and I think we're broadcasting and I hope that I've figured out the audio
tonight because if I haven't figured out the audio tonight that's going to be a
real problem for me I'm going to go ahead and here you guys can even watch
me do this part amazing I am setting the video to public to announce that the
live stream is starting now I don't need these anymore I'm just going to check
out the twitch chat really quick here and make sure that everything is hunky
dory on the audio side so I flip of
liveness hopefully this is working I have actually I I don't know if this is
unwise or not but I have actually turned up the uh the streaming bit rate for
tonight so
hopefully everything is okay but there's
no real guarantees about that so here we
go I'm just gonna go ahead and expand
the twitch chat so that when we're looking at that or Twitter we can have a
clear idea of what's going on there we go all right so good evening everyone
we've got a fantastic show planned and by we I mean me because I'm the only one
here and we're going to start with I am
on Facebook now oh sound hold on hold on hold on apparently there's a problem
sound is quiet does anyone else have any complaints about the sound before we get
started someone says video and sound is great tonight someone says sound is
quiet sound is fine sound is really quiet
sound is good okay those of you with the audio low I have a Linus Tech tip for
you you're going to want to find that dial or that button on your computer or
on your device and you're going to want to turn that up because if we've got
some people saying it's good and some people saying it's not so good then uh
rather than rather than be obnoxious and you know turn the volume way up for
those of you who it's already fine for and like breaking your ears uh let's go
ahead and uh get the rest of you to turn it up um no I can't Pan the camera but
what I can do is I can move myself here and then the chat box will be here and
then we can all see what's going on so let's start with a little bit of Q&A before we get too much further into this
and let's take some questions at Twitter oh oh check this out check this out I
set this up whoa on Twitter at lusch
actually you know what I shouldn't have put that there I should have put that on the actual on the actual ual one that
I'm using for Twitter so I'm I'm going to go ahead and add that I I I know I'm
I fail at graphic design and this is this is not very good but uh there you
go I'm going to put that there that way there can be no confusion about how to
ask me a question on Twitter I'm not taking questions on Facebook tonight
although I am now on Facebook you can
reach me at my aha my Linus Tech page
there it is with my epic how do I hide my admin control panel there it goes
finally you can see my epic picture of me and FPS Doug that was about four
years ago I think at this point at fragga palooza and then because you guys
were trolling me so hard with the do you even lift bro meme I decided to look it
up at the end of last week's live stream so now I have a picture of myself
flexing and it's captioned now that I cleverly understand the internet meme
and all that good stuff so here we go
yeah so basically my Facebook page is just a clone of everything that's on
Twitter so if you don't follow on if you
already are following on Twitter you're probably not going to see anything else there I mean the thing that I like about
Facebook here maybe the baby wants to visit us for a little bit tonight the
thing I like about Facebook is that the posts are a little bit more persistent
which is very convenient because the thing about Twitter is I can tweet
something and if you guys are following like a billion and one different people
on Twitter then you're going to miss a lot of uh a lot of the stuff and I get a
lot of questions like I'll say hey guys live stream starting in an hour and then
I'll get like six people tweeting back at me when does the live stream start
and it's because they don't really see it so if you follow on Facebook then
it'll be a lot easier to keep track and uh and that should be less difficult for
everybody so my baby has decided to join us again tonight although he's a little
distracted he's getting started on his solid foods now so tonight he had some
peas which was very exciting for him
he's staring at the screen he doesn't know how to look at the camera yet but don't worry we'll get him trained up
he'll figure out how to do this whole camera presentation thing thing it's a
little bit squirmy tonight but okay let's take some Twitter questions cuz I
did promise I'd do that so 36 new interactions what happened to the
cabling guide what do you mean what happened to okay you know what you might
have to go sit with Mom okay there you go uh cabling guide nothing happened to
the cabling guide in fact if we go on the
YouTubes then I'm sure we can find the
cable guide NC Cable Management guide featuring
ultimate AMD system with 162,000 views so that is how you can find that one
Devon needs help to overclock his toast H Devon you are beyond help I'm sorry
there's nothing I can do for you for a boot Drive in some key games is it worth
paying $35 more for the Intel 520 series
or get a Vertex 4128 great question um for a boot Drive
in some key games I'm of the opinion that pretty much any modern SSD and by
modern SSD I don't mean like failed super low-end mod ssds like like an
agility 4 for example but any modern SSD
a performance oriented drive you probably won't notice the difference
daytoday between that and any other drive so um would I pay $35 more for a
120 gig drive with the way that 120 gig
drives are priced these days I probably wouldn't however I don't know if I'd
necessarily go with the Vertex 4 128 either I would probably lean towards a
Samsung 830 if you can still find one or an 840 or or something like a crucial M4
just because uh I don't know if you've been paying any attention to sort of the
stock market news with ocz but um you
know they're going through a bit of a rough patch right now and it's one of those things where if anything did
happen to ocz yeah you got a 5-year warranty on that Vertex 4 how do you
claim a warranty if they don't have any
more vertex 4S to provide to you so I
don't know I don't know I would probably go a different route hey lonus why does
everyone say go Intel when you look at an AMD CPU and the gigahertz in cash is
way higher for less money Roman it's because gigahertz and cash is totally
meaningless take everything you thought you knew about gigahertz and cash and
throw it out the window you see that window right there that's where I would
throw it because it doesn't matter it doesn't mean anything what matters is
the actual real world performance of a product you can never ever compare one
CPU to another one based on gigahertz in cash unless they're using the same
architecture so a great example of this was back in the Core 2 Duo days um you
could find a shoot I don't even remember what anything I think e4300
e6300 e6600 and then I think there might have
been a different there were four CPUs that were identical in terms of
architecture and frequency manufacturing process except for the cash that's the
only time when you can kind of do some benchmarks and figure out how they
perform compared to each other and truly evaluate the value of cash in terms of
performance and then when it comes to gigahertz totally meaningless unless
they're using exactly the same architecture with the same amount of cash so don't worry about it um Intel
CPUs are higher performing particularly for gaming and that's just the way it is
whatever the spec is
um don't have context for this but okay
greetings from Croatia hello thank you for watching live that is fantastic uh
Jacob asks will there ever be a warehouse sale in Ontario actually there
was one once I'm not sure if they're planning another one anytime soon but
there was one pochman asks what is the best sub $70 headset I have a good
receiver um I can't really think of any headset that I'd probably recommend in
the sub7 range once you get up to around 100 bucks um you're looking at something
like an ASUS uh Vulcan or a steel series
7h those are both excellent headsets but
anything sort of at that price range is going to be not that great uh Matias
asks what's my favorite 680 custom cooler honestly I don't have one um I'm
more of a water cooling guy so I buy
water block yeah um Jen P muron asks do I know
a good Canadian ISP that offers bandwidth reliability and speed personally I'm using Shaw I like them a
lot better than Tellis although the options are completely different in the East so that might not be relevant for
you at all my my card keeps crashing when I unplug one of my displays asks or
proclaims btek btek why are you unplugging your displays I guess what
I'd recommend to you is keep your display plugged in um it's possible okay
more serious more serious suggestion it's possible that something's shorting out when you're unplugging and plugging
it in so you might want to try being really careful make sure your case is correctly grounded
um yeah it's it's possible there's something going on it's possible that
it's a problem on the actual monitor side itself and that's what's causing
the short and then that's what's shorting your card and causing your your
computer to crash or whatever else so um you want to try that monitor on a
different PC see if it still happens try that PC with a different monitor see if
it still happens that'll help you diagnose the
problem uh lus I have a 6770 with an inch of extra plastic on the Shroud can
I lift it off so it fits in my Dell yeah go for it uh I'm assuming you mean at
the back of the card if you can just saw it off as long as there's no heat pipes
that you're going to cut actually yeah I saw actually I'm going to see I'm going
to see if I can find this cuz it's uh it's fantastic
um oh yeah we don't want that let's just go ahead and pause that we don't we
don't need that at all so uh let me let me see if I can uh let me see if I can
find it heat pipe cut off uh
images I don't remember where I saw this but someone sent this to me where they'd
taken something like a thermal right um
120 extreme and then to make it fit
within the side panel of their case they had cut off the entire top because they
figured oh it's just the little knobbies at the end of the heat pipes that are causing the case to not close anymore
and of course heat pipes don't work at all if they're not full of the fluid
that gives them their heat pipe fluidness and uh yeah it sort of it sort
of made me laugh so there you go that reminds me of that just don't cut up any
heat pipes uh the laptop I was holding was an ACR S7 and I'm going to talk more
about it later in the live stream it looks absolutely
fantastic uh Federico don't do a secure
race unless you have to uh the thing about secur racing the drive is that it
actually writes to the entire Drive which will wear out your drive period it
will the hay asks what I think of the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 I am a resolution
guy so the more resolution that you can throw at a problem the better and I'm
