WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.280 When Intel's first-generation ARC GPUs hit the market 00:00:03.280 --> 00:00:06.640 over two years ago, Luke and I switched to them 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:14.360 for 30 days with results that were, whoa, my FPS is at nine right now. 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:17.720 What the heck? This is not good. That's why this time, 00:00:17.720 --> 00:00:22.880 instead of putting myself through pain and misery, I've lured into unsuspecting chump, 00:00:22.880 --> 00:00:29.120 I mean, test subjects, to swap out their 90-class GeForce cards 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:34.040 for Intel's new BattleMage B580 GPU. 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:38.160 At the end of that 30 days, they're gonna report on everything that's good 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:41.640 and everything that's not so good, and they will have to decide 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:46.720 if they are sticking with their Intel cards or going back to their old ones. 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:51.560 They'll also have to decide if they're gonna segue. To our sponsor? 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:56.000 Did you get okay? Yeah, it's heavy. Let's go. 00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:59.600 Let's go. Let's go. 00:01:04.440 --> 00:01:07.540 First things first, you guys need to pick or ARM wrestle 00:01:07.540 --> 00:01:11.440 or maybe don't ARM wrestle. Figure out which of you is getting 00:01:11.440 --> 00:01:16.400 the Max Sun iCraft card and which of you is getting the Astrox Steel Legend card. 00:01:17.240 --> 00:01:21.280 Why do you guys want the Steel Legend card? I don't know, he wanted it, so I wanted it. It's the different one. 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:24.720 It's OC edition. It's probably clocked a little faster. 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:29.520 I'm actually okay, because I have two systems. I can go matching Max Suns. 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:34.240 Okay, we're gonna have to talk about that in a little bit. Why do you care so much about this one? 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:38.960 It's the OC edition, so it's probably clocked a little faster. And I just like the way it looks. 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:43.000 Look how cool it looks. That does look pretty cool. Yeah, and these are probably RGB, 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.000 related to light up or something. Flow through design? Yeah. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:51.520 That is a really, really small board. I know, it's a, it'll be quite the change. 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:54.560 With that out of the way, let's get this downgrade started. 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:58.560 Now, I see you've got two computers, and you are getting two cards. 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:03.560 So what's the deal with the two computers? I'm a glutton for punishment, so I just wanted twice as much pain. 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:08.080 Oh, that's your girlfriend's PC too. Yes, and I actually have ended up using it quite a bit. 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:11.400 We moved it over to the TV, and we've been playing games on it a lot, 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:14.960 so it wouldn't be a fair test if I only did my downstairs computer. 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:18.380 Wow. I'm committed. Brave. It shouldn't be. 00:02:18.380 --> 00:02:23.120 One concern I have right out of the gate is, you said that this machine is gonna be used for TV gaming. 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.200 I imagine that's a 4K TV. Oh, it sure is. 00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:31.840 We're gonna find out how good XCSS2 is. That's the latest generation of Intel's AI upscaling, 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:38.040 since obviously these cards are not gonna be rendering modern AAA games at native 4K. 00:02:38.040 --> 00:02:43.960 Of course, it's possible that David and his SO don't play AAA games on the TV, I hope. 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.080 That's pretty much all I play. 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:51.600 Okay, I know you guys have played through Baldur's Gate 3, but maybe you're done Baldur's Gate 3 now? 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:56.760 Yeah, we just finished Dragon Age Veil Guard and Mass Effect Trilogy, 00:02:56.760 --> 00:03:00.160 and I'm going through Witcher 3. We're having a bit of trouble on the Witcher 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:03.280 because I'm using the Ultra Plus settings. No ray tracing or anything, 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:08.680 but even that, it's struggling to get 60. I don't think you'll be playing on Ultra Plus anymore. 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:12.480 We're gonna find out. One thing Ark handles well, though, is media encoding. 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:16.840 And David, I know you used to stream, but I don't think you have done much lately? 