is, is...


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[Assistant] Definitely something I think this could be used for and, you know, stick on the car or what not, your keys, that kind of jazz. But then there's also that random fear that I have that somebody's gonna like tag your car.


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[Assistant] Maybe tag, uh, tag your briefcase or some other kind of device or, or something that's gonna be on the move so they can track you down. They could, uh, stalk you if you will. And that, that kind of...


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[Assistant] That's a very open-ended qu- no, I've got a, I've got a very, uh, very wide, uh, background of, of a myriad of different things. Uhm, you know, just go back to the beginning. I started in...


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[Assistant] And then from that, I went back to college and got a two year degree in computer networking.


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[Assistant] Which was really my way of just saying I need, uh, some kind of paperwork that proves that I know all the stuff that I already do. Right. So I transitioned into that and then I migrated into, uh, networks, uh, telephones, telephone systems and telephone switches, uh, mostly like asterisk and open source, uh, PBXs.


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[Assistant] In material things that we were doing places to do it. What kind of, you know.


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[Assistant] Well, I'd say consumer, more like a prosumer. He's got a very strong opinion because of his background and where he comes from. Uh, he's got access to all that.


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[Assistant] What if we find your cat and we tag your cat and then we track your cat back to your house because we don't know where you live? For whatever reason we found your cat. That kind of thing. I mean, it's, it's the, I look at, I look at the world from a very, again, very security-minded kind of perspective, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, when we started this, we started with like, you know, the DDWRT demonstration. That was something that I know how to do. I'm like the crazy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I looked at the Pebble Steel and I'm like, you know, I'm not so much in it, but I like it. It looks very flashy, but I don't, I like the lightweight watch. Uhm, and it would be a little bit heavier on my wrist and I'd rather not have the, the extra weight.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but we were talking about the Qualcomm there, that actually sounds...


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[Assistant] Like something I'd be interested in looking at. One of the, there's a few drawbacks that I have at the Pebble that kind of, kind of,


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[Assistant] So, you know, getting the modifications on my wrist, I'm like, not important, not important, oh, that one's important, oh, not important. You know, that kind of jazz is always, is always nice to have. And the fact that I can control, like, my, my music, or, you know, just track forward, track back, or I can, uh, I've actually got audible right now, so I'm, uh, I can control.


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[Assistant] I, I just got it too and that's where it was really funny because I'm running around with Logan and I was sitting down at dinner with, with Logan and a friend of mine and every 10 minutes my, my watch was just buzzing non-stop and I'm like, okay, this is really annoying and I look at my watch, look at my watch and then my buddy was like, dude, are you going somewhere? I know!


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[Assistant] Several text message, you know, text SMS and, and you have G chat coming into this and I actually had to tune down like which ones are.


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[Assistant] Uh, it, it goes. It continues. It's a never-ending process as you're aware. Uhm, some weeks more exciting than others, but, uh, I have a feeling that the, the rest of the year will be as exciting as the early part of the summer was.


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[Assistant] It's an interesting web they weave, right? All these companies kind of do that. And I think they were afraid of people assuming that, you know, they were going to release new GPUs in June or July and thus...


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[Assistant] That's always what you gotta, with any release of hardware or gadgets or whatever, you don't want people to know about the new one too early otherwise they won't want to buy the old one that you have warehouses and warehouses of.


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[Assistant] Well, so Intel has that capability because they're such a dominant player in the market, right? So, uhm, they don't really have any real big competition from AMD in mobile or desktop or, you know, all-in-one PCs and that kind of thing.


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[Assistant] When, when they, they give out their road map, they can change it kind of however they want, and they're not going to be affected. They're not going to get dinged in the market. They're not going to get, you know, dinged by, well they might get dinged by enthusiasts, but it's not really going to matter, uh, because


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[Assistant] AMD has a big disadvantage in terms of performance, in terms of efficiency, uh, their bulldozer architecture kind of flopped miserably. You know, they, I'm sure you guys talked about when they released the 220 watt 8 core processor that ran at 5 gigahertz and


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[Assistant] We actually re-added some of their better engineers, like top level engineers on the CPU and GPU side, so I wouldn't really count them out 100% yet, but it's going to be at least, you know, 18 months, 24 months or beyond before we see a kind of turnaround. It takes that long in the microarchitectural world.


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[Assistant] So obviously if they're doing that, then they believe that there is still a market for discrete higher end processors. And I think what we're going to find is more of these overlaps are going to occur with the server and workstation world. There's not going to be any kind of dedicated desktop processors. I know everybody is afraid about the move of Intel to BGA only processors. Uhm, and that's kind of an inevitable


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[Assistant] Outcome with these $200 and below processors. That's just the way the markets are going to work.


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[Assistant] Well, I think the motherboard manufacturers will hate it because they are now responsible then for twice the product RMA, right? So if a processor has an issue, they're now responsible for returning that and replacing it and all that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] Uh, it also means they have to have, if they want to even attempt to offer the same amount of choice, they're gonna have to drastically increase their skew count, right? So if you get, uh, like an Asus Z87 Pro motherboard, now you want it, you want it with the high-end processor, the mid-range processor, the low-end processor.


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[Assistant] I mean that's, you know, that's entirely possible, I guess, uh, because...


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[Assistant] Well, I know for a fact that motherboard vendors hated it when Intel removed the pens from the processor and put them on.


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[Assistant] That's a kind of pricing and skewing issue that uh, Intel would essentially be shoving off to their board partners.


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[Assistant] I honestly don't know. I would assume it's not that many, right? So the, the Intel kind of lineup is, is fairly modest as it is now, uh, in terms of what parts DIY guys are actually picking up, I'm sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's just, it's, I think when this happens, you will see people leave the motherboard business that, uh, aren't giant players already.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I guess this is going to sound bad. I'm okay with that. Right? You know, they're, they're all...


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[Assistant] Soltech, uh, Soyo, um, DFI was a big player, all these guys that used to try to make enthusiast DIY parts, a lot of them are gone, and we're really kind of left with a handful Asus Gigabyte, MSI,


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[Assistant] You know, you've got others like ASRock and EVGA that are still in there, that are doing interesting things. But it's, it's really down to a couple of main players. But I wouldn't, it wouldn't surprise me now. Intel's let, uh, gone essentially from that market. They're not building boards on their own anymore.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I heard you bashing me earlier for that. It's not the sleep so much as it is, uhm, my wife would like to see me on Friday, I guess, is what it comes down to.


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[Assistant] How many people move around in this industry as it is. But PCPer.com is the website. We do a lot of cool stuff there. We have our podcast, which you can get access to either the RSS or the videos or the audio files at PCPer.com slash podcast. We record that on Wednesday nights.


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[Assistant] Uhm, live as well. I think we have our own pcpurr.com live channel too. So if anybody's interested, just go to pcpurr.com. We've got a schedule on the right hand side for all of our


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[Assistant] We worked out a new benchmarking system where actually capturing the output directly from the graphics card, uh, and then doing post-processing analyzation, analyzation rather, on that data.


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[Assistant] And it took a long time, right? So the idea of microstuttering, the idea that people who for years and years really have felt that, you know, when I am running multiple GPUs, it doesn't feel as smooth sometimes as when I'm running on a single GPU.


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[Assistant] Right, and everybody said, some people said, oh I don't see it, and some people said, it's horrendous, I cannot play on an SLI or crossfire system. And that went on basically since the reintroduction of multi-GPU into the world of PC enthusiasts.


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[Assistant] And so the, the advent of this, what we call frame rating, which is the ability to capture the output directly, I mean, the amount of data that this requires is, is tremendous. If we capture 2560 by 1440 at 60 Hz,


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[Assistant] Right, if you miss, if you miss one frame, all of the data you did was wrong, so it took us a while to figure out the right hardware combination and software combination to get that to work, but we have done it. And what we did over several, over several months and several articles was show, here's where AMD is faulting.


