Let's do a quick sound check, shall we? For those of you who
are watching already, we're like two
minutes early today. So, uh Oh, I
thought I thought we had a cat about to join us, but we don't. He's he's running
off to go somewhere else. Do you want to leave them in
here? Yeah, there we go. There. So, I'd just like to know if this
is working. So, if someone on Twitter or someone on uh you know, something can
let me know. Actually, I can check the I'll
check the Twitch chat. Here we go. And we're live. Yes, there we go. Uh for
those of you who have not seen my my intro teaser video on YouTube, we are
potentially going to have a live
unboxing of the iPhone 5 tonight, which I know you guys are super super excited
about. unboxing of the iPhone 5 tonight.
No. No. Am I not? I'm not. I'm not. Echo. What do you mean echo? Okay. Let's
see if the echo is gone. Echo gone. Echo gone. Here we go. Echo. I'm waiting for
people to say the echo is done. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We know there's an echo. See, here you go, guys. Here you
go. All right. Tell me something. When you see that 10 people have typed echo,
do you feel the need to say echo? When you see that 10 people have typed
echoing, do you feel the need to say echo? When you see that 10 people have
typed echo still gone, please mute your stream. No, no,
the stream is muted. Hold on. Hold on. Still gone. Okay, we might have a
problem here. Please mute your stream. No, no, the stream is muted. Hold on.
Good thing we started early tonight. Okay, we might have a problem here. Please mute your stream. No, no, the
stream is muted. Hold on. Good thing we started. Browser page isn't even showing
my stream. That's bizarre. All right, let's go to a different website.
Okay. Okay, let's see if that helps. See, see, it's great that we're It's
great that we're having this uh great that we're having this time
together like 10 seconds apart. Okay, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. It's great
that we're having this time together. 10 seconds apart. Okay, hold on. We cannot
see the Echo results until people say close your stream. My stream is closed.
Okay, hold on. My stream is closed. There's no need to tell me to close the
stream. Hold on. Let's see if this uh let's see if my stream is closed.
There's no need to tell me to close the stream. Hold on. Let's see if
this. Okay. How about
now? Still echo. There we go. Are we good? We
good. All right, we're good. Apparently, I have to mute XSplit because XSplit is
uh I don't know. I'll have to figure that out later. I I have I have no idea
what's going on because I've only got one mic actually. I want to know how is
the audio quality tonight because I am using something pretty sweet. This is an
ASUS Thunder FX sound external sound
card that has an environmentally
cancelling noiseancel thing. That red
light that's on what would be the top to you guys and the right hand side of the
unit to me that audio is the same. It's
a little worse than last time. Good clear voice.
See? Yeah, you guys uh you guys are giving me mixed messages here. So, why
don't we kick things off with a couple of Twitter questions. I'm just going to
I've got my hotkeys working this time, so we'll actually be able to see what
each other are talking about. Let's go. Eight new interactions. Oh, okay. There
are two audio. Fine. Aha. HKG who is
here wants to know how do I feel about
the Trinity APUs that are coming out. So I don't really have feelings about
hardware per se, but I am definitely excited to see what AMD has done in
terms of uh faster gaming performance on
what would otherwise be a very entrylevel processor. Now, it's no
secret that AMD's APUs already destroy
Intel's actually here, I'm going to find a uh There we go. Let's go.
YouTube.com. And we're not going to have sound here, guys. Sorry. Uh so,
YouTube.com. Let's have a look at our
IGP
showdown. There, that's me right there. See, very few people watch these videos,
which is frustrating because they're pretty informative. See, look at that.
Lots of likes, very few dislikes, but no one wants to uh no one wants to watch
these like these uh these more educational videos. So, as I have
apologized for numerous times in the past, and people think my voice quality
is way worse than before. I mean, I can turn off the
environmental. You know what? I'm just not going to play with it. So, skip
ad. Going to try and skip the ad. That's their new strategy is to not let you
skip the ad. So, this is me with a crazy
hairdo that and uh this is the video not
playing which is obviously really helpful to make it look you know less
horrible. So, basically we do graphs and those green graphs there are the AMD
graphs and this this is Crisis right here and those blue graphs are the Intel
graphs. So, this is Ivy Bridge versus
Intel's or AMD's first generation APU. So, with their next generation APU, I am
super excited to see what they come out with. I actually have about three of the
new APUs on hand already. Well, rather Slick has them, and he's working on
testing them as we speak. At least he's supposed to be working on that as we
speak. But, uh, he he actually he actually may not be. So, there there's
only way one way to find out if he's actually working on it, and that would be to call him. Maybe we'll make that
like part of the live show at some point. Like crank calling slick whenever
we're doing a live show. You know what? Okay. Okay. I want I want I Okay, we're
gonna do this. So, the first tweet,
okay, of what I should prank text
Slick. I will I will take that I'll take
that tweet and I will text it to him. So, we're gonna we're going to start
watching the Twitter feed here. And uh I'm just going to change just just so
you guys just so you guys can can be can
be pretty confident that I'm actually doing it. We're going to we're going to
go because he was trolling me during uh during one of my previous live streams.
He actually phoned me in the middle of it and was asking me sort of smartassar
remarks questions. All right, hold on. I'm going to change his name in my
phone. I'm going to change it from his real name to uh his his other more
different real name, which is obviously Slick. And I'm just going to cover up
his phone number here. Whoops. So you guys can see that this is the whatever.
You can't see anything. Forget about it. So you'll just have to take my word for
it. Okay. Here we go. New interactions coming in. I'm going to find the first
one. I'm going to find the first one. So I'm not uh it's not a Okay. Will you
marry me? That's the first one. I think it's lame, but I'm going to
do it anyway because that's what you guys have asked for here. Okay.
As long as he's not watching the uh as long as he's not watching the live
stream, then uh here. Here we go. Here
we go. So, that's slick. And that is uh
that is my I can't I can't do this. Trying to look through the screen. There
we go. There it goes. See, we just prank texted someone. Let's
see if he replies right away. So, I'm going to leave this here for now, and
then I'm going to switch to my other view so that I can move over here. No,
better yet, I'll put this over here. So, we can keep an eye on that while we see
if we have any other topics coming in.
We'll see. We'll see what he says. This is going to be live, right, guys? So, I I have no idea. I have no idea what kind
of a reaction we're going to get out of him. All right, tell him you broke the
iPhone 5. Okay, no more suggestions. No more suggestions. And besides, I tell
him he's fired like every other day, so he won't even be surprised by that.
Christian wants to know, "What's the difference between DDR2 and DDR3?" Uh,
you should definitely look that up on YouTube, Christian. Uh, if you if you
search for DDR2 versus DDR3, I have a video all about
that. Thomas Thomas Heckler, you know what? Here, we'll put this away for now.
Thomas Heckler wants to know, "What is the best way to clean out CPU fans and
case fans? I have filters in my case, so
I would suggest checking out the dust
PC. Let's start. Let's try PC
dust." Oh. Oh. Oh. Dust
resistance. Oh. Oh. Oh. Apparently that
uh that search term is not going to work for me. So, we'll try something else.
Computer cleaning.
And there it is. 140,000 views. PC
cleaning tips removing dust bunnies. Maybe if I'd used uh better search terms
for that, that would have been better. Uh oh, here we go. Here we go. We've got
Slick's message back. He wants to know if he's going to get a dowy of a
3960X. So, it looks like he's actually down for the idea. And uh that's very
exciting for me and of course all of my viewers who are very happy about my
impending nuptuals. We're not going to give him any more context for that. I'm
just not going to reply to his text anymore, which will be for the walls, of
course, as well. Let's move down. My Little Pony theme song.
Okay. All right. 18 new interactions. Thoughts on DDR4? Good question. Um,
DDR4 is probably going to be lower power, higher frequency, and higher
latency than DDR3. We honestly haven't seen any big um on the desktop anyway.
We haven't seen any big performance improvements come from upgrading our
memory technologies since pretty much dual channel DDR2. I mean uh if you go
back and look at the at the numbers um
back then even especially on platforms with an integrated memory controller. So
AMD's platforms at the time, not Intel then, but Intel now. Uh we don't see
that much of a difference in terms of performance because we don't need all
that memory bandwidth these days. I mean, if you're buying like an X79
platform system, um, you know, for extreme Uber gaming or whatever else,
you might as well get four memory sticks because they're so cheap these days. But
the actual difference in performance running on an X79 platform between dual
channel and quad channel is on the order of like singledigit percentages. It's
not actually that
huge. All right. Hey Lionus, is it worth
me waiting for any tablet with a keyboard dock on Windows 8 or just get one of the Android ones? Personally, I
find with the Transformer series, the the keyboard experience on Android is
actually not that uh not that
satisfactory. It it doesn't feel that clean. I haven't used it with Jelly
Bean, though. Um and I haven't used it extensively with ice cream sandwich. So,
this is based on the honeycomb days. Uh,
however, I think we can all assume that a Windows 8 experience with a keyboard
and mouse is going to be pretty seamless compared to what you might see from its
uh from its competitors. Nikil, a see I always do
this wrong. This guy right here wants to know, "What are my opinion on Corsair's
Dominators?" So, Dominators are RAM um available in DDR2 and DDR3 varieties.
