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we're at the AVerMedia booth at computex 2023 to show you guys something really

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special these are the world's very first HDMI 2.1 capture devices and they've got

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two of them internal external whatever you want let's start with the internal

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one this is like a traditional PCIe based capture card they call it the live

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gamer 4K 2.1 because as I'm sure you can

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see HDMI 2.1 on the back here it's just those two HDMI ports you've got in and

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out like any gaming capture card that way you can have your monitor still visible while you're recording on the

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front here not really too much you got some some cute venting you can see the

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internals of the card there on the bottom PCIe gen 3 by 4 connection it's

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not PCIe Gen 4 because really honestly even this connector is a bit Overkill

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there's not really anything else on here there's no external power which is nice

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but I wouldn't really expect it with something like this it's pretty low power device and on the top you've just

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got a diffused RGB kind of triangle bar thing it's configurable in their Rec

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Central software and I think they said it was also compatible with MSI stuff

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which makes sense because this computer is just full of MSI stuff behind me

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that's pretty much it physically RGB really isn't what's important here

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though what is is those HDMI ports I talked about before their HDMI 2.1 and

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if that doesn't mean anything to you it probably should if you have a

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PlayStation 5 or an Xbox series X or really any modern GeForce computer that

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you want to capture separately from the computer itself You're Gonna Want HDMI

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2.1 and if you have basically any other capture card you're going to be limited

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in theory to 4K 60 pass through which if

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you have a high refresh rate 4k monitor it's going to kind of suck and then

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depending on Lower resolutions it's going to kind of vary but I imagine most

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of them are kind of like you might be able to get 1440p 60-year 120 maybe but

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this thing 4K 144 Hertz variable refresh rate HDR pass-through you can do 1440p

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144hz variable refresh rate pass through you can do 1080p 240Hz variable refresh

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rate pass-through basically whatever you plug into this thing be it your Xbox or

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your PS5 you go into the set settings and you look at the resolution thing and

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it's going to be like check mark check mark check mark check mark As long as

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your display can do it these things generally will support it but PCIe

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capture cards are kind of annoying unless you're fully static and this is

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like your streaming PC or whatever having to put this in there and not be

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able to be portable with it kind of sucked but they know that that's where

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this comes in this is the live gamer Ultra 2.1 on the back it's got the same

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HDMI 2.1 in and out ports but we've also got something a little different here

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it's a line in and out there there is a spelling mistake on this one it says Min

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in but it's meant to say line in it's pre-production one don't worry about it

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this is used for party chat which if you're a Nintendo switch person and you

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want to be able to capture your party chat very useful for that I did find out

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that the party chat and the HDMI get mixed into one audio stream which if

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you're recording or streaming can be a little less flexible you can

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independently change the volume between the HDMI and the party chat in but it is

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still recorded to one track they said they might be able to do a firmware

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update or something like that to make it so they're separate tracks which they

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really should do because it gives you a lot more flexibility when you're editing and even when you're streaming but for

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now it's all in one and then over here is what I'm really excited about I

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understand it's a USB port it's not that exciting it's just it's 10 gig type c

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whatever but if you look at the market

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the only other capture cards that can do 4K 60 recording like these use

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Thunderbolt but this is just USB if you don't have a laptop that has Thunderbolt

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which I mean a lot of the modern ones do but some of the other stuff doesn't or

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if you're using you know a computer a lot of them don't have Thunderbolt but

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most of them these days have USB 10 gig so that means this is much more flexible

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than the previous generations and if you looked at Thunderbolt capture cards AVerMedia actually has one there's

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something like 500 this is not 500 but

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we'll get to the price later around the front RGB of course but other than that

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there's there's nothing really on here I mean size Wise It's a little bigger than

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their previous capture cards they found one of their live gamer minis you can

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see the new one is a little bit thicker but nothing crazy honestly they found

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one of their previous gen capture cards the live gamer Extreme 3 just to compare

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the size here it is a bit taller

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but nothing much and then in terms of like width and height it's almost the

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same so still super portable which is great but what's a capture card without

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some capture so let's try it they actually let me take it out of this

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computer so I'm going to put it back in this computer they've got this like PCIe

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extension here so a little more finicky than usual I

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forgot how much manual screwdrivers suck lttstore.com

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I couldn't bring it on the planes too long

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there we go whoa it does like a did you see that

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that was so cute it does like a little like boot up sequence the LEDs go slow

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so fast I'm a child you know okay looks like

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it's on it definitely can capture HDMI I don't know if it can capture this segue

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look it's working oh this is um what is this game ah what the hell is this guy

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called Devil May Cry there we go I played this game before I just don't

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remember what it's called I'm bad with names oh God oh God that's not good

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I mean you can look at it right there it's variable refresh rate this is the

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monitor showing what signal it's getting we're going through the capture card

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they're over fresh rate it's working they said it's a 4K 120 hertz monitor so