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[Assistant] Their crossfire is not balanced, it's not pacing the frames out in a comfortable way that makes the animation smooth on the screen. And AMD


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you deny it and they eventually accepted it and they started work on a new driver and this was not a minor task. They had to rewrite much of their catalyst


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[Assistant] Uh, in terms of performance and what our observed frame rate would see in terms of performance. And our observed frame rate took things out that were, we considered to call runt frames, frames that were too small to really matter, or dropped frames that obviously never show up on the screen. Well, Fraps sees things differently than what you do when you actually capture the video directly. So,


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[Assistant] Uhm, what 13.8 does, it implements something called frame pacing. When you have two GPUs, rather than, uh, immediately tell each GPU to render the next frame.


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[Assistant] Uh, as soon as the next one's done, what you do is you kind of, you watch what the pattern of frames are doing. How long it takes each frame to render. And you kind of adjust the time a little bit here and there. You maybe pause a little bit before you send the data from the game engine to the next, uh, or for the next frame to the next GPU.


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[Assistant] Because there's so much that happens between the game engine, DirectX, the GPU driver, and then the GPU hardware itself. Uhm, so,


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's kind of something that it took a long time for them to be able to get right or close enough to right. And as I was saying earlier, like the 13.8 driver is a big enough step forward that I'm comfortable saying that AMD has fixed it for


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[Assistant] Then I think that what AMD has done has improved things enough for me to start recommending those configurations again. I should also note it doesn't fix DX9 games, it only fixes DX10 and 11.


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[Assistant] This does not improve ifinity configurations at all. So if you are a user that has a triple monitor setup for gaming, it's very likely then that you will also have a crossfire configuration of some kind.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I'm eating again on the show. I know this is something that you guys prefer that I don't do, but quite frankly I've had nothing but, like, a cup of oatmeal since.


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[Assistant] I'd rather be disgusted than dead, I suppose. I appreciate that. So guys, we've got a lot of great topics for you today.


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[Assistant] First of all, our special guest is Kyle from Awesome Sauce News, or New Egg, I guess is the other place he is from. We've also got some pretty interesting crowdfunding news. Star Citizen just keeps on trucking, so they hit 31 million dollars of funding on the 25th, and then,


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[Assistant] Still rolling over there, we've also got some exciting new developments with respect to Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 805 CPU. Uhm, they're making some improvements to the CPU itself, but much of the improvement looks like it's gonna be coming on the graphics side of things.


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[Assistant] I think I already said Kyle from Newegg will join us, so I'm going a little out of order here, but what are your topics to introduce?


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[Assistant] So the original article is from Anontek, so we're gonna go ahead and... Really? The mouse is too far. I can't reach it. The original article is from Anontek, so they've got a little cool picture of an adorable dragon, as well as a Qualcomm Snapdragon looking chip. I want a pet dragon.


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[Assistant] And the main details here is that this is not so much a revolutionary change, it's more of an evolutionary change. So we're gonna be getting higher clock speeds, up to 2.5 GHz, which is just, like,


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[Assistant] It doesn't seem like it should be bright. It's like, yeah, we're gonna have 2.5 GHz quad cores in your phone.


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[Assistant] To be clear guys, these are not the same kinds of quad-cores that you're gonna find in a PlayStation 4 or in a PC or anything along those lines, but it is definitely a multi-threading monster. They're kinda adding


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[Assistant] More, more of, more of everything. So more clock speed, a couple small improvements here and there. But, the main improvements are really gonna be on the GPU. So we're going from Adreno 300 series to Adreno 400 series. They're gonna be called the 420 cause, uh,


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[Assistant] Which is amazing because as much as guys like AMD are talking about


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[Assistant] Okay, we're gonna have like OpenCL acceleration and you're gonna be able to like batch process Photoshop files because everyone does that, right? Uhm, you can use OpenCL to accelerate that on something like a phone?


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[Assistant] All of a sudden, OpenCL is gonna make a ton of sense because think of everything from Instagram filters to... It would much more likely be batch processing things.


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[Assistant] And you're gonna have like these specific tasks that you perform that are going to be able to take advantage not only of the improved performance


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[Assistant] That open CL that, that GPU compute can provide but also the fact that it's gonna be lower power consumption and


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[Assistant] For something that plugs into my wall, I kinda sit there and I go, yeah, I mean, that's cool, thank you. You know, it's great to have better power consumption, but at the end of the day, that extra, you know, couple of watts doesn't make the same difference to me that it does when my phone's running out of battery, you know, halfway through the day all the time. Actually, you know what, for all the complaints about Nexus 5,


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[Assistant] It has not, you know what, I think it comes down to, sorry, I'm changing gears here, so I guess that was pretty, oh, okay, now let's cover the last thing that's really exciting about Snapdragon 805, and that is the fact that it is gonna have not only hardware accelerated H.264 and code and decode, but also H.265 decode.


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[Assistant] So that means again, lower power consumption and the ability to enjoy some truly next generation web content. Because H.265 is a much more efficient compression algorithm. However, it does require more processing power to decode it. So if you have hardware that is designed just for that, we're gonna be looking at things like 2.5k or 4k streams.


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[Assistant] That can be decoded on your phone without a significant power consumption increase. So like, thumbs up Qualcomm. You guys have gone from zero to absolute hero. Just because, you know, a couple other guys were like, hey, yeah, we'd also like a chunk of this, this mobile processor market. No!


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[Assistant] They were content to just kinda hang. Yeah. And nowadays, you look at any smartphone, it's like, what processor's inside? No, no. What Qualcomm processor is inside it? Because it's like, oh, well it could be the Snapdragon 600! Or the 800! It could be clocked at 1.8 gigahertz! Oh, no, maybe 1.9 gigahertz! HTC One versus Samsung Galaxy S4! Which one has the same processor clocked slightly higher? Which one throttles less?


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[Assistant] This is a rumor, guys, so the appropriate disclaimers, we are not saying that this is absolute news, but it was posted by YouBetterNot on the forum, and


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[Assistant] There's going to be apparent, like, as if Samsung doesn't already have a fragmented enough approach to their, I mean, even their, I think their Galaxy lineup of phones probably contains more phones than anyone else's whole lineup of phones.


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[Assistant] Now the S series is like, well there's a mini one that's like, it's like that but smaller and also much crappier. And then there's gonna be a normal plastic one.


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[Assistant] With an OLED display, and then there's gonna be a premium version sporting a metal case and a flexible OLED display, and all of these rumors combined together are interesting, but then there's also the- the bombshell rumor.


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[Assistant] As someone who is getting pretty used to 1080p, I can tell the difference between the Moto X and the HTC One. I can. But barely.


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[Assistant] If we're talking about significantly, dramatically increasing that resolution again, we're gonna be talking about making battery life worse for no apparent reason other than to


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[Assistant] You know what's funny is I was even talking to, uh, I was talking to Ed today about how, you know, oh, I've seen a couple of complaints lately about the amount of innuendo on the show, and like, apparently someone was upset when I put that bluetooth speaker in my pants and talked to you. And I was like, hey, you're in my pants!


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so uhm, I, I, I was, I almost made it through that. So I've almost changed.


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[Assistant] Almost. So there's, the rumor is there's gonna be a 64-bit Exynos, I don't even know how to pronounce that, Exynos? Whatever. Anyway, or Snapdragon processor, 3 or 4 gigs of RAM, 4000 mAh battery, that's gonna be either awesome for battery life or it's just gonna be necessary to drive that display.


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[Assistant] And there's even some vague rumors about a retina scanner, so none of this is confirmed, but big thanks to YouBetterNot for posting news on the Linus Tech Tips Forum. Honestly, it's where I get 90% of my news from these days. From the tech world. It's extremely active, so you guys should check it out if you haven't seen it already.


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[Assistant] We probably shouldn't have done it before. Honestly guys, we were a little bit afraid that, uhm,


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[Assistant] I think that the, that the issues some people are having with battery life are being mitigated somewhat by the way that I use it. So, number one is I, I'm not a super hardcore power user in some ways.