Well, rather that's two and three.
Um, often times they're faster than other RAM. It doesn't make a huge
difference to your system performance, but they look outstanding. The new Dominator Platinums, especially with
that like silver bar along the top, makes your system look ballin. And they
have like interchangeable lighting effects and stuff that you can put in them. So, that's pretty cool. Um, other
than that, they have a lifetime warranty. They're hand tested. They're Corsair, so it's probably good stuff.
That's about all for my opinion on dominators, unless you meant some other
kind of Dominator. I'm assuming you meant Corsair Dominators.
I mean, you know, whatever you're into. I'm not I'm not here to judge on this
live stream. That's not what this live stream is about. Phil, have you heard about any
high pixel density monitors coming out soon? Actually, I have something very
exciting to show you, Phil. I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to go into my uh my
folder where I archive all this like stuff that I don't know might be
interesting or might not. So, in my pending folder, you can see that we
have ASUS
PB278Q showcase coming out on NCIX Tech
TT tips. So, that is going to be pretty cool. And I hope you guys are going to
check that out. Don't forget to be subscribed to the NCIXCOM channel as
well as my Linus Tech Tips channel. Otherwise, you won't necessarily see all
of my content because I do upload completely different sets of videos to
both of those channels. and uh that yeah that that particular monitor is a 27in
monitor with a 2560x440 resolution. No, it's not quite
up to the kind of pixel density that you see with like a retina display or or
with some of these new fangled Android tablets such as the Transformer
TF700, but it's still significantly higher than well what we're used to on
the desktop and is therefore therefore exciting. So, I'm going to move that
away. I actually have no idea how many people are watching the live stream
tonight. So, I'm kind of uh I'm kind of I'm kind of curious, but I guess I'll
I'll look a little bit later. Okay, scrolling down. Oh, okay. We're back to
uh we're back to where we left off. Let's have a look at Oh, 75 new
interactions. That means we're we're starting to see a bit of a bit of a ramp
up here in terms of how many people are watching. And it's you again. You're my
favorite. Let's see if we can get rid of you for good this time. And you are
blocked. Byebye. Thank you for playing. Come again.
Actually, probably don't come again. That would be best. All right.
What's What's better to use for 120 Hz
gaming? DisplayPort or dual link DVI?
I'm using a GTX 690 and the BenQ XL
2420T. Simple answer, totally doesn't matter. They're both completely digital
connections. They're both more than capable of delivering the bandwidth that
you need for 1920 x 1080120 htz. Um
DisplayPort is believed to the rumor is
that it has slightly higher latency compared to DVI. So if you don't for
whatever reason need the smaller connector versus the DVI connector, then
I guess you might as well go with whatever cable you have lying around.
Cables make digital. So there's there's there's
no difference between like an expensive DVI cable and like a like a cheap DVI
cable. It just it just doesn't matter. The only time you really run into trouble with cables is when you're
talking VGA cables. So with any analog cable, the actual quality of the cable,
the quality of the connector makes a big difference. With digital cables, you'll
know right away if there's anything wrong with the cable because it just flat out won't work. And I think we have
a visitor. Come here. You want to come visit
Rocket? Here you guys can see him
perhaps. Where'd he go? Rocket. There you are. There you are, sweetheart. Say
hi to everyone. There he
goes. Yeah. Yeah. Saying hi to everyone.
Hey, there you go. They can see you. Okay. Well, that was fun. Rocket joined
us for for just a moment, then he he had to leave. Bye, Rocket. Okay. Personal
rig updates. No. Oh, no personal rig updates this week. I've been super busy
this week. David wants to know if I have an NCIX discount. You bet I
do. It's awesome. By the
way, uh Kevin says, "Thank you for taking the time to live stream to us,
your loyal fans. Watching you right now. I'm watching you, Kevin."
No, but seriously, um, thank you guys for watching because if nobody watched,
then I'd be one of those sad people on the internet that actually like like
this was very sad. I came across this YouTube channel that's been around for
about five years, like five years. And
it had like hundreds of videos on it and
like a hundred subscribers, which at
that point is basically probably fakes. Like it's it's probably not even real
people. And it just like like all these hours of content that have been created
and nobody ever watched them. I do feel truly lucky and truly blessed that you
guys even want to watch me on the internet. So, no. Thank you, Kevin, even
though I gave you the staredown earlier before and I'm very sorry about
that. H Vincent wants to know if there's any
news on the rumored Corsair H80i and H100i. I haven't heard anything, but I
can tell you right now that that sounds pretty exciting because if it's an I,
then it's probably like a new AXI power supply, which is
awesome and it probably goes with that somehow. So, that would be my entire
that would be my entire take on on all of that. Oh, random, random, random. You
just won the fail tweet of the night award because when is NCIX coming to
Ontario? We are going to go on a little voyage of discovery here on the contact
us page of
NCIX. Ontario location Missaga Markham other Markham
Scarboro and a warehouse. Bam. I'm sure
you meant Toronto city but you know
whatever. The suburbs are basically the same. So you can still go to NCX. You
just have to like put some effort into it.
Justin, I've heard using canned air is bad for cleaning your case because of
chemicals or something. Is this true? You know, I probably wouldn't
worry about it too much. I mean, I wouldn't just like turn it upside down
and like spray the liquid directly onto everything, but um yeah, I Yeah, I just
I wouldn't I wouldn't over I wouldn't overthink that. JJ wants to know what I
think of Chromebooks. JJ is Oh, see, I do that every time. JJ's right there. So
JJ, Chromebooks are, in my opinion, not
there yet. Now, if the Chromebook had
apps in much the same way that Android has apps, for example,
then I might see some more utility to it because not everything runs in a browser
yet. I mean once we see some more consolidation in terms of web standards
like if flash just goes away which is
going to take time it's not going to happen instantly then then there might
be more more possibility of of writing apps that are completely universal and
will work 100% of the time and uh aside
from aside from the lack of that sort of unified structure to it uh the other
problem to me is this the requirement for constant connectivity. I mean, for
me here in the uh in the in the Canadian
ghetto, um it's still expensive for data
for for my device. And then if I have multiple devices, then I'm paying for
multiple data connections, which um again gets sort of more expensive. I
mean, you can bundle things together, but yeah, the idea of having a device
that only really that only really functions the way it's supposed to if I have a
connection is not that appealing to me
personally. But in places like Japan or places where the population density and
the IT infrastructure is much better then it might be better. Uh Justin wants
to know FX6200 or 8150 for gaming.
Justin I would suggest that you consider an alternate platform if gaming
performance is your only consideration. I did do a review of the 8150 when it
came out. Um let's see if I actually here we'll see if I can dig it up. You
know what? Let's just use our Let's just use our half our half panel here.
Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Nope. That's not what I meant to do. Okay, let's find another
Okay. Yeah, Slick sent me a follow-up message. You know, one of those big O,
you know, period, small O things. He's like, I'm not going to reply though,
just for lols. It'll be funny, right? Okay, let's search for um FX
8150. It helps if you type for Oh, that
change. Right. Whoopsy daisies. 8150.
Let's try my other number pad. All right. Hey, there we go.
Unboxing and first look has really that one has 240,000 views. Go figure. And
there's the uh there's the gaming benchmarks versus the 2500K, which is a
pretty pretty last generation processor there, guys. So, let's go ahead and
Yeah, my power line internet's really slow. I think in this one I just showed
like an Excel chart and since it's not in HD right now, that's going to be
pretty hard to read. I can understand why you guys don't like the way I do these charts. In my defense, though, I
usually read out a lot of it like during the process. Here we go. Here we go.
Here we go. Okay, so pretty much if we if we have a look at the data which is
to our right here, we can see that the
8150 gets um hold on minmax average oh
was actually very similar across the board to a 2500
K. Well, okay then. Okay, so that's a
last generation Intel CPU. Since games don't really take that much advantage of
here, how many cores for gaming? Since
they don't really take advantage of that many cores, you can assume that any modern Intel CPU is going to be slightly
faster than that. Although, it should be noted, see how many CPU cores is enough
for gaming. There's another good video about this. It should be noted, however, though that where was I going with this?
Ah, yes, my legendary bottleneck video.
Let's see. Let's see how. Yeah, right there. You search for bottleneck right
there. Understanding hardware bottlenecks and how to avoid them. If you have your graphics details turned
up, which you should if you're running a decent machine with a decent graphics
card, you're going to discover that it almost pretty much doesn't matter what CPU you have to to a point as long as
you've got something modern and something reasonably fast with a reasonable number of cores. Uh because
you're going to be GPU limited anyway once you turn the details up. And
bottlenecks are not necessarily a bad thing. Every single system is
bottlenecked. I have so many people ask me, will this part bottleneck this part?