super super stoked on something like an exus 10 um has a more powerful GPU than
we've seen before in high resolution tablets the one thing I don't like about
high resolution tablets right now particularly the iPad is that it runs
significantly hotter and has a way worse battery life compared to the previous
generation products so I'm interested to see what Apple can do about that with
the iPad 4 but as an iPad 2 user I have
had zero desire to upgrade to an iPad 3
like even if someone was like I will trade you an iPad 3 for your iPad 2 um
the way that the iPad apps are getting written it's not like there's a performance advantage or like there's
certain apps I can can run on a three versus a two so maybe it's a little
smoother but the chip in the iPad 2 is already pretty darn fast so I don't
actually care about the performance Delta and then um for the resolution
side I don't use it as an e-reader and I
I don't like how hot it runs and I don't like how crap the battery life is so uh
what do I think of the Corsair 200 R good question Christian corer 200 R
let's see if let's see let's see how high up I am on the list I am the first
hit so if you would like to know what I think of the 200r you can search for
Corsair 200r on the YouTube and you can find my video and you can watch it that
pretty much covers everything I think about the corser 200 R it looks just
outstanding now uh Christopher says wow I like it
much better watching it here on Twitch that's good someone's complaining about
the echo you know what there's nothing I can do about it right now just because my mic setup doesn't allow me to get it
any closer to me which would help us reduce the
echo um since you always talk about it what's the best budget sound card the
answer I always give is whatever is the
Zonar card that is in your price range so there's the D whatever it is D
something yeah the DG is the best if you're going to use headphones because
it has a headphone amp and then if I was going to get something that I were I
needed 7.1 then something like a DS is going to be sort of so much better than
onboard that it just blows it away
whereas if you actually have a decent pair of headphones um like a well like a
really nice pair of headphones then you're going to want to step up to something like an st or an STX or a
feeis and then if you want to get a better experience running 5.1 or 7.1
speakers something like a DX would be a better choice greetings back to India of
course I'm getting a new PC for editing and rendering console gaming videos how
much RAM would you recommend honestly unless you're doing anything in After
Effects anything with complicated correction like Da Vinci resolve um
anything where there's a particular need for a ton of memory there's no reason
why you can't just use Vegas movie studio and render videos with 4 or 8
gigs of RAM so um what I usually recommend for people who asks me about
RAM is buy whatever you're comfortable with
so in in this case these days it's probably better to go with like a 2x8
gig kit and then if it doesn't work for you add another 2 by8 gig kit and thumbs
up now you have enough RAM so um you I mean RAM's a commodity item it
doesn't really go up in price except when it does but it hasn't done it in a
very long time so buy what you think you need and then go from there and this
goes for any application I mean people ask me this all the time I want to play
I want to play Modern games I want to play upcoming games I want to do this I
want to do that how much RAM do I need RAM is one of those things where past a
certain point is there an iPad 4 already I don't know I haven't looked at any
sorry I don't really pay that close attention to Apple anyway so gaming wise
um people say oh you know I want to play this game or that game or I want to do
this RAM doesn't affect your performance past a certain point in terms of the
frequency with the exception being actually AMD's Apu processors when
you're using onboard Graphics so I have a video about that on the NC Channel NC
Apu it's actually worth checking out
uh does faster RAM really matter this
was a really cool video because what I found out is by upgrading from slower
RAM to faster RAM we were able to get like deep double digits uh performance
improvements like you know 20 30% performance improvements using the
onboard Graphics so that's one case where it matters but on most gaming
machines it really doesn't make that much of a difference and then when it
comes to the RAM capacity so that's speed because that's all there is
there's there's latency and speed which are kind of the same thing they're very related and then there's capacity
capacity will make literally zero difference unless you need the RAM so if
you are able to take everything you're doing and store it within your RAM then
the system the CPU whatever it is has easy access to that data and it's all
going back and forth really fast and everything's good if you have a data set
that's larger than your memory and it overflows to your page file that's where
you see that choppiness and that crappiness and that slow performance or
even crashes so you either have enough
RAM or you don't have enough RAM and it's really easy to figure out what you
do is you open up task manager you look
at your performance Tab and if you have five gigs available like I do with this
machine obviously I could be running some more camera angles or I could be
running some more screen captures or whatever else I need to be doing in the
background and then once I ran out of RAM then I would have a benefit or I
would see a benefit from actually upgrading the RAM on this machine so
good question and I hope that that was helpful to someone all right I don't
have a sound card thinking of getting of course are 1500 yes it's a good headset
for a non- sound card setup it's better than on board but it's nowhere near as
good as an actual sound card uh no I haven't really looked too closely at any
of the k90 giveaway videos I had to look at a couple of them and honestly the
ones I looked at were sort of terrible um I I even said right in the video
Don't just like you know rage out and smash your keyboard because you're
getting most of the judgment is going to be based on creativity for those of you
who haven't already already checked this out actually you should check this
outcome I'm doing a giveaway if you just go to my channel youtube.com/ Linus
techtips I'm giving away some Corsair k90 keyboards uh five of them to the top
five video entries video responses the theme is nerd rage and what I said right
in the video is doing what I did is not creative and I'm judging you based on
creativity so don't do what I did and then probably a good three quarters of
the first kind of 20 or 30 responses which were what I looked at were people
playing a game raging out and breaking their keyboard and I'm just like that's
exactly what I did what are you doing but yeah yeah uh my other PC keeps
beeping three times in a long break I know it's a Memory a but how can I fix it David it could be anything if you
have an onboard if you have an intergrated memory control in your CPU could be a dead CPU could be a dead
board could be dead memory um so without
sort of swapping those parts in a note and diagnosing it that way there's not
really a whole lot that you can
do can you recommend the minimum requirement for PC for recording editing
and rendering Andrew it's really hard for me to do that unfortunately because
um it really depends on how you're going about it I mean sorry I'm going to walk
away for a second here for example if you're talking about
recording you could be talking about recording with something like this in
which case the spec I'd recommend would be very different because this has a
built-in encoding engine that just doesn't really require any additional
performance on the part of your PC in order to to um to stream videos online
like on Twitch or whatever else the case may be so if you do that then you spend
an extra $200 on that but you might save some money on your CPU for example and
then for editing and rendering it really depends what you're doing um if you're
doing more complicated stuff then it's a completely different set of requirements
if you're doing really simple stuff then it's a completely different set of
requirements the reality of it is though almost any new modern PC with you know
an AMD FX processor an Intel Core i5 and
a sort of a quad core is going to be pretty suitable for basic
use and almost anything it's not like you know back in the Athlon days when
you know you bought an Athlon single CPU
machine for sort of you know if you were browsing the internet the internet um or
you got an MP machine with dual processors when you were going to be
doing serious work it's not really like that anymore because almost every
computer has multiple cores in it now and so much RAM that doesn't even
matter uh David asks which keyboard do you use I use a mionix zal 60 I really
like it um although I'm seriously considering switching over to the g710
plus from Logitech because those brown switches are pretty good um and I do
like the additional features that are available on it compared to the zal 60
hello to Belgium what knife do I use for my unboxings and where did you get it I
got it at House of knives at Guildford mall and it's a Spyderco bug little
little knife very handy not sharp at all anymore like yeah at all but um but it's
perfect for cutting packing tape which is exactly what I use it for I have not
used this headset but I've heard fantastic things about it so uh based on
how many recommendations I've had for this headset I'd say yeah it's probably
pretty safe to uh to go for and check that out so I'm going to transition into
one of my one of my topics here for the night and let me just switch back to my
to my general view so yes right I am on Facebook now so I I know I might
have mentioned this briefly before but yes so officially I on Facebook now so
you should like me on Facebook and tell your friends to like me on Facebook and
honestly it's not it's not an ego thing for me it's just a matter of if it's
more convenient for you to follow on Facebook because you don't use Twitter
I've had a lot of people complain I don't use Twitter I don't want Twitter
uh Twitter Twitter's not as evil as you guys seem to think it is and I do like
to answer questions on Twitter um you'll see here on the Facebook page it says do
not send me private messages here Twitter only and I have people message
me on Twitter and say lonus 140 characters isn't enough I need to write
you this novel so that you can answer all these questions for me and I kind of
go yeah man you know I'd love to do that
but let me show you something like that's pretty you know let me show you a
cool story bro moment here because if you need to know why or if you like if
you're having trouble figuring out why I can't answer really the Twitter page is
not going to let oh here it is why I can't answer all of all of the questions
that I get if they're all you know essay length all you got to do is do a search
on Twitter for uh at Linus Tech to give you some