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:20.040 No, I have not, but maybe this is just the boost I need. 00:03:20.040 --> 00:03:23.040 I kinda doubt that. So he won't be getting much of a benefit 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:27.160 from one of Ark's biggest strong points. With that in mind, what, if anything, 00:03:27.160 --> 00:03:31.320 are you looking forward to? I'm seeing this as shorting the GPU market. 00:03:31.320 --> 00:03:34.480 I am planning on selling both of these cards immediately 00:03:34.480 --> 00:03:37.840 because everything is inflated with this crazy surge pricing, 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:41.800 and I'm really hoping that in a couple months, things calm down a little bit. 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:47.640 I might be making the wrong choice, but we'll see. Interesting, so this is a permanent change for you 00:03:47.640 --> 00:03:51.080 kind of regardless of the outcome. Oh yeah. 00:03:52.160 --> 00:03:58.600 Risking it all for the biscuit, man. I love it. And the worst part is that in addition to the 7900XT, 00:03:58.600 --> 00:04:02.600 he's ditching a 3090 right now. Seems like a good time to sell. 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:06.320 They're going for about a thousand Canadian. I don't think it's gonna stay there. 00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:10.760 I'm really counting on that 9070 and 9070XT to be disruptive in the market 00:04:10.760 --> 00:04:12.840 in a way that AMD hasn't done before. 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.640 Wait, did I hear you right? You're betting on AMD GPU. 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.720 Please have a good price. We're recording this before the 9070 launch. 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.480 It's just, it's good. It's good, it's cool, it's nice. We like it, we're happy. 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:32.760 They could be cheaper. They could be, they could be cheaper. Please don't be $900. 00:04:32.760 --> 00:04:36.600 Please don't be typical AMD. With that said, the scuttlebutt I heard 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:40.840 is that AMD is gonna have a ton of stock. That's fantastic, and I think that might drive all the price down. 00:04:40.840 --> 00:04:45.200 And it may actually be the truth because they've literally been shipping these to retailers 00:04:45.200 --> 00:04:48.840 for like two months now. That's fantastic. They delayed it because the software stuff is what I heard. 00:04:48.840 --> 00:04:52.280 Well, and MSRP means almost nothing these days on GPUs 00:04:52.280 --> 00:04:55.960 because everything is at a slightly inflated or a mega inflated price. 00:04:55.960 --> 00:05:00.240 Yeah, even these 580s are at an inflated price. We did find one that was a pretty good deal 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.320 with a power supply for about 335 bucks. 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:08.680 So it was in a bundle, but all the standalone cards are more like $400. 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.080 Really? Not looking good for David. I mean, one good thing for David 00:05:12.080 --> 00:05:16.960 is that instead of trading his faster GPUs for two $250 GPUs, 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:19.160 now they're $400 GPUs. 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.240 Profit. Is there any cards with six pin PCIe connectors anymore? 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:28.840 Cause it feels so annoying. I hate these connectors. Ah. 00:05:28.840 --> 00:05:33.480 Do away with it. There's gotta be something. I don't know, maybe 3060s. 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:36.760 Yeah. There's at least recent enough ones 00:05:36.760 --> 00:05:40.400 that you kind of still gotta have the six plus two. Not my finest work, 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:43.800 but hey, at least it's not a 12 volt high power. 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:48.400 So it probably won't melt. The white looks a lot better than the silver does though. 00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:51.520 Yeah, this build looks great. How's your build? 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:55.800 Ah, the weight does not match yours. No, it looks a lot out of place. Mind you, I mean, look, 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.560 realistically was this an aesthetic build anyway? No, it's the front that matters. 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.200 I can see why you had me build the girlfriend PC. 00:06:04.200 --> 00:06:09.640 All right. Time for Ploof's downgrade. We're bringing back into like stream downgrade. 00:06:09.640 --> 00:06:14.080 Woo. Yeah. I feel like I've made a huge mistake. 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:16.560 I feel like you've made a huge mistake too. Yeah. 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:24.160 I mean, you've got a 4090. I know. The good news is that 4090s are at peak value right now. 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:29.200 So if you wanted to do the same thing as David and sell it, be pretty smart. 00:06:29.200 --> 00:06:32.840 No, I don't want to do that. I said I wouldn't buy a 5090. 00:06:32.840 --> 00:06:38.520 So what would I upgrade to? Oh. Wait, you're totally gonna buy a 5090 though. 