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6 years ago I invaded my employees homes and roasted the worst gaming PCs that I

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could find well guess what we're doing it again but this time NVIDIA sponsored

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the video so we could not only upgrade the Winner's rig but their entire

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flipping setup but there can only be one

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so I'm going in I'm taking notes I'll be

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deciding what I think they need and the best part they'll never even know that I

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would is

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here first up we've got Mr Robert Oaks

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editor extraordinaire and big liar because this laptop looks perfectly

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good for both gaming and video editing I use it mostly for gaming haven't gotten

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too much editing in on it yet outside a little Photoshop that was not the point

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ah here's your problem right here uh pre-built yep I thought you work at

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Linus Tech tips I bought it back in 2017

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it's almost 7 years old now so this is

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back in high school for me oh my God I

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feel so old the real problem honestly speaking though is not the tower a desk

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seems solid enough but

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really regardless of whether the upgrade goes to someone more competitive or if

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it goes to a sightseer like Robert the first thing they're going to want to do

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is turn on gsync your display does support it and actually you have an

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NVIDIA GPU you can turn it on to eliminate tearing

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it's just that you don't really have enough FPS this is a little confusing

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though you have a much better monitor that by the way I recognize from our

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warehouse that's not set up did you stage this to try to win a move was imp

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pending so I just never set it up and now it's here so you would be powering

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this off of a GTX 1050 the mismatch

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between this Monitor and your system actually highlights one of the reasons

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NVIDIA insisted that these upgrades should be the full setup because even if

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you have have a technological advantage like near instant pixel response times

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or high refresh rate like on this gigantic OLED monitor if you can't also

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take advantage of other Technologies like a fast GPU with NVIDIA reflex to

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reduce system latency well the next time you go down and rank you might not know

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was it my GPU or was it me it's probably

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me oh well next up we've got Oni Tam

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senior content writer for Labs of delightful couch and wow look at this

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couch gaming setup and are you kidding me it's a bit far I

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don't even know where to begin with this okay first thing y awesome setup I love

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the case that you have on this you've got the dock and everything external SSD

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and that straight up USB to SATA just

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old school style adapter I am loving this oh wow

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uh it was the cheapest one at Costco yes it was only just moved here for this job

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so that would explain a fair bit of emptiness one of NVIDIA's big

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emphasis points for this setup upgrade is RTX video HDR and I got to say NVIDIA

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if we choose this one it's going to cost you cuz uh while it's a really cool

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technology that takes your SDR content and converts it to HDR on the

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Fly you're going to need an HDR display is this HDR I'm

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kidding we're next location is a Vibe I

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guess this explains who it is I see this is your setup this is not my setup this

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is my boyfriend's setup I see you can tell by the uh the yamaka the yamaka

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there's probably another yamaka and a bedtime routine and a bedtime routine

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and another bedtime routine this is the same bedtime routine it is the same

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bedtime routine his diary this also has a bedtime routine in it that is one of

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my setups I actually have two uh you'll notice that there is nothing there this

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is where I sit uh when my boyfriend's lonely uh you'll note that we have uh

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three different office chairs in here but I use this because the cats like the

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office chairs I can see that this is my

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setup um your battery is uh running low is it

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well that's cuz I forgot to plug it in I used to have a worse setup really cuz I

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used to have a much smaller closet but it was the only place in the

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house where I could uh where I could pad

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everything for podcasting I like that you've got the

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whole heat and noise isolation from the room that you're working in Vibe yeah

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yeah that's professional professional braid setup um

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oh and if I want some privacy I use that little curtain rod and I put this

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blanket on it you have a wonderful selection of headphones most of which

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are in one piece that one's the highest spec one it's very dead um here we have

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a boyfriend's morning routine

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yeah I that's good make bed um

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apparently that one's optional this is something it is yeah um technically it's

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foam yeah it's not the right kind of

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foam for acoustic treatment though I know okay this mouse is also

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experiencing a distended cable um I

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think they call that a hernia in humans and this may be the dim monitor that I

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have seen in 15 years is that on purpose like is it turned way down it might be I

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am very light sensitive nope it's all the way up okay you do yoga uh I don't

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uh this is uh this is a board I got from

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the hardware store but this is a yoga mat that is a yoga mat um but underneath

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it is a board yeah it wasn't what I was asking the yoga mat was acquired from

