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well we promised it it was sponsored by lg and see sonic and it was here at ltx

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we're actually tearing down right now but this is part two where we're gonna

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be showing you guys 2015 the big upgrade

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2016 gpu die shrink finally 2017 we skipped a generation

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2018 intel gets scared in 2019 of course

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amd strikes back we'll be going through the gaming experience of all these rigs

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and how they changed over the years right after the intro

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the first part of the series was basically a story of amd struggling to

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keep up with a surging intel and then near the end intel kinda slowing down

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and i think you're gonna find that that slowdown is gonna be a big pattern for

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part two let's start then with 2015. the

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year the apple watch was finally released after being announced eight

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months prior the paris climate accord was finally negotiated and windows 10

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was finally released with much acclaim from those who hated windows 8. there's

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no start menu there's no place to it's a lot of finales but there's more to come

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because we're finally getting some momentum back in the pc space thanks to

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two major cpu releases the first of course is our skylake processor so we've

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got a 6700k processor cooled by an october nhd15

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and what a freaking overclocking and performance combination those two

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skylake brought major improvements like their dmi 3.0 interface for much faster

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connectivity to things like nvme storage as well as high speed networking on the

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100 series chipsets and as the talk

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counterpart to the seldom used broadwell architecture skylake saw some relatively

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significant performance optimizations as well and it also included for the first

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time ddr4 support yes my friends ddr4

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made it to the consumer space it also came with the release of the geforce gtx

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980 ti which gave us a very significant

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performance boost that would hold up for quite some time at the time of release

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it was the most powerful and the largest non-titan gpu in the consumer space and

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it's much larger frame buffer and comparable gaming performance so the

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radeon fury x made it the better choice in the long run at just shy of 2100

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i think we'll see a significant improvement in raw performance if not

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performance per dollar over our 2014 year to say nothing of the ui

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improvements of windows 10. to sweeten the deal this year also was the year

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that gta 5 finally hit pcs fallout 4

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launched and of course we can't forget metal gear solid 5 the phantom pain

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overall it was a pretty amazing year for pc gamers it's funny to me that our list

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of amazing games for that year was so full of amazing games witcher 3 didn't

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even make it in it was a huge year this thing on hardware from that era

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it looks freaking awesome you've got like the cloth effects

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in geralt's clothing there it actually really looks like wet leather yeah the

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reflections off the sword are actually somewhat believable if i had a camera

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behind it like that yep it actually plays off the light like that and the

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textures have aged really well as well the road looks fantastic the character

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modeling is great now the facial animations i don't think

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have stood the test of time quite as well they weren't that great at the time

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either to be honest can lightning strike again in 2016

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yes and also no on the other hand there were a lot of high profile releases this

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year like battlefield 1 titanfall 2

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dishonored 2 and overwatch but on the hardware side

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not really here we see the elusive skylake in its natural

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habitat wallowing in its own self grandeur not really caring about

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anything going on around it in other words we didn't get a new cpu

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this year we do pick up a larger nvme ssd this time around though allowing us

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to do away with the hard drive for the last time in this series the gtx 1080

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turns out not to be a major performance improvement over last year but pascal's

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improved efficiency lets us get the same or better performance as last year at a

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lower price and thermal output bringing us back down to just over eighteen

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hundred dollars as i'm sure you've guessed by now windows 10 is here to

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stay but there's a certain shadow rising over this build

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these guys with the shields are kicking my ass doom was a beautiful game doom is

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a totally awesome game like look at the reflections the grit and dirt in the

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environment careful attention to the animations of all of this like you can

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tell it's the kind of game that they just gave so many cares about this game

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has really aged well yeah and it runs

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like a champ too on pretty much any hardware oh come on see i can't even

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blame the computer for that that was the problem you were getting frames too quickly

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thanks i appreciate the confidence

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it's really a shame shadow of the tomb raider didn't come out in 2017 because

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that would have made for a great segue but there were quite a few good ones

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like sonic maniacs destiny 2 cuphead

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shadow of war and we can't of course forget pubg and fortnite this was also

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the year of amd's big comeback with ryzen though early teething issues did

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make for os scheduler and memory compatibility problems that made ryzen a

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little bit more difficult for us to recommend than the performance numbers

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might have at first suggested intel would remain on top for gaming

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performance with kaby lake as the final step in their process architecture

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optimization paradigm that killed tick-tock which they then also

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immediately killed by releasing coffee lake which was characterized mostly by

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the extra course that they stopped into it though core clocks and memory speeds

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did also increase in practice this meant that the core i7 8700k was the winner so

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our build for this year runs it coupled with 16 gigs of ddr4 memory the pricing

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of which ballooned this year we also went with a tangibly faster gpu

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this time around we got the gtx 1080 ti which at the time of release performed

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on par with the titan x pascal pricing

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didn't increase by more than we were accustomed to though bringing us just

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shy of 2100 now it's funny that this is the one pc

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that has had update issues that have made it so that we actually can't run a