And it's not that simple. Watch the video. Watch the video right there.
Watch that video later. Bookmark it now. Just do it now. Watch that video later
and hopefully you'll understand it a little bit better. But any given
hardware configuration, let's say CPU A and video card B. Depending on the
settings I'm running, the CPU is the bottleneck or the GPU is the bottleneck.
It It's not just as simple as, well, this thing bottlenecks this thing. And
no, it doesn't work that way. So, it comes down to how you're using the
hardware more than anything else. Do you like cheese? What is this
cheese meme? You know, I actually I just watched um Gangnan Style or whatever
that video is called. Yesterday was my first exposure to this. And uh honestly,
these memes just pass me by a lot of the time. I mean, I'm working during the day
and then I get home and it's baby time and then I upload my videos and then I
sleep. So, I haven't I haven't had much time for really anything else. But, uh I
got to say that's very confusing. I mean, it's it's sort of like it's
entertaining because he's like riding a horse, but
um I don't know that it's my favorite song, per se. So, yeah, let's just sort
of move right along. AJ wants to know if he should one of these days I'll get
this. AJ right there wants to know if he
should with his X 109 and 6970 upgrade
now or wait for nextG stuff. My performance in games is average to low.
I would really like to know why your performance in games is average to low. I'd say your video card is getting a
little bit I mean it's not even bad. I
And your CPU too like the 1090T is actually not really slower than the
current generation bulldozer stuff as as long as I mean that's a black edition so
you better be overclocking it. Um and the same with the 6970. It's a good
overclocker if you haven't already done so. Maybe overclock your hardware and
see if it lasts you a little bit longer because that's still pretty modern stuff.
Um, canon tow, what do you make of individually sleeved cables? I like
individually sleeved cables. However, I think they can look a little bit busy.
Um, cable sleeving
Linus. So, this is how I've decided to do my sleeved cables. So, this is my
personal rig update series of videos, which I started like a bajillion years
ago. This is part six, and it was in February 22nd. And we're up to part nine
now, and I'm still nowhere near finishing my uh my system. But what I
decided to do was take two wires and put
one sleeve over them for a slightly You
know what? This one actually here, let's try personal rig. Linus. Let's find one
where I can actually show you what the cables look like. So, part two, three,
four, five, seven. Test fitting and sleeving progress. More up. Yeah, there
we go. Sleeving progress. So, if you check this one out, part seven has some
sleeving progress in it, and it shows you my uh my idea for my idea for cable
sleeving with two wires per per sleeve. And then I think the end of this one
actually, nope, doesn't have anything else in it. There's one that has has my
baby in it. I think it's part eight. Lorenzo DK wants to know, "What
is the possibility of water cooling leaking?" If you puncture it with
something, it will leak. I mean, it's water. Um, if you mean if you're
diligent and careful and build water cooling, you know, as well as you can,
the odds are actually very, very low. I mean, when we're talking custom water
cooling, guys like Swift EK, those those guys are pressure testing their
components before they ship them to an end user. Every single one gets pressure
tested up to however many PSI, which is many times more than you will ever
encounter in a PC water cooled system. So, the the odds of those parts leaking,
not so much. And really, a leak on a
live system should never happen because you should always have leak tested the
entire loop with the system not powered on first. There's lots of guides on the
internet for how to do that though, so I'm not going to cover that there. Here,
here, there. Do I have a computer making
video? Asks Jake Bob. Jake Bob, I would
suggest that I have the best computer making video. Um, here PC build
guide right there. Top hit under the
advertised video. Number one above PC Whiz Kid, who
I also like, but that's only part one of his
video. This is the entire video. Let's see if anyone else even shows up on the
radar. Look at these guys. They got a million views for that. How to build a
computer, choosing your components. That's outstanding. Here's part two.
Here's part three of that. Build your Ah, this is a good video. How to build a
PC. The ultimate guide from Tech Syndicate. That's uh good old Logan the
uh the ex-tiger guy who's uh who's taking care of that channel now. So,
it's pretty good pretty good stuff over there. You should definitely subscribe to raise the world with a zero rather
than an O. David wants to know what I think
about Hackintoshing. I still haven't done it yet. I keep I keep telling
myself I'm going to work on that next and then I keep putting it off for something else.
Um, I think it's awesome. I think it's I
think dual booting a Windows and OS 10 environment is probably the best
compromise. So, if I was going to get a notebook tomorrow, I'd probably get some
kind of a MacBook with a unibody frame. I mean, you guys can hate all you want
on the MacBook and OS 10, but it's a beautiful notebook. Um, but for the
desktop, it's yeah, it really doesn't make sense because the price to
performance and the component selection is just not there on the Apple machine.
So, it'd be great to be able to to hackintosh it to have a real computer
and then run a toy OS on it if you want to, you know, Final Cut, although my
understanding is the new Final Cut isn't that sort of fantastic.
Um, aha, iOS 6, did you download it? I
have not. I am still using iOS 5.1.1.
Uh, with all the horror stories about the maps, I'm a little bit terrified to
uh to try to try iOS.
Um, oh, so disappointing. It looks like
cameraman might not be able to join us tonight for our live iPhone 5 unboxing.
Although, if we end up doing it, then
you know what? If he arrives here tonight at some point, I promise you
guys, I will turn the live stream back on. However, I'm not going to do another
YouTube video announcing this. So, you guys are going to have to just subscribe
to me here on Twitch if you want to make sure that you catch this because it's
going to be very exciting. I promise not to rip on it too hard,
though. Francisco wants to know Windows 8 versus Windows 7. You know what? I
haven't had enough time with Windows 8 to really make some kind of an intelligent decision about that. So, I'm
going to wait till I actually have a release copy in my hands. I'm going to install it on my personal machine and
see how it goes. Uh, Alex Rupert wants to know 3820 or 2600K. I would love your
input. I would suggest to you, Alex, that those are both last generation
processors. Um, and given the parody in pricing between a 2600K and a 2700K, you
probably shouldn't be looking at the 2600K in the first place. And with the
fading availability of Sandy Bridge processors, you're probably going to want to look at an Ivy Bridge, which is
a 3770K and is definitely faster than that 3820.
When will 1440p TVs and monitors be
available as a standard resolution? Question from Nathan. Nathan, I would
suggest that they will never be a standard resolution much the same way
that um well, lots of resolutions were
never really a standard resolution. Um we're going to move straight to 4K would
be my guess. I mean, you can see everyone's working on um denser. They
say, "I keep holding up the iPhone tonight, you know, because it's pixel
density." Uh, everyone's working on pixel density. Everyone wants higher
resolution, but when it comes to broadcast standards, they don't like
changing that often, and they don't like just sort of willy-nilly shifting things
around. It's not like the PC where we can just have some resolution because we
use like power strip and deem it to be thusly. Um, there's a there's a lot of
infrastructure that goes into a standardized resolution. So, we're going to we're going to be moving to 4K. and
asking me how much they cost. Come on, man. You just are the runner up for
Whoops. There you go. More light. for
bogus. How could I possibly know? They'll cost as much as No, they'll
cost 4K dollars. I don't know, man. I know
you can buy 4K cameras now for as little as five, six grand. I've been looking
into new cameras. I'm hoping to not be using this webcam in like I don't know
couple weeks. Uh got a shopping list at
B&H that I'm pretty much finalized. I think we're going to get a Sony
FS100 with uh with a lens and with
tripod and with some new lights which are hopefully going to make me not look
like washed out and blue and pale. I can't even figure out how to fix it. This webcam is not not that great. I
mean this all this stuff behind me looks about right. Maybe I'm just sitting too close. Hey, that might be the problem.
It's fine now, but I kind of have to be here because I have to like read the
screen and stuff. So, what can we
do? Uh, George wants to know if there was a water block for the Extreme 11,
would you use it? Because I know a guy that says he's talked to you. Um, no, I
wouldn't because I'm done with the Extreme 11. Um, I honestly the
performance of the board isn't that great, especially for gaming, just because of the the two PLX chips that
are installed on it. um will give you a higher number in
terms of the bandwidth readout in GPUZ, but it won't actually improve your
performance. I know I've just shattered your perception of reality. Um more
bandwidth is not always better, especially if it adds latency. So, the
only reason I was considering the Extreme 11 was um because I hoped it
wouldn't coil wine and it looked outstanding. It's just like an awesome
looking board. I'm not going to invest a whole bunch of money into a custom water
block for a board that really for me doesn't have any advantages over the
X79 SUP5 that I ended up settling on.
So, it's a Gigabyte board. Um Ian wants to know, is SAS just multiplug for SATA?
Actually SAS has different features than SATA. It does have um it's more RAID
friendly. I believe you can run longer cable runs.
Um SATA supports breakouts as well. So
it's not just SAS that supports breakouts. I mean SAS tends to get
better features earlier than SATA. So SAS had NCQ before SATA did. So there
you go. No, they are different standards. Remember guys, SAS
controllers will work with SATA drives, but SATA controllers will not work with
SAS drives. Okay. Emanuel wants to know how old my
cats are. They're going to be three years old this December
28th. Yep, they will be three years old. Let's see if any of them want to visit.
