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Corsair's Raptor line of quality gaming peripherals has the features you need to

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win at a price you'll like click now to learn

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more welcome to a first for us this is our comprehensive image quality

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comparison between five I don't have any handsfree but five different Platforms

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in both Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag

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and Battlefield 4 so we are going to be testing Xbox 360 to represent a last gen

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console PlayStation 4 Xbox one as well

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as an entry-level gaming PC so priced at around $550 worth of Parts including a

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Windows operating system and a high-end PC representing around a probably about

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a $1,500 to $1600 expenditure I want to

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take a moment to walk you guys through our setup and how we're going to be

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doing this so come on in first of all

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down here we have our high-end PC running on a test bench it features a

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GTX 780 and we've actually downclocked and jury rigged our 3960x to get

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equivalent to 4770k Performance we've

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got 32 gigs of RAM in there and SSD and it is just generally pretty beastly then

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following up over here I've got an Xbox 360 I have a PlayStation 4 I'll try not

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to to to wreck that I have an Xbox one

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hiding over here in the corner and you can see the connect is actually living

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on our entry level machine so this one

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features an AMD um A8 5600k quad core

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it's got only 4 gigs of RAM a Radeon

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7770 graphics card and then a generic

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power supply and a very entry-level case because we wanted to really reach a

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price point that's more in line with the consoles than what the typical

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perception of a gaming PC is which is that it's much much more expensive so

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next up let's show you guys the setup that we use that will allow you guys to

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download the full quality files at 30 megabit per second so you can actually

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compare for yourselves so each one of

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these platforms runs off of HDMI to an

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hdcp compliant splitter right here so we've actually we have to swap them as

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we go what this does is it strips out the hdcp protection that's on the

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PlayStation 4 which allows us to capture it with the same degree of quality as

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all the other ones so that then comes on over here all right so it's a able to

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Output to our monitor there where we're actually playing the games and then to

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an a media live gamer portable which is actually on the floor down there and you

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can see slick is actually recording Battlefield 4 gameplay right now so then

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what we're doing is we are archiving all of the footage all the test runs here

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and we are going to make those available for you guys to

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download while you guys are enjoying some gameplay footage I'm going to walk

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through what I feel are the pros and cons of each of the platforms so we'll start with Xbox 360 they're cheap

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they're about 150s on eBay and they come with a great controller still the

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favorite of both me and Slick the problem with it is that while the games

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run it's a miracle that they do it all because this is an 8-year-old platform I

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mean they're full of jaggies and they look awful but I mean okay they're

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running so if you're on a budget or you've already got the console and

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visuals aren't important to you I guess it's a great option the only problem

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that I have with it is that it doesn't feel like a good value I'm still

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investing $60 a game into something that

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I'll get to play in a way the developer never really intended it to be enjoyed

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and that's not even going to be backwards compatible with my or that my

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next console my new platform that I'm going to need anyway for upcoming games

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isn't even going to be able to run I would have to Reby the game if I really

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wanted to have the experience that the developer meant for me to have so that's

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that's the only issue I have here it just feels like money that I continue to

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invest in this platform is a bit of a waste next up we've got our low NPC the

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pros for this is that it's 450 bucks without an OS or 550 bucks with an OS

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that is smack in the price range of the next gen consoles not only that but the

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functionality goes beyond gaming you can stream you can edit you can upgrade it

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in the future if you do have additional funds available to you and it gives you

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a lot of flexibility so you can adjust your graphical settings to for desired

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performance so if you decide that detail settings are more important okay turn

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down your res if you decide that resolution's more important you have

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that ability to make decisions for yourself you can also get cheap

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peripherals I mean when you compare the price of a PC webcam to something like

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the PlayStation I it looks like a joke especially given that that PC webcam for

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the sake of doing something like streaming on Twitch TV has exactly the

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same functionality in terms of cons well there's no exclusive titles for it

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that's uh that's for sure it doesn't include a controller unless you count the $20 that we budgeted for a keyboard

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and mouse and this particular one doesn't have very high-end components so

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I'm not sure if it'll last 8 years of heavy use the way that people would

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expect from something like a gaming console it's also a PC but it doesn't

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really have the horses for surround monitor gaming or some of the exciting

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PC stuff that's coming like Oculus so I have to list that as a con for it as

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well now in conclusion image quality was comparable to the next gen consoles with

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a comparable price and this is the first time this has happened in a long time

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we're used to new consoles launching with amazing hardware for the price and

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the manufacturer is taking big losses on selling them but in 2013 you can

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basically just build your own console killer PC for about the same price I

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mean this is a great option if you don't care about the slightly better image

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quality that you might get on the consoles or the exclusive titles next up

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is our high-end PC and the pros of this are pretty easy it's very very fast with

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great image quality the best available there's fantastic anti-aliasing

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technology and better detail levels available with the horsepower to really

