welcome to the belated live stream guys I'm sorry we ran quite late today we had
a number of complications as you may or may not have noticed we've had some
changes in scenery over the last little while where slick and I were streaming
from my garage and then we were streaming from my garage but a different
part of my garage because we had torn apart the live stream set in order to
make room for our Intel build guide then I think we went back to the usual live
stream spot but I actually am not 100% sure about this then we were gone and we
were in Taiwan and we did no live stream and now I'm here slick is not here he is
on a plane right now he's probably actually he's probably Landing sometime
soon so I should just be like hey why
aren't you at work but then he'll probably be like hey I go to sleep and
I'll be like what you have to sleep you don't even sleep um and then the
conversation will kind of go downhill from there but um but yeah so he's going
to be home very very soon but he's not able to join me this time and as you
guys may or may not have noticed we've got a bit of a change of scenery here so
I'm going to shift a little bit this way no I want this way yeah this way okay
I'm still under the microphone should still all be good but uh yeah we've got
a little bit of a change of scenery we are at the new lonus tech tips HQ which
I did a tour of oh crap do I have I'm
not monitoring the stream or anything am I let's see call slick put him on the
stream um so yeah we are in the new
Linus Media Group digs which I showcased
in a giveaway video not that long ago so if you've seen that then great if you
haven't seen that then uh you haven't seen it maybe I'll do a tour maybe I'll
do a formal tour of it once we have it set up somewhat properly so this is
where we'll be filming all of our unboxings from now on as well as all of
our well all of our other videos because quite frankly I am so tired of having
lonus Media Group in my house taking over my life uh you guys have no no idea
how much space it takes up with all the computer stuff all the cases all the
workstations I mean walk around your house and then picture you have to have
anywhere between four and five people with like workstations set up and then
you have to have video sets and like try to figure out where those would go and
then imagine you have a one-year-old baby who gets into everything and cats
that get into everything Rumble has been so annoying since we moved the company
to uh to my house so he is he has been a very uh very very
challenging piece of work so let's get into some topics here we're going to do
a lot more Q&A than we usually do because I don't have uh the sort of
gorgeous um you know towering presence of slick to converse with me so I guess
I'll have to talk to you guys which is which is great uh which is exactly what
I wanted to do uh right now so
yeah moving right along uh giveaways yes
the meme content so we had a meme contest on the lineus tech tips forum
and the winners have been announced however the original idea was that we
were giving away a copy of Mass Effect 2 now what happened was that copy of Mass
Effect 2 accidentally got sort of kicked
in the head somewhere along the line someone like uh someone janked it
somehow or whatever else so we don't have it anymore so what I did was I got
my hands on three never settle bundles which means you're going to get Crisis
3 Tomb Raider BioShock Infinite something like that so you're going to
get a never settle bundle can't remember exactly which games are in it but they're good don't worry they're part of
never settle and we picked three winners because I was at computex and someone
handed me three never settle coupons and they were like hey here you go and I was
like hey I already have these games cuz I'm lonus um so I have like lots of
copies of these games well no I have enough for me and I have enough for slick and enough for diesel so I've
already I already had three at some point so I was like oh well this is
great because now I have a prize for the meme contest so I'm going to show you guys the winning memes uh slick never
got back to me so he got no votes in terms of the winners so I picked the
winners so if you guys don't like it then you can email um I don't care at
linusmediagroup
docomo uh but they were the ones that sort of tickled me the most so I uh I
decided to go with these ones here we go winner number
one text story love it so puppet you are
a winner in fact I will PM you right now
and tell you that you are a winner thank you for playing you win send me a
message congrats you win the meme
contest ping me back and I'll give you
your code pardon the typos puppet if you're watching but there you go you won
you get a never settle bundle from AMD so good job um next up we
have okay yeah Twitter's confusing me right now so next up we
have I'm going to load this one up before I actually navigate to it this
time I swear sometimes Google Docs I
don't know what to do with you if you don't press enter after a link then it isn't a link so that makes a gosh darn
ton of sense uh so okay not the O forums one that one I actually didn't like that
much but these uh this other one it was from hk6 this is from I believe Slick's first
live stream or second live stream this is from when he broke his uh well he
didn't break anything but he hurt his shoulder quite badly in a bike accident
and uh I I don't know this just this just made me laugh this picture's very
caption and part of what I liked about this one is that he actually went to the
trouble to dig up this picture from one
of the very early live stream so either either he's one of those people who sort
of obsessively screenshots anything that's amusing as they go through life
which is great uh or he actually remembered this moment somehow and uh
anyway that that made me laugh so I'm going to message hk6 right now let him
know that he's a big winner uh winner meme
contest good work uh message me back
just want to make sure that he's actually still active on the Forum or whatever else and that
to get your prize uh because otherwise
we can save the prize for someone else who's actually still active on the Forum
because being active on the Forum is What winners do next up we've got this
one I mean this one I just this couldn't not win so this is the lonus Media Group
um Return of the Jedi thing and I mean
honestly this one probably shouldn't have won because there are clearly
people in this picture who are not members MERS of lonus media
groupan and I think it's actually very debatable whether or not my cat is
actually a member of lus Media Group but uh the thing that the thing that really
made this one work for me was the uh was the diesel as Princess Leia because um
well that's just totally inappropriate and I love it so let's go ahead that's a
young man Matt so we're going to send young man Matt his message
congratulations you win the meme contest and thank you every everyone for
playing um message me back for your
prize actually the uh the codes are at home so that's why I can't just send
them the codes now but thank you everyone very much for playing slick and
I and actually my wife actually all had a very very good laugh at a lot of the
pictures in there some of them weren't technically memes but for the most part
they were quite funny anyway so we've had a big controversy actually you know
what let's do some Twitter Q&A just because apparently apparent oh okay yes
yes Sean I will be be talking nextg console I know we haven't had a live
stream since some of the early news started coming in about Xbox One e3's
been going on this week so that ah this is so uncomfortable I just figured out
why my butt sore I have an SSD in my pocket it's like uh yeah that that hurts
so there we go what's in my other pocket let's play What's oh I do have the game
codes look at that oh I can tell you what games there Crisis 3 Tomb Raider
BioShock Infinite and Devil May Cry apparently I don't have Devil May Cry so
one of them might come without the Devil May Cry so yeah there you go you'll
you'll I don't know I'll make it up to you somehow um yes I will be talking
nextg console in fact some of my opinions might be a little bit unpopular
and a little bit against the grain of what most people think about the whole
Xbox One PS4 sort of head-to-head right
now but uh stay tuned for that close the blinds behind you the bottom is light in
the top is dark it's driving me crazy Joshua just for you I'm going leave
those blinds exactly the way they are does B have Twitter yes Boll does have
Twitter boll's Twitter is uh bollore the
intern or something like that if you if you look I I follow Boll on Twitter so
you should be able to you should be able to find that there I got my dad a
Seagate Wireless Plus for his birthday and he loves it I think you mean Seagate
because Samsung doesn't have a Wireless Plus um I love my Wireless Plus too mine
actually died on our trip to computex unfortunately though so I'm going to
have to RMA that it's not accepting a charge anymore so these things happen um
yeah none a true nerd when you carry an
SSD in your back pocket yes I know just
in case you have to it's like you never know so it's another joke from that uh
the ultimate Tech backpack video that we made apparently none of them were
technically memes um no I'm pretty sure some of them
were but I don't think any of the winners were hi lus now you have a new
office with spare room you could charge slick rent to stay there um yeah I could
if I wanted to do that yet um I mean you
know I don't know that we want to share any space with slick and I we will be
renting out the basement Suite however I will not be posting an ad on Craigslist
because it was a huge disaster when I posted an ad trying to sell my
motorcycle on Craigslist because a bunch of you yahoos got a hand got your hands
on my phone number which in retrospect I should have used a someone sent me a
fantastic app they sent it to me on my phone because they had my phone number
now where you can get like burnable phone numbers that cost a couple bucks
or something like that and that is what I recommend using for Craigslist ads now
but I it's okay though because as of today my bike is officially back on the
road I decided I don't really care about a 4k monitor I mean looking at how much
4K monitors are coming down in price already ASUS has their new 4k monitor
which is based on the same panel Tech as Sharps I mean it's using an EXO panel so
gee I wonder where they got an EXO panel from so it's using the same same panel
as Sharp's monitor um it looks fantastic
I saw it at CE uh computex which I'm
like was really tempting but I'm looking at how much 4K is dropping already in
terms of price I'm not touching it until it probably gets closer to around ,000
or $1,500 and that's uh that's when
that's when I'll I'll drop some money on it so what that means is I no longer
have to make a deal with my wife where I sell my bike to get a 4k monitor so
bike's going back on the road also part of the reason I had decided against the
bike was I was planning to keep Line This Media Group running out of my house
for a longer period of time maybe a year or two so if I don't have anywhere to
commute to and I don't really have a life because I have a baby and I run my
own business I figured I didn't really need the bike cuz I didn't have to go
anywhere uh but now if I'm going to be commuting to our new office then I will
I will need I will need the bike well you I'll need it so uh will you do an
eye switch to iOS 7 probably not I think I'm kind of done with iOS 7 I guess I
could the thing for me is that um like I
don't I don't know if this is the case with everyone but I actually use my phone for actual work and the
inconvenience factor that comes about when switching phones and platforms all
the time is uh has been a big problem
for me during the I switchs so um yeah
I I don't know I was using my I was
using my iPhone 4 while I was over at computex just because I had to carry two
phones my uh my HTC1 is unlocked so I
was able to use that for my uh Taiwan Sim so I got a SIM card while I was over
there so I could get unlimited data it's like 30 bucks it costs nothing it's
awesome it's just like a pay as you go unlimited data uh unlimited text and
like 350 minutes of calling I'm just who uses their phone this much but then I
did because it was unlimited it's awesome uh and then I was also carrying
my iPhone 4 because I put my bell Sim in there so that in the event that someone
who doesn't pay any attention did text me while I was over there I would
actually get the messages so I was using the iPhone again for a little bit and
it's not that bad for someone who's a light phone user like me it's still very
functional but I'm not expecting iOS 7 to run very well on the iPhone 4 and I'm
certainly not spending money on an iPhone 5 or an iPhone 5S or something
like that so I really just doubt it's going to happen uh what changes are you
planning for your new pad I am definitely planning to um have some
storage space which is great cuz I don't really have that at my place I am
definitely planning to make some regular
sets for things like unboxing um I know you guys kind of like the randomness
some of you do some of you don't where sometimes we're unboxing in the middle of a field and sometimes we're on a
rooftop and sometimes we're just sort of in all these places but it would be
great for the sake of consistency to have it in one place because then we
don't have to fight with the lighting every time and fight with the audio setup every time and we won't have so
