welcome back to another episode of viewers choice we looked back at our
amazon affiliate data to see what you yes you thomas
uh bullock actually bought since new year's eve and
had a look at what kind of pc that you could build out of the most popular
parts and this time was really interesting not only because of Intel's
coffee lake launch that's six core cpus for the masses
a mere seven years after AMD did it but also because RAM prices have been so
stupid and cryptocurrency broke the GPU
market like man
i cannot believe how much some of you had to pay for a graphics card it's like
actually depressing cheer up Linus
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so as much as people moaned and groaned when coffee lake was announced i mean
it had been less than a year since kb lake and it had its own new chipset that
was a requirement it looks like a lot of you were ready for an upgrade because
the core i7 8700k was far and away the most popular chip
this quarter but given its big performance bump over previous products
that's not nearly as surprising as the way that the most popular chips
previously the i7 7700k and i5
7600k have been knocked way back by a
red sea of rising processors occupying half
of the top spots overall AMD has actually managed to
completely catch up to Intel in CPU
market share at least as far as our
viewers and what they buy on amazon is concerned so
wow great job AMD
on to motherboards silver metal went to a z370 board with support for all of
those 8th gen Intel chips that you guys are buying
but when you look at the price you pay to go Intel an average of
200. for that board i guess it makes sense that the top
selling motherboard was actually for AMD's socket am4 the ASUS rog strix
b350f gaming with a similar but more expensive
variant this guy coming in third place
also from ASUS fun fact the first
non-asu sport doesn't appear until sixth
place in cooler land we've got the
combo breaker
the forever champ of coolers cooler masters hyper 212 evo the cooler that
tripled the sales of the runner up in our last episode has been beaten
by none other whoops then the Corsair h100i v2 all in one liquid cooler could
it be the RGB logo on the pump
yeah that's probably it on to RAM
sadly our audience hasn't been spared
the jacked up prices Corsair's 2 by 8
gig 3 000 megahertz vengeance kit was
the best selling this time and last june and if you guys are
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
for a long time since it was way cheaper
this kit was an average of 75 dollars
less last june Corsair somehow managed to get us 128gb
of their vengeance RGB it's entirely possible that we are
single-handedly causing the continuation of the global dram shortage so sorry
about that which i guess is a good segue into GPU
prices which have also been inflated due to
demand from cryptocurrency miners while we're used
to seeing NVIDIA gtx 1070 and 1080 cards
on the podium this time around people mostly bought 1060s
and specifically from evga
but were the people buying them gamers
well the absence of an uptick in 1060
usage in the steam hardware survey over the same period would seem to indicate
that no no they were not
so does that mean that all of those cards were bought by miners
not necessarily but consider that all but two of them
were bought on the same day in january and that one person bought four
and that the 1060 doesn't support four-way sli
and all right then so then did any
gamers buy a new GPU in 2018
well looks like they tried the third most
popular card was actually a gtx 1070
inside a Gigabyte auris gaming box egpu for
about 600 bucks so those folks had to pay for
and presumably discard a Thunderbolt enclosure that they probably didn't want
but hey i mean other people were paying anywhere from 500 to
900 dollars for just the card
so yeah
bt dubs if you're wondering if AMD's vega made a big splash oops there it is
um well only seven of them actually sold this quarter
at least on in our amazon data so
probably that's due to short supply
now let's take a look at monitors it appears that you guys either wanted to
spend around 500 bucks for a high refresh rate gaming monitor like a
really an ultra wide one
so it looks like it's the 144 hertz lg 34uc79g-b
which i guess kind of makes sense since it merges two of the features that you
guys have indicated are the most important to you in a display
so anyway you either spent a lot on a gaming monitor or you think a monitor is
a monitor as a monitor and you bought a 21.5 inch hp pavilion the best selling
monitor on amazon for a mere 85 bucks that actually looks like a good deal
maybe we should take a closer look at this thing let us know in the comments
below anyway speaking of cheap stuff that
seems to be your preference when it comes to peripherals too keyboards and
mice from red dragon have been absolutely smashing the competition ever
since we did those budget roundups and now the same thing is happening to
headsets everyone was buying the hyperx twos
forever and ever until we did our cheap headphone roundup and now they are in
15th place with a mere seven percent of
the sales volume of the be excellent gm
ones now in case you were wondering the top
selling chassis come on come on come back i'm sorry i
know i've used that joke before just kidding i'm not sorry i'm gonna do
it again anyway the top seller was the fantex eclipse p400s and i mean why not
it's got a touch of RGB a splash of tempered glass and it comes in a bunch
of different colors at a fair price what's not to like
the most popular fan was the Noctua nf
f12 which half of you opted to get in black completely reasonable and the
other half went for this which i guess is also sort of reasonable and then an
honorable mention goes to the Corsair light loop 120s that just came out last
year they took the bronze medal with their super modern not to mention
incredibly expensive dual RGB look
over in storageland there was an upset
NVMe m.2 ssds won
for the first time ever with 250 and 500
gig samsung 960 evos topping the list
even though they still cost 50 percent
more than samsung's two and a half inch runners up
i'm attributing the wind to the price difference now being small enough to
make the speed gains and space savings appealing to mainstream people with
notebook upgrades also seeming like a likely driver of this category
for spinning discs the wd one terabyte blue is still on top but interestingly
sales of eight terabyte drives tripled
compared to last time and while i might have initially assumed
that this was to do with people using optane memory which is a good value way
to accelerate an internal hard drive
it seems like this blip has more to do with one particular model going on sale
because upon closer inspection it's an external drive anyway
finally who could forget the power supply
here we've got another first evga's supernova 650 g3 80 plus gold fully
modular psu took the chicken dinner so
gold efficiency is finally going mainstream
so then can we actually make a compatible pc out
of the winning parts this time the answer is
no thanks to that pesky am4 motherboard
or Intel CPU depending on how you look at it but if it were compatible
the system would actually be almost exactly
the same price as last time and considerably faster in some tasks thanks
to the extra couple of processing cores though it should be noted that it would
be quite a bit slower in games because of the massive video card
downgrade so hopefully by the next time we do one
of these the market conditions will have improved somewhat
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