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this case is unbelievable the holes they're not tapped there's no

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threads there's no way to screw into them

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compared to last generation the current crop of consoles from sony and microsoft

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boast pretty good performance for anywhere from 300 to 500

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but everyone knows the pc is king right

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to prove it we set out to build a gaming

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pc for 500 bucks that can beat the xbox

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series x and put those console peasants in their place but Linus you might say

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that's illegal well so is this segue to my sponsor are

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spoiler alert this build did not go as planned building a competent gaming rig

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for 500 that's a piece of cake building one that

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can match the up to 4k 120 hertz performance of the series x

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that is no small task and by the end of this video you are going to see why

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because remember guys unless you can also work a controller

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into the price you didn't match it so

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here is what we came up with

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in spite of being remanufactured that is to say that this motherboard is brand

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new but the chipset on it is secondhand

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and salvaged from another motherboard this x99 board looks at least on paper

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like an absolutely outstanding value it

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was one of the cheapest that we could find at just 62 dollars from aliexpress

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which is amazing considering that we get NVMe support with an m.2 slot for

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storage and another slot for wi-fi and

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compatibility with older Intel xeon cpus

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that can be found super affordably on the used market and that's exactly what

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we paired it with meet the xeon e5 2667

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v3 these puppies are coming to the point in

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their life cycle where data center admins are phasing them out in favor of

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newer more power efficient chips so there's an abundance of these on ebay

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which means supply and demand baby you can get them for as little as 69

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nice now it may not be the fastest anymore having

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been originally released in late 2014 but eight cores with a base clock of 3.2

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gigahertz boosting up to 3.6 is nothing to scoff at either

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as long as you get the right thing in the mail unfortunately we didn't upon arrival we

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found that the seller sent us a v4 chip instead of a v3

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good news right well not so much

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the small bump to the cache size and the more advanced manufacturing process

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would have both been welcome upgrades and as far as we could tell from the

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motherboard listing it should have been fine but

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should is at the very top of my list of famous

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last words while the listing claimed compatibility despite the best efforts

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of me colin and Anthony we could not get

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this combo to boot and after proving that both the chip and

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the motherboard worked separate from each other and chasing down any hope of

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a BIOS update we were left with no option but to replace one half of this

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obviously incompatible pair

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so our second motherboard from aliexpress

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even had a hacky BIOS that unlocked overclocking just one problem

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it also didn't work that's the wrong box well

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at that point we couldn't just keep kicking the proverbial can down the road

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so to move along we grabbed a compatible CPU from our warehouse that is

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close-ish in performance this is an Intel core i7

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6900k and i know i know it's a better chip than the e5 and it

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comes at a higher price tag around 130

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we'll just have to keep that in mind when we draw our conclusions

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sticking to our budget as best we could we shoved in a single 16 gig dim of

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samsung ddr4 2133 ecc RAM which at 32 on

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ebay is darn near as much memory as we could cram into this thing for the price

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that brings us to 235 dollars with the

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substitute CPU on board that is half of our budget and we haven't even gotten to

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the graphics card yet we ended up snagging this used Gigabyte

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GeForce gtx 1070 on ebay for 200

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a hefty chunk of the budget not to mention that it looks like it was either

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run in a mining operation or extremely poor air quality in their house which

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left us with 64. for the case

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storage power supply and uh a game controller

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the cheapest case we could find was this rosewill fbmx1 for 29.99

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now we could have done a cardboard box build and with the build quality of this

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thing maybe we should have this case is unbelievable

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the holes they're not tapped there's no threads

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there's no way to screw into them but

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this motherboard honestly from my point of view is kind of a fire hazard so

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we stuck with the uh metal case we grabbed this chintzy air cooler for

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28 bucks i don't have a ton of hope for this thing but

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we'll see i guess and an adata

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su-365 SSD it's only 240 gigs but that's

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all we could afford at 43 finally we went with an evga non-modular

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400 watt power supply so that power rating is cutting it pretty

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close here but as i've said before and i'll say again

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you're better off with a decent quality power supply at a lower wattage rating

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than one that's rated for a thousand watts but it's 20 bucks because that

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one's gonna blow up that set us back forty dollars

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leading us into our controller yes my friends

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this ebay special xbox 360 controller

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rip off can be yours for just 18.50

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personally i like the color even if the

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quality of the switches isn't quite up to the original

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that leaves us with

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uh excuse me negative money kind of though

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the build we intended to create comes in at 507.57

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which if we could find a heat sink and or a case in a scrap heap would sneak in

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at under 500 as for what i actually have in front of

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me it's more like 580

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but hey that is a minor price to pay to be the

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proud owner of this piece of fine pc

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master race gaming machinery so it's

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time to game head to head against the xbox series x and see how we did

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i told colin i was like i trust you i

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believe you really but are you sure this memory and CPU is going to work together

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core i7 6900k this is a 16 gig stick of ecc RAM core

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i7s are not supposed to have a memory controller on them that is capable of

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addressing registered memory that's registered ecc let it be known i just

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proved Linus wrong this is actually a surprisingly

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robust BIOS like it's kind of got everything you would want in here

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i can't remember if this is if this is the one i updated i think this might be

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the one that i updated from like a weird russian github

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uh task manager thinks this motherboard has 16 memory slots

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four was actually the correct number minor details

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i mean all the CPU cores are showing up and everything though there you go eight cores with hyper threading immediately

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our hardware begins to show its age while we can run at 4k 60 hertz this tv

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and actually the xbox series x for that matter are both capable of 4k

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120 hertz so that is a bit of a compromise not that

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i'm too concerned about a what is it a 1070 yeah being able to run

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at 4k 120 hertz really anyway should we start with something lighter

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yeah rocket league let's do it give it a fighting chance

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hey what what are you being are you being all defeatist right now that's my

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job i'm giving you a fighting chance it's a pc

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it's a pc master race it's a 1070.