many errors in them so so that's something that uh that we really need to
do I also need somewhere where we can film fast as possible much more quickly
we're working on ways that we can smooth out fast as possible a fair bit and one
of the ways that we're going to do that I know you guys don't like things being
scripted but the reality of it is for something like fast as possible where
efficiency is of utmost importance compared to an unboxing where we won't
really be using this except for um hold
on uh where we won't really be using this except like if we have some random
like specs or something that I can put on there like if I can't remember
exactly how many stream processors the
uh radon HT GTX whatever the heck it happens to be has it'll be great to be
able to put a couple notes on there for me but for something like fastest possible where we have to condense the
information as much as we possibly can using something like a teleprompter is
fantastic so this is our new teleprompter we spent like 750 bucks on
it it's no wonder I have no money right um and what this will do is it'll save
us an immense amount of time and it'll allow us to tighten up fast as possible
to the point where it really will be as fast as possible so we have an upcoming
video coming up on the Techquickie Channel which if you're not subscribed to already go subscribe Techquickie um
it's going to be decimal versus binary as fast as possible and the video is
only about 2 minutes and change long which is really cool because I think we
actually adequately covered that difference between megabytes and mby
byes and terabytes and Tibby byes and we didn't really go into the very fine
details but we gave I hope the viewer a solid understanding of why this
discrepancy exists in about 2 minutes which we wouldn't be able to do without
scripting it so uh there you go that's one of the changes we're planning I
definitely need like a cool gamer Den so when we're doing things like Afterparty
or gaming streams I want to have like a couch and you know like a TV and maybe I
don't know maybe a console or something might put a computer we'll put a computer next to the TV there okay but
if we ever did decide to stream some console games I do own both an Xbox 360
and a PS3 I don't even know I was trying I was
trying to turn the Xbox 360 on the other day and I was trying to figure out if
like there was a power switch on the back or if there was like some kind of a
trick to it I mean it turned out that there was a light switch that controlled that particular power outlet so it
wasn't actually my fault but I legit couldn't figure out how to turn it on I
was like actually I don't know how to do this b-roll cuz he's more of a console
guy than me anyway um why a CRT monitor I am not using a
CRT monitor guys it is a trick of the light see there you go LCD monitor there
uh it is definitely a trick I have a CRT monitor but that's only for game streams
because the input leg drives me crazy on LCDs when I'm trying to play Platformers
so let's go ahead and turn off my phone
because that is going to be a real problem
yeah actually it's been less of an issue lately because I've just been systematically blocking every single
person where I don't recognize their number when they call me so uh yeah it
was only a few yahoos who caused problems uh someone asks if I'm still
associated with NCIX at all uh yeah I still I still do work
oops I still do work for them so I still am uh I'm still the host of NC Tech tips
at least a lot of the videos that are on there I don't know if you guys noticed but we actually made some exclusive
computex coverage videos for NC so we
reserved a few of the really cool booths like Intel AMD and Microsoft for the NC
Tech tips channel so that was part of their sponsorship deal that had them
helping send us over there so I don't I don't have a paycheck from NC anymore
but we're still we still work together on things I still have a lot of friends
there um you know I still highly encourage you guys to buy your computer
hardware there it's not like the way that we uh parted ways was in any way
negative or anything like that so I still fully support everything they're
doing and they do the same for me so no it's uh it's really really good you
don't have to you don't have to you know work somewhere 9 to5 in order to have a
good relationship with them so all right now this highly controversial
topic and I just want to take some time to explain this I posted a thread in the
Forum asking should we post the boo bab
video so lonus Media Group did create a
video of the booth babes at computex 2013 it was honestly it was the last
thing we did it was by popular demand and we had some viewers be upset that we
were going to publish this and so I posted a poll and I basically said look
unless an overwhelming majority of the Forum users want this video I don't
think it makes sense because you know it it's one of those
it's one of those things where some people will feel very offended by it
whereas others feel very offended that anyone thinks it's a big deal at all but
at the end of the day it's a very polarizing issue so it seemed to me that
the safest thing to do was that unless like literally everyone was okay with it
I was just going to leave it and then the other thing that I did was I read
through every single Post in that thread all 11 pages of it 19 pages of it lots
of pages all 19 pages of it and I looked
at what people's arguments were and to me the strongest argument was not sexism
this or or sexism that or whatever else
because quite frankly I'm not an expert on any of that stuff the part that
really stuck out to me was that this is a tech Channel we've never really done
that before uh I mean if we wanted to we
could replace Linus in fact if you guys wanted to you could watch videos on CMD
or there's at least a couple of other Tech channels I've seen in the past that
do news and they do product videos where it's a busty chick and she doesn't
necessarily know anything about the product which happens to be the case
with most of the boo babes that we encountered while we were there but the
reality of it is you guys are subscribe to me and I'm not that attractive
but that's what we do we do the tech
well not the tech the tech is Logan's thing but we we cover the technology we
talk about the technology we aren't attractive at least I'm not attractive
my understanding is slick is very attractive so we cover the technology
and we've never really um we've never really gone down that path before so why
why are we doing this and I thought it was a very good point however I've had a
lot of people say look lonus come on
you're not going to show it to us at all so I'm going to I'm going to give you
guys some highlights from it here in the live stream if you so are so inclined
otherwise guys tune out for a couple minutes and uh we will be back shortly
so here I'm just going to I'm going to have to go find it because I don't not
100% sure where it is anymore here it is computex
2013 so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to grab that uh screen
capture I'm actually starting to really like xsplit I was having trouble with it
before and now it's now I'm a big fan
now it just kind of works for me so there you go
guys okay so play Oh away PlayStation ad
you guys will have to oh let me know in the twitch chat if the audio is okay I
have no idea if the YouTube audio videos are all
right something something yeah I know
right I hope I get money for that ad even though I'm the one watching it so
compex coverage so so basically I just had slick and b-roll run around at the
show I mean there's nothing gratuitous About It by any stretch of the
imagination so there's the qap girls okay well b-roll got a little bit
into that one they're
waving I forget where she's from I forget where they're from is that
something thing can't remember is that ECS I have no idea I actually wasn't
with them when uh when they did this whole thing so basically that's ASRock
can't remember who that is but they just kind of walked around
the show got some got some videos people saying hi holding products this guy's
awesome this guy's a rock star we actually did a uh we did like a like
a wow yeah Boll got kind of into him too
so we actually did like um like a mock
thing of his like Superman PC thing
someone's like go yeah twitch chat's like go back to Superman go back to
Superman uh this was the WD Booth WD I
know for a fact actually imported her from like Russia uh because apparently
it's hard to find blondes in Taiwan she was awesome she actually made
me a balloon animal which is pretty cool I think that uh I think that the
definition of of babes got stretched a little bit with Superman and the The
Jokers here but there you go guys so
like I said there was nothing there was nothing sort of like you know crazy
scandalous About It by any stretch of the imagination but at the end of the
day if if it's going to upset any of the viewers it's probably not worth it and
like I said we've never really gone down that path before and I think that
there's room for us to have include you
know the booth attractions so to speak everything
about it whether it's a motherboard with water getting poured on it or whether it's you know an attractive young man or
attractive young lady holding a product then there's room for us to include that
as part of the booth coverage but it's just not really something we've done in the past so maybe we integrate it later
on down the road um you know at the next
event or whatever else the case may be so let's see how upset Twitter is at me
now that uh that I've gone ahead and I've apparently I've apparently shown
the uh yeah no one seems to care so there you go guys it's one of those
things where there sometimes there just isn't really a clear right answer but
now I've compromised and that is all we are going to do okay this is fantastic
so I've had people tweeting me all day telling me this scandalous shocker of a
news story lus did you hear about this
the Xbox One demos at E3 we're running on
PCS really really you mean the hardware of
the Xbox one wasn't done before they had
to develop games for it oh no but lonus
you don't understand they're running on high-end PCS with NVIDIA graphics cards
and I go really you mean an x86 platform
is being emulated by an x86 platform and
a direct X11 graphic solution is being emulated by a direct X11 graphic
solution wow and you mean hold on hold on hold on so you mean we need a little
bit of over we need a little bit of like extra Hardware muscle in order to
simulate something else that actually isn't finished yet are you serious about
all this come on guys happens every time I'm going to you know what I haven't
done it yet but I'm going to Google it now I'm going to see if I can going to
see if I can find this um because I'm pretty sure I've seen this before
PS3 uh demo running on PC or something
like that let's see if we can find a really old news story 2013 yeah no none
of this is none of this is old enough PS3 um pre-launch demo running on PC now
2009 none of this is old enough but guys come on we go through this every time
yes the devkits are PCS the reason for
that is that the hardware is not finalized for the consoles yet and I
mean look at how closely Microsoft and Sony are keeping these things to their
chests Sony announced the console with without even showing us what it looks
like okay Microsoft announced the console showed us the console um nobody
had leaked it yet the fact that nobody's leaked it means that very few people
were actually handson with it I mean you look at something like video cards every
video card launch there's always a leak
I can tell you guys now that I'm one of the top ones on the list in North
America to get any new NVIDIA graphics card and we are finally hooked up at AMD
my 7990 arrived so expect some videos to be coming from that about that once the
uh once the team arrives back from Korea so really excited about that anyway I I
find about about I find out about new graphics cards from leaks online not
from NVIDIA telling me about it so the kinds of people like the kind of small
circle of people that know about something before it's generally sort of
rumored and out there um yeah nobody had
seen an Xbox One basically until Microsoft announced it outside of like a
select few probably within Microsoft like it wouldn't even surprise me if
like below the VP or director level even at Major Partners like EA nobody even
knew it was going to be called Xbox One or anything like that so so there you go
guys um finally accepted lonus is hotter than
tasty PC I really think that is open for
debate um Mr mkin on the twitch chat I
really don't think that that happens to be the case at all but uh anyway there
you go guys that is my sort of take on
it if anything we should be less surprised than usual that the demos are
running on PCS because this generation of consoles is more like PCS than
anything we've ever seen before I mean back when it was a power PC cores and
cell processor yeah it was a little surprising that demos are running on PCS
now I mean come on they are
PCS I I will be floored if we don't have
Xbox One emulators and PS4 emulators very quickly this time around compared
to previous generations just because they're so
similar uh all right so let's move on to the next topic here I actually had to do
all my prep for this last night and I relied very heavily on the forum for
this so guys you rock everyone who posts in the news section on the Forum you
guys all rock and don't if I didn't pick one of your topics then please don't
