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- AMD hasn't been, shall we say competitive

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at the top end of GPU's for a long time now,

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but that's changing. At least we think it is

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we don't have reviews available yet. And these guys here

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have not yet been opened but

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still pretty exciting. Isn't it? Like when was the last time? It was like

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I don't know, fury, you could make the argument for fury.

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Like, come on. (laughing)

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It's been such a long ride, but here we are.

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And now we've got the Radeon RX 6000 Series. We've got the 6800 on top here

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in this comparatively tiny box although it is quite fetching,

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I must say. And the 6800 XT.

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The RX 6800 XT is what AMD is pitting against the RTX 380.

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This guy here. And it looks like

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it's gonna be a little bit bigger physically. Don't know yet,

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but at $649, it's actually going to be about 50 bucks cheaper

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while purportedly having roughly the same performance

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in traditional games. The RX 6800 meanwhile

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is sort of a competitor for the RTX 3070.

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I mean, it looks like it completely trounces it

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based on AMD's data, but at the same time, it's like, what is it?

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$80 more? Yeah, 579. This

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only costs what?

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$70 less than this.

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What is AMD smoking right now?

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That's ridiculous. So let's get into it and let's start off with the little one.

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Look at that. It's never even been opened, not even in our inventory.

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I could walk away with this right now and nobody would know except for you guys.

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All right. Let's see what we got here. Actually really nice packaging so far.

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Uncompromised 4k gaming, AMD fidelity of FX optimized,

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16 gigabytes of memory and PCI express 4.0 ready.

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So we pulled this off. Oh yeah. Look at that. It's got a little fanning here

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for the card and we've also got

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safety precaution and FCC compliance.

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I am so sorry.

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And of course we have the main event in here.

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Oh man. That looks and feels really nice.

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Like this is, this is solid. And yet it's got curves to it.

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So our display outputs we've got a USB type C,

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two display ports which support display compression 1.4

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and HDMI 2.1 which supposedly supports

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the full 48 gigabits per second AMD doesn't specifically say this,

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what is it? Fixed rate link.

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I don't know why they called it that it makes no sense whatsoever, but Hey, HDMI.

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Round back we've got that there power delivery. Those are really tiny

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surface-mount devices there. I really liked the look of this card.

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The two tone. It's just so nice. And they got this little guide here

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to say this is the screw you should take out first I guess. I can't take it apart for you

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unfortunately. But yeah, and these fans look really nice.

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They feel nice too. And yeah, the whole thing is basically made of metal.

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This is sweet. So this is the RTX 3080.

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Yeah, and bear in mind this is the 6800 non XT

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and it's a little shorter,

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roughly the same thickness. This is a little thicker actually.

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okay, the Radeon is a bit bigger.

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Which one weighs more. I feel like this weighs more.

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Let's get our scale and see.

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So this boy weighs about 1.29 kg

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or two pounds 13.5 ounces

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as for our Radeon 1.32 kg,

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two point 14. Sorry. That's not how pounds work.

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Two pounds, 14.5 ounces. I hate imperial. Thank you.

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2.91 pounds. So yeah, this is a little bit heavier

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and I guess that would be expected because they're not really relying on that

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revolutionary pass through flow-through design

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that NVIDIA has going here. Like you can

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let's put it over this. Yeah. You can see through the fan.

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So yeah, they don't have that going for them. This is just a straight, traditional

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blow through the, what's that? Oh, I bit my tongue.

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So this is just the traditional type of exhausting to the case kind of cooler.

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So this is what it's competing against. The RTX 3070

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and that is quite a size difference.

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And if I were to plop this down onto this

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that's not even a kilogram, which is two pounds, 2.8 ounces.

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But then again, I mean, this is the thing it's not directly competing

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which is kind of unfortunate because

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like how do we compare, like what this is compared to. Nothing.

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It doesn't compare to anything.

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This is gonna be a real nightmare to benchmark. It's closer to a 3080 than a 3070.

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Let's just put it that way. That's a very good segue

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which is a good $70 more. I think

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- [Jono] You had a good, really good segue to the sponsor.

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- Oh, I'm being told that I should have segue to the sponsor

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instead of this other card. Well, that's me for you, I guess.

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Thanks to SteelSeries

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for sponsoring this the SteelSeries Aerox 3 wireless

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is the newest mouse by SteelSeries. That weighs only 66 grams

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making it one of the latest mice available and uses quantum wireless 2.0

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for nearly zero latency for speed and stability it can use 2.4 gigahertz RF

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and Bluetooth connections along with a USB type C

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for fast charging end up with a 40 hours of battery life in 15 minutes

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Let's unbox this guy. There is also

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an unbroken seal here,

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but this box is much more substantial.