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[Assistant] But, I do get a lot of incoming and outgoing messages. So, because I have a pebble,


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[Assistant] And because I've actually just started using Google Glass, although speaking of battery life, the battery is dead on that, so it's sitting over there on the charger.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because I am able to do a lot of my reading here, even though I'm hitting it a little bit harder on the Bluetooth side of things, what I've noticed about the Nexus 5 is that Bluetooth doesn't seem to affect it nearly as much as other devices that I've used. So this could be a KitKat optimization. I'm gonna look into it a little bit further before I do my review.


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[Assistant] But uhm, bluetooth doesn't seem to hurt it that much. Number two is I'm not turning my screen on constantly because I'm looking and reading a lot of my messages on my smartwatch instead of on the device itself.


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[Assistant] Number three is that tethering is something that really kills battery life a lot for me, and it doesn't seem to get hit as hard when I'm tethering either. Like the one just burns through the battery when I'm tethering.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so there's all those things going for it so far, and then there's also the fact that it has some pretty smart power saving features, so I don't spend maybe a lot, I don't spend much of my time, uhm,


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[Assistant] Wi-Fi networks, whenever you're not in range of them, it can just turn the Wi-Fi off, so your GPS will pick up, it'll go, okay, you're here, I'm turning my Wi-Fi back on. This is a smart power saving feature that some previous Android phones had, like the Xperia Z1 had it, and I was really impressed with the battery life there.


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[Assistant] But I feel like that's been saving me a lot of battery life as well, so I'm getting through the day very consistently with the Nexus 5. And I think the last thing is that it depends what you're coming from.


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[Assistant] If I was coming from the Xperia Z1, which I did use for a while, but it wasn't my daily driver really, I used it for about two and a half, three weeks,


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[Assistant] Uhm, coming from the HTC One, battery life feels okay, cause the One doesn't have fantastic battery life by any stretch. So, Nexus Five, the complaints about your battery life seem to be, uh, a little bit exaggerated in my mind.


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[Assistant] I do have plenty of complaints about the Nexus 5, so stay tuned for my upcoming video. Why don't we bring Kyle on? Are we ready to rock? Sure.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Sorry, we brought you in a little bit early because we missed the sound of your voice from the pre-show. How about now? How do I sound? You sound amazing. Some would say awesome. Some would say...


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[Assistant] So why don't you give a brief introduction of who the devil you are and what the devil you do and why the devil anyone should care before we go any further into the show here. For those of our audience who haven't heard of you.


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[Assistant] That, that is awesome. Okay, well, have you heard any scuttlebutt about 290 sales versus 290x sales?


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[Assistant] ChrisXLXCross posted that the Radeon R9 290 can no longer be flashed. Now there was a thing going on for a little while here.


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[Assistant] Where folks were able to buy Radeon R9 290s


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[Assistant] And with a simple bios flash, turn them into R9 290Xs. It turns out that this was only from specific batches, and only worked with XFX and PowerColor cards. So that was, that was all that was going on, so now 290s can no longer be unlocked. But what does this tell you guys?


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[Assistant] Okay, give me, give me your PC Master Race, uh, opinion here then. If you had to buy a console, if someone took away your PC from you, held a gun to your head, and says you can only have an Xbox One or a PlayStation 4, that's all you can have.


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[Assistant] So basically you're saying that the noobs are more friendly to each other on the play- So are you calling PS4 a noob console?


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[Assistant] I see. Okay, so a little bit less rabid in terms of the fanboyism.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's move on to our next topic here. You actually brought this up with us.


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[Assistant] A very, a very unfortunate man by the name of James Howells has lost four million Great Britain pounds worth of Bitcoins that were stored on an old hard drive. Uhm, Kyle, have you invested any money into Bitcoin?


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[Assistant] Sorry about that. I had, uh, I had my stream running. Sorry about that. So, okay. At this point, do you feel like it's a little bit too late?


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[Assistant] Well that is the problem that a lot of people had even at the beginning of Bitcoin was that it wasn't really worth that much and I, I think that most of the calculations that I saw people doing were, okay, here's how much Bitcoins were.


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[Assistant] Here's how much my electricity costs. And they weren't necessarily factoring in what if Bitcoin is worth a hundred times what it is today. Not that long from now.


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[Assistant] And so that was the thing that kept a lot of people from getting into Bitcoin mining. That's honestly the reason that I, I actually set up a mining box, and then I was like, oh okay, forget it.


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[Assistant] You know, anything like that guys, hit us up at Linus Tech on Twitter and uh, let us know if you have any questions for the one and only Kyle. So, my Google Docs just randomly signed out for no apparent reason, so I have apparently lost my ability to find our next topic here, and this laptop.


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[Assistant] Well, what I think has happened here is two things. Number one is this has gotta be EVGA.


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[Assistant] Pressing really hard on Nvidia to give them the flexibility to deliver the cards that they want to build to their customers. I know a couple guys at EVGA


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[Assistant] And I know how they feel about stuff like Project Greenlight, which was Nvidia's program that they put in place to restrict the board partner's ability to RMA dead cards back to Nvidia if they did anything that goes outside of the, uh, the guidelines with respect to


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[Assistant] Uh, power consumption, voltage, and clock speeds, particularly voltage increases on the GPU that would cause them to die. So Nvidia put this green light thing in place that basically went, look, do whatever you want.


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[Assistant] But don't come crying to us when it dies, and this is both un- this is both reasonable and a little bit just kind of kneecapping in terms of what the board partners can do, because AMD doesn't put the same restrictions in place, or at least not ones that are nearly as restrictive. I mean, they're still like, hey, you know, don't do anything phenomenally stupid, but...


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[Assistant] You have a little bit more flexibility. So for 780 Ti 6GB here, it looks like EVGA has pushed Nvidia to get the green light on a card that is just going to be completely balls to the wall unlocked. The first thing I did when I saw this is I was like,


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[Assistant] EVGA, I am so sorry that I haven't finished that Hadron Air unboxing yet.


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[Assistant] Cry yourself to sleep every night. We're gonna go to our Twitter builds here. Alright guys, so first up...


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[Assistant] Uh, what's your main rig? Okay. You know what here, why don't you answer Ricardo here. What is your main rig? So aside from the graphics card.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna call Intel and I'm gonna tell them that you don't work at a retail store.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Retail Edge. I, uh, well did you ever try to claim any, any of the deals? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. That's unusual. Cause I had to, when I first- There's ways to do it.


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[Assistant] When I first submitted, I had to submit like, oh well, I guess you could fake paystabs. Yeah. Yeah, I did that a few times. Photoshop is a thing. Yeah, Photoshop. So I, what I used to do to get videos.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the second, the first time I did Retail Edge, I did everything legit. I actually went to a live event, so I was able to bring a pay stub, and like show it to them.


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[Assistant] I always wanted like a raid card and multi SSD setup because I looked at SSD and I went okay.


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[Assistant] This is perfect, except it's not enough space. So I was like, okay, I'm willing to just drop all the money. So I found four co-workers, and this was back when each of them was like $300, or something stupid like that, or like $200, even on Retail Edge, it was like $200 or $300. And I got four X25M


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[Assistant] I don't remember, I think eventually I just got tired of it because retail ed used to be really easy, you could challenge all of the tests.


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[Assistant] So if you knew the answers already, which I usually did because I had read the Anontac article,


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[Assistant] Four months earlier, cause it's not like they're showing off the latest stuff on there, then I could just answer all the questions and I was good to go, but now, now they make you like sit and watch stuff, right?


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[Assistant] Probably 20% of the people buying those things are actually putting them in their own containers. They're reselling it.


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[Assistant] People get these, theoretically, $1000 process- or it used to be extreme editions all the time, so people would get like, 980X's and stuff like that, and then they'd be like, oh yea, it's a $1000 processor. And then everyone would like, list them on red flag deals, and on like, uh, you know, overclock.net, and they'd be like, ah, $875! And people would be like, yea, no.


