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I want it in my search for the ultimate

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home theater experience I explored micro LED displays that would have cost

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hundreds of thousands of dollars necessitated additional power circuitry

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to the room and a dedicated air conditioning unit just to cool it and

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Jake was all like that's really stupid you should get one of these ah Instead

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This is the ls-12000 B from Epson and it

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promises to be a really heavy and B the

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best bang for the buck projector on the market by a country mile literally you

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could spend four times the amount just to get image quality parity never mind

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I can't believe you fired this thing up without even like calling me over this

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yeah I set it up at my desk with the office lights which are so bright and I

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was like wow this looks great I'm so excited I can't imagine what it's going

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to look like in an empty room but wait where's the screen we need to put up a

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screen again you can just there's an electrical box right here ready no no we

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can just you know I

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we actually reached out to Epson about checking out one of their Flagship projectors ages ago like back when we

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started the house no for the lounge right so we had the 60 50 UV this is

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supposed to be the new 6050 UB I mean

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they've told they told us they're like yeah I mean our stuff is good but wait

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till you see what we've got coming and I think because of covid Supply

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constraints it took a little bit longer I feel like their original estimate was

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like November last year oh my god did you actually just do that

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oh my God oh my God oh my God did you

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get that on camera no don't get that on camera oh my God I can't believe you

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just did I just wanted to hear the noise it made

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look at this lens

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did you hear the noise

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at least it's a laser not a lamp

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thanks Epson to be clear this is still an expensive piece of kit at five

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thousand US dollars but it features a solid-state laser light source that can

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push 2700 lumens it does 4K and up to

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120 hertz so I'm actually expecting the

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gaming experience on this thing to be decent gaming experience being good this

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thing is less than 20 milliseconds delay in a projector you literally you can

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spend fifty thousand dollars on a projector and still have worse latency of course brightness isn't everything

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when it comes to projection you can have great highlights but if you don't have

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good lows it's not going to be a great image right it's because of the way your

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pupils will will dilate to match whatever amount of ambient light is in

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the room it's rated to 2.5 million to one Dynamic contrast and unlike the

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projector we have in the lounge that has an iris that adjusts the whole image

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yeah this makes use of multiple lasers I

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think they said there's about 15 and they can kind of dim them or shut them

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off and also it uses the LCD panels to

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try to block light so wait this effectively has like it's kind of like

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local local vending yeah

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can we talk about this for a moment Epson love you guys but come on this is

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like quite literally an inch thick

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what the heck okay so power goes in here oh oh we

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should talk uh input so it's got HDMI 2.1 two of them which I mean I can't

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imagine myself running two HDMI plugs to

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the projector but I guess oh you know if you want to throw like a dongle or

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something on there and power it with USB then you got your Chromecast or whatever

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directly on it but everything's going to go through the receiver for our setup

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you know what that USB is actually for what's that for it's supposed to be for

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powering an active optical cable oh

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that's so cool I absolutely love it but then you've got this one yeah your

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Chromecast off that this one for power that's awesome uh this is for control

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with third-party systems uh this is also

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for just having like an IR receiver somewhere else that can control this bad

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boy and then land because everything is smart now I'm turning it on I'm firing

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my laser oh no way it's motorized of

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course it's motorized are you kidding me I thought the shade was manual oh that's

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sick oh there you go now our camera operator hey Mark uh noted that the

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lighting really changed in here because the sun came out so that's why

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everything looks kind of weird right now but that's a great thing for us to talk

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about because as part of getting the best projector experience possible you

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need to completely light control your room we are talking blackouts here and

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check this out this is amazing okay look

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at this see we got a little strip of weather stripping stuff right here and

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when it closes it hits the door frame

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and goes down so you don't get any light leakage or sound

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holy crap this window is gonna need some

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serious blacking out oh I was gonna double up the well yeah I guess I will

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then is that air flow or is that it's the light

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oh okay but listen how quiet it is

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oh that's totally fine you were asking about Zoom before yeah yeah we have

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optical zoom so why do we need to move it around relative to how big we want

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the end the thing with zoom is when you start to use it you lose a bit of light

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generally you want to put it like at the

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absolute minimum so then if we can which

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we can we should put it where we should which we should yes okay but I mean yes

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you can you can totally oh wow that's a lot of zinc yeah it's like 2X or

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something like that it's quite a bit yep right about there cool okay

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oh it looks so Penner now that I saw the big one but look at it this way if you

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had a TV it would have been like here yeah if you really want down the road we

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could get a bigger screen yeah I think we should okay let's start with this

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though this is good wow look how bright studio lights on in this room right now

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I know and it's like actually usable oh let's shut them off let's see there's

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the one oh and there's

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uh two we're not even close to fully light

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controlled in here but that is freaking amazing the big difference between this

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projector and the one we have in the lounge is this is full

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full 4K pixel ship so it shifts over and

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down the one in the lounge only shifted over so you got around 4 million pixels

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on the screen this is like the full 8.3 that you would get with a native 4K

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projector you're probably wondering why they didn't go native 4K for this right

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like this is a premium product why not just have a fully well it's premium but

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it's only five grand right so part of it is cost when you switch to 4K native

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LCDs there's three of them in there you got your red green and your blue and

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they get combined when you switch them to 4K you need roughly three times as

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much light to get the same amount of light on the screen more heat more

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powerful noise usually yeah but what

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they'll do to compensate is make the projector way bigger or way heavier and

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usually it ends up being louder even with all that and of course obviously

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the price goes up so for five grand they're like ah no this gets basically

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the same thing I'm down I'm in yeah and look how sharp it is can we put content

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on it now yeah let's turn off the lights again let's do it oh I brought a few

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things we've got an NVIDIA Shield so we can do some 4K movies and stuff cool I

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brought a 3090 equipped test bench so we can play some games and stuff don't you

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ever got some Xbox controllers oh yeah

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dude cranking this thing 4K 120.