take it the wrong way but these are the ones I picked so Horvath 93 thank you
very much for this topic AMD stepping up their game so part of AMD's big
announcement at E3 this year was blah blah blah blah blah marketing speak
today we are proud to announced that Battlefield 4 will be exclusively
optimized for AMD radon gpus with that
said expect NVIDIA to have like a patch
within like a week they always do it's not like EA is going to ignore NVIDIA
because you know they optimized a game for AMD and I I I see a lot of sort of I
see a lot of this stuff where people are like oh lus why did you benchmark that
game with NVIDIA versus AMD it's an NVIDIA game or it's an
AMD by like a couple of weeks after launch NVIDIA and AMD have both pretty
much optimized for it at that point with a few notable exceptions things like
Crisis 2 and that Crossfire bug that was a big issue for a long time these are
sort of the weird exceptions that exist but those are very unusual so let's go
back to this optimized for AMD radi on gpus AMD
a series apus and AMD FX CPUs EA and
dice have collaborated to ensure Frostbite 3 based titles like the F4
look and run their best on am Hardware etc etc etc we have also partnered with
Square Enix to exclusively optimize Thief for AMD radon gpus and AMD FX CPUs
so this to me actually the coolest thing about all of this has nothing to do with
the radon side of the business because optimizing games for gpus before launch
is common sense AMD and NVIDIA both work really hard with game devs to make sure
that the games are going to run correctly on their Hardware on Day Zero
the part that really excited me about that was this optimized for apus and
optimized for FX CPUs what does that mean because optimized for a CPU totally
means nothing optimized for a CPU means it like is optimized for x86 which is
Intel or AMD it makes pretty much no difference unless there's some kind of
an instruction set like back when SS 2 was introduced that gets a major benefit
um from something that they've implemented in the game unless there's
something like that then yeah no it's
not a thing but optimizing for Apu or FX
could mean that because the NextGen consoles are so PC like in their
architecture and because they're going to be using multicore AMD
apus we could be looking at optimization
for multicore in a way that we've never seen before because even though the last
generation consoles used Three core and
however many cell processors PS3 had who cares because it was so diffult for devs
to code for that it like it like the
power of it was so difficult to harness that's why PS3 games looked so much
better throughout the life cycle of the console not because it was getting more powerful but just because they were like
wrapping their brains around how the hell do we put a game on this thing um
but these NextGen consoles running x86 processors multi-core processors we
could finally be looking at a situation
where we are fully leveraging our PCS which is very cool and I'm extremely
excited about because things like the lack of uh environmental physics have
been driving me crazy for years why isn't this working why isn't this so
immersive and such a core part of gameplay yet and the answer was because
consoles were holding us back um not the
case anymore now they're going to be running such a similar architecture so
we could be seeing opencl or multi-core optimizations for games that are going
to allow us to have all kinds of much cooler Ai and weather effects and
physics simulations and all that really really exciting stuff and that to me is
the exciting thing about that announcement on the AMD gaming Facebook
page so there you go that's my take on that and I'm going to segue into one of
the other topics aha there it is and
this was posted by sure whatever Jad quizy quazer sure
fine uh and that is NVIDIA saying Xbox one and PlayStation 4 are great news for
gaming PCs because a lot of people out there are sort of running around saying
oh well NVIDIA doesn't have anything positive to look at about these upcoming
consoles they're both AMD AMD or actually all three of them are running
AMD Graphics hardware and all three of
them well not all three of them Wii U is like not great in terms of graphics
performance but the other two are going to be very competitive with an
entry-level gaming PC so I mean is NVIDIA not going to be
selling as many graphics cards on the desktop the answer is no the answer is
this is awesome and the way that NVIDIA explains it I think is very clear and
the funny I mean the funny thing to me about this article It's actually an article that was linked from The Verge
and I kind of went oh mainstream media
you guys are so funny because I really don't think there's anyone in the it
space uh you know whether it's uh whether it's at Tom's Hardware or
whether it's uh you know um you know reviews by jeff.com the largest and the
smallest I don't think there's anyone in the actual PC space that could have seen
more powerful consoles as anything but a positive thing but the Verge felt the
need to report on this and uh this is NVIDIA's fancy little graph that goes uh
here let's zoom in bloop bloop bloop new consoles raise the bar and this is
important because raising the bar between the best performance that's
available on a PC and the performance that's available on consoles I mean look
at how they've diverged with PCS becoming so much more powerful over time
um raising the bar means that we can Implement new technologies in the games
with the assumption that a large part of the install base is going to be able to
use them I mean this is this is the only way to get around
companies like blizzard that make every game as if every computer on the planet
needs to be able to run it whereas now
instead of and and before we treated consoles like computers so there's this
huge install base of people to be able to run this game and while you can go
okay well the PC version you can have anti-aliasing you can have higher resolutions you can have better texture
packs and all these things at the end of the day you couldn't program like the
most sophisticated AI in the world because it was going to make the consoles chug and you can't have like PC
Ai and console AI because then you're doing two completely different
development paths for the same freaking game which is going to destroy the
overhead involved in what are already multi- multi bazillion dollar under
takings particularly for these AAA titles so this is sort of NVIDIA's thing
is check this out back when we had gtx680 as the cream of the crop and it
was up against PS3 and Xbox 360 we were looking at a 13.2% difference which
meant that anything any game release that had to run crossplatform had to be
crippled because nothing will run
optimally on this when it has to run optimally on this too I mean we're
talking a 10x difference Plus in terms of performance whereas now NVIDIA is
saying well check this out now between GTX Titan which by the way is a $1,000
graphics card and PS4 which by the way is only a 3.99 console more on that
later um now we have only a two and a half times difference so we'll be able
to they'll be able to make a game that's awesome and runs great on PS4 but runs
even better on PC and you get that extra eye candy and those tweaks there but
we're not being like like held down by this like horrible horri horrible
machine that's just not even close anymore which is extremely exciting so
I'm going to go back to Twitter Q&A for a little bit here guys and if you want
to talk to me then I guess you can do that I'm actually kind of uh kind of
super excited about something that I'm talking to um someone about but we're
thinking of maybe finding a way and I don't know how it's going to work we
might have to have some special tweaks to the software or whatever else I have
no idea how we're going to do this but I'd love to find a way to open up phone
boards so that you guys can actually call in and talk on the live stream and
there's going to be some more overhead involved for us we'll probably have to have like what radio show do shows do
where there's an operator that um that actually takes the calls and screens
them before they go live and we'll we'll figure out sort of how to make that work
or I can just take over and I can do a segment while slick screens the next
caller or whatever else we'll figure out a way to make it work but I'd love to have you guys interact live through
voice rather than limiting it to just text interaction so I'm really excited
about that I had a I had a a conversation with uh the guys there on
my way here today and then we're going to have a follow-up call Monday and I
think that's going to be really cool so let me know if you're excited about that
as well guys cuz it's going to be awesome someone asks best desk uh the
one with legs that's the right height I
really like the vert desk that's that adjustable desk but it's like $900 or
something like that so it might be out of reach for some people but I mean
honestly you're asking the wrong person about furniture you guys are going to be
super okay the table I'm using right now is some Ikea thing that's like the worst
thing I've ever seen in my life one of the legs is legit broken off it's
propped under it and then I put the table on it and then it's just like held
in place by like the pressure of the table and then this is my chair right
now like yeah that that is legitimately
what I'm sitting on for the live stream I have no furniture here yet so don't
ask me um will AMD make a GPU to battle
with Titan uh they might not make a single GPU card but they certainly have
the Radeon 7990 which is positioned
against Titan in terms of price point AMD really has to get their uh their
frame rating fixed driver or going but it should be sometime later this summer
or early fall and 7990 is a legitimate
competitor at that point not in terms of power consumption probably not in terms
of heat output or P yeah okay well
not I mean the thing about Titan the thing about gpus you guys is that it's
funny because consumers seem to think that when an AMD releases something
NVIDIA like quickly Engineers a solution and like combats it no no no I mean
Titan uh 7970 um these cards are in development
for 2 3 years before they actually make it to Market so it's not like if AMD
strategy which H it has been since 3000
Series if AMD's strategy is let's build smaller gpus and address the highend
with a dual GPU solution so you look it that's how it's been 3870 X2 4870 X2
5970 and 6990 and I can't remember they
keep changing the numbering schemes like why um but that's been their strategy so
how are they going to counter NVIDIA having a huge single GPU card well they
don't they don't have one so whether or not they decide to do that in the next
couple of generations we'll have to see but it'll be a couple years before we
find out if AMD is going to fundamentally change their strategy which by the way has been working pretty
well for them um as someone who was on the retail side not that long ago there
have been times in the last few years where like it's been rough for the red
team and now is not one of those times so there you go I don't know how much of
that is um I don't know how much of that is never settle and how much of that is
the hardware the better drivers but it's been it's been very solid do you think
you'll be able to overclock a PS4 Xbox One I doubt
it the time on your pick is still synced
with try to time yeah yeah probably um I
can't keep track of which of my clocks are right and which of them are wrong at
this point uh right angle 24 pin power connector any thoughts it's non-standard
so it'll be great for some cases and not so good for other ones slick is on a
plane why no cat tips uh it's it's hard
to prioritize making videos about the cats when quite honestly not that many
people watch them and it's not that easy
like it it feels like I for a while there I was like oh let's try and do a
cat video every day I mean they videos of cats it can't be that hard the
reality of it is it is that hard because even though they do something
interesting every day it's very difficult to catch it have you ever tried to give a cat a command Rumble do
that thing you were just doing he' be
like so I'd end up with a lot of videos of Rumble being
like and that's it that's all I'd have so uh it's very very
difficult apparently uh okay okay okay okay Tech fanatic says you featured two
of my new new stories before and you forgot to mention my name so there consider this a mention of your name
you're awesome too uh can we get an update on my PC it's done it's just a
matter of making a video about it I just need like little finishing pieces for
around the outside of the window and Slick PC is nothing special right now
I've been ragging on him to put his GTX 670 that I intentionally I purposefully
obtained a water block for him for it and he never actually put in his
computer what's better NVIDIA R AMD Intel R AMD I actually have videos about
this I'm going to do you the I'm going to do you a big favor here and I'm going
to Google them for you so actually I'm not going to Google them for you I'm
going to YouTube search which is even better so check this out because I have
covered these topics Intel versus AMD I'm willing to bet bam first hit Intel
versus AMD 586 th000 people watch that video AMD versus NVIDIA bam first hit
256,000 people have found that video so uh you should too go ahead check it out
the answer if you don't want want to watch those videos is that there is no
answer can you explain why the comments are disabled in Slick's keyboard
incident video uh the reason for that is that we're not it's not open for
