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Welcome to the WAN Show, guys. The show where our professionalism is your

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biggest concern because it certainly isn't ours. Sorry, I'm eating again on

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the show. I know this is something that you guys prefer that I don't do, but quite frankly, I've had nothing but like

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a cup of oatmeal since early this morning. So, I had that one tquito.

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These are disgusting, by the way. I know. Thank you for giving it to me, though. The best part is they're not

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super bad if you cook them in the oven, but then it takes half an hour and we

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had five minutes. I'd rather be disgusted than dead, I suppose. I

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appreciate that. Yeah. So guys, we've got a lot of great topics for you today.

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First of all, our special guest is Kyle from Awesome Sauce News, or New Egg, I

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guess, is the other place he is from. Um, we've also got some pretty

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interesting crowdfunding news. Star Citizen just keeps on trucking. So, they

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hit $31 million of funding on the 25th

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and then $32 million of funding on the

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26th of November. So, it's uh still

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rolling over there. We've also got some exciting new developments with respect

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to up Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 805

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CPU. Um they're making some improvements to the CPU itself, but much of the

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improvement looks like it's going to be coming on the graphics side of things. I

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think I already said Kyle from Newegg will join us, so I'm going a little out of order here, but what are your topics

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to introduce? We have 24in 4K panels on

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the way from Dell, which are an IPS variant. We don't personally, but if

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anyone from Dell's watching, then we we should we should have some I really want

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one of those mon cuz we're super professional. So, you should have us have a look. Exactly. Yeah. He can eat

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by the monitor while reviewing it if that's something if that's something

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that you guys want. I can demonstrate the um taquito juiciness

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um resistance in it. Yes, exactly. Just like I did with the Xperia Z1 where I

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went in the bath with it on camera. We won't go in the bath with your monitor.

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We won't go in the bath with the monitor. No. U there's also news that

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the US military is the biggest pirate of all of them which is absolutely

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ridiculous but not that surprising

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unfortunately. And then I guess it's like really this is headline news like

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large organizations also pirate software. My favorite thing is the scale

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at which they pirated because they're Hold on. We'll go into more depth later.

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First let's roll the intro. Yeah.

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Gross.

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All right. So, we're not powered by Razer coms anymore. So, I'm just going to cut that off right there.

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But I guess that's like pretty much it.

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Thanks for watching, guys. No, let's get right into let's get right

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into the Snapdragon 805 here. So, the original articles is from Anont. So,

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we're going to go ahead and really the mouse is too far. I can't reach it. The

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original article is from Anont. So, they've got a little cool picture of an

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adorable dragon as well as a Qualcomm Snapdragon looking chip. I want a pet

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dragon. And the main details here is that this

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is not so much a revolutionary change. It's more of an evolutionary change. So,

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we're going to be getting higher clock speeds up to 2.5 GHz, which is just like

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doesn't seem right. It doesn't seem like it should be right. It's like, yeah, we're going to have 2.5 GHz quad cores

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in your phone. To be clear, guys, these are not the same kinds of quad cores

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that you're going to find in a PlayStation 4 or in a PC or anything

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along those lines, but it is definitely a multi-threading monster. They're kind

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of adding more more of more of everything.

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So, more clock speed, a couple small improvements here and there, but the

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main improvements are really going to be on the GPU. So, we're going from Adreno

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300 series to Adreno 400 series. there.

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It's called going to be called the 420 cuz um cuz no research went into that

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name. No, this I'm really in the mood for this snack right now. It's kind of

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disgusting though. But anyways, uh some of the other things that you gain is It

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was a joke.

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Oh wow. That didn't clue in at all. I know. I get it. Mhm. It's And wow, our

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start time is 10 minutes after that, too. I know, right? That's kind of

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brutal. It's almost like all the stars are aligning. Anyways, you get uh 2.5

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Gbits like you already said, 128 bit memory interface, direct 3D 11 class

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graphics, and freaking Open CL 1.2 full

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profile, which is amazing because as much as guys like AMD are talking about,

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okay, we're going to have like Open CL acceleration and you're going to be able

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to like batch process Photoshop files because everyone does that, right? Um

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you can use OpenCL to accelerate that on something like a phone.

