this the pre live stream live stream this is not the real live stream I'm
just getting everything going right now making sure Firefox is my default
browser which is a very important thing to do because Firefox is pretty much the
bomb I also need to actually open up the Twitch TV chat so that I can sort of
monitor what you guys are doing over there set up some monitor ators
t.tv Linus Tech I also made the YouTube video a
little bit early this week so I screwed up and it said the live stream is now
and so if anyone actually follows this over here from YouTube then they'll be
really disappointed if there's no live stream and I didn't want anyone from
YouTube to be disappointed tonight and I don't want anyone from
from twitch to be disappointed either there's a red dot holy crap look at the
look at the chat there's a red dot
wow all right there we are hey
everybody how's my sound tonight is it better are we good are we cool it's way
better right yeah yeah we know it's live you guys you guys in the chat you guys
are unbelievable how many times do you need to say that it's live there's a red
thing in the corner yeah we don't have any topics yet
so I'm I'm just here kind of chilling for
now uh I do have some topics for tonight
I'm G to put them I'll put them here in my Chrome window see I'm doing something
with them see I'm putting them there and then I'm going to change back to
that okay topics for tonight someone wanted me to do a lonus career tips
segment so what the hey right I mean if
you're going to take advice from a guidance counselor then you might as well take advice from
me not that there's anything wrong with being a guidance counselor it's just
like I don't think anyone goes to their guidance counselor's office and they're
like yeah I really want to be a guidance counselor how do you be just like you um
I just I just don't think it happens I mean it might I could be totally wrong I
mean shout out to all the guidance counselors in the audience thank you for
guiding us I mean I was having a funny conversation with someone um this must
have been about it must have been about two days ago and basically I was
marveling at the job that I have
because uh it wasn't that long ago that YouTube didn't exist I mean I graduated
from high school in 2004 which basically means that YouTube
didn't exist yet and I had actually completely forgotten that there was no
YouTube when I was still in school so how could any guidance counselor have
told me that I could you know what I'm going to turn off the audio monitoring
here because it's driving me crazy I can hear this echo in my head um so I was
marveling that no guidance counselor could have ever told me oh yeah you know
what you can uh you can be like a YouTube guy as like a job and that can
be part of your job or it can be your whole job or it can be can be anything
and AO you are right on time because we are just starting actually in five
minutes this is just the the pre-show so maybe you know what maybe I'll do that
story later I'm G to be like the radio where I pre-announce what stuff I'm
going to talk about and then I actually don't talk about it for like 15 minutes
and I make you guys sit through commercials let's do like uh let's do an
iPhone
commercial I don't remember the Apple music
that is a pre-show Dance I mean singing I'm singing and dancing what do you guys
mean do a pre-show yeah LOL don't I know right uh hold on I got to pop out the
chat as well let me just hold on ah first first wait first let me just make
a note in my topics for tonight email thread that I started to myself I mean
who emails themselves do you guys email yourself are you like uh grocery
shopping and you're like oh that's a great idea and you just send myself an email I do it all the time I actually
get as many emails from myself as I get from anyone else so I need to tell the
story oh crap I don't even remember what story I was telling anymore tell the
story about guidance counselors counselors I don't remember
how to spell counselors but it's not autocorrecting me so let's assume that
that's right all right sweet so I need to see who all is in the chat here so I
can see if I have any moderators tonight oh I've got fuzzy otter balls sweet and
I have four moderators what do you guys think is four moderators enough for
tonight we had some spam last week and that was pretty obnoxious and I do like
to have the chat on fast mode I do prefer that uh need more need more how
to be mod this guy is a moderator in the
future all right Evo you can be oh no you can't be a moderator I don't even
see the option here couple more mods wouldn't hurt all right L okay it's
moving too fast it's moving too fast how do I freeze it do you guys hey fuzzy
otter balls you guys need other than fast mode and slow mode you need a
freeze button so I can just freeze it for a sec unless you have that and I
just don't see it yeah I don't see that so yeah fuzzy otter balls great idea
free of charge freeze mode
um okay try try and hit someone here I'm
not even getting the option you know what four should be enough four should
be enough how many people do we have watching the stream so far wow we've got 500 people watching and the show hasn't
even started yet I should do this pre-show thing more often because
apparently you guys will watch even when I'm not doing any kind of a live show I
should just not do a live show at all I should just do a live stream about how
I'm not doing a live show tonight maybe that'll be next week can I get some can
I get some votes for that idea what do you guys think pretty good pretty cool
all right let me move this uh let's move this twitch Chat thing here I'm going to
move the uh the live stream monitoring thing so that I don't have to look at it
I'm just going to keep it open in the corner there so I can make sure it's actually working so guys I have made
some serious serious upgrades to my
setup tonight and I want to tell you all about it in the two minutes leading up
to our live stream so number one is I have replaced the headset I was using
before that ancient ass steel series or
rather steel series no Sennheiser one I have replaced that with a steel series
7h which I love and the mic is awesome and the headphones are awesome and I
have also changed I have found that the best sound card solution is the Zonar u3
so this is a little USB sound card that's fantastic I know the audio is
cracking I touched the uh I touched the mic if there's some weirdness going on
that's why I have I have the cap like propped under it here so that it won't
Foo bar itself also I have stopped using my power line connection and I have run
an Ethernet cable from all the way upstairs like through that door over
there upstairs to my switch and I have a
full gigabit connection down here this time so no more Wireless no more power
line I'm in the kitchen so there's a lot of powerful devices going on around here
that are that are like they're lined and their power and they're interfering with
my powerline network it's just not working for me I'm getting like three and a half megabytes per second um
overall and plus it's recording my live stream that I'm doing here to my Nas at
the same time as I'm streaming it so I think I just don't have the network bandwidth for it so having that gigabit
pipe is going to make things so much
better and Madness XL says Linus please read this and I did but I didn't see the
point because you didn't actually say anything but I think you would see I
don't H this is weird uh the mic quality is really not
that great yeah I know I know it's not that great but it's better than before
which is important actually we've got my
gear is on its way if you guys are following me on Twitter then you'll
probably already know this but uh if you're not following me on Twitter you
should follow me at Linus Tech um that's an at sign like you know Twitter thing
at I'm new to Twitter so it's sorry to it's sort of confusing to me like when
I'm reading tweets I'm like something something at Linus Tech but what they
actually mean is just something something lineus Tech and it just blows
my mind but uh yeah if you follow me on Twitter then you already know I just
spent 13 Grand yes that's one three with
three more zeros after it on New
Gear like yeah it hurts me I I actually got my shipping notification yesterday
so I bought myself an fs700 yes that is an
$8500 camera with the kit lens I bought myself a new shotgun mic I
bought myself two two HDMI capture cards so we are
going to be doing an a roll and a b roll in future unboxings we're going to have
two rolls um I bought myself a new tripod a
new head for the tripod uh what else did I get I got new
lights I got keynot flows it cost me
three grand for two of these things two kits with
stands um so we are talking some serious
serious upgrading in terms of the quality around here because right now I
am using a webcam and I am using this
microphone I'm using this sound card and
I'll also be using a desktop to capture all of the all of the video and all of
the audio in the future which is I mean I love this MSI notebook I really do
it's just it's a notebook and I I heart my my my desktop
experience uh the curry was amazing by the way you must follow me on Twitter
whatever your name is I missed it the it's the chat is moving so fast that I
can't even do it but uh yes the curry is excellent the uh oh yes see that right
there that is where the coconut rice lives see that's my tiger rice cooker
and that right there that is where the curry is and you are like so not having
any I am I am so I am so keeping that Curry for myself I'm going to have Curry
for breakfast tomorrow it's going to be outstanding and I'm going to I'm going
to I'm going to it's going to hurt me all day you guys are telling me to slow down
are you telling me to why don't I stream on my PC that's a fantastic question so
I have a new baby at home um he is 5 months old now and he is sleeping this
time of night um I know I've been asked quite a few times to adjust the timing
of my live streams so that I do them earlier in the day for people who live
on the east coast but the problem is that I just got home from work an hour
and a half ago and I knew that I had to figure out this microphone and I had to
figure out that Ethernet cable so if I committed to a start time of 8:00 or 7
o'clock my time or anything like that then I would have had a real problem
because I wouldn't have made it in time so there you go that's the that's
pretty much the deal um you know what I'm I'm going to pause for a second here
I want to check YouTube really quick just to make sure that my link is
correct I mean we've got a fair number of people watching the live stream
already but you know it just it never
hurts I mean I know I know what community made me big and I I love I
love twitch and I love that you know people are following me me on Twitch and
that's that's really cool stuff yep he says murder link is fail it looks like I
put the wrong Link in my video I do that kind of thing www.