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:41.320 No, I already told you I don't believe you. I said I wouldn't. I know what you said. 00:06:41.960 --> 00:06:45.200 No, I pre-ordered one, but that's going to him. 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:48.440 That's going to him. That's going to him. I kept the pre-order. 00:06:48.440 --> 00:06:51.920 It's not, it's from Memrex. So like it'll arrive when it arrives. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:57.520 And then he gets to go buy it. And he gets to spend $3,000 plus, Canadian. 00:06:57.520 --> 00:07:02.520 So you are actually just putting your 49TI on the shelf. 00:07:04.760 --> 00:07:08.480 It's gonna hurt. I'm cutting my VRAM in half. 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.760 It's gonna hurt, but at least it won't hurt. 00:07:11.760 --> 00:07:16.120 It's really not gonna. I also want to take the moment to check 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:20.360 and see if anything's burning or melting. I don't think so, because I'm using the squid. 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:23.880 Looks good. Yeah, it seems fine. It smells good. Yeah, it smells probably fine. 00:07:25.880 --> 00:07:29.560 What is this back plate? That's a cool RGB back plate that's covered in dust. 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.360 It used to fit my 3090 a lot better than it fits my 4090. It doesn't fit anything. 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.560 It's just sitting here. Yeah, it just sits on top. It's going to fit the 580 perfect. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:40.080 It's blocking your flow through cooler. You took the screws out? 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:43.480 Yeah, someone did. Hold on, I don't got the latch. Yeah, it's hard to get at. 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.840 Okay, I think I got it. Oh, you do, okay. Nice. Okay, excellent. 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:53.720 There it goes. Now, David was already concerned 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:59.560 about running the games that he plays at the resolution that he runs at with a B580. 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:03.160 Now, you are a man who owns a monitor. Yes, several. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.720 And a man who plays a lot of cutting edge games. 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.080 I do. What's your target resolution and frame rate, typically? 00:08:11.080 --> 00:08:16.480 I don't have a lower resolution display right now because I'm gaming on my TV and my monitor 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:21.400 and they're both 4K. Okay, and what kind of FPS do you expect out of your GPU? 00:08:21.400 --> 00:08:24.920 Out of my 4090 at like ultra settings, 60 plus, 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.240 you know, in most modern games, native without DLSS or anything. 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.520 Okay, I bet I can get you 60 plus FPS. And 80P. 00:08:31.520 --> 00:08:34.640 Not at ultra settings, maybe 1440. Maybe. 00:08:34.640 --> 00:08:38.960 Maybe 1440, not with this plastic all over it though. I can go down in resolution 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:42.280 and, you know, I'm actually really excited about XCSS too. 00:08:42.280 --> 00:08:48.040 It's supposed to be pretty good. And I'm not expecting the same level of quality 00:08:48.040 --> 00:08:52.520 that I'm getting now. I'm gonna go to low, maybe medium, probably 1440P, 00:08:52.520 --> 00:08:55.160 maybe even 1440P upscaling from 1080P. 00:08:56.680 --> 00:08:59.960 But, you know, I just, I wanna try it. 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:04.720 I think they're neat. I think that the value that you can get out of this graphics card, at least at, you know, 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:09.840 proper MSRP is actually very impressive. And like I said, I did find that one card 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:14.520 that if you happen to need a power supply is damn near MSRP pricing. 00:09:14.520 --> 00:09:18.680 Intel tells me that they are desperately working on getting enough stock out there. 00:09:18.680 --> 00:09:22.760 I think that even they were shocked by how good this thing was. 00:09:22.760 --> 00:09:28.360 Yeah, I've got friends who love Arc. And with Intel, I actually kind of believe that. 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:33.200 Like with NVIDIA, I look at it and I go, come on, you guys are just making more AI cards, right? 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.360 But with Intel, especially after what a dog Alchemist was, 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:41.560 I could legitimately see them being like, oh, let's not make too many of these. 00:09:41.560 --> 00:09:44.520 Oh, wait, it's actually good? Oh, shit. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.720 Where's our other shipments? Another thing I'm pretty excited about. Okay, I'm gonna let you finish, 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:53.440 but is that a piece of masking tape holding your SSD in? 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:57.520 Oh yeah, I couldn't find the screw, the M.2 screw. 