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game for this segment of the video because with pubg and fortnite coming

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out this year this was the year of the

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always online experience and i'm not just talking like you know checking in

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with the server you know to make sure that you're authenticated or whatever

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else i'm talking you absolutely need to be online to experience this game in any

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way shape or form so uh

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yeah this was the experience

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2018 was an interesting year for pc gaming first because of the games like

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shadow of tomb raider battlefield v octopath traveler and far cry 5 and

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second because ryzen's second gen showed that not only did amd mean business

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intel had to rush their timetables to counter them after unsuccessfully

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arguing that gamers didn't need eight cores as a result yet more cores were

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packed into the same package substantially increasing thermal output

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or reducing core clocks in practice still the core i7 9700k remains the

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better choice for raw gaming performance so we'll grab one of those and pair it

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with essentially the same platform as the previous year even the z390 chipset

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isn't a big advancement over z370 and our gpu is the same gtx 1080 ti too at

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least we get eight cores for our twenty one hundred dollars this is such a leap

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forward and visuals compared to any of the highlight games we talked about for

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the previous year like look at these soft shadows soft shadows became a thing

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starting in around 2015 but it really started to make its way into the mainstream around

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this time well the thing was that with reasonably high end or even mid-range

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hardware which means that it's easier for game developers to target it you

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could actually run it without giving up so much performance that the game was

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basically unplayable yeah i remember trying to the different soft shadow

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techniques that gta 5 shipped with and never really settling on anything in

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particular because they all had their problems facial animations are amazing

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like look at that so much detail you can really tell the way that the light is

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hitting the skin subsurface scattering yeah beautiful it's a thing that took a

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long time to actually get right which brings us to 2019 the current year where

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we've again got a lot of high profile games hitting our ssds apex legends

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sakiro metro exodus with more to look

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forward to in the back half but if 2018 gave us eight core cpus

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how many will 2019 give us it turns out the answer is up to 16

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thanks well pretty much exclusively to amd and unlike previous years where

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amd's ryzen cpus were pretty darn okay

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for gaming amd took a big step forward

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with ryze and third gen coming up on par with intel and even surpassing them in

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many cases at the top end of their third gen lineup

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so welcome back to the high-end amd your ryzen 7 3700x is powering our final

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build here because your 16 core isn't out and also we were targeting the

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around 2 000 price point which

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well say a lot of our budget was taken up by our graphics card because over the

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last couple of years we have really seen a spike in how much of your budget the

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gpu makers nvidia in particular expect

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you to spend on your graphics card so we did go with a geforce rtx 2080 ti for

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that ray tracing goodness in the handful of games that do support it but it will

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probably be several years before we'll really be getting the most out of that

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feature it's not like we have a choice because you can't run out and buy a 1000

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series graphics card so there you go pretty much suck it up our

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price for this build is 2600

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were you just waiting to load the whole time yeah i've been trying you can tell

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the animations are tied to the ping do you think it's fair to say that we've

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kind of come to a point where game developers are less concerned about

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making it look better for the sake of looking better and are really focused on

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gameplay right now and sucking in the player yeah and you know what that's a great

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thing because while great graphics are great

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obviously at a certain point they're good enough and at that point you can sink so much

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more time and effort into actually developing the other aspects of your

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game but this is the thing like with engines like unreal engine people can

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just plop in assets and focus on building their game some of the games

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that were supposed to have rtx support when the cars launched did finally get

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it but it's only applicable to a certain type of game like i loved running rtx on

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in shadow of the tomb raider but it's not the kind of thing that i would actually ever turn on in a game like

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battlefield 5 where you're trying to kill other players and you really really

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need those fps so really the main story of the last five years from a hardware

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standpoint has been a return to competition i mean amd and intel have

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gone back and forth since the 386 days

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but part one of our series here didn't involve a lot of back and forth whereas

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part two really has seen amd come back to competition and even to prominence so

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let's take a look at how things changed starting with this half of the decade

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and when we expand these charts to include the rest of the builds going

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back to 2009 we can clearly see the leveling off of cpu performance gains

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from 2011 through 2015. this period of stagnation particularly from 2012 to

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2014 when gpus were also stuck at 28

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nanometer is a stark reminder of the importance of competition in tech and

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the pattern of sudden loss and a surprise return to innovation is rare in

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any market let alone one that impacts our everyday lives like this one so even

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if you're not a gamer i think the last couple of years are an indication that

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the future keeps getting brighter so here's to another 10 years of pc gaming

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minus tech tips and what the heck another 10 builds anthony 10 years from

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now you know what 20 29 10 more builds

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why not why not builds are fun i mean especially if lg

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and seasonic will show up to sponsor it again so all of our builds were powered

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by sea sonic power supplies if you want a trustworthy power supply we can't say

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enough good things about them and of course all of our rigs all of our gaming

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experiences are running on lg's ultra-wide gaming monitors which provide

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an incredibly immersive gaming experience but of course i think i've

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said a lot about those over the years so guys just check out the link in the

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