well that was fun I think we're actually live for real this time and uh you know
third time's a charm right so let's go
through our topics extremely quickly we're going to do the million subscriber
giveaway this week on The W show live here in front of all of you we're going
to talk about Apple's bendgate Fiasco with the iPhone 6 plus he's lost his
topic introduction privileges I've covered this before but for those of you
who are freshly watching this and didn't watch the first two fall starts of the
show I got to make sure I throw that in there Paul and Kyle have both left
Newegg and we're going to have them on the show to talk a little bit about
what's going on maybe we'll do some Twitter blitzing and Intel spent a
metric bucket ton of money on their new
10 nanometer process manufacturing
facility in Israel or will rather it's
not like done yet we can't have 10 nanometer processors yet but soon we
hope see if this works
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okay a lot of great topics for this week there's a rumor that is on wccf Tech
although don't freak out it's actually originally posted by PC tuning that
NVIDIA's Maxwell gm200 GPU could be
coming as soon as Q4 of this year so
it's rumored to have a die size of 551 mm squar making it the big core in the
Maxwell family with over 2500 Cuda core
so anywhere from 2560 to 2816 and
Okay so we decided to troll you a little
bit if you notice your shirt is slightly
different than my shirt my shirt's better my shirt has three people and so
do all of theirs hello so there's a whole bunch of shirts that have three
people and if you pay a lot of attention
who design logo on the back and if you
pay a lot of attention to what's on the shirt there's fractal Josh in the middle
cuz he's super tall and he's bro like bro fisting me and then throwing a pie
in your face yeah that's a pretty lame
shirt well I told him I wouldn't tell
you but Brandon might have leaked the SEC you're so lame it was a complete
accident how did you do that I unzipped my hoodie and then he saw it I was like
he oh well actually initially he's like oh nice shirt and then and then I turned
around I'm thinking that he didn't realize you a tape over mine so I have I
have prepared in advance my
rebuttal which is that you are fired you are no longer allowed to be on
my like ARM and legs are still there no don't worry I'm going to deal with
it God Brandon you're horrible I'm sorry
it was an accident you could have at least told me well I told him I wouldn't tell you
guys but then I did but then you wow I
want I want that smash back
oh get wrecked Josh says if people want
these shirts blow up his Twitter handle I don't know if you guys heard that but
apparently if people want the shirt self bro fist we only need one bro that's
just depressing no we only need one bro from kind sad I feel bad for you feel
bad for you you just lost your job yeah
get wrecked you still here
yes anyways so so I guess we should talk about the graphics card or whatever yeah
so back to that graphics card that we've talked about sort of one and a half
times already um this rumor actually
kind of makes sense so it's they're saying it's going to have a 384-bit
memory bus approximately 50% boost in performance over the GTX Titan black and
that it'll have double the performance per watt of the GK 110 which powered the
780 780 Ti Titan and Titan black so this
all actually makes a great deal of sense and is in line with NVIDIA's usual
strategy of one big core a mediumsized core which we can tell just by looking
at GM 204 that's what that is that's
that's not the top top tier card and uh
or at least the eventual top tier Maxwell card and then the the trickle
down keeps on going from there so um I
don't know I the one thing that we're
both not entirely sure about is the Q4 2014 launch date or or they're saying
should be within 2 months that sounds a little bit extreme maybe yeah and I mean
if that happens it'll be a compute card like a Tesla or a um or maybe even a
Quadro maybe not a consumer grade card
um although I mean who knows maybe I Maybe I'm Wrong maybe it'll be Titan 2
or something like that yeah could be possible all right moving on to our next
also NVIDIA related news Kingpin oh sorry that first one was originally
posted on the Forum by big stuns thank
you for that I don't know if it's stuns or like stro
no one's really sure that's the thing about online handles yeah is like are
capitals emphasis or how can you ever
really get a handle on something that's just Digital
Data well could grabbing a hard drive be
getting a handle on Digital Data or an
SSD because you're technically holding
it I think this might be the longest silence we've ever had on the W show I
basically talk constantly don't I didn't we have it no cuz I think we had like a
a one minute silence for something did we I think there was yeah whatever it
was it was probably something inappropriate and not something that actually deserved one minute silence
100% I don't I think so I don't remember what it was but it like didn't make a
ton of sense but we had a we had a minute silence for you seems like the
kind of thing I would do um all right so Mech 777 posted on the Forum that quote
unquote Maxwell is an overclocking monster Kingpin and Tin have cracked 2
GHz plus this was on L2 yeah I mean to be
clear you won't be cracking 2 gz plus unless you cool with liquid nitrogen but
uh got any more details while I they're running their core at 2103 MHz and their
memory at 1753 so all of that is just generally
insane um again though ln2 liquid
nitrogen they ran fire they got a fire strike score of
1940 and they got a fire strike 19,40 yeah my bad and they got a fire
strike extreme score of 9191 absolutely
ridiculous apparently the overclock was attributed to low power consumption yeah
low power consumption I mean also any of the other optimizations that NVIDIA's
made in Maxwell there's a lot of stuff that's still under the hood with Maxwell
that I think they're either waiting for the bigger core to reveal I mean that's
what that's what they do they tend to kind of pace the releases of their news
um speaking of that's why competition's good because if there isn't a ton of
competition that pace can go at whatever speed they want and if they're like well
if we develop slower then we don't have to spend as much on R&D and they just
slow the pace down well I don't think they're doing that because me neither
I'm saying just in general that's why competition's good I think it's just the
way that the way that the um the way that the R&D is being directed these
days where they still have to continue to develop and stay competitive in um
HPC for example so they're they still want to pump better GPU cores as fast as
possible we just might end up with ones that are more compute optimized and this
has been happening over the last few years that also happened to be fantastic
for gaming as well yeah okay now that's
a lot of good NVIDIA news but I have some very unfortunate NVIDIA news as
well this is something that's not actually on the dock and I I noticed and
I had someone assure me that it wasn't a big deal but I was pretty sure it was a
big deal I noticed at their editor's day that the PCS were running with Shield
controllers plugged into them I was like oh yeah I thought that wasn't PC
compatible at least not yet and so it has been confirmed by NVIDIA that it
wasn't and the version of GeForce experience and the latest driver that
came out with GTX 780 980 rather now
supports Shield as a controller on your PC which is or Shield controller not
Shield scary when someone says that there's bad news and then proceeds to
only give you good news oh yeah the bad news is coming so the unfortunate thing
and this is only moderately bad news is that it doesn't work wirelessly on your
computer and that makes sense cuz it's Wi-Fi direct and to my knowledge nothing
Wi-Fi Direct connects directly to your computer yet not as far as I know the
even the much worse news is uh where is
it compatibility uh okay Android devices
Etc okay it only works on their own Android devices which I kind of get
again Wi-Fi Direct whatever games
controllers can I use the shield wireless controller with a PC yes the
shield wireless controller is compatible as a wired controller with Windows 7 or
Windows 8 running GeForce
experience wow so just for just for
Giggles I tried to install GeForce experience on a computer that wasn't
running a GeForce graphics card it goes no supported hardware and boots you out
so the only way to install the driver for NVIDIA's like game controller is to
have an NVIDIA graphics card in your system this is extremely offensive to me
and I think if you install um just judging from over uh graphics card
overclocking and testing if you install GeForce experience with an NVIDIA card
plugged in and then swap it just won't run that's right so this is this is
incredibly disappointing to me I don't understand why NVIDIA wouldn't want
anyone to enjoy the experience of using
their controller I don't to I reached out to them for comment two days ago I
gave them 2 days to reply to my message about this and I was like what's going
on yeah I was going to say they might have just overlooked it they might have just bundled it into the GeForce
experience driver so we will update you guys next week on wo if we hear back
anything else or I'll try to I'll try to tweet it out when I hear back about it but for now you can't just install a
driver and to my knowledge there's nothing about the controller that would make it not work like maybe the touchpad
might not work or something if uh if you didn't have GeForce experience it should
just work as a standard controller would gForce experience affect the touchpad
well I I don't know like it might be some kind of emulated Mouse something
like but then that should be able to just be in a driver you would think that
but I can see why that might take longer to implement for example cuz the rest of
the way the controller works is exactly like a standard Xbox controller yeah I
just don't see what gForce experience does that would have anything to affect
the touchpad so it would be implenting the driver through GeForce experience or
implementing the driver through stand alone or or not because they do some
funny stuff with things like Mouse control over shield and stuff like that
like it depends how it was implemented so I don't know I'm just saying I don't
know I'm not saying that definitely it wouldn't work whatever the point is that
it should at least work as a controller that's it and the fact that
they're not allowing it to do that is just super crappy I mean think about