twitch oh okay hold on no the link is fine what's he talking about link is
fail I'll show you a fail link I'll copy and paste it back in just in case I
screwed it up the first time there we go all right but yeah so I I hope that some
of you twitchers are are starting to follow along here and I know that I need
to do more like gaming Hardware type of Q&A otherwise there's zero justification
for having me on this website whatsoever but uh there's just so much stuff that
people are asking that's not really that related to that I will be taking
questions on Twitter tonight by the way guys I know that not all of you like
Twitter and um yeah there's just not a whole lot I
can do about that because Twitter is one of the most convenient ways for me to
manage incoming questions because I can control how quickly they come in whereas
the twitch chat is is pretty difficult for me to uh for me to for me to monitor
I mean stuff's coming in so so fast um
milova army says you have an sv650 I do
I have an sv650s and I am super duper disappointed
because my insurance ran out today so today was my last day to ride it and I
wasn't able to ride it because I was too tired this morning and uh it's not safe
to ride if you're
tired yeah so that that again yeah that
was that was super disappointing to me and I I'm having a hard time signing
into Twitter over here so I'm going to have to go find myself a browser where
I'm already signed into to Twitter and I'll I'll try using that one uh
uh maybe if I hadn't talked so much during the part of this pre-live stream
thing where I wasn't supposed to be talking so much maybe if I hadn't done that I would
be ready by the time the live stream was actually rolling let's see oh okay good
good good good good I think it's open in Firefox okay let's put where's my
where's my Firefox where's my Firefox where's my Twitter come
on need my Twitter there we go yes
I have Twitter now I was going to have Twitter open in uh in Safari just to
troll you guys and I was going to see if anyone noticed but uh it looks like
we're just going to stick with good old good old Firefox pretty much the best
browser ever um it crashes on me all the time but it's still better than
everything else so that should tell you what I think of pretty much everything
else there is out there uh show us your
baby my baby's in one of the videos that I've done so far
and um yeah he's I think he's cute I
tweet pictures of him every once in a while I think I was saying something about Twitter yes I'll be taking
questions predominantly on Twitter predominantly like this so that that
will be the main way of us of us handling questions here
tonight okay so let's kick this off let's start with my thing about guidance
counselors so I was I was marveling to to a friend that actually two things I
was marveling to a friend about that thing I talked about last week where um
kids today aren't going to know how to get anywhere because they're just going to rely on GPS for everything and we
were talking about just how fast the world's changing and I mean it's it's
crazy but it's almost been 10 years since I was in high school and I don't
really I don't really feel that much older but here I am I've been at a job
like in a career for six seven years now
um I have a baby I'm married I've bought a house so life is life is kind of just
going like this right and uh so yeah so YouTube didn't start till 2004 and I
graduated in 2004 which basically means
that um when I sat down and I was talking to my guidance counselor we
talked about a lot of things we talked about you know at the time I wanted to be a teacher or um you know I wanted to
get like a science degree and then I wanted to just kind of figure out what I
could do with that and I think the challenge that a lot of people who get
Science degrees run into is that they discover that really lab work um
continuing education I can't hear you people are saying they can't hear me
everyone else says it's fine so we're going to go with it's fine um lab work
they go with continuing education they get their master's degree and or they or
they go all the way to get their PHD and then they become professors which is
basically just teacher again and um I wasn't really very good at school and uh
anyway so okay so we're talking to right we're talking to the guidance counselor I'm all over the place tonight so I'm
talking to him we're talking about being a teacher so really the only options
back then if you wanted to be like U like you know a TV star or something I
mean reality TV was was around but it was very very limited um wasn't like it
is today there's no such thing as a Kim Kardashian there wasn't someone who was
you know like a Paris Hilton where they're a a socialite like that's their
that's their job description um so there was no way you know 8 nine 10 years ago
um eight years ago I guess that anyone could have advised me that this would
exist I mean never mind the the new setup I'm getting which is going to
allow us to do a fairly high production value live show on a weekly basis or
more than weekly basis or whatever we end up doing the ability to broadcast
basically almost I mean what then would have been TV grade quality stuff on an
on a com on a consumer internet connection uh from your house with like
I mean really in the grand scheme of things yes I just spent $133,000 on
equipment that's nothing compared to what that would have cost 10 years ago
nothing and uh so so yeah no one's been a chance I mean these these careers are
just popping up I was talking to my friend's dad he was like yeah when I was
a kid uh living on the island you had uh
you had a couple choices when you graduated high school you were going to
work in the mill for 40 years or you were going to work uh on the boats for
40 years everything is so different now
totally totally different um so yeah I think that's uh I think that's pretty
cool so speaking of guidance counselors my first topic tonight is uh people
someone asked I forget who requested this on Twitter but someone asked me to
do something online as career tips talk about the various careers and jobs that
are available in computers and it now I'm not going to talk about programming
I'm not going to talk about any of the professional stuff because I believe the
context he was asking this in was along the lines of what I do so I started as a
retail sales rep um as a retail sales rep you know what you can actually do
okay especially if you're knowledgeable I mean what I the approach I always took
was yeah I upsold people I always upsell
people because I actually genuinely believe no nobody should buy a TN
monitor I genuinely believe nobody should buy a video card for less than
$100 or like $89.99 when it's on promo
because the stuff that is under those under those price points is not good
they're not going to be happy with it um so if you are truly enthusiastic I think
that sales is easy I think that if you are really a car Enthusiast and you love
the cars and in your free time you come into the dealership and you drive all
the cars so that you are knowledgeable you're educated and you can inform
customers then you can actually do okay I mean as a retail sales rep at NC I
actually did better than I did for my first year after I transferred to head
office um the other one is Tech work Tech work is really challenging though
because there's a variety of different things available I mean is there anyone
in the audience who is a Best Buy Geek
Squad member I'm going to wait I'm going to wait for the leg I'm going to see if
anyone out there is a Best Buy Geek Squad member and tell us is it tough
no no me killer killer clown says says he is so there's there's a couple
different kinds of actually there's a lot of different ways you can do Tech you can do freelance so you can try
putting up like flyers everywhere and getting people to come and uh and bring
their computers to you for for for fixing and you know what you can
actually make a pretty good hourly rate but it's really hard to find clients if
you go to a bigger chain like someone like a Best Buy you can end up working in the store where you you get people
bringing in things like I mean honestly slick used to work at Best Buy as a tech
and the stories he tells I'm just
like what I mean he he one of the other
texts there actually advised the customer I forget the context of it but
advised a customer if he was going to if
he wanted to remove the screen on his laptop I don't even remember why the
customer wanted to do this but if he was going to do that he could just saw it
off and then there'd be a way to connect it and that's the kind of that's the
kind of ludicrous stuff that goes on there and then if you're one of the
mobile guys then you're then you're mobile so so basically if you're
freelance and you can get enough clients yeah you can do okay whereas if you join
one of those bigger chains they're going to try and pay you an hourly rate they're going to try and not give you a
ton of commission um something like NCI is somewhere in the middle where you
have enough clients you do get a decent Commission on everything you do and you
can make a decent living at it but if you're not willing to teach yourself it
comes down to the same thing as sales if you're not willing to read an antech
Tom's Hardware hardocp whatever sites you like whatever forums go to Hardware
connects if you're not willing to do it every day and help people and learn and
see what works and see what doesn't work then you'll be a total failure at it
back up the mic from my mouth okay there you go you guys good you cool um right
so so I did some sales I did a very small amount of tech they they didn't
want me doing Tech because I was really good at sales I was always selling like
these massive systems that had like dual graphics cards and stuff cuz I I
believed in this stuff I was like yeah stuff's cool you should totally buy it
so that I can build it for you and play with it before I give it to you I mean
that was that was the kind of guy I was right so um right so I mean you can
store manager um for store manager I'd say it's a totally different skill set
because you don't actually necessarily need to know anything about the
technology a good manager can manage anything I believe that's true the same
way that I believe a good salesman can sell anything however the overlap
between good salespeople like salespeople by nature and and guys who
are super into technology Enthusiast guys is actually not that big I mean
correct me if I'm wrong here guys but aren't we mostly a little bit introverted we mostly like to to be at
home on a Friday night I mean it's Friday night you guys are watching me so
I think we all know the answer to that
um so the way to succeed I think from that sales role or that Tech role is to
be that true Enthusiast who's really really trying to learn and really trying
to be passionate I mean I never uh I
never took a course for computer stuff I
just read and read and read all day all
night I'd be up till who knows in the morning uh reading every forum and every
review so even if I hadn't laid hands on a current generation motherboard I could
tell you how to overclock it I could tell you what CPUs were optimized for it
I could tell you what RAM Works what RAM doesn't work that's the only way you're
ever going to succeed okay moving right along uh
people who want to do this on the side you know I have a lot of people whether
it's posting on on the NCI Forum or whether it's messaging me they tell me
lonus I want to like build computers for people and uh you know I want to like
buy the parts at the local store and you know get a relationship with them so I
get a good deal and then I want to build it for someone and then I want to make a
couple bucks and I always tell these people the same thing and I I feel bad
because it's bad news and I don't like giving people bad news
but the reality of it is there is no money in it I mean I don't know if you
guys know this or if you understand this but in the IT industry on a board
there's no profit so the best discount
like the best deal you're going to get from whatever store you're working with
is probably a couple perc off and when we're talking something that costs $200
we're talking like $5 maybe $10 if
you're really persistent off of off off
of a sticker price okay so then how much