00:09:58.520 --> 00:10:03.720 Hey, it still works, it detects. I've never had a single issue with this SSD 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:09.080 being in the bottom. Sorry, what were you excited about? 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:12.800 Losing the squid. Oh yeah. Because I have these nice custom cables 00:10:12.800 --> 00:10:16.240 that totally don't suit the build anymore, but you know, they look pretty. 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.720 The RGB backplate for the GPU actually fits like perfectly now. 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:23.200 It breaks your past through cooling again. I don't care, it looks great. 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:26.480 Oh man. Anyway, the point is, 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:30.160 do you have a benefit from the encoding capabilities or? 00:10:30.160 --> 00:10:35.480 I mean, my 4090 would probably do a better job anyway, but this is my Plexbox. 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.960 Okay. I stream everything from this machine because if I'm not gaming. 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.920 That's why it's full of hard drives. It's so heavy. 00:10:42.920 --> 00:10:47.360 I know. It's a little better now, that 4090's out of it. Yeah, but it's still a beefy boy. 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:52.240 All right, why don't you show us a couple of the games you're playing right now? And let's have a look at what kind of settings you can run. 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.680 I'm only getting 1280 by 720p. 00:10:56.680 --> 00:11:00.400 Oh, we got a DDU, I haven't. Yep, new drivers, let's go. 00:11:00.400 --> 00:11:05.000 Being on NVIDIA all the time means that you can usually just hock your new card in 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:09.480 and it'll pick it up, but nope, it's time to wipe everything. 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.320 Yep. It might not be as easy as the NVIDIA app, but you know what? 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.640 Just searching Intel Arc drivers took me right to their page 00:11:16.640 --> 00:11:23.080 and the downloads right there. I hope this is gonna be as easy as everyone else makes it. 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:28.480 Alchemist, the drivers were pretty rough at launch, but this should be okay. It's been a while and they've been, you know, 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:32.000 just ramping up all their software development ever since Alchemist came out, 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.480 so I'm not super worried about that. You don't seem super worried. 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:38.840 I'm not worried about driver support. 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:42.000 I'm worried just strictly about performance. Yeah, I don't need a monitor. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.320 That's why I set it up here. You look ready to go. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.920 You know, I'm ready to game. I've got, my drivers are all up to date. 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:55.640 Yep. I love my drivers. I love that it tells me that Rebar is enabled. 00:11:55.640 --> 00:11:59.960 Right, this is really important for getting the most performance out of Intel Arc. 00:11:59.960 --> 00:12:05.840 Both generations. Pretty much if you have an older system that doesn't support Rebar, don't go Arc. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.200 Yeah. All right, what are we gonna try first? Bellatro! Bellatro! 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:12.280 Think it'll handle it? I think it'll handle Bellatro. 00:12:12.280 --> 00:12:15.920 If Bellatro can run on phones, it can run on a B580. 00:12:15.920 --> 00:12:20.160 One nice thing is this is basically, literally the monitor that I have at home. 00:12:20.160 --> 00:12:23.360 And... So this is it? This is it. This is the experience. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:28.200 This is basically, you know, I might as well be at home right now. Yo, 240 FPS. 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.840 Let's go. That's all I need. Let's roll this flush. 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.960 Yeah, go Bellatro, go! 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:38.920 Let's confirm this is better than your 4090. Well, better, I don't know. 00:12:38.920 --> 00:12:43.840 Okay, well, that's whatever. It runs Bellatro great. I'm not gonna keep going with Bellatro. 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.360 Dota, I'm curious though, because we do know I play a lot of Dota. 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:51.800 Mm-hmm. You know, some people said that, oh, what does this guy need a 5094? 00:12:51.800 --> 00:12:56.360 All he plays is Dota. That's not true. I might have a lot of hours in Dota, 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:59.840 but that's over like years. Player score. This looks terrible. 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:04.080 I hear the fans going. The menu, we got like 250 frames a second. 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:09.800 Let me make sure all my settings didn't get changed or anything. Oh, it defaulted to basic settings. 00:13:09.800 --> 00:13:13.960 I thought it looked awful. So I'll use advanced and I'll turn on all the things 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:18.000 that I would normally, oh, not this thing, that I would normally have on. 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:23.240 Okay, we're not in game. It's already struggling a bit. Like this doesn't usually hitch that bad. 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:28.480 I'm just playing against bots so I can skip ahead. I'm getting 160, 170 frames a second. 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.480 Something looks bad though. Game screen render quality was that 40%? 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.600 That's why. That's why. Uh-oh. 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:37.960 Okay. Uh-oh, we're in trouble, boys. It looks better. 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.960 I'm still getting 140, 150 frames a second. 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:45.600 Now that's weird. Your 1% lows were under 100 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:49.160 when it was rendering at 40%. Yeah. Now they're fine. 00:13:49.160 --> 00:13:53.560 Now it's just dead even frame times. 00:13:53.560 --> 00:13:57.320 Okay, that I cannot explain. Okay, well, you know, 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:02.400 Dota 4K ultra settings, like, don't get me wrong. It's not 240 Hertz like my monitor supports, 00:14:02.400 --> 00:14:05.640 but like 150 in a MOBA? 00:14:05.640 --> 00:14:10.240 That's fine. This is totally playable. Let's try seven rebirth. 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:15.120 This is gonna be tough though because remember with the 5090 surprisingly, it didn't improve performance all that much. 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:18.480 So what I'd really like to see is how much it's gonna dip 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.480 when I take multiple steps down. Still installing graphics drivers. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.680 Okay, see you later, David. I don't know if it's still set to ultra. 00:14:25.680 --> 00:14:31.160 I'm gonna find out in a second, but I'm getting 40 FPS. 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:37.240 It's not set to ultra. And 21 FPS. Hold on, let's just take a look-see. 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.240 It looked like it might've been set to 4K. Yeah, it is. Is that the 4K v-sync? 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.280 Oh, no, no, it's not. Oh, it's dynamic resolution scaling. 00:14:44.280 --> 00:14:47.640 Okay, 100%. So it's not even, but it was set to ultra. 00:14:47.640 --> 00:14:53.120 So here, like let's just go straight to medium. This is a very PlayStation 5 level experience. 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:57.240 You're getting 40 FPS. I like that my 1% lows aren't awful. 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:01.480 Yeah, even frame pacing, that's something. It's cool. 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:06.320 Wanna take us outdoors? Okay, so this is just outside the like... 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.800 1% lows in the 20 FPS range? 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:13.240 It's playable. I don't think you're playing it at 4K, bro. 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.720 No, probably not. Altern on resolution scaling. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.800 Okay, let's have a look. Okay, 66% is a lot better. This is way better. 00:15:20.800 --> 00:15:24.160 Oh, dude. Yeah, yeah. This is fine. It's totally fine. 00:15:24.160 --> 00:15:28.480 This is fine. Okay. Okay. I'm feeling pretty good about this already. 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.920 David, you ready? No. Okay. I don't know where rebar is. 00:15:31.920 --> 00:15:37.120 I'll try another game. It got very upset when I closed the game. That's not what my desktop background looks like. 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.400 Wait, David, how old is this BIOS? Does this say copyright 2019? 00:15:40.400 --> 00:15:43.280 Sure does. Your BIOS is from 2019, bro. 00:15:44.280 --> 00:15:48.640 Let's flash a new BIOS on here and then I'm sure we'll be able to find a resizable bar. 00:15:48.640 --> 00:15:52.400 It did fix itself after a while, but it also, for whatever reason, 00:15:52.400 --> 00:15:54.240 reverted my display to 60 Hertz. 00:15:56.880 --> 00:16:00.320 All right, we're on path of exile now. It's got XCSS support. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.400 Yeah. Okay, I went down to balanced. Uh-oh. 00:16:03.400 --> 00:16:06.520 And I had to turn some stuff to low or medium. 00:16:06.520 --> 00:16:10.720 I don't think you're getting AA, dude. Well, you know what though? 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:14.520 It looks okay. Actually, this does kind of look okay. It's not that bad 00:16:14.520 --> 00:16:17.800 and I'm getting like 50 plus 1%. X looks all right. 00:16:17.800 --> 00:16:21.680 Yeah, like I'm actually not super disappointed with this. Normally playing controller, 00:16:21.680 --> 00:16:25.520 so I can't even remember what my keybinds are for most. Yeah, but it doesn't auto switch yet. 00:16:25.520 --> 00:16:30.160 Uh-oh. Okay, I died. But 80 plus, you know, 1% are dipping. 00:16:30.160 --> 00:16:33.520 Actually, it looks not bad. And it looks okay. You know what's going to be interesting 00:16:33.520 --> 00:16:38.120 about this experiment? To see if you get a little less diva-y, 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.480 will you appreciate your 40, 90 more when you go back to it? 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:46.560 I think so. I think I'll appreciate it more. You know, it's not perfect, but it's pretty good. 00:16:46.560 --> 00:16:49.280 Yeah. And soon David will get to enjoy it. 00:16:50.800 --> 00:16:55.640 Hey, there we go. Yeah, copyright 2024, that's more like it. 00:16:55.640 --> 00:16:59.040 Do you guys think that a normal person would go through this for a frigging graphics card? 00:16:59.040 --> 00:17:03.260 No, I don't think most people know how to enable rebar. 00:17:04.760 --> 00:17:10.240 Update their BIOS. Or update their BIOS. People watching these videos probably do, but you know. 00:17:10.280 --> 00:17:15.160 Stay cool, guys. Man, that's a good looking PC. 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.520 And with that white GPU, love it. Cloud storage is kind of the best 00:17:19.520 --> 00:17:23.160 because I can switch between my Steam Deck and my PC whenever I want. 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:26.240 Yeah, dude, Steam Cloud Save was such a game changer. 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.720 Every time I used to format, that was the thing I would be most scared of. 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:35.360 Because photos, I had all my stuff organized, it was all fine. But games, some of them would go to the my games folder, 00:17:35.360 --> 00:17:41.240 some of them would be in my documents, some of them would be in program files, and then next to the game executable. 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:44.800 And so you had to go look it up game by game to make sure you didn't lose all your save data. 00:17:44.800 --> 00:17:49.320 My big complaint is that you can't manually choose which file to save. 00:17:49.320 --> 00:17:52.440 It does it automatically, and it'll ask you if you want to overwrite, 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.840 and then you can say no and figure it out. But it'd be nice if I could specifically be like, 00:17:56.840 --> 00:17:59.880 that file is the one I want, download it right now. 00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:04.160 Okay, here we go. You know what? She's a little soft. 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:08.040 But I played with 1080p FSR at home, 00:18:08.040 --> 00:18:11.920 because I sit fairly far away from my computer, so FSR balanced. 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:15.320 I guess it's just- You're not playing with motion blur on, are you? Yeah, I like motion blur. 00:18:15.320 --> 00:18:22.400 Oh! Because I want my games to look like movies. In motion, the clarity is definitely reduced. 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.520 We're also inches from a 65-inch display. 00:18:26.520 --> 00:18:29.600 That's fair. Like go 10 feet away and tell me how it looks. 00:18:29.600 --> 00:18:33.600 Okay. I'm gonna sit at what would be a comfortable, okay, you know what, it's fine. 00:18:33.600 --> 00:18:36.760 Yeah. Fine. I'll allow it. 00:18:36.760 --> 00:18:41.840 It looks a little like jittery and low FPS-y, but I think that's just because you're on a mouse. 00:18:41.840 --> 00:18:45.560 It's okay, don't worry. We will not be judging you. Let's judge him. 00:18:47.280 --> 00:18:49.720 Not fair, I don't have control. Oh, yeah. 00:18:50.760 --> 00:18:54.720 Does that make- It's totally fine. Not even that much worse than it was. 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.000 I was at a lock 60, and this is, you know, 52-53. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:03.600 And so I'll have to tinker with the settings a little bit, because I'm playing on a non-VRR display, but. 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:09.840 Still. I'm actually pretty impressed. This is very usable and looks really good. 00:19:09.840 --> 00:19:13.320 Are you actually rendering it 4K? It looks- No, no, no, no, no, this is 1080p. 00:19:13.320 --> 00:19:17.800 Okay. This is FSR. Man, they need to flood the market with these things 00:19:17.800 --> 00:19:22.800 and get them down to 249, 259, even 269, I'll accept, 00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:28.120 you know? It's a pretty nice price, but they've gotta get it close. 00:19:28.120 --> 00:19:31.280 Well, the fact that we're both having decent experiences 00:19:31.280 --> 00:19:34.600 on like very challenging displays to use, 00:19:34.600 --> 00:19:40.680 I'm very impressed already. Not bad. Detail in the foliage is not great, 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:45.480 but our character models are pretty good, and I'm not seeing a ton of ugly aliasing 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:50.000 on really on anything. No, it's fine. It's gonna be an interesting month. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.600 And it's gonna be an interesting message from our sponsor. 00:19:53.600 --> 00:19:58.280 If you guys enjoyed this video and you like these sorts of one-month challenges, maybe go check out the first part 00:19:58.280 --> 00:20:00.880 of Linus Switches to Mac for a month. 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:03.240 It's not going well so far.