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[Assistant] Alright, so- How are you guys' uh, Thanksgiving? Uhm, we have Thanksgiving a month before you. Oh, you're right. Oh my gosh. I'm right?


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[Assistant] I know, I know, we're basically, we're just your hat to you, aren't we? Yes.


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[Assistant] Well, you know what's funny, is it only took- Okay, Black Friday only started happening in Canada about five years ago.


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[Assistant] It only took five years and now it's a thing. So, if we just started this,


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[Assistant] Yeah, if there was a Canadian Civil War, it would be between like the Vancouver Canucks and like the Toronto Maple Leafs.


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[Assistant] There'd be, there'd be like an enormous ice rink and then there would be no, we wouldn't even, we'd do away with the hockey sticks and the hockey pucks entirely and everyone would just throw off their gloves and charge at each other.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I bought the iFixit one, and considering the price, I was pretty disappointed with how it's just a rebranded Chinese tool kit.


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[Assistant] You know what's funny though is in Europe it's totally different, and it is a thing.


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[Assistant] So you might say that you have frequent internal conflicts then.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, behind us I haven't heard much about DDR4 for a while. It's coming, coming later. I wouldn't hold out on a system upgrade though.


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[Assistant] Apparently. Yeah, you're probably right. We even saw old, uhm, Apple iPhone first gens going on eBay for like thousands of dollars.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they were selling, but they were listed. So that's a thing. So I'm gonna weigh in on the whole OCZ filing for bankruptcy thing a little bit here. And uhm, guys, I worked with OCZ for a long time. This time I'm guys the audience, not guys you and the other one. I know, I know.


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[Assistant] So I worked with OCZ for a long time. I, uhm, I used to be the product manager for OCZ. That's going back almost about four years now, I think. And there were a lot of warning signs here. There were a lot of warning signs. I mean, there was stuff going on, like, I'd buy inventory at this price, and then by the time


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[Assistant] You know, I would work through all that inventory, not to say that they weren't selling well, you know, they were selling extremely well for a long time, but like, they'd want you to take so much so that they could hit their quarter end and year end goals and all that that you'd take it in and by the time you're selling it, they're giving you instant rebates and stuff like that that are so high.


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[Assistant] That you know that they lost money on just the cost of the flash chips alone. Nevermind manufacturing, customer service, and shipping. I mean, they would cover the shipping and-


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[Assistant] And management, and all of these commissions for the salespeople, I mean it all adds up.


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[Assistant] And sell every drive at a loss to hit higher and higher volume targets, it was gonna work. But when investors kinda went, hey, you know, you're, uhm, burning through all this cash really fast, what exactly are you doing over there?


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[Assistant] Well they were buying market share and that, uh, that wasn't gonna fly in the long term so when it came time to...


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[Assistant] SSD went full commodity. And so trying to release a Vertex 4 and a Vector and trying to dress it up and gussy it up and put, you know, maybe they should put gold heat spreaders on it. They were the pioneers of putting gold heat spreaders on things to make themselves more. Me too.


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[Assistant] Something, must have been Twitter. Really? Toshiba? They're really spo- No, they're not. No, they're not.


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[Assistant] Toshiba is a flash manufacture. In fact, you know what's funny is I had someone make the same comment about Sandisk and ADATA.


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[Assistant] Then that would be very interesting because Indolink's controller technology is not bad, it's good, and Toshiba Toggle Nand is among the best out there. So this could be a match made in heaven.


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[Assistant] So yea, they've got one, the HDTS, they could use some branding on this.


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[Assistant] You know, Lee & Lee is this company that I just, I love their products and the quality is fantastic, but even I can't figure out their product line.


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[Assistant] Yep, some, some co- even some coherency to like, the positioning of the products. Like you go on their site and it's just like, which case would you like? Here are all the cases.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was a swag item. It was a Lian Li, uhm, dinosaur.


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[Assistant] So it was like a sheet of aluminum, and then it had all the pieces, and then you assembled it. Like you know those dinosaurs that you like put the ribs on the back of the spine, and like, like you made a little, Lee and Lee aluminum dinosaurs, awesome.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, there's a 4K Ultrabook apparently that costs less than $1400. I think, more than anything, that's revealing of how inexpensive 4K displays actually are and how manufacturers need to just screw off and just give us our displays now.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jeremy asks, how to work at LinusTech or NCIX? Uhm, well, at LinusTech we're not hiring, but at NCIX you can start with going to NCIX.com slash careers.


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[Assistant] How, how, uh, how tempting is it to have all that crazy hardware around you working at Newegg?


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[Assistant] Mango Dewstain asks, uhm, what is it like working with Paul?


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[Assistant] So Paul's chill enough on, on camera and he's, sorry, sorry, he's the inverse of the other guy. So basically, he, it's like he got hit with a horse tranquilizer when he's not on camera.


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[Assistant] Alright, so check this out. Top WarGamer posted on the forum, here is iBuyPower's Steam Machine prototype. Now they, the funny thing about this is they sent an email to me earlier this week that was like, hush hush, top secret, blah blah blah. We'll be showing off a Steam Machine prototype at CES. And I'm like,


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[Assistant] It does not look like a PS4. A little bit.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we have some known specs. It's gonna have a multi-core AMD CPU. It looks like AMD is just firing on all freakin' cylinders when it comes to...


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[Assistant] Design wins lately. That timing. Yep. It'll have an R9 270 GPU, 500 gig hard drive, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, an integrated power supply, it'll be a little bit bigger than a PS4, but still smaller than an Xbox One, and comes with Valve's Steam Controller, and all of this is looking to come in around $500. It's cool that iBuyPowder knows this.


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[Assistant] Alright, so why don't we do a little- a couple more Twitter blitz questions and then I guess we'll have to let you go. We've had you actually more than half an hour. Sorry about that, Kyle.


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[Assistant] Thank you, aww, you're, you're like- He's so nice to us, then he's-


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[Assistant] And we still do work with the NCIX YouTube team very closely. But you don't work for them. Once a week. And, and, he called me out on overclocking our graphics card benchmarks.


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[Assistant] Yes, we are. Yes, we're still alive. So why don't we move on? Uhm, Kyle, do you have any thoughts on the ASUS MARS 760, their dual GTX 760 card?


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[Assistant] I don't know man, you tell me, cause I, I think this, this, this guy is kinda trolling us pretty hard here, he's like, sort of a, sort of a jackass, I know him.


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[Assistant] Wow, I'm actually, I'm really excited to see this because, well honestly, and as much as, okay, I hope no one tells Logan this, but my favorite video of his that I've ever seen is his Tiger Direct commercial spot. Have you seen it?


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, hold on. Hold on. Eeeeh. Okay, let's try again.


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[Assistant] I love that, oh Logan. Apparently there was no sound, I'm sorry you guys, nothing I can do about it right now, but.


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[Assistant] The point is, it's, it's ridiculous. If you search for current Tiger TV commercial spot or something like that, it comes up, but, like, that has got to be the most embarrassing video on the entire internet of, uh, of our, of our favorite, of our favorite buddy Logan there.


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[Assistant] You can see the act of defiance. He's wearing his Raise the World shirt under his sport coat to like, be like, look, I, I, I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to do this, but they made me. I had to. Why didn't he have to? He's like Superman. Like, work there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, that was, uh, that was amazing. Alright, so I think that's pretty much it. Thank you, Kyle, for joining us. We really appreciate having you on the show.


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[Assistant] Alright, yeaah, this is uh, this is, this is kind of the thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, alright, so this is actually from the NCIX forums of all places. I'm gonna go ahead and screen share with you guys. Here is posted by BloodyLunatech.


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[Assistant] And the original article is from TechPowerUp, and the rumor...


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[Assistant] No, I think they look like dark aluminum and I think you'd have a hard time, uhm, changing the texture of the shroud here to make it, like, more, more dark than it, than it already was.


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[Assistant] Okay, hold on, let's go, but they, okay, okay, okay, when we've seen Photoshop cards in the past though, no one...