can you charge someone to assemble a PC for them I mean usually uh I mean NC
charges 50 bucks and they throw in a one-year warranty let me tell you if you
have One support issue with that PC that
50 bucks is gone it's gone you just have
to be sure that everything you sell is going to not come back um so yes okay so
there's no money in assembling it because you know guys like HP or those
those those those big box guys are just you know building these things on
assembly lines like this how you going to compete with that and then you got stores like an NC or you've got guys
like an IB power who are assembling the PCS with a production system behind it
so that it costs them very little to do um so there's no money there either the
the recommendation I give to these people is if you're still in high school
and you're just looking to like make five bucks on the side or 10 bucks here
and there and you're looking to uh do it as a hobby where you're you know you're
helping people you're letting people come to you and you're just kind of
being like yeah you know hey let me let me assemble it for you I'll you can take
a couple bucks for Consulting with them and helping them get better value out of
the system I mean that was one of the things I always love doing people would bring me these computers and they'd be
like spending $2,000 and I'd look at it and I'd go you're buying an extreme
Edition your computer costs $2,000 that is a terrible value you
shouldn't be buying an extreme addition unless your computer costs $5,000
otherwise the balance is completely out of whack it's not right you need to be
spending Less on your CPU and you need to you need to amp up your graphics card
performance in order to make a more balanced rig so I'd go I'd do a couple
things sometimes I'd get them the same performance and I'd lower the price by a
little bit or other times I'd go look you're spending this much money let me
help you let me get you 20% 30% better performance and uh so if you're able to
do that as someone who's doing this on the side then that's one of the ways that you can distinguish yourself as
well again it's not going to work without super hard work and researching
everything you have to be sure because One support call will cost you anything
you could have possibly made on that transaction um oh yeah this was this was
an idea I had oh crap you know what I'm totally going to bail on you guys for a
second so let's um let's let's put up
like I don't know the Twitter feed or
something I'll be back in like one moment and there's no one behind you why
do people keep asking me this it's a window crying out loud see it's me see
the ARM see the ARM behind me it's me calm down just a sec
okay so for those of you who do want to do a little bit of tech work on the side
you know don't let me be too discouraging because if you're doing it for the fun then you can always do
things for fun all right so I wanted to do a little thing called what to keep in
your Tech bag and I thought I'd bring out my own backpack yes that is a
Windows Vista backpack so just deal with
it I happened to like Windows Vista I think it's good I think Windows 7 is
really not that different all right so number one I have a tablet in my bag
tablets are handy because if you need to be looking something up or doing
something other than the computer you're working on you can't rely on the
computer you're working on in order to you know uh give you instructions for
something I mean if even if you're working on a computer for someone don't be afraid to just Google it and uh and
get help because no one can remember absolutely everything so uh so a tablet
is huge because that way you can be referring to that while you uh while
you're doing something else on the computer even if it's rebooting or even if it has like serious problems and it's
like super bogged down and slow uh okay
let's go into the other bag here what else we got in here oh okay these are my
shoes don't worry about that that's that's not normally in there I had my
shoes in my bag because I was uh I was riding my bike to that to that social
media conference and uh so I I had to wear my riding boots okay
I keep a camera in mind that's not necessarily necessary for you however I
mean something kind of cool that uh that I used to do when I was painting houses
is I always take a before and after picture never hurts to have a proper
camera on you lots of lots of folks you know are big into oh yeah my phone's got
like eight megapixels and blah blah blah but the reality of it is image quality
okay image quality is about light it's
simple physics the more surface area on the sensor and the
bigger the Optics the better the image it's not about megapixels so you can
take that to the bank all right putting aside my camera
what else we got in here okay I always keep a couple spare components in this
case I've got more than enough but uh you know I'll always keep a stick or two
of RAM um you know like a crappy video
card a crappy Nick you should always have a crappy inter uh Network work hard
because you never know when you're going to run into some stupid issue where
you're trying to download like an antivirus and their Nick is dead and
they don't have another computer you can't download new drivers um total
total disaster you always want to make sure that you're connected and that's
one of the things that the tablet will help with as well so a little bit of
spare Hardware maybe you don't keep it in your backpack but keep it somewhere
close by uh ah yes if you guys watch my
show you'll know the iconic screwdriver always have a screwdriver driver always
have ah this in the end of my screwdriver I keep five things I know
there are exactly five I have a slote head okay I have a standard Robertson
this comes in handy all the time not for computers mind you I have a really
skinny Phillips head and it's not focusing on this but whatever you get
the point I have a really wide Phillips head okay so more torque for uh for
strip screws stuff like that and I keep
a very strong needle I keep a needle in
here because needles are useful for all kinds of stuff whether it's you know
pulling pins out of a Molex connector or whether it's just like poking at
something to get some dust out of it you know like maybe there's some Gunk stuck
in a connector you got to get it out of there always keep a needle on you very
very important um and then of course my standard phillips head which is the one
that I keep loaded at all times and I get asked a lot what screwdriver is this
this is a Snap-On ratcheting screwdriver it costs about 100 bucks ailable in a
wide variety of colors I didn't pay $100 for it it was a gift I would never pay
$100 for a screwdriver CU I'm totally cheap but um whatever needl noose pliers
if you don't have needlenose pliers in your Tech bag then you suck give up
don't bother anymore uh the same goes for uh where are my uh where are they y
here we go okay cut offs these are great for
cutting off zip ties you need to have these you must have these if you don't
have these you suck get get them they're cheap you can get them at the dollar
store okay this is not related this is my battery case for my iPhone that
doesn't work anymore because you know what I'm I'm putting that in as a topic
later I hate micro USB micro USB is the stupidest connector that ever existed
micro USB I hate it I'm putting that in as a topic right now we're going to talk
about that later okay what else we got in here I always keep an extra SLI
Bridge because you never know you might be working on a high-end computer you
might I have seen defective SLI Bridges cause all kinds of weird crap ah adapter
if you don't keep adapters in your Tech bag you suck because you will never
succeed if you don't have adapters where's my DVI to VGA
adapter okay apparently I suck because I don't think I have it right now but
normally I have a DVI to VGA adapter I have a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter
I have an HDMI to DVI adapter if you want to get yourself the best kind of
HDMI to DVI adapter get the kind that
has the analog pinouts even though they don't do anything because otherwise
DVI cables will not plug into it so there's ones that don't have those
analog pins holes even though they're not connected to anything and you
physically can't plug it in stupid it's ridiculous um right always have a set of
Jeweler screwdrivers because you never know when those are going to come in handy to get in somewhere tight I mean
even just a standard phillips head one just if you have to like kind of get in
somewhere and screw something in very very very handy I keep a three-way SLI
bridge but not everyone not everyone's going to run into that all the time I I
encounter that more often than most card reader always have a card reader always
always always uh I have an adapter here because
you never know when one of these will come in handy this is a single three pin to dual three pin adapter it's great for
plugging in more fans than you otherwise have another card reader this one does
compact flash as well those are both usb3 card readers because I'm a baller
uh more SLI Bridges this is this is not necessary but different lengths of SLI
Bridges might come in handy this is yet another screwdriver this one has torqus
though um if you do any water cooling you might run into a need for Torx if
you ever have to remove um modern video cards some of them are using stupid
torque screws because manufacturers apparently don't want you removing the
stock heat sinks um so yeah you should have that Allen Keys always have Allen
Keys you never know when an allen key is going to come in handy aha this is a
good one Molex teda power adapter keep
these on you at all times because you never know when someone's going to give
you a simple simple job like install a hard drive for me you show up at the job
you're like yeah cool I'll install a hard drive for you no big deal and you're you're laughing to yourself
because you're like yeah it's gonna take like five minutes and then they don't have any
extra SATA connectors on their power supply and you're like
no keep one of these on you very important actually you should probably
also have a dual MOX to PCIe adapter as well that's one of the things I don't
have in here I always keep a couple of water cooling barbs on me because I
never know when I'm going to be one short I always keep aha this is a cple
different things here we go okay I always have a bunch of SD cards on me
but I'm like a YouTuber so that's more relevant for me than it is for you uh
and I always keep a variety of USBS on me okay so these two have mostly the
same crap this is all my benchmarking utilities all my diagnostic utilities um
this one doesn't work in usb3 ports anymore for some reason so this is kind
of my replacement for that one I'm in transition right now though I'm in
transition um and never trust a USB drive always make sure that you have it
set to sync when you plug it into your master computer this guy right here is
cool because it has a variety of different Windows operating systems on
it just pull them off the disc I did a guide on this on the NCI Tech tips
channel so I keep them in folders you just pull everything out into the folder
put it into the rout you install off USB it's really really fast so if you ever
have to reformat an OS you're going to save yourself at least half an hour if
you have a USB drive with all the relevant Windows os's already in there
ah this is a specific tool you need to get yourselves one of these this is a
motherboard standoff screwdriver so it's kind looks kind of like a jeweler
screwdriver super super handy you want one of
these okay um I have a badminton racket
grip but that might not be relevant to everyone and I think that pretty much oh
yes business cards make sure you always have business cards in your bag because
if you don't have business cards and you suck because no one will remember you
unless you like show up in a clown hat oh yes and remember the best kind of
nerd food is fast nerd food always carry a
fork so there that is my segment on what
is in my bag um and my bag is extremely
deep this bag can hold anything oh look rumble's visiting us come here sweetheart come here baby oh there he
goes say hi everybody say hi say hi say
hi to everyone you're not going to say hi can you yell at them can you show
them how you yell hey there you go