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All of a sudden, Open CL is going to make a ton of sense because think of

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everything from Instagram filters to you're much more likely to be batch

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processing things. Exactly. Way more likely. And you're going to have like

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these specific tasks that you perform that are going to be able to take

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advantage not only of the improved

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performance that Open CL that that GPU compute can provide, but also the fact

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that it's going to be lower power consumption. And for something that plugs into my wall, I kind of sit there

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and I go, "Yeah, I mean, that's cool. Thank you." You know, it's it's great to

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have better power consumption, but at the end of the day, that extra, you

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know, couple of watts doesn't make the same difference to me that it does when

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my phone's running out of battery, you know, halfway through the day all the

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time. Actually, you know what? For all the complaints about Nexus 5, you and

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Brandon have not been having problems with battery life, but like all of the

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internet has been having problems with battery life. It has not. You know what I think it comes down to? Sorry, I'm

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changing gears here. So, I guess that was pretty Oh, okay. No, let's cover the

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last thing that's really exciting about Snapdragon 805, and that is the fact

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that is going to have not only hardware accelerated H.264 encode and decode, but

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also H.265 decode. So, that means again lower

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power consumption and the ability to enjoy some truly next generation web

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content because H.265 is a much more efficient compression algorithm.

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power to decode it. So, if you have hardware that is designed just for that,

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we're going to be looking at things like 2 and a halfK or 4K streams that can be

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decoded on your phone without a significant power consumption increase.

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So, like thumbs up Qualcomm, you guys have gone from zero to absolute hero

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just because, you know, a couple other guys were like, "Hey, yeah, we'd also

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like a chunk of this this mobile processor market."

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No. Bad. They kind of did though. That's

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exactly what they did because they weren't moving that fast. No, they weren't. And then all of a sudden, it's

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just like they were content to just kind of hang. And nowadays, you look at any

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smartphone, it's like, what processors are inside? No, no. What Qualcomm

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processor is inside it? Because it's like, oh, well, it could be the Snapdragon 600 or the 800. It could be

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clocked at 1.8 G. Oh, no. Maybe 1.9 GHz. HTC1 versus Samsung Galaxy S4. Which one

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has the same processor clocked slightly higher? Which one throttles less? Yes,

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it's true though. No, it's totally true. There's even like I was reading an

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article, this we're going to talk about this later on, but I was reading an article on the Galaxy S5. Mhm. And it

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was literally in the thing like, oh, which Qualcomm processor? Yeah, why

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don't we get into that? Actually, we might as well. And then maybe we'll bring our special guest on right after

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that. So, this is a rumor, guys. So, the

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appropriate disclaimers, we are not saying that this is absolute news, but it was posted by you better not on the

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forum. And there's going to be apparent like as

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if Samsung doesn't already have a

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fragmented enough approach to their I mean even their I think their Galaxy

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lineup of phones probably contains more phones than anyone else's whole lineup.

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The best thing about this one too is there's the premium and the normal one which you're going to get into in a

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second and then there's like four different colors I think of each. So, I

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couldn't get a confirmation on the colors, but I know there's like a red one and a white one and I think a black

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one and I think a blue one. So, the

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there's so many. So, the rumors are that the average sort of the the consumer I

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mean, remember when the S4 was a flagship device or the S series was

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flagship? Now, the S series is like, well, there's a mini one that's like

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it's like that but smaller and also much crappier. And then there's going to be a

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normal plastic one with an OLED display.

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flexible OLED display. And all of these rumors combined together are

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interesting. But then there's also the the bombshell rumor. The possibility of

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2560x440p, which is like what?

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getting pretty used to 1080p, I can tell

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the difference between the Moto X and the HTC1.

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I can, but barely. If we're talking about

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significantly, dramatically increasing

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that resolution, again, we're going to be talking about making battery life

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worse for no apparent reason other than to, you know, have, you know, a

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measuring contest. An ARM measuring contest. Third ARM measuring contest.

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Wow. You almost made it. I know. I almost made it. So close. You know

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what's funny is I was even talking to uh I was talking to Ed today about how you

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know oh I've seen a couple of complaints lately about the amount of innuendo on

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the show and like apparently someone was upset when I put that Bluetooth speaker

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in my pants and talked it to you and I was like hey you're in my pants I read

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the thing. Yeah. So um I I I was I

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almost made it through that. So I've almost changed

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almost almost. Um, so there's the rumor

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is there's going to be a 64-bit Exynos, I don't even know how to pronounce that.