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[Assistant] No one really seems to bother with, uh, doing like two chops of it. It's usually like one good photoshop or something like that. And they've done two different images of it.


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[Assistant] Right, uh, okay. So you think that this is just a painted title?


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[Assistant] I mean, okay, here's, ugh, it has a few more Cuda cores. I-I guess if we weren't, if we didn't have 780Ti 6 gig cards coming...


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[Assistant] Then this might make sense. Because then Titan could still be positioned as the multi-way SLI 6 gig monster.


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[Assistant] But with EVGA releasing that Kingpin edition 780 Ti, uhm, we can tell you guys that it would have slightly better performance with, you know, its full double precision floating point enabledness.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying it's not, but I just, like- I still don't recommend buying one. No. So, that's a thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've had quite a few people asking me, should I get a 700 series now? Or should I wait until Maxwell? And the answer is, unfortunately, the same as it always is, guys, because...


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[Assistant] We don't know. No idea. I mean, the thing about Maxwell is it should be on a new process node. Uhm, it should be at least a strong step forward in terms of performance, but with what Nvidia's done in terms of pricing of new generation cards, with the exception of 680Ti,


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[Assistant] They've just taken whatever's out there now, and they've taken their cards and they've gone, okay, well this one performs about in between those two, so here's the pricing.


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[Assistant] But I kinda doubt it, I think that, uh, I think that their strength right now in terms of graphics card market share and graphics card perception is such that they don't need to, to do that, so.


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[Assistant] 290 is a strong looking card, I gotta wonder how profitable it is for them though.


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[Assistant] And it, and it's a newer, it's a newer design, so the yields aren't gonna be as high. Like I really gotta wonder if, if what they're doing right now isn't just totally crazy town. Yep. I mean...


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[Assistant] R9 290, big thumbs up. In fact, we've got something exciting coming, you guys. Our water block for our R9 290 arrived. So we're gonna be doing water-cooled R9 290 versus GTX 780.


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[Assistant] Because those are the closest priced cards that make the most sense. And we're gonna get them both to the point where throttling goes away, and we find out what they're both truly capable of. So stay tuned for that on Linus Tech Tips.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm, I'm pretty excited about that because up till now, I haven't even, people, hey, it's funny, I get called an Nvidia fanboy a lot and I get called an AMD fanboy sometimes too, but on our, on our recent video,


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[Assistant] So on our holiday buyer's guide, I had someone asking why I hated on Nvidia or on AMD so hard.


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[Assistant] And I was like, okay, well, two things. Number one is that one out of our three systems had an AMD CPU in it. Number two is that two out of our three systems had AMD graphics cards in them. So out of a six possible spots that I could have assigned to AMD, they got three.


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[Assistant] Yes. So we both agreed on those parts lists. So, if I'm an Nvidia fanboy, then so is he and so is anyone who...


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[Assistant] Looks at things objectively, I guess. Alright, so moving on to our next topic, that is, like, what the heck was this one even about? I can't even find it right now.


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[Assistant] So it was posted by BrownNinja97 on the forum, and it looks perfectly normal. Okay. There's a box, hold on, hold on, hold on, there's a box, that's normal. It supports 4K, which is normal. It's got two fans, which are nor- ooooh.


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[Assistant] So we got five big fi- Okay, so first of all, it looks like instead of being a downdraft cooler towards the heatsink,


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[Assistant] It is sucking air from the heat sink. Okay? So there's a couple of advantages and disadvantages to this. So advantage number one is that this implementation can be quieter is my understanding. Although you're gonna have to have a reasonable shroud on it and stuff like that. Blah blah blah. Less turbulence.


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[Assistant] So, I will be interested, I don't think we have a power color contact, but this is funny, this is what the OP's like, yeaah. It kind of reminds me of like, of like Nemo, Finding Nemo little fins on like clownfish. So, yeaah, I guess we'll reserve judgement on this one for now.


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[Assistant] Alright, so uhm, we actually had a couple Razer things this week. So number one was we had the Razer Kraken Forged headphones that we just released our unboxing of. And number two is that Razer did a press release about their Evil Genius branded eSports gaming products.


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[Assistant] People are freaking out in like, negative ways though. They're freaking- well, they shouldn't, because it doesn't matter, it's just another box. See, this isn't happening so much. I mean- Here, I probably have Steel- yeah, there's a SteelSeries 7H Fanatic Edition right there. That's my point!


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[Assistant] There's also a blue one. There's a blue one for, no, no, that's just a special edition, not an e-sports team. Like, this, this whole sponsored thing is like, are you gonna, are you gonna like, phone up Nike and be like, yo, Air Jordan shoes, that's not cool man, don't do like, sponsored shoes.


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[Assistant] Sports teams rely on sponsorship. Esports teams, sports teams, they rely on sponsorship. And while


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[Assistant] Frankly, a lot of the time, I mean, it's no secret that there are esports players out there that wear the branded headset that their sponsor put on their head and then have like IEMs running underneath them and like just like put the cables kinda down their shirts.


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[Assistant] It is what it is. If you wanna buy real gear, don't buy things based on what someone uses on camera. Buy things based on, you know, what they use off camera or buy things based on what you can actually try and you can actually find out works really well for yourself. You shouldn't make purchase decisions based on


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[Assistant] Just, well, you know, Joe from whatever said that it was great. Now there are exceptions to this, uhm, TTE Sports has a couple of mice that I actually feel pretty strongly are, are quite cool. I forget what they're called now, but there's one, there's the white raw one, Sephira. Because they actually have a lot of input on it? Yea, because I put my hand on the mouse and I went, oh, it's made for a big Russian dude. Yea. And I was like, I can't use this, because I'm not a big Russian dude.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay. Yeah, the White Ross of Pyramus. Yeah. Uhm, so, I mean, if you're just re-branding an existing product, if you think the color scheme's great, then go for it.


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[Assistant] If you think Team Evil Genius is great, and you want them to get a small commission on the sponsorship, go for it! It's a great way to support someone that you, you know, feel strongly deserves the support. That's, I think all there really is to it. It's uncomplicated.


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[Assistant] Yep, the keyboard looks amazing, too bad it's, uh, uh, too bad it's not Cherry MX.


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[Assistant] Yeah, looks great, and if you, if you like the switches that happen to be on it, then that's like great. You know, the design of the mousepad looks nice, and most, my, mousepads are one of those things where it's just like, okay, whatever, it's a mousepad. Uhm, there are differences, I personally really prefer QCKs, I won't use anything else, so I guess I shouldn't say it's just a mousepad. But if you don't already have a specific-


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[Assistant] If you, if you have a specific mouse, if you don't already have a specific mouse pad that you really really like, then it's worth a shot, because I don't think it comes at a huge premium.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'd rather, okay, here, how about this. I would rather buy a peripheral that's branded around, you know what guys, hit us up on Twitter. Tell us what you think about, about sponsored branded peripherals. We'd love to hear it, because there's tons. There's ones for like, Modern Warfare 3, Logitech did a Modern Warfare 3 thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's ones for actual gamers, there's ones for, I think that's about it, but I was gonna try and come up with at least one thing.


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[Assistant] The thing about particularly the whole team branded ones is I kinda look at those and I raise an eyebrow because there's no such thing as two gamers even on the same team. They're gonna be like, yeah, I want exactly like that one. You know what? And another thing to actually along the lines of gamers who wear IEMs under their sponsored headphones,


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[Assistant] Uhm, there are, the rumors are abundant that Yonex, so if you don't follow badminton you might not have any idea what Yonex is, but that Yonex actually makes special rackets for their sponsored players.


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[Assistant] That have the, the paint job of whatever the current high-end thing they're pushing is, but are actually the racket that that player likes.


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[Assistant] It makes sense, you're not gonna, you're not gonna like, cripple your professional players that you sponsor by giving them something that they don't like, even if it's a great product. There are great products that I just don't like. So...


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[Assistant] But you gotta look at who it's marketed to. I mean, I really feel like there's this divide between gamers and hardware enthusiasts.