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I slashed the box.

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Just in case anyone's wondering there's basically nothing on the back of the box.

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Now this is the one that everyone wants to see. This is the one that everyone's kind of

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salivating over, aside with a 6900 XT, which is much nicer.

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Here we go. Welcome to the red team.

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You've joined a select community with an uncompromising passion

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for premium gaming that share desires at the heart of everything we do.

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It's why we've engineered the fastest AMD Radeon RX graphics cards ever

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to deliver a powerful gaming experience,

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have fun #AMDRedTeam.

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And then we had this useless little, thing again.

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It doesn't look much different,

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- [Jono] He thick! - But it feels different. Yeah.

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That is a thick stack of fins right there.

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Is it roughly the same size though? Yeah, it kinda is.

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There's more fan area. They're not more dense but they are definitely taller,

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but I know what this is. This is the 6800 XT and on the top,

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we've got exactly the same selection of ports. We have USB type C,

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two DisplayPort with displacement and compression 1.4

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and the HDMI 2.1 which presumably

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is the full 48 gigabits per second. I was hoping that I would have

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more to say about this, but it's just thicker.

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That's kind of weird. The Radeon text is a different color.

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So this is just red. This looks like it might be glossy

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or maybe it might even be hiding some RGB

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who knows. All right, let's see how much this guy weighs.

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1.366 kg,

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three pounds, 0.2 ounces.

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You're probably gonna want a GPU brace to support this guy.

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Good thing there's actually partner cards that are going to be coming out with a built-in liquid cooling.

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Note that AMD says that it's necessary actually, because both of these cards.

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potentially less power hungry and less thermally bad

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than either of these. Yeah, the 6800 XT is 250 Watts

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with a 650 Watt recommended power supply

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is 300 Watts with recommended 750 watt power supply.

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And that is exactly the same as the 6900 XT, despite that card's extra power

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which is interesting because the only real difference between this card and the 6900 XT

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is that this card has eight pure compute units.

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So this is 60 compute units.

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This is 72 and the big boy is 80.

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Each one of those has a Ray accelerator that AMD is adding

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for the first time in this generation. And presumably

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it'll just work with any game that supports RTX

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which is just really fancy words for Vulkan Raytracing

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or DirectX Raytracing.

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towards people who might have a GTX 1080 ti

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and they wanted to upgrade to something that's gonna handle a little bit higher frame rates

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high refresh rate monitors, that they want to really drive at higher visual fidelity

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and higher frame rates. The 6800 XT

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is aimed more towards people who have 4k displays or 1440P high refresh rate displays

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who not only want to have that high refresh rate high gaming, new frame rate experience

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but also have the power to do a lot of sightseeing. So things like Rise of the Tomb Raider

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that kind of thing. You know if you're looking at

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what is the best bang for the buck it really depends on what you're doing.

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you know work from home, conferencing, that kind of thing.

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Then the 3070 is better all-rounder than this, even though this is more powerful.

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meaning that you have less of a

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and more of a do I want to go lower for less, but

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the same or better performance? I think this is the better value proposition,

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personally but you know, your mileage may vary.

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and they don't care about RTX voice noise canceling

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or anything like that. They just want the frames

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or maybe they're into content creation. All of them cards on lineup

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from the 6800, all the way up to the 6900 XT,

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which is something that AMD is saying runs

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which is about three plus times faster than the main memory in this card.

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It's ridiculous. But at the same time

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it's not going to be like that major I'm gonna write the whole

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while you have your assets all in the main memory.

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They're saving money on the memory and then just giving you the same amount of memory

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It's an interesting take on things and I'm very excited to figure out

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whether or not that's actually going to help them.

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Obviously I haven't tested these yet. And you guys won't know until

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nothing but problems with their RTX 3000 series

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which I don't think is true or it could be because scalpers,

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for new computers and faster parts because we just haven't had anything

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People have seen that the appetite is there and they're very much willing to go out

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and spend the money to get it now so that they can charge you way more

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later. Is it gonna be the same for the Radeon RX 6000 series?

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and we're really excited to get products out to as many people we can.

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Which I mean of course, they're gonna say that.

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You believe them? I don't know. I guess it all depends on

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actually, you know what? It doesn't depend on anything. Nobody's going to wait for our purview.

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You should, but most people won't.

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So I don't know. I guess we'll just have to see.

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- [Brandon] Subscribe! (laughing)

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- Yeah, we'll just have to see, just like you'll have to see another episode of ShortCircuit

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sometime later. Subscribe. Thanks for watching.

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Take care and good luck.