discussion there was a lot of support from the community about saying that oh
well you know armageddon's wrong you know I trust lonus and Slick their video
was right the original video was probably right armageddon's probably twisting their arms to make this video
no we were wrong so it's actually very
very detrimental to have the community siding with us on this when the point of
what we're trying to do is explain that we were wrong apologize for being wrong
and undo any damage that might have been done to armageddon's reputation because
we were wrong so that is why comments are
disabled because it would be extremely unhelpful right now for me personally to
have people talking about in the comments how Armageddon was unfair and
did this and did that it is a very serious problem what we did where we
misrepresented the facts so it is is very important that people just watch
the video listen to what we're saying it is the truth and then just let's try to
have this all go away we'll be more diligent in the future we owe it to you
guys we owe it to the manufacturers to make sure that we are as accurately as
possible representing the facts but it is not open for discussion anymore it's
done uh so that's why there are no comments on that one do I have any
official do I have any original thoughts on Microsoft's response to people who
don't have an internet connection I don't think there's really much room for
an original thought on it there's only really one thought seriously Microsoft
really um I mean even the way that uh I
I look at almost any other solution I mean valve is of course the golden
standard actually this I think this is one of my news topics but I guess I'll just get into it now valve is the golden
standard in terms of treating customers correctly sort of they've done things
that have been extremely unpopular in the past as well no used
games people did not like that at first that was a big problem big controversy
back in the day um having to check in
having to sign in I mean when valve was pushing steam always on internet
connections Broadband connections were not as big of a thing as they are now
this a big point of contention between Gamers and valve with people vowing I
will never install Steam I will never give a penny of my money to this company
whereas now we look at steam as like you know God's gift to Gamers and personally
I love it not having to keep track of CDs I don't remember the last time I
installed a game off a CD it's ridiculous like it just seems like
absurd now and going back to the console concept for me of installing games off
of a dis is just kind of backwards it's like well can I just download it and
have it tied to my account like to me it's not that crazy the problem with
Microsoft's approach right now is how often it needs to check in that to me is
a is a big concern because even steam will run for for a pretty reasonable
period of time in single player games uh without logging in even things like uh
Adobe Creative Cloud so Linus Media Group um rather than investing in
individual licenses of adobe products has recently switched over to Creative
Cloud so it's their subscription based service where uh much like Office 365 we
don't have to worry about updates we don't have to worry about having out-of-date software we don't have to
worry about um paying a massive chunk of
money up front to acquire the software
and we don't have to worry obviously about you know the illegality of
pirating software when you're doing professional work with it so we got
Creative Cloud and it's awesome Creative Cloud Works without checking in for at
least a couple days I know cuz I tried it I had it on a laptop that so I had
Bolls Creative Cloud logged into my laptop so we could install it there so
he could use it and then he was using it on the plane and then um in Taiwan
without logging in without validating or going online in any way for at least a
couple days which is which is great I mean I'm never really away from internet
long enough that a two or 3 days or 5
days is going to be a problem but having it single day is um I mean I really hope
they backpedal on this I think there's a lot of room for Microsoft to undo the
damage that they've done over the last little while by just going you know what
we hear you and we're sorry and here are
the concessions we're going to make the living room is still very important to
us and they're right the living room is extremely important Sony don't imagine
for a okay I'm going to be getting into one of my other topics so why don't we
just uh blah blah blah blah
blah no okay this isn't quite one of my other topics okay so don't imagine for a
second Sony doesn't want to own the living room too if you can okay here I
mean using uh PS P S3 as a streamer for
video hello owning the living room I mean they're they're both moving towards
that content consumption as well as
gaming model don't imagine for a second that just because Microsoft is the one
talking about it doesn't mean that they aren't both doing it also don't imagine
for a second that somehow Sony is a
white knight in all of this they are taking advantage of some major PR
blunders on Microsoft side and yes I
have been one to I mean if you guys saw my tweets during the Xbox One reveal I
was ripping on it as hard as anyone but at the end of the day Sony's sitting
there going oh well this is great because what Microsoft's doing right now
is they are Paving the way for us to do the same thing look at what's going on
with their online services so how upset were people initially when Microsoft
wanted you to have a gold membership in order to play games online over time they got used to it
they accepted it I think I've gotten away from the living room thing and I've gotten into that other topic that I was
looking at just there but owning the living room yeah don't imagine they don't want to do it okay whatever I'm
just going to tent off here because that's apparently what's going on now um
so okay so look at paying for the online service Sony kind of took the high road
and went well we don't charge for ours blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah that's great well hey nextg guess what they're charging and their charge
is going to be very similar to what Microsoft implemented so if you think
for a second that anything that Microsoft's doing right now if it turns
out that it works and Gamers accept it if you think for a second Sony isn't
going to implement it whether it's sometime during the life cycle of the
PS4 or sometime later you are wrong you're 100% wrong because they will
that's the way that a doop works and quite frankly Nintendo is so far out of
the game at this point and so far behind on online that it's they're completely
irrelevant in the context of this conversation Sony will follow suit they
will do check-ins they will limit used game sales but they might do it with PS5
it's just a matter of time and at the end of the day there's nothing
inherently wrong to me with tying a game to uh an account to a person as opposed
to tying it to a physical piece of medium or in the case of what Nintendo
did on the original Wii with the classic
classic console and all that stuff where they tied it to the actual piece of Hardware I mean that was ludicrous and
that didn't get nearly the same negative Buzz that Microsoft's getting over what
they're doing with the one so mostly to me it looks like Microsoft is trying to
do too much too fast they are upsetting
their core audience which happens to be Gamers sort of they're very vocal
audience happens to be Gamers but there are people who will buy Xboxes who aren't Gamers so they're upsetting their
very vocal audience and they are giving Sony so much ammo I mean the Sony video
was um I mean it was it was opportunistic
because it ignores the advantages of of
account-based uh of account-based title ownership so I'm I'm gonna play it here
just because it's uh it's in one of the threads on the Forum at least I thought
it was here anyway so Sony created a cute little video showing you how to
share a game on the PlayStation which
was um basically just one guy handing a
game to another one
and I mean that's that's cute but it
hold on I think I I think I clicked the wrong thing or maybe I put the wrong Link in there or something like that I
mean uh that that's that's cute and all that but at the end of the day yeah Sony
wants your money just as bad as Microsoft does and an interesting point
that was made whether it was by Microsoft employee or whether it wasn't
was that what tying the license to the person does much like the way guys
remember we accept this from valve much like the way steam does not allowing you
sales I mean they don't allow it at all never mind having a fee for it and
allowing you to do it they don't allow it at all what it does is it allows more
money to go to the Game Dev potentially
and less money to be subsidizing like additional licenses down the road like
why are we giving GameStop money for this and at the end of the day okay hold
on the argument could be made well Xbox One games are probably going to be
$59.99 I'll be surprised if triaa titles
hold at $59.99 or even $69.99 over the
near future because you look at how much they cost to make look at how much money
is being hemorrhaged by companies like Square Enix look at how few developers
are even left in the game and I'll will be floored I mean you look
at Gamers are willing to pay $99.99 plus
for something like a limited edition you know Halo 18 or whatever we're up to now
in terms of the HALO Series that comes with you know a plastic Master Chef
Helmet or whatever the case may be they're willing to pay it they've been
testing the water on this for a long time expect it games are going to go up
in price and if we can prevent that by preventing used
sales I don't know maybe I'm okay with that I don't know I I mean the reality
of it is I haven't bought a console game
since Mario Kart Wii and then I hadn't
bought a console game before that since Super Nintendo um maybe I'm just the
wrong person to talk to about all this but I love steam um I love the way the
marketplace works there I love the way that game pricing is dictated by
maintaining a solid run rate for the Game Dev so games end up actually priced
like what they're worth as opposed to you know the packaging involved and the
printing of the discs and the marketing materials inside and the logistics of
shipping them all over the place and covering the margins for the retailers
as far as I'm concerned buyby retailers we don't need you anymore this is this
is software now bye-bye I mean even the cost of the bandwidth of downloading the
game is going to as long as they pass
the savings along to the consumer is going to cover what you would have spent
giving a retailer a markup and paying for the logistics of shipping these
stupid things all over the place so I think that it just has to move on from
the model it is now Microsoft going to be very unpopular for a little while but
at the end of the day they're both going to do it and if you imagine for a second
that Sony doesn't want to figure out a way to have you buying Sony movies
through the PS4 then you're crazy I mean look at what they did with uh even what
was that stupid console no one cared about the little one not the vaita the one before that where they wanted you to
buy like little discs that you were going to watch movies on I mean come on
they've been trying to do that for generations of products now they're not the hero here so there
you go there's my unpopular opinion on what's going on with the whole console
thing right now all right pricing wise 399 versus
$4.99 if Microsoft can pull off Xbox one
being this motion enabled way of interacting with your entire living room
that's really cool that's probably worth $100 to me I'm going let that sink in
for a minute blah blah blah privacy this privacy that as long as the Privacy
agreement is such that my butts covered
in terms of if I'm sitting there picking my notes knows there isn't going to be a
video of it on YouTube Somewhere as long as the bases are covered on that and
it's just accepting my gesture inputs or whatever else and I know that they have
a patent for how many people are watching the content and whatever else
and I'm okay you know I'm going to actually I'm going to launch into that after this as well the patent for uh
charging for Content based on how many people are viewing it that could be awesome or it could be terrible so hold
on um if they can make that work that's
going to be incredible it's going to be a completely new way of I mean look at
how hard the TV guys are trying to push this with Samsung Smart TV with their
just it doesn't work at all the one
platform that has a chance of doing this is Xbox one right now and the reason for
that is it actually has the horsepower to back it up it's got the 1080p camera
it's got It's got the horses it can actually do it it has Microsoft behind
it For Better or For Worse yeah Microsoft isn't perfect but at the end
of the day I'll Trust their software more than I'll Trust You Know Jack's
utility unless it's been around for 10 years like something like filezilla
where you know that it's going to kind of work and it's fairly simple I mean an
operating system is phenomenally complex the fact that they are able to do it at
all is outstanding um so if there's
someone who can pull it off Microsoft can pull it off and it is a cool way to
interact with your TV in your living room change the channel volume up volume
down walking away and having things pause I mean if you could set it up I