idea of the kind of volume of messages I receive and reply to so I think s tweets
all I don't know yeah I think there you go so how many how many how many
messages does lonus receive sort of this
many and if lonus tried to reply to all
of these and they were all an essay this long as opposed to being 140 characters
how quickly would he die the answer as you can plainly see is very quickly on
top of that I have the messages that I get in my inbox on YouTube I have the
messages that I get in my email and it's just not doable I I I mean I have people
send me the here's my list of specs lonus what water cooling stuff should I
buy and I'm just like yeah you know what
it's part of the right of passage of becoming a water cooler to just do the
research and figure out what to buy I had to do it you have to do it um and
the reality of it is I I used to try to reply to all of those messages even the
ones that are like I don't want to do any research whatsoever I need you to
tell me what PC to buy so I'll send them back a spec list and then they argue
with me and they're like oh well my friend told me that this is better I'm
like yeah I I you know what it was already all I could do to reply to this
in the first place I'm not going to argue with you back and forth about it
Bu The Extreme edition if you want um it doesn't matter to me go for it it's not
my money um so I just I got to the point where I just didn't really sort of care
anymore whereas with Twitter you ask a quick question I send a quick answer I
might reply again I might not I try to I try to read most of them even if I can't
reply to all of them um so that's why I like Twitter most of the updates on
Facebook will still be um because I just have the two apps tied
together see I just have like Twitter integrated and so there's stuff like
this um so if I upload something to YouTube it automatically ports to
Twitter which then automatically points to Facebook so so that's pretty much all
I'm using it for just a just other ways to other ways to interact and other ways
to keep track of what's going on so looks like a few of you liked me yay
that's how I evaluate my self worth thank you
I win internets so I I appreciate that
thanks guys uh oh right you know what that actually helps me transition into
what one of my other topics for the night is going to be so I don't know if you guys have seen this already but
Intel has a new extreme Edition so the
fastest is now faster again and it's the
i7 3970x so we're going to go ahead and
search for that on the YouTubes and we can see that there's a review of it or
start selling or yeah you know there's probably no reviews cuz they probably don't care um I got a couple issues with
this number one is that they've increased the TDP again which to 150
watts which I guess I don't really care it probably doesn't really matter it probably doesn't run that much hotter
because the reality of it is it's the same CPU as the 3960x it's bend a little
bit more it's a little faster it's 200 MHz faster
at stock speed but if you were buying a 3960x and you weren't overclocking it
then you're probably on the bottle so in
terms of the actual temperatures and the actual performance you're going to get out of it it's not going to make that
much of a difference I would have loved
to see a 3970x that was an actual eight core processor with 16 logical cores
using hyperthreading but that's not what Intel opted to do here so I just wanted
to take this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about the value proposition
of extreme Edition processors because I get people asking me all the time
whether it's on Twitter or the NCIX Forum or on uh my email or whatever else
should I get a 3930k or should I get a
3960x and to me the answer is very simple um I mean the reason I'm using a
3960x in my machine is because I got you know the reviewers discount on it it's
not like because I actually spent $1,000 on a CPU I don't think that that's a
very compelling value I mean if you're already spending $5,000 on a machine and
you're getting three-way SLI and you're getting $3 2 or 64 gigs of RAM or
whatever whatever you want to do and you want to go for an extreme Edition you know what if if sort of the EP factor is
worth it to you I say go for it but uh personally that's never really been how
I rolled I mean the CPUs that I've actually bought in my lifetime are going
to be uh 2500 plus I bought myself a um
3500 plus I splurged and bought myself a
4400 plus X2 back at launch that was the
most expensive single CPR single
computer component I ever bought it was 700 over dollar 700 or $800 at launch
because I really believed in dual core um and then after that I got myself an
e6600 which was a much faster dual core then I picked myself up a q6600 so these
are that should give you some idea of where I was at I was always buying sort of that value that value but with the
full unlocked features sort of skew um
so 3930k I think is a compelling value if you can actually leverage the
additional threads whereas 3970x I'd say you're better off buying yourself a
3930k now if you must have six course buy yourself a 3930k now and then wait
for the eight cores that are coming with uh with Ivy Bridge e um which is coming
sort of not that long from now as far as I can tell well okay it's not soon but
it's not forever from now either so so yeah right so okay right right right so
people ask me sort of you know 3930k what do those go for a 3930k goes
for around 600 bucks would you spend
almost double for what basically amounts to here we can extrapolate all the data
we need from something like an an anch review on the
3960x because there's always a review of the extreme
Edition okay so 3960x so let's assume
that a 3970x is going to be I don't know 10% faster let's say although it's not
no it's not even close to that it's probably more like 5% faster so 3960 X
is conveniently not on the same graph as a 3930k well whatever let's compare it
to a 2600k so even if our new CPU so
2600k is you know 5% or 10% faster than
this we're talking about uh 3770 which
is you know what it's probably better to look up the
3770 oh that's a preview what there we
go the review they've probably got a 3960x on here so blah blah blah blah
really okay there we go so let's look at gaming performance just for lws 3930k
there we go so 37 if you're gaming 3770k
or 3570k which actually performs almost the same is definitely your best bet is
an extreme Edition a good value the answer is always no however it is
exciting that Intel is at least you know pushing the envelope a little bit
further in terms of performance and trying to deliver more performance for
for gamers or for whoever needs an extreme Edition except that for gamers
um overclocking a 3570k Balls to the walls is going to be a cheaper platform
for one thing because you get a z77 board instead of an x79 board and you
only have to buy you know two dims of memory in order to feel like you're getting the most out of your system
although x79 can run dual Channel just fine and the performance is very similar
to quad Channel because of the reduced latency that counters the uh lost
bandwidth um so you get a cheaper platform you get a cheaper chip you get
um the the benefit of like I've always found more frequent upgrades are better
as a as as a gamer or someone who wants to get sort of the best bang for their
Buck because if you buy that super expensive Halo part and then something
new comes out there's always going to be like the way it always works is there's
always a replacement that cost half as much and performs the same as the last generation one whereas if you bought
that part that cost half as much but performed 85% 80% as well then obviously
you're losing less of that value when the new parts launch so if you want to
sort of recoup as much money as you can by selling that stuff and then buying
the new good value proposition part um
with the Next Generation then you can actually take that budget you would have
spent on $1,000 CPU and stretch it over many generations where you go okay let's
say my budget for a CPU is $1,000 I'm going to buy myself a $300 CPU today and
then in a year I'm going to sell that CPU for who knows okay let's say $150
let's say it loses half of its value which they don't 2600k are still worth
more than half of what you paid for it um so I'm going to sell that for half
what I paid so I've essentially spent only $150 so far I'm going to buy a new
CPU for $300 I've spent $450 now and
it's a year later and that CPU performs better than that one I would have spent
$1,000 on then let's say I'm going to sell that CPU let's say I lose another
150 bucks I buy a new CPU for 300 bucks
now we're two years down the line we're talking two generations better
performance and I've only spent $600 already so when people ask me how do I
configure the most futureproof gaming
rig sometimes the answer is spend a little more if they're saying oh I have
$600 to spend I need the best gaming rig I'll say look you are getting terrible
value by spending $600 on a gaming rig because you're getting parts that are
costing $100 but performing a quarter as
well as something you could have spent $200 on and would last you longer and
we'll have no resale value because nobody buys used crappy hard like it's
just asinine like if you have a gt440 or
something and you're going to try and sell that a year or two later oh it's a gaming card who it's Kepler uh no one's
going to want that um so so yeah there's
that that sort of that middle of the road where you need to get to a certain point before you're even getting a
decent value but then when people say oh you know if I spend twice as much am I
future proofing more the answer to me is no because you could use this machine
for two years put that money in like a I
don't know GIC savings account and then spend that money again a year or two
down the road and get way better performance and then you'll have two machines and you can give the other one
to your little brother or something so so there my take on the value
proposition of an extreme Edition and I super excited however for when ivybridge
e comes and we actually get more cores on our extreme editions because as a
video guy I actually care about more cores whereas for you Gamers out there
it actually just doesn't really matter so let's do some more Twitter questions
shall we what do you recommend to use RAM dis for honestly I've never really
tinkered with RAM disk um as someone who uses eight ssds in raid zero I don't
really think that my application loading times are that limited by RAM yes it
could be faster it'd be cool to use a RAM dis for something like a scratch dis
in um in like a video editing or photo editing software however You' need a lot
of system RAM for that it'd be cool to use a RAM dis for certain key
applications I'd love to load my OS on a RAM dis um but it's just I just assume
throw more ssds at the problem because they're not even that expensive and RAM
disk is still cost per Gigabyte very expensive I bought an isus STX and a
Sennheiser hd598 and the sound quality is not that different from my x79
Rampage 4 extreme that is the first time I've heard that Hussein um
