well I can only hope this is working because honestly it's been of a bit of a
been a bit of a challenge to set up tonight uh I had to move locations and
I've completely changed the way that I'm doing the whole live capture thing so
traditionally I mean I can't really call it traditional if I've only really been
doing this for a month but traditionally I've been using a shuttle PC actually
I'm going to go I'm going to go find it because I'm like super mad at this
computer right now not impressed at all
so I have been using sorry for the
noise this shuttle PC this is a
uh uh oh some phones going off right
here this one so this is a z68 shuttle
PC it's got dual PCI Express slots so
it's got a 16x and a 4X so I was like oh this is brilliant so I can just make
like a like a dual HDMI capture PC and
then and like it'll be awesome because it'll be super portable and like awesome
and stuff and what ended up happening is
with my black magic intensity Pro HDMI capture cards uh yeah it was it was
causing blue screens it was causing just general incompatibility like I would I
would know that I had the settings right
and then it just wouldn't work at all and it ended up that the problem was
actually the just some kind of maybe a PCIe timing incompatibility or something
like that and it just did not work so
what I did was I threw the two capture cards into a
different motherboard in this case it's an ap8 z77 V premium and everything is
working 100% fine and I really hope that
this stream is working this is my first time checking on Twitch to make sure
it's actually going and it looks like it is so yay excellent um um crank up the
volume crank up the volume is is that a consensus crank up the volume and yes
I'm sorry I'm late guys I'm very sorry I
yeah was having some trouble that was
not good okay some people are saying volume is good some people are saying
volume is low so I'm going to go ahead
and turn it up a little bit I'm just going to turn up a little bit turn up a
little bit okay just a little bit I'm just going to go over here I'm adjust
the camera audio level here we go let's
turn it up that much
okay all right so I'm going to try talking again how's that sound to you
guys do we good we good all right yes I
know there's an echo you know what too bad there's nothing I can do I'll all my
ears people are either saying bad okay you know what forget it you guys I'm leaving it the way it is just turn your
volume down it's really hard um
what was I saying right yes I know the echo is terrible I'm 100% aware of that
trust me the reason that the echo is terrible is that the room I'm in has
okay you know I'm just going to I'm just going to go over to the camera here I'm going to show you guys the room I'm in
and hopefully I'll be able to actually fix the here I'm just going to change
the camera completely to auto mode because I know nothing of how cameras
work I can't I can't even I can't even find the I can't even find
the auto mode button yeah there it is camera auto mode okay so I'm going to
show you guys the room that I'm in I'm actually going to turn this way so this
is a bare wall this is a hardwood floor these
things are bad for Echo very bad that's
my drying machine and that's my cat carrier Rumble had to go to the vet
today he's been throwing up so uh that's not good here's like video setion
um here's my light here is the room that's on the
other side of the camera so if you guys have watched any of my recent videos you
may recognize you know this table and uh
there's always gear sort of lying around here this table and this fireplace and
uh
um couches so yeah see these though bare
walls and see that looks like a carpet but ah
more hardwood flooring so the problem with hardwood flooring is that it is
very terrible for Echo so I had a lot of people suggest in the video that I uh
that I uploaded before with uh with the with the new set that I wear a lapel mic
and what those people apparently didn't seem to notice is that I was wearing a
LEL mic so while I appreciate the
suggestion hold on I'm just going to get the Focus right here while I appreciate
the suggestion um what they should have noticed in all the high defa Glory that
was the uh the new style video setup I had a lapel mic on my shirt so the lapel
mic does address the issue of
the uh of the sort of the echo because
it's it's not a shotgun mic that's so far away from me but it does not address
the problem where if I'm turning to one side or turning to the other side the
volume changes up and down so what I
really want to do is get a boom mic set up so that it can sit kind of just out
of the shot right here so I can use a shotgun mic that's very close to me but
then not have to worry about uh about
which direction I'm facing exactly in order to get some kind of
even lighting or even lighting even
microphone sound going on sorry guys it has actually been the longest week ever
and hopefully at some point I'll be able to share with you guys exactly exactly
what was going on but uh yes it's been very very tough um people are asking for
the warehouse sale preview so the only the only thing I can think of right now
is that if I were to upload the warehouse sale preview then um I'm just
a little bit concerned that it will affect the
streaming here that's going on so why
don't we just try it and see what happens so the warehouse sale preview is
just on my SD card here you guys can you guys can come along for the ride if you
want see this is my new way of switching between camera views see I can switch
here so you can see I'm going to go into my SD card and I'm going to upload this
and you guys are going to have to let me know in the twitch chat hopefully if
that just has totally destroyed the uh the
streaming are we still good good are we still
good okay sweet looks like no one's
complaining yet so NCIX October 20th
Warehouse sale
Extravaganza see this is this is how I upload videos it's uh it's actually not
not rocket science this whole YouTube thing you just got to sort of keep added
and make lots and lots and lots of videos so
visit this link for more W I spelled it
wrong for more details so I actually had a guest filmed
the the warehouse sale preview uh if you
guys aren't familiar with what the warehouse sale is the warehouse sale
basically refers to um once every
quarter or so trying to switch there we go once every quarter or so NC takes all
the open box stuff and hopefully this gives you guys some idea what happens to
some of the open box stuff that that I open up so they take all the open box
stuff put it all into like a big room and then um sell it for like half price
so people line up all night in fact I was there at 700 p.m. I was at the
office today and people were already
lined up for the warehouse sale which starts tomorrow morning so people get
super super excited about all this stuff
uh people are asking how long the live stream is for the live stream is going
to be until about 10:30 my time so it'll
be about an hour and a half so far why
don't we take some time and do some do some Twitter questions so I'm not sure
how well this is going to work tonight because I'm oh this is this is going to
be this is going to be a problem okay you know what we're going to have to do
is we're going to have to rely on Twitter on this screen here because
because I'm using two computers to
capture as opposed to how I'm normally using a single computer to capture and
use Twitter so see I I'm using this laptop for my own you um I I could not
figure out a way like you can use xsplit to capture a portion of the
screen on the computer that you're actually using but you cannot use xsplit
to capture a portion of the screen uh or
a portion of a video in stream if you guys understand what I mean because I'm
I'm using HTMI out on this notebook into
a capture card on the computer over there and then what I would want to do
is take the Twitter portion here which
you guys can see on the right and then draw a box around that and make it so
that I can overlay that on top of me sitting here and talking sort of like
this except that that Twitter feed right there is actually on the computer over
there which means I actually can't read it from here nor can I control it unless
I had a wireless keyboard M you know what a better solution might actually be
instead of using a laptop here just get a wireless wireless keyboard and mouse
and a and a Monitor and sit here like that so that I can uh and then I'll just
clone the displays and then I'll be able to monitor things more more closely I
think that'll be a better solution in future but we're learning things every
week and at least we've got the awesome new camera to use I actually haven't
done any fine tuning with the lights today I think I look a little bit washed out but I've got diesel coming over this
weekend and he's going to be giving me a big hand uh with all of the well fact
that I don't know how to use a camera and he'll be he'll be getting everything
all fixed everything you guys saw shot already so all of the uh all of like the
new set new set stuff so here let's just
go back to the YouTubes oh that's what happens if you
spell YouTube wrong all right then I'm
lucky I didn't end up with like a porn website because I think that this live
stream is supposed to stay pretty uh pretty familyfriendly so if you guys
haven't already seen any of the new set footage yes I know it's not really my
style and I know it's like kind of a little bit too professional
for for a lot of the viewers tastes but
um it's something that I that I do have to do for a variety of reasons which
will become more clear later and uh it's something
that yeah wow that just looks kind of that looks kind of terrible I'm going to
have to start wearing makeup which is which is sort of brutal it's something
that I do want to continue to work on but I need a Diesel's help in order to
get the production values right and in order to just kind of make it better in
general uh we didn't have nearly as much time as I would have liked to spend on
that Galaxy Note 10.1 video but what I'm going to try and do is play around with
it a little bit this week and I've actually got something really cool you
guys you guys might even you guys might even really like this check this out so
here's the power adapter super small power
adapter this is what I'll be playing around with this weekend this notebook