sweetheart can you show them how you talk come here Rumble
Rumble can you talk for them he's not going to talk for you well he did it
once he did it once so what a good boy see say hi everyone do you guys want to
know what I think is the most beautiful thing about this cat it's the imperfections that make them special if
you guys are watching an HD you'll be able to see that in this eye right here
he has what's kind of a a weird spider
web thing going on it crosses his pupil vet says it's fine and it's he's fine
and it doesn't hurt him and it's uh and uh you know you can remove it for
Aesthetics but I think it makes him more beautiful because he's my little man and
maybe he'll visit with us for a little bit all right so why don't we do a
little bit of Q&A for a bit I know we're half an hour into the show and uh L this
uses fake meow it's not very effective excellent love that um
oh I think I bet you guys can hear him purring he's uh see he's he he'll grab
my he'll grab my ARM here show them how you grab my
hand there you go see see him grab my hand so cute my sweetheart okay actually
you can get down now uh where where we going with that it's been 30 minutes
yeah it's been 30 minutes I know right so let's do yeah let's do some Q&A I
haven't been any Q&A yet so we're going to head over to Twitter and uh see if we
can see if we can chat things up a little bit here let get this zoomed in a little bit
so you guys can actually see what the hey we're talking about no trusty video
card in my bag no I don't have a video card in my bag although normally I would
I don't do nearly as much Tech work as I used to all right slanted pillow asks I
want to upgrade my RAM eight or 16 gig when is 16 gigs needed there are very
few people that need 16 gigs today gamers are not one set of those people
people who do 3D rendering people who do video editing with After Effects they
need 16 gigs so actually this RAM that's in my backpack here is to upgrade the
rendering machine that diesel has said that we really need more RAM in so we're
going to throw 32 gigs of RAM at the problem and see if that takes care of
everything uh okay moving right along
Linus GTX 590 or 680 if a 590 is cheaper
I'm personally going for a 590 but the reason is that I already have a water
block for it if I was going to choose between the two and they were similar in
price I would go with the 680 it is much more power efficient and it kicks out a
lot less heat into your room um so yeah performance is going to be better on the
590 bear that in mind but heat is an
issue especially in the summer lus your
sound is worse it is not everyone else says it's better who says that Ethan sck
I'm sorry I'm sorry Ethan but you're doing it wrong actually I don't know it
could be could be to do with anything I yeah I don't know
all right hi Linus I know you say any
sound card is better than none but is there any sub $100 value sound card
you'd recommend you know what actually there is let's go ahead let's go to full
screen here and we're going to go nci.com because that's the place I work
and we're going to search for ASUS Zonar this is how I shop for sound cards I put
in ASUS Zonar and then I find the price I want to go for I find the one that
falls in that price and has a headphone amp and then I buy it so let's search
for yeah there it is the dgx if you're
going to use headphones you want a dgx if you're not going to use headphones
you want something like a D1 it doesn't matter neas Zonar is a good sound card
so don't worry too much about it uh jarus what is your opinion of
braided cables sold by manufacturers for their modular power supplies are they
worth it absolutely not they're not worth it at all they're worth it only if
you want the aesthetic of the of the
aftermarket cables I mean that's pretty much it this is a purely aesthetic thing
there is no performance benefit to it whatsoever if anything if I think you're
talking about those individually sleeve cables if anything individually sleeved
cables are are less effective for your
airf flow um than than a massively just
single sleeved uh single sleeved Bunch because it actually splits it up and
makes the cables more bulky so I personally like the look I'm I'm double
sleeving my CBL so I'm not doing every individual wire but I'm doing every two
with one sleeve and uh to me it's it has a value but not
to everyone Donald oh man Donald my PSU
popped what are the chance my other components got overloaded you know what
these days less likely especially guys like Gigabyte build a lot of fail safes
into their motherboards to keep surges from spreading too far but it could have
happened the only way to know for sure plug in a new power supply and find out
what happens if the uh if the magic Blue Smoke Gets released from your Hardware
then you'll
know Tim which is better for radiators
if you only have room for one set of fans push or pull for performance it
actually doesn't make a difference um for performance it's pretty much
identical it's been tested time and time again um however I always use pull if I
can and the reason for that is if you have a radiator here and you have fans
pushing this way the dust accumulates
under the blades of the fan on the radiator fins it's very hard to clean
especially if you get any buildup if you're pulling air through the radiator
dust accumulates on the fins here still but you can easily just kind of grab it
and take a Dust Bunny and throw it away or you can just blow on it and it'll all
come free so that's the reason why I use pull that Tech guy I am only answering
questions on Twitter right now however I do keep an eye on the twitch chat so
every once in a while I uh I I do stuff
uh lonus I tweeted at you in like the pre-show does that mean you'll never read it ever um honestly probably not I
I only really do I can only do so many questions I mean you guys tweet a lot of
stuff at me and I'm not going to talk too much about how much stuff you guys
tweet at me because that will waste the time that I can spend answering questions slick no way Slick's tweeting
at me that's the real slick by the way if you guys aren't following at slick PC
on Twitter just stop stop watching right now go follow slick PC on Twitter
because he's going to be tweeting all kinds of cool cool stuff he's got some really neat pictures of a modded Cosmos
2 that his brother's working on very cool stuff so he I don't know that's
just a response to someone else so that's uh all right Mr DJ here is the
7970 gigz Edition better than the 680 no
um neither of them are really better than the other especially once you overclock both of them to the max
they're very very close to each other 7970 and GTX 680 if you want 3D Vision
if you want fiz X go with the NVIDIA card if you don't if you want the better
multim monitor experience go with the 7970 figure out I mean what's your plan
in the future what are you going to do if you want multim monitor go radon if
you don't then don't then don't all
right Josh Josh hey what is the best HDMI and
what do you think I think the best HDMI
is um the HDMI that is like
actually you know what I don't I'm sorry I don't know how to answer that question
um HDMI HDMI is good actually I don't
really like HDMI I'm a big fan of DVI
because it carries more bandwidth than HDMI although HDMI 1.4 whatever I think
it's 1.4 compliant devices with the faster processing chip are finally
caught up to DVI um I mean DisplayPort is the way of the future HDMI is
honestly holding back things like 4K I mean 4K is supported at 24 FPS s which
just sucks um it's holding back things like 3D cuz 3D is all like a ghetto sort
of compressed thing with HDMI it's not truly fast enough for really anything
these days um although I did discover some really cool HDMI cables recently
check this out check this out so you know what we're just going to make this
big here so I was on mono price if you guys don't know mono price mono price is
kind of amazing because they have everything and it's uh it's this stuff
so I need no no this stuff this stuff it's called red mirre so I need some
long HDMI cables that are thin and redm
allows you to have a 28 AWG wire and up
to a 60ft cable for like 75 bucks which is absolutely outstanding um I'm super
super impressed with with that whole idea and uh so I'll be using that for
for my camera as I'm like as I have someone floating around with the camera
taking b roll footage during an unboxing I'm going to have that long wire running
without the weight on the HDMI connection that would cause it to break
so uh I think that's really cool that seems like kind of a newer neerish thing
so yeah I'm super super excited about that uh Matthew says mini USB are slow
and crappy yes they are I hate them actually they're not slow they're just
USB but but they're crappy I hate them they break they suck all right I
accidentally clicked the thing I don't want to do that I want to just scroll down scroll down air what has micro USB
ever done to you it breaks and it sucks it's not as good as min and it's not
much smaller and hey I'm saving this rent for later you guys are killing me
here um Adrian says is SSD of different brands really differs a lot in terms of
durability I just bought a hyperx 3K is it durable compared to Intel uh the
answer would be probably not Intel doesn't really spec out what PE cycle
chips they're using for their drives I know on the 520s they're using 5K PE
which basically means that drive will inherently last about 66% longer than
the drive you just bought and a regular hyperx drive not the 3K will actually
last longer as well however even with a 3K PE cycle um with the intelligence of
the of the wear leveling algorithms in modern ssds you really don't have to
worry about it that much I mean it's um
by the time your SSD dies due to the
flash degrading 120 gigs will be
absolutely laughable it'll be stupid it'll be like it'll be like sort of 5
years from now or like it'll be like five years ago being concerned about
like your your 250 gig hard drive I mean
now you can buy a 500 gig hard drive for I mean okay less less so now because of
that flood but for a while there you could buy hard drives for like 40 bucks
um so yeah you're investing a lot in your SSD now but by the time it ever matters it'll be totally
worthless
um oh test tester says what was that camera test tester should follow me with
a real Twitter account and then maybe I'll answer his question actually no I'm
just messing with you it's an sx1 is this is the camera that I've been using
for years for my video blog um my
original one was actually awesome and didn't have a big fat scratch on the
lens and when that one died because I spilled chicken soup on it I had to
replace it and the sx1 I was gone and Canon didn't have a direct replacement
that was able to take great 1080p video
so I bought a used one that came with a scratch on the lens hence all the
complaints that I get from you guys about the autofocus there's nothing I
can do until my new camera arrives so I'm sorry and yes some of you hate
Twitter and then I I can't answer
questions for you I'm Sorry Devil Z I know I know I I I love you and
everything and I I do want to talk to you but you're you're going to need
Twitter um so yeah sx1 is new camera
coming so don't worry about it we we're going to get this taken care of all
right uh I painted houses yes I did paint houses I painted houses for two
summers with student Works
painting all right moving right along moving right along moving right along oh
who wants a shout out Jerry Guan wants a shout out hi Jerry oh my goodness it's
Jerry oh sorry I was thinking of Seinfeld Jerry
Guan huh no I'm just kidding yeah shout out to Jerry Guan okay lonus is NCIX
ever going International funny you should ask because NC is already in the
US which is sort of international to can Canada um as for what's going on with
any kind of future expansion honestly I'm like the YouTube guy I'm a product
manager I'm a category manager so I'm not exactly like you know like peon
level here like I used to be a retail sales guy but I still can't comment on
that kind of stuff when's the next personal rig
update honestly here's the problem right now I'm working on dremeling I get home
at around the baby's bedtime every day which means if I turn on a drel at
35,000 p.m. in my garage my wife will
kill me she will absolutely destroy me so this weekend I'm hoping to find some