95% of the people well I okay I'm making
that number up but I have a lot of people who tweet me and tell me I bought
a sound card is the best thing I ever did I can't believe it um yeah I have no
idea how that sort of happened about but I'm very sorry if that was based on my
recommendation uh what laptop are you running right now for the stream I'm
actually not running a laptop right now this is a uh
here this is a monitor
see so there it's a Samsung monitor it's
a 3D monitor it's compatible with AMD hd3d which I would never use because
it's just not very good compared to 3D Vision but uh
yeah Ryan seriously this was my topic
like a month ago he's talking about uh greenl program with Invidia but thank
you for your contribution Ryan uh what SSD would you recommend
that costs between $50 and $150 Australian dollars I have no idea man
I'm sorry no idea um guys just as a sort
of just recommendation if you want to ask me for product recommendations
within a given price range um do a little research on your own find a
product that you think might be appropriate because that'll give me context as well um rather than saying
that costs between you know 100 Great Britain pounds and 200 Great Britain
pounds it's a lot easier for me if you say I'm looking at a
Corsair um you know Neutron GTX is there
anything else you'd recommend because that already tells me what kind of a price range you're looking at and it
means that I don't have to think about the currency conversion if you must give
me a currency value uh give me like Canadian dollars or US Dollars which are
the ones that I can that I can easily think in that I already know sort of
what cost in uh if I was building a workstation
I'd probably go Quadro or or GeForce um
but probably Quadro for Cad and Autodesk just based on what diesel is telling me
about how awesome Cuda is I've never really experienced it myself because I
don't really do any sort of that kind of
stuff I let other people do that but uh he says it's like a big deal and it's
like awesome uh I like your leather couch it
looks cool thank you Christian greetings back to Australia hey lonus do you
recommend upgrading from an AMD 1100t to an fx8350 if you can get a good price
for your 1100t if you can like get a few bucks back for it then actually yeah
it's not a bad upgrade the fx8350 unlike the 8150 is actually
tangibly faster than the 1100t so um so
it's not a bad upgrade however you're not seeing much more than sort of a one
generational performance increase um the 1100t is six sort of full cores whereas
the fx8 350 is four um pile driver modules which is
sort of almost like four four like each module is kind of
like one and a half core so it's almost like six cores which is sort of the same
as what you have from before except the clock speed's different and the IPC is a
little bit lower uh somebody asks if I'm unboxing an evg SRX I do not have any
plans to unbox one of those they're very expensive and I don't want to open one
just for the sake of opening one and I don't have any CPUs for them anym
so it's not like I'd be able to do a build in it it's not a very practical
platform anyway it's not overclocking friendly which means that yeah you can
load it up with cores but really it's a workstation board posing as a gaming
board because if you can't overclock a 3770k is going to absolutely destroy an
EVGA SRX with the highest end zon CPUs
so it just is one of those things where
it's for bragging rates but it's not really a practical
platform um for really much of anything
if I was going to build a workstation like or like a server I'd use a proper
workstation or server board that doesn't even pretend to support overclocking
that much uh my friend just built his first PC yesterday when he tried turning it on
the monitor had no single signal what's wrong with it I have a great video
called no post
diagnosis and uh well probably helps if
I type the whole thing there you go PC troubleshooting no post diagnosis go
ahead go through all those steps and see if you can't figure it
out build a Hackintosh yeah I do want to build a
Hackintosh actually I even have my copy
of os 10 whatever kind of cat we're on
now on this drive I am going to deal with it but uh I haven't done it yet
haven't gotten around to it um yeah the promo with the three free games on the
7900 series Alex that's a very good point that's something we should bring
up I forget it's a never settle never settle promo you get Hitman AB solution
you get Far Cry 3 you get um I don't
know one other game we should look it up because it's a pretty cool promo promo
never settle AMD uh gon 7,000 buyer something
something something right so you get Sleeping Dogs Far Cry 3 Hitman
Absolution and you get 20% off the new Medal of Honor game so that is a pretty
sweet deal if you buy a 7,800 series or a 7700 series you get Far Cry 3 so that
is uh that is pretty sweet that actually reminds me I was thinking that I would
give away a key for those three games on
my live stream so I would like you guys
to stay tuned while I log into my email and uh let me just sort of get
that done add account uh
lionist uhhuh oops I might have typed my
password wrong nope I got my password
here we
go here we go here we go whoever claims
it first is g to get it like that's all I have to say whoever claims it first is
going to get it I don't even know how to claim it I don't even know if this is a steam code so yeah you guys are going to
have to sort of figure out how to do this and I am going to yeah someone just
someone just emailed me they want the key good for you I just deleted that
email um you're going to have to you're going to have to fight over it on the
live stream just like everyone else so I have decided that I will post it
on Facebook I am writing something right
now on Facebook I am going to paste the actually you know what I'm not going to
do this on the stream because you guys you guys have to go on Facebook mine is
Tech Facebook haha see I'm totally being like a social media and getting
you guys to like play my little game in order to get my little giveaway I have
pasted it now are you ready I am posting
it ah it's up there whoever takes it gets
it ah people who don't have Facebook oh
I'm sorry about that maybe next time you'll be cooler and have Facebook no I
don't think there's anything particularly cool about Facebook I resisted getting Facebook until now as
you guys can clearly see but the reality of it is it has practical applications
for people like me who are trying to
reach people and for people who are wondering what I'm doing to my cat I'm
playing with him he likes it I'm playing with his feet which makes him happy and
uh I'm petting his face which he likes so you guys can't really I I realize
that it looks sort of like censored over here so okay I think you guys get the
point that I'm on Twitter see I'm just playing with his face and giving him
snuggles which he likes he's reaching up
he's sitting on my lap this is how he sits look at this and this is the most ridiculous cat you ever saw just like
sitting on his back like that like what kind of cat is that now he's getting all
vicious all right let's do some more Q&A
anyway yeah it's a pretty cool promo so I hope uh I hope someone got that that
awesome that awesome code and I hope you
guys are going to like me on Facebook because I am going to do more giveaways on Twitter on Facebook on Twitch
eventually and uh so yeah enjoy Eno
enjoy what h no sorry Mike I don't really have a $50 headphone
recommendation um what's better xfi or
onboard getting a new headset needs to know what's best you know what I don't
know what the SBO 790 xfi is although it's been a long time since I've
recommended a creative much of anything get
anusar shout out to Finland oh my goodness it's 6:14 a.m. in Finland I am
sorry to hear that Master Yoda Terry
asks what is the worst injury I've ever received playing badminton that's a
great question uh the worst thing that ever happened playing badminton I landed
funny when I was going back for a clear and uh I kind of landed on my foot sort
of sort of bizarrely and something in
here one of the one of the ligaments or one of the tendons or something kind of
deeper inside my foot got sort of semi disconnected or semi horrible um anyway
was probably limping for two months three months couldn't really play um and
then it was about 6 months before the pain actually went away but it's 100%
now because I've hardly had any time to play uh nikil asks should I go with the
7h or the 1500 get the 7h as long as you have a decent sound card hello from
Princeton you had a blue quick connect in an earlier video who made it a blue
Quick Connect sorry I'm not sure what you're talking about um sorry
Joseph could I run a 787 from a 450 wat PSU as long as it's a good one yes you
know what that Segways us very nicely into my next topic which is how to pick
the perfect power supply for your system
it seems like everyone these days wants
to overbuild and over speec their power
supply thinking that it again that's that future proof mentality thinking
that it future proofs them thinking that it might benefit them in some way um
whereas in reality power supply do not benefit the user at all if they
are over over specked so I'm going to give you guys a great example of this
I'm going to put my cat down there you go sweetheart and uh actually I hope I
can get this out from under the table over here and got a bit of a got a bit
of a setup issue going on right now with
with extracting this power supply and I'm not trying to pick on Corsair here
or anything because great quality
products great power supplies but uh this one right here is overkill for
almost anything this is actually the power supply that I threw out of the uh
the door or the window of my car that uh
that one time when I threw a power supply out of my car so this is an
ax1200i this is an 80 plus Platinum power supply which is as close to 90
plus as we are these days very very efficient fully modular capable of
delivering I think it's something like the entire yes the entire 1200 watts on
the 12vt rail and just like redonkulous
in every possible way um what system
requires something like this not much
you can easily power a 3770k with you know 16 gigs of RAM and
SSD drive and then a storage drive and
uh you know a GTX 680 like very I'm talking a very high-end system with
something more along these lines which is a 550 wat 80 plus gold power supply
I'm not I'm not pitting Corsair against cic here or anything like that it's
nothing like that I'm just saying in terms of the the overall spec like
what's necessary and what's not um parts are getting more power efficient not
less power efficient there was a time when I bought a 430 wat ntech true power
thinking that that was the biggest power supply I could possibly ever
need um I was wrong um at that time CPUs
gpus particularly I mean at the time I was buying a graphics card that was
high-end that had a fan this big on it and a heat sink like this big on it
whereas now we have graphics cards that are triple slot monstrosities with dual
fans and they suck back like 100 watts
of power or more um underload um so at
