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it's back so i promised you guys that the dual CPU eight core skull trail rig

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that tom from the uk sent over was going to be making another appearance and that

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we were going to be kicking things up a notch but i actually didn't think things

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were going to go quite this well so here's what i have in store for you

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we're going to be overclocking our cpus we're going to be upgrading to rtx

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graphics with sli for bonus points we're going to be

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going from 8 gigs to a whopping

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32 gigs of ddr2 memory thanks to paul from

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ontario who sent over these bad boys and

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thanks to our sponsor for today's video we are going to be hooking this whole

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thing up to samsung's latest curved 240 hertz

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gaming monitor so uh

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why don't we get started with that so let's start by getting our monitor

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cracked open the c27rg5 is the world's first 240 hertz curved gaming display

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and guys if you're regular viewers of this channel i probably don't have to

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explain the advantages of a 240hz

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display basically means smoother animations and you are getting more

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information per second to your eyeball holes which gives you a competitive

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advantage as we actually demonstrated in a recent video now another cool feature

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is that it happens to be g-sync compatible so that means that if you

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don't reach quite hertz which

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i think might happen today then you're gonna have g-sync as long as you've got

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an NVIDIA graphics card to help smooth out some of the uh

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some of the gaps there so on the back we've got a look at the i o we've got

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dual HDMI ports displayport a usb service port and a dc power in for the

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external power brick and the main standout features of this guy are really

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going to be the 3001 contrast ratio thanks to its va panel the bezel-less

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design and this is a cool one it's actually got a special low input lag

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mode which for a 240hz gaming monitor i would certainly hope that

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everyone would enable that i'm hoping to pair with some of NVIDIA's new driver

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optimizations to get a a smoother more

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responsive overall gaming experience on

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well very dated hardware here so just like

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last time our underpowered CPU is already apparent

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when we're doing something as simple as downloading and installing a graphics

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driver we're sitting at 80 percent CPU utilization and 40 of it is google

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chrome which surprisingly wasn't even open that's a new one

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good job google chrome how even what even

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happened that oh there's another one wait why is there another one what even is this and what do i even have open

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i have two pages open while we're off to a flying start here

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after an excruciatingly slow driver install our titan x is still not showing

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up with the infamous code 43 error so that's fine we weren't really intending

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to use that anyway so let's go ahead and restart it

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and throw in an rtx 2080 ti

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okay so here we go ladies and gentlemen

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you know what we're just gonna we're just gonna go full yolo we're gonna

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upgrade the RAM we're gonna overclock the snot out of this thing let's just

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let's just holy ow

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so we're gonna put these eight gig sticks in so these are two gig sticks

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that we're replacing we'll be handling those by the edges wow those get really hot

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i guess that makes sense they did draw a lot more power than normal ddr2 modules

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with of course the benefit being these high capacities

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32 gigs of RAM in four slots was a

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freaking lot back then meanwhile now Corsair has gaming kits

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with 32 gig sticks in them

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now before we go any further i actually want to throw some active cooling

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on my memory here let's see can i just kind of wedge that

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you know it should be fine

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there it is skull trail with 32 gigs the stupidest

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configuration ever let's overclock this thing

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so in the interest of time efficiency we're not going to be dialing in the

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world's most uh careful overclock or anything like

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that we're basically going quick and dirty

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boom we're going for four gigahertz just like that and at the same time

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memory ratio boom one to one

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okay wish me luck and we're posted

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okay window stability is a whole other story though oh

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i need a drink from this water bottle ltdstar.com

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so let's verify that everything is working as intended we've got our RAM

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running at 400 megahertz wait

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times one equals 400 megahertz that's weird task manager shows it at 667 which

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would be a double pump 333 which is what it's rated for what this is

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okay so we bumped our mch voltage and

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hopefully that'll be enough to get us stable no

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try the 16 gig kit so i bump the front side bus voltage and

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i am changing these CPU fans to just run at the full 12 volts rather than be

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speed controlled which should give us a little bit more chipset cooling

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better finish this run

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yes okay check out this score

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733 okay it's not amazing but

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but that is a mere 90 points less than a

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if we can find games that are suitably multi-threaded

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we might actually have a decent gaming experience

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not the younglings you're not supposed to hold the lightsaber

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and this is how i always get myself into freaking trouble because you get it

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working good enough i mean we've got 16 gigs of RAM in the thing

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but i want more

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758 oh that is dangerously close to 3770

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4770 processor performance territory all

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right sli then

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sli is enabled so okay we couldn't do

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our tx 2080 ti but we were able to do dual titan x pascals

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and g-sync boom g-sync is working enabled for both

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windowed and full screen mode so that means we'll be able to run our games

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without any screen tearing stuttering or lag because our samsung monitor here

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changes its refresh rate to match up perfectly with the frames being rendered

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by the GPU is this a lock on the sli connector oh oh my god it has this wait

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ah it's a color switch wait what the

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it's funny unless you look close you'd never know this is like not a modern

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system you know these gpus look pretty modern that memory amount looks pretty

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modern that core count looks pretty modern

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now before we get into games i wanted to give adobe premiere pro another shot

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just because like hey we got 32 gigs of RAM now right

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maybe it'll be a little better yeah huh

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yeah wow that's actually a really good slideshow that we're watching here

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that's at full resolution though that's at 8k try one quarter

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and we're done bud although we did manage to use more than eight gigs of