carrying case is the ultimate accessory for your notebook you should buy no I'm
just kidding you shouldn't buy one today um what I do have though is a Windows 8
touchscreen notebook from Samsung this is a series 5 so what that means is that
once you boot it up and hopefully the boot up time you know what let's find
out how quick the boot up time is because that's one of the big things about Windows 8 is dramatically improved
boot up times let's see if we can like see the camera through the screen oh is
it done already oh it wants me to activate Windows okay go to PC settings
and then maybe I'll just go away from PC settings haha then I can just use it so
this is the not Metro interface that's how quickly Windows 8 boots up this is a
multi-touch touchscreen notebook one of the things I've noticed about it already
and I'm a little bit disappointed in is the viewing angle so what I find is that
really expensive touchscreen interfaces like the ones Apple uses like the ones
that ASUS uses on their very high-end uh products still have phenomenal viewing
angles so you can be looking at it from like you know here I'll hold up to the
camera you be looking at it from like this angle and you'll still be able to
make everything out really well it's like an IPS panel and the the touch
screen doesn't obscure it but what I've noticed about this one is whether it's
due to the fact that it's a TN panel or whether it's due to the touchscreen
interface watch watch what happens with the uh watch what happens with the
viewing angle here as I tilt it up so you see you actually don't have to get
that low and the image almost disappears entirely all the color washes out of it
uh from the top down is is not nearly as is not nearly as noticeable from the
sides you lose all the color but the image stays clear either way I'm mostly
just excited about the idea of sort of having the option of using a keyboard
and a touchscreen at the same time I did an NCI Tech tips about this whole sort
of touchscreen keyboard hybrid thing
that's going on and I'm actually not sure if that one's uploaded yet let's
have a let's have a quick look here uh yeah Windows 8 gestures guide and then I
also did I also did another one so NC Windows
so here I'm showing sort of how to how the experience is going to go this one's
really old uh Windows 8 ah yes this one
now I can't say that I'm entirely sold
like I like I've been playing around with it a fair bit this one was uploaded
on September 21st so I've been I've been tinkering with this for over a month and
while I am sold on the idea of touchcreen with Windows 8 and uh and
having a keyboard handy what I like and I don't know if you guys can see my
mouse pointer here I'm just going to turn the quality down so that uh so that
doesn't kill the bandwidth here but I don't know if you guys can see my mouse pointer here but you see the keyboard
okay so the keyboard has a certain sort of okay let's just find a shot that we
can just pause okay so the keyboard has a certain distance from the monitor you
never have unlike with a laptop you never have a monitor right like right up
against your keyboard no one no one uses a computer like that I mean here I'll
point you at this one to show you sort of this is what I consider to be a more
oh you know what you're not really even going to be able to see that but whatever there's there's a there's a
keyboard there and there's a monitor sort of there but whatever don't worry about it
um so that's what I consider to be more normal plus when you're sitting at a
desk when you're you know desktop
experience kind of computer usage
model you typically have some room between the desk and yourself so what I
discovered playing around with the touchcreen monitor is that I actually
end up far enough away that it's not really comfortable so it's very
comfortable to use a device with your ARM like think of think of the ergonomics of it so you got your ARM
kind of bent kind of like this so you got that sort of 100° 110° angle and
that's how you would typically use a touchscreen device if you're extending
any further than that to reach the monitor then you're going to have a lot
more fatigue I mean it's like Leverage right the further out the weight is from
your shoulder joint and your elbow the more pressure there's going to be on it
so if you're like this it's very comfortable if you're like this it's
actually quite uncomfortable so with a notebook experience I think this is a
lot more exciting because here I'm going to kind of put this no I can't quite do
that okay I'm going to put this here because with the notebook experience you're sitting this far away from it
which means I can reach it with what I'd consider to be that optimal ARM Bend
without it being uncomfortable so I'm
not I mean yeah no one knows knows what the future holds in terms of Windows 8
and the adoption rate and what it's going to mean to to to everyone but I
can tell you guys I have already found myself once in a while sort of reaching
towards the screen of my computer and realizing it's not a touchcreen because
I'm so used to using a smartphone and a tablet people are asking for Q&A so I
think it's time to do some Q&A here let's go ahead and switch to the Twitter
feed which
come on really really for crying out loud okay Twitter
here we go guys one new tweet really that can't be right am I not signed in
oh I'm not signed in well that won't work lonus Tech and what is my
password let's hope that's it and that is apparently not it which
which is sort of bizarre because I changed it like 2 minutes ago because I
wasn't able to sign in and I'm very very
sure that that's the correct password so
uh you guys are going to have to I'm sorry but you're going to have to bear with me here for a second while I reset
my password which is
ridiculous oh brilliant apparent okay there we go I was like oh my goodness
this is this total disaster fter because I couldn't even switch back to my uh I
couldn't even switch back to my regular feed here it really has not been it has not
been my week I've slept very little and it's been very very challenging I mean
yeah I'm sure you guys have uh I'm sure you guys have definitely definitely had
weeks like that
before uhhuh okay now they're going to
send me a message if apparently at least I hope
so cuz I'd love to do some Q&A right now
cuz that's sort of usually pretty simple
to do now I'm just stalling for time I had
people asking about my shirt before they think it's an everyday I'm shuffling
shirt but actually it's a badminton joke
and the badminton joke is everyday I'm shuttling see so it's like uh badminton
shuttles and then he's holding a badminton rack it so it's slightly
different but it's just a bit of a it's a bit of a joke based on the uh the
Party Rock Anthem song that it's pretty
good if you're into that sort of thing
no no it's really really really not
going to let me in to Twitter right now which is um phenomenally frustrating so
it's asking me to enter my phone number oh hold on this is this is not good this
is not good so here this see this is
this this is this is how it's supposed to work I'm supposed to type my username
and click submit and ah there we go this time it worked awesome so we'll be live
in just a moment with more Q&A let me see if there's oh oh oh we're good we're
good here we go here we
go and we are done so I am very sure
that I am entering the password that I think I'm entering this time and if it
manages to not accept this password again I'm going to be very very
disappointed all right connect time for
tweets can you tell us all what laptop that is
and what's inside it actually I have no
idea what is inside this laptop right
now at this moment I uh I do know that it's a Samsung laptop it's a series 5 it
comes with Windows 8 it has okay this is
driving me absolutely crazy the range isn't quite right on this stupid uh
Bluetooth thing it has um something yeah
it's a series 5 it has USB 3 I mean it's
pretty similar to the existing Series 5 which is the n something 540u and then
this is the NT 540u which is touch funny story though is this notebook actually
has an enormous scratch down the back panel you see that because Samsung's
been taking it around to a wide variety of trade shows so what I actually had to
do in order to shoot my video showcase of the notebook and have it not look
phenomenally stupid is I grabbed a uh I grabbed a 540 U and then I'm going to go
ahead and I'm going to pretend that the back of that notebook is the back of
this notebook book and then the front of this notebook is the is the the back of
the other one so that's uh that's my little trick the kinds of things that go
on behind the scenes right uh here so let's switch back to
the Twitter feed what video card manufacturer would
you say is best for a novice well whether you're a novice or an
experienced whatever it is that you are so maybe you mean you're a novice buyer
novice gamer I don't know doesn't matter video card manufacturer is just whoever
manufactures your video card so guys like EVGA Seuss MSI uh these are all
very good choices XFX if I had to pick sort of my top four those would be them
it's very hard to go wrong with any of those guys at all make the best gaming
PC under 600 bucks
um really guys I get a lot of questions
um about what is sort of the best option for a PC for a given price range and
what I usually end I mean honestly guys I get literally hundreds of messages
every day and people are often asking asking me sort of long complicated
questions I don't have time and it's
really not that hard to find out what's a good option for a pre-built
PC really really let's go come on there you
go because you guys as you probably know I work at NCIX so you click buy a PC you
click gaming okay you want $600 you go
to Value gaming you find a computer that's
$600 that was probably configured by crazy Russian so there you go core I3
GTX 650 OC 4 gigs DDR3 memory 500 gig
hard drive Windows Home Premium you want to spend a little okay don't get that
one that one sucks but uh yeah there you go besta I3 3010 what I would probably
do is I would consider changing that GeForce card over to something like a
7770 i' find it to be a little bit of a better value or spend a little bit more
and get a 650 TI but uh yeah I mean when
it comes to choosing a configuration find a configuration