that time buying um a a higher wattage a higher capacity power supply made a lot
of sense um whereas we hit sort of this
Plateau around the time Intel stopped going with the Whole Net burst thing
where power for CPUs has actually been reducing with every generation until
until they ramp up the core count and then it goes up a little bit but it's
generally the trend is down um finally on gpus the trend is level or down when
you look at the 6 6,000 600 series and the 7,000 Series
so why are we over buying on power supply this is something that's really
important to understand guys this is like super super important this right
here okay I hope you guys can see this I kind of doubt it but this right here
here is the efficiency curve of this power supply this is at 100% load where
you can see the efficiency is actually falling below 90% at 100% load at 10%
load the efficiency of power supply is
right down around 80 7% okay so if we actually wanted to
get the best efficiency possible out of this PSU we would want to be at around
50% load now think about that for a
second this is a 1200 W power supply under load under load like extreme load
that 3770k machine with the 680 probably
sucks maybe 450 Watts from the wall maybe 500 watts from the wall which
means that you're only actually using around 400 to 450 Watts out of the power
supply which will put you around that 30% range where the efficiency actually
starts to drop off okay now consider the
following this power Supply will be running at idle modern gaming machines
idle around 100 Watts will be running at
less than 10% load which will put you at
you can see how this curve is dropping off here so that'll put you probably
somewhere in the neighborhood of 85%
efficiency when you're not actually doing anything intensive when you're
browsing the web or watching videos or whatever else you're
doing so
problem buy a power supply that's well suited for your machine if you are
planning triple gpus if you are planning dual CPU if you're going to go crazy or
you want some specific feature of a very highend power supply I'm using a th000
wat power supply but I'm using it for a very specific reason because it has a
feature that's similar to this one where the fan actually doesn't turn on until
50% load that's why I'm using it because I'm going for silence if you want a
feature like that go ahead buy a high-end product but just know what you're getting yourself into if you
don't want that buy a good quality but
lower wattage power supply this 550 wat power supply let's see if I can find the
efficiency curve on it really they don't put really they don't put the efficiency
curve on the outside of the package who does that well who doesn't do that okay
well they're killing me here but if I had an efficiency curve to show you from
a uh from a lower wattage power supply I
would be able to show you that it will be at around 20% load at idle which will
be significantly more efficient um than that 1200 wat power
supply running on the same system and then when it's actually under load it
will be more efficient than this power supply would have been during idling so
it'll still be at you know around 80% load which is going to be that point
where the curve starts to starts to decline so there that is my lecture on
the importance of picking an appropriate power supply if you're not really sure
how much power something consumes it's as simple as checking reviews for the
product because you know someone like an anente usually measures power consumption of the entire system and
then you can sort of extrapolate things here and there and figure out
approximately how much you need and then people will people will tell me too
they're like no no lus I need a th000 watt power supply because I'm going to
add like 10 fans and I'm going to add four hard drives I'm like yeah okay hard
drives are adding maybe five to 10 watts
per which means if you add four hard drives we're talking 40 Watts here fans
oh man we're talking like May maybe like
two Watts three Watts uh per fan so if
you're loading it up with fans you're loading up with hard drives maybe buy a 650 watt like don't don't sort of don't
don't overthink it too much here so I hope you guys found that educational and
interesting and if you didn't then I guess you can go tune into to someone else's live stream but people are still
watching so it seems like people are still still enjoying some people are
asking for the cat to come back
Rumble oh I hear him here he comes
Rumble come here come here sweetheart come here good
boy good boy that's right come on come
on good boy see cat totally comes when I call him sometimes when he feels like it
so uh yep he's he's oh look at that rocket came too rocket doesn't always
come when I call him hey sweetheart come here oh oh yeah he's over there you
can't see him oh no I missed him okay well I'm sorry rocket didn't manage to
visit us but it looks like rumble's come back to to settle and snuggle with us
for a little little bit here so let's go back to Twitter and let's uh let's take
some more questions if you guys don't know already I'm at lonus tech on
Twitter I'm really really hard to find I'm totally I'm totally going to add
that thing again I'm totally going to add that thing again wait for it wait for it Twitter yes on Twitter at line it
doesn't let me move it look at this it doesn't let me move it any lower than this which is where I actually want to
put it and it doesn't let me move it any higher than this so I can either cut off my face or I should cut I can cut off
rumble's face so what would you guys prefer I'm going to go to the twitch
chat for this guys would you prefer I cut off my own face or cut off rumble's
face I'm waiting for it there's a suggestion in twitch that I should grow
a stash for movember but I can't because I don't have uh I don't have I don't
have facial hair I'm it's a very sad thing okay people want me to cut off my
face so I'm cutting off my face uh it can sit on my head like that adline tech
on Twitter all right Twitter questions
let's scroll up where we have 1 billion
new interactions Tech this Buffalo okay
you are officially shouted out are you still using a UPS or any surge protector
um yes I actually just acquired a new UPS so I'm super stoked on that and
UPS's are amazing and everyone should use a UPS because it protects your
components from Dirty power which even in you know first world developed
countries is very much present and keeps your stuff from like dying also if
you're like flashing firmwares or whatever else your power can't go out in the middle of it because the UPS will
keep the power on what's the best PC headset to use with S card uh 7h I would
argue oh there's something really cool coming uh someone someone messaged me
about this I think on uh Facebook let me just check let me check my messages this
looks really cool uh this is the wrong
this is the wrong thing this is my personal Facebook okay so maybe now I
can see really okay how's this work I
don't really understand Facebook like I I don't I don't really I don't really
get it um so
yeah whatever it's like a it's like a mic that Clips onto the side of your
headphones uh mic headphone clip no Like
Glue thing I I don't know I don't know how to Google this uh there it is I
found it it's the mod mic yes mod mic so if you get a mod mic then you can get
like a sweet pair of headphones like something like an hd555 which I used to
use before I wanted a headset so I had a mic permanently attached I used to
actually just wear another head set around my neck and then have the mic
coming up here so the mod mic allows you to just basically put this little
attachment piece and then it's a easily removable thing that you can put on the
side of awesome headphones and turn it into a headset and then it like just
goes up like this it's not done yet but I've I've asked them to send one so that
I can check it out and let you guys know if it's any good but I'm super super
excited about that because that'll give a ton more options for what PC Gamers
can use for their head set when actually
they can use use awesome headphones and then just throw a nice high quality mic
on it cuz I think desktop mics are kind of lame although slick swears by them so
you know whatever I'm I'm not judging if you use a desktop mic when are you doing
the Silverstone f23 mini build I'm sorry you guys I'll do it I'll do it I'll do
it at some point I'm sorry I was wondering if you can tell me some cases
that are able to house a Corsair h100 and push pull you know the best thing to
do is just Google it um you know if you just kind of go uh I don't know 800 D
h100 Push Pull if you guys can see the
auto complete it even Auto completed that for me so you can see people who
have it set up sorry excuse me um that's
the best thing to do figure out the cases you like and just check see if
someone else has already done it because even the manufacturers sometimes think
that you can do it and then it can't and so yeah uh Jordan asks what do I think
about the $1500 murderbox MK2 is it
Overkill Jordan I think you know the answer to that however ever one thing
that I can justify about spending more
on certain components I've always believed in spending more on once you
have already have a high performance computer like once you don't get any more benefit from spending more on the
parts is I do believe in spending money on a Case especially to if you have to
look at it all the time I do believe in spending money on peripherals and
displays and speakers um and the reason for the case I mean I've probably spent
a total of around $1,000 on my case at this point between painting and
treatments that I've done with it and sort of modding and the fact that I bought a Dremel just so I could punch
holes in my case um so yeah is it outlandish well yeah but do it can I
kind of understand it I guess if you're going to keep it forever then maybe but
yes I think it's Overkill watching your live stream from the iPad Mini wow
that's so amazing thank you for watching the live stream from the iPad
Mini um I hope you're enjoying your iPad Mini I actually haven't had a chance to
check it out yet what do I think of the new nzx T 280 mm radiator seems like a
little reward for case compatibility if little reward Sun son you don't know
what you're talking about okay 140 mm
only sounds a little bit bigger than 120
mm but in terms of the actual surface area available for cooling it is night
and day and for these pre-filled liquid cooling kits these days we are very much
limited by the surface area that is available for cooling
you're going to want to get a little ITX board and you can build yourself a
pretty neat little machine in a very small form factor these days with lots
and lots of hard drives so uh yes Daniel
asks why are my cats Bengals well because Bengals are
beautiful and because they were born bangal and I liked them so I got them um
I just I like the markings I think the breed is very beautiful the the general
person I mean I did a ton of research before deciding to go with bread cats
for one thing because it was always something I kind of objected to uh
before it was time for me to get my own cats um you know one for the price I