think imagine this for a second let's say uh someone who wants to use oh I
don't know steam in home streaming on an Ultrabook and happens to have a G4
powered gaming machine elsewhere in their house and thinks oh great I'll
just use my controller I'll plug it into my to my notebook and then I'll stream
to myself from my freaking GeForce PC
that will not work and that is a huge oversight from NVIDIA I'm extremely
upset about it I just think this is locking things away for the sake of
locking them away as opposed to for the sake of maintaining the end user's
experience which is what I do believe they do do a lot of the time
unfortunately this is is evidence that not everything that they do is
necessarily for the sake of making sure the user has a good experience because
this is not a good experience and there's no reason for it again they
could have possibly just there could possibly be a reason we will update you
if there's a reason I haven't heard back yet I more thought of it as an
oversight but we will see so there you
go okay uh we said we would pull them in at around five did we all right so let's
bring in our guests shall we we have Paul formerly of New Egg TV and
Kyle formerly of New Egg TV now of
Paul's Hardware and awesome sauce news
boy are they ever ugly hey I think they're extremely that's awesome sauce
Network for you sir so what you do more
than news now is that your thing yes exactly it's a bit more all-encompassing
than uh than the news tagline all encompassing you say what do you
Encompass by the way okay so for those of you who aren't familiar with these
Joker we've got Kyle right here and Paul right
here and they will be living between us I swear
I'll I don't know why I signed up this really and they'll be completely
replacing Luke who did you notice the shirts uh we joined
in I actually been wearing this all day I didn't even know that anything was
going on with your team trolling you this is just pure coincidence so it must
be it must be uh be and then he got here right as you guys were feeling the the
that you all had the shirts on and I was like oh I've got one too this is this is
how Paul answered the door five minutes ago and I rolled to his house he opens the door he like he looks me he's like I
have to change my clothes what's happening over
there that's very very important thank you guys for having us out yes thank you
thank you very much fantastic oh apparently you guys are pretty loud hold
on a second I'm going to turn you all down a little bit maybe I'll just turn you down all the way you guys are so
influential he just said y'all all right uh let's uh doesn't dislike you guys
that much let's let's hear from people let's see if that uh see if that sounds
okay uh you guys are also peeking a little bit so I'm not sure if that's a
microphone setting or whatever else but hopefully we're all good apparently the
stream died so I don't know what's up with that it doesn't look like it's dead
on our side so we're going to we're going to continue sort of along here
sound ugly for a second what if you push the mic a little further away yeah that
could help too yeah we dropped a few frames but it looks like we are we are
definitely back here so all right what the heck is going on over
there oh you know this a little of that
uh hash Newegg
gate so yeah I guess um if you guys
aren't familiar with like New Egg TV uh
that's what Kyle and I have been doing for for quite a few years now uh kind of
regular presenters on on the new egg tv YouTube channel um Kyle does a little
bit more behind the scenes than I do but uh kind of similar to what lonus you
used to do with uh with NC right and we
have just recently um both sort of independently and then we both kind of
found out that we were both kind of on the same page uh made made the decision
that we were GNA go our separate ways and leave New Egg um we still have a a a
setup there so we are still we're not going to be gone completely we're still
going to be participating a little bit over there Kyle was just over there
today and he did the alt tab live show uh that is also on Twitch great that was
good times yes yes it's um so you guys
are going independent do you feel a little bit like um oh I don't know
copycats copycats I was I was gonna say
uh was it Logan didn't Lan just gonna say because I've seen a lot of people
say hey everyone's they've been say we're pulling like a Jerry like like
because Jerry was the most recent person to leave his job and to some degree uh
but I I I gota I gotta go back to Logan I feel like Logan kind of set the bar
for for all of us on that one yeah exactly we're all at the end of the day
we're all copying someone it might as well be Logan right exactly but um it's
it's just kind of interesting how this this huge transition for both Paul and I
kind of started at the same time and uh I think it was kind of for the best uh
that it happened at the same time as opposed to spreading it out you know
like having one big announcement at the company and then a month later somebody
else is leaving um so we kind of just talked about it I was like Hey so Paul
I'm planning this and he's like really I'm I'm kind of planning this we're like oh wow it's kind of funny why don't we
do it together or whatever so kind of worked out that way and um you know but
but still still much love to Newegg they've they've helped me a lot that
that was literally my first job straight out of college they're the only people
who would take me um shame on them them
oh but we had a few other
uh choices um yes but
they it didn't work
out that was so ominous
looks off into the distance I wasn't sure choices but discretion isn't really
Paul specialty out but yeah at the end of the
day uh going going independent is I think a good decision for both of us um
I I know I'm really excited uh this last week I've just been you know waking up
at at 9: as opposed to 7 which is always awesome working hard and the ability
straight up the ability because before I would work 40 hours a week at new EG I
would come home around 5:30 6: p.m. have dinner take a shower by the time I'm
ready to actually start a video for my personal channel it's like 9:00 and I'm
up till 3:00 a.m. and got to wake up at 7:30 the next morning it's just it it's
a it's a a mind worldl so being able to
wake up write a script and conceptualize a video and shoot and edit that video
and post it all on the same day is amazing H it's it's probably it's a
great feeling to have which I'm sure you guys are in that sort of same workflow
um for your channel So speaking of you
know waking up and conceptualizing a video and then uh you know producing it
and all that stuff have you guys actually have you guys made much content
since you've gone independent and how is this going to affect the the type of
content that you're creating uh Kyle has I I have not yet I
so I was trying to get a to finish off a
video last night and I didn't so uh that's still I'm gonna post there be a
new video on my channel this evening I promise 95% of the way how are you guys
planning to support yourselves I mean I think that you don't have to explain to
me that um you know Google AdSense is
not necessarily the the White Knight and savior that uh that people who watch but
don't necessarily create the content might believe it is what's that is very true uh we're
nowhere near neither of us are anywhere near being able to support ourselves on
just the AdSense Revenue um I think part
of as you probably know part of the nature of kind of the content that we do
since we cover technology we cover products that are brought to Market and
sold to people and that companies make profit from uh so as a result of that we
have the possibility to um do things like pre-roll type ads those things that
you've done um I mean obviously there's there's you got to kind of especially
when it's for your own Channel versus working for a separate company you got
to kind of take a step back and think okay if I'm going to do something like
this how am I going to do it how am I going to make it as non-intrusive for
anyone who's watching my channel as possible also give give companies a chance to you know promote their
products if they want to um so I I think uh I might be doing some basic simple
you know like five five to 10 second pre-roll ads uh for in in the near
future um and then uh I might I might
actually be doing some some writing uh for for some websites that uh do do
content of of the technical nature I
guess more information I know none of this stuff is is set in stone yet so I
don't want to say like yes I'm going to be doing this until I I know for sure's
like one big strip teas wanting more at the end that's it
our seduction but you guys are also still going to be doing some stuff with
new egg correct yes yeah uh So the plan
right now is that we're each going to go in one day a week and uh help out with
whatever the regular content is and we might be doing some additional videos
here and there as well uh so the the Yol show which is kind of tech news and US
messing around uh which is kind of fun the alt tab live show
are the main ones right now and then um you know the obviously the team over
there is going through some trans transition right now at the same time so
uh we need to sort of also wait and see and say okay we've taken a step back
from from any kind of leadership role that we might have played before so what
do they want to do next and how can we play a part in that um so yeah that's
and that's the main thing I think that we wanted to communicate to people while
this is a pretty huge change for both of us personally and possibly I guess also
a decent change for the the new egg Channel as well this was not
done out of animosity towards new egg or
anything anything to that effect we we still I'm still going to be ordering
stuff there all the time because I can drive right over to will call and uh and
yeah so there's no like major problems or anything like that it was just uh
something both of us kind of kind of came to realize I think Kyle had some some other personal family reasons and
then for me I mean you if you work for somewhere for an extended period of time
as great as it might be at some point you just need to decide okay I need to I
need to stretch myself and and reach out and try to do something uh that's a
little bit more different or that allows me to uh I don't know like Kyle was
saying earlier the creativity Fly Fly Away Little Bird I was stretching myself
and putting my ARM around you and then you just abandoned me gosh is that tape
that you use to cover that that's a a giant massive waste of electrical tape