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let's see I don't really know how to PlayStation also it's in Chinese so okay

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HDR is on 4K

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and I guess 120. let's check out the display settings here

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test 1440p output variable refresh rate is set to automatic

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120 hertz it's automatic HDR always on hey look at that

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and the next screen test will be run it's working on all of them which is

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great there we go 1440p 120 hertz variable refresh rate working as well

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also with HDR now in 1440p the max

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you're going to be able to do is 144 Hertz for pass-through at 1080p you can

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do 240Hz variable refresh rate but

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there is a bit of a caveat there that is the pass-through resolution because

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these cards are relatively inexpensive you're looking at 300 for either the

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PCIe version or the external version which compared to the other stuff on the

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market is pretty reasonable you're not going to be doing 4K 144

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Hertz recording which to be honest is there's not a lot of use for that there

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is professional equipment that can do higher bitrate video like 8K 60 but that

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stuff is professional and also expensive

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and also doesn't have pass-through so for faster this is the best you're gonna

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get right now they did say it is possible to make a card that records at

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4K 144 but it would be pretty prohibitively expensive and at least for

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the market right now there's not a lot of demand so maybe Post in the comments

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if you want a thousand dollar capture card that can do 4K 144 Hertz and maybe

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they'll make it but for right now let's see there we go 4K 60fps I can't go

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higher which makes sense okay so you can do 1440p 120.

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that's good let's see how are we capturing it yeah

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look at that cool there's like black bars because OBS is set to a 4K canvas

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but this is 1440p 120 recording which is great and then let's try 1080p this

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might break stuff because the PlayStation is outputting at 1440p but

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I'm just going to try it anyways highest FPS that's the option I guess it

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makes sense that it can capture the different resolution than the input there's 640 yeah let's try 640. yeah I

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mean that works it just looks like crap it's very fast I feel like when you're

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usually screwing around with capture card resolutions and frame rates it's like gonna shut off for five minutes and

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turn back on you gotta wait for it but this is just right away because the

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recording is decoupled from the pass-through this doesn't even flicker

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when you change it which is pretty sick

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cool let's try their software and change the RGB I lied we're not in Rec Central this

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is their gaming utility we can go in here RGB control so by

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default it's in third party mode I think they said it supports MSI and Gigabyte

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for now but they're working on adding everybody else but you can also just go

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in here and change it so right now we're in Rainbow mode what about glowing yoyo

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rainbow flash that's rainbow Flash

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got comment oh that's a seizure one static ah static that's what I like this

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is very early software I think I broke

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it oh there we go much better I unbroke

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it I get the input video signal 1440p 120

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hertz 8-bit HDR the audio signals there shows the

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firmware version shows all the max capture versions USB 10 gig they have a

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performance test tool in here so if you're having issues with your capture card say like you use not the proper USB

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cable or your computer is not fast enough it literally says if performance

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is poor please upgrade your computer this will test to make sure that the

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proper resolutions are supported and that it's working I think it's still

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pretty early because it's in kilobits and it's a very long number you might

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want to update that to like gigabits maybe it already supports multi device

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which is great oh here look you can change the headset volume for party chat

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on the USB one so you can change the volume separately but again it's still

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just going to be one track they've got RGB control same thing with the scaling

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in here and then the performance test hey yeah

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there we go all of our resolutions are supported because the last thing to do is to try

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the USB one and

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switch it to the ultra and there we go

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we're in business let's try 4k on this one too because I set the resolution

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we're 4K 60 reporting

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sick oh I want one of these

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I want one of these can I take one home

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video

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only 120 hertz monitor so we weren't able to try out 144 Hertz

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so we're just gonna have to take their word for it while this is loading

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there's a few more things to mention they're planning on releasing white and pink versions of both the internal

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capture card and the external one these won't be available at launch if so if

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you want them the best you're going to be able to get is black they're targeting pre-orders in Late July and

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the cards are supposed to come out in August I wouldn't recommend pre-ordering

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as usual wait for independent reviews to come out but based on this first look

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and my previous experience with AVerMedia capture cards I'm very excited

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whoa the fact that this is USB and has feature parity with the PCIe one

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so sick and for only 300 bucks I want one I can just take this one home right

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something I forgot to mention earlier is you don't actually need the software for

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these um you probably want something to capture with you can use OBS or Rec

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Central which is their software but in terms of drivers both the PCIe and the

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USB one are driverless they're just UBC plug and play on Mac it's a little bit

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different story you will probably need software or driver and they told me that

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the ultra 2.1 is not yet supported on macOS but it is coming soon they're

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just trying to focus on getting the Windows one like 100 up to Snuff before

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they work on that so thanks for watching if you like this video like it get

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subscribed do whatever and maybe check out the Mini's Forum video I did I think

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that had USB 10 gig you could plug this into the minis for them and that could

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be like your streaming PC huh yeah because it had a GPU too you could use

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the GPU to encode you don't even need to build two computers you just have like a

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little one