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Exynos, Xanos, whatever. Anyway, or Snapdragon processor, three or 4 gigs of

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RAM, 4,000 mAh battery that's going to be either awesome for battery life or

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it's just going to be necessary to drive that display. And there's even some vague

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rumors about a retina scanner. So, none of this is confirmed, but big thanks to

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you better not for posting news on the Linus Tech Tips forum. Honestly, it's

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where I get 90% of my news from these days from the tech world. It's extremely

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active. So, you guys should check it out if you That combined with the new hot deal section is actually Hot Deals has

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been pretty active so far. It's actually kind of cool. I'm happy it's been working out. We probably should have

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done it before. Honestly, guys, we were a little bit afraid that um people were

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going to spam it or there was going to be a lot of, hey, I'm, you know,

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selling, you know, tickets to my friends

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play that you should probably go to. Please. Yeah, there's been a little bit

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of that, but we've been working on it. I would like to talk about battery life on

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the Nexus 5 cuz my I'm going to film my Nexus 5 review next week. I'm feeling

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really comfortable with the device now. I've spent quite a lot of time with it

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and I think that the that the issues

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some people are having with battery life are being mitigated somewhat by the way

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that I use it. So, number one is I I'm

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not a super hardcore power user in some ways, but I do get a lot of incoming and

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outgoing messages. So, because I have a Pebble and because I've actually just

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started using Google Glass, although speaking of battery life, the battery is dead on that, so it's sitting sitting

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over there on the charger. Um, because I am able to do a lot of my reading here,

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even though I'm hitting it a little bit harder on the Bluetooth side of things.

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affect it nearly as much as other devices that I've used. So, this could

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be a Kit Kat optimization. I I'm going to look into it a little bit further

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before I do my review, but um Bluetooth doesn't seem to hurt it that much.

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Number two is I'm not turning my screen on constantly because I'm looking and

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reading a lot of my messages on my smartwatch instead of on the device

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itself. Number three is that tethering is something that really kills battery

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life a lot for me and it doesn't seem to get hit as hard when I'm tethering

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either. Like the one just burns through the battery when I'm tethering. But then

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that one has problems tethering, does it not? Um, no. It doesn't have problems.

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It just burns through the battery and runs really hot. We've had problems connecting to it. You're thinking of the

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uh the old one. You're thinking of the iPhone 4. That was the one that never

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worked. The one saved us that day at the studio. The X. Oh, okay. I was thinking

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of Motor X. Yeah. So, so there's all of those things going for it so far. And

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then there's also the fact that it has some pretty smart power saving features.

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um how do I explain this? Okay, Wi-Fi

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networks whenever you're not in range of them, it can just turn the Wi-Fi off.

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So, your GPS will pick up. It'll go, "Okay, you're here. I'm turning my Wi-Fi back on." This is a smart power saving

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feature that some previous Android phones had, like the Xperia Z1 had it,

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and I was really impressed with the battery life there. But, I feel like that's been saving me a lot of battery

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life as well. So, I'm getting through the day very consistently with the Nexus

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was coming from the Xperia Z1, which I did use for a while, but it wasn't my

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daily driver really. I used it for about 2 and 1 half 3 weeks. Um, coming from

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the HTC1, battery life feels okay cuz the one doesn't have fantastic battery

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life by any stretch. So, Nexus 5, the complaints about your battery life seem

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to be uh a little bit exaggerated in my mind, but I do have plenty of complaints

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about the Nexus 5. So stay tuned for my upcoming video. Why don't we bring Kyle

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on? Are we ready to rock? Sure. Uh it's a little bit early. A little bit early.

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I think we were trying to do a quick show today anyway. So I think he said

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he'd be back by now. So we'll see if he's back. We have a a very secret thing

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to do after work today and then once we're done, we are going to be uh

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telling you guys about it. Sounds like he's under attack by aliens. Yeah. From

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1980. Yeah. Kyle. Kyle. Kyle. Sorry.

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Hey. How are you? I'm good. How are you? We are just

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fantastic. That is a great picture of you that you gave us for your lower

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third. Unless that was Edel that picked that out for you. That That might have

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been Edel. I got to commend him. Are you on speaker, sir? Yes, I am. Let me

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change that for you right now. I didn't realize I was up right now. Thank you.

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Sorry, we brought you in a little bit early because we uh we missed the sound

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of your voice from the pre-show. How about now? How do I sound? You sound

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amazing. Some would say awesome. Some would say that you're Oh, come on. I was

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making my way there laboriously.

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So, why don't you give a brief introduction of who the devil you are

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and what the devil you do and why the devil anyone should care before we go

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any further into the show here for those of our audience who haven't heard of

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you. Sure. Uh, first of all, you probably shouldn't care too much.