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[Assistant] Where gamers, I feel like, get lied to a lot.


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[Assistant] And I feel like they're, they're vulnerable to that. Whereas hardware enthusiasts spend all their, like, this is what I used to do. I spent all my friggin' time reading up about, you know, the bloody sensors in the mice and the, you know, micro, you know, laser reflections on the various surfaces to the point where I actually have no time for gaming. And that's really where I feel like


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[Assistant] There is, there is room for someone to bridge the gap there a little bit. Maybe we should probably try a little bit harder to do that. We're gonna take some of these products and try and talk about sort of


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[Assistant] Reading between the lines of the product marketing because quite frankly, that mouse and that mouse pad probably provides an excellent gaming experience. I haven't used them yet, but I don't think there's gonna be anything wrong with them.


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[Assistant] I don't care for them, less stupid logos is better. It's funny you mention that because it's, it's not like it's not gonna have a logo on it. It just might have an Evil Genius logo instead of a Razor logo. Just food for thought, I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily.


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[Assistant] Usually they're not that good and just cost more for the sake of costing more, uhm. A lot of the times they're rebrands for the product.


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[Assistant] Sponsorship related products are useful sometimes for different color schemes, however, don't like the price premium. I think sponsor branded peripherals are cool, I like them, but they're pointless. Buy what you want. And that's where I stand.


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[Assistant] Companies can't sell their product with actual quality, I'm not gonna buy it. That's interesting. So you prefer a company to focus on their own brand and sell at that, but...


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[Assistant] Lots of love for the idea of better color schemes and supporting your favorite teams. Someone says, please lick Slick's ear for me, not on camera.


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[Assistant] I think it's a good way to support your favorite team, even though, okay, Mateo feels that the quality isn't as good as other products. And that is an interesting point because it's gonna be difficult with, again, that, that cost adder that a sponsorship adds to the product.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's gonna be hard to take a top tier product like a $160 keyboard.


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[Assistant] Uh, John Court says he bought an OCZ Fatality series power supply, but I think it's the same as the original except with a sticker. Yes. And a red LED light.


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[Assistant] I always thought pro gamers wearing earphones under their headsets was purely for isolation. Uhm, you can cat headphones that isolate pretty well.


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[Assistant] That's a thing. Yeaah. Yeaah, that's like Bose QuietComfort 35. Hey Brandon! Those are really good. What headphones do you have?


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[Assistant] QC15s rather, sorry. Like you put them on and you're just like, where'd everybody go?


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[Assistant] Well that's probably him just ignoring you. No, he doesn't ignore me. He ignores me.


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[Assistant] I don't mind that. I ha- Hey! All the- Every Fnatic Edition 7- Oh, I think that's the same guy.


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[Assistant] I don't mind them personally, but I won't buy them at full price. Actually, that's funny you should mention that because Logitech always clears out the Modern Warfare branded peripherals for super cheap. You could get G9Xs for like 29 bucks.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm gonna let you take this one. Star Citizen Cracks 32 million is the, uh, so, heh, is the name of the thread, and then it was 31 million dollars the day before. And the original poster, askew, is saying, I don't understand why this game has raised so much cash.


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[Assistant] So if people wanna like, if people wanna, you know, buy a bunch of ships or whatever, and I can blow them up later, then...


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[Assistant] I'm still excited about the game. Me too! Although we're getting pretty close to we should have combat soon and we'll see if it happens.


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[Assistant] I don't, I think it was 50? Not 500. Was it 50? GTA 5 budget. Maybe it was 500. Hold on. Budget, budget, budget. Biggest budget ever. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Someone says cost more than an American city. Here we go. Uh, 265 million.


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[Assistant] Because most, uh, most Kickstarter projects you find, like, it's a guess. You don't know the integrity of the person that you're...


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[Assistant] Look at this thing! It is a smartphone controlled paper airplane. So it's a battery and propeller that goes onto the back of a paper airplane that allows you to fly it around with a bluetooth smart enabled smartphone or tablet. So right now, or actually not right now because they have, they have busted


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[Assistant] No, they show it later in the video, I think. Hold on, we'll just, we'll let it keep flying. But it goes for about 10 minutes apparently, and they're gonna be shipping them I think in March or April next year. It's not that expensive when you consider what an RC aircraft costs. It's just a 30, like it's really not that bad. And there's not much to break about it, which is really cool. So the propeller is actually at the back of the plane.


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[Assistant] Which means that if you go down nose first into something, it's a lot less likely to cause serious problems for you. Although it's not crash proof. No.


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[Assistant] I know, I love it. So the original article was from, uh, Tech Power Up, or Tweaktown rather, Tweaktown, Tweaktown, gonna make sure we give credit where credit's due. So there it is. So you guys can see, there's the, uh, the receiver. So the transmitter will obviously be your phone or tablet. Here are the electronics, and then there's just a simple, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's like you show up at the park with like a bunch of spare batteries and like a bunch of paper. No way. Oh come on, I don't know if that really counts.


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[Assistant] Black Friday deals are cool, but it's not worth people dying over or getting hurt, so there's actually a site called Black Friday Death Count, and uh, it's actually, it's being updated for Black Friday right now, and it seems to be getting worse.


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[Assistant] So they record all of the injuries and deaths, so there was, I actually remember the Toys R Us shooting, I remember hearing about that back in 2008. Target shoppers step over Walter Vance as he collapses and dies. I remember that. 20 people injured and I think it was, uhm, no no, it was 10 people injured in a stampede back, or 4 people rather, 10, 10. 10 in the silica, I remember this one too.


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[Assistant] That was back before we really had Black Friday in Canada. I was like, woah, what's a Black Friday? It's like, I thought it meant that people died.


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[Assistant] Alright, so injuries and deaths this year looks like the longest list yet. So someone's shot carrying a TV home from Target. There's a brawl, sends one police officer to hospital, Virginia man stabbed over a parking space.


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[Assistant] And we can see the link. So apparently there's been a death now. A teen returning home from Black Friday shopping falls asleep at the wheel as killed in the wreck. That one I think you could debate whether that's-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, okay, you saved forty dollars, or even if you saved four hundred dollars, is it really worth it?


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[Assistant] Well, you know, apparently it's a thing. So there's like, men's cufflinks, for example.


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[Assistant] They're advertising a claim delta E of less than 2. So this is basically


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[Assistant] Oh, for your warranty, you can get a premium pixel guarantee. Details are unknown for this resolution screen, but if it's like the 32 inch of the same res, it'll be a zero bright pixel guarantee.


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[Assistant] You know, Dell and Apple were the only ones that had the Cahonies to release a 30-inch monitor. Dell was the only one driving things. The 24-05 FPW is legendary because it was a great monitor and at a fair price. You have no problem with that.


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[Assistant] Basically, I felt like they were asleep at the wheel for the last few years. It's like, yeah, here's kind of that one we did, and it's like kind of different, but like whatever. We made the ID slightly uglier looking. Uhm, sorry about that, but.


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[Assistant] You know, here's some QC issues with revision A1 or A2 or B2 or whatever. Uhm, this is an opportunity that has been waiting for someone to grab it by the horns and place a bloody order for panels. Commit.


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[Assistant] 30 Hz? Yea, yea, 30 Hz only because it's HDMI in.


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[Assistant] Who cares? So this on the other hand,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's made by Dell. So I inherently trust it.


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[Assistant] My wife's still using our 24.05 FPW. I was sitting with you the other day when we found the buy sell trade red that I bought by 24.05 FPW off of. I left the guy feedback in his red on red flag deals. That was what, 2006?


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[Assistant] So I, I, so I was like, oh wow, that monitor's still working. It's still on my wife's desk, like eight years later. It's starting to fade.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm, I'm kidding. I know you're kidding. I mean, if I, if I haven't killed Brockett yet, I'm not gonna kill him. He's been peeing on the couch again. Not just on the couch, all over the window and the blinds. And like, it is such a mess to clean up.