Yeah. Rumble. Rumble. Come
here. Kitty.
Rumble. Usually he comes when I call. Hey,
cat. Oh, there he is. See, he's giving me the he's giving me the old
staredown. See, there he is. Hey, come
here. Come on.
So, not interested. Nope. Nope. We're not getting any special guests tonight.
I know. I promised special guests and then I did not deliver. I'm sorry for
that. Brian wants to know, "Is it frustrating when people constantly ask
you questions you've answered in your videos?" Actually, no. It's okay because
um for one thing, they're easy to answer because all I have to do is go
click video where I explain for five or 10 minutes the answer to a a complicated
question.
Um yeah, no, if anything, it's more convenient. Tuon wants to know, how is
your massive RAID fix with your Seagate 3 terabytes? Any problems with dropping
out since error recovery control is not supported? Actually, I haven't had any issues with them. Things are going good.
Things are going fine. and uh and and they're and they're
awesome. Things are good. I'm I'm loving my massive RAID 6 with all of my with
all my stuff stored on it. Adam B right
there wants to know, did you hear about more Thailand floods coming? Do you
think this will affect hard drive prices again? If the manufacturing facilities
flood, then yes, prices will be affected again. However, my understanding is
Thailand floods on a fairly regular basis. Um, but that was just sort of
very extreme and all the manufacturing
facilities were on like one flood plane. So, so hopefully we won't see a repeat
of that again. And we are all the way down to
the end, I think, of the questions that uh that are new. So, let's go ahead and
have a look at the 307 new interactions that I don't stand
a freaking chance of getting to entirely
here. Um, I am curious how many people
are watching tonight. 1,400 people. And guess what? I
did find where I already where I had the Twitch stream open before, which might
have been the problem with the echo. So, um, I'm going to try something here. And
I'd like you guys to let me know if this works. Do we have an echo
again? Just tell me once.
Do we have an echo
again? No. Excellent. How is the sound
quality? Bad. Yes. No. No. Pretty good.
Okay. You know what? I'm done with the Twitch. You know what? We're turning that on to slow mode because I can't
uh I can't I can't I can't understand
anything you guys are saying
here. Okay. Medium fine fair.
Okay. Someone wants to know if he can be a
mod. Okay. Well, back to Twitter.
to 344 new
interactions. Oh, uh oh, that'll be a problem. There we go. That's that
Windows uh arrow shake feature. That's
uh that's amazing.
Okay, Twitter questions. Good quality. What's your
opinion on jet skis? Uh jet skis are awesome. And anyone who doesn't think
they're awesome doesn't know what they're talking about at all because jet
skis are amazing. I've only actually really been on a jet ski myself a few
times. Uh because here in Vancouver, the water is pretty cold. So, it's
um yeah, not that not that great. Like, it's cold. So, uh when I was down in
Mexico a few years back, I uh I spent a
fair bit of time on the jet ski near the the all-inclusive thing where we were
staying. And uh yes, it was a blast, especially when the water's not cold.
Okay, Paul wants to know full screen versus windowed benefits and what
exactly is the difference from a processing standpoint and performance hit? I'll tell you right now, it really
depends on the individual application. Full screen will always be consistent,
but Windows might run fine with some things and might run totally rubbish
with other things. So, um I personally
have never really understood the appeal of running things in window mode because
then you got like frames around it. I find it detracts from the
immersiveness. But hey, to to to each their own. Someone wants to
do Steve Jackson wants to know, "What can I Oh, there we go. What can I do
with my old LG75 processor and motherboard?" Steve, I would suggest to
you that you can do any number of things. You can build yourself a storage
server using like a Windows home server. You can uh you can build yourself a
router using psfense. Um, you know, and throw a couple like network cards in
there and uh that would be that would be pretty neat. You could you could give it
away to charity. You know, lots of lots of charitable or getting donations of
old computers. So, um there few suggestions for
you. When wants to know, why don't I use
a 5D Mark III for the camera? I'm looking for a camcorder. Um not for a
DSLR. Just I don't want to deal with the the DSLR hassleness. I know the big
sensor, it looks clean, etc., etc., etc., But we're going to be doing some pretty different stuff um involving
needing a clean HDMI feed out from the camera because we're going to be using
some HDMI capture cards and stuff like that. And so it should be uh should be
pretty pretty good news bears as far as the quality of our overall operation
here. But a DSLR really just isn't going to do it for
us. Uh DJ I did it again. TJ wants to
know, "What are the 2420T and the TX the Oh, wait. And
the 2410T, what are the major
differences?" Never ever type duh in the place of the I'm not answering your
question. You can retype it and maybe we'll get to it
later. The differences. Um, does my baby play with
the cats? He's still a little young. Um, he's
correct. When do I think 3D monitors will
decrease in price and become more popular? Uh, over time they will decrease in price and over time they may
or may not become more popular. It really depends on what people think of
any of the uh the advances that get made
in the whole 3D technology thing. Oh, hold
on. Okay.
having a little bit of uh trouble with the
whole Twitch
stream with some people who are being inappropriate and apparently the sound's
cutting out now. Brilliant. Okay, hold
on a second. I have I have one
idea. Oh, someone says Mike
is Okay.
And let's turn off
the let's turn off this feature here in
the Thunder FX settings. So, if you guys haven't used a Thunder effects card
before, I'll show you how the control panel
works by hopefully putting this over here, which apparently Oh, look at that.
That's bizarre. It doesn't work at all.
It actually doesn't show
you the uh the Thunder FX window that I'm dragging over there. So, I'm going
to try turning off the environmental noise cancelling. So, you guys will have
to let me know if that's a little bit better. And
hopefully uh hold on. I'm going to set a
couple of moderators in the
uh in the chat because this is pretty
annoying.
Okay, it says audio is cutting out. Well, that's massively improvement. Oh,
okay. Apparently, it's better now. You know, it's funny because when I did a TW when I did a test of this, the uh the
noise cancelling feature was actually like worlds better than when I didn't
use it. And I guess for the live stream, it just doesn't work at all. Mr. J Bacon
wants to know what's my middle name. And that will forever be a mystery of tech
tips. Am I excited for the new Haswells? I'm actually extremely excited for
Intel's upcoming architecture. I hope that it's more of a difference over the
previous generation than Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge was. Um I'm a little bit sort
of I'm a little bit nervous that we're going to have the same issues we had
with Ivy Bridge where the tininess of the transistors means that they run hot
again, but h you know maybe in that time Intel's made some some big advancements
and it's going to be you know really exciting. It's going to overclock like stink. Yes, I'm very excited to check it
out. And uh right now I know absolutely nothing more about it that any of you
do. Miles, I'm actually afraid I haven't heard of the new ICU PE power line
rumors. So maybe you can tell us all more about it. At some point in these
live, people can actually call in like kind of like a radio show. I think
that'd be that'd be super exciting. But uh for now, I don't have the means to do
that. that I mean I'd need to have like you know some kind of like TV here and
people would be able to like Skype in or something like that and uh and that
would be that would be actually really really neat and people
say coming cutting out
um sounds like it's the headset not the hardware I don't know guys it shouldn't
be the
headset we will figure this out at some point someone's asking how to Find my
Twitter. I'm Linus Techch. And there's a cat on my counter. He needs to get down.
Hey, get down. Thank you. All right,
let's go back to some Twitter questions here. Does the GTX 660 have better
performance than the GTX 570? Um, I
don't know. Actually, I haven't I haven't tested them head-to-head. Um,
although your best bet would be to look at any GTX 660 review and just find one
that has GTX 570 numbers in it as well, and then you'll know. um sites like
hardware connects and antec are good
ones can see performance of video cards and CPUs and various things like that.
Nick who has a fantastic picture of Mr. Bean for his avatar asks 3770K or 2600 K
for gaming. Both would be cool by an H100. They're pretty similar, especially
if you're overclocking. The 3770K getting my personal pick because I do a
lot of video transcoding and the onboard graphics is much better for that versus
the 2600 K.
Sean, since you've decided on the Gigabyte board for your rig, what's the
next thing you're looking for for the rig? Um, the next thing I need to do is
actually stressing me out a lot because I have to cut up my Silverstone TJ7,
which is like eating me up inside. Um, I have to carefully plan where I want to
cut some cable management holes in the motherboard tray as well as where I want
to cut some other cable management holes throughout the rest of the case. I don't
want to make any mistakes. Um, I'm not a Dremel expert by any stretch of the
imagination, so I'm a little bit worried about lining something up wrong or
cutting a line that's supposed to be straight and level and kind of looks
like this. Um, I mean, I am going to be powder coating it after I'm done,
so a little bit, but it's still still making me very
nervous. Which leads us to Matthew's. Oh, man. Matthew's question. What is
your favorite case? My favorite case is the Silverstone TJ7 with some of my
other honorable mentions being the Fractal Design Define R3, the Corsair
650D, the 800D. Um, Antex P280 is also
outstanding. So, those are some of my favorite cases.