think you know they ask for a lot of money but then I also understand it's a
lot of work raising cats um so one for
that and then two for the fact that there's enough Strays that uh you know
why are we buying cats and then the flip side of that from from my side is that
with the breeds you don't only get the looks but you also get certain
personality traits so um I wanted cats that were super high energy I wanted
cats that were super exciting to play with and they I wanted them to be fast
and athletic and just sort of you know really yeah high energy um Bengals are
also extremely devoted to their owners they're very they get very attached um
they they're they're ex they're just very they're very they're such lovers
like he'll sleep on my chest in the middle of the night like I'll be laying on my back in bed and he'll just come
and he'll walk up and he'll just curl up on my chest which is just the cutest
thing ever um and so the way that I
Justified it to myself is I kind of went well okay it's $1,000 per cat um which
is a lot of money but at the end of the
day I'm stuck with this thing this is this is a commitment that I'm making for
you know 20 years or more um you know I
want to make sure that I get the kind of cat that I want I want to make sure that I have a chance to to check out the
caterie which is sort of a cat breeder um I want to meet sort of his mom and
dad and find out what kind of temperament they have when when they're older I want to I mean none of these are
guarantees but it's all things that sort of make me feel a little bit better if I'm making a commitment like that I mean
the thing about adopting I would adopt a dog but I don't think I'd adopt a cat
because cats tend to be very emotionally
scarred when something sort of terrible happens to them and you can adopt
kittens too I I know that too but again it's just sort of where where my comfort
level was at did I think it was a lot of money yes but if you advertise it over
20 years of kind of companionship you get from someone like this character
then um yeah it doesn't seem that bad anymore so that's why my cats are
Bengals I did a lot of research on the different breeds sort of what I what I
thought I wanted I mean they're very striking which is an obvious reason why
why people like Bengals they have just these beautiful beautiful spots and
coats and they look just sort of amazing um and it's it's one of those things
where you know if you have sort of any desire for people to come over to your
house and see your cats and be like holy crap you have such a cool cat cats then
you know I enjoy that it's kind of it's kind of neat you know Everyone likes my
cats even cat haters seem to sort of like my cats
so Grant I own a pre-built PC that contains a 920 but I want to build my
own PC around Black Friday is it worth keeping uh you know what you're probably
getting to the point where you're going to see some significant benefit from
upgrading from a 920 on the other hand 920 is still a pretty decent chip
remember it's equivalent to Lindfield a little bit slower than Sandy bridge and
then which is a little bit slower than Ivy Bridge so especially if you
overclock it's still a very capable chip you might want to look at maybe a
graphics card upgrade rather than a CPU upgrade if you want to get the best bang
for your buck Alex asks how I like the
surface I still love the surface I still think it's the bee's knees however I
could also be sold on a form factor like this which leads me well into my next
topic which is the Acer S7 this is like
the sexiest little Ultra Book that doesn't seem to actually be an Ultrabook
branded thing and if you want to know exactly what an Ultrabook is you can
check out my video on it it's on the NC Channel what is an Ultrabook so it has
like a sweet sort of brushed finish that I had a couple people in the office sort
of tell me they hated but I like it for a very specific
reason I hate the iPad 2 backing and the
reason is because it's
perfect I'm going somewhere with this don't worry it's perfect which means the
first time you take it and put it down on a surface and someone walks along and
pushes something on the counter and it scratches along there and you get a
scratch on it you're going to be like a now it's not perfect now I need an iPad
3 um which I I guess is part of the
strategy maybe whereas this has this kind of pattern of scratches on it that
gives it a bit of um a bit of a sort of neat look but it'll also hide it if you
get little scratches on it and it won't be as noticeable and it won't look as
ugly if you happen to scratch it in the future so I like that it is extremely
thin and I'm totally going to do it I'm going to do the iPhone thickness comparison but check that out this
notebook is so freaking thin I'm going to move this a little bit closer to you
guys so you can truly enjoy the thinness
of this notebook very very thin see there I finally got it position right
extremely thin extremely light like it's light enough you could almost kind of
cart it around like a tablet it's very small see here's the sort of Linus ARM
size comparison um very small um it has
real IO and it has a real OS unlike
something like a tablet so you've got USB 3 on this side you've got your micr
SD you've got headphone jack um on this
side nothing on this side nothing there's your power which again is more
like a tablet positioning for the power button more USB 3 power in and then
ventilation at the back as well as that looks like a micro HDMI out so you've
got all these real PC IO options you've
got the flexibility of using it a number of different ways it wakes from sleep
extremely quickly like almost all Windows 8 machines you have a fullsize
keyboard again the build quality isn't what I'd consider to be
perfect I don't know if you guys can hear that but like when you when you
mash on the touchpad like it's oh oh it's oh it's a clicky touchpad that's
why it does it like like not a design choice that I'd probably have made as
the product manager but you know no one's perfect hinge feels okay hinge
feels good um this is a metal this is a metal backing this is a metal surface
here as well the bottom is plastic so um
this part of the screen is glass right up to the edge so it just feels really
really solid on the parts where you're actually touching it and then on the bottom it you don't you don't touch that
part so I guess it's not as much of a concern it's got real speakers unlike
most tablets professionally tuned Dolby Home Theater I don't know if I call them
home theater speakers but I think I pressed the power button when I had it
open last time um so this this will give you some idea of how quickly it boots up
it also gives you that um that ability to use it as a touchcreen as a
touchscreen notebook as as kind kind of a tablet because like I said in my last
live stream where I talked a lot about Windows 8 and a lot about touch the
problem with touch is that when the computer is this far away from me like a
desktop this is not comfortable whereas with a super small super slim notebook
like this it's sitting on my lap it is just as convenient for me I'm going to
try and sort of I'm going to try and position myself in such a way that this
makes sense for you guys but it's going to be positioned on me like this for me
to comfortably use it and if I'm using Internet Explorer what is actually
faster from from a notebook usage perspective think about this if you're
using Windows 7 to come down to the touchpad here figure out where the mouse
cursor is and go to the button remember you're using a touchpad not a mouse
touchpads are slow or from the home row because everything happens from the home
row to go like this what's actually faster touchcreen makes so much sense to
me from a notebook perspective with a tiny device like this where it becomes a
very lifestyle like device that you can really take with you anywhere because
it's not much thicker than an iPhone I think it's an 11 something inch screen
uh for those of you who are just tuning in this is the aser fire S7 and I think
I'm signed into the I think I'm logged into my yeah there we go oh this is a
great thread on the ncx Forum unboxings teach us nothing someone complained
about my unboxing videos and then there's a big long threat about it
um something something anyway so okay
here how about this then so I'm browsing the site and I want to type something I
want to type a reply again what's faster from the home Row from how I'm using the
computer hitting reply okay maybe that's not faster because it's a tiny button
and then going like this or is it actually faster to use my
touchpad like this um I would argue
touchcreen makes a lot of sense I would argue this is a very freaking cool
little device and if you guys want to check something like this out it'll
actually be at the Windows 8 launch party at the aine mall in Richmond
tomorrow so if you guys don't know about this if you are located in the Lower
Mainland which is where I live then I'm going to go ahead I'm going to go to the
NC site where there's hopefully a thread in the Forum about this Windows 8 launch
party and we are going to I'm well I'm
going to be there tomorrow um Windows 8
launch party aine center Atrium ground level Richmond BC there's prizes to be
won there's going to be exclusive show deals and all kinds of cool stuff uh you
can check out the event page on Facebook
I will be there from around 11:30 or 12
to around 3:00 so uh you can feel free to come by and say hi and we're going to
have all kinds of cool devices like this and um I might bring my Surface or I
might not I'm not sure uh cuz NCI doesn't really carry
them anyway but um yeah yeah I hope to
hope to see you guys there so that segue done you know what
I'm actually going to here I'll take my my whole this is my whole topic list for
tonight so I've talked about this this I have talked about this I have talked
about this I have talked about
this oh I haven't talked about the ponage movie so honestly guys I should
preface this by saying I was never really into ponage like really never
really into ponage but it's on indiegogo.com
uh pure Ownage spelled with a p which makes
it obviously very easy to Google check this out so these guys said they needed
$75,000 to make a pure Ownage movie if you guys know you know FPS dog head shot
you know the super enthusiastic guy um so I just thought you guys should see
this I I again I watched some of their old stuff I was never really into it at
the time I watched some of their old stuff it didn't make much sense to me but I figured you guys might care
because people seem to be pretty excited
about this whole this whole thing so the uh the campaign started with him
sniffing the bandana that he wore as his character and then they're discussing
whether they should make a ponage movie and they already raised about double of
their goal and then there's FPS dog who's apparently
returning you know what I'm going to check the twitch chat really quick I want to find out if the uh sound is
moving someone says mute it we can't hear you oh I don't know
whatever sound is so loud the sound worked put the something something sound