mean imagine this for a second guys if you could set it up so that you
configure things in your Xbox one so that when you personally walk away it
pauses and when anyone else does it doesn't doesn't bother to pause I would
do that I don't care if my movie pauses if someone else goes away that that's
awesome I mean yeah there's problems with it like if I say um hold on I can't
remember what it
is can't even I can't even remember anymore
so what is it uh whatever I can't even remember how
you turn off an Xbox with voice command but I think it's like Xbox off or something like that I mean if I say that
and it turns off your live stream right now that's a that's that's that's bad
but they're going to figure it out they're going to find a way to like
voice cancel the content that's actually coming out of the Xbox or noise cancel
it or something like that they will figure it out and I'm pretty excited for
what they can do I mean the problem being that Xbox one isn't as powerful
it's not going to have as much raw power as PS4 in terms of running games but at
the end of the day it's not like it's a generation behind where not talking about the difference between the PS4 is
going to run at 1080p Xbox One's going to run at 720p and it's going to be a
night and day difference we're going to be talking about some extra details on PS4 it will look better but neither of
them are going to be anywhere near or PC anyway so whatever it's it's all still
console stuff so crap what was that
thing I wanted to launch into it was something to do with it was something to
do with connect uhoh a shoot okay if anyone in the
twitch chat can tell me what the thing I said I I was going to talk about
was uh come on
guys okay something something something
spying ah yes yes how many people are watching okay
so your initial reaction to this is
shock and awe and horror right imagine
if the content companies were charging you for how long you sat in front and
watched it or for how many people you
had watching it now for things like pay-per-view this is going to change the
whole Paradigm for you where you have 20 buddies come over you get a pizza you
have one pay-per-view and you watch it and that is going to be a real bummer
but for some types of content this could be a huge blessing and think about it
this way guys it's one of those things where you have accepted this already
okay hold on going to a movie well you
pay for how many people go and you pay for how many people watch the movie huh
okay so you accepted that before whereas now all of a sudden I'm going to tell
you you're going to have to pay for how many people watch it in your living room and you kind of go whoa hold on hold on
a minute now assuming that the rates are
better depending on how few people watch it this could be awesome if it kind of
starts at $1 19999 to watch the movie or whatever Netflix charges uh whatever
with their monthly service or if it starts at what we're used to paying now
to have one person watch it and everyone else is an incremental charge that's a
big problem but but if we're looking at a situation where if it's just me
watching it I can pay like two bucks and watch a movie that could be awesome for
the forever alone types that could be fantastic for people with big families
it could be negative so I think what we have to do with a technology like that
is we have to go whoa hold on okay let's find out where they're going with this
because remember guys at the end of the day if for whatever reason you are
unhappy with the way that Xbox One implements any of these patents or any
of these Technologies you don't have to buy one no one has a gun to your head no
one is telling you buy an Xbox One or I'm going to pop you because they're not
allowed to do that
yet um but that's the way to vote anyone
who is upset and we said this on the last live stream anyone who is upset
about the way that Xbox One is unfolding or PS4 for that matter if they decide to
implement some of these policies or you know all of them or none of them
whatever it is you don't have to buy it just don't buy it if you don't buy it
it'll all go away all these problems will go away instantly if nobody if not
a single person ran out and paid $19.99
or $24.99 for a Blu-ray movie that would
go away the pricing would drop that's how it works I worked in retail you have
to move product if you don't sell anything you go out of business so don't
buy it and it'll go away and if you do buy it then you're part of the
problem uh so hold on a second you you
pay extra in a theater to cover the cost of the theater facilities well you pay
extra to consume content because of the cost of producing the content I mean as
someone who makes content now um I
personally benefit more the more people watch it because I get to deliver more
ad impressions well okay now hold on a minute what if someone like um some kind
of a video streaming service what if they didn't even charge more for the
content what if they just got to count more ad Impressions if more people were
sitting and watching it that's cool because that doesn't pass
any cost on to the consumer and it benefits the producers of the content
and it benefits advertisers because they have a much better gauge for how many
people are watching their content not everything is tinfoil hat conspiracy
theory and like I said Microsoft May implement this in such a way that it
costs you $60 to sit and watch a movie with your you know 18 children they
might I don't know and if they do don't buy it and if they don't and if it ends
up being something that's very benign and benefits everyone like the scenario
I just gave you well then it's a completely different story then all of a
sudden everyone's going to be clapping their hands going wow Microsoft I can't believe you thought of this this is the
best thing ever because now our content I mean okay imagine this whoa okay here
like brain explosion imagine your pay-per-view was
cheaper the more people watched it because they could deliver more ads or
something like that or you could have an option where uh you could go oh I'm
going to have 30 people here we're going to validate it with connect so we want
the pay-per-view stream for free and feel free to Chunk in ads here here and
here what if you had options for how to pay for your
content so there you go guys might be good might be bad probably bad but I'm
giving them the benefit of the doubt because I'm not going to pay for it anyway all right so let's move on to you
know what let's do some Twitter Q&A because I think I said I was going to do something and I never actually did it so
I have no idea what time it is I have no idea if my wife is going to come get me
I have no idea how any of this is going to work tonight apparently I have a Miss
call hopefully it's not from her apparently I have oh oh Skype message
from one of the mods on the Forum not sure not sure what he
wants um competitions okay I can mention
that so apparently in the coding section of the uh lus Tech tips Forum there is a
little coding contest so the first uh so
it's a 100 line program you want want to do something so it's called the under
100 line challenge so guys if you're a programmer go check it out that might be
might be fun for you if you're into that sort of thing uh okay so someone says
hide your friends behind a shroud when watching movies well okay maybe I mean
it's it's one of those things where if you get caught it might be a problem
much the same way as like well go in the uh go in the HOV lane or go in the
diamond lane or whatever they call it in your area just put a dummy in the other seat like that people got in trouble for
that uh and I am going to be talking about this that that is a big problem
that is like a w that that's like I can't even okay uh why should you pay
more just because more people are in your house well because more people are watching the content it's not so much
why should you pay more it's why should the content creator get more I feel like
the more people watch my live stream the more advertising Revenue I should get am
I wrong so it's it's not always about
consumer rights necessarily sometimes it's about content creator rights or
sometimes it's about um someone else's rights and if there is a way that
Microsoft can do this in a benign way I don't want to I don't want to keep going
on this topic for much longer but if there's a way that Microsoft can do this
in a benign way that benefits everyone then it's fantastic but if not then then
it's a problem and you don't have to buy it there you go lineus come on how would
someone ever be able to check in your private home how many is there it's BS and never going to happen with the
connect they have a patent for this read the news um lonus are you going to talk
about the new NVIDIA wicko display driver killing cards haven't encountered
it yet I might not go out of my way to install it this is this is actually
something that's interesting to me about GeForce experience with automatic driver
updates and that's why I personally am going to opt out of the automatic driver
updates because sometimes updated drivers can cause problems particularly
with very old titles and since I haven't played a new game in like months um
sometimes the games that I do play tend to be older titles so it's beneficial
for Joe wants to play the latest Call of Duty and beneficial Honestly for
probably 95% of Gamers out there or even more than that but personally I probably
won't implement it CU I do like to take a bit of a wait and see on the latest
drivers um I I don't know that there's any validity to it it's possible that it
is killing cards it's possible that it's not um I know there have been situations
in the past where there was a driver update that was causing the fans to not
um go fast enough which was causing cards that were probably already on the
brink of failure to fail prematurely um but I have no idea what's going on
with this one what do I think about the new Mac Pro that's actually one of the
topics I have lined up for later uh I haven't looked into it enough so I'm
going to be taking a very sort of thousand foot view of it but uh sort of
give me give me some time on that why is gesture control so amazing if you walk
away at pauses really people are too lazy to press a button on a remote it's
not about people being too lazy or too not lazy I mean you know the same thing
got said about cell phones what people are too you know blah blah blah they
can't just you know use a phone in their house yeah every
advancement there are fudy duddies who don't want to see it so whatever um it's
going to happen everything in Star Trek will happen at some point so you can
fight it all you want but whatever uh Sony has been King when it comes to
proprietary devices like flash on their cameras and their special SD cards in
charger yep yeah actually Sony has been one of the worst in terms of consumer
friendliness with their Hardware I mean as someone who has a Sony camera that
I'm looking at right now um I mean they
want money for the firmware update to unlock the 4K functionality that there
was no sort of they didn't say it was going to be paid when I bought my camera
they want money for the module that they didn't really say anything about they
said it would just be an SDI output they want money for the recorder that uses a
proprietary card format I mean guys
don't pretend Sony is your friend Sony's not your friend
Microsoft's not your friend Google's not your friend Apple's not your friend
they're not your friends so there you go I'm not your friend for that matter
unless you're watching my live stream in which case I'm definitely your friend um
of course they'll try and sell movies considering their focus on 4K players and Blu-ray yeah of course they're going
to try and sell movies they want your living room just like Microsoft we don't
complain about steam because the games are cheaper especially with steam sales well I'll be interested to see what
happens with Xbox One if they do bring us cheaper games then we could be having
a very different conversation steam has awesome sales no one does that with
console games stay tuned um yeah but
with steam there was never any expectation of buying and selling used games of course there was PC Gamers
expected it whether they delivered it or not um and I mean in much the same way
that steam told you up front you can't sell this used I was still surprised
when I found out I couldn't give a game to a friend and Gamers who buy things up
front on an Xbox One and know that they can't sell it used or whatever else
they'll know that too or they'll be surprised just like me have you got a
call from Nintendo about your live play no I haven't gotten a call from them
they just uh they claimed one of the one of the videos they monetized it whatever
I mean we're talking on the order of like several dollars like it doesn't
make a big difference to me one way or the other but I was just amused because
we talked about that and then they they
monetized our video um did you see his face when Xbox said
the cost no idea what you're talking about okay uh AMD 5 GHz TPU yeah I'll be
that's actually one of my topics as well I have a lot of topics still what time
is it none of my clocks are right I have no idea what's going on right now uh do
you think I should get a 660 Ti or a 770 or wait for 760 sorry I can't really
comment on unreleased products although I can tell you right now that I will
know at some point would a GTX 770 do a 4K display
yes it would um it probably yeah a 4 gig one
would be better though hi from Red dear hello what are the sexy red boxes behind