time while he's awake to dremel out the CPU cutout and then I'll be able to
actually post post an update so I'm super excited about that uh Gabriel says
does NCI ship custom computers to the us the answer is yes but not really you
have to jump through some hoops email PC that is PC
nci.com and the Crazy Russian or Brian the gamer
will take care of you and they will they will get that sorted out for you okay
they will they'll make sure that you can buy a
PC all right Juan solo Juan solo that's
awesome that is just awesome ju solo Oh man uh do you think
College University is necessary for a job in it I would say it's not necessary
I'd say it's highly recommended I do not have a university or a college degree um
I'm doing all right but I have busted my tail it's not as easy um or maybe it is
I don't know I mean I never tried the other way so it depends what you want to
do I mean you want to be a programmer um you should probably get some education
unless you're really good at being self-educated uh if you want to be like
a technician or whatever else no totally not necessary but it really depends what
you're talking about I mean do you want to be a motherboard engineer then like
yeah then you're going to need school so it's a very vague question I'm sorry
Juan I just I saw your name and I was like oh my goodness he's going to ask me
about smuggling or like he's going to tell me about smuggling and I was going
to be like amazed I was going to talk about like the Kastle
run now I'm
disappointed all right let's see if we got any more questions Michael wants to
know what sort of Music are you into you know what just for lws let's have a look
at what's in my music library all right so I'm going to I'm going to pull this
over here we are totally going to just go to my music folder we are not even
going to censor any of this stuff so let's go I actually sort my music
according to folders still I I am I am actually that demented so let's go with
uh let's go with medium icon so you guys can actually see what we're dealing with
here so we've got some oh yeah we've got some terrible 90s like trance stuff uh
we've got some Abba all right we've got
Adam Gregory who was like a one- hit wonder got some Ace of Base um what
other terrible stuff do we have in here Alanis Moret Alanis Moret is a Canadian
hero uh yes I have one Justin Bieber song in here what else we got we got
some Bare Naked Ladies Bare Naked Ladies is good stuff Canadians Canadians all I
got some Backstreet Boys in here so my my music collection is probably one of
the most eclectic music collections you will ever encounter I listen to almost
everything um got some chumba WBA some
little bit of Coldplay some Carry Underwood See I'm going to I'm going to
I'm going to make you guys
suff yeah yeah so uh so yeah that's uh
that's that's that's all done now don't worry we're not going to I'm not going to do this to you anymore so basically
you made the mistake of asking me what kind of music I listen to and I made you
suffer so I think what you discovered is that you no longer want to
know okay and no don't don't un don't unsub because of my music taste come on
guys come on and sorry I didn't know
that that was really loud I'm really sorry I'm really sorry I I I haven't
tested that feature before however however I want you guys to oh no no I
want you guys to note this okay so we're going to search for some kind of uh some
kind of lonus video on Youtube hold on I'm GNA switch my view here so we're
going to search for like um lonus um lus
I don't know something um tech there that's a good keyword I should bring up
something all right let's go with this video the one where I like Hulk lift
this case so check this out check this
out have you ever had Deja Deja and I
want you guys to tell me if the sound level the headphone jack is
going is it working do you have sound good stuff so the Scout is more
along the with a rubber coating on the outside it's actually great you can
easily carry your system around like this especially stronger than me it's not quite like the
uh like on Theos 2 which have those those
beautifuls running down both sides of
the top of it but I mean this is a more Val and it has a rubberized on it
impr this is L handle is a really handy thing to have for your face because if
you're unboxing it you might find had
there we go had the case actually been full of a system I would not at all have
been able to do that so it's only because the case is pretty light and and
it was empty that I was able to do that I was able to do anything like that so
here let's uh let's bring me back let's bring me back uh no I do not lift
weights the only exercise that I have done in the last sort of two to three
years is playing badminton so what you guys will notice is that here I'll see
if I can show this to you my right ARM right here is significantly wider
especially here in the forearm say I'll Flex them both then my left ARM and
that's not for the reason you think it is that's because of badminton um and
actually now I uh now I'm swimming so I've been if you guys are subscribed to
my Twitter or following me on Twitter I always forget the terminology if you're following me on Twitter then you know
that I've been swimming in the mornings uh about three times a week and I'm
trying to get some endurance back some cardio so it's uh it's tough I mean it's
hard when you have a desk job because you just it's so easy to be totally
sedentary and not do anything but um yeah it's it's important it's really
important uh Pascal says I worked at Future Shop as a sales rep awful job I'm
sorry to hear that man I actually appli you oh oh wow funny story okay we're GNA
go off on a tangent here Future Shop so I applied to Future Shop when I was uh
when I was about I don't know 16 uh this is before I was working at NC before I'd
ever really had a real job and uh they had an online job in job interview like
an online application that you fill out and um it it's got all those it's got
those question C questions like um you
know if you saw a fellow employee shoplifting something trivial like
something small like five bucks or something and uh they were a close
friend of yours would you a say nothing
B talk to them quietly and ask them to put it back or C report it to a
supervisor and I answered honestly I would do B I wouldn't take it straight
to the supervisor i' talked to them first i' be like hey man that's not cool
and um so what I real what I did is I answered Ed the survey honestly as
opposed to filling in the obvious answer that they wanted to hear and um without
even taking long enough for anyone to review my application it rejected it and
so what I realized and it was totally unrealistic stuff like you'd have to be
some kind of like like unbelievable like straight arrow um
to to actually answer all these questions the way they wanted to hear it
and so what I realized is that Future Shops hiring policy at that time
prevented anyone honest from actually working there like if you were if you
were honest filling out the survey then
they wouldn't hire you period you had to you had to be like willing to lie at the
right time so um yeah I I never
reapplied not only did it not only did it reject my application but they told
me I couldn't reapply for like three or six months or something like that I was like 6 months I'm 16 man that's going to
be forever from now so I uh so I never ended up getting going there I mean hey
who knows things could have been totally different what if this was Future Shop
Tech tips I mean we were we were like this close to this being Future Shop
Tech tips and uh and it would be about like Monster
Cables no I would never do that don't worry guys I know better than
that okay Lewis asks me if you were to
choose another job in the tech industry what would it be you know what I've I've
actually thought about this because I like my job I love my job but it's super
stressful I work super hard I work long hours
if I was going to choose another job I would be a technician again I would
assemble PCS again because I actually still enjoy it and it's just not
stressful and um yeah yeah that's probably what I
would do I mean other than that I think I have the best job in the world I uh I
get to be a product manager I get to boss around the Russian all day and uh
and I get to make videos for you guys which is which is great it's fun so
let's go ahead and move down Pascal says yes I am Tech in small Comp Shop and yes
he's hard I'm just assuming that you know oh no oh no he's probably French
okay uh let's see if I can pull out a French accent yeah I probably can't do
it forget it I'm not going to try uh Joshua says what do you think
about Opera um I can't really sing it
but I I I mean I guess if it was playing
like and I was in a casino or something and it was just kind of playing like I
wouldn't leave because of it and I know that you mean the browser um I believe
it or not I have opera on my computer I very rarely use it the only reason I
have five browsers is so that I can keep track of sort of five different sets of
logins that are in all of them so it's just very convenient that
way okay moving right along
then lus please answer how does overclocking affect product lifetime I
would postulate that unless you're going really extreme and you're like trying to
break stuff so if you're staying reasonable you're staying within sort of
the community's generally accepted guidelines for how much voltage you
should should push through how much heat you should be outputting um how high you
should go probably not enough that it matters
however I have had a CPU die outright an overclocked CPU I have had CPUs degrade
on me to the point where they wouldn't overclock as high as they used to but
it's never really been relevant for me I mean I've always been I've always been
changing my Hardware before it ever mattered so I just sell it and then I
just say yeah it overclocks to this much and your mileage may vary and then I
don't worry too much about it put Twitter up please oh sorry guys
totally forgot about that there you go how can I wear the 7h I have one it's
literally put a dent in my head it's so heavy ah no way Shane I love the 7h 7h
is awesome it's lighter than the Vulcan it sounds better than anything else out
there like byy a long shot nope nope I love the 7h 7h headset buy one today
product placement for steel actually no they I mean they did give me this headset I did not pay for this headset
but I do love it it's my favorite I got rid of my HD 555 from Sennheiser that I
did pay for in exchange for these I had to pull these off of my personal rig
upstairs in order to wear them for this live
stream
okay yeah see this kind of stuff Mike you got it you got it bang on here the
speed that life changes is over 9,000 come to think of it I'm watching a
person over a thousand miles away talk at me live and I'm going to add to that
from his kitchen with technology that would have cost tens maybe hundreds
hundreds of thousands of dollars 10 years ago 20 years
ago all right you know what let's go ahead and let's catch up with some of
the new oh my goodness 395 new interactions okay you know what we're
not going to touch Twitter for a little bit I I love that you guys are are
adding me on Twitter and that you're tweeting at me and this is all really good stuff but I can only do so much so
we're going to move on to our next topic of the night which is used hard drives I
thought this was a really really good question from whoever I forget but he he
tweet tweet at me and this was earlier if if you tweet at me not during a live
stream uh the odds of getting through to me are actually a lot better um chat
room shout outs says ghost the capitalist ghost the capitalist shout
out to you yay yay um right so used hard
drives used hard drives are an interesting one so there's a couple
things number one is that hard drives generally fail within the first like 30
days or after the first couple years that's pretty much how it how it goes so
so if they're going to die they'll die right away or they'll wait a good while
and then they'll start to drop off gradually um so used hard drives
generally speaking if I was going to buy a used hard drive I'd look at a couple different things I'd look at who am I
buying this from um how much have they been using it is has this been sitting
in a NZ and has barely been used it hasn't been moved around it hasn't been
