I know we cover a lot of hyper premium stuff on this channel GTX Titan XPS
extreme Edition CPUs and the like mostly
it's for the wow factor because you guys seem to love that stuff but that doesn't
mean that that's what any of you actually buy so what does the typical LT
viewer buy to find out I went through our entire Amazon Associates report for
last month all
7,690 line items of it to to find the
most popular PC components in the list
and put together what I'm calling the viewers Choice Award computer I also
found some other really interesting stuff in there you guys be freaky
ra Intel skull Canyon knck features a
sixth generation core i7 quad core processor and Thunderbolt 3 learn more
at the link in the video description the CPU was a shocker I said very clearly to
our I thought gamer heavy audience in
last month's video entitled what CPU should I buy that I didn't recommend
anything higher than the core i5 6600k
for gamers but more than all other CPUs
combined the most popular choice was the
core i76700k with half of those folks evidently
opting for cooler Master's Great Value if not particularly amazing hyper 212
Evo heat sink to go with it most people
chose Corsair Vengeance lpx memory with the mode average speed being 3200 MHz
and the most popular capacity being a single 2x8 gig kit for Chrome far into
way the most popular motherboard was the ASUS
z170a which outsold the rest of ASUS lineup put together so it looks like
then my message about higher-end motherboards not performing any better
came through loud and clear with most of
you not valuing the extra features on the higher-end models video cards were
the most popular computer component purchases among our viewers with NVIDIA
holding 87% of the market share by units
and a staggering 95.1% by Revenue though it would here
that our viewers at least the ones who shop at Amazon using our code skew
heavily toward the high end the GTX 1070
and 1080 combined for over half of all
video card sales on our report I mean these are 450 and
$700 cards then on the board partner side of
things EVGA was alone out front with Aus
Gigabyte and MSI all battling hard for the number two spot and the top selling
video card overall then was a tie between the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW gaming and
MSI's gaming GTX 1070 maybe putting
gaming in the product name really does work at least on Amazon where it's damn
near impossible to use the filters to find anything storage was a landslide
Victory the Samsung 850 Evo outsold the
rest of Samsung's lineup and everyone else combined with 500 gigs as the most
popular Capac capity by far this is what
happens I guess when Intel just doesn't
refresh their SATA ssds except when they
feel like it though in Intel and micron's defense Samsung's industry
leading TLC 3D nand flash and ACC
companying controller technology makes them very hard to compete against
without losing your shirt on every sale
most of our viewers unsurprisingly chose the cheaper OEM Windows 10 home but this
is cool about a third of them went with retail copies of Windows 10 on a USB
drive instead of a download or a disc something I suspect more people would do
if they knew it was available for 30 bucks more than OEM and the same cost as
the download one with the more flexible retail copy license terms the most
popular power supply was a bit of a surprise to me though maybe it shouldn't
have been evga's Supernova 650 G1 80
plus gold 650 wat unit has a full fully modular interface and a 10-year warranty
both of which likely allowed it to handly beat out the rest of the crowded
power supply Market the case was sort of
a tie actually both the NZXT s340 and
fantex Eclipse p400s sold the same
number of units but fantex moved almost
as many of the $10 cheaper and nearly
identical P400 so I'm going to give them the win here and it's a really
impressive case for 70 to 80 bucks for
cooling fans this was another are you guys even paying attention moment for me
Corsair's AF series was Far and Away the
most popular to be clear I've got no issue with Corsair fans but the SP
series is a better allrounder I know it
Corsair knows it how many AF variants do
they even have of their newer lineup so why are you guys buying AFS when SPS are
available to monitors I'm giving the win to Acer with the r240 HW BX IPS 23.8 in
the Dell SE 2416 HX also a 23in IPS sold
more units but it was one guy buying 10
of them in one shot that pushed it Over The Edge versus individual buyers so one
person really liking something a lot doesn't make it popular peripheral wise
y'all have very expensive taste in mice with the Logitech g502 protus Spectrum
on a steel series qck mouse pad taking care of your RGB desk decoration needs
more of you went with cmstorm quickfire Rapids than any other keyboard though I
did notice that keyboard sales seemed a little tepid I mean maybe if you push
out enough mechanical keyboards that can handle 50 million keystrokes before they
break people stop needing new ones at a certain point and Kingston's hyperx
Cloud 2 gaming headset was trailed closely by sennheiser's hd598 special
edition and the antl mod mic either of
which are great choices for a headphone or headset we've got smart viewers
sometimes so let's throw up a summary of our viewers Choice PC here while I go
over some other highlights we'll have Links of course to where you can buy all
of this stuff in the video description so more of you buy Microsoft
Xbox wireless adapters than I expected and TP-Link seems to be the go-to for a
cheap and cheerful network switch oh and
we sold a whopping five Swingline staplers it looks like at least some of
you have learned that it's better to buy your own than to steal one from someone
else they're like $12 on the subject though of that last
item which isn't strictly speaking tech there were a lot of cool things that I
encountered more than enough to do a full segment of cool and weird stuff our
community buys on Amazon or maybe if you have a suggestion for what we should call it you could post that below but
with all the Flack that I take every time we deviate ever so slightly from
technology with some going as far as to complain when we talk about tech that
isn't PCS hopefully you can understand my
hesitation here so let me know in the comments did you like the PC version of
this should we start tracking that regularly and looking for Trends do you
want to see the non-tech stuff as a separate segment I promise you I will
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