me oh well these are unboxings I'll be doing soon this my friends is a Zonar feeis
which I'm extremely excited to check out we're going to be using this for our 900d ultimate build with liquid
cooling and this my friends is a rampage 4 Gene which we were supposed to do a
build with a couple months ago but it got delayed in shipping and blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah so we'll be doing a tiny matx
build uh with that one that's going to be really cool cuz it's going to have a
six core it's going to be in a Silverstone sg9 so it's going to be
super tiny it's going to have a Quadro and a GTX card so it'll have Cuda
acceleration for Da Vinci resolve this is going to be Diesel's new workor station so it'll have Cuda acceleration
for that and it'll have 8 bit or 10 bit or whatever the high bit color depth
output is for his Pro art 8 bit panel so
that he can do all of his color work on one Monitor and he can do all of his other work on another monitor and he
wants a third monitor I was like really man what do I what am I made of money no
wonder I have no money left right um I
missed the first 20 minutes are you in the Media Group house yes Xbox One meme
sorry I can't really click links during the stream just because I never know what's there uh wow there's a lot of
people talking about the new NVIDIA driver I haven't even heard about this yet I've been so busy I have a dead
pixel what should I do nothing sorry man
you got a dead pixel there's not a whole lot you can do am I the only one who
finds white PCB super sexy no you're not I actually bought a sapphire uh 690g
motherboard it was an matx board in fact
it might be in my parents old media PC
which might be over there I might go check that out later it
might still be in there but I bought it just even though I knew that a sapphire
motherboard was probably going to be a problem they had no experience with motherboards it was like their first one
but I bought it just because it had a white PCB it was awesome why don't you use Skype for call-in uh because we are
looking for someone to sponsor the Callins because right now the live
streams are a money sync just to pay myself and Slick to sit here and talk to
you guys for an hour half I am losing money so there you go so I'm trying to
find a way to have the live stream be somewhat sponsored or whatever else did
you hear about the 200 watt TDP I didn't hear it was a 200 watt TDP but I'm not
surprised uh should I upgrade to Haswell now sure why not um it's not like
Intel's going to be releasing anything new amds come out right and said they
don't have anything new coming for 2013 that isn't an APU so yep go for it oh do
you recommend redundant radiators and pumps for extreme builds with Titans and
extreme CPU um I never really recommend dual Loop but it is never a bad idea to
put a couple of pumps in cereal because then you get not only increased pumping
head pressure but you also get redundancy in case one of the pumps dies
and more radiators is always better even if you are not actually um like even if
you don't really need that cooling power then what you can do is you can turn
fans off when your system's idling if you have a more advanced fan controller
and then you can just use as much radiator as you need and then as your
your system loads and your water heats up you can have the fans kick in that's
what that's what I do on my system so yes more radiators is always better if
you want a quiet system okay uh why can't monitors go
right to the edge for a true bezeless experience uh the reality of it is is
that it's about more than just having the monitor set up on your desk so if
you just manufactured a monitor and moved it straight from the production
line to a desk it would probably be fine but they have to design them to
withstand packing and shipping and being display models and stores and all of
these things that they're going to undergo and that is why you cannot have
a bezeless monitor because someone is going to dunk it up and the manufacturer
has to cover their butts on that so let's move into our next topic uh which
is I mean everyone wants me to talk about all of these topics that I had
lined up so I guess I better better do it uh the new Mac Pro so this one was
submitted by J dude unfortunately it seems oh wait
what what's the wrong link dang it well whatever the new Mac Pro was submitted
by someone uh so the new Mac Pro it's a little cylinder it has three pcbs it has
dual AMD workstation grade graphics cards and it has like a 12 core CPU or
something stupid like that very cool um
very cool form factor Apple's basically
banking on Thunderbolt being the only way people expand their PCS I mean the
last Mac Pro upgrade we got was what almost a decade ago or something like
that in terms of a major Mac Pro upgrade I don't know however long it was I pay
very little attention and I'm very sorry for that but the last major Mac Pro
upgrade we got was a long time ago they're updating it in such a way that I
think they're forward-looking enough that they are expecting to not update it
for a similar period of time again so they're basically going to themselves
okay we are expecting by that time nobody is going to upgrade storage
internally in their computers I mean Apple's never really been about
upgrading the storage in their Mac Pros I think the most they've ever had is
four expansion slots for 3 and2 in drives which is abysmal um I mean
especially when you compare it to that uh that azrock motherboard that was on display at computex that supports 22
drives directly attached so okay so there's that uh they are banking on I
think pretty much every peripheral connecting to the computer whether it is
something more basic like a USB thumb drive or whether it is something more
advanced like an acceleration card such
as um like a red rocket which is for
working with 4K files with that are in the red raw format that you shoot on RED
cameras so something like a red rocket I think they're expecting to run
externally over Thunderbolt which is basically PCI Express so having things
like external PCI Express boxes like the magma 3T which we checked out recently
and unfortunately we're just waiting for drivers to catch up and support to catch
up so you could have external graphics cards and external accelerator cards and
all that kind of stuff they expecting all of that to be external at some point
in time all the storage everything so it has six Thunderbolt 2 so that's 20 gbit
per second ports um actually a NCH has a
great everything you need to know about Thunderbolt go check it out or
Thunderbolt 2 go check it out it's awesome it covers this new tech very
thoroughly so they've got six of those and I look at it and I go cool um Great
Value right now if you want something that's very forward thinking very
powerful and priced reasonably but we've seen this time and time again it
actually kind of drives me crazy when viewers or members of The Forum say
Don't Buy Apple computers they're overpriced sometimes they are sometimes
they're not at launch I mean if you guys looked at the MacBook Pro that had the
um I think it was the black one or something like that so A couple
Generations ago when that one launched I actually priced it out so the first
Intel-based MacBooks the second ones I was looking at them cuz man they're
beautiful machines I mean until um until we had PC manufacturers like
Acer building stuff like this I love my S7 although the New Gen S7 oh my
goodness I need one uh fixes all my complaints about this one better battery
life better touchpad ah little slightly thinner anyway so before that we didn't
have a PC manufacturer who was even close to Apple in terms of the build
quality of their machines now we have Acer we have Razer we have the ASUS
Zenbook Infinity the landscape has changed so I was pricing those out and
the reality of it was if you give couple even a couple bucks for having a better
chassis and that costs money trust me it cost money in the tooling it cost money
in the actual manufacturer of each unit they were pretty competitive at launch
the problem is that Apple doesn't update their pricing in any way and a lot of
the time they're not updating the product so you looked at something like the last generation Mac Pro where the
graphics card options were a complete joke like it was just stupid we're
looking at graphics cards that are like do do they really even make these
anymore but at launch it was fine and it
made sense so buying something like a Mac Pro right now if you want to be
Forward Thinking and you want to you know have that Thunderbolt connectivity
and all that stuff may actually make sense it's probably reasonably
competitive with the other solutions that are out there if you want the functionality that it enables but and
this is that double-edged sword because part of what makes that Mac Pro last so
long is the fact that Apple's not going to significantly update their hardware
and they're not going to significantly update their pricing so if you were to hold out for 3 years and be shopping for
a workstation again it's probably not going to make a whole lot of sense by
then we're going to have Ivory Bridge e or Haswell e or whatever Next Generation
platform that's available on the desktop if you build yourself a proper Tower um
you're going to have I mean still internal expansion is going to be king
for a while um SATA 3 is not going to be
too slow for hard drives for a really long time even though ssds are outpacing
it already so if you wait a few years a desktop's going to make a lot more sense
than something like a Mac Pro it's all about timing buying an Apple at launch
good idea buying an apple sort of a year after launch when they're close to
another refresh is a terrible terrible value so there you go that's my take on
the new Mac Pro oh yeah I mean another
example when uh when Apple first launched the iMac with the 2560 X 1440
IPS display built-in it was slim it was
sexy the hardware spec was outstanding I tried someone asked me lonus can I build
a PC like this for this price I want to buy a PC but otherwise I'm just going to
buy the iMac and I tried to make a PC that was competitive and the part that I
kept getting stuck on was that gorgeous 27in display PCS took the PC guys took
so long to figure out that high resolution displays don't need to be
that expensive this was before you could get cheap ones on eBay so I was really
frustrated cuz I was like no I I can't build you an equivalent machine because
that display is really expensive to buy Standalone and and that's one of the
things that Apple's so good at I mean those AMD gpus those workstation grade
graphics cards if you really want workstation grade cards and you're buying a PC you want it to compete with
Mac Pro you're probably going to have a hard time right now but that'll change anyway so I'm done with that now um ah
yes AMD are actually you know what Let's do
let's do Xboxes launching in 21 countries what are they
high so the the headline here from Jam
dude on the Forum is Xbox One unplayable and 18 countries so if you check out the
article on game debate I really hope that this is just like I mean I'm going
to list the countries that you can actually play in Xbox or one game in
like I'm going to list the ones you can because it's a much shorter list than the ones you can't Australia Austria
Belgium Brazil Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Mexico
Netherlands New Zealand Norway Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
and United States seriously so okay no
India no China so right right there bam that's a third of the world gone done
there's your market cap um no Japan I
mean the odds of any of them actually buying an Xbox one anyway I suppose are
pretty slim because you know Sony and Rah R and all that but really no grease
okay maybe no one there can afford one anyway but I'm starting to see a pattern
here no no but seriously I mean not having not having the product available
in these territories is just um
unbelievable to me I mean no no Poland no Argentina no Peru no I mean the only
country in all of South America where you're going to be able to use an Xbox
One is Brazil and yeah Brazil is a really important market right now for a
lot of business but no Portugal so
heaven forbid that you're someone who lives in Spain and you get a job offer
in Portugal and you move there and it's
going to be region locked the software titles won't work you won't be I mean
I I I'm I'm running out of gas on this one
because I don't even know what there is to say so we're going to go to the Twitter boards what do you guys think of
Xbox One launching in whatever it is 21
countries which is just the most ludicrous thing apparently I'm slightly
out of focus I'm not too worried about that right now because I'm
tired um host said the cost of an Xbox One the
look on his face and the lack of response in the crowd oh okay sure uh
spec out 27in IMAX gives way better performance per dollar than a Mac Pro
IMO that's cool but I mean remember it's always in flux um when things get
updated or don't get updated personal rig living at home yeah the personal rig
will be staying at home I super sad about the uh the fact that I'm going to
have to move my 10 gabit uh Network
infrastructure to the office here I'm so sad about that cuz I've been enjoying
that and then I'm also going to have to move my like Wicked Nas machine so I'm
going to have to go back to to being a mere mortal with a Nas instead of having
my arica 24 Port raid card with like my
like Beast raid six array and all that um yeah boo boo boo anyway have you ever