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this this joystick is not good

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just like doesn't register look at that

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there he goes all right sure

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um and i'm done bud

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wow rip okay well the good news is i'm

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getting 130 frames per second and it looks great uh i don't know how to play

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this game i am getting absolutely destroyed by

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bots right now whatever the game's running great let's

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flip over to the xbox you know what

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i think it is fair to say that it actually does look marginally

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better on the pc

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i have a feeling this one's going to be rough do maternal at 4k

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runs pretty nice on the xbox series x

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we're running at 62 FPS at 4k at 4k

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ultra that's not terrible it's not a bad gaming experience well not at all well

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that was like in a menu let's let's see when you get something well yeah yeah

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yeah it's in the menu yeah it's a photo

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okay to be clear guys we are aware of the deeper blacks on the xbox we think

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it has to do with the capture card pass through not detecting full versus

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limited range properly so we're not holding that against either of them

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our SSD is not as fast colin

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not even close not to mention that it's a quarter of the capacity

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this controller feels so cheap and crappy

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by comparison it weighs like nothing oh not to mention

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that it's wired

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look okay we acknowledge there are a handful of

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ways that our system is not as perfect

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the game's running really well though

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62 FPS we're like pretty much locked 60

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FPS like it's almost like the game developer

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targeted gtx 1070 4k 60. like it's it's

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locked in and not v-sync it's just at like

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anywhere from 59 to 65.

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all right i do think the detail looks a little higher on the xbox here's our

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hallway can you stop being so biased i'm not being for one second colin

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objective can you stop being an xbot

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oh it's really hard to tell because this has got the

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proper contrast i'd say in terms of texture quality it's darn close but we

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can have a look at level of detail on things like the gun and our little robot

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friend here i'd say that's real similar

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i mean if i can't tell flipping back and forth between them like this

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i think it's fair to call it a wash now in terms of frame rate

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obviously we don't have an FPS counter on the xbox version well on the pc we do

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but having played a number of games in my day

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i can tell you guys this is a pretty darn locked 60 FPS now when the action

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gets a little bit more intense we can see if it holds it but i mean

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i've played around with the maternal enough that i already know the answer to

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that it's going to hold it just fine this gaming experience

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is not markedly different so far

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i was expecting i don't know what i was expecting i was not expecting

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the 1070 to hold up quite so well

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game looks good it's running smooth i am blown away

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by how similar these ended up being in terms of

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performance of course neither rocket league nor do maternal got xbox series specific

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optimizations whereas forza horizon 4

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looks flipping amazing on the new gen x boxes

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xbox i xboxes even sitting this close to it

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it's just like man this is a good-looking game

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is that a lego car did you was it lego

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i don't know it is it's made of lego

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i didn't imagine it were you messing with me

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did you know it was lego the whole time i couldn't tell

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that tearing though yeah it's pretty terry

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i mean we're holding 55 yeah i think that's why i'm getting so

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much tearing though all right we're not able to do ultra quality oh well we

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could turn on bennett wait what

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okay hey xbox gets dynamic rendering update

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did it have dynamic end optimization i would assuming that's what

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the whole design for xbox thing is let's see okay

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so now we're at a locked 60 and that tearing issue is mostly gone

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oh still some ugly tearing

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yeah yeah okay okay hold on though hold on there's

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a video g-sync over HDMI

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i think you would have to have one of the new cards with HDMI variable

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refresh rate okay

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point xbox yeah a little bit

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okay why don't we try turning v-sync on you

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okay yeah it's definitely a little more jello-y on the inputs that's what

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happens when you have v-sync on

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but now that it's running

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smoothly ah image quality

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maybe a touch more aliasing in the road lines

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but it looks darn good don't it that actually went way better than i

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expected that cocky tone at the beginning of the video i was just

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messing with you guys i thought this was going to be an absolute bloodbath but

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colin and actually with some help from Anthony those two put together a pretty

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darn compelling system like it kept up way better than i expected and

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it's a pc right so you can still browse the web edit video or run emulators

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without rebooting into a funky developer mode and all that good stuff

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with that said it would be

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irresponsible of me to declare this some kind of pc master race victory

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a we cheated on the price b we made all kinds of compromises to

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the config like the single channel memory the uh oh a quarter the amount of

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storage the lack of a blu-ray drive

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didn't mention that before the crummy controller and the numerous other

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compromises we don't have any meaningful warranty whatsoever we ended up spending

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a fortune on shipping not just the items coming to us in the first place but also

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returning things that ultimately weren't compatible and of course the complete

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lack of any modern features like HDMI 2.1 and ray tracing support so

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no it wasn't a victory but damn it it was my lack of victory and we

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definitely had some fun seeing just how

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much performance we could scrape out of a 500 budget and it turns out it's more

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