um send it to me and I will happily go through it and make any suggestions but
I can't take questions like lonus what's the best gaming PC for 1,400 uh Great
Britain pounds and I'm just kind of like okay well a I don't work in that
frequency I have no freaking idea how much things cost and then B it's like
well do a little bit of the leg work put together something you think is right
send it over to me and I'll say things like oh spend more on the video card
maybe drop down the CPU uh get a better power supply and that case is way too
expensive for the other components you're buying dump that back into
getting more performance and then grab an SSD or something along those lines
I'll give you an idea of how to tweak the machine in order to get the best
value out of it sunny asks what do I
think about Intel's Haswell architecture how much of an performance increase
should we expect over Ivy Bridge um
right now I can't think anything about Haswell because Haswell is not out right
now so there's not a whole lot for me to say I mean it's Intel so my expect is
pretty solid it's going to be I I believe this is is this a talk or a tick
can't remember but this is an actual architectural shift whereas Ivy Bridge
was just a process shrink so it's
probably going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 20% performance
Improvement and uh that's that's sort
that's sort of it it's pretty much always like that and then AMD will fall
even further behind which for those of us who who really enjoyed the Athlon 64
era when AMD basically revolutionized the whole
gig um it's sort of sort of
saddening NVIDIA 650 TI or radon 7770 I
don't game a lot I just want something better than my Xbox um personally I'd
probably go 650 TI out of those two um I do I do find the NVIDIA experience a
little bit better for certain things if you did want to go multim monitor then
I'd go AMD however if you're going to go multim monitor then the 7770 is the
wrong choice anyway because it's way underpowered for a multim monitor
setup okay ah Donnie says how are you liking
your German car why did you choose a Volkswagen over another Honda good
question I did not um my wife's car is
the Volkswagen Rabbit and my car is the Honda Civic the only reason that we've
switched Vehicles is because her car is a twoo and mine's a four-door and
because she's on maternity leave with the baby she's usually the one driving
in places which means it's a lot more convenient to load the car seat into the
back seat of a car that is a four-door as opposed to a twodo it's uh you're not
allowed to put baby car seats in the front seat at least here in Canada
anyway due to the regulations and laws and whatnot so um so that's that's why
we that's why we ended up going that route um so she's going to want her car
back at some point Shane ask are you going to do an
unboxing of the new AMD pile driver chips when they come out what do you think of them I actually have all
already done more than an unboxing slicks run a whole bunch of benchmarks
and whatnot and we've got performance numbers against the previous generation
AMD chips and that's all going to go up on the ncixcom channel on launch day
which is sometime next week if I recall correctly um this this this is this is a
great question Francesco asks is that a Playboy mouse
pad to which I would answer yes indeed it is this is a funk pad this is an 1030
archetype this thing is is one of a kind
as far as I know because funk's whole thing Funk was actually a local
Vancouver company their entire manufacturing was like down the street
from NC and this was something that was produced as a oneoff for a former
employee of NC he had the uh he had The
Misfortune to leave it in my sight for long enough that I managed to snag it
actually he he uh he moved he moved to our Ontario Office and left it behind in
his BC office which I inherited so I totally snagged the the one-of aind
unique Playboy mouse pad for myself it's actually an excellent mouse pad too
that's the difference between This and like most promotional mouse pads which
are usually crap because any kind of a
graphic on a mouse pad unless it's a really good surface is just going to
destroy the tracking I mean I love a
cool looking mouse pad with a great picture on it as much as the next guy
but unless they do a perfect job of the
surface itself it's going to every time you cross one of those light to dark
barriers pretty much no matter how good your mouse is it is going to jump or
skip or pause or something bad something bad will happen a great example of this
is the uh the game pads that Intel was giving away with one of their recent
promotions so I'll uh I'll see if I oh I gone full screen I'll see if I can find
these game pads cuz they're cool they're really big and okay Intel Intel Gamepad
they're really big they look um
hm Intel
pad oh that's sort of bizarre Mouse oh
okay whatever I can't find it but uh they're really cool they're huge and
they had this great graphic of like some guy who's like and and they're they're
fantastic but you couldn't they could they tracked for crap and I couldn't
even use them unfortunately but uh an example of someone who does do it right
would be steel Series so most of their pads that I've had experience with
anyway with complicated graphics on them such as the uh what's that badass Dragon
Warcraft I don't know some Dragon was on the front of some mouse pad it tracked
great and like their Diablo 3 qck also is fantastic so uh they they do a pretty
good job of that as well let's have a look at some more tweets shout out to Scottish people okay you bet family
friendly yes I'm family friendly what do you think this is um the mouse I'm using
right now is not a g600 I'm actually not
not quite sure what to think of the g600 I spent a little bit of time with it
when I first got it and what I noticed is that it doesn't it doesn't feel quite
as Twitchy responsive as my G9 really
like the G9 really like the aari laser I really like the razor Naga although the
ergonomics aren't great for me but the sensor feels really good feels really
tight um really responsive whereas with the with the g600 I don't know what it
is it's very accurate like I can decide where I want the pointer to be I can
move and it's there but it just feels like it took a little bit longer and no
amount of tinkering with the DPI or installing the drivers or playing around
with it really fixed it for me it's just a personal preference thing I'm very
picky about mice so um so yeah no I'm
I'm not using the g600 although I was playing around with it yesterday but I
it hasn't it hasn't managed to make its way onto my actual onto my actual system
desk although my actual system is in so many pieces right now that check this
out I actually have pieces of my desktop machine right here right here for your
uh for your enjoyment and taunting during this very live stream see these
are these are my boot drives and then
uh these are the rest of my boot drives so if you guys don't already know I have
an 8 drive raid zero for my uh for my boot drive on my desktop machine so
that's a total of just shy of a terabyte of SSD storage I have them all in raid
zero I know that seems unwise but I'm doing nightly backups and I also don't
really keep anything of value on my computer U all of my storage is actually
done through through Windows Home Server so all I do is I just access over the
network everything that I could possibly need I have a gigabit Network in my home
so it's not like it's any slower than a mechanical hard drive I mean think about
this for a second guys gigabit is basically for sort of stupid math 1110th
um is around 100 megabytes per second so what that means is that a hard
drive which is capable of okay sustained maybe a little higher maybe 160 180
megabytes per second and that's an internal hard drive so on the other end
of that gigabit pip I have an enormous raid six hooked up to a very fancy RAID
controller card that is actually going to give better responsiveness than a
single internal hard drive even though the Max B bandwidth is a little bit
lower so for me browsing files on my network storage and I know people seem
to kind of get bored when I um
when I talk a lot about network storage and whatnot um but you know what guys it
is so awesome I mean it's totally responsive I can go into any archive
unboxings and I can just play things over the network just like this it does
not take any longer than it does if I'm storing the files locally also it
prevents me from running into situations where I have multiple copies of my files
all over my house and I'm and I'm duplicating what I would otherwise be
able to store in all one place so people
are people are bored bored ywn bored lus
go on Twitter that's that's what the twitch chat is saying so you you you got
you guys are you guys are killing me here fine I'll do more Twitter
questions so why would you would you use an amd10 5800 I would use an i53570 out
of all of those options for a computer that is going to use to fix photos for
eBay that's the only use for this computer I I would use a sempron um I
wouldn't I'd try not to overthink it too
much okay any good mice that are
left-handed or can be used left-handed that you know of yeah steel Series has a
couple good ones the Sensei is probably the best option for an ambidextrous
mouse that has a fantastic sensor good software and let's move along to the
next Twitter question no I haven't had a chance to use the Phoenix Nita
Mouse haven't used the razor roros either I haven't even heard of that have
big hands like small mice live on Vancouver Island so Staples is the only
real testing place for mice best smaller Mouse if I was buying a smaller Mouse
today you know what the G9 is really not
that big so that might be an option for you if you take a lot of the weight out
of it it has the removable uh removable weight cartridges inside so I don't know
if you guys have used a G9 before but once you take the once you take the
outer the outer shell it actually comes with a smaller outer shell as well but
then you can actually take out the the weight cartridge and it's it's really
not that heavy it's super heavy once you put all the weights on it but that might
be a good option for you other than that if you play any MMOs or if you would
have any reason to use the macro Keys uh
razor Naga is an excellent NOS I really really like