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A he's playing the sympathy card.

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It it does it does really well. You know, I've checked the metrics on it.

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Um, but uh I I am essentially a YouTube

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host for Newegg, which channel for

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Newegg.com. Great company. I also have my own Yeah, I know. I know. They're NCX

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also. Much respect for for them as well. Got to respect your roots. Um, I'm also

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a uh a YouTuber on the side. Uh, personally, I have my own channel,

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Awesome Sauce News, and I can hear myself right now. Hold on. Why

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not? All right. I'm just gonna roll with it. All right. Sweet. Uh, yeah, that's

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what I do. I do I do tech unboxings. I do reviews. I do what you do, but on a

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much smaller scale with a much smaller army. More of a militia. A militia. All

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right. So, why don't we go ahead and move into our first guest topic here.

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So, the Oh, okay. So, you work at Newegg. Do you see any

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of the sales numbers at all or you are you guessing as much as the rest of us

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are? Uh, yes, the latter. They refuse to

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let me see anything important. That That is awesome. Okay. Well, have you heard

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any scuttlebutt about 290 sales versus 290x sales? No, actually, not at all. I

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haven't really looked into it. I haven't really heard too much. I'm kind of in my bubble. Scuttlebutt's a word.

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Scuttlebutt. That is a word. I like it.

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It means rumors. I know, but you just said scuttlebutt. I know, but it's a

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word. I know. It's already up on Urban Dictionary by now. Yeah, it's been 5

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seconds. It was already a word. I know it is. I know. I know it's a word. Well,

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you know what? It's just hilarious. We're going to go to my screen where uh

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Chris Chris XLX Cross posted that the

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Radeon R9290 can no longer be flashed.

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to buy Radeon R9290s and with a simple

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BIOS flash, turn them into R9290X's. It turns out that this was

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only from specific batches and only

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worked with XFX and power color cards.

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So, that was that was all that was going on. So, now 290s can no longer be

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unlocked. But what does this tell you guys about the difference between an R9

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290 and a 290X?

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Um, I'm assuming he cannot hear us now.

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Did he me? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know. I I thought you said guys. I thought you

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were asking the audience now. Oh, no. I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you and Luke. Oh, right. Uh, honestly, I I

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think it says they're very similar. And for some reason, AMD doesn't want the

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290 to be unlocked. um for for monetary reasons, I'm assuming. But I feel like

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that kind of defeats the whole purpose of PC building. That's one of the

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reasons I love it so much is because we're not forced to deal with a an

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all-in-one built console. Uh we like to

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tweak and tune our hardware and I feel like that kind of limits that ability.

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So, tell me something. Have you bought one of the nextG consoles? No. No, I

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have not. Are you planning to? No. No, I'm not. Okay. Give me give me your PC

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master race. uh opinion here. Then if you had to buy a console, if someone

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took away your PC from you, held a gun to your head, and says you can only have

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an Xbox One or a PlayStation 4, that's all you can have. What about a Wii U?

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What about a Wii U? I would go with a Wii U. I'd go with a 3DS and play

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Pokemon X and Y. Boom. Okay. Kyle's a

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man. All right. You know what? I guess I can't actually Men by Wii. Wii are so

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underrated. You know what? My My first

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allnighter was playing Pokemon. Boom.

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back on Game Boy Color. There you go. You can still buy Pokemon. That was my

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very first All Nighter. But still, we use Epic. There's a there's some really

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good games. I don't know. I agree. All right, fair enough. Honestly, if I had

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to pick if I had to pick between the two consoles, I would probably go with the

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PS4. Uh just because I was a PS3 guy back in the day and I always had a good

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experience with them. My Xbox 360 got the red ring and obviously that's not an

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issue anymore, but uh I don't know. I feel like the community on the

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PlayStation Network was a bit more mature, a little bit on the same page as

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me, as opposed to the Xbox 360 kids that were always yelling at me for being a

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noob, calling me names.

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So, basically, you're saying that the noobs are are more friendly to each

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other on the play. So, are you calling PS4 a noob console? No, I'm calling it a

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a more downto-earth console. I see.

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Okay. So, a little bit less rabid in terms of the fanboyism. Exactly. All

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right, let's move on to our next topic here. You actually brought this up with

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us. A very a very unfortunate man by the

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name of James Howells has lost 4 million

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Great Britain pounds worth of bitcoins that were stored on an old hard drive.

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Um Kyle, have you invested any money into Bitcoin? No, but I'm really

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starