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we don't usually focus on $100 video cards it just doesn't seem to be what

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you guys want I mean seriously in the last year of graphics card launches our

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most successful video covering them is lonus being all like holy to a $5,000

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cuadro m6 th000 and our second most

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popular is the launch review of the 1080 a card most viewers can't afford not

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knocking you guys it's just really expensive and not a great value compared

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to its little brother the bottom line is that it seems like the internet would

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rather watch us react to a Lamborghini than give a square level-headed review

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of a Civic but that won't stop us and we're back at it again with a review of

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the rx460 a video card designed for mainstream and Esports games at 1080P

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and aimed squarely at the1 100ish dollar

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price point the sort of I guess I'll need to address the absolute mess that

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is graphics card pricing these days

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cooler Masters master case maker 5 features their free form modular system

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allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours at the link in the

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video description let's begin with the look at

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graphics card pricing that I promised the current AMD RX product stack

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officially goes from 99 for a 2 gig

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rx460 all the way up in pretty well spaced increments to 23 $39 for the 8

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gig rx480 but this is all according to the suggested price list that they give

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to us when we're sent a card for review which is the only pricing reference we

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have when making a video for a card before its release so in our launch

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reviews when you see a price to Performance comparison these are the

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numbers we're using they're official they're supposed to represent the

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Baseline price for this GPU and they should be correct fortunately we're a

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bit late on this car and it's already available in stores which gives us the

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opportunity to ask why the when looking at newegg.com is there only one single

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card in AMD's entire RX product stack

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that is at MSRP a reference RX 48 8 gig

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and I'm not just going after AMD about this NVIDIA GTX 1080 no cards on NewEgg

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at 599 GTX 1070 no cards at 379 from any

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brand I'm just mad about it because some people make purchasing decisions based

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off priced performance graphs it makes sense and we make some of those graphs

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based on the numbers that they give us which has resulted in them being

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unintentionally misleading this isn't good for me then it's especially not

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good for you but enough about that let's dig into Polaris 11 in its desktop

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flavor the rx460 it's a fourth generation gcn architecture chip on

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global foundry's 14 nanometer finfet process it's got 14 compute units and

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896 stream processors with reference

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boards running at a boost speed of 1200 MHz and a memory speed of 7 gbits per

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second with a Peak Performance of 2.2 Tera flops less than half of the rx470

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but still a lot better than the 100ish dollar cards we've seen in the past it

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comes with two or 4 gigs of gddr5 RAM

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depending on the variant you purchase with a rated total memory bandwidth of

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112 GB per second on a 128bit interface

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the suggested ports are one DisplayPort 1.4 connector one HDMI 2.0b connector

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and one DVID connector a fairly future proof Loadout and typical board power is

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below 75 Watts meaning that like the Beloved 750ti a great upgrade card at

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the time for folks with pre-built systems it doesn't need an extra

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connection from the power supply and can daintly sip on it 75 watts of power

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through the motherboard which brings us to the specific variant we have today

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the XFX Double dissipation 4 GB Radeon

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rx460 with a metal card extender and

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added PCIe power six pin connector two large fans and a whopping 20 MHz Factory

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overclock it also features easily removable fan Clips but not easily

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removable fans confused so was I XFX has

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a technology called hard swap detachable fans which features these same clips and

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fans that connect by touching contact points instead of being directly wired

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in a really great feature which looks the same on the outside as this one but

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when you remove these these fans they just kind of dangle there cool I guess

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but not as cool but when's the last time you thought to yourself gee I sure wish

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I could hot swap my computer fans anyways let's talk about benchmarks in

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directx11 with Crisis 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider it Trails the r9270 and the

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GTX 950 but does unsurprisingly wreck

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the 750 Ti moving up to dx12 however we

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see a bit of a different story it edges much closer in Tomb range and actually

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beats all but the gtx950 in ashes of the

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singularity and you can check out my dx12 and Vulcan video here to learn more

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about why moving on we have some new additions to our test lineup that I

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specifically included because of the positioning of this card Dota 2

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Counter-Strike GO and OverWatch all of these are mainstream games and

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relatively easy to run but because there is a highly competitive component

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serious players are still willing to buy a dedicated video cards they don't see

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any dips or stutters in the game and the most interesting story here isn't

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necessarily where this card slots against others in the list it's more the

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fact that it's theoretically anyways a

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very lowcost option which manages to play all three of these games at near

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100 FPS or above with medium to high settings that makes the rx460 a great

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choice if those are the kind of games that you really want to play and based

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on the kinds of views that our value AMD builds from 2 years ago have that's

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probably a lot of people but the conclusion of this video isn't that

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simple because this card costs $150 only 30 less than the MSRP for the

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ARX 470 a much faster card making it

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much harder to recommend not that those cards are actually available at MSRP

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anyways Mass drop in a nutshell they take eager buyers lots of them and eager

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companies with products to sell and they connect them and the idea is that the

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more people agree to buy the product the lower the price goes that is to say to a

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limit unfortunately you will not be able to get the red scarf 2 custom keyboard

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that we're covering today for $0 but you

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will definitely be able to get a better deal on it so this is the virgin

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virgin this is the version C of the Red

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Scarf 2 it is designed without the 10 function keys of its predecessor and

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features a unique 68 key layout it

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consists of a PCB and a CNC aluminum

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case plate and feet and allows for customization of the lighting layout

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including ISO and ansy it's fully programmable allowing the user to

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utilize the unique layout as they see fit and there are a variety of choices

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of anodized aluminum colors it comes in black gray red or silver you can also

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add a set of standard layout blank or laser etched front printed PBT key caps

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in cherry profile and the lighting can be controlled via a remote so to check

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out this one and other drops check out that link in the video description Mast

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drop has all kinds of great stuff everything from keyboards to camping

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gear so you can be a keyboard Warrior or a weekend

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warrior anyways guys thanks for watching if you lik the video like it if you

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disliked it dislike it get subscribed all that fun stuff if you want to buy a

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card that probably isn't this one check out the Amazon link the video

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description down below you can also see the link to buy our shirts down there

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those are those are cool if you want to discuss the value propositions of

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different cards and maybe the pricing in your area we can't talk about the

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pricing in every different country here but I know there's crazy stuff going on

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all around the world not just in the states and we're even Canadians and

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there's crazy stuff going up here too so yeah let us know on the Forum and I'll

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see you guys next time watch this video which is our review of the rx470 a

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probably more sensible card to buy