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[Assistant] If you drop money, she'll grab it and take it to his mom.


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[Assistant] I love it. And it's like, you know the funny thing is the RIAA and the MPAA are gonna run around trying to put people in jail for pir- like who goes to jail for this?


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[Assistant] Okay, so instead of us buying, uh, how many licenses of Creative Cloud do we have? Three, right?


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[Assistant] Brandon, Edzel, and then you. So instead of buying three licenses, we should just buy one. And then if Adobe sues us for like, pirating the rest of our stuff. They go, we'll just pay you for one. Yeah, we'll just, don't worry about it. We paid you for one, so about one-fifth, right? That's, yeah.


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[Assistant] So speaking of being cool, this is ridiculous. Uhm, the city of Vancouver, that's where we live.


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[Assistant] I mean, and the funny thing is like people praising it, like there's a quote from a professor, professor specializing in universal design. That's very progressive of Vancouver. Leavers make access easier.


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[Assistant] Yeah, leavers, so, so, I mean, we're not banning having things on doors. Like, leavers are still okay, and I will say that yes, I do indeed think that leavers are easier to use. However, why ban them?


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[Assistant] The doorknob, okay, so there's people saying, I say good riddance, it never functioned well, explains Jerry, I don't view it as a good piece of design. Okay. And then someone else is like, oh, blah blah blah, I have a strong feeling about the hardware, doorknobs are lovely, they're the jewelry of the door.


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[Assistant] This one, the external garage, uses a doorknob. Okay. So I would have to, I would have to not have that there.


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[Assistant] People freaking out over Google Glass again, speaking of which, I just got mine. If you watched, uh, Netlinked Daily today, then you'll have seen that. So- Have you had anyone- No one's even noticed. I went to a movie theater with them. Wow. Yeah. That's kinda-


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[Assistant] So it was the same guy as last time, but he's banned it from his diner. He's asked people to remove the $1,500 headset or leave. Uhm. So.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. They're so uncomfortable. They're like super uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] Well, I think that's pretty much it for this week. Thank- Oh, do you have, uh, build bugs? I do not. You do not have build bugs. Okay. Thank you guys very much for watching the WAN Show today. Big thanks to our special guest, Kyle, from NewBagTV.


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[Assistant] And thank you guys for watching, I think I already said that once. It's a good thing we're not keeping on going, because we're gonna have a repeat of last week, and I don't think anyone wants to see that. Peace out guys, and we'll see you again next week. If you tuned in late, guys, we will have the archive up in a timely manner today, because we didn't have any technical difficulties. I want to take a moment to explain.


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[Assistant] Why the archive takes so long to put up sometimes. It has to do with, uhm, any technical issues during the stream that cause us to have to take the footage


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[Assistant] We have to output extremely large files and because the show is so long, it's really time consuming both for the export and for the upload. So by the time it's actually up, it's like midday Saturday and we like have things to do.


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[Assistant] I wonder if that's it. You know what, guys, uhm, for anyone who's been struggling with this, with Shadowplay, I'm gonna go ahead, I'm gonna find out if there's a way to, uh, you know what, maybe I'll just tweet this out.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I'll, I'll tweet out the, uh, the video that I use as my guide every time, embarrassingly enough, I can never remember how to do it. But I use as my guide for how to, how to fix that problem. It actually only takes, uhm, a couple minutes to re-sync things. So I think it's in my favorite, uh, my favorite videos, but it's awesome.


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[Assistant] Or here, actually I can just show you guys what it's called. There. So it's, uh, tutorial convert FLV to MP4, no re-encode, and fixed Xsplit sync problems. So guys, watch that. It's everything you need to know and it's completely free. Alright, peace out guys. See you next week. Thanks guys, see ya.


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[Assistant] I've actually been told to say that Slick is fired because of the audio problems at the beginning.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's a bit of a difficult one really. I was really hoping, as most people were, I was hoping the overclocking was going to be better.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to the point that when I got my sample from Intel and I told them what my original results were, uh, cause I've, I've had a selection of CPUs now, they, uh, I said to them, uhm, I can get 4.5 really easy, 1.3 volts, it's gonna be, you know what I mean, that in itself is a little bit disappointing, but I'm needing a lot more volts to get beyond that.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah, so I, I told them that. I spoke to some ACES engineers and we are actually talking quite well again at the minute.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they sent me some more CPUs, and I still struggle to get, you know, 4.6 out of it, but...


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[Assistant] I suppose that the thing that we need to kind of remember is a lot of people kind of fixate on the, I can only get 4.4 or 4.5 or 4.6 gigahertz, but it is still keeping up with the really, really quick overclocking versions of the previous generation. So,


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[Assistant] And that, that was the point I was just about to get to. They were all the same. All they ever did was Speedbin, which actually kept prices down. Uhm, and we've obviously not seen yet whether we're gonna get, uhm, uh, Sandy Bridge E Zeons with eight cores or not.


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[Assistant] Uh, so again, it's still very kind of up in the air and we don't know, you know, really what's going, going on yet. But from the enthusiast point of view,


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[Assistant] You're not really going to be worrying about, you know, if it does 4.5 or 4.6 gigahertz, all you're really going to be worrying about is the speed of your RAM, because obviously the memory controller is much, much better on this generation.


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[Assistant] So the memory controller is much, much stronger. Uhm, but the other thing that we need to kind of bear in mind is, yeah, okay, the, the over clocks are, uhm, not great.


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[Assistant] And then using less power, they have made a little bit of a step forward. And to be honest, I think it's just Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge, uh, 1155 chips all over again. So I pretty much think anyone could have made these reviews even before the process has come out if we really wanted to take an educated guess.


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[Assistant] Isn't really gonna care, the only time that, uh, that the lower power usage is really gonna make any difference. As if, for example,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and when you've got that many, uh, cities running at max for so long, then you are going to make a saving on your electric bill. But for someone that's, you know, buying it for home and is going to be running three or four 780s, they've obviously got enough money that they're not going to be worrying about an extra £50 on their electric bill at the end of the month.


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[Assistant] Uh, I can probably put a lot of, uhm, you maybe want to watch the chat now on the right hand side because I think a lot of people may start to get a little bit angry with me, but I don't think


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[Assistant] Essentially, the reason why Ivy Bridge E has taken so long to come out was because Intel hasn't got any competition.


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[Assistant] So, uh, they actively delayed it because, uh, AMD didn't have, really have anything to kind of, uh, compete with it. It was very much like when the 680 come out, uh, that was meant to have been a, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, that's not as good as we were expecting and they kind of juggled all the product line around and that was why when the 680 came out, it was, it was almost identical to the 7970. Um, cause they kind of, I think the rumors were it was meant to have been originally the 760 and that was why the, um,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but that was why the 670 and the 660 had that much shorter PCB, was because they were obviously, they were meant to have been much lower cards. Uhm, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] Obviously when, uh, X79 first got released, I don't know whether a lot of your readers or even whether you were, you know,


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[Assistant] Whether you know the kind of background behind or the motherboard.


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[Assistant] And the chipset problems, uhm, but Intel changed the X79 chipset, uh, numerous times on the run-up to the, the CPUs being released, because originally it was meant to have PCI Express 3, originally it was meant to have USB 3, uh, all on the chipset.


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[Assistant] And Intel kept running into problems and they kept changing it, which was why.


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[Assistant] When the 2011 socket originally come out, loads of the motherboards either they didn't have the full range out or like gigabyte, they were still running around with really bad biases and because stuff hadn't fully got tested. So with this one where AMD didn't have, you know, really anything to compete with because even their silly


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[Assistant] It was, yeaah, they just needed to get rid of them. It was just a classic A and B. Oh, we're gonna do this and hope the fanboys buy it.


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[Assistant] And they did make it slightly better with the, like, the newer variant. Uhm, but I, at that point in time, I was still testing on an, an HD14 air cooler and I did need two 220 CFM


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[Assistant] Uh, actually, that is, um, that's a very early version because there was, uh, 20 fans on one side. I think if you count, you can see 10, yeah. And if you go a little bit further into the video, we go completely crazy and we put another 20 on the other side. So you may want to skip a little bit further in. There we go.