is loud it's loud okay sound is loud okay so what I should probably do is
turn the sound up on the camera and then or maybe down on my computer or whatever
else okay so there's that and then the other one that I'm actually genuinely
really excited about is um shoot what's it called
youtube.com Star Citizen that's right s
star okay if you guys haven't seen this
on Twitter already I posted this on Twitter if you haven't seen this on
Facebook already go to my Facebook uh
it's the post sort of it's not that far down the page I think I posted about it
yesterday the day before Star
Citizen okay I posted about it a while ago I think no this is the beginning I
don't know it's on here somewhere oh my goodness if you guys ever played Wing
Commander if you ever played TIE fighter if you ever played freelancer if you
ever played any space Sim games or anything like like that you guys are
going to be just so freaking stoked on this PC okay hold on hold on you have to
you have to see this part because it's all it's all about this it's all about this I am a PC game this is not some
console thing like this thing Halo PC
game Space Sim dog fights and space and
stuff like this is real endgame footage there pointing at it pointing at it like
this this is in-game footage guys this is rendered in the engine they're using
try engine it is going to be amazing and
there is a um there is a there's a Kickstarter thing for it and basically
this is Chris Roberts this is the win Commander guy got out of the gaming
scene for a while here but he is back and uh if he the more money he raises
the better a game he's going to build he's actually got a chart um Google
it um Star Citizen here we go here we go
if you Google it you can see the the money that's been raised the money
that's that they need and then they've got this whole chart of how much money
they need to raise in order to make the game whatever um he's done a lot of work
on it already there's a couple trailers available it just looks absolutely
fantastic I think this is and the other thing that's nice about a lot of
operates and moves there'll be like a there'll be like a single player Mission
based
like fully rended in 3D so if you issue a command
you'll it's all for the immers I think immersion is really important for me
because I think that you have to really visualize and create a very believable
world so that's one of the reasons why I always sort of really push the visual
Fidelity is because I think that check that out and I'm not saying you have to
contribute or anything nothing like that but just be aware of this because you
haven't enjoyed those types of games an example of that is we're looking around
at our character we can see that you know the character himself is about
100,000 faces which about 10 topic that I wanted to cover let's do a little bit
more Q&A and then probably going to sign off 15 minutes here watching live from
Venezuela thank you for watching live do you know if Intel chipset still have
that SSD caching feature yes they
do down because it's too pix uh best
all-in-one liquid cooler I'm really excited about physics going strong part
of the gaml so let me demonstrate some of the features of
inters with you ship itself is builted
Sim probably 7950 now best computer Cas
probably 200 most of the ships in this
un much like an F35 would do they're fly by wire so they take your input as a
pilot crun
tror a buy an INT
CP want say if I want to pitch think
about the news the thrusters themselves say how
quickly can the position you deliver thrust and how much thrust thrusters
talk back to the flight computer and says okay I can
get one of a Mill and I give you this much trust the whole system is
dynamically doing that every single frame flying that way it's really cool
because what happens is a lot of unexpected or dynamic Behavior happens
by it and Sy we F around dog fight one
of our thrusters gets damaged it will affect our maneuverability and it's not
a matter of changing script or data it's actually all Dynamic for video editing
and playing occasional games okay fx150
is a really great example of the level of scale and I'm going to walk I'm here
finally it's 5:08 a.m. thank you for tuning in onto the second it's huge or
Carri that's in the Prototype level is about a kilm power consumption not
important in that Cas get another
unless so one of the things that I'm the most excited
byy we have detail for scale at a human
level G muched then the same level of detail
for fly or a bigger C you know say this
figh craft is 207 how much volume of air could be theoretically moved by that I'm
building a game universe that ESS the universe and the game I
would like to play so it's for gamers
myself social I like sophisticated experience
well I'm picking PC over console because PC was what I always used to do in the
past but more importantly it's because PC is an open platform PC is always
constantly innovating I really care about the PC I really want to push the
PC think it's a great how much could
thist if you and angry about the situation
pc pc gam get any respect it's the
medium that is the coolest most powerful and that's really why I'm try draw we're
going to allow users to C and build the
pressure standards then it can get sold in the ship dealers on certain planets
and you know maybe the person that built that spaceship will be earning money
from other basic they're basically so
one of the things the less resistance you have on the cring is
cuttings deal directly with the people more resistance you have the less
important C is so one of my main goals whenever I make a game is toing up a on
a radiator you don't even seen
that the STA pressure so much resistance to
that the through there it's not going to work something
like series fans when I
was Ser f with the RoR that has like so
much space around the Absolut worthless
if you put it on a or on a radiator if you put it in an open air environment
it's one of the most efficient and Roberts uh like univers with
CFM so it's all about using the right fan I actually did a video about this uh
Corsair fan ncx or something I don't know I did
a video about it yeah there we go this one right here where I explained all of
the different uh the importance of static pressure and uh ncfm and I show
some graphs and I show a big oh I'm not even showing you guys this I show a big
fancy machine that's used to measure static pressure and and uh ncfm and I
test a bunch of fans on it and here I'm explaining about how static pressure
means there's resistance which is sort of exactly the example I just gave now
um so there you go and yeah that video is definitely worth checking out if you
want to learn a little bit more about picking the right fans for your case
unboxing videos give you more info about the products itself yes they do if
they're if they're decent can you recommend a USB sound card for 5.1
surround not really forgot that you live in Canada when is the next time you're
in Silicon Valley probably no time soon to be
honest how many streams do can I do not
the same stream split by the way uh you'll
need um gigabit Ethernet as long as you
have a powerful storage sub system on the other side you might want to check out my um uh server NCIX Tech tips I did
a video where I did like a quad gigabit
like redonkulous
um hold on where is it is kind yeah ultimate home Nas setup with a 4 GB
network connection uh I think I was running seven or eight drives in oh you
guys aren't seeing this again I'm sorry seven or eight drives in raid zero or
something stupid like that and then what I do is I run 1080p streams to like five
computers at the same time or something like that as long as you have the
storage horsepower on the other side for it it can be done no problem planning
out my Loop in a C70 I want dual 24 is
it in efficient of one int no not at all
last time egpu I meant external GPU do you have any experience by any chance
unfortunately not yet I will check it out as soon as I do get a chance though
is it worth paying 10% more for a three for a 3 GB gzz vaporx Edition over a GB
7970 performance difference won't be that much especially once you're over
clocking them touchcreen notebooks are awesome
yes I agree and thank you for watching my unboxings however it wouldn't my
feelings wouldn't be hurt if you watched someone else's uh let me just see if I have any
more ah yes I wanted to talk about storage spaces a little bit more so um
storage spaces some of the challenges that I've had with it so if you guys
aren't familiar with storage spaces already it's a Windows 8 feature that's going to allow you to just kind of uh
it's kind of like the drive pool in Windows Home Server where you just kind of chuckin drives willy-nilly they can
be any capacity they can be any brand you don't need a raid card as long as
you have a SATA connection plugging into it you can add it to actually even if
you don't have a SATA connection if you have a usb3 connection or a Thunderbolt connection I used Thunderbolt to add
drives to a storage space today just to see if it worked because I was curious
um so you can add things willy-nilly and you can get data redundancy which means
that it doesn't protect you from something like a virus that attacked all
your files or from something like uh someone formatting your computer or
whatever but it does protect you from physical Drive failures as long as you
don't have sort of too many at the same time so you can run it in a number of
different modes you can run it in sort of a raid one so so single redundancy so
as long as you have at least two drives of the same capacity it'll fill both of them equally with the same data and
there's really no performance benefit or problem you can have dual redundancy
which means you need at least three drives No at least five drives three
drives I think at least five something I forget what the what the limit is but
that way it makes sure that any data you write is backed up on at least three
drives at any given time which is kind of neat it's like a super raid one and
then the other one is parody which is a RAID five like a fake raid five that
uses a CPU instead of a dedicated raid card and the raid five parody is the one
that I was really excited about because it uses it it calculates a parody bit
which means that if you have at least three drives you'll get two drives worth
of capacity and then one for parody and then if you have five drives you get
four drives worth of capacity and then one for par and no matter almost how
much you scale it so that's cool um but
and then what I thought was that we were going to get really great performance out of it even in rights because it was
going to take advantage of your CPU which is so fast these days that you
could you know hammer it with raid parody calculations and it wouldn't even
care but unfortunately it looks like with my four Drive WD red setup and this
is pretty common I am limited to about 30 megabytes per second wres reads are
still fine but rights are slow now rights are the challenging part of a
raid five because it has to actually calculate that par that uh data
redundancy part while it is writing the