Um, the Corsair 300R is a great value considering the price and how good it
looks. Daniel is upset that he bought a Thunderbolt cable and didn't gain any
superpowers. Daniel, you must have cheaped out. You must not have bought
the $50 Thunderbolt cable. So, that's
probably the problem. Go buy yourself a more expensive Thunderbolt cable and
then you shouldn't really have any trouble with
that. Do my cats swim? Not if they have
a choice. Just like uh just like most cats
don't swim if they if they have a choice.
Uh okay, moving right along.
Chris, right there. Are there any NVIDIA
3D Vision 2 with light boost technology
monitors that don't have TN panels?
Great question, Chris. And the answer is no for a couple of reasons. So monitor
technology is kind of um is not
advancing that fast in terms of the speed of the of the pixel changing which
is which is ultimately what is drawing us what is holding us back and people
are still complaining about the mic. I don't know what to do about the mic
guys. So sorry. Um so that is still the bottleneck for us
is how fast we can switch the pixels. Now there's a lot of
tom foolery that can go on to enable the panels to switch faster. So TN for
example is a faster panel technology
than IPS or MVA or PVA or PLS. It's the
fastest one by far, but it compromises
in terms of accuracy. So, it's kind of like asking, it's kind of like, okay, so
here your your PLS panel, which is my personal favorite, is kind of like
um, you know, a sniper rifle where, you
know, it's like slow to reload and, you
know, it takes a while to aim, but it's very accurate, whereas a TN panel is
more like a, you know, like a machine gun or something. So, speed versus
accuracy. So the PLS panel or or any of the other technologies are going to give
you better color accuracy, better color depth.
Um generally generally an overall better
image whereas a TN panel is going to flip the pixel as fast as it can. It'll
get kind of close but not quite there um every time. So that's why all of the 120
Hz panels that are u validated for 3D
are TN. Even those panels that people are buying from Korea, they're buying
from overseas, those cheap 2560x440 27inch monitors, the cat leaps
and the like that everyone's kind of into, right?
Even though you can set it to 120 Hz and it'll do 120 refreshes of the image per
second in terms of motion blur, which is
when you're actually changing, for example, from a dark background to a
light background, like with my finger and the and the window here, you will
see the pixel having to change. Even
though with a static image, it might be sending a signal to itself 120 times a
second. So, I hope that makes sense to you guys.
no else would validate
um a nonTN panel for 3D because when the
pixels are shifting so that they show you the right or the left eye back and
forth like that the the pixels won't be fast enough even if the refresh rate is
fast enough so it would never get certified at least not the way it is now
OLED on the other hand might be a different story once those get bigger
and a little bit more uh more mainstream I mean personally I'm super disappointed
that we never saw SED see the light of day. That was Canon's display technology
they were working on and it just disappeared. Um, another really good
solution is a DLP projector because DLP
is again much faster for switching um in
terms of the not the refresh rate but the response times than uh LCD
is. Good question Chris. Thank you for
bringing that question to us. Ruben wants to know, "Ozar ozar ocezzex 3 or 4
versus Intel 330." Um, I'd probably go
with the Vertex 3 out of those out of those choices. Vert.ex 4 also not a bad
choice. Intel 330 is uh it's it's a lowerend it's a lower-end
product, but it's Intel, so it's like it's fine. It's reliable. Sebastian,
what is the model of your Snap-On screwdriver? I don't know. It's their
Snap-On ratcheting screwdriver. Why don't we go on a voyage of discovery together and we'll try searching for
Snap-On ratcheting
screwdriver. See if it comes up based on
the magic that is Google. There it is.
There's one. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. There's an orange one
just like mine on the eBays. There's a
picture of one just like mine. Oh, look at this. There's a whole like Oh, wow. I
need to collect them all. This is like Pokemon for like Snap-On screwdrivers.
I'm geeking out over here. Are these all different colors? No, they couldn't be.
No. No. There's a handful of orange ones. There's some multiple black ones.
That is awesome. So, here's something you guys probably don't know. Each of
those screwdrivers costs about 80 to 100 bucks. So, that's actually like in terms
of sheer dollar value like a sexier picture than like two GTX 690s next to
each other. but you just don't know it because you're not into like Snap-On
tools, which some people might be,
but Mike A, what do you see as the next Battlefield 3 in terms of graphics card
testing? Crisis 3 probably. I mean, U said that Yurly or however, I don't know
how you pronounce his name, but the the Cryc guy basically came out and said,
"We are going to pone PCs with our upcoming version of Cry Engine." And I
am personally very excited to see them try because every time we have a game
dev actually properly utilize the PC hardware, we end up with a game that
looks awesome and uh and has makes us feel a little bit better
about the money and the time that we've invested into using this PC platform for
gaming rather than, you know, popping a disc in the drive and like sitting slack
jaw on our couch like this with like a controller in our hands, which is um not
as satisfying for everyone. And I mean, satisfying for some people, I'm sure.
And I'm not judging at all. I mean, it's not like I have a uh it's not like I
have a totally unbiased and not at all,
you know, PC glorifying PC versus
Xbox video about this kind of a topic.
Oh, there we are. There we are. By NCIX. Um although this guy right here is
probably not me anyway, so I don't I don't know what you're talking about.
Um, PC rules. Justin, I want an ASUS TF700T. My
girlfriend wants the new iPad. Which would you choose? We both already have
iPhone 4s. Fascinating question, Justin.
Um, hard to say. I actually don't really
like the Gen 3 iPad for a couple of reasons. Number one is it is noticeably
heavier than iPad 2. Anyone who tells you it's not is doesn't know because
they probably haven't used an iPad 2 extensively. Um I'm I'm still using my
iPad 2 on a daily basis. Um so it is
heavier. The thing that really bothers me about it though is it runs warmer. So
if you're using it without an insulating case, like kind of a thicker case, you
will notice it gets warm in your hands to the point where your fingers will
probably sweat and it like you won't be comfortable. Um, TF700T doesn't run 100%
super cool either, but it was cooler than iPad 3 from my from my time with
it. Um, however, the Android platform isn't for everyone. If you're used to
iOS and you like iOS and you have all the apps that you want exactly where you
want them, then you might find that you're better off going with uh going
with the same ecosystem. But if I was really buying an iPad like today, I'd be
looking for one of the new generation iPads. Actually, Anantech did a
fantastic article about this. One of the new generation iPads using the smaller
process technology that enables it to have better battery life, like just way
better battery life than the uh than the iPad 3 and even the original iPad 2. So,
I hold on iPad uh two.
Oh, right. iPad 2 and
tech. I keep forgetting which keys I'm using for the uh for the switching. Ah,
yes, this one. 32 nanometer brings better battery life. So, let's let's
check out their graph here. If you guys don't don't read an Nantech, then you
should definitely uh definitely check out an Nantech because it's like best.
I've been white reading an anteced for years and years and years and years. Learned tons reading this site. So, here
we go. iPad 2.4 gets 11.7 hours of
battery life. iPad 2, which is orange, gets 10.1. iPad third generation is all
the way down here to 9.25. So that means
a difference of more than two hours of
battery life between So okay, you got
your high resolution screen. Good for you. I'll be using my device for 2 hours
longer than you between charges. Comes down to personal
preference, but uh I'm I'm just not that sold on the iPad 3. When we get the high
resolution screen in a slightly thinner form factor with longer battery life,
then then we're talking and then I might be convinced to pull the trigger on that
one. Shane wants to know, is the 660Ti
good graphics card comparable AMD
cards? YouTube is full of awesome
information like this
GTX 660 Ti review.
And there's me. And there's me. And there's me
again. And there's everyone else. So go
ahead and check it out and decide if you think it's good. And what are the
comparable AMD graphics cards? Because they're all in there. Austin says, "I
live in Vancouver, too. I want to ask you high school." Okay, this this kind
of thing won't be tolerated. If you spell school like that and if you spell
you like that, then I'm not answering your questions. Brian, when is the last
time you went to a land party? Just for fun and not for work. Wow. I think the
last time I went to a land was uh probably Kaplan a few years ago. Maybe
Sitoan land a couple years ago. Like there there was a time when I was kind
of going to I was going to Kaplan. I was going to Stowen. I was going to uh
whatever iteration of Lancouver, Lower Mainland, Van Land, whatever they were
calling it at the time. Um it's just it's been a long time. I suck at video
games, especially now, and so it's just
been hard to justify. Okay, let's see if there's any
new questions here. Ah, William, I am
getting an SSD, but I'm not sure what one would be the best to get, such as
Brandon size. Thanks for reading. Oh, he only wanted me to read it. Moving right
along. No, I'm just kidding. U, so back to William's question. In terms of size,
you should buy the size that you need and the size that you can afford. I
mean, come on. I can't answer that question for you. If you're like, "Oh, well, it's going to be for, you know, a
PFSense router box that I just want to use a solid state drive in so that I can
uh so that I can not listen to a worring hard drive and worry about it failing."