you got to let that bad boy shine actually much more expensive Gaff tape
oh God that's a sin so I hate to do this to you guys but
skype's using up about 20% of our CPU right now and our stream is lagging to
crap because we're at 100% CPU usage so I'm actually webcam I'm gonna have to
say thank you guys so much for coming on but it's kind of not it's not working
for us unfortunately right now this relationship isn't going to be a for
effort so we'll we'll we'll come on hopefully in a future episode or
something like that we're going to upgrade our CPU and we'll have you guys
on again to just kind of be regular guests I think it's great that you came
on for the announcement but I think I have to I have to let you go so thank
you guys again I'm very sorry nothing personal except that I hate you no
worries of course we love you guys's trying to to direct people to his Amazon
link instead of yours no actually wow
not watch my last video go to my channel and watch it I specifically say if you
don't already have Linus's bookmark don't and now he's like desperately
trying to plead for views he wants me to go watch his video don't watch my vide
please watch my videos I need that one more incremental count all right we'll
see you guys later see hopefully that fixes it yeah I
certainly hope it does so let's go ahead and move that screen region see what
happens to our CPU usage now computer is not stoked yeah no super unhappy okay so
look at that we are weighed down and hopefully we are actually encoding
frames instead of dropping them now welcome back to the show actually
functioning like I said guys there wasn't really anything that I could do
about it um we had about Skype was claiming 20% CPU load it looks like it
was actually closer to around 35% so we
went from 60% CPU to no CPU left at all
and we were pinned at 100% that was brutal so I'm really sorry about that
you guys we will bring Paul and Kyle back on sometime in the near future
hopefully in the next few weeks here and we will we will dive into some topics
together and have that tech chat that I know you guys want to hear and I'm
really sorry about that but we got to just move forward with the show we can't
have it running like that forever looks like we're not dropping frames anymore
so I think we're good I think we're good I think that fixed it all right so
moving on to bendgate this was originally posted on the lonus tech tips
Forum by Lars reviews and there's actually a fairly excellent thread if
you're not already a member of Linus tips.com then you should probably go
there because if we don't have enough members he'll lose his job again oh my
wow yeah yeah that's right we don't have enough members I think we have enough
members okay I have the one most important
member that's not on the Forum though no that's if it was I think I'd probably
have to remove it but I wouldn't delete that thread I would just hide it yeah
excellent excellent thread on the Forum about it but basically um there's a some
videos allegedly breaking phones in half
made by one of our one of our good friends Lou over at unbox therapy where
because break it in half well when
something is okay not at the halfway point I
guess yes so the point is there were some reports of people having iPhone 6
pluses bending from carrying them in their front pockets uh these kind of
started to circulate on the internet and Lou from unbox therapy made a video
demonstrating how easily the phone could be significantly bent and then how the
screen would crack and it would basically become useless once you bent
it back to its original flat form this
has been the most viral video I think on
any Tech YouTuber's Channel ever and um
Lou posted a posted a screenshot from his YouTube creators app of it at 10
million views I think the morning after he originally posted it this thing went
super crazy viral but I think it's like 30 million now or
something just for that one video and he's released three on the topic which
are all above a million views way more and he's been doing B tests of other
things other people are jumping on the the benest wagon I think I saw NC post
on their Facebook today a motherboard bent over I recognized the board too
it's an x58 board that was a sample that we got like ages ago when I when I used
to work there oh man uh people are
saying banded 980 get more views I really don't think that would happen I
think people would just call us idiots yeah and and that would be really hard to do yeah we'd have to put it in a vice
and stuff i' just rather not B the 980
I'd rather people someone at some point game on that 980 because that's I don't
believe in Breaking Hardware on purpose I do think particularly the original
Bend demonstration video was very important Justified just to make people
aware of the issue but along those lines
apple is claiming now that it is n actually an issue so they're saying that
out of all the you know hype surrounding Bend gate only nine users have actually
come forward to Apple about having
broken their or bent their phone through regular use and they are saying that any
of the phones that were able to be bent so easily in this manner
um just must be suffering from some kind of materials defect and it's not a
problem with the design of the phone uh there's a lot of other stuff kind of
floating around so this is just kind of a funny Apple uh threw up a job posting
for a Q&A sort of position that one of
the things listed in the job description was was bending testing was it Ashley
yeah but I but again this think it was a joke this is this is stuff that that
could have just been a regular job posting anyway I don't think it
necessarily has anything to do with bendgate I think really the proof will
be in the pudding are we going to see more people coming forward with bent
phones um one thing that I've seen Apple Fanboys kind of running around saying is
oh well it's aluminum so you know yeah
it was going to bend anyway you know what the one I made is aluminum and um I
I can't I can't bend it I can turn it
on like change the volume but I can't bend the phone which it did perfectly
fine while he was trying to bend it for that matter the 5S has an aluminum back
it's by Apple also doesn't B so um I
think I think that's pretty much it there's honestly not that much to say
it's a massively overe exhausted topic yep I don't want to even give it that
much more attention one new other thing Apple says that the new phones feature
steel and titanium inserts to reinforce stress locations and they use the
strongest glass in the industry so okay
they didn't use Sapphire which we all thought they were going to use yeah that
was interesting that could have been interesting because I wonder if that would have helped
resist bending I kind of I mean Marcus's
video where he has the sapphire crystal glass um oh that's a good point he he
kind of in his first video in particular I think he unfortunately hadn't seen
Corning Gorilla Glass 3 off of a phone before so he was kind of marveling at
how clear it was and how it flexed and all that but Gorilla Glass 3 behaves in
pretty much exactly the same man so aside from the scratch resistance I
don't think yeah which wouldn't have actually helped rigidity in any way so
yeah never mind moot point so okay I
hadn't heard anything about this what's going on with the cooler the EVGA ACX
970 cooler ah yes originally posted on the Forum by devil Z thank you Sean um X
EVGA this is this is this is Sean's headline here EVGA could lose out on
quite a bit of money due to trying to cut costs on their GTX 970 980 cards and
the the original article is from E Technics and it's that EVGA may have
used a cooler from a bigger card to save on manufacturing cost so there's a
picture of a cooler taken off an EVGA uh
900 series card here and I'm going to go ahead I'm going to load that page
eventually if I can but in the meantime why don't we just switch to the No guest
view so you guys don't have to wait for it but basically what happened was the
bottom sorry it started working which did there oh no no no it didn't
what this page is still not loading yeah I just switched back to a page that
works like lusch tips.com oops hey
that's right get wrecked um so basically I'll just have to help you guys
visualize this there's three heat pipes there we go you need help with your
demonstration should I be the heat pipes uh yeah you can be the heat pipes okay
so there's three heat pipes and then the you can tell from the thermal paste
pattern that the GPU core itself is actually only contacting two of them and
one of them is not making contact with the GPU core now this has led to some
speculation that evga's direct touch
cooler will not work very well and could perform significantly worse than if all
three heat pipes were making contact there is some truth to this direct heat
pipe touch technology does make a difference and having them all touching
the core would probably help but I think people are overestimating how much of a
difference that's going to make remember the problem with a copper base plate on
anything let's say a heat sink or yeah let's say a heat sink because that would
be fairly related yeah so the problem with having a copper base on a heat on a
heat sink the reason that we use heat pipes and Vapor Chambers instead of just
using a flat slab of copper is that copper can't conduct heat away quickly
enough in order to provide the best possible cooling once you build a heat
sink that's large enough over short distances this is not an issue so with
the dye right next to it right there and those heat pipes being the hottest part
of that cooler and that next Heat pipe being right next to those other heat
pipes that are the hottest part of the cooler it's going to be working it's
going to be doing something might not be as effective but we're talking I'd be
surprised if the difference is more than a degree or two and in the grand scheme
of things that's not going to be a huge deal these car are already running
pretty cool they are already running pretty cool that said you know is two de
the difference between one boost State versus another boost State on cards that
overclock themselves maybe um but I'd also suspect
that having another person sitting in the room watching you game would make as
much of a difference because just the heat from their body and we're already
getting like low temps of around 70 on average as far as I've been able to tell
with our cards yeah with non- reference cards
yeah so there you go that's pretty much
I guess all I really have to say about that I don't think it's as big of a deal
as other people are EVGA did respond they said that though and I hadn't
actually seen their response yet this has been added to the doc since last time I looked at it the way the gtx970
ACX heat sink was designed is based on the gtx970 wattage plus an additional
40% cooling head room on top of it so they're saying about a total of 200
Watts uh also we would like to mention that the cooler passed NVIDIA's green
light specifications due to the small
contact area of that GPU because it has a small die size we intended for the GPU
to contact two major heat pipes with direct touch to make to get the best
heat dissipation out of it without any other material in between them um blah
blah blah etc etc etc regarding fan noise this is not a fan noise issue is
more oh okay regarding fan noise we understood that some had expressed concerns over the fan noise of evg
gtx970 cards this is not a fan noise issue but more of an aggressive fan
curve set by the default BIOS regardless we have heard your concerns we are going
to provide a BIOS update that keeps the cards quieter and ramps up less
aggressively with that said you can control GPU fan speeds and software so
if you don't want to wait for the BIOS update then I would say fairly simple to
do go for it especially with their I
can't remember name right now youing have you forgotten you're dead to me
what's the name of their software again Precision Precision Precision X has
pretty good fan fan curve stuff in it so if you want to change it use their own
software not too hard The Verge wrote a pretty hilarious I
guess I made it about two-thirds of the way through and then I got kind of bored but it was pretty funny while I be that
hilarious no it was pretty funny they wrote a pretty hilarious piece on the
fact that the next or well the okay apparently uh the fact that the next
Nexus tablet will be made by HTC and the
verg article was full of you know lovers quarrels and all this kind of stuff the
the main characters are of course Google HTC Tam Tung like a triangle no yeah
just just kind of the the industry the Android ecosystem all all the different
players it was pretty funny but basically that's it this was posted by
eth nood on the Forum and the original Source here is rutters.com and
apparently Google has selected HTC For an upcoming 9in Nexus tablet so it looks
like they're splitting they're using HTC for their tablet and I believe they're using uh Moto Motorola still for their
phone is that confirmed or are we speculating based on that looks like the
Moto xul right but it it it has like the circular
Flash and it has all the stuff which is very similar to the it does look very
similar again it's still speculation but it's it's I don't know it'll be
interesting using two different manufacturers so Google has been mulling
HTC is a potential partner for since last year HTC hasn't made a tablet since
2011 um so this was announced at Google IO in June it's expected Q3 2014 and it
will apparently be power by the Tegra K1 which is
extremely good news because something
that I noticed I don't know if other people noticed but a NCH had a great
article on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus's performance and of all the
Android devices that were in the performance charts the one that really
hung with the iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus was the NVIDIA Shield tablet which is
based on the Tegra K1 with and that's
that's in terms of CPU in terms of GPU the K1 blew away everything yeah just
absolutely demolished everything else NVIDIA so I'm I'm excited about that the
problem with the K1 the big like I I
wonder if NVIDIA had hoped that K1 would be suitable for phone use but the
problem with the K1 is that The Thermals are just not really suitable for that
and they're more optimal for tablet use
at this time so at least we can have fast Android tablets as fast as the
fastest Apple device um just not smartphones yet I'm also not
surprised that the K1 is heavily focused on
GPU I am why NVIDIA yeah I mean they're
all a boat stop trolling you were so genuine with that I am I was like did I
miss something what did I do holy crap I
said something stupid no no you didn't say anything stupid you just wore
something stupid so that's why you're dead to me no dead to me speaking of
dead to me uh Watch Dogs is turning into a franchise they are not dead at
all oh that's a terrible segue I know I
could have said a lot of different things about I could I could have tied
dead to me into Watch Dogs and Ubisoft in a lot of different ways that's yeah
that's yeah let's say took the hard way rather than saying that you know I
missed an opportunity why don't we say I had restraint there there we go you know
what I'm down with that all right because usually we do the digging thing
at any rate uh this was originally posted by
D dlf on the Forum I couldn't tell if it was diff diff or dlf and the original
articles from computer and video games and Ubisoft Montreal's well we're just
staring at the dock right now Vice President of creative of creative yes
that's a thing is it maybe not uh anyway
uh has said that although the game has its flaws he feels it succeeds in
establishing a brand and promise for the
future that's an awkward way to do that
flaw I'll I'll let you talk now I'm I'm taking off the dead to me thing a yay so
so it's flawed but you know we believe in it it'll be okay hopefully we won't
completely screw it up next time and then you guys will hopefully like it or
we'll just say this and you'll buy it and then we'll just keep moving on anyways cuz we're ubis Stu they did make
a good point they brought up that Assassin's Creed 1 had a lot of
complaints about it and was hardly a perfect game that's cuz they gave it like no budget and cut it off early so
they didn't have time to develop missions for the rest of the game so they just reused missions from previous
parts of the game but the point was that Assassin's Creed 2 sold just fine in
spite of the complaints about Assassin's Creed 1
sold it was a great game I loved Assassin's Creed 2 it was really good
but yeah and there was the very valid complaints about Assassin's Creed 1
which I also liked because you you did like the first three missions and you
just basically repeated that for the entire rest of the game um so I don't
know if they do the same thing that would be fantastic cuz that means the
next Watch Dogs will be really good Assassin's Creed 2 was great but I don't
know because it did look like Watch Dogs got a much larger budget than Assassin's
Creed 1 oh yeah it did and that was the main problem with Assassin's Creed 1 it
was it was the fact that they ran out of budget but I mean the way that the
statement was phrased I think is I think is is pretty good where basically he
says okay there are flaw flaws which is good you know we want to tackle those
flaws and surprise players uh we need to be careful not to change the things
people liked and address things that
they didn't like and hopefully you know
particularly from a PC Gamers perspective that's going to happen right
starting at the beginning of the development process when the PC gets
treated like a priority as opposed to not even an afterthought you can't even
call it an afterthought that's what's terrible about it is it was with
forethought and Malice allegedly that
they nerfed it um so hopefully we won't see that happen again and Watch Dogs 2
will be the only thing that scares me about this is that we've had Ubisoft
tote rah rah we're g to make it better in front of us before and then just
completely ignore it when the time for Action came to be I know so so this is
great I hope it happens but I'm not I wouldn't throw any beds things can
change though I mean I think I brought this up on W show before so I won't talk
about it for too long but talking to the direct X lead at Microsoft when he
showed up at the uh at the NVIDIA event he was like yeah we have a different
culture now you know like I'm encouraged to be out here talking to journalists
and and engaging with the community about the direction of direct 3D when
before it was it was very close n much
more cloistered yeah and so I I don't
know I I basically CU I I kind of grilled him a little bit actually some
things that I knew he wouldn't know but I just wanted to kind of someone who
might have some influence there let's just beat him up while he's down and I
kind of went man why didn't Halo 1 get
multiplayer Co-op and he was like legitimately don't know that and I'm
like man why do they keep recommitting to us and then doing this master chief
Edition not coming to PC what the hell is that so I basically just went man
does Microsoft even care and all he could really say was Microsoft is
changing and he he he spoke very earnestly about it he seems like a great
guy Mr nadell has been making a crazy amount of changes he's not a PR guy he's
a technical guy he's a programmer always cool so I don't expect him to give me a
PR response but he seemed genuinely convinced that Microsoft is on a great
track and cares about Gamers and the other thing he said is that his team has
always cared and has watching the very
few amount of DX like announcements and demos that you're able to watch where
those guys are up on stage allowed to talk they do seem like they care a lot
yeah and he was telling me like there's guys on his team amount of those you know $4,000 $5,000 gaming rigs at home
like these are PC gaming enthusiasts at
least some of them and he kind of went you know yeah we're we're optimistic you
know we we believe in the future so so who knows maybe Ubisoft who hasn't
gotten a new CEO or really changed at
all hopefully they do those things so
speaking of changes oh D
cair changed The Branding on their
gaming peripheral and we might have all collectively
freaked out a little bit too much probably but let's just let's just go
through the Saga here so uh here's this
video they made with like some soldiers this is I think just the outro for it
like have you watched the video no actually it's pretty over the top the production values are like pretty good
like I have no idea how much that cost um just looking at that animation yeah
so they released a new a new brand for their gaming products oh I'm not logged
in so that's not working winner everything is broken everything is
broken something something something something something everything is broken
all right so they um they redid their
Vengeance branding the old sort of yellow Vengeance logo that we would find
on older Corsair gaming products I used to have a keyboard in here but I took it
out of here for a b-roll or something so I don't have it at the moment um and