data it has to do it in real time but I was really expecting a lot better than
that another one of the challenges that I ran into is that rearranging things
about the drive pool the storage space is not that easy you can't actually
reduce the capacity of a storage space once you've committed it and it looks
like there's some rules in terms of um remov moving drives from the storage
space without just pulling them out and rebuilding it which is which is
challenging to me I don't really I don't really like that because rebuilding an
array can be one of the most stressful things you do to an array which if you
have one drive that failed and there's another one on the brink that can be the
thing that pushes that other drive over the edge and you will lose all your data
so I would have liked if there was a graceful way to manually remove a drive
without just kind of pulling it out and I sort of didn't really like that about
it either I'm still pretty excited about the feature because it still gives
people access to to raid five in a way that's easier and less fussy than
running it even off your motherboard and certainly off of an addin raid card but
I'm just a little bit less excited about it than I was before so let's do a
little bit more Q&A on Twitter uh looks like people are tuning out so apparently
they're bored of my uh my storage spaces talk oh no last thing last thing last
topic that you guys may or may not care about I have a new tech tip studio so
check this out oh my goodness I have a green screen now so I can do all kinds
of cool stuff on my green screen and then I will be using my other walls so
you can see here's the green wall here's the blue walls as potentially a blue
screen over here if I'm wearing green and I don't want to do fancy masking and
whatnot in in After Effects or in uh
whatever video Suite um and then this will also be the background for NCIX
Tech tips so we moved NCIX Tech tip tips
this room I no longer have any access to this room is dead and we are going back
to the old look I just decided because there were
some problems with the new tech tips room um Reflections off the glossy paint
and you things weren't perfect um I'd like to get a new TV as well that has
actually here I can move this down now the cat's not here I'd like to get a new TV as well that doesn't have a
reflective bezel around it because that's just obnoxious but there was
something to be said for the classic older style Tech tips room with just the
blue background we're going to go back to that and I am super super excited
about the new tech tips room and some of the neat stuff I can do with chroma keys
and maybe I can put something else behind me or something cool like that so
we're going back to more like this style and uh should be good should be good I'm
very excited so so there now we are going
back to Q&A so Q&A will be on
Twitter please respond I accidentally formatted my hard drive and I want to
recover the files I loss is it possible yes there are soft W applications that
you can use as long as you didn't do like a full overwriting format um it's
been a long time since I've looked into it most of them are pay applications but
a lot of them have previews that you can use and what they'll do is they'll bring
up a directory list and tell you this is all the stuff we can recover if you give
us 50 bucks or whatever else it is so yes it can be possible I have a $2,200
budget for gaming editing build I've been looking at a 3930k and a GTX 680 um
I would probably recommend a 660 Ti or 670 there are much
I'd go probably antech Corsair antech Corsair I've never tried
on raid good question um not something that I've that I've done uh Adrien I'm
not really an engineer it's probably not really the right question for
me um hard to say depends how much you can get for those 550 TI because a
660t you know what it's probably yeah it's probably a good value I'd probably
I'd probably consider that I know I don't understand what that
means I'll probably have to look it up later
we lost 10 minutes of live I forgot the other video in the background oh okay
that's bad how can I get a TPM chip uh
you have to buy a motherboard with a TPM chip on it is it possible to use RAM as
video RAM if you have Onboard video then yes otherwise no can you use a USB as
RAM no it's way too slow okay you have to mute the sound
yeah we couldn't oh that's probably why people were tuning out oh my bad I'm
sorry guys um
yeah oops I just smashed my keyboard when I
saw your Halo 4 copy I'm going to the midnight launched so stoked really Alex
should I should I unbox the uh should I unbox the whatever this is the limited
edition on camera you know what I'm going to let the twitch chat decide
because I never let I never let them say
anything what should we do what should we
do yes yes yes yes yes
whoa It's Going way too fast for me to
do anything okay it looks like the bulk of
them are saying yes so we are going to do this we're going to do this thing
we're going to unbox a Halo 4 Limited
Edition live wow and that'll cover the
last sort of three minutes of the live stream here so if you don't care about this I guess you can tune
out and I'm having a lot of trouble here so this might be worth watching ah okay
the plastic is off and actually I got a lot of
questions about uh whether what what happens to the products I inbox in this
case one of my co-workers will actually be buying this this this copy that I
have already unboxed so he's uh he's putting off buying his copy of Halo 4
until until it unbox until he gets the unboxed one so it's kind of tricky how
this actually opens here it seems to ah
yes it slides out here so there's the limited edition casing we can check out
the system specs which is have an Xbox
okay Shipwrecked on a Mysterious World
faced with new enemies and deadly
technology the master chief returns to battle an ancient evil bent on Vengeance
and Annihilation enlist as a Spartan 4
aboard the UNC infinity and blah blah blah blah blah digital content something
something so you get three war game macps nine Max total nine maps to nine
Max total ha we're talking about console games and Macs on my stream can you
believe that okay uh nine Maps total fourward Unto Dawn special edition
liveaction series launch day access to six specializations unique in game skins
and emblem Avatar cryotube prop and Avatar Spartan armor cool and then
there's some cool stuff inside here map packs will release after launch four gigs of storage required
okay uh Co-op two to four players 1 to four lonus never become a voice actor
thank you for that okay so this we're putting
aside and now in a world where this is
copy
231,000 so let's take this out here we
go oh oh wait for it wait for
it okay the first thing we find inside
is I don't know what this is infinity
and it has like a metal metal thing binding it here and it has like a
plastic hard cover it's supposed to be like a clipboard or something I guess
small though okay so this is kind of translucent very highte okay okay
property of Spartan Gabriel Thorne that's my middle name actually Gabriel
in case you couldn't tell the letter on the next page was written by a UNC
committee that still thinks of the Spartans as a Navy project and not their
own Branch well they wrote it and my bosses in a fit of play nice with the
rest of them made me sign it but what the committee of my bosses didn't do was
ship the thing out leaving me the opportunity to add my own something
something own something I don't know one piece can do it again all tomorrow
Spartan welcome aboard the unfc infinity and welcome to the next phase of your
stolar career blah blah blah you choose enlistment something something Infinity
Mass deployment there's like specs of like some ship or
something uh there's it's a gun aha an
assault rifle if it's anything like the assault rifle from Halo 1 which is the
last Halo game I played then it probably sucks and you should just use the pistol
although maybe they changed that sticky Detonator aha something something care
for your armor ah all Spartan four class operatives will consume a meals aboard
the something something so there's a diet thing exercise regimen ha for
gamers I led did you L okay moving right
along um ship RNR opportunity schedule
if you're feeling like a real showof you can apply for multiple specialist rankings something something so you can
you can read through all this if you really want to I guess there's another
thing in here which is
uh um a folded piece of paper that I actually cannot unfold a war game
session summary mhm okay see I don't understand
Halo so I don't really know what any of this say Thor still looking for more but found this on the network if she did put
the engines in this thing then this has to be a letter to her yeah yeah redacted
civilian okay you know what we're done with that let's move right along then
next we have oh some kind of sealed
sealed briefing thing I'm going to open this because I don't care
because it's just my coworker copy of Halo
4 attention aha this has your mission briefing do not remove from s read and
destroy your mission briefing is kill all the aliens in all likelihood um fire
team Majestic will advance on Covenant cultist Outpost with goal of eradicating
all resistance at location request Something Something Free from worry okay
I better destroy it now actually I'm going to put it away nicely so that my
coworker can have it all right we got more stuff Gabriel thorn m m requisition
really M
okay hey lus stop everyone everyone
hates my Xbox you know what you don't have to watch but you guys are all still
watching so here's your Spartan Gabriel Thorne uh sort of specs and stuff
okay here we go let's put that away and
then we've got another thing here which is like a ziplock
baggie okay okay here we go k 4
Something Something aha access code you guys don't get to see this this is for
this is for my coworker and then there's Marketplace download oh okay so this is
all the all the stuff that all the extra stuff and then finally the game box
itself which has kind of a nice actual feel to it is this metal oh cool it's
metal contains disc one and dis two although apparently dis swapping is not
an issue because you install sort of one of them or something the inside is all
blue and stuff
okay there's a thing okay guys okay okay here here here
here here do you dare me to lick the disc before I give it to him I'm gonna
I'm gonna let I'm gonna let twitch contribute to this I'm I'm totally I'm
totally going to do it I'm totally gonna what do you guys think should I just do it should I do
it one of my co-workers has to use this
okay I'm doing it okay I'm gonna put that back in there
like that if his if if if his uh if his Xbox doesn't read it then uh then he'll
he'll have to watch the live stream to figure out why why that happened so
we're going to go ahead and sort of Tuck this back away and uh I thank you guys
for tuning in to my live stream tonight don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
tips although if you guys are really watching my live stream you're already subscribed to L Tech tips anyway and
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night