Well, then get the smallest one you can. or if it's like I'm
gonna like gigantic like 3D models of swimming
pools um or something, I don't know, then you
better get a big one. So, you only you can decide how big of a size you need.
And as for the best brand, I mean, there's lots of good
brands. Intel, OCZ, these are all good choices.
They're all good drives. Here's here's the cold hard truth with the whole SSD
performance thing. And there are people who would disagree with me. You know,
notably my favorite SSD reviewer, who's the guy over at Hardware Connects. He
does not agree with me at all about this. But I would argue that an SSD for
for 99% of users out there who are still using hard drives, any SSD is going to
be such an enormous upgrade that it's totally doesn't even matter what they
choose. Pick any SSD. Find a modern SSD,
buy it, and put it in your system, and who freaking cares because you won't be
able to tell the difference. I mean, if you go back to SSD versus hard drive,
which is a video I did a long time ago,
this one right here with the legendary lizard hat, I show realworld demos like alt
tabbing. And now, this is an episode of Tech Tips that I've wanted to do for a
long time. I'm finally getting around to it. This is SSD versus hard drive. So,
without going any further, Vertex, uh, what was this? SSD. I'm going to alt tab
out of the game. Boom, you're at your desktop. I pressed Alt Tab at exactly
the same time on that hard drive machine. And I am still waiting for it
to go to the desktop. Same thing when you want to go back in a game. Or if you
want to see Supreme Commander 2, when you want to go back to the game, there's
a bunch of applications. The SSD is having back in the game with the SSD.
So, now let's hit old systems a little bit harder. Let's say you're searching for all of a particular file like let's
say you're looking for every JPEG on your computer or every txt file on your
computer. So you can enter a search pretty darn close in terms of
real world noticeability extension and let's say let's choose the
extension hybrid I because there will be
tons of those on any Windows machine. So you can see that the SSD is populating
my list way faster. You can tell by how much smaller the scroll wheel is versus
on the hard drive. That's a really difficult demo to show. And you can also
tell that the search is completely done. There we go. And the hard drive is still
working at it. This is the green progress bar that is showing how far the
hard drive is. Yeah, we've got 451 items. We're still at 411
412 451. The hard drive is finally done.
So that is how much longer it took for the hard drive to populate with 451
items here. And then let's not forget
that one of the most stressful things you can do with your computer is dare to
use it while you're running an antivirus scan. So let's open up the computer
scanner in AVG and let's scan whole
computer. Now when you're scanning your
computer obviously anything that you try to do is going to be hampered by the
fact that you're doing that. So why don't we go ahead and just do a simple
thing like open up Microsoft Word. I'm pretty disappointed SSD is done. the
hard drive to recover from where it's
scanning for the file that contains Microsoft.
So, in conclusion, I thought I'd open up our test machine here and let you know
that there is no smok and mirrors going on behind the scenes. Every test you saw
was run on two identical machines. One with the Vert.ex, one with the Western
Digital 1 TB Black, which is one of the most respected, fastest magnetic hard
drives on the market today. But after the demo you saw today, why isn't
everyone using an SSD? The answer to that is because right now they have
significantly lower capacities and much higher prices. The SSD we're using today
costs over $900 and it is a 200 GB
model. The hard drive we're using costs about $100 and it is a 1,000 GB model.
to a lot of people. He apparently was calling to tell me
that the YouTube video playing in the background was causing problems, which I
suppose if I'd been looking at the uh at the Twitch TV chat, you guys were
probably Oh, whoa, there we go. Yep. Yep.
BG286 says, "Slick calling to tell you about the
audio." Outstanding. Thank you, Slick.
Say 1 billion bleeding lambs all at the
same time. So, there you go. See guys, I'm still new to this, so whatever, man.
Slick rules. Thank you, Slick. Slick. Slick. Slick. Thanks, Slick. Thank you.
I love you, Slick. That's what everyone has to say about all of this. Praise
Slick. Okay. Bye,
Slick. So, there you go, guys. If there was any doubt that I was sort of faking
the uh the address book entry when I when I texted him earlier, then um let
that be a lesson to you. Oh, I've got a
message. Uh, mute the YouTube audio. Thank you.
So, yeah, I whatever. You guys run your
own live stream then and I'll watch your live stream and I'll I'll troll
you. Let's go back to Twitter. People respect me, unlike the
my phone where people call me and tell me that I'm live streaming. Uh, Ahmed
wants to know, "What would be a good water block for Galaxy's GTX 670s?" Um,
any water block that is compatible with from EK. Um, I don't know who else.
I don't know who else has a has a GTX 670 block here. Why don't we do research
together? So, I'm going to show you guys the process that I go through whenever
someone asks me a question or whenever there's something I don't know. First, I
Google it. Did you mean GTX 670 water
block? Sure. Okay. Then I go to some store. In this
case, let's go with frozen CPU because they have lots of good stuff. And then I
look at all the different GTX 670 water blocks and I find the one that looks
pretty cool. Okay. Oh, the XSPC one is cheaper.
XSPC makes good stuff. EK makes good stuff. SwiftTech makes good stuff. These
are all good brands. I don't like their new circle design, though, so we're going to go with the acrylic top. And
there's your There's your answer.
Done. Um, and that's assuming you have a reference GTX 670. If you're using a
Galaxy card with a nonreference PCB, you
pretty much probably won't be able to find a water block. If you want to water
cool your graphics card, you're probably better off to go with a reference card
like 95% of the time. Every once in a while,
you'll see some special card like an MSI Lightning Edition that has a full cover
block available, but it really doesn't happen that
often. Okay. Sad
cigar cigar. Dear Lionus, hi, I'm from India
and biggest fan of your reviews. Please allow Indian for all giveaways. I have
not done a North Americaon giveaway in like two years. Everyone needs to just
get over it. I did it one time. Every other giveaway I've done has been
worldwide. So, I don't want to address this anymore. And thank you for writing
into the show. Lucas, did Logan have any
hand in helping Lionus TechTips? I would be greatly interested in knowing the
origins of your info. Lionus Tech Tips is called Lionus Tech Tips and not Logan
Tech Tips because it comes from yo me.
Um, Logan had a hand in helping Tiger Direct blog for many years and he has a
hand in doing his own thing with Raise the World, but we've never actually
collaborated on anything. So, uh, I mean, we've exchanged emails, you know,
we've exchanged YouTube private messages a few times, but that's about
it. Yep. Keith wants to know which GTX 660 would
I choose that is non-reference. Um, most GTX 660s are non-reference if I recall
correctly. This is one of those cards where NVIDIA has made the reference
design sort of very very optional. So, I would probably do something like this. I
would go to my favorite computer retailers store and then I would look
for a GTX 660, which I would find more easily if
the page layout wasn't totally broken because I'm scrolled funny. I'd find one
with like a sweet cooler or something and then I' I'd buy it.
Um, yeah. You know what? I don't really have a preference on the 660s. The only
one I have any experience with is the MSI Twin Frozer 3 one. I had no problem
with it. It's got a Twin Frozer 3 cooler. You know, I'd look for one with an aftermarket cooler. I usually prefer
like a dual fan cooler versus uh versus a blower cooler just because they tend
to be quieter and they tend to run cooler. But yeah, uh Phil wants to know
I'm never going to get this, am I? Phil wants to know, is there a huge
difference between surround and stereo headsets? I use cheap earbuds in game
and can still pinpoint the directions of sounds. Great question, Phil. Um, and I
would suggest to you that it is a simple matter of mathematical calculation that
you can kind of go, okay, if I have two audio inputs, which
are my ears, and two audio outputs,
which are my speakers, then as long as
the software mixing is done correctly, okay, and this is complicated. this
is ality of audio then in theory a
stereo setup is as good as anything in
theory. Um for headphones I would never
really use ones with dedicated speakers
because what you tend to end up with is lots of small tiny sounding speakers
instead of two larger better sounding
deeper sounding speakers. Um, however, when it comes to speakers, actual
physical speakers set up around you, I would suggest if you
want speakers are actually better than two stereo speakers in front of
you. So, there you go. That is my answer to that
question. Francisco wants to know if it
is worth spending the money on water blocks for two
HD5770s. Francesco, these kinds of value
analyses are actually quite simple. First, let's find out if anyone even
made a GTX 5770 water block. Uh, okay.
Apparently EK did. Okay. So, let's go
ahead. Let's go to Aqua Tuning. Let's find out how much one of those is going
to cost you. 5770.
Oh, okay. We're in USA and Canada. Look
at that US flag for the USA and Canada
region. We Canadians get no getting no
love. Okay. Yeah, let's proceed
again. Okay, let's try this. 5770.