jostled it hasn't been bumped had um so
how old is it how old is it you can always know the manufacturing data of a
hard drive just by looking at the sticker on the top of it they all say um
number three is it's still under warranty because if you're buying a used
hard drive um that's not still under warranty that means it's at least a year
old okay what have they been using it for why are they getting rid of it um he
said that his work or his boss or something like that buys a lot of use
hard drives and doesn't really worry about it and my Approach there is I've
used lots of used hard drives and referb hard drives in my Windows Home Server V1
if you're doing regular and I mean regular frequent very frequent backups
then I actually don't inherently have a problem with using something like a used
hard drive um if you're if it's got to
oh yeah it's got to be shipped carefully that's another huge factor with hard drives you don't ship a hard drive
carefully dead hard drive um but yeah if it's been shipped carefully or you're
picking it up if it hasn't been used that heavily if it still has warranty I
think it's probably fine I wouldn't buy a used hard drive as readily as I would
buy something like a used CPU um or any passive component so
motherboard with no active cooling where you know that there's not much to wear
out other than the pwm um I would shy away from things like Ed power supplies
um video cards are a tough one because if they've overvolted the heck out of it
and if the fans weren out yeah it can it can go but some some guys like EVGA this
is one of their big advantages I know I talk a lot about the big three but EVGA
is a big deal for video cards so they have a Global Warranty that is tied to
the serial number not to the owner so um
that's a really good one if you're going to buy a video card yeah make sure is the warranty transferable so um some
guys like hard drives they don't care who bought it they're not going to ask you for an invoice whereas some things
like most video cards like motherboards sometimes um are going to actually ask
you to produce an original invoice and if you can't it's not going to be under warranty so that's something to consider
anytime you're buying something
used all right so let's talk about why I
hate micro USB and why it's the worst connection that ever existed this Con
connection is better than micro USB because it doesn't break so what's the
key difference between my iPhone 4 and my wife Samsung Galaxy S this is the
version one it's vibrant um my connector
still works every time when I want to charge my phone or back it up or pull
data off of it hers does not because micro USB is a big fat piece of crap
because if you at any point let's see if I have a micro USB cable here it's so
stupid I hate it um if at any point you
accidentally you know wiggle a micro USB cable the pins are so small and they're
so close together that it is incredibly easy for them to break off the piece in
the middle of the actual um female end
that that makes contact with the pins or bend it so it won't make contact anymore
it is so easy to break it off it is so easy to it's oh it's just fragile and
the thing that kills me most about it is that compared to mini be remember mini
be the one that used to be on every camera ever and it's kind of still on
every camera but used to be just everything see Min how much bigger than
micro USB is that like how much bigger is it this is this is a 100 times better
this is a 100 times more robust I mean I hate mini HDMI too I especially hate
micro HDMI but no actually I think mini HDMI is the worst I hate fragile
connectors so I don't have anything against um I don't have anything against
micro USB in particular but I hate fragile connectors in fact I hate HDMI
too compar comp to DVI compared to DisplayPort these are locking connectors every connector should lock
every connector should be durable I I really
just I mean come on my uh my my grandpa
has a has a Blackberry playbook that uh
he bought a while ago and you can make all the jokes you want about how it was useless the day he got it but it's
useless now because he can no longer charge it and it's like just over a year
old just stupid just just horrible um
Mini Is Not Fragile ghost the capitalist well it's fragile but it's not nearly as
fragile as micro uh Keen Pro asks what
phone do I have I'm going to let the rest of you in the chat answer that for him because I think most of you probably
know let's go and do some more Twitter
questions there we go okay 40 400 and something new updates
oh yeah
okay Peter great question question Peter
why do you like the tj07 more than the tj1 couple reasons Peter number one the
tj11 is really big it's really big it's heavier than the tj07 although it's
really light for such a big case because of it's all aluminum construction uh
number two is it'll look kind of empty I'm not planning to use an xlx
motherboard so it'll just have like that emptiness factor I don't like that I
prefer to I prefer to have a build that's all goes together I want an ATX
board I want an ATX case I want an ATX power supply I mean to me it's like
using an sfx power supply and putting it in like a mid tower case and using like
an adapter it's just going to look stupid um I saw one guy installed an ITX
board in his Corsair 800d I mean that's an extreme example but it's like the
most ridiculous thing ever um I like the plainness of the tj07 the tjl 11 I
originally hated it when I first saw the pictures cuz I thought the front was
plastic I thought it was like plastic and cheap the whole thing is metal it's
a beautiful case it is amazingly well constructed but I like the plainness I
like the flat front on the tj07 I like the flat top I just like the I like the
plainness I like the sleekness um also my tj7 is a gift from
my wife my wife bought it for me it was one of the first major purchases that
she made um for me for my birthday and
uh was also one of the first things I bought when I first started at NCI so it
was a long time ago now so I'm pretty attached to the uh to the tj07 um I also
my tj7 is is baller because it's one of the old ones new TJ o7s the unibody
curve that's so smooth on mine is actually a little bit sort of it's it's
I mean what would we call it we'd call it like um it's not quite a perfectly
smooth curve it's got some sort of lines to it and the reason is that the new
manufacturing process they take the sheet they score it a couple times and
then they bend it whereas they used to just bend the solid sheet of aluminum so
I have like the older baller tj7 and I feel exclusive about it so so that
that's another reason how much can I bench press not a whole lot let me tell
you that because my left ARM is weak as crap I can only do about I think I can
do about 35 push-ups in one go and I
only weigh like 140 pounds so that should give you some idea like I yeah
really can't uh really can't do it um obsidian Matthew elus are you thinking
of getting the iPhone 5 believe it or not I'm not really a phone guy I I
actually had um a flip phone until work
issued me a Blackberry and it was one of those blackberries with like you know
the the wheel on the side and like the screen and like the keyboard under it
it's like an 8300 or something like that and I used that until work issued me an
iPhone 4 I don't um I don't I don't buy phones
I'm not a phone guy I'm uh I think that any computer that's smaller than the
Torso of a grown man is probably not uh not that great although phones are
getting phones are getting better phones are getting cool and all of that but I just I know I have to get into phones
more I mean I I I like learning about new operating systems like Android and
and iOS it's been it's been eye opening I use my phone more than I ever thought
I would but I'm still not super like I'm
not like foaming at the mouth waiting for the oh my goodness it's the next
iPhone or it's the next Android phone I'm just I'm not that uh I'm far more
excited about a new flagship video card for
example okay let's move right along Sue Dion
says how many satellites are currently in orbit
um suion I'm going to show you a really cool site and I know you're just
trolling me I totally know you're just trolling me but it's called let me
Google that for you and uh I I I would
use it but I think you get the point
Sue Rumble muffin says there are rumors going around that ASUS is making offers
to buy ASRock how do you think this will impact the motherboard Market I don't know if you know this but ASRock
originally split off from ASUS I believe they're still both owned by pegatron but
I could be wrong wrong I don't remember exactly the an the what was going on but
those companies are they're separate but
they're like like they're separate they're here but they're like there
there's connections between those companies so I I wouldn't think I
wouldn't overthink it too
much Gabriel says lonus I posted a rig a while ago can you look at it and give me
the line of seal of approval you know what Gabriel I am pretty busy I have a
hard time looking at at every system that people send to me um especially
because at least 75% of the people that I advise about their systems end up
arguing with me about why they chose what they chose or didn't choose what
they chose you know what I don't care because I looked at your system I told
you how you're going to get 20% more performance for 5% more money or
whatever else um and I just don't have time to debate it but what you can do is
you can email PC nc.com and the Russian or Brian will
totally look at that for you and they are as as good configuring PCS as me if
not better so don't worry too much about that they will they will get you taken
care of like no problem Jacob yes at
some point I will do the Hackintosh I am still waiting for ASUS to send me a p8
z77 dasi or whatever their z77 it export
is I don't have one yet as soon as I have it I will get to work on that I
promise dagge larak says
Linus okay
uh reflex says you know ASL I do my mother is uh my mother's heart of
hearing she's a teacher of the deaf um I had a deaf Foster brother growing up so
I'm really rusty um I used to be pretty
conversant um whereas these days it's pretty tough for me I mean it's kind of
like French where I used to be able to communicate in French but now I mean uh
uh yeah it's it's it's pretty tough I'm kind of an English English speaking only
guy these days I mean I can still I can still finger spell you know like I know
my name sign just like hockey with an L sort of cheeseball but um that's pretty
much all I got at this point Nicholas clucher says lonus you
started as a Salesman how did you end up in the head office instead of store
management um well actually it's funny story because I went and talked to the
president of the company because I had a really awkward conversation that I had
to have with him because I just started at ncx and I was like I had this
contract where I have to paint houses this summer can you give me the summer
off can you hold a job here for me um while I while I do this and I think that
that's part of what made him um that's
part of what got me his attention was that I came in to talked to him about
this I think he looked at my numbers and what he liked about what I was selling
was I was always selling systems I was selling more systems than any other
sales guy in the company and I was working like three days a week um and I
was always selling these high-end systems because I'm really pass about it
and so he said to me look not only am I going to hold you a job here but I am
going to have you come and work at head
office when you come back and so I
started out uh configuring the PCS on the website and from there I moved into
product management with water cooling and then from there I moved into more important product management and now I'm
a category manager and then I started doing videos somewhere along the line
and that's uh that's pretty much how it went so there was a lot of there was a
lot of luck involved I mean it wasn't like uh it wasn't like you know oh I you
know um I found like a magical sort of
Toothpick and then I fought the mighty
uh pint-sized dragon and I slayed him and I you know stabbed him in the foot
and it turned out that that was where his heart was and I was like oh I
conquered the Beast and then I put him in this jar and like it wasn't anything
