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welcome back to another episode of viewers choice we looked back at our

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amazon affiliate data to see what you yes you thomas

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uh bullock actually bought since new year's eve and

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had a look at what kind of pc that you could build out of the most popular

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parts and this time was really interesting not only because of Intel's

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coffee lake launch that's six core cpus for the masses

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a mere seven years after AMD did it but also because RAM prices have been so

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stupid and cryptocurrency broke the GPU

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market like man

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i cannot believe how much some of you had to pay for a graphics card it's like

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actually depressing cheer up Linus

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so as much as people moaned and groaned when coffee lake was announced i mean

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it had been less than a year since kb lake and it had its own new chipset that

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was a requirement it looks like a lot of you were ready for an upgrade because

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the core i7 8700k was far and away the most popular chip

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this quarter but given its big performance bump over previous products

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that's not nearly as surprising as the way that the most popular chips

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previously the i7 7700k and i5

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7600k have been knocked way back by a

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red sea of rising processors occupying half

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of the top spots overall AMD has actually managed to

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completely catch up to Intel in CPU

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market share at least as far as our

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viewers and what they buy on amazon is concerned so

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wow great job AMD

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on to motherboards silver metal went to a z370 board with support for all of

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those 8th gen Intel chips that you guys are buying

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but when you look at the price you pay to go Intel an average of

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200. for that board i guess it makes sense that the top

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selling motherboard was actually for AMD's socket am4 the ASUS rog strix

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b350f gaming with a similar but more expensive

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variant this guy coming in third place

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also from ASUS fun fact the first

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non-asu sport doesn't appear until sixth

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place in cooler land we've got the

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combo breaker

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the forever champ of coolers cooler masters hyper 212 evo the cooler that

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tripled the sales of the runner up in our last episode has been beaten

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by none other whoops then the Corsair h100i v2 all in one liquid cooler could

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it be the RGB logo on the pump

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yeah that's probably it on to RAM

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sadly our audience hasn't been spared

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the jacked up prices Corsair's 2 by 8

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gig 3 000 megahertz vengeance kit was

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the best selling this time and last june and if you guys are

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looking at this going well there's a RAM shortage because you guys have got all of it well we've had all of this stuff

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for a long time since it was way cheaper

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this kit was an average of 75 dollars

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less last june Corsair somehow managed to get us 128gb

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of their vengeance RGB it's entirely possible that we are

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single-handedly causing the continuation of the global dram shortage so sorry

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about that which i guess is a good segue into GPU

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prices which have also been inflated due to

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demand from cryptocurrency miners while we're used

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to seeing NVIDIA gtx 1070 and 1080 cards

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on the podium this time around people mostly bought 1060s

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and specifically from evga

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but were the people buying them gamers

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well the absence of an uptick in 1060

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usage in the steam hardware survey over the same period would seem to indicate

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that no no they were not

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so does that mean that all of those cards were bought by miners

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not necessarily but consider that all but two of them

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were bought on the same day in january and that one person bought four

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and that the 1060 doesn't support four-way sli

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and all right then so then did any

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gamers buy a new GPU in 2018

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well looks like they tried the third most

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popular card was actually a gtx 1070

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inside a Gigabyte auris gaming box egpu for

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about 600 bucks so those folks had to pay for

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and presumably discard a Thunderbolt enclosure that they probably didn't want

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but hey i mean other people were paying anywhere from 500 to

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900 dollars for just the card

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so yeah

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bt dubs if you're wondering if AMD's vega made a big splash oops there it is

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um well only seven of them actually sold this quarter

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at least on in our amazon data so

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probably that's due to short supply

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now let's take a look at monitors it appears that you guys either wanted to

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spend around 500 bucks for a high refresh rate gaming monitor like a

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really an ultra wide one

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so it looks like it's the 144 hertz lg 34uc79g-b

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which i guess kind of makes sense since it merges two of the features that you

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guys have indicated are the most important to you in a display

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so anyway you either spent a lot on a gaming monitor or you think a monitor is

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a monitor as a monitor and you bought a 21.5 inch hp pavilion the best selling

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monitor on amazon for a mere 85 bucks that actually looks like a good deal

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maybe we should take a closer look at this thing let us know in the comments

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below anyway speaking of cheap stuff that

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seems to be your preference when it comes to peripherals too keyboards and

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mice from red dragon have been absolutely smashing the competition ever

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since we did those budget roundups and now the same thing is happening to

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headsets everyone was buying the hyperx twos

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forever and ever until we did our cheap headphone roundup and now they are in

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15th place with a mere seven percent of

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the sales volume of the be excellent gm

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ones now in case you were wondering the top

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selling chassis come on come on come back i'm sorry i

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know i've used that joke before just kidding i'm not sorry i'm gonna do

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it again anyway the top seller was the fantex eclipse p400s and i mean why not

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it's got a touch of RGB a splash of tempered glass and it comes in a bunch

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of different colors at a fair price what's not to like

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the most popular fan was the Noctua nf

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f12 which half of you opted to get in black completely reasonable and the

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other half went for this which i guess is also sort of reasonable and then an

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honorable mention goes to the Corsair light loop 120s that just came out last

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year they took the bronze medal with their super modern not to mention

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incredibly expensive dual RGB look

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over in storageland there was an upset

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NVMe m.2 ssds won

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for the first time ever with 250 and 500

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gig samsung 960 evos topping the list

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even though they still cost 50 percent

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more than samsung's two and a half inch runners up

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i'm attributing the wind to the price difference now being small enough to

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make the speed gains and space savings appealing to mainstream people with

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notebook upgrades also seeming like a likely driver of this category

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for spinning discs the wd one terabyte blue is still on top but interestingly

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sales of eight terabyte drives tripled

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compared to last time and while i might have initially assumed

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that this was to do with people using optane memory which is a good value way

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to accelerate an internal hard drive

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it seems like this blip has more to do with one particular model going on sale

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because upon closer inspection it's an external drive anyway

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finally who could forget the power supply

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here we've got another first evga's supernova 650 g3 80 plus gold fully

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modular psu took the chicken dinner so

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gold efficiency is finally going mainstream

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so then can we actually make a compatible pc out

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of the winning parts this time the answer is

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no thanks to that pesky am4 motherboard

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or Intel CPU depending on how you look at it but if it were compatible

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the system would actually be almost exactly

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the same price as last time and considerably faster in some tasks thanks

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to the extra couple of processing cores though it should be noted that it would

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be quite a bit slower in games because of the massive video card

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downgrade so hopefully by the next time we do one

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of these the market conditions will have improved somewhat

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