done any system admin work before like active directory system no I haven't uh
invite the guy from fractal he'll join us again at some point uh could you do a
custom water cooling loop from a PC please nope sorry uh go check out the
Forum there's lots of people who know as much as I do about water cooling if not
more what's your your opinion on iOS 7 you know what I think Marcus brownley
actually covered this really well so if you guys haven't checked out any of his
videos before uh youtube.com/ it's it's kind of a weird
spelling of Marcus but there we go youtube.com/ Marcus brownley go check
him out he does great videos and he has one here called where iOS 7 features
come from and it's basically it's it's kind of like uh it's kind of like Tex
syic kit has Apple ever really invented anything video where it really looks at
where the ideas for these in all likelihood came from Xbox one will only
have a 500 gig hard drive which can't be replaced yeah uh that to me is actually
one of the most insane things about Xbox one I was even uh I was actually giving
I I mean you guys probably know this if you follow at all what we've been doing
for the last week or so but I was at computex with WD and we were hanging out
with those guys like every other day and at one point I was just like guys what's
the deal how did you let Microsoft get
away with some Goofy proprietary hard drive that can't be replaced and is 500
gigs I mean Western Digital is showing
was showing off at computex 7 mm 1 tbte
drives they're not even expensive 500
gigs is last gen already that's last gen that's like unbelievable that this is
acceptable in this day and age and when you consider that Xbox one has a Blu-ray
player we're going to be looking at games that you're going to be able to
fill your Xbox with what
like like about 20 gigs per disc so five
like 25 games your Xbox one will be full
I know people who have like an order of
magnitude larger game libraries than that for a given console and the fact
that you're not going to be able to run off the disc that's one of the most insane things about Xbox One to me in
fact that particular spec doesn't seem to be getting as much attention as I
think it should be uh Tech you with an SSD in the back pocket but uh something
I think we're too zoomed in right now cuz for some reason I'm not able to see
people's whole tweets but a mortal Network at home well it's still still be
gigabit I mean what is that test bench I've seen you using it's a high-speed PC
tech station CD project red can even play their own game in their own home
country on the Xbox One yes that is a big problem it's okay no one cares about
Xbox one we'll wait patiently for PS4 yeah that's going to be a big problem too I I suspect PS4 is going to be just
as bad at some point course our k95 video
soon I don't know if you uh I don't know
if you spotted this or not but yes k95
video will be coming soon this is actually um that shelf
behind me is serving as sort of a 2B unboxed pile so there's a lot of stuff
on there that's going to be unboxed over the next little bit wait for the 4930k
or pick up a 3930k now honestly 4930k is not going to be rocket science
in terms of the performance benefit you're going to get it's going to be
Ivy Bridge or pardon me Sandy Bridge versus Ivy Bridge so we're going to be
looking at about 10% Improvement in IPC and it's going to overclock slightly
less just like on the mainstream platform so personally I I don't know if
I'd wait it's going to be on the same platform x79 Mac Pro equals trash can
for your spare Hardware not really um not familiar with that unfortunately
since Poland yeah yeah Witcher three Deads cannot play their own game on a
retail is the online requirement that perfects Xbox One from same reason games
from Windows Live is only available in the same 27 countries yeah I'm in
Portugal and can't buy one not that I would buy one anyway all right can you
please talk about shadowplay on the gtx700 series is it a built-in capture
card or is it just software it's both um all Kepler gpus have built-in h264
encoding which means that as long as the card is capable of displaying the output
okay which it is um and it has the h264
built-in encoder it can very quickly and easily with very little overhead take
that video stream and it can make it into a small lightweight file that is uh
going to still be very high quality so it's very very cool uh GTX 260 I am not
convinced there's any good reason to have a dedicated physx card I've never really seen a benefit all right all
right all right so Drew wants me to talk about AMD's upcoming 5 GHz CPU so let's
go check that out so AMD has been pretty
serious business about picking up where
their competitors are leaving off in terms of things like gaming bundles and
in terms of things like catering to the Enthusiast so AMD's new FX
9590 was on display at E3 with a Radeon
HD 7990 this was submitted by Sir numbers
and okay the system is powered by 16 gigs of RAM new AMD Hardware so I've had
a lot of people tweeting at me about this CPU so the
CPU will be be pile driver based we
already know this because AMD already said several times we don't have a new
CPU architecture coming this year it'll be somewhat refined but because it's
pile driver based because we're not looking at a new process node because
we're not looking at a new architecture it will be a power hog and it will
output a ton of heat we also know that it's not going to overclock that much
people have been asking me how do you think this chip will perform it will
perform wait for it
suspense moment it will perform just like an 8350
at 5 GHz I'm G let that sink
in I don't know I get I get a kick out of this like when people ask me how do
you think uh before the GTX 770 launched how do you think 770 is going to perform
based on what we already know about it which is that it's very similar to GTX
680 but it has faster memory to which I would reply it will perform just like a
680 but it'll have faster memory so probably in higher resolution it's going
to do better and yay um so we're looking
at a very similar situation is this very cool yes I hope that AMD does what they
need to do to capture the hearts of the enthusiasts to sell more of these chips
I think it's good for their business I think being able to drive up their asps
is very positive I hope they bring some bundles into it you look at what they've
been doing on apus with things like Sim City bundles and as unpopular as Sim
City might be it's still a game people are still playing with it and comes for
free with your CPU you can't really complain too much about it if they do
the same things they're doing on the graphic side with CPU we might be
looking at a rejuvenated AMD that is able to sell some CPUs and if they're
able to sell some CPUs they're going to have some money to dump back into R&D so
that they can develop better CPUs and there's no one who is more happy than
any hardware Enthusiast to see a strong AMD because a strong AMD means Intel
cannot be complacent and cannot ignore
the Enthusiast because the enthusiasts even though they're a very small Market
segment in terms of sales are Extremely Loud and they drive sales in the other
market segments so as long as AMD is competitive it is very very very good
news for the Enthusiast I mean the rumors I don't know if it's true or not
I've seen some tweets tonight about a 200 watt TDP for the chip that's that's
awesome I guess that's crazy I mean I
personally don't really care about the TDP of my CPU as far as I'm concerned
bring it on give me a good reason to have a th000 wat power supply I have one
anyway bring it on give me a good reason to have water cooling I have it anyway
um so I personally don't care but there will be situations where it'll be a
problem I mean I would I probably wouldn't deploy a 9590 or whatever they
end up calling it in my uh in my computer room and the reason for that is
I'm right above my garage and it gets extremely hot in the summer as it is
with the GTX 590 in there the 5870
that's in my wife's machine as well as the fact that I'm running a six core
already and remember this will be a significantly higher heat output than my
six core is already that room already gets really hot and when you turn on the
computers it gets really hot and having hotter computers is definitely a bad
thing so um yeah I think I think it's great I think it's cool I think it's
fine that AMD's first to the 5 GHz barrier I think Intel could have done it
if they'd cared um I think could have done it sooner if they'd cared as well
but we've been on a rush to sort of more cores as opposed to higher frequency for
a while so I think it's more just like a feather in the cap as opposed to
something that's actually meaningful but I think that if AMD is going to continue
to cater to enthusiasts and Gamers I think that's a really really positive thing it's good for their business it's
good for gamers it's good for the industry all right I'm I'm going to lose
my voice eventually here so we're probably going to have to uh we're probably going to have to sort of call
this quits pretty soon here guys can I use an h100i fan list with and the
question continues but I'm already going to tell you
no oh fanless for idle no probably not
um you're probably going to need to have at least them spinning at sort of 300
400 RPM how come you guys left the booth babes out of the computex coverage it
was by request uh the NSA got to Linus rip Linus guys
what um if all I want to do is game and I don't care about TV and stuff what's
better PS4 or Xbox One with any console it's always going to come down to
exclusive titles anyway so whichever one has the titles you want to play so there
you go not selling the Xbox One in China
so it is made in the Asia region they won't be selling it there well yeah I mean they'll probably add more countries
at some point and remember a lot of the problems with selling it are not going
to be necessarily Microsoft's fault at all sometimes there are regulations that
prevent them from easily being able to import them and integrate their services
so we'll see how it goes you should use Google Voice instead yes I probably
should I have a paid Skype account right now I'm not that happy with it and uh
diesel has a Google Voice account and he's very happy with it so have you seen
the new Macbook Pro it is a trash can it's a very powerful very cool piece of
Hardware is what it actually is but sure um thoughts on E3 honestly I've
paid so little attention to the E3 coverage other than the ongoing train
wreck that is Microsoft's PR for the Xbox one so unfortunately I can't really
comment I'm sure Slick's been paying more attention to it than I have so
we'll have a bit more of uh a bit more of a discussion on the gaming side of
things uh probably next week I would think this is weird this thing shifted
this uh this thing I can see through it now to the
background um okay three new interactions please talk about the
Haswell controversy where Intel Cherry Picked review samples and Retail chips
run significantly hotter um you know
what I I I I I heard sort of caught wind
of it I'm not aware that that's anything that actually happened and honestly um
from my experience with guys like um
Hardware manufacturers who aren't Intel
I I really doubt it I think the the problem here is that the people who are
getting okay so couple things number one is when I got briefed on Haswell by the
motherboard guys not by Intel they basically said look there's a huge range
there's going to be ones that are awesome there's going to be ones that are totally bunk when it comes to
overclocking and there's going to be a lot in between um I had the opportunity
to have my hands on a cherry I had a cherry-picked CPU directly from JJ it
was his second best one out of I think he B about 50 or 60 of them and that was
in case my sample from Intel was a
horrendous overclocker um and I couldn't actually
do my overclocking guide and show any kind of reasonable result whatsoever
because the JJ has had his hands personally on chips that were not very
good overclockers at all so that to me indicates a couple of things number one
is there's a range out there and the guys who get a bunk chip are very likely
to be the ones complaining that their Haswell chip runs hot or doesn't
overclock very well okay so but we already knew this at least I knew this
uh number two is that indicates to me that even ASUS so in the case of JJ
having a ton of chips to bin from got everything from great ones to not very
good ones okay so not all the es were
Cherry Picked my es is very mediocre
very run-of-the-mill it's an Intel confidential chip so it's probably as
review sample as anyone else's and it's middle of the road maybe a little bit on
the better side um I thought it was better than it actually was when I was
filming the video but what happened was JJ explained to me there are a few more
things that I could do to push it that would indicate if it was a really good
one or not and it's kind of I think it's about top 35% or so but it's nothing
super super special or anything like that um so I think what's happening is
people are getting Haswell chips they're not happy with them and they're complaining whereas the people that are
getting them and they are happy with them are are not complaining um and
honestly again this is one of those things where I kind of go well I'm used
to this I've seen this before um not necessarily I don't think either Intel
or AMD has particularly cherry-picked review sample CPUs in a long time I
don't think they really focus on the Enthusiast overclocking scene as much as