like that it was uh there was some luck involved I think I think with success
there's always a little bit of a little bit of luck involved LD form says wish
me good night your stream keeps me up it's 1:00 a.m. I am not going to wish
you good night because you should stick around and watch the rest of the stream it's only 25 more
minutes and it's fun right are we having fun is this a good stream you guys
enjoying it you guys cool all right good and know there's no
cookies in it it's actually oh that's disgusting it's really oh look at this
it's really old I had no idea I thought it was flour it's old ketchup packets
from McDonald's and uh like old sweet and
sour packets see look at that that one has some sauce on the top right there dare me to lick
it should I lick it come on I going to see what you guys
say should I lick
it oh disgusting okay oh I can still
taste it oh oh awful and I've got spit all
over my chin because I pressed it so hard against my tongue that it mashed my
tongue on my chin it's disgusting it's disgusting I don't don't do
that okay moving right
along uh Mark wants to know will we be doing multicam in the future yes we
will lonus I have a copy of windows8 from University I'm on the offense about
upgrading I'm planning to upgrade I think that the only way to move is
forward so I'm going to try it and uh I'm going to make make myself like it
because it's not going away um lonus are you going to upgrade
your 926 Ai and your rig to the new successor I am not planning to do that
um adaptech has a really cool new card coming that I'm pretty excited about um
and my 9260 is honestly fast enough for me it's good enough for about two
gigabytes per second reads which is uh I mean I've only got SATA 2 ssds on there
now I could still get more performance out of that card just by upgrading the
ssds instead so I'm going stick with that uh stick with that card for now I
really like it it's reliable I've got a I've got like a special custom heat sink
I made for the battery so that it doesn't overheat so everything's just kind of working the way I like it
Joe wants to know if it's possible to liquid cool and overclock an SSD let me
tell you Joe that is the most fantastic Twitter profile picture that I think I
have ever seen look at this look at this burger look at this guy I mean the
Burger's so big it makes this huge black guy looks small that is that is
fantastic Joe is that you tell me Joe if that is you I need to
know you have to tweet you have to tweet me later or something because that is
just fantastic that burger is amazing
so back to uh back back to Twitter I guess oh I guess we're up at the top now
or maybe we're not I don't know what's going on let's go back to connect there we go let's get connected with each
other yo not like in a weird way just in like
a good way Mike Canadians go to McDonald's also lonus did you hear about
New York City Banning the sale of Big Gulp siiz drinks you know what this isn't something I was planning to talk
about tonight but huge soft drinks are going to kill
you I I I know that I don't have a channel called lus health tips and I'm
not necessarily the most healthy guy in the world but I was uh we were at the
nurse's place we were getting immunizations for the baby and um I was
I was sort of marveling at uh I mean I'm a huge iced tea guy I love iced tea it's
just the best thing ever and if you guys don't live in Canada if you live in the US what you don't know is that in oh
come on lus racist I said he's a black guy I'm a white guy it's not
racist geez I didn't say he was fat I
said he was big he is big anyway so we
were at the uh we were at the nurses the nurse's office to get some immunizations
for the baby and uh they had a chart on the wall showing like how much sugar is
in crap and uh it reminded me of this time that I was down in the US and I
ordered iced tea I'd never really gone to the states and I'd never really gone
to a restaurant there before and I ordered nice tea at Red Rob and I took
one sip of it and I just about spit it all over the table because I realized it
wasn't sweetened and um what what I realized about about the okay first of
all the sugar sugar will kill you because it turns into fat okay so there's that and then second of all is I
remember how much sugar I ended up putting from the table they had like
sugar packets I remember how much sugar I ended up putting into the iced tea to
make it even remotely palatable and being absolutely disgusted at how much
sugar I was putting in this drink because you don't think about it when it's mixed into something but pop iced
tea that stuff will kill you the best thing to
drink right there water so I'm I almost drink only water
the times I drink iced tea I drink iced tea when I go to a restaurant I treat
myself but I try not to keep it in the house because that stuff will kill me
and I try to realize that uh Performance Studios what editor
do you use to edit your videos I personally use Sony Vegas movie studio
because I'm cheap and I don't know how to use anything else um uh what's his
name diesel brought brought his copy of uh of CS6 that he's been using to help
us and uh yeah it's pretty cool based on
what he's been doing lately I mean I don't know okay okay you know what we're gonna we're going to go we're going to
go on a Youtube Adventure here guys and I'm going to show you the latest edition
of netlink weekly which is actually
amazing um and I'm like super happy with it I didn't I didn't ask him to do this
at all but he just did a fantastic job of the editing on this one so we had a
street fighter Showdown between me and
Tom the artist and uh he added like the
coolest effect that I that I totally I mean I told him be creative about this
stuff you know have fun but I didn't think he'd be this creative and I didn't think he'd have this much fun I was I
was super super impressed with this I'm going to turn on the sound I'm going to stop talking for a minute here was
pretty even for me and Tom and uh here we go so I I really I don't even know
what button kicks here you guys like that you guys like those heads and
health bars down there does that even work oh no I I did damage okay don't do
that he knows Combos and stuff that's not fair I don't know combos they just
know how to do it a du no the office knows if I just kick long story I'm to
figure out how to turn the audio off here yeah long story short I kicked Tom's butt in spite of the fact that
that was his copy of Street Fighter 4 I've played Street Fighter 4 a grand
total of about like one hour before in my life when I sat down and kind of
played it for a bit I have never once played a game on a PlayStation 3 before
that I'm totally not a console guy but I uh yeah yeah I uh I I I I did myself
proud I did myself proud in that Street Fighter match there so I I don't
remember how we got on this topic but let's go ahead and move right along
here okay moving on down moving on down
moving on down what's your favorite case
tj07 Dan says I have to wake up at 7 A.M
tomorrow for school that sucks Dan I remember
school getting up early sucks but like stay in school it's
important and stuff okay okay let's see let's view
this conversation I don't know where this came
from oh I think so I think I'm getting I think I'm getting burned for not
thinking that girl gamers exist I found this uh I found this evidently girl
gamer oh no oh that that is the that is the one she did reply to my tweet here
oh yeah okay so we are oh I just saw
this tweet during my live stream my
audience says hi you guys say hi right
you guys say hi to the girl gamer who did an unboxing of a video card I was
like woo amateur unboxings very cool oh
someone apparently knows who this is I've never heard of her before but uh
people don't say people don't say hi well you know what too bad I'm saying hi
on behalf of you guys because I'll just force you to be somewhat polite uh how
do I turn this off close this go away and go away no no no okay you know what
let's just scroll down there we go all right how long till a replacement for
DDR3 actually they've just finalized the ddr4 spec however I don't think it
matters that much I don't know if you guys remember this but the upgrade and
performance going from ddr2 to DDR3 was
very very minuscule as soon as we moved to an integrated memory controller on
most of the modern well every modern CPU on the desktop from AMD and Intel um it
stopped really mattering that much uh what the speed of the memory is because
the latency goes up as we increase the frequency um and we just don't need more
bandwidth on the desktop I mean if you guys need any evidence of this go and
look at some of the writeups that have been done about LGA 2011 where they take
uh they they actually run every for two one two three and four channels of
memory on the platform because it's fully capable of running in dual Channel
and what's discovered a lot of the time is that dual channel is just as good as
quad channel in some cases where latency is more important and quad channels
better where you need more bandwidth but these are very very small margins of
Victory on both sides uh the only time you really run into trouble is when
you're running single channel so yeah
there you go I I mean it's coming but I don't know how relevant it is Peter
wants to know what is the story behind cameraman's Apple prowess also it seems
slick and Diesel don't mind being on camera anymore so cameraman is an Apple
guy cameraman is the one who convinced me to get an iPhone 4 cameraman um edits
all his videos on a Mac back in the day when uh when we were doing like old
school Tech tipss you know what let's pull up let's pull up some old school Tech tips for you guys so here we're
gonna go to Let's uh let's let's change our view here let's do this let's go to
youtube.com ncixcom Okay I'm G to pull
out some classic classic stuff here guys
you're gonna you're gonna love this or you're gonna hate it you know what get over it um so oldest to newest here we
go here we go okay so first of all there's that NC commercial that I had
nothing to do with um where's where where's that ah where's that one there's
a particular one I'm looking for here guys cameraman did all these like
awesome awesome like cheeseball effects this is right around the time we got our
new studio okay so you guys you guys are going to watch this with me you guys are
going to watch this with me hold on I'm going to switch this to full screen I'm going to put that on oh yeah 720p like
it's uh I don't know whatever year that was long time
ago hi welcome to NC Tech tips today
we'll be covering a very special uh new platform launch from AMD so it's called
the dragon platform and it features the Phenom 2 processor demo system here and
we're going to put on our investigation caps to open it up and see what's inside
and whoa whoa okay okay hold on hold on let me let me get this close see how fun
is that cameraman did all of that on a Mac so so Apple can't be uh Apple can't
be all bad right am I right I'm not right but you know
cameraman would have us believe that I'm right so let's go ahead and uh keep keep
moving down
here scrolling down looking at some
questions John wants to know how hard do you think it is to run a business solely
on custom systems how would I do it John it's probably not doable there's two
guys in the US doing it right now IB power and cyber power they are
both basically it's saturated there's no room for really anyone else um to make a
real living to have like a significant company I mean okay there's smaller guys
like a falcon or uh you know whatever
whatever those guys but these are this is a very Niche niche market and the
reason that people buy from them is they're a longtime trusted brand they've
been around forever as a new startup it would be I'm going to say impossible um
it's not a business that I would
start Ryan says I may be a little off
topic here absolutely not Ryan questions about power supplies are 100 well just
100% people say more than 100% tick me off because there's no such thing unless
we're talking about growth so lus I may be a little off topic here but my
Corsair TX750 V2 died on me and I'm going to buy a seic platinum 60 what do
you think I think that's a fantastic idea seic power supplies are the
Chisel David says did that guy from last week who you offered to build this PC
for ,000 ever respond he did respond he