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Value Village the board blue Gage fancy

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the board was not why I asked if you do yoga people don't do yoga on a board I I

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wouldn't know I don't do yoga I think I need to go

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now wow that was an experience current

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effort level is a zero how bad is their

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stuff I don't even know I didn't want to touch it it was very difficult for us to

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determine a winner you guys uh Robert you showed us some things that you're

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grandmother left you I mean these speakers may have belonged to your great

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grandmother the point is very tasteful desk um he uses it to hold his computer

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and store his grandmother's ashes on you had the most minimalist of

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minimalistic setups including the most minimal screen size I think I've ever

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seen your upgrade would probably involve

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binoculars got the webcam so that uh people might be able to see you from way

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back here as for you Jessica we dubbed

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your setup the H um you got zero points

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for your current level of effort you even made calling Papa John's Easy by

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having their Flyers all over the place those aren't mine in some ways even more

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minimalistic than on setup there is a

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desk yep I don't just game like on a

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patch of floor no you've got a chair uh which is good while the effort

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level was the lowest that we saw I think

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your need could best be described as

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dire and you maxed out your X Factor

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score this is where Jess podcasts I think we can all agree that Jessica's

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need is the most um so as part of yours

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and On's consolation prizes uh you don't

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live at Jessica's house and you will each be taking home a

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407d super wa wow holy smok thank you

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for participating and letting us judge you uh you think I want I want to live

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at my house is that the prize do I get to live some somewhere else now

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no but the prize is that we are going to give you an overhaul however there's a

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catch it's dealer's choice you can give us a rough idea of what you're trying to

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do which you already have and after that it's completely up to my team of experts

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we've got the walking Hazard the silent

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Enigma and Justin who's just in the team

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okay you guys ready we have 1 hour before lonus gets here okay that's

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it go can we put the new panels over top of

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those yes or

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no yes yeah do it put them over

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top all right pull bring it over fits it

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perfectly like a glove yeah so this is

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their 27 in 360 HZ monitor it's cutie

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OLED as well these things are freaking awesome Dell Alienware has been killing

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it in the monitor game and wait which way is oh this way there you go nice all

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right you ready to boot up woo oh tasteful yeah here we go here

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we go look we upgraded your shoes oo

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airflow as you know you need two setups

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uh one of which you had already in the podcasting closet and one of which you

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had a desk for and that's about as far as you got well Jessica here it is your

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desk but now with a gaming

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rig an actual computer tower an actual

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computer tower and and I personally

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removed what appeared to be milk from the desk oh no there's no milk on the

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desk anymore Oh I thought you meant in no no no oh my gosh okay so why don't we

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for starter okay so where do where's my second one of these so can stack them on

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top of each other you know what I will be right back

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I have a solution to that it's off the floor now it'll suck

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in so much less cat hair that actually is a consideration

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that we should have considered what I would like you to do is just move the

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mouse okay do you notice anything well there

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is a uh there is uh a pad underneath it

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rather than uh unforgiving

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hardwood yes do you notice anything

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else uh it is

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Wireless yes do you notice anything else

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you know about maybe just the experience

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uh it is bright enough to see

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everything without squinting okay or

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being in a completely dark room it has extremely low

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sensitivity okay leave the mouse alone for a second do you notice anything

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about the experience it's

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better I have

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autism Jessica and this is something we've observed many times and we've

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always thought is a little weird I've never actually asked you about it though

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Jessica usually games on her work computer uh using remote access so after

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wow Luke and I would frequently come across oh I don't know

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Dave the diver or other various games it's not that we were trying to Snoop on

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you it's just that we go up there to play Super checks that makes sense and

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your computer would often be on playing games and we're sitting here going it's

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Dave the [ __ ] diver she doesn't have a computer at home that can run this so

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my point is anyway Jessica please grab that window for the

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love of God grab that window and move it around and tell me you can't tell that

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you're at 360 Hertz I've never looked at

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a screen with 360 okay let's open a game let's just open a game okay we'll open a

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game then let's go with Alan WG to why don't we talk about the setup okay she's

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got an aw 2725 DF cue OLED gaming

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monitor this thing freaking rocks I can't not click on heads with it I

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absolutely love it it's 1440p 360 HZ

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Lightning Fast pixel response times it's literally one of if not the best gaming

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monitors on the market and to go with it

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we've got a whole new machine 13600 k a