they used to to the extent where they actually used to go through and like bin
CPUs for famous overclockers like Thugger and there was a huge controversy
over that these days I know for a fact Andre Yang who won um eight of the
events at the OC main event at computex
B his own CPUs Intel didn't bin them for them for him and send them to him so I
don't think they really do it anymore with all that said I don't know this for
a fact this is all my speculation based on what I know so I I don't know if that
happened um anyway so we used to have to do this anyway there was a time when you
know um even something like a 2500 plus which was was a legendary chip some of
them were great overclockers most of them were pretty good overclockers and
some of them weren't very good mine wasn't very good um I'm just trying to
think if my optron 165 wasn't that great it was a little bit better than my 4400
plus but not much and they were supposed to be amazing overclockers um my e6600 was awesome I
had that thing at 4 GHz 247 mind you I had chilled liquid on it what else when
have I ever had like a like a bunk chip I mean my 7870 doesn't overclock worth
the damn um even though it's an MSI whatever
aftermarket cooler in custom PCB I mean sometimes a chip just doesn't overclock
and that's bad luck and with Haswell I already knew and I know some of the
manufacturers already knew there was going to be a much wider larger
percentage of chips that just weren't going to overclock so it used to be on
forums like extreme systems or extreme overclocking back in the day that there
was a very regular turning through of chips like people would actually be able
to sell a golden chip or a decent overclocker for more than retail price
and oh uh-oh my battery died
okay
okay I guess we're back sort of this is my battery that's dead uh I don't have
the charger for the fs700 here so I uh
yeah there's a lot of stuff that's not moved to the new place it's actually going to be a really busy weekend this
weekend so yeah it's going to be going to be kind of crazy uh you know what I
should probably do is I should probably do the uh the build of the
week uh I had oh oh snap I had one sent
to me that the uh the mod team wanted me to include so there we go I'm G to go
ahead and grab this one oh apparently audio's out I wonder
why audio is out it's very strange
BL
H doop I don't know if there's anything I
can do about that right
now hm I didn't change
anything M Audio you
say check check check check check check
check it's definitely getting picked up by the camera 3 to 4 seconds I don't
know what 3 to 4 seconds means man got messages that I don't understand so
hopefully the uh hopefully the audio is back now I have no idea oh audio is out
audio is desin ah I see well I think there's
something we can actually do about that if I go in here and I refresh this it'll
either crash the stream did it fix it hopefully we're
good all right so let's do our system of
the week so apparently I have a thing in
here
yeah I'm getting uh getting Skype messages that are like my bad and I'm
like yeah way to way to go way to be
like helping me and not doing it adequately
enough all right so we have two different system builds of the week and
we are going to look at for a limited time only
by this all right add screen region and
we're just going to add the whole screen so you guys will see all my junk so
first up is Andre vur with Andre's
personal z77 rig so this is the more
attainable rig and yes that is
another uh oh wait no that isn't that's uh what wow I'm uh I'm I'm losing it
here what is that a 650d I don't even know that's a 650d
right I haven't seen a 650d in so long I
don't think that's a 650d someone help
me apparently I just shouldn't even do
system build of the week because I there's a reason I leave this to Slick
yeah apparently it is a 650d so he's got an Noctua NH uh D14 although oh my
goodness okay you know what we're not doing system of the week yet because
holy freaking crap oh and also I had this like super small you guys were
looking at this the whole time see this this this is this is this is terrible um
okay so KN to his booth at computex I actually had a lot of people asking me
what was your like favorite thing you saw at computex their active noise
cancellation heat sink is unreal it works they had the demo they had there
had the heat sink and it had a shroud over it it had a fan in the middle so
the Shroud serves a number of purposes allowing the air to be channeled more
directly so they figured with one fan they were able to get similar
performance to the successor to the NHD 14 that they also had on display there
okay so it channels the air flow better and the Shroud creates a controlled
environment for the active noise cancellation that basically vibrates the
blades to cancel out the noise of the
spinning of the blades they had a microphone next to the heat sink that
you could put on like noise cancelling headphones you could actually hear it in
the hall and they could go active noise cancelling on active noise cancelling
off and you can ah you can hear the difference so it's not one of those
things where it's like they've created a completely silent fan that makes no
noise it doesn't work that way way but what they've done is they've taken the
fan noise from
like pardon my humming to like like it's a much lower hum and it
basically sounds like much lower RPM fan operation except that it's not it's
freaking awesome so I am super excited
about that anyway we can go back to our we can go back to our build of the week
which I have completely lost now and have no idea where it is anymore I
downloaded it there it is all right so we're going to go back to scene
4 and we're going to put this one on
wait what there we go all right so we've got a 650d knock to a fans which I of
course am thrilled to see NHD 14 MSI
twin frozer 3 graphics card ax850 extremely clean Cable Management this is
the kind of build that pretty much anyone can do you can see how the SATA cables are routed very nicely here I
love when things line up like this so you can take the right angle SATA cables
right out of here this is one of the benefits someone asked me earlier on the stream about 24 pin power connectors
having a a right angle 24 pin power connectors it' be great to have that
somewhere like here so you wouldn't have to have this Loop coming up here and it
could be even cleaner in fact I'd be
this would be kind of cool to see a graphics card manufacturer put the Power
connectors on the bottom of the graphics card so you wouldn't even have to run
these cables over here you could have a machine that almost looks entirely
cable-free so here's the SATA cables for this and then everything in here is
tucked in here love modular power supplies for this very clean cable
routing on the back I personally don't have the discipline to do this I always
end up with a Rat's Nest on the back but when people do it it looks
fantastic this one is awesome actually I
had picked one that the uh that the Forum moderation team did not give me
and this was the one that I picked to Showcase so this is G5 by
Sha and check that out so his build log
is awesome it has a ton of different pictures check out the build log section
of the Forum go look for these two builds so he took a g5k so remember guys
this is the old G5 with one optical drive completely gutted it and did a
sweet liquid cool build in fact these two
pictures that were picked out by the mod team were actually the same two pictures
I picked out for my own gelled Wings looks outstanding beautiful compression
fittings SLI graphics cards man this
thing looks nice uh and check out the builds of the week thread in the forum
for links to these so that you can go and see all the details that go into
creating Machines of this caliber they are absolutely outstanding and we are
just so thrilled to have like that kind of awesome stuff going on on our Forum
um next actually I actually have another topic that I did want to talk about EA
wants to stop being hated good luck with that so that was submitted on the Forum
by da oh whoa what why is Cloud Player
doing something here oh
okay uh huh well can't find it anymore sorry
apparently thread's gone uh if people oh this is something if people change the
uh the titles of their threads on the Forum the links all die so I don't
recommend doing that uh but EA wants to stop being hated let's see if they
decide to Buck trends like um not requiring games to phone home as often
as they can I mean Microsoft's made it pretty clear the stuff like always on is
at the discretion of a Game Dev so if EA wants to not be hated they're going to
have to speak with actions not words and I just kind of doubt it right now um PCI
Express ssds on the new Macbook Air so an onch had an article about this I'm
going to link first to The Forum submission that linked to the anch
article so this was from K canine or
whatever however I say that so Apple didn't say it during the show but it
seems the MacBook Air got more than just a CPU upgrade the transfer speeds are
far higher than any SATA 3 disc and averages around 790 megabytes per second
reads and 740 megab per second rights
the flip side however seems to be that it's a proprietary solution so no
unfortunately this is not an m2a
solution or ntg F or whatever that standard is that's PCI Express based SSD
this is a proprietary solution so you probably will get aftermarket upgrades
at some point but it'll take a while at best and I mean that's just like Apple's
way of doing things and I'm going to have a bit of an unpopular opinion here
but um
I okay even when we went okay when we went from hard drives to ssds we had a
technology change ssds are dramatically faster than hard drives for random
operations random operations so even
compared to the SATA 2 interface an SSD
that's being re read from or written to very heavily very randomly is not
saturating that bus because we're still limited by the Nan Flash and that's
going to continue to be an issue as process node shrink the flash inherently
gets less high performance as we move to Technologies like TLC particularly right
speed is going to be lower performance so okay already for the part of your
computer where we're really benefiting from an SSD which is not sequential
reads and writs because you don't copy files back and forth all day
folks we already didn't even care that much about SATA 3 so you go back and
look at SATA 3 ssds a lot of the first reviews uh drives like vertex 3 Did they
perform better you know what I got to take this I'mma put I'm going put the stream on hold for a minute sorry
guys
hello
right and we're back sorry the wife called had
to take that very important very important call because if I don't take
that call I'm stuck here Boll left without me so there okay uh unpopular
opinion I don't think it matters that much until we see a dramatic Improvement
in the complexity of the controllers and until we see some kind of change in the
storage medium that we're using on these drives because nand is not getting high
performance particularly over time I mean we can spread it out over more
channels but then we're looking at at a controller complexity increase which we
haven't really seen much of in the last little while anyway uh or we can switch
to something other than nand I have no idea what the future holds in terms of storage but you can much like hard
drives being the be all and end all forever not uh s uh Nan flash is not the
be all and end all forever necessarily either so back when SATA 3 ssds first
launched a lot of the reviews took the time to test all the SATA 2 ssds on SATA
2 controllers all the SATA 3 ssds on SATA 2 controllers and all the SATA 3
ssds on SATA 3 controllers and while we saw particularly in things like Peak
reads and writes dramatic improvements going from SATA 2 to SATA 3
for these enabled drives when it came to
more real world simulated testing things like PC Mark or things like an on Tech
storage bench the difference wasn't that
dramatic I mean yeah it's great to get another 10% or another 20% but when
we're talking about a world where most people are still using hard drives as
opposed to ssds anyway um the upgrade
from a hard drive to an SSD versus the upgrade from an SSD to a SATA 3 SSD or a
PCI Express based SSD this upgrade is not going to be that significant
compared to this one and much like going from a single core to a dual core and
then going from a dual core to a quad core really didn't impress people the
same way that it did sort of the first time around so 800 megab per second
sequential are cool but sequential haven't meant anything in a very long
time and another step toward okay this is
probably to me what this looks like is another step towards putting storage
directly on motherboards on the desktop I suspect within another 5 years um we
may see soldered CPUs we may see soldered storage you might buy like you
might just buy a computer like there might be like a core i7 computer an i5
computer and an I3 computer and that might be what we end with maybe it's not
5 years maybe it's 10 years but um I I I I yeah I don't know I don't
know how I feel about that let me see if there's anything left here and I think
that is pretty much it for this week guys thank you so much for tuning in to
the live stream I'm sorry there were some complications with the lateness and
with the sort of blacking out and the audio desync and all that stuff but you
guys are awesome and I appreciate you tuning in and I hope it wasn't boring
with just me uh versus having slick here to keep all of us company and and uh
good night everyone