seemed like he was going to do it but I I talked him out of it because it makes
no sense to give someone $1,000 to assemble a PC for
you all right moving right along would
you say a sound card is necessary for games like BF3 a sound card is necessary
for life you should have a sound card because it makes everything sound
better oh this is the this is the saddest thing that I've that I've seen
today kpk TDS says lonus you are loved
by thousands thank you I'm completely alone
what do you recommend me first of all let's find out how alone he
is hold on oh my goodness he is actually
completely alone he has zero followers
you know what I would like you guys to do just one of you just one of you I
would like one of you to follow kpk TDS
on Twitter please can someone do
that someone follow him come
on I'm not we're moving on with the live stream until someone does it okay so I'm
going to refresh this page and if no one's following him then uh then we're
not uh yeah we're we're not moving on here zero followers still guys this
isn't good enough let's go let's go kpk TDS let's go zero followers still we're
not I'm I'm serious I'm serious someone do it just one he's not going to be
alone no I'm not going to follow him I don't follow people on Twitter my ego is
way too big I'm trying to refresh here I'm
pressed F5 what do you want here 100
followers there we go kpk TDS you have a
100 followers on Twitter you have people to talk to I don't know if they're going
to pay attention or not but I hope they will because I think that the people who
are tuned into this live stream the people who watch Tech tips on YouTube
are generally A Cut Above the Rest of the internet garbage and the re what I
base this on is the quality of the comments on my videos the quality of the
chat that we have going on here the quality of the conversations it's good
stuff and they're good people so now they are going to talk to you or they
might not and uh let's move right along
okay uh Charlie what do I think of the tj07 based murder box I love it I think
it's expensive I think if you want as good a case as you can pretty much get
um Charles is the man he's B he uh he started up in Vancouver I actually uh I
saved his butt once on one of his first
murder boxes um he had a bill that he
had to get done G3 eight fittings were
really hard to come by and I had a beautiful pair of them I don't remember
where I got them but we had none in stock at NC there was nothing local he
couldn't find anything and he called me up he said vinus do you have any g38
fittings I have to finish this system if I don't finish this system it's going to
be a big problem for me it's going to be weeks to get more g38 fittings and he
does not believe in using anything but the best so he was using a thermal chill
rad no questions they were not G1 quarter back in those days so I said
look Charles dude all I've got is these ones I'm saving these for my build these
are the nicest g38 fittings I've ever encountered I've never seen any like
them ever again but I was like look dude for you they're
yours didn't charge them for them just gave them to him and that's that's
really the only story I have about Charles but either way I like him I
liked him there that's the point I liked him enough to give up special fittings
and I'm I'm totally totally totally OCD
about things like water cooling fittings if I have like the perfect I mean
fittings all sucked back in those days we didn't have bits power um so
yeah I like Charles he's a good
guy moving further down further down
Maurice says how do I feel about the Aesthetics of the switch 810 and what do
I think about the features it includes for the price I think it's very plastic um I'm not much of a plastic guy so
there you go and I saw some asking in the chat about red versus brown switches
you know what I'm not a big red guy I love the k90 from corsera I love the
backlight I love the awesome aluminum base plate I do not love the red
switches and that's really really preventing me from using that keyboard
so I would go Browns over I'd go anything over Reds pretty
much uh Steve wants to know what I think of asrock's xfast RAM xfast land and
xfast USB well xfast USB is pretty straightforward because I think it just
means USB 3 as for their xfast RAM and X fast
L yeah um kargo says go to Justin.tv
instead admins on Twitch TV are pretty abusive well you know what I know a
couple of admins over here in fact there was one watching at the start let me
have a look if he's still here oh no there's oh there's a different staff
Sinn I don't know who that is let's see if he's abusive I'm going to I'm going
to totally like say something mean about him I'm going to say like swin sinn's
dog has tourettes
bam oh it's John oh whatever whatever
John no one cares what you think anyway
come on let's see you get abusive banned I'll ban you I'm gonna try and ban him I
tried this once with fuzzy oh I can't even do it yeah oh it's cuz I'm not
logged in yeah yeah bam anyway okay moving
right along so uh twitch seems to want me on there so uh I'm not going to I'm
not going to I'm not going to defy them by moving over to Justin.tv because I
think they could follow me over there and and tell me to come back to Twitch
based on that they're somewhat Affiliated uh Queen bugle says how about
a tj07 unboxing great suggestion unfortunately I I mean I've talked about
the tj07 a lot I don't really have any handy to unbox so there's not a whole
lot I can do about that but uh but yeah
but yeah no good idea though good
idea wait male no I have lights I don't
have any of those other BS but I do have lights in my music
collection okay you know what I have another requested topic for tonight and
this is totally going to be boring for most of you so you can tune out if you want but someone asked me to talk about
my bike gear so I will be back in like one minute I'm just going to go grab my
bike gear and we're going to talk about we're going to talk about motorcycle
safety so I'll be back in like two seconds I have a pretty sweet helmet
though so you guys should definitely stick around and check it out
what
all right so if any of you guys are writers out there then you've probably heard the
phrase all the gear all the time I firmly believe that if you're thinking
about riding a motorcycle or if you're riding a motorcycle now and you're not doing this already that you need to make
sure part of your budget for learning to ride make sure you get a course unless
you have a super experienced rider to uh to train you and show you what to do um
and yeah basically yeah make sure you get a course and make sure you allocate
money for gear so this is my
rf100 is my sweet ass helmet um your
helmet should be the first thing you buy yes helmets are not that useful Beyond
about 60 70 km an hour even 50 um but if
you get into a pickle and you hit your head your intellect is your most
valuable possession you don't want to mess that up so uh I actually did an
unboxing video of this helmet way back when I got it so let's go ahead and uh
let's check that out here I bet there's not that many like showy helmet
unboxings on YouTube would there be showy helmet here there showy helmet
unboxing look at that hit number one
like a boss so here's me unboxing my
when I was like super excited I'd never ridden a motorcycle yet I got all my
gear from uh back then it was called new.com but now it's called
motorcyclegear.com pretty awesome so here I am like super excited about my
helmet so that's the same helmet I just showed you see see it looks the same uh
helmets are only good for about 5 years and rule number one of helmets never
ever whack them on anything always put them down on the ground where they'll be
safe and they won't fall because as soon as your helmet Falls and damages is the
uh the protective material inside it's totally useless okay so boots people
underestimate the importance of boots paid a couple hundred bucks for these they're rainproof in theory nothing's
rainproof when it comes to motorcycle gear something I discovered they have reflectors on the back totally useless
because my pants cover them anyway um but what I do like about these is
they're extremely ruggedly built very very thick on the top so that you don't
have any discomfort when you're shifting um and they have extra padding extra
armor built into things like the ankles so these things are important I was
trying to explain to my mom who just is learning how to ride a motorcycle now
the importance of motorcycle boots and motorcycle gear in general and she said
oh no you'll just you know we'll wear hiking boots and you know two pairs of
jeans or what whatever whatever she thought she was going to be doing she
dropped the bike on the first day of training and uh and hurt her ankle I
said ma if you'd had proper riding boots
it's worth the money you wouldn't have had to deal with this boots are
expensive I paid a couple hundred for those but I think it's worth it pants
pants are important too so you got armor in the knees you got armor on the hips
um I actually spilled my bike once I spilled it on a on a wooden bridge um in
the rain and uh really unfortunate I wasn't going fast I was going like 8
kilometers an hour so I was I was 100% fine everything was okay but I was
thanked my lucky stars that I was wearing my pants and my jacket so I know
anyone's going to anyone who rides is going to see my textile gear and they're
going to be like lonus you have textile gear you suck get leather and you're
right I should be wearing leather however I use my gear in all types of
weather so rain shine I'm out there on my bike um so really leather's not an
option for me it will get destroyed quick fast the way that I use my gear so
for a jacket most import couple important things so this is one of the
really cool tips that I picked up while I was shopping is you don't size a
motorcycle jacket the way you size a real jacket so you see when I put my
hands up like this my wrist is exposed the the the sleeve doesn't seem like the
right length that's for a really good reason that's because when I'm on my motorcycle and I'm pulling back on the
throttle with my other hand of course but I have to demo this if if the jacket
fit properly and the sleeve was up here it would be cutting off the circulation
on the back of my hand so that's why it always fits like this you always test
your motorcycle gear in a riding position see if it sits in the right
place see if you got all your Mobility find out if the armor is going to shift
so this one's got armor in elbows this one's got armor in the shoulders it's
got a back protector um usually get an aftermarket back protector I should
practice what I preach I don't have one but uh the ones that usually come in the
jackets kind of suck and this is about as waterproof as it gets for a
motorcycle jacket and it's not waterproof at all and then my gloves so
I wear Alpine Stars gloves these are sp
sp Stella sp8 yes these are ladies
gloves because I have small lady hands
but they fit me absolutely perfectly and the one thing where I splurged on
leather I spent over $100 doar on my gloves was gloves because leather gloves
are balling also textile gloves generally don't have armor built into
the back of them which is extremely important even in my small spill I fell
over whacked my hand on the back of the bridge had I not been wearing these
knuckle guards I don't know what would have happened but uh you can actually
see I don't actually I don't remember which hand it was yeah it was this one
cuz the knuckles are all scuffed up and and beat up from that one incident and
uh I I thanked every every decision that
I made about gear I was very thankful for it that day because my shoulder
didn't get bashed up my hip didn't get bashed up my knee was okay my ankle was
fine my hand was fine and my head never hit the ground but had it happened um I
would have been fine as well except I would have been out like 500 bucks I would have had to buy a new helmet so uh
yeah see they fit perfectly fingers right in the ends I have textile gloves
too when I'm riding in the ring so I just carry a couple carry an extra pair of gloves in the uh in the back of my
bike and that's pretty much it
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Linus and thank you everybody good night and
I'll see you probably next week probably around the same time