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susb 760 plus motherboard 850 W titanium power supply and to drive all those

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pixels add up to 360 frames per second NVIDIA sent over an RTX 480 super so

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this thing is going to absolutely Crush

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any game you throw at it oh that's a slow run I don't think that's the

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monitor's fault that is a slow run I can

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run faster than that and I have

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asthma it's HDR

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yeah looks very nice I'm very happy I don't know if that's

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obvious thank you for telling us explicitly we actually do appreciate

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that I am experiencing very positive emotions this I that is what you get

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walking j walking in New York just get

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punched by Shadow Demons the best part guys is that we don't have to be limited

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to just games that support HDR to get

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these dazzling lights and this level of

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cool uhhuh see that that's good you're doing good now you'll be hosting Tech

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tips in no time yeah let's play an older game and show you guys how RTX HDR

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conversion Works did you ever play the Batman games I did originally on uh on

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Console I did okay well let's fix that

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woo so the big thing we're seeing here is that this is a game that was never

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remastered in HDR and yet man look at

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the lights of Gotham City yeah that lightning flash so that timing

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couldn't have been any better look thugs go get them those those could be just

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nice young men they're they're destroying a car this guy's

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not did he just take off in the air I

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don't know how are you liking the setup it's really cool we got you a new

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keyboard yes new mouse basically

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everything just this desk seemed extremely sturdy yes and we felt that it

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was fine all right there's more check this out table management

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wires I know well no not just the the

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wires are new they are yes the management of them is also new but the

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wires themselves are new check this out

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where do they go let's play Follow the cables by the way you might have noticed

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we're using our new magnetic Cable Management arches of store.com here it

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is your laptop stack

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oh oh wow you seem surprisingly unconcerned by

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that okay well anyway you're not going to be using them anymore that was my

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point and you won't be using these anymore either you'll be using none of

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that goodbye taada have a seat a closet the closet is

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not what's new what's new is the proper acoustic

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panels which go ahead lean in and talk

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ah uh also we had pretty limited space to work with in here which got us

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thinking what if there was a creative

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monitor that could give you way more screen real estate but was an

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unconventional shape yeah so we chose the LG dual up it's a taller than normal

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monitor that gives you not only way more space but as you noticed before way more

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brightness as well and what's really cool about this is that we're using a

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fiber optic DisplayPort cable to run the mon Monitor and then we're using an

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active USB cable to get your peripherals over here so this is the same computer

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yes which means that if you wanted you could podcast on your I don't have to

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drag the whole Tower over here yeah you just drag yourself over here

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and you're good to go we've got your audio interface uh we've got a usb3 hub

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so you can run other devices if you need to and you could even game in here if if

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I really wanted to feel like Batman you probably also couldn't help noticing

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that we managed to put a mouse pad in here Justin custom cut this to be

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exactly the size of your board how do

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the headphones feel well they don't make my head hurt

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okay which is good they're very light yes and they're very soft these are the

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dt770 pros from beay dynamic they are amazing uh they're one of my personal

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favorites and the it's all about the comfort and here if you pop them off for

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a second the noise I ation so they've

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got this nice I don't know what the hell to call this fabric

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chinchilla chinchilla fur yes Chiller

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ear cup and then they are a closed back headphone but they still sound really

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good even though closed back is not generally my preference I cannot get

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over what a difference in image quality this new monitor is and again shout out

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infinite cables that active DisplayPort cable I use those same ones at my house

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and they are flipping amazing and the

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best part is that you know how top fans tend to be kind of whiny right if you're

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ever recording a podcast or anything in

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here computer's in a completely separate room now well this was an absolute blast

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thank you Jessica for hosting us and I hope you enjoy your upgrade it is

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significant yes and thanks again to NVIDIA for

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sponsoring this video they are also doing another giveaway not to Jessica

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this time I'm very sorry um and green screen Linus is going to tell you guys

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how to enter want an RTX 480 super do

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you want it for free well all you have to do is click the link in the

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description or head on over to our Twitter page for a chance to win a 4080

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super Founders Edition courtesy of NVIDIA with Technologies like dlss 3 and

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frame generation just like our three winners today you can reach those High

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frame rates and demanding games like Alan Wake but remember there can be only

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one winner if you guys enjoyed this

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video we always love handing out upgrades and it's even better when I

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don't have to do any other work hey you guys did great thanks game