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RAM so hey it wasn't all completely for nothing-ish sort of let's play some

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video games i figure we should start

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with rocket league i just want to see if it runs a little better this time than

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it did last time okay so this was probably a mistake i

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cranked the details up and that was a mistake

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performance we're still sitting at about 40 FPS

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however one key difference here is that i'm not getting the same

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really bad stutters that i was before it's like actually kind of playable well

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that doesn't give me much hope for our second game but i did promise you guys

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more game testing today so let's go ahead and give doom a shot here do you

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see it skipping around like that whoa

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so technically we are running at 50 frames per second

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right now but you guys you can look at it even through the camera i'm sure you

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guys can tell that that is some chop-tastic

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animation going on there so now we can see our frame times here

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you can see there is a ton of inconsistency in them which is why we're

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getting these really ugly skips however

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doom has a trick up its sleeve now as far as i know this is going to

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completely brick our compatibility with sli but

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one of the key advantages of the next-gen apis like vulcan is supposed to

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be is supposed to be better handling of multiple CPU threads

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so maybe we'll be able to take advantage of

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our eight CPU cores a little better here

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that is looking quite a bit more consistent

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this is doom running on a 10 year old computer

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we're at medium details right now so i guess man we could probably push this

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harder but that is actually butter smooth this

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is actually awesome can you believe the CPU running this is 11 years old you

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know what let's push for more

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dude not responding power usage very high

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stage two is everything on high except motion blur

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oh that is looking real good oh i

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thought i felt a little stutter there for a second it's definitely not bad though

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we are running at anywhere from 80 to 100 plus frames per second

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and uh oh i died so now i was thinking

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let's try something a little bit more modern we're gonna fire up apex legends

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which isn't CPU does not have popkins

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next up minecraft now i have to confess i have played very little minecraft

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couldn't really figure out what the hell i was supposed to do this is a test for

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what may eventually be a like LMG

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minecraft thing who binds run to control

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now the good news here is that wow now the good news here is that we are

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actually running at anywhere from 100 all the way up to

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well over 200 FPS here which is pretty

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freaking sweet so for the first time today

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we are actually getting the proper

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full smooth gaming experience of this monitor huh

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here's here's a good segue subscribe

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yeah why aren't you subscribed to Linus tech tips yet minecraft told you to do

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it you know my biggest problem is with minecraft though the realism this

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clearly wouldn't be burning in the rain so we should probably how do i ride the

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horse somebody else's horse who cares

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do you need to just teleport you somewhere far away so you don't screw anything up no i don't care if i screw

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anything up can you build stuff under water yeah

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how do you breathe

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that's not swimming if you go down to the bottom it's sinking

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see this is what i'm talking about it's not realistic

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to give our poor system a fighting chance we wanted to fire up a vulcan

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game so this is the talos principle and you can see it's actually not running

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great right now anywhere from 20 to

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45 FPS so we're running directx 11 now

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and we're gonna change that in hopes of

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here we go seeing a little bit of a better result

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here all right we're vulcan now boys

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that's not bad that's not bad at all dang vulcan you

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cool breathing fresh life into ancient

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hardware so this is the new wolfenstein ii

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oh oh crap you know it feels a little stupid to be

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fighting with this eight cores total

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dual socket nonsense from 11 years ago

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when i have a 64 core 128 thread AMD

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epic that i like have to finish this video before i can play with really

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we're on we're on ultra jig does that seem

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kind of unfair yeah two type so this is a weird one because if i

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don't try to move the mouse you see that the animation is actually really smooth

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but if i try to move the mouse it just completely falls apart

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so many new and exciting ways for a system to be horribly horribly

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bottlenecked today thanks for the gun bro

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wow cool gun alright so that was fun but if i was

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samsung i would be crazy to let me showcase

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a 240 hertz wow this thing is heavy

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gaming display on only that so

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let's pull out the big guns and see what the experience

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is supposed to be like

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now doom ran okay on our other rig but that was at like medium details instead

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of having everything on high and

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this is a lot smoother like there's no doubt whatsoever

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that high refresh rate gives you a clear competitive advantage and when you have

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the FPS to back it up obviously the whole concept works a

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little bit better i'm actually pretty impressed with this

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monitor the pixel response times are quite

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satisfactory while we fire up csgo show you guys got all the usual you know

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different game modes black equalizer you can turn on a crosshair if you're a big

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fat cheater why would you pull out your knife like

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what even is the logic here

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like is it i'd love to see the dungeons and dragons

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rulebook version of how they programmed the bot behavior to not be good is there

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just like a 20-sided die that it rolls and it'll just like pull out a random

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weapon if it comes up you know what i mean

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oh man i got killed by it this is a lot smoother like there's no

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doubt whatsoever that high refresh rate gives you a clear competitive advantage

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and when you have the FPS to back it up obviously the whole concept works a

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little bit better so this monitor is equipped with both g-sync and a 240hz

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refresh rate so it's able to serve up every possible frame my pc is producing

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right now that means i'm getting however many more opportunities per second to

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beat my opponents i mean i think we can all agree with my skill if i was online

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right now i'd be winning for sure so massive thank you to samsung for

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sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching if you enjoyed this one

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because you love bottlenecks you can check out the video where we put a titan

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rtx on the latte panda i'll link that one for you

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if not then sorry i'll come up with a better

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recommendation for you next time