then they redid it so instead of having the Corsair sales and then Vengeance as
kind of a separate sub brand they created this um kind of two cross blade
thing that ends up looking kind of like a tribal tattoo that would belong on the
small of your back or like a cling on bat lith uh with a little heart in the
middle of it like it there isn't there aren't really many great ways to to look
at it I saw a crazy crab holding swords with a heart on his head yeah yeah
that's that's another that's another way I've had people suggest that it's kind
of like a crabber rang yeah so it's a batter ring but but it's a crab that's
funny there should be there should be crabman
um that would actually make a great one extremely strong ARM and one really not
strong one that would make a tremendous like Cartoon Network show it's like
crabman and he's just always like an ass to
everyone I'll save you but I won't like it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah anyway so
they they took away the sales they they took away Corsair Vengeance sub Brandon
now it's all unified under Corsair gaming they made a big habab this which
I actually wonder if ended up working against them they had press releases PR
statements they redid all their packaging they took new products like
the uh RGB series keyboards and packaged them with this new cor Corsair gaming
brand they took existing products like their 1500 headset and 1300 headset we
actually have a bunch of them in the hallway and they repackaged them under the new branding redid the industrial
design on the products like this was not a cheap Initiative for Corsair to
undergo this rebranding process and then the community freaked
out there was a change.org petition which I really feel like was a little
over the top I mean change.org most change.org petitions are a little bit
over the top okay fair enough um PC Master race the the subreddit was
explosive uh the threads online as Tech tips are many many many posts long
discussing this and I think
that basically all there really is to say about it is I don't really like the
logo either me neither I released a video about it last night I don't think it's great um but something that I
actually didn't realize until I was talking to someone at Corsair about the
video we made last night where it's kind of a troll video we show how to mod your
keyboard and take the logo off and put something else on I was talking to
someone from Corsair and I kind of went yeah realistically I think everyone's
going to forget because it only it takes
this conversation we're having now for me to remember how much I hated the
Vengeance logo when I first saw it and I still hate it I think it's horrible
I think that font I think the bright yellow was never good and that's
something people are forting as well they're upset about the yellow in the
gaming logo vengance was already yellow branding yeah that said they didn't put
Vengeance on the product it was mostly on the box yeah
that's true which helps a lot but I'm just saying I think that people will kind of forget about it eventually and
who knows maybe I mean Vengeance was only with us if few few years who knows
maybe they'll Rebrand it again at some point but I think that this was very
much an over reaction um I think corsera responded to it in the best way that
they possibly could with yellow Beard's post Yellow Beard's post so k70 RGB
keyboards with red switches Cherry MX red switches that already had the
original logo will continue to exist for some time so people who really want the
original logo on their keyboard can get it and then the other ones will have the
course their gaming logo so if you want blue or brown switches a K65 or a k95
the 10 keyless and the one with macro keys then you'll be you'll have to have
the new logo and honestly if you do really hate it the guide line has posted
is actually not even that bad just get a flat head screwdriver and take it off
like you can get rid of that glue residue pretty easily you can put like a cool Deco there or something yeah put a
cool Deco fill it up with Plasti Dip do something like it's it's not that hard
to fix yeah so I I'm actually I'm amazed
they got over 7,000 signatures on the keep the old logo
petition oh man yeah so what do we want
to do like interesting topic or like
let's go with interesting topic all right so we just got 14 nanometer so
Intel is is just now releasing products what is it core core M or whatever it is
yeah the the the mobile one yeah broad y yeah yeah so these like super super low
power we're talking Core i5 dual core
class processors with beefy dedicated graphics in like fanless tablets like
pretty cool stuff we just got those and now in the news Intel is planning to
spend another 6 billion this time on a
10 nanometer Fab every single time they
go down in manufacturing process everyone's like oh this is it they can't
go any further there's no way technology can advance we've hit the end boys this
is this is as far as we can go and then couple months later dead yeah yeah
couple months later new manufacturing plant billions of dollars have been
spent and they're going to make smaller ones it's like Okay cool so this was
posted by Jer on the jerich on the Forum
um you know it's funny along the lines of what you were just saying I remember
my my um my SSD fome campus tour y when
I got to visit Intel that one time and
um I remember walking into a room where they basically said don't take any
pictures or film anything in here and I kind of went why and it turned out that
the Whiteboard and like the drawings on it
were and I think it's late enough now yeah 3D 3D n is here 3D transistors are
here but that was like the plan for for 3D and know I was like really that's
cool it's like internal like drawings on a whiteboard I was like that is so cool
I'm geeking out right now I don't understand any of it but it's still
awesome but it's still freaking cool and I remember asking them questions in my
interviews you know we keep hearing about the end of Mor's law we keep
hearing about how flash isn't going to continue to get higher density or
whatever else and and I think if you look at sort of a a shortterm past sort
of if you take a short-term past chunk it might look that way I mean the
iPhone 6 if you look at devices if you
look at still comes in 16 gig if you look at Solid State Storage on its own
though it is getting massively larger it is um but looking at phones and devices
and stuff like that no but to to to go back to the kind of growth we were
seeing before I think we're have to wait a little bit because that's about to
happen again you we look at what they're capable of doing with ddr4 for example
with some of the new uh the new die stacking Technologies you look at what
Samsung is doing with their new 3D nand where they're taking instead of having
you know 20 nmet class nand that's spread out horizontally they're stacking
40 nanometer class n to get the same capacities and better reliability and
better speeds with about the same raw material so they take that technology
they shrink that down who capacities are not done yet every time that we feel
like we hit some sort of wall someone goes oh hey if we climb it in this
really weird way we can keep going that happens like every single time it'll
make no sense then someone will come up with an alternative it will make tons of
sense and we will keep on going and it's Intel almost every time it's funny cuz I
got called out on our fastest possible about process Technologies manufacturing
processes for like um favoring Intel or
like fanboying over Intel because I brought up uh basically I alluded to
their Tik Tok um their Tik Tok development process and I also I don't
know what's going on with my computer and I also brought up the core M as my
example of 14 nmet processor but I went
back and looked into it Intel has been first to every process node over like
the last 20 years and they hit a new one like every two
years yeah that's not a real point debate yeah it's it's just a thing
different like processors that different price skes and all that kind different
architectures different architectures optimize for gaming optimized for tablet
yeah you can definitely debate all that kind of stuff but manufacturing they
developed this thing at this date and then that's what happened there's I
don't know there's facts posted by red
round 2 on The Forum the original article from Anon we actually um alluded
to this just just a moment ago but the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus are Benchmark
monsters so there you go there's the iPhone 6 iPhone 6 plus the 5S Shield
tablet Windows Phone are we going to find an Android device that doesn't have
a tiger K1 in it here we go oh oh boy so
they are they are wrecking machines and they don't do that well in every single
Benchmark but they are at or near the top of the charts pretty much across the
board so yay the newest phone does the best things yeah I was going to say as
exciting as this might be and as great as it is that we're getting faster and
faster mobile devices I think that the
people who are disappointed in the iPhone 6 are the same people who were
disappointed in the Galaxy 5S but just
that happened to carry something with an Apple logo in their pocket versus
something with a Samsung logo in their pocket I think we're all getting
disenchanted with smartphones all at the same time
I am like hardcore that's that's a thing I
I think we've talked about how phones are going through the same thing PC's
did um but they're going through the same thing PCS did over like an
extremely long period of time and they're like surpassing where PCS are at
but then not getting that thing where PCS kind of dwindled for a little while
and now we're awesome again I don't think they're really getting that and I
don't know if they are going to no no the future for phones is definitely
going to be in interface design and not in Hardware at least over over the next
little while software usability HCI which is called uh human computer
interaction so just like how you use your phone uh like natural paper thing
that Android's trying to do all that kind of stuff is going to be a really big deal y wearable devices I'm really
disappointed in the Moto 360 now that the reviews are out um I I actually
walked into a Best Buy the morning of the launch kind of not really thinking
about it I'd been napping in the car that was driving me from the airport to
the NVIDIA event and I walked in I was like holy crap it's a Moto
360 interesting do you have any and the guy at the till said yes so I I just
about bought one right there just so I could review it if nothing else and now