Go. So, it looks like your water block
is around 40 bucks. So, for 40 bucks times 2 plus
whatever you can get for your 5770s, which is usually a quick thing. This
This is the way I always do this, guys. So, we go on eBay. So, so far we're
spending 80 bucks. 5770. We go on eBay and we can find out
about how much a 5770 is worth. So buy it now. Six bids around. So let's assume
it's worth around 65 bucks. So if you sold your two 5770s, that would give you
65 times to $130 plus $80. It would give you $200 to spend. Okay? So, if you had
$200 to spend, you could go to NCIX and
search for GTX
660 and you would find that a new graphics card. Oh, okay. 660, right? The
non Ti is around a little over 200 bucks for an
EVGA 660 superc clocked. Then you go and
look at a review of a GTX 660.
Okay. So, see, are you guys following me so far? This is the calculation. So,
we've got 200 bucks to spend, but we spent about 10% over our budget, which
is unfortunate. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here's our review.
We're going to go let's just pick some arbitrary game like uh like one that
scales pretty well sort of across the board like uh say for example, really
they're using Crisis Warhead. Sure. Okay. Crisis Warhead. Let's find out how
Crisis Warhead performs. And then we go, okay, so the 660
destroys pretty much anything below a
7850. Then we can go back and we can
look at a 7850 review.
Okay. And we can find
out, well, Guru 3D. See, these are all credible sites. Guru 3D, hardware
connects and ant Tom's hardware. We're only looking for approximates. We're
just doing a rough calculation here. So
prices too, it doesn't really matter. We're looking for approximates and they do not have a lot
of Oh, there we go. There we go.
7770 a
78 gets absolutely rocked by almost
double. Which means that even if your 7770s scale pretty well in Crossfire,
your new GTX 660 is going to be more
than 10% faster than which means that it
is the same feature set. Um, longerterm driver
support, probably more worthwhile to get a new card as opposed to spending a
bunch of money on your old cards. That folks is the way we do it. That is how
we figure out what's a better value. You compare things across multiple reviews.
You figure out how much it's going to cost, how much your hardware is worth.
And then you just flip your 70 or whatever they're called,
57. And wait, 5770s. Was that even the
one I was looking at? I was looking at 7770s. Oh, the 5770 is terrible. Yeah, I
know. It's a terrible value. Yeah. Get a new card there. Now we know. Now we know
the answer. Oh, look who visited us. It's Rumble the cat. Say hello,
everybody.
Can you say hello here? Let's give him a headset. He's not going to feel like
he's part of the show unless he has a
headset. Can you say
hi? Can you say
hi? Oh, he's not impressed at all.
Okay. The cat is not impressed at all
with our uh with our setup here. Anyway, we are going to sit together now and I'm
going to answer some more Twitter
questions. Twitch TV is only for gaming. Too bad. That's this guy right here. Too
bad. Twitch TV knows I'm here. They can kick me off if they want. That's
fine. Oh, he's getting
down. Okay, let's go back up to the top here because all these tweets are from
about half an hour ago. Who knows? These guys might not even still be watching anymore. Let's have a look at some new
tweets. So, we're probably going to wrap things up in about 10 minutes here,
guys. And uh I will hopefully Yes, MK. I
know. Fix my audio. It's cutting in and out and dying and something. Check
Twitch randomly at least. Oh. Oh. Oh, he wants me to check the Twitch chat. All
right, let's have a look at the Twitch chat. H, that cat is so cute. Yes, it's
a cat. Guys, if you want questions answered, go post it on Twitter. Yes,
guys, if you want questions answered, please do post them on Twitter. I'm on
Twitter at Linus Tech. Um, and I'm mostly ignoring the Twitch chat tonight
because I haven't got a better system for arranging the Windows here. I'll figure out something for next week. I
hope. And by then, I I really hope the
audio will be fixed. But I I really don't know what else to say about it at this point because I've tried
everything. I've tried this external sound card. I've tried this external
sound card. I've tried freaking this
external sound card which is supposed to be BOS and like balling out and none of
them are working for me here. So, um
I've tried multiple headsets and uh
cameraman wants my address. Apparently, he wants to like hardcore creep me.
Actually, no. No, I already told you that won't work because I already told you guys that uh he was planning to come
here with an iPhone 5 so that we can get an unboxing done which is very exciting.
Gary wants to know, Lionus, what is the most silent pump? Thanks very much. Get
an MCP655 or a D5? They're the same thing. Turn the dial all the way down to
one. Very, very, very
quiet. KMR wants to know, Lionus, how do
you know how to learn to string a badminton racket? Um, I have a friend
who works at a badminton shop and he showed me. It's actually not that hard.
Uh once you get the hang of it, you got to do like the over under over under
over under. You have to look up the stringing patterns on the manufacturer
website. Make sure you put everything through the right holes. Who knows? Maybe I'll do a video about it at some
point. But I'm not very good at it. It takes me about an hour to string a
racket. And to put that in perspective, he can do it in I think about 20
minutes, maybe a little less. So I'm incredibly slow and my way of uh my way
of doing it is actually not that efficient. Paul Tiberius Nicola. That is
a fantastic name. Paul Tiberius, how much does a PCI Express high performance
SSD affect video cards using a PCIe
lanes? Lose the entire electrical lane.
Okay, Paul. Um, first I'd like to clarify a little bit how the PCI Express
lane allocations work. So, as long as you install that PCI Express Whoops,
there we go. That PCI Express card into a slot that isn't in the same slot as
your graphics card, they're not really fighting over it. So, for example, in an
X79 board, you've got two 16x slots or you've got
1688. If you install that PCIe card in
down here, then it'll switch to 1688, which really won't affect your
performance much. So, um I know that's what you meant. I was just I was just
messing with you before. Um but yes, it will change the configuration of your
PCIe slots. Um but you can sacrifice as
little or as much as you want. And I mean lots of boards um especially Z77
boards have PCIe 4X slots usually down at the bottom that are hooked up through
the chipset and running off a completely different um set of PCIe lanes versus
the 28x slots. So you just have to look
at the uh at the layout for your board and see what makes sense for
you. Um Fazil says from Iraq and I say
hi Iraq. KPK TDS, how many years will last an i5
3570K for gaming? Please answer. I would
love to answer you with a
video. YouTube.com. Let's see what comes up. Oh. Oh, special daily rewards. Oh,
I've been selected to take part in an annual visitor
survey. YouTube.com. What a scam. Don't go to
YouTube.com. It's probably a scam. Although, when you guys are gone,
I'm going to go back and find out if I won anything. I just didn't want you to
get like my activation code so that I'd have to share my prize with you. All
right. Future
proofing. Let's see. Oh, it's me. Holy
crap. Look at me. I'm right there. Proofing your PC. Dispelling some myths.
This was one of the simplest NCIX tech tips episodes we ever filmed. And this
time I'm going to remember about the YouTube audio so I'm not going to wreck
it. But I basically talked for 10 minutes about how future proof Welcome
to NC Tech Tips. Today's format is going to be a little bit different
for when you get your next paycheck or like a month later then it makes sense.
But if you intend to actually
basically I say don't worry about it. Doesn't work that way. No one has a
crystal ball. Anyone who tells you you're future proofing your PC is trying
to sell you something. I mean, yeah.
Don't don't believe that. Joe wants to know, "GTX 662 gig or 3 gig." Joe, the
answer is quite simple. If you're going to be running at very high res, go ahead, grab the 3 gig cards. If you are
not running at high res, if you're going to be running at sort of a more normal like 1080 resolution, go with the 2 gig
cards because it won't make any difference whatsoever. Edward Dwarkin,
would you recommend an AMD APU for a very lowbudget rig? Absolutely, Edward.
I would especially if you want to play entry-level games on it because compared
to Intel's integrated GPUs, the APU dead
or integrated graphics that's included is really good. It's way better than
Intel's even Intel's Ivy Bridge GPUs.
So, let's see if the cat wants to come back and visit us again. Looks like he's
thinking about it. Yep, here he comes.
All right, more Twitter questions. Zack, do you ever use Linux
for anything? No, I don't. I get that question a lot
though. Daniel wants to know, "Where do you think a college student should start
looking for a job related to what I do?" Um, what I do is product management. So,
if you took like, I don't know, product management program, then you might learn
a thing or two about managing products. I mean, product management is pretty
simple. Basically, you find stuff you think people would want. you try and find it at a price where you think your
company can make money and then you try and sell it at a price where the company
does make money but people are still happy with the price and they want to
buy it. So, you know, as long as you can handle handle those basic ideas, then
you should be fine. It's not rocket science by any stretch of the imagination. Um, as for the YouTube
thing, the best way to get started looking for a job related to YouTube is
to well upload videos to YouTube because
that's probably how someone will see your YouTube video and watch it and like
it. Speaking of which, you guys should like this video. Wait, no, it won't work
that way. Well, I'm gonna upload this video to YouTube after. So, if anyone's
actually still watching an hour and 18 minutes into it, then they can definitely like my video because if
they've watched that much of it, they probably like it. Jesse just sent me a link to Newegg.