it uh okay so let's scroll down a little
bit uh here's a good question so can you
explain raid I would love to explain expl raid for you here's how I'm going
to do it youtube.com let's see let's let's
actually you know what that let's try RAID hard drive or something like that
let's try a keyword that might work because raid's going to have lots of other stuff oh I failed okay let's try
raid lus really oh it brings up a bunch of
Linux search instead for raid Linus come on you can do it there we go see raid
zero and raid one setup guide preview of a raid build um ssds and raid think
there's another one that I did on raid five and six there it is raid five and
RAID 10 tutorial okay apparently I didn't cover raid six but yes I have
covered explaining raid in pretty good depth on a number of occasions so you
definitely want to check out those videos but in summary raid is using
multiple Drives together in order to achieve either better data uh security
or better speed uh Laro asks how good is the FX
6100 what I have to say about AMD's products stack is that it is priced
appropriately I saw a really interesting news article where someone was talking
about how holy crap AMD's new Chips um
because there there's lots of leaks in terms of pricing and performance and all
that stuff holy crap AMD's new chips are going to be priced like super low
they're coming in at a very very aggressive price and oh how exciting is
this and my response to that is whenever you hear anything about pricing for an
upcoming video card or an upcoming CPU what that should tell you is how well it
performs because AMD is not stupid
Intel's not stupid NVIDIA is not stupid they take their new product and they go
okay so here this is where the
competitor's product is here at $200 and this is where the competitor's product
here is at $100 and we know our chip performs about here so we'll price it at
$150 it's not rocket science you can probably extrapolate the performance of
any upcoming part based on the rumors about pricing well before it ever comes
out so there you go how it is an fx 6100
it is exactly
M FX
6100 it is exactly $100 good which in
terms of sort of equivalent to what you'd see on the Intel side is sort of
like you know the core I3 level um and
honestly that's that's probably about where it falls the exceptions being
heavily threaded workloads for example diesel is now using an fx 8150 in his
rendering machine um and he says it has made a big difference for him over his
existing he had a q he had either a q6600 or a q9550 he
said it's been like an awesome like phenomenal upgrade for him because all
those threads is great for doing things like color correction postprocessing and
all the fancy hoo-ha that he's that he's usually working
on any good ergonomic gaming keyboards honestly not really the whole ergonomic
keyboard thing has kind of fallen out of Vogue lately um I have had a Microsoft
natural back in the day I loved it but there's not really anything specifically
for gaming why is Slick's identity such a closely guarded secret honestly it's
not really I mean people have uh people have seen him there's footage of slick
on YouTube it's as it's as difficult as going like this uh
slick um
Linus slick revealed there you go first hit and well that's slick with a bag on
his head but this is I think this is slick filming something at one of the uh
at one of the live events that we've done so yeah it's not really that big of a secret it's just one of those things
where generally speaking like think about it you go to see a play do the
people who like run out and move the set around do they do they have a spotlight
on them do they show their faces not really it's just how it's done when
you're part of the crew you're supposed to I mean diesel calls it show black
you're supposed to wear black so that you're not going to get caught in the reflections you're supposed to stay at a
Reflections you're supposed to be quiet! because otherwise you're going to you're
going to ruin the shot and you're not supposed to be making the Run not necessarily starring
in the however I think slick is actually considering using the uh the twitch
channel here to potentially do some gameplay streaming videos and let you
guys play some games with him and stuff so I'll I'll bug him about that but I
think it'll have to be sometime after um
after he's done his exam so Slick's still a student just like edel they
actually both go to school at the same place so uh so yeah once he's done his
exams then we'll then we'll be having a different convers ation shout out from
Manila okay can do uh yeah I'm not doing
I'm not doing the ABC's backwards in ASL I already showed I know how to do it
mount a cheap laser on your camera so you know if it's filming at the right
position instead of checking back on your monitor that is interesting what
I'm actually checking on the monitor is whether my switching is working or not
so uh good suggestion love it but uh but
the the reason I'm doing that is actually slightly different from from
what's going on cuz the the less link between this thing is actually not that
good infusion says we have the same Mouse I love my g9x I actually have a G9
but you know close enough you tried really hard that's good uh what do you
think is better Big Bang X power or Rampage 5 extreme um out of those two I
would probably well Big Bang X power is an x58 board for one thing so I think
you mean the big bang X power 2 I would personally go Rampage 5 extreme for one
reason and that's because it's actually still in a standard ATX length um
whereas the Big Bang X power 2 is um is
an XL ATX length and really doesn't fit in a lot of cases I mean there are cases
it fits in but um I I like the Silverstone tj07 I like not being locked
to sort of 5% of the cases that are out
there because of the length of my motherboard I prefer going the other way
around uh do you think the 650 TI is a good bang for the buck yeah it's good um
do you think it would perform well as an egpu electronic GPU maybe he means
external GPU with one of those enclosures not quite sure what he means by GPU so I I tried I tried have a Time
pressured extreme PC Building and modding contest with slick against Logan
and his team you know what probably not a bad idea that kind of thing would be
very very fun so I'm not going to say that that's not something that will
happen in the future speaking of things that'll happen in the future I don't
know if you guys are familiar with the PC per podcast or if you're familiar
with PC per in general so PC perspective is a website on the internets and they
have a podcast and I will actually be making a guest appearance on that
podcast next week so if you guys want to tune in that's cool if you don't want to
tune in honestly that's cool too it doesn't really make that much of a difference to me so that'll be on the
25th I believe it's every Thursday I
don't even know what time it is I think it's around noon my time so so noon my
time is uh
um whatever time it is your time get a world clock you know what there's a
widget in Windows so you just like add that time zone clock to your to the side
of your thing and then you won't have too much too much trouble with that
moving right along more TT and I knocked
over my keyboard that I use for switching awesome I'm like a rock star
today this is amazing you use many different web browsers including Opera
yes I do the reason I do that is because I have many different Google accounts
and while you can now although I don't believe you used to be able to do it
while you can add additional Google accounts signed in under the same
browser I find it actually less convenient to to use it that way than to
just have five different browsers that are all logged into five different Google accounts and just kind of
remember I mean I remember Firefox is for Linus at NC uh Internet Explorer is
for NC Tech tips Chrome is for Linus Tech tips Safari is for Linus cat tips
and then Opera as sort of a utility one if I need to log into one of my other
variety of Gmail accounts H use 6950 or new 7870 you know
what I'd probably go with the new 7870 uh 78 7 is a great value these days and
it can overclock like like a boss George
says it's the first time tuning in live thank you for tuning in live George I
appreciate it very very much what would you recommend for cheap
and efficient power supply you know what you've probably narrowed it down to one
of the best choices out there a lot of
people ask me for power supply advice and then totally ignore me they ask me
for power supply advice and I say get a high efficiency 650 550 750 watt power
supply and they kind of go oh wus what do you think of this 1,000 wat 80 plus
platinum and I kind of go well it's a good power supply but based on the
configuration you showed me that's going to suck 250 to 300 watts from the wall
maximum you're actually going to be getting worse efficiency out of a higher
capacity power supply than you would out of a lower capacity one it's not about
buying the biggest power supply it's about buying the most optimized power
supply so if you're getting a single GPU gaming rig an EA 650 Platinum is
actually an excellent choice way to go wow Goron Goron Goron I don't know if
anyone can pronounce that you get three points on the internets I'm interested
in network storage that's fantastic Andreas George asks best silent fans I
get this question a lot because I'm a bit of a silence dork no TOA F where is
it kn to a where is it something something F12
there you go buy this just buy it and be
done with it this is an amazing fan it
is just amazing in every way it sends
the air where you want it to go it has awesome static pressure it just it's
just it's magical if you hate the color scheme there are other options out there
uh bit Phoenix Spectre Pros are pretty good um GED wings are pretty good uh be
quiet fans I've heard excellent things about and the one that I checked out was
was excellent as well so there are other options if you ABS oh ah scy gentle
typhoons are awesome as well U most of them you're going to have to undervolt
the nocas come with all the adapters you need to run them super quiet and I'm
just so impressed with NOA every day all
day every day that I just recommend it anytime someone asks me for the best
silent fan what's your thought on Dual
radiators in a water cooled build and what kind of heat would it require for
them to be useful honestly you can take advantage of a dual
rad uh with just a CPU Loop um single
RADS are not good enough and it's a it's pretty simple physics to be perfectly
honest because heat dissipation is all about surface area and I'm sorry I'm
kind of walking away because I'm trying to figure out if I have a heat sink
anywhere around here that I can show you guys so heat dissipation is
um is surface area and then you have
fans applying moving air to that surface
area to carry the heat away so what that means is that if you have a radiator
that has less surface area than a heat
sink then it should stand to reason that
the performance of said radiator will actually be less than a heat sink people
ask me all the time about like Corsair h60 h60 great product makes your system
look tidier um it looks nice it um has water in
doesn't perform nearly as well as tons
of air coolers on the market because it's so little surface area oh what it
does do is it removes a fan from your system although it adds a pump so it's
from a silence perspective I don't even know if it even makes sense so what so
it's got this tiny tiny surface area what it does have as an advantage is the
ability to draw heat away from the CPU more quickly because it's using water
however if you can't dissipate that heat from the radiator fast enough the water
just War warms up and warms up and warms up until it reaches an equilibrium point
where the water rushing around the loop is at you know 45° and then even if it's
holding it even even if the CPU block is efficient enough to take 45 degree water
and keep your CPU at 70° then I mean
fantastic you got a 70° CPU that's not better than air cooling so I really
recommend if you're going to get a pre-done water cooler get an h80 get an
h100 a dual red makes a huge difference
and then a thick red makes a big difference as well however if you really
want to go water cooling the way to do it is to get a custom custom Loop custom
Loop is is awesome and the way that bosses Do It um trying to change my
thing here I hate this thing I have a
better wireless keyboard but I used this one cuz I thought you know cuz it's
really low profile it would be awesome but this is this is not working tonight
going to test the 7h thanks to you good job should I buy The Fanatic or the
normal one there is no difference oh apparently there's a little difference
with the ear cups okay I have no idea it's the same headphones um when I use
the 7hs I personally prefer the uh the
pley ear cups as opposed to the fabric
ones so if you're interested in my
thoughts on it at all then I would probably go that
route do you think AMD will beat NVIDIA within blah blah blah with the 8,000
series you know what it doesn't matter um it's the same old thing every time
everyone wants to speculate about the new AMD thing or the new NVIDIA thing or
the new Intel thing how will it perform how will it be priced you know what it's
it'll perform better it'll be priced the same and then the prices will erode as
the as the uh the market gets flooded with parts and then something new will
come out and it will replace
it and that'll be that so yeah some something will happen
and someone will release something and honestly until we get closer like we
haven't even seen any solid rumors about 8,000 Series so I'm not even thinking
about it I'm actually curious to see if AMD even calls it 8,000 series I mean I
was I was surprised when NVIDIA released a 9800 graphics card because that was a
number that AMD had used before well ATI I guess at the time ATI had used before
with the Radeon 9800 Pro so it was uh it
was it was quite quite puzzling to me
that they that they decided to go that route and release a 9 800 to go along
with their their competitor's
9800 okay M tamore Twitter questions
yay thank you minus I'm in the market
for a new mechanical gaming keyboard I see you have the cor a k90 and I want to
know your thoughts I do not use a
Corsair k90 I'm not sure where you saw me use a Corsair k90 probably on the set
of NC Tech tips so the k90 looks
fantastic it is like the best looking keyboard it has individually backlit
Keys it's got that gorgeous aluminum like thing going on um I'm personally
not a big fan of cherry red switches so I'm actually using a meic cyel 60 I've
got a couple 7gs in deployment I still use my g15 gen 1 from time to time
although that's not a mechanical keyboard I'm more of a cherry cherry
Blue cherry well can't use blue cuz I have a baby in the house now and he'll
wake up if I use Cherry Blues they're so loud I'm more of a black Black Cherry MX
switch user although I just got my hands
on the new Logitech whatever it is I think it's the 710 plus this is very
exciting 710 let's try
searching is it no I don't know what it is
google.ca Logitech mechanic yeah there
we go mechanical keyboard g710 plus yeah that's what it is here's the uh here's
the anch review so I just got my on one
of these I'm really excited to try it because they decided to go with brown
switches so Brown switches are basically
like um they're basically like let me
see if I can remember this I think Brown switches take a little bit more uh a
little bit more forced to depress like Blues but they're quieter than blues if
I recall correctly and then the mushier more linear ones are the blacks and the
and the Reds although the thing I like about the blacks um I don't like on some
keyboards but I really like on the zy um is not the fact that they're linear so
I'm really excited to try out this keyboard because I haven't yet seen like
a gaming oriented keyboard with macro keys and that kind of those kinds of
features with cherry Brown switches so
very very very cool very cool
um let's go back to Twitter shall we is
an Intel 330 series SSD okay for a boot Drive yes AMD pile Drive review soon yes
I'm in the okay already read that oh oh wow we're all the way back to uh to
where we started fantastic 249 new
interactions you guys are killing me here wow how do you set up an AMD main
graphics with an NVIDIA FX dedicated card had someone asked this question not
that long ago and the answer I gave them was you can't and then I had someone
kind of jump in oh hold the internet slightest you actually can here's a
forum thread somewhere we yes you can um
however you're going to always be locked into using a last generation driver and
you're every time you want to update your drivers you're going to be tweaking
something or changing some file or
somehow haering it and to me it's really
not worth it if you okay physx is cool I
guess there's a couple games that do leverage it Borderlands 2 being a recent
exception of note that or not exception but a recent notable title that does
utilize physx look if you want physx use it NVIDIA graphic graic card it really
doesn't seem that complicated if you don't want FX go ahead and use name your
graphics card um trying to building a machine that is basically built around
the idea that the hardware is not supposed to work together correctly is
asking for trouble they going to have enough trouble with your computer
because computers are finicky sometimes
if you don't intentionally configure a computer that you know isn't supposed to
work right so that's my two cents on that I probably won't address it again
but there you go I don't recommend it razor Naga versus corser 90 personally
I'd go Naga um the Naga has the
advantage of having more reachable buttons for me because the buttons are
all close together but the drawback of that is because they're so close
together you can often accidentally hit them um however with the M90 I find the
I find the buttons the uh the left and right click are a little sensitive for
me they're almost like a hair trigger um and I put more weight on my mouse when
I'm moving it around so I had a little bit of trouble with that although I got used to it after a while there's an M90
on the machine that's right over there um but then for the side buttons because
I have kind of small hands I found I wasn't able to really reach that many of them so Naga Naga works for me when I
move my hands like an octopus it kills your your
bandwidth that is uh that is that is probably the best tweet I've gotten on a
live stream yet so so what you're saying is I shouldn't do this oh see I'm doing
it but it's not counting because I didn't switch W does that kill anyone
else's bandwidth I'm just curious go over to the uh go over to the twitch
thing and see what that does nope okay fine forget it I guess
you should get more bandwidth or something let's go ahead and back to
Twitter yes lonus should I get a second 570 and
runli or get a new 670 or 680 usually I
would recommend selling your old card getting a new card especially cuz you
can get 670s for pretty reasonable prices already the prices like started
really high when they were super in demand and then they just kind of went like this and now they've leveled off a
little bit so now is probably a good time to buy a 670 I mean a 660 Ti is a
great option too unless you're running like super uber multim monitor in which
case you probably need like two 670s and with like lots of RAM um 660 Ti is a
great option once you overclock them they get pretty close to a 670 and you
save anywhere from 70 to $100 depending on
where you shop for your 670s and 660
Ti Joel good question Joel would you use
an affinity or surround setup for your personal rig for me no um it's not my
preference I like to have a single very
large format display for my personal machine however at work I don't know if
you've ever seen something that I've filmed in my office um let me see if I let me see if
I can actually find something that I filmed in my office
so lonus giveaway I think I filmed a
couple in my office oh yeah there's that one that's that's not my
office um well if you've seen my office you'll
know that I actually have four monitors
four monitors on my desk at my office because I find for
productivity this is awesome these these were so good the submissions for the uh
for the Duke Nukem giveaway contest uh
now I'm all now I'm all reminiscing and stuff because this is awesome this was a
really good one uh let's see not not my
favorite though let me see if I can find my favorite one totally just play this
for you guys you know what you won't have audio anyway so I guess it doesn't really matter but uh for work multi
monitor awesome prefer it for gaming I
prefer a single monitor because I find the peripheral experience doesn't really
add that much for for me personally got a good liquid cooler
suggest question um get the h100 there
you go sorry should go back to Twitter
how are highend USB dacks compared to internal cards often actually better um
if you can find a super awesome USB deck
then you will get uh the advantage of having it completely removed from all
the interference that's bouncing around inside of a computer chassis and you
will also have the advantage of well I mean come on guys sound doesn't need a
huge data rate USB 2 is a okay um so you
got it removed you can also have the added space of having a larger enclosure
so something like an ASUS Essence one would be an example of a product that
would leverage both the uh the lack of
interference oh my goodness it's lus video setion uh the lack of interference
and the extra space so Essence one and it sounds so good I actually did a video
about this thing at one point it only does uh it does headphones or 2.1
speakers that's it uh but it does do upsampling and it just sounds amazing so
my new my new audio setup is going to be uh once I finally get my personal rig
back up and running is going to be the essence one for my headphones um the
cors our sp2500 is running off my Zonar zent so my my sound card and then I'm
going to have the um Thunder FX that got
included with the Maximus 5 formula for my microphone in because it has an
awesome like ambient noise cancelling thing so if the baby's crying it's got a
microphone on the front that hears that the baby's crying and then that's not my
voice because it also has a microphone Jack and it'll just cancel it out it's
really freaking cool so that's uh that's going to be my new setup I'm just a
little bit too far away change change
please come on there we go
awesome watched all videos and reviews I could find still can't decide on a good
head at the compliment Z our DX d2x uh get a 7h bam can you shine some light on
micro stutter and S and ways to prevent it there's nothing you can do to prevent
it and personally I don't really see it so I can't comment on it too much some
people really see it some people really don't are you still considering to
launch a Europe store shipping to Europe I feel left out about not being able to buy what I said was you never know what
the future holds I didn't say that that's that's happening so uh yeah let's
not let's not read too much into
things all right first time watching from John
Salisbury what do you think about Gigabyte gpus they seem noticeably
absent from every GPU review of yours um
yeah they're good nothing wrong with them um it's just that whatever whatever
I get sent often times is what I'll take a look at and for me I I I guess it
comes down to personal philosophy because for
me go go thank you for me I find stuff like
this youtube.com kind of pointless um and I
mean I love Paul um but I'm sure that he had to do
this where they've got like look at this
one reference card ah ah ah two
reference cards ah three reference
cards four reference oh man I mean it's
tedious here another reference card uh
uh uh uh what is that five five reference GTX 680s I mean that's cool
and all but do you are they really
different do you really care if I take the MSI one and I go okay here's the MSI
one it's pretty balling um here's the Galaxy one it's oh it's got a different
color sticker I don't think you guys want to see that
I think that if you subscribe to this channel for the point of seeing a
different video every day I would be doing a disservice if I uploaded the
same video card five times in a row with a slightly different package and a
slightly different sticker now when we come into video cards that are unique
then we've got a different thing going on so for example the 7970 Matrix
because it is so cool and so unique Justified its own full performance
review and close look on the NC Tech tips Channel remember guys if you are
only subscribed to me online as Tech tips then you are going to miss out on a
lot of the deeper content that I'm doing for the ncx channel as well remember I
worked there so I'm I'm the video spokesman there as well as maintaining
lus Tech tips as more of like a bloggy style thing so this is apparently going
to run in 1080P which is probably a little bit much for what we're doing
this was also one of the First videos where diesel
um started doing some of these really cool things with the with the new camera
so I forget oh Sho I forget what he calls it but it's called like a like a
something something fade or something where you can see the ASUS one is blurry
and then it switches to being clear cuz he's changing the uh changing the focus
and then the ASUS is clear and the 797s blurry and just looks super cool but uh
but yeah so so what it comes down to is if there's something unique and
different about it then sure yeah I don't mind taking a look at more than one card but when we're talking ASUS
direct CU MSI twin frozer and gab wind
Force we're talking dual fans some heat pipes some aluminum
fins you want to see that five times I mean okay hey if you want to see that
five times let me know and I can totally totally change my policy and I can start
doing it differently but if you don't want to see that five times then that's
cool too I have never watched Breaking Bad to someone who asked if I'm a fan of
the show so I've heard it's great but I
I have so little time these days that I haven't I haven't managed to watch TV in
uh in in a very long time I hardly find time to watch my weekly zero
punctuations so and that's like 5 minutes long um what type of case should
I get for under 170 full ATX I don't know Define XL is probably not a bad
choice I really like the Define XL but I hate it when people ask me what case to
get without giving me any Conta you want quiet you want sort of a more aggressive
Gamer look you know half XM would be a good choice in that case um I can't make
this choice for you unless you give me some idea what the heck you're going
for uh I'll be doing another giveaway at some point um maybe soon maybe I'm
filming something this weekend no promises or anything though when your
son gets older and all his friends are getting consoles will you build him an
amazing rig and make them cry
um before all his friends are getting consoles he'll already have an amazing
rig and I'll encourage him to take his amazing rig over to his friends houses
and it'll be like so massive and heavy that he can just drop it on their
consoles and literally crush them because the PC as a gaming platform
literally well doesn't literally but crushes console so yes he will he will
fully understand the value of of the PC
as a gaming platform versus consoles cuz consoles are for conso
people which is pretty much all you need to know about them no I'm just kidding
you guys who play games on consoles you're cool too Luke asks h100 or an hd14 and a 600t
I would go with the h100 personally get Ivory bridge now or wait
for Haswell I'm impossible to say so many people again Ask me these questions
I don't know because I don't know how Haswell performs I don't know how much it costs so you guys are asking me to
solve for to solve for okay so H see
this is a great example algebra so X let's say x is yes and Y is no or
something so solve for this yes or no variable and then you've got like the
current thing and then you've got the future thing which is also a variable so
actually I can't solve for this variable without knowing this variable so those
of you who are like well have at least completed a high school level Math
course will know what I'm talking about lus what's the input leg like with
the ASUS pb278 Q leg uh very good
actually for a 2560 by 1440 monitor uh outstanding color excellent little bit
of motion blur not bad though really like it great
monitor um Kudos tus I'm going back to sleep okay good night I guess he's
probably gone by now since that was 7 minutes ago um would an I
33220 last me until Intel Sky Lake wow
this is taking it even further check out this tweet guys so I was I was just
talking about how I can't speculate on the next platform that's coming and I'm
being asked about something that's not even due to be released for 3 years come
on Jason um will it last you I don't I
don't know I I mean h it's impossible to
say what how multi-threading aware games are going to become without knowing what
the heck you're doing with your computer like are you going to be rendering 4K
videos in that case your i33 220 is going to get squished like a bug
um sorry man I I I mean if you've been
using an e7400 until now and that's worked for you then what I know about
your usage model is that you don't upgrade that often So based on that I'd say that you're
getting a pretty equivalent processor today so maybe could that last you
another 3 years probably that's the only way I can answer that question though is
an overclock 670 better than a stock 680 um yes but you could also overclock a
680 so there you go any experience with any
of the cyborg gaming my keyboards I played around with a with a rat
something or other which is is that yeah cyborg now I think they changed their
branding not that long ago so it's very confusing but but um yeah it was okay
felt good tensor felt good I didn't really like the modularity of the mouse
cuz I can personally find mice that are comfortable for me already and I found
it just kind of it's kind of weird but uh but lots of people lots of people
like them I'm not meowing on the live stream thanks to Eduardo for his uh for
his suggestion there oh sorry I'm not on the Twitter thing please meow no thank
you uh I just bought SP 2500s is it
supposed to hiss when it's turned on and nothing's playing there may be a light
hiss but if it's loud then that might be something where you want to look into
ring those with Corsair um nine times out of 10 uh it's something to do with
the amp so for example um my old Monsoon
mm 2000s had quite a HS to them and it
ended up it ended up being caused by the amp so there's really nothing you can do
about it with these with these kit speakers because you can't just replace
the uh the amp what graphics card would be good for
a 19 to 21 inch monitor this is something I've wanted to talk about on