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take advantage of them there's great functionality outside of gaming you can

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do high-end video editing or other content creation and they're amazingly

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upgradeable and flexible throw triple monitors at it racing seats with

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surround monitors flexible game streaming is available to devices like

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steam box in the future sure other PCS or even Android devices like NVIDIA

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Shield the sky is pretty much the limit here in terms of flexibility on the

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negative side it's expensive as all balls I mean high-end Hardware just

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playing costs a lot of money and also just tends to have more issues than

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mainstream stuff that is the the drawback of living on the bleeding edge

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I mean a lot of the time it gets patched but you do have to live with it in the

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meantime I guess the summary here is that none of that really matters because

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you get to join the Glorious PC gaming Master race initia into which includes

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procedures that make your penis larger if you're a man your breasts larger if

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you're a woman and your beak stronger if you're a bird uh no but seriously it is

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the best gaming experience so it's a great option if that's what you're after

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it's just really expensive compared to everything else here next up we've got

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the Xbox One the pros here are pretty uh complicated I mean there's the

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additional functionality with the IR Blaster and cable box integration as

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well as Microsoft Services there's the wife and kids appeal with silly connect

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dancing games and I mean really to me connect being included really is a

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selling point if you expect something like this to end up under the tree and

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when you factor in the fact that Sony wants $60 for their inferior camera it

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starts to look like not a bad value the fact that potentially Microsoft can

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leverage their Cloud servers to deliver better gaming experiences in the future

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is a really cool thing that I'm excited about and finally voice control is a

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definite plus for this console in terms of the downsides the first one I've got

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here is voice control you'll notice this was listed twice because while it's

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really cool and it works we haven't really even gamed on the thing yet we've

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only benchmarked it and it's already annoyed us a couple times by accidentally picking up our voices and

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interrupting our gameplay I'm also not impressed with the controller the

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joysticks feel a little loose and the rumble motor is loud and pathetically

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weak and I mean there's also no support for things like live streaming on Twitch

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this is the kind of thing that even Sony managed to figure out and obviously if

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you're on a PC is extremely easy to do so there's a few things that Microsoft's

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got to fix but at least a couple of those can be done in software in summary

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unfortunately for gaming it's just playing technologically inferior to the

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PS4 it's already running at 720p in new games albeit with similar detail

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settings to the PlayStation 4 so from a distance the image quality might look

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quite similar but we could really see the PlayStation 4 pull ahead in

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Assassin's Creed 4 where it's running at 1080p the flexibility of the Xbox one as

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an entertainment device could be a great value in the long run however so it's

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going to be up to you whether or not this one's a great option and I think

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it'll depend on whether you're going to use those features or not which leads us

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to the PlayStation 4 the pros well first up more games run at 1080P or at least

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higher resolutions with satisfyingly beautiful Graphics it's small and

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relatively sexy compared to Xbox One in our estimation with just plain better

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gaming Hardware inside and no gigantic power brick outside it's got higher

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power consumption while gaming and idling but in standby it's actually much

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better so we've got to give the nod to Sony here because let's face it a lot of

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the time game consoles are sitting in standby now I'm not a huge dual shock

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fan but it's defitely better than the Xbox One controller for me so I'm going

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to points toy here in terms of cons well

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it just doesn't really do much else yet so there's no IR Blaster no included

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connect and I mean there's Sony just being Sony like the hdcp protection on

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this console almost prevented us from making this video for you in a timely

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fashion and they do weird stuff like build in Twitch TV streaming then limit

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the quality and prevent you from archiving it so people can only watch

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you live I mean it's it's better in terms of

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Hardware but sometimes again Sony does weird stuff like in Battlefield 4 their

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betterness was less noticeable because upsampling from 900p adds visual

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anomalies that make it look kind of soft and weird so we we couldn't decide

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really whether it was better to have 720p with jaggies or 900 900p with

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visual softness and weirdness so I mean the summary I guess here is that the PS4

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looks like a great device it's still not for me personally cuz I really can't

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live without a keyboard and mouse but it's great bang for the buck game

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hardware and from what we've seen here Sony's done a good job of delivering the

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hardware that Gamers and developers want and hitting a very appealing price point

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with it so overall conclusions now I

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think many of you might have expected me to go rah R raw PC is the greatest in

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this entire video but that's really not what we're trying to achieve we want you

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to make up your own mind we're more than happy to give you our thoughts and if

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you made it this far that's awesome but before you spend your money take a step

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further and check the links in the video description we've uploaded sample

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footage from each console to YouTube and provided links so you can download the

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sample footage and watch it for yourself locally at your leisure I encourage you

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to spend some time doing that if you like to buy any of the stuff and we've

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helped you make your decision please also follow the pricing and availability

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know based on well I don't know this evaluation or anything else that you've

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read or watched what platform do you feel has really won the Roundup here

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