How dare you, Jesse? How could you do this to
me? Some heat sink. I don't know. It's a heat sink. Did you know Newegg has a
site just for Canadian shoppers? All prices in Canadian
currency. Oh, new egg. New egg. New egg.
Yeah, you have a Canadian site, but I don't know if anyone cares. Bam. Take
that, Paul. And the other guy. Shoot. I even
tried to get everyone to follow him. No, I can't even can't even remember. My
brain my brain's kind of fried. It's actually been a very long day and I've
been live streaming for almost an hour and a half. So, uh, and in answer to
your question, Jesse, go with the better heat sink, which is the one you linked,
not the Cooler Master
212. Matt wants to know, "What is going on with the Pile Driver CPU, and when
will AMD make a new CPU without integrated graphics?" Coming very soon.
There's lots of information all over the interwebs. Um, if you were to
search 50, you might kind of
interesting. I can't tell you anything. But, uh, you know, the rumor sites, for
all the, uh, for all the flack they take about being wrong about this or that,
are are right so often that it's definitely worthwhile reading them if
you really want to know what's coming in the
future. Stephen, I'm trying to decide
between is it worth investing in the Intel? Short answer is fine. Uh, it's a
bit of a longer answer than that, unfortunately. low-end gaming machine,
entry- level gaming, just basic productivity, go with the AMD machine
because it honestly doesn't make that much of a difference anymore. Um, any CPU is fast enough for word processing
these days. If you want a higher performance machine, then Intel will
perform better. So, do you want to spend more and get more performance? Okay, go
Intel. Do you not want to spend more? Do you not want more performance? Go with
AMD. I mean, there are certain applications, however,
even perform pretty well. something like an FX8150 where all those cores are
being leveraged can perform pretty well.
Um, especially given the price points. I think an 8150 is around 200 bucks now
and the motherboards are
cheaper. Katsu Lionus, what do you think of two 120 mm rads compared to a single
240 mm rad? I'm planning to water cool my 550D and I want my sound damp pads.
Two 120 mm almost identically. The only
difference is you are going to hamper your flow rate a little bit, which
doesn't make that much of a difference to the performance of your loop. So, if
it's more convenient for you to use two 120s, go for it. Do it. It really won't
matter that much, especially if you have a decent pump. Don't use like a craptastic pump with it or anything like
that, though. Get an MCP 655 or 350 or 355 for that
matter. Michael, can you still overclock Intel
CPUs without a K on the end? You can, but only a little bit. If you really
want the benefit of that CPU and you want to really crank it up, get one with
a K on the end. Yan says, "Linus, show us your
cat."
Bam. That's my kitty.
Okay, Phil's question we already answered. Uh, Simrons wants to know,
"Why don't I ever review ASUS video cards?" To which I would reply, um, I
don't know. Let's see. ASUS
Linus. Oh, okay. Let's try ASUS Linus
video. Okay, we got a GTX 580 Mars 2.
We've got an Aries 5870X2, although that
was just a giveaway. There's the unboxing of it. Here's the uh testing of
it. Here's an unboxing of a 560Ti direct
CU2. Okay, so I see your point. All right. All right. Okay. So, some of this
is older stuff. Um, honestly, um, I
don't have them, so it's harder for me
to, you know, look at them, investigate
them, check for imperfections in the
finish. Um, yeah, it's really that simple. Whatever Whatever crosses my
path, and usually for ASUS, it's things like sound cards and motherboards and
uh, notebooks. Whatever crosses my path, I will make videos about. And I just
really don't I don't really don't get my hands on ASUS video
cards. Khalil, I missed you when you were at CES. Will you ever be near
Northern Nevada or Sacramento again? Um,
I don't know. I might be at CES again next year. I might not. It really
depends what happens. Um, yeah. And we
got our favorite troller. Haha. You're
so cool. A, it's adorable.
And have you updated your iPhone to iOS 6? I have
not. Uh, we're going to scroll down.
Linus, turn off the YouTube video. Ah, we've gotten down to to
that. Felix says, "Fail night, Lionus. Video is louder than you and getting
longer mic breaks." I know. I don't know
what to do. Well, I do know what to do. I need
to get better equipment and it's coming, but for now I don't know what to do to
address it. All right, let's go look at some of the newer tweets. 122 new
interactions. Thank you to those of you who are still watching because uh there
are still 1500 of you watching the stream, which is just outstanding,
especially given the technical challenges we've had tonight. I'm sure at least a
few few people are probably getting sort of frustrated with all the technical
difficulties, and I'm sorry for that. But I really do appreciate your guys'
support and uh the fact that you're watching the show. Joe wants to know,
should I upgrade to Ivy Bridge from my Q6600? Um I would say that is an
excellent upgrade. You've waited a few generations. You've uh yeah, you you
deserve it, man. Go ahead and upgrade to Ivy Bridge. Um Haswell is going to be
faster, but you can always end up waiting for the next thing, and you're going to get a definite performance
increase from that upgrade. Uh, merit.
How difficult is it to water cool GPUs if you are already custom cooling the
CPU? Not that difficult. Actually, the hardest thing about water cooling a GPU
is installing the graphics card water block. But if you're very careful and
you pay special attention to the instructions, you shouldn't have too much trouble. So, let's go GPU water
block guide. Let's see what comes up.
There's one from Singularity Computers. There's one's from Troubar. There's one
from Daz Mode. And hey, it's Daz mode. He's Canadian,
too. And there's me. So, I show you how
to install a full cover water block on a GPU. As long as you watch that video and
figure that you can handle that, then go for it. Have fun. It's
good. Oh, Rubet, can you recommend a cheap gaming
laptop? That's like asking me if I can
recommend, you know, a a delicious um you know, a delicious bottle of urine
or wait, no, it's more like bottle of I
don't know, um apple juice. I like apple juice. Orange Tropicana. It's like uh
yes, it's like asking me for I don't know. It's contradicting. Gaming laptops
aren't cheap because the CPUs, the GPUs,
the displays, everything about them is
expensive. So, no, maybe buy one used. I don't
know. Darien, can you build a computer
for me? I will tell you all the parts I
want and pay you for the assembling fee. Please tweet me back. You know what?
Let's tweet back, Darien. I wonder if he's still watching the stream.
Let's tweet him back. Let's say is $1,000
o is
$1,000. Think he's going to say? You think he'll do it? I'll tell you what.
If he does it, then I will I will spend
$500 of the assembly fee that was collected buying some high-end graphics
card and I will give it away on Twitter. Let's see if he does it.
Okay, moving down. Uh, Shelby, I just wanted to say
thanks for making videos and educating me. I ordered my first order from NCX
yesterday. Way to go, Shelby. You did
good. All right, we've got only three minutes left,
guys. No, I promised a test for the XFX
WD cooling system, but never did one. Um, you know what? I'd totally forgotten
about it. So, in all likelihood, it's probably not not coming. Um, cuz there's
enough sort of new video cards coming out and everything that I'm pretty busy.
But, uh, yeah, I'm I'mma leave I'mma leave that for
now. Rhino Rager wants to know, "Why is
it that when I record, I watch it, it's so choppy?" Um, are you talking about
recording games? I'm going to need some clarification. Maybe resend that
question next week. Um, if you're talking about recording games, if you're
talking about recording videos or whatever else the case may be, if you're
talking about recording this live stream, then maybe just watch it on
YouTube after. I don't know. Moving right
along. Ah, Dali wants to know if I can
speak some French.
I told him I couldn't in French. Basically, it's too difficult. It's been
a long time since I've really spoke any French. Uh I I'm not My vocab is I can't
remember anything anymore. Joseph wants to know, "Do I personally like NCX's
site design?" Answer truthfully. I will answer truthfully, but partially. I
liked it eight years ago.
CJ, sorry to repost this, but I want an expert opinion. I just bought two
EVGA480s. Is it still relevant or should I upgrade? As long as you're okay with
the heat they kick out, then they're fine. I mean, you probably only paid a
couple hundred bucks each, which is still a very valid price for those
cards. 200 bucks for something that's essentially equivalent to a GTX 570 um
except kicks out more heat um and scales
pretty well in SLI for me card. It's actually more powerful for CUDA than a
570. So yeah, totally
fine. And I think we're pretty much done here, guys. One
more one more tweet. Let's take the top
tweet once I reload this and then we are
pretty much gonna wrap it up here. So, let's switch back to
here. All
right, Alexis. No, that's not really a question. Sorry,
Alexi. Rumble Muffin wants to know why is it
that 11 CPU is only clocked to 4 GHz in
my benchmark videos? Because that was a quick and easy overclock. It's something
I know that anyone with that CPU will be able to obtain, attain, obtain, attain.
So, as long as I use a setting that I
know other people can replicate, then my testing is therefore easily
replicable. I've clearly had enough of this. So, I'm a eager eager eagerly
awaiting cameraman to show up with the iPhone 5 and uh you know, maybe we'll
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