the live stream for a while the size of your monitor has nothing to do with how
much graphics card horsepower requires
I'm going to let that SN in for a second the only thing that matters is how many
pixels so for example a lot of people
were really confused back when I released this video the uh the GeForce
GTX 590 triple projector ultimate
panoramic game Experience
episode um and that's me at my best of
course yeah there you go uh because they were like holy crap how does a graphics
card power you know a uh a 200 in
display to which I responded well these are three 720p monitors so if you
actually do the math it's not that much more intensive than powering a single
1080p monitor off a GTX 5 90 which
definitely has the horses for it so don't don't worry about that um so yeah
guys only pixels it doesn't matter if you're running a 1080p 23in monitor or
if you're running a 1080p 70in TV it requires exactly the same amount of
Graphics power in order to achieve the results that you are looking for so I
would need to know what resolution your monitor is however based on what I know about 19 and 21 in monitors um anything
higher than a GTX 650 TI you're probably not not going to see as much benefit
something like a 660 Ti would be the maximum I would spend for a resolution
like that and you'd be able to crank up absolutely
everything excuse me what is the absolute smallest case that can fit a 2X
100 radiator you know what that's a great
question um and because I don't know off the top of my head I would love for I
would love for um anyone else who's on Twitter to reply to Matthew last year
and let him know if there's any super small cases that you've seen are
confirmed to fit a corser h100 good question Jacob asks would I
ever use an AMD graphics card well I'd use it for lots of things my wife's
computer has a 5870 in it um I have used
a AMD graphics cards in the past my first my first I mean I'll call it
highend but it wasn't really high-end but it was a couple hundred bucks few hundred bucks my first highend graphics
card that I bought Beyond using like onboard or Cheapo entry level stuff was
an Allin Wonder 9600 Pro so that was that was kind of back in the
day now but that was a fantastic card loved it from there I upgraded to uh an
x800 Pro from there I went to an x800
XT um I used a 3870 HD 3870 at one point
because that was a cool card you could take off the aircool shrouded thing that
was only connected to the GPU and it actually had a built-in unisync so all
you had to do was throw a GPU water block on on it and you were ready to go that was a very cool card um I have a
2900 XT in my work machine uh let me
just think if there's anything newer than that that I have used not since
then yeah not since then um my biggest problem with
reference AMD cards is they tend to exhibit more coil line than their NVIDIA
counterparts and again because I'm a silence freak it almost has nothing to
do with performance for me I will take a card that performs 30% slower and is
silent versus one that is like bleeding edge fast and
goes you know whenever it's loading games and textures and stuff like that I
find that just super super obnoxious nice gaming laptop can you
tell us if the fatality sound card is better than the feus absolutely not ASUS
is the king when it comes to sound cards these days the Feebas is way better than
the fatality sound card which is like a 5-year-old design at this point is it
possible to buy just the hydrocopper water block for the 680 I don't believe
so evj only sells the with video cards however you could get a different water
block that would probably be better than the hydrocopper anyway and put that on
your 680 uh good point Andrew I have not used
The Cooler Master CM Storm trigger but I'm very excited about the uh the brown
brown switches lus would you recommend mechanical keyboards it doesn't even
matter for FPS gaming put in four blank
yes I would recommend mechanical keyboards they are way better than anything else you know I actually spent
a fair bit of time with the Mamba back when it was released good question what
do I think of the razor Mamba it is very
responsive so in terms of the input latency it is
outstanding didn't really like the ergonomics that much um which to me is
sort of a killer but let me see if I can actually that was one of my favorite
videos that I ever did was my Razer Mambo one uh let's see a chill wow
really six 180,000 views on a mamba
video wow that's outstanding uh let's
see if I can let's see if I can find mine there we go ncixcom razor Mamba
from April 16th 2019 so our video
quality wasn't wasn't what it uh wasn't what it is now this is awesome though I
actually sing the Mamba song M Mamba
number five and this is this is cameraman
comment here see so so I made up my own sort of lyrics to uh to Mambo Number
Five make that go away I'll let you guys sort of you know
sing along in your
heads but yeah if you if you watch that if you watch that video you can enjoy
the you can enjoy my my terrible singing um and I basically said everything I
think about the Mamba in that video I didn't end up using it so I guess that
should be all you need to know at a certain level um sorry not my much time with the
side X4 so I can't really comment yes you can have a shout out to the Danish
viewers hi Danish viewers thank you for
watching this live stream and I hope you're enjoying it um actually I want to
check my my live stream ideas thing ah shout out to Mexico viewers I did
promise that and then I also wanted to
talk about single versus multi-rail power supplies so tell you what since
you twitch people are all whining and griping every time I try and talk about
something other than Q&A would you guys
like to hear about single rail versus multi-rail or would you like to complain
some more okay I'm
listening Z no no yes no no yes yes yes
you guys can't make up your mind so I'm just going to do it because I think it's a good idea single rail versus multi
rail power supplies so basically most modern power supplies
and I okay maybe I shouldn't say most but many modern power supplies actually
are taking a virtual approach to a multi-rail design so while all of the
power is being generated with a single 12vt rail it is using electronic
technology to separate them out and then Implement safety mechanisms on a per
rail basis on Virtual rails that's why
you even see power supplies that have switches between single Rail and
multirail so this means a couple of things so number one
is that it means that your multi-rail power supply is can be a little okay
let's let's step way back multi-rail why does it exist multirail came around
originally back in the P4 days when it came to be that we were drawing
dramatically more power from the 12volt rail all of a sudden so power supply
manufacturers were kind of like oh well
this is a lot of amperage to put on one rail and the ATX specification changed
to actually require multi-rail power suppli for ATX V whatever Point whatever
um specification compliancy for a while
so then what happened after that was
stuff continued to draw more and more power from the 12vt rail and so video
cards and CPUs particularly I mean back when Intel's penum D series those things
were power Hogs you wouldn't believe a motherboard that I saw once that had the
entire vrm like it was one of those ASUS cardboard color boards you know those
older orangey yellow ones the entire back of the board was like brown brown
where the mosfets were in spite of the cooling fan that was blowing air down on
them because those things Drew so much power they ran so hot so so what
happened was we split it out into multirail so that when we when safety
mechanisms were applied to the individual rails it wouldn't be so much
power that it would just explode okay in
layman's terms then what happened we started drawing more power from the 12vt
rail and we started running into issues where if the manufacturer didn't
Implement multirail correctly if you plugged in your CPU and then your GPU
accidentally because it was all Molex powered back then so your CPU and all
your hard drives you had them all running off the same rail on the power supply even though you had a 450 wat
power supply and your system only Drew 300 watts from it you could run into
situations where your system would just power down as soon as you got under
gaming load and uh that caused a big problem
for gamers and we started to see single rail power supplies come back to
prevalence I mean guys like PC power and cooling have sort of always been all
about single rail um of course s has stayed predominantly single rail for
their very high-end stuff XFX is single rail on their high-end stuff um
especially now um however that issue's
pretty much gone um I mean even even power supplies like anex high current
Quattro was it or high current Pro High current Quattro it was a multi-rail
design but I was still because they've added more sort of overflow onto each
individual rail so one rail so just because you've got like let's say 100 o
total and then you got 10 rails you don't go 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10 it doesn't work that way you can go each of these rails can handle 22 amps
maximum but obviously you couldn't load them all at 22 amps because that would
exceed the maximum total current capability of the power supply so that
means that you can sort of borrow power
from one rail to another with the modern implementations of multi-rail designs in
order to whether they're virtual or whether they're real in order to
maintain that safety where you're not running so much power through one wire
to the point where you can actually like melt connectors it's happened um but
you're able to uh borrow that power so I was able to run a dual coolit borus
liquid cooling Tech units off of one of those power supplies in spite of its
multi-rail configuration and that's a couple year old unit now so single rail
multi-rail which is the right choice personally I don't think about it to to
much I buy the power supply that I like in terms of you know Cable Management in
terms of the cooling in terms of how quiet it is the XFX one I'm using now
and some of the cic ones actually have a hybrid fan control so if the load's
under 50% it doesn't turn the fan on at all yay perfect for silence freaks
that's basically like buying a 500 wat passive power