I'm kind of glad I didn't because the thing that I was expecting it to
disappoint me with is exactly what it's disappointing everybody with battery
life yeah but it didn't need to it just
did what was the size of the processor 40 nanom yeah it was like ancient chip
what are you doing um I mean the the the issue though and
there there could be a hundred reasons why they would have gone with that
processor there's also 100 reasons not to there's 100 reasons not to but
there's there there's 100 reasons why they might have had to yeah but the the
cold hard truth is until we get
dramatically better batteries the only smart watches that will matter to me
will be the ones with e in or Mirasol displays I don't want to charge my
SmartWatch every single day yep I charge this every four days or so that's
probably fine I would like seven I would like it to be a week some people get a
week out of the pebble I don't because I'm a heavy user um but the main thing
for me is when you're at that awkward dinner and you just want to know how
much longer you have to sit there across from that weird family member who you
only have to see once a quarter or so and you want to glance at your wrist
just freaking know what time it is that's important to me it's not a Time
piece unless it does time well well
first it's true it's very true um Luke
pointed out to me a smartwatch that's coming that has a transparent display
over an analog watch face and this is something if you go back a whole bunch of wos like quite a few I was like they
need to make an OLED panel that goes on top of a normal freaking watch and can
just turn on and give you notifications every once in a while so it can completely go off and you can just see
the normal watch face under it because that's what a lot of people are going to watch are going to want because that is
going to look super super classy and a lot of people want their high-end
looking very nice mechanical watches and
apparently it has happened speaking of wanting watches to look super super
classy um kind of kind of funny story uh
there are a lot of people who seem upset that Apple's I watch or whatever they
end up calling it Apple watch I guess so that Apple's watch is going to be
expensive it's like yeah how did you not see that
coming how did you not see that coming watch
that literally have no justification for
being expensive are expensive watches are a fashion
statement fashion statements are expensive yep watch Apple turned the
phone into a fashion statement in a big way I mean they weren't they weren't the
pioneer of it I mean Motorola did a great job with the razor but Apple
turned the smartphone into the ultimate
phone fashion statement but watches they don't even have to do any work people
will all already spend a thousand like normal people who work normal jobs will
spend a th000 2,000 $3,000 on a watch
that happens I know that technophiles
who expect every thing that they own to be broken down in terms of the bomb cost
like the cost of the raw materials that went into it I know that we don't
necessarily accept that and if you look at me it's not like I'm I'm someone who
wears a, watch I expect things to be
practical I expect them to have an ual value and an actual cost associated with
making them but a lot of the world doesn't work that way no and apple would
be foolish not to leverage that and that's why I've been saying we need
those mechanical OLED panel watches because those are going to be crazy
expensive and that's what a lot of people are going to want to buy I don't
want one way too expensive but that's what a lot of people are going to want
I'd like to do a review of one even if we can just get a loner one for a little
while but yeah speaking of a review uh I
had a few people questioning my Instagram post earlier today where I
showed off my new $300 usb3
cable I bought that thing what well I guess it'll be a
review it'll be a review um but there's
a justification for it it's the coolest usb3 cable that has ever existed the
highest Tech usb3 cable that has ever existed and it is a fiber optic usb3
cable oh yeah that one in fact it doesn't even adhere to the USB 3.0
standard n there is no standard for a fiber optic USB 3 cable so the packaging
is hilarious it says USB 3point
Optical so it's a 30 m so it's literally
3.0 get it get it get it so this is a
100 foot usb3 cable and I actually have
a plan for something really cool that I'm going to do with it I'll that I'll
show off to you guys and that I think will make some sense at least to people
who appreciate minimalistic design so so
stay tuned for that there is a reason for it I haven't just completely lost my
Noggin all right uh AMD India do you
want to do you want to go through this one while I figure out what's going on with my internet connection here sure uh
so that big announcement that everyone was talking about that was going to happen on September 25th that was like
super exciting from AMD and like oh my God it's probably going to be a 390 or
390x nope nope nope they're bringing
some graphics cards to India um so I
don't actually know what ones it looks like mainly workstation cards so they're
bringing a AMD firepro
w8100 and AMD firepro W 99,100 and gcn
powered Radeon R9 285 so they are bringing a 285 and then two workstation
cards so yeah that was that super
exciting announcement that was going to happen on September the 9100 does have
16 gigs of RAM that's pretty fraking cool speaking of RAM capacities
continuing to grow yeah but it's weird when they're blasting a big announcement
to North Americans and Europeans about like if they if they blasted this in
India that makes tons of sense yeah because that is a big announcement in
India I think it was it seems a little unintentional to me it looks a little
bit like a miscommunication at AMD where someone posted big announcement maybe
even in India and then it got pushed everywhere yeah some in some the the the
Press got a hold of the Indian announcement I think some individuals at
didn't really know what to do or what to say about it felt like they had to say something and uh ended up um they could
have specifically said it's a big announcement for India because it's
pretty cool for India right but it's it's it's a very tied
down announcement which makes sense but it's still a very tied down announcement
so they could have clarified right I don't think that would have been a
problem everyone started freaking out and then they could have been like you don't want to downplay it either and
like make it seem like yeah announcements lame so but it's not lame
no it is it's just location tied I mean okay okay what they say about the 16 gig
GPU is that it allows users and I mean this is pretty cool to multitask
efficiently across six 4K displays that's pretty sick is that not cool that
is pretty sick six DisplayPort 1.2 I mean the number of
megapixels the sheer data rate is involved with this it's very cool yeah
it's just Gamers and sort of the internet in general aren't really going
to care about it yeah so I think they should have they should have checked
their checked their announcement a little bit
it was a little bit overthrown all right DisplayPort will
work through USB type c that is
incredibly good news I'm actually pretty excited about that USB type c is looking
like it's going to be badass I'm just really hoping that connector is solid I
know it's the only thing I'm worried about I was talking to uh to Ryan Smith
from an onch we were in the uh the shuttle on the way back to the airport
together and uh I we were talking about usb type c and and cuz they had an
article about it they were hands on with it and I was like did you did you see it
did you touch it he's like no no but I want to what oh so he specifically was
okay I got it yeah yeah no someone else and one of their other writers so I was
we were we were just kind of speculating and talking about it a little bit we both agreed that the lightning connector
is probably about as elegant as it gets for a double-sided connector in terms of
durability but we both maintain hope
that USB 3 type-c will be freaking awesome hopefully so just as a recap for
you guys if you haven't already watched our fastest possible on USB type-c which
is now outdated because it includes DisplayPort
connectivity it is validated at up to super speed USB 3.1 so that's 10 gbit
per second bringing it back within sort of one Leap of
Thunderbolt it can deliver up to 100 watts of power over a single cable so
we're talking being able to co charge your laptop over us you can charge your
laptop run a display off your laptop at the same time it go either direction
pretty awesome y Bal it can it has alternate modes that support uh the use
of existing uh HDMI DVI and VGA adapters
now that DisplayPort can be transmitted over it uh the DisplayPort over USBC
carries up to 8.1 GB per second per
Lane this looks so awesome so when using all four lanes of the DisplayPort alt
mode you could drive a monitor at up to 5K resolution or up to and up to 4K uh
excuse me so with existing DisplayPort one blah blah blah Etc support up to 4K
desktop resolutions with 60 frame rates set up to 30 bit color yeah so 4K USB 3
type-c is a thing freaking awesome that's pretty
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on to our next topic then shall we blizzard cancels its nextg MMO Titan
after 7 years of development can you imagine having enough money as a company
that you can work on something for seven years and then just go ah it's not
turning out the way we liked it well valve trashed TF2 TF2 was like almost
done and then they're like h no and toss the whole thing away and then now they
have what we have now which everyone kind of seems to love so they probably
did the right thing and hopefully that's the same story with blizzard hopefully
they just decided maybe this isn't the right direction after all and kind of
pitched it or maybe they're just refocusing on wow that wouldn't even be
too surprising uh world Warcraft is getting a massive graphic upgrade uh
update with Warlords of dra or and a whole bunch of other stuff is happening
so could be just I try it again I haven't played since
vanilla uh you could we're probably
we're probably going to have to actually yeah seeing as how you did that maybe
not um we're probably going to have to Benchmark it when it comes out right
because it'll be the biggest change in performance that that game has ever had
since release that big it's they've done
significant updates before but I don't think they've had one nearly this
interesting it's a pretty big graphical upgrade they have definitely had graphical updates and one thing that