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there's a HDMI 2.1 thanks infinite cables I guess we should tell them about

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the cabling setup you can't see it but

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up in the ceiling somewhere up here there is cables there's an optical HDMI

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2.1 as well as power and I think we actually made a two HDMI cable systems

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yeah when they do the finishing for the room I think one goes to the cabinet there and one goes to the sort of

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mechanical room yeah you ready to shut off the light well we don't have sound yet

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like move some speakers in should we seems like a lot of work just to drag

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them back out we could just use the projector speaker

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do we have an extra pair of outdoor speakers yes that would work

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those guys right there yeah that would be pretty quick

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oh no no you're good you're good you're good it's fine

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uh now you're not good you're actually grabbing it made it worse here's the

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plan hopefully Clips packed this really well

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it's a controlled drop oh you're just like a courier where the hell is the

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receiver is it behind those ceiling speakers maybe no I just moved those there I got

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a tower Tower subwoofer oh my God

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Jake I found it what is it like awful

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it's tremendously awful what I can't it

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can't be that bad

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I'm just gonna find the coach I meant the other coach okay see you

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later ow trap it's heavy it's very heavy oh this

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this sucks um what are you even doing this might be

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bad how are you sideways oh shoot okay

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new plan new plan we're going up and over what that oh God yeah put the heavy

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thing really high up yeah great idea okay

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glutes looking good man thank you

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not you hey Linus I think we can throw

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less shade at Epson I actually think this is thicker

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yeah I'll show you mine if you show me yours let's see

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it is at its thickest point I think you

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win yeah but mine averages you might have like like more square centimeters

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or cubic centimeters sorry okay oh my

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God can I help with that

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I always forget how absolutely insane this receiver is like look at that I O

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holy that is

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amazing oh and once the walls are black

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yeah there's actually a ton of light in this room just bouncing off of this wall

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that's one of the big reasons that in a media room you need to have everything

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blacked out carpet walls ceiling sorry

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okay like that there you go there's Dynamic mode now it's even brighter holy

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crap what so Dynamic is not going to be

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I mean even for dynamic mode it looks like looks not bad this looks amazing

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usually Dynamic mode looks like Costco affecty

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Jake micro LED would have been a huge mistake

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you were right this is amazing we haven't even put a screen on yet I know

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I've got a freaking electrical box in the middle of the image and I'm already mesmerized by it look at this you're

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also like standing like right up against you yeah but that's the thing it's like

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it looks better better from farther away

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very sharp if there's no screen door at all oh my God that's bright that's crazy

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it kind of hurts my eyes this is a Showcase of hdrf I've ever

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seen one time to play some games you know what

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I'm kind of not even feeling like bothering putting the screen on here and

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risking damaging it while they finish up honestly this is just like if we're

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already at this level already and it's only going to get better with the screen

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I'm satisfied clearly we're sticking with this solution so

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look at this graph it doesn't even get you can get steady state and download

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it's just done all the updates done

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holy crap I can't believe I'm going to be downloading it over 200 megabytes a

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second at home it's a game changer look at the CPU usage though 30 of a

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threadripper 32 core 240

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oh my God we're gonna hit 250. holy that's amazing there is so

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much spill from this room being so white and yet it still looks really good I was

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thinking about how the Shadows look a tiny bit washed out but it is totally

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just because this room is Uber white yeah and once the screen surround is all

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black uh-huh it's gonna look so gonna look amazing in the dark I don't know

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that I would be able to tell that it's not a TV it looks great I mean it's not

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OLED level blacks like don't get me wrong no but it's like very good a very

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good LCD yeah this game is so funny it's

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so arcadius oh I know I can see how

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you'd like it because it's just automatic drift God

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like oh look at this oh what oh wait no

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we share controls stop it

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hello Doom oh is this oh sorry is this making it difficult for you thanks

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thanks that's great that's perfect

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yeah I remember when this game was relevant for like two weeks yeah

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but damn though roasted oh okay that's

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uh maybe too much HDR oh oh

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okay so we're just a little Juiced here

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okay that's a little less ice earring it's still pretty

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it's very hdre like when you catch a glint at the sun off the back of the car

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and stuff like it's yeah the Shadow's got a lot of detail I definitely think

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we could tweak this more but I love it the responsiveness though and

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enjoyed this video go check out the rest of the home upgrade series we are

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finally coming to the end but man what a journey dude there's so many more videos

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to make still I know I'm gonna have to do the family room the downstairs we're

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gonna have to do something actually set up the projector room yeah get all the

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audio set up for everything oh God uh we gotta actually show how all of the home

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automation for the heating and cooling works oh you're gonna die

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you died see you later