supply awesome fan only turns on when you're gaming perfect so um it happens
to be a single rail does it matter to me not really you haven't I haven't heard
too many stories of people's computers blowing up due to single rail power
supplies um but companies like antech that tend to do things very like byy
book um we'll probably continue to implement multirail and that's fine too
so there I hope that wasn't too boring
for you guys and that you haven't all
like tuned out because I'm talking about power supplies so let's go ahead and go
back to Twitter and see if we can uh get
this to switch there we go Graphics difference between VGA DVI and HDMI um
VGA sucks DVI is higher bandwidth than HDMI and HDMI is lower bandwidth than
DVI which only matters if you're running a higher resolution Ivan I'm on
broadband 250 but they haven't managed to fix my upload yet so I'm only on 5
megabit up so I'm actually calling Shaw tomorrow to complain about that and get
the uh the difference in price addressed
by them oo Wes how do you feel about
ocz's stock dropping 70% in the past week or so I actually know a lot of
people at ocz they're they're like they're my Bros um but I got to say it's
looking ugly right now for you know all
the people that are leaving I mean and I I know a couple guys who are who are
gone um the way that they're stock has gone like this well no it's gone more
like this and then like this and then um
you know what great products Vertex 4 particularly is just awesome I mean it
was the first time they'd really released something that was truly their
own not I mean Revo drive is kind of their own but it's
like their own implementation of like
someone else's RAID controller and someone else's controller with someone else's firmware whereas Vertex 4 at
least had their own firmware on a Marvel controller um so I don't know I I hope
they pull out of this maybe they'll get acquired maybe they'll maybe they'll
figure it out but uh if you're asking me
if I'd invest in ocz today the answer is probably probably
not would you recommend any hardware for interfacing recording live music you
know what I'm not the expert um on that
unfortunately what do I think about Windows 8 I'm excited for the snappiness
the quick boot times and all that good stuff but I'm I'm less excited for how
unexcited other people are not a question but please do a
followup of some of the stuff you take a first look at some products are
interesting to see me test right up till
now the problem has been that I'm very time constrained so I do have a
full-time job NCI for those of you who think that I make like a billion dollars
on YouTube and that's sort of how I make my living it's really not how it works
for me um I do have a real job and then YouTube is like is like it's great and
it's fun and it is part of my job but it is not something that I can afford to
spend more than maybe a day a day and a half a week I mean honestly even doing
things like live streams if you guys sort of noticed what time it is it's
Friday night at 10:30 do you think I'm on the clock for work
the answer would be no um so I mean I do
this because I enjoy it because it's fun because I mean you guys have supported
me so much but uh I just don't have the
time so if in the future that changes
yes I would be happy to do more in-depth looks at things but for now I'm going to
have to pretty much stick with the way it is if you want to see the more in-depth looks that I do do make sure
you're subscribed to the ncixcom channel I haven't used those nmax fans
can you set up two-way Affinity I really don't understand you saying um that's
not what Affinity is ifinity is three monitors or more and then two-way so
that so GTX 560 doesn't support ifinity um okay if you're asking if you
can run two monitors off of a GTX 560 the answer is yes so there you go uh
what's the best power supply uh just grab like an HX 750 or
something it's a great choice for a configuration like that
William says my question will be answered cool what do you think is the
best case under 80 bucks uh Corsair has one coming the 200r that I think is very
exciting I'm actually I haven't unboxed it yet I haven't seen it in person yet
but I think that might be a great choice for around 80
bucks uh how much radiator surface area in a custom water cooling Loop do what
you need for a CPU GPU configuration great great question Sawyer um generally
speaking the the rule that I follow is one 120 mm radiator per heat Source at
least and then double that if you want a silent system so if you have a CPU and a
GPU you're going to want at least a dual rad if you want to run super low RPM
fans and have like a silent system you're going to want at least a quad
that's my my general sort of thing that I do Juan says shout out it's my
birthday shout out to Juan happy birthday and all that good stuff 6: a.m.
in watching lonus you are the man Fus fuse dis
that's awesome love it will an 8150 bottleneck dual 797s oh
Lawrence the 8150 will perform at often
times like 70% the frame rate of a
3570k I mean I get a lot of flack um from viewers from time to time for being
an Intel Fanboy but the reality of it is
the way that I evaluate Hardware is this is the product and this is what it does
and this is the other product and this is what it does and if this product does less than this one does then it's not as
good it's not fanboyism it's not it's just reality it's like reality check
8150 is not a highend CPU it costs see
this comes back to something I was talking about earlier why do things cost what they do the 8150 they can branded
FX all they want but the 8150 is $179.99
on sale because it is worth $179.99 on sale in spite of the fact
that it is an 8 processor and it is an absolute beast when it comes to video
editing and uh that's that's all there is to really
say lus I'm buying a gaming mouse mly mainly for FPS games any advice um I
don't know steel series uh Sensei um
mionix mice are pretty good really like meic
mice on my laptop what's better a hard
drive password or a BIOS password or both use the encryption on your hard
drive the BIOS password does almost nothing so BIOS password is only relevant if you
want people to not go into your BIOS and
change your boot order whoops change your boot order for example which I
think is a non-factor for most people all right last Twitter question of the
night and just before we do that I want to thank all 1,700 of you for tuning in
this is fantastic you guys make me feel very very loved and uh and that that is
absolutely thrilling you guys are just awesome and uh let's go ahead and go
back to Twitter so I'm going to kind of roll the dice and oh people want to see
the cat okay you know what I will see what I can do I'll see what I can do
about summoning the cat Rumble
Rumble come here
sweetheart Rumble he usually comes when I call if
he's not sleeping or trapped somewhere Rumble
and I usually use snapping when I'm pointing at like a bug or something I
want them to kill so uh they often come
when I snap my fingers as well
Rumble I hear him meowing you know what he might be trapped in a room okay okay
I'm going to bring Rumble for a guest appearance I'll be right
back for
sorry guys I forgot rumble's actually really not feeling well so I shouldn't
have been calling him anyway but I brought rocket to visit rocket say hi to
the camera Rocket's really more camera shy than his brother say hi see this is
this is my this is my boy so for those of you who aren't familiar with my cats
they are Bengals which is sort of a cool breed that involves this kind of uh
leopard print sort of thing that they
got going on here so hopefully this is HD enough that you guys can can see him
so he's uh he is not a marbled bangle he is a spotted bangle you can get them in
a variety of different sort of configurations uh marble is just like a
different coat pattern and then you can get this is a golden color and then you
can also get them in silver which is significantly more rare and uh and very
very expensive I think for a breeding female silver bangle uh the breeder was
saying something along lines of 15 G to 25 grand um depending on the the quality
of the cat in terms of their coat and whatever else these are pet quality cats
so they have imperfections that make them not conform to the breed standard
or whatever else but there I brought my cat to visit hopefully you guys enjoyed
that and
uh yes and I have oh come on the twitch
people are giving me a hard time not talking about my cat like it's an item I
mean my cat um but Bang breed is an item
so let's put it that way it's my dad's birthday remind you to congratulate him
I this is just like the weirdest tweet ever I don't think I don't think that's
going to work all right so let's find
one more one more to answer you know
what let's go with this one Mark what do you think about sharing your idle
computer time to dedicate your CPU to scientific research via the Internet so
he's referring to projects like folding at home SE uh boink um my comment on
that has been that as long as it's uh as
long as it's not disruptive to my computer using experience and what I
found last time I tried to really get into folding was that it was making it
so my games were crashing all the time I haven't tried in a while but other than
that it's great the drawback is that you do usually see a significant increase in
your power usage so if you can afford the extra little bit of money or if
that's something that you want to contribute um you know folding at home
has been doing actually a lot of really cool research uh boink I'm less familiar
with what they're doing I think SEI is looking for extraterrestrial life or
something along those lines but uh yeah
great idea but your room and your computer will run hotter your power Bild
will be more um so as long as you factor those things into whatever decision you
make then you should be good to go thank you guys for checking out the live
stream tonight and again thank you for all of your support and good night from
Canada or good morning or wherever the heck you guys are I'm going go ahead and
turn my camera off
now and fous Jafar asks is the M4 better
than the vertex 3 you know what they're pretty darn close so uh it doesn't
really make much difference to me one way or the other recommend a good sub
$400 or $350 27 in IPS green with
vibrant colors no um IPS is expensive
yo um yeah sorry man