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[Assistant] Essentially what the idea with that was, is it was just to have a little bit of fun. Uhm, but I really did not.


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[Assistant] If you go to the end of the video, there is a disclaimer. Just before people start trolling me, it was a bit of fun and it was always that way all along, but we took hardware monitor apart.


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[Assistant] Essentially we just said because of the static pressure, uhm, it could create amazing ambient temperatures and I really wasn't prepared for the amount of people that might believe it to the point that


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[Assistant] If you add a, uh, a second set of high-speed fans, so you've got push-pull and you add a, just another four fans on, not, you know, like 20 or 18 more, just another two fans on, I only managed to get one degree off.


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[Assistant] Because I did put a disclaimer at the end and I mean I'm gonna look now just to kind of see on the analytics of the, uh, of my channel which if your readers want to put www.oc3d.tv


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[Assistant] It's either my number one or my number two most popular view, uh, video of all time.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, if we go right back to the very beginning, because I obviously started the channel when I was, uh, in a shed. It literally, in the middle of nowhere, it was a really, really bad camera, really, really bad lighting. Uhm, and it was just because, uh, I couldn't, uhm,


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[Assistant] I wanted to start just making, uh, I used to watch Rodney Reynolds and I used to see the empty cases and the five minute reviews, uhm, and I would watch one of them and I would find that I was getting more questions at the end of the review than I was getting answers, so I just kind of wanted to


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[Assistant] To be fair, I still, to this point, I know I could make, you know, because OC3D is a business now, do you know what I mean? And there's no, you can't get away from that fact, and you can't, you know, put me down because, you know, I need to make money now. I've obviously spent a lot of money trying to build this up and buy the website and stuff, but... Believe it or not, I can relate.


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[Assistant] But I've always stayed, I've always wanted to do that in-depth thing, and if you're gonna buy a £550 graphics card, like the 780, or you're gonna spend, you know, £100 or £200 on a case,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you can get the tight, you know, you can get the compact details from a lot of other reviews and there's nothing wrong with any of the other ones. Uhm, but if you want to know the ins and outs of a duck's bum and kind of see that kind of understanding of how they're put together and the engineering and the understanding about how much they cost to make,


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[Assistant] Uh, Tom, I really like your videos, but they're too long. Can you make shorter ones? Uhm, but can you honestly imagine me trying to squeeze, let's take, okay, I did purposely go overboard on the 900D video.


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[Assistant] And I, I, I did, I did go into more detail than I wanted to, to be fair. But can you imagine me trying to shrink that video down to 20 minutes? It just, I couldn't have got it all in, there was a lot to talk about. And to be fair, I could make another one, at least another 30 minutes long about stuff that I didn't cover.


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[Assistant] The thing is with mine is I know I've got a very very niche market, which is why the amount of subscribers I've got, I'm still humbled by every month when I look to see how many more I've got.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but if I can help just a couple of people a month make an educated choice away from buying, you know, one product and then they might go, well actually I might not need that. I can buy this product. Then as far as I'm concerned, my job's done.


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[Assistant] Because the channel was originally started as a form of therapy for me when my mum died. It was never, you know, started as...


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[Assistant] I'm not going to say change their opinions, but they've all, they've all kind of, you know, engineered the angles that they take on reviews to make sure that they give people, you know, a broader spectrum and lots and lots of information rather than trying to make it, you know, really, really short and just say everything's amazing all the time.


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[Assistant] Or you could actually, you could do like the intro version of the review and I could do the end version of the review and we could upload the same one. Like for argument's sake, if Corsair were to release a new case, which I'm pretty sure you're aware is pretty soon.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, in my, uh, 350D video, I did correctly name the upcoming model for the next course air case, and it's actually behind me, and it's very good. Oh, man.


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[Assistant] I have run the entire range of 775 CPUs from pretty much like P65 upwards. When they, when they changed the chipsets, they were


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[Assistant] Adding stuff on, and this was kind of the old TikTok version of what Intel used to do, like.


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[Assistant] I have heard that Intel have kind of admitted that the problems that they've had with Haswell and the heat that they generated is because for the first time ever they moved the voltage regulator onto the CPU.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, uh, because of that, I had heard that Intel were gonna take the voltage regulator off again because they wanted to drop that TVP back down because people were having such problems keeping them cool. Like with, you know, if you, when you've done your own tests.


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[Assistant] Up to a 95 or a 100 degrees temp just because of the amount of extra stress it puts on the CPU and that also in, you know, in tow means more power requirements.


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[Assistant] Uh, actually, uh, when Intel did that, what they also did was they, uh, they really put a very hardcore throttling in place as well. So if, uh, you're running your overclocks,


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[Assistant] That it would come down to how lucky you got with your CPU. So I actually think it was a very clever move with Intel.


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[Assistant] And another thing that we need to keep about is it didn't need such a big voltage regulator anymore because Haswell didn't draw as much power. Uhm, the video that you did about the Gigabyte Z87i ITX board versus the Maximus 6 Extreme,


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[Assistant] The reason why the overclocks were the same was because the CPUs don't need as much power anymore.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. They're never gonna get to that point. Pretty much every board out there, if you're gonna run even up to like dry ice, you're gonna get to the point where the CPU is gonna stop before the motherboard does.


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[Assistant] And that's just because, you know, the CPUs are so power efficient now that even a basic motherboard with just a handful of phases can keep a decent overclock.


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[Assistant] It really does just come down to, uh, the looks of the board and possibly the features that you get as well, which, as I'm sure you're perfectly aware, for a reviewer, if all the boards perform the same,


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[Assistant] We've now suddenly got to give a lot more details so that people can go, actually yes, you know, that is a very good feature that I need to be purchasing. I don't need that, but I may need this and they need to go and look for it. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I will give away, uh, an exclusive kind of little bit of a hint or a tip live on the WAN show. And I'm not going to post this on the forums, but I will say that the, uh, the image that you're looking for is in something related to gigabytes.


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[Assistant] And, a CoffeeScript and JavaScript native version. So that you can use in different places.


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[Assistant] I actually don't like Coca-Cola. It's not very good.


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[Assistant] Although it's better than the no name stuff, uh, Safeways house brand Simply Soda, I remember this one time, I drank one can of it, this is when I was like 9 or 10, I drank one can of it before I left.


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[Assistant] And that stuff made me have to pee. Like nothing else I've ever experienced in my life. So I'm driving down from Whistler. We get stuck in traffic on the Sea to Sky Highway. Sounds about right. I peed myself in the car. Not once, not twice, but three times.


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[Assistant] Hours and hours, hours and hours to get down. I was like, Dad, what do I do? And he's like, I don't know, just whatever.


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[Assistant] Would you rather embarrass yourself by peeing on the seat or embarrass yourself by standing out in front of the stopped, by the way, traffic. Oh yea. Completely stopped traffic. Like, put blockers up. Like, people stopped and like, having like tailgate barbecues on their trucks with their propane because we're not moving. So do you just pee there?


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[Assistant] Which option is better for you? Uhm, totally, totally open to feedback here. I, I was, I was too embarrassed to get out of the car. Fortunately or unfortunately, the seats were leather, so at least it was gonna come out.


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[Assistant] But yeah, it was, uh, it was one of those experiences you have in life that, uh, is unfortunate.


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[Assistant] Not one of those stories that I'm particularly proud of. So we've got a great show for you guys. We have special guest Lou from Unbox Therapy. We've got, uhm, this guy.


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[Assistant] I do things. This guy, we've got a bunch of great topics including the, uh, the first reviews are out of Asus' 4K monitor, which is extremely exciting. As you guys know, I'm all about the 4K.


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[Assistant] Samsung's new 840 EVO SSD. Honestly, from what I've seen, it looks like the only SSD that actually I should give any cares about anymore.