they've done is they've just included more stuff right so there's more things
to load in general especially with the new zones that came in with especially
if you have longer longer draw distances long draw distances uh so they they've
done a lot with it but I think this is the most in terms of uh actual texture
files because like the characters are being upgraded a lot someone could
correct me on that I could be wrong but I believe it is the biggest one they've
had so far so they um they're they're talking about it actually pretty openly
for blizzard which is surprising uh but they went back to the drawing board last
year and now they're basically just saying well we made wow and we figured
we knew how to make an MMO but here we are we're looking at this and we're not
finding the fun and if it's not fun then what's the bloody Point basically it's
not the first time they've cancelled a significant project that had a lot of
hype around it yeah Starcraft ghost was supposed to be an FPS about ghosts I was
pretty stoked for that actually different ghost that was one of the most
games that I was most hyped about and they just ripped it from reality that
was unfortunate I mean they had all that artwork of carrian and like was going to
be cool Nova so much for that um all right so we'll do a few rapid fire
topics before we before we get into we have build blogs and the giveaway to
yeah I know uh the 12 in MacBook Air is rumored to maybe have a USB type-c port
that would be very cool very unexpected I would expect Apple to continue to
support Thunderbolt exclusively mind you with how many of the rumors about the
iPhone 6 were just completely out in la la
um I'd be surprised if this one's true Sleeping Dog sequel Triad Wars is going
to be PC exclusive hopefully not as many bugs as there was in the console Port uh
LED SLI Bridges have now been released
so the ones used in the mod 24 rigs that modding competition that we checked out
and that have been seen before in like NVIDIA showcase builds for quite some
time the uh here we've got a we've got a shot of them here so those sexy metal
SLI bridges that match the the cards really well and they're also releasing
two different spacings for a dual card yes I saw that so they're releasing like
side byid so especially if you have something like an matx board you might want to have that and they're releasing
the the like empty space between the Cards on I love it they're only 30 bucks
for a two-way and uh 40 bucks for a three-way model which isn't that cheap
but when you consider how much You' just already spent on your graphics cards I
don't think it's that much of an Adder yeah um yeah fantastic yep uh nintend
nintend quasi qu Centennial what the
heck oh okay whatever so they turned 125 on
Tuesday um for most of Nintendo's life they produced cards toys and other
random stuff and didn't transition to video games until actually the
1970s so uh pretty cool way to go Nintendo happy birthday and they've been
doing a lot of great stuff lately actually they've totally turned around in the last little while uh even looking
at stuff like their their DLC for Mario Kart that they're coming out with Y
absolutely fantastic they're going to double the amount of uh tracks that
there is or no they're they're 150% the current amount so
adding 50% the amount of tracks whole bunch of more Racers whole bunch of new
cars and they're they're continuing down that line with DLC and they come out with Smash and all you you know what I
like about what they did with Mario Kart because there's the usual argument where
oh well it's DLC so you shouldn't have made us pay for it in the first place it
should have been in the game they included exactly as many tracks y as
they normally do in a Mario Kart game so that PL can just and that's a philosophy
that's carrying into other games as well and they've publicly said that they're not going to change that their golf game
I've never played any of their golf games but apparently they have a minimum for the amount of courses and holes that
will be in a golf game so every golf game Nintendo has released has had a
minimum amount and in the new one I think you get 100% more or uh sorry I
think it will be 50% more or 100% more I don't remember how many but there's a
massive amount of holes and uh courses in the golf game again not really into
that but people were freaking out about the DLC for that so I read up on it a
little bit pretty interesting I'm down
with DLC which is an actual expansion
yeah I DLC because that's what DLC should be DLC is not new you know War
Warcraft 2 beyond the dark portal would
have been DLC if it was possible if it was possible and and I'm totally okay
with expansion packs I love expansion Age of Empires had DLC Frozen Throne was
an amazing expansion pack for Warcraft 3 that's right super good and if and if
DLC legitimately Builds on what was already a freestanding game adds more
units adds new campaign tweaks uh actually I'm not sure if I how I feel
about tweaking balance unless you're adding new units but but just if it
enhances the game and gives War gives
what originally had its own you know I feel like I got my money's worth out of
it gives it a whole another set of that then I feel pretty good about it I'm
okay with that if it's like horse armor then
yeah I don't know well I they okay you
could say that and they took a lot of flack for that but hasn't the entire
DLC industry turned into horse armor
yeah and that's stupid but that's kind of our fault because people buy it I
don't buy it but people buy it just stop and then it'll go away
because it won't be worth creating art assets that people don't buy all
right it's time to do the million
subscriber giveaway I don't even know if I can help you cuz my computer doesn't
seem to be really getting internet oh hey it's working I'm on the uh I'm on
the other rouer I can help you all right
so we doing that random.org or how is this how's this happening y we're going
to random.org this shiz so basically we
are drawing the winners for the custombuilt gaming PC which I haven't
gotten around to building yet but I will the custombuilt gaming PC isn't it
mostly built already no I haven't even touched it the video card on your bench
I thought that was the razor one no oh no that's been torn apart Oh I thought
you just like rebuilding that up and then we can't ship that case it's like got scratches and crap on it oh yeah
it's yeah it's an engineering sample yeah yeah okay uh no no well we'll find
a case we'll find a good one we have a garage full of cases um so okay so
custom gaming rig Microsoft Surface Pro 3 the one that I bought to do my review
and because I thought I might end up using it but I didn't really like it that much but you might and whatever our
last what was our last prize I don't even remember ah yes we're redrawing the
G550 J from Highlander because the
person who won it never responded so the third time I think bummer for them all
right so we're going to the thread we're going to draw it live uh 1 million
subscribers thank you all oh hold on a second I gotta sign
out back to here signing
out scrolling down contrl F searching
wow clicking you are the most helpful person ever today viewing random Forum
thread you're back to being dead to taking you back off my
shirt all right so the first two are
going to go to the first two people who are randomly drawn the third one we are
going to keep drawing until we find someone who is a positively contributing
member to The Forum how are we judging that uh we're just going to kind of look
at them and if we know who they are then they win this might be awkward I we'll
figure it out maybe let's not say positively contributing let's just say
contributing okay an actual member of the of the lonus tech chps Forum that
participates participatory member of The Forum why don't we say just for the sake
of making life a little bit easier for ourselves why don't we say kind of um
post count is sketchy no no I don't want to use post count but post count doesn't
matter at all but we'll we'll we'll we'll kind of do a quick glance at their
last few posts and make sure that they're actually trying to participate
okay and I'm not going to be looking at anyone who started participating right
when the 1 million subscriber giveaway started because I said that that was
going to be a requirement and that I wanted it to be for people who have
already participated without me offering them uh a laptop yeah yeah okay all
right so let's do the first draw random.org
1,119 oh my goodness Min one
1,119 generous great so now we are going
to go to page 742 in the thread click on
that which this click on page one you can do that yeah and then oh no way that
is amazing all right did you click go I mostly clicked
go okay I think it I think it worked all right this is kind of a big thread I
think everyone's looking at the Forum yeah and everyone's probably looking at
the Forum right now because that will somehow affect their chances of winning
I guess or something they will be there with
us oh derped refresh it yeah oh okay what
page was it 742 let's make sure I got that right yes
whoops yes I don't have a very good memory especially when I'm sleep
deprived did you already have the thread loaded up yeah or did you load this
okay everyone went to the Forum The
Forum isn't hosted on Squarespace yeah I know right okay so I really wanted to do
this live but it looks like that is not going to happen I'm sorry we do like to
do these draws live just so that you guys can can trust us that we we can do
a recorded video of it while the camera doesn't stop and we draw it there
because that would be way too much production time where are we even going to release that I guess we can put it
unlisted on the channel and like link it in the wow do here or something it would
be a fun video oh I don't want to do a full video for
that okay we'll we'll talk about it offline but um okay so in that case are
you even able to do build logs then yes I sent you an email all right sweet like
right when the show started so it should be pretty recent do your
LMG thing there we go all right here we
go feature build log there's four things but you only need really two of them but
if you download it you because you probably won't be able to view it in your browser you can try but I expect no
so there was one choice by the community and there's one choice by the staff I
don't know why that happened cuz I told them considering there were so many
entries there should be like way more than one from each but apparently
there's one from each so we're doing one from each for now because I didn't
notice until today I probably should have checked so that was my
fault at least you owned your mistake yep all right so uh slideshow so the
first one is by Sage C and this is Project N64 I believe this one was the
one chosen by the mods why is that the
slideshow what the heck is this
what y PowerPoint why you
do why you why you do this power that is
super derp that better not be the was it like review slideshow from beginning it
should be what are you doing display settings
maybe here we go what oh that's like presenter View
okay I get
it
um it's not it's not a
what oh hold on a second uh wait where did where did we
get that hold on one sec we're learning how to use PowerPoint we'll be back
except we're not going anywhere no I think they had the right one already no
they don't it should it shouldn't be anre yeah it's a duplicated screen is it
is it Frozen no I don't think so try to open
your start menu maybe Frozen not
frozen oh it's an extended display why
is it an extended display why is it extended we're supposed to do duplicate
displays what is it doing I don't know what is it high this is really weird so
we're looking at a presenter view that is
not oh oh my goodness all right so let's
just let's just try previewing it from here this is why we don't make videos
about Microsoft software well what were they thinking about PowerPoint I guess
who does make videos about someone should make a video about PowerPoint cuz this is ridiculous boring video they
should present the video from PowerPoint they should just record their screen and
have a PowerPoint presentation running I'm sure that I'm sure that people who
use PowerPoint all the time technically I use PowerPoint all the time I just
realized that but I don't use this version so that's my defense I'm sure someone's
laughing at us and I'm sure that they're right and we're we're idiots or in the
version that I use it's like super duper
easy okay yay all right l a screen nope
what are we looking at I have no idea not a
clue what is it's not showing your screen though because you just had a
photo viewer up yeah it's not updating
or something oh that's why I said open your start menu like it's not updating
properly there's something else going on because it's yeah when you open your
start menu it should have shown the start menu on yeah it's not working oh
okay well that explains a lot now then so let's see if uh did you try
unplugging it and plugging it back in no no not yet um let's just see if this
does a thing a well okay okay okay new
plan new plan don't worry you guys we're
going to find a way to do this oh there you go that'll work I want to do build
Guides of the week dang it month oh hold on a
second oh oh oh okay okay we heard back
from NVIDIA just in time well actually
right around the time we were talking about it on the show called it that's
all I have to say it is not NVIDIA's intention to restrict support to GeForce
PCS the reality is that the quickest path to releasing PC support was to
release it through our existing GeForce experience software we are working on a
plan to support non- GeForce PCS but currently cannot commit to a time frame
for support all right Faith restored it
made no sense like I didn't want to like go over it too hard but it made no sense
there nothing in but you were saying that there's something in in GeForce
experience that it would have to be tied to well no what I what I was saying was
that maybe like I could understand why GeForce experience might be
easier we can go back and you can watch the archive if you want I never said
that I said that the touchpad might not work or something yeah but that makes no
sense why not who knows what ises GeForce experience do that would have
anything to do with that who knows the point is that as a controller I couldn't
see any reason why it wouldn't work so anyway the point is completely valid
none of that happened they just rolled it out through gForce experience because
of convenient way for them to roll driver updates out to people and it was
really painless to get it working I just plugged it in and it worked which is nice all right yay faith St NVIDIA good
job you guys um let's go ahead and go
back to Luke's email here which hopefully I can find I can't even see it
I get too many emails top one top one top one top one
there we go build LGS um blue ones why are there four BL
okay my brain is exploding all right let's why it
download oh did you click both of them so what we'll have to do screen region
capture is yeah we'll just do screen region capture and then we will oh I
don't know let's pick this scene or something oh add screen
region all right stream seion for a little bit here
guys and slideshow from beginning so now
we're just hoping that it's working yeah cool it's probably working project and
okay do you want to give the background for this uh project N64 well let's just
got that so far by Sage C let's go with them let's go with them so this is all
the included components um which is not super important in my opinion you can
check out all the included components and all that kind of stuff if you go are you hating on his inclusion of a broken
N64 no I think that's pretty cool because that was my actually this this
is an interesting discussion that was my favorite part about listing the system
specs of my mineral oil PC was when they asked for case right I was always like
fish tank yeah so that's yeah yeah I
know that's pretty cool but the the point of the build doogs isn't necessarily like oh he used AMD instead
of Intel like that's not really the point so I don't really want to spend
too much time on this this is the point
the awesomeness that is this computer so yeah he shows in the
beginning where he just kind of tore apart the N64 and started removing
things then putting in his motherboard and whatnot and then if we move on
forward you can see the end shots which
are amazing wow that's
ridiculous that's fantastic pretty freaking cool I've seen
some like old console buildup computer
into it builds but this one is kind of
incredible even having seen those in the past that's really clean yeah it is
extremely clean usually you see some sort of breakage and this is extremely
well done all right super awesome so I
believe that one was voted for by he
stole my idea yeah no um I believe that one was voted for by the mods someone in
the chat was like B he stole my idea like yeah it's also been done before
yeah the idea of building a computer in a in an old console is not really new no
it's awesome and you did an extremely good job but it it probably wasn't your
original idea and it yeah more people will do it in the future all right sorry
I'm just trying to be careful not to leak anyone's personal information here
so would be happy about that was it guest here we go all right so we've got
our second one here here so just in case you didn't know water cooled PC desk mod
with car sound system this one's got some pretty nice
specs two 780 Ti and SLI lots of storage
holy crap seven terabytes of storage plus the
ssds although I don't think he te no he didn't make it into the 10 tab thread
unfortunately close enough and from what I've heard you're allowed to be a
heathen and posting the 10 tab thread evening if you don't have 10 tabes oh
just to like hang out with everyone if you want I guess I should I should post
our uh our server when we get our new uh Seagate drives we're getting some super
high cap Seagate drives for our for our server that are going to make us maybe
near the top of the 10 tab plus nice will we not be in red anymore because
that would be nice I'm sorry we've been riding the red line for like months uh
it's been relatively okay lately I expanded it to 21 terabytes and we
offloaded four terabytes the other day there you go nice all right wow so it
looks extremely similar to the NVIDIA
desk that we went to go see yeah that's true not exactly the same at all Y no
but the uh the horizontal reservoirs the
NVIDIA one had two completely separate pcs one on either side which which kind
of nuts didn't make a ton of sense to me but
whatever they're NVIDIA they do what they want I guess dual power supplies in
there pretty sick looking system oh yeah that is super cool gets a
lot more more sick than we had originally thought I'm face roll love
all this got a couple Optical drives in because you can like in dash console
stuff in here because you can fan controller because you can pretty much
everything about this build is because
you can sick build very very
cool so awesome I think that pretty much
wraps it up for the W show you guys thank you than you for tuning in all
over 5,000 of you I think we had around 5500 Peak you guys are fantastic we
appreciate it sorry about the problems at the beginning um we're sorry one
thing to note is that our folding team and our boink teams are super awesome so
you should go join them if you want to contribute your compute power to a good
cause uh they're both doing extremely well I don't have numbers off hand here
which wher's probably going to stab me for but join your boink team did you you
haven't no I haven't there's a few mods that are on it and I'm on it
I'm doing pretty good but I'm not at the top I think my dad might still be at the
top or someone's finally passed him that's awesome I'm not sure we got to
get him some more Hardware so he can stay there which we will be doing soon his dad helped us with the whole room
liquid cooling thing so yeah and yes we will make videos about it and no they're
not ready yet they're not even probably not coming soon yeah Ed's on vacation
for at least another week and then when he gets back if he has time then he will
start working on that project start he hasn't started yet not really like he's
done some but not it's not and there's quite a bit of footage to go through
people are yelling about the giveaway again I think we already tried um I
don't think the Forum is back up but I could
check looks like no looks like not I'm
sorry guys we'll have to we'll have to post the giveaway shortly yep all right
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that was a different ending to the van show that we don't normally do uh yes it
was I I couldn't think of anything
else Forum does seem to be back oh no there it goes never
mind cuz the thing is it came back up and then everyone was like give away and
went back and then it went back down right it's like
oh oh there's no there's no audio for the outro and also I didn't even have
the thing on well yay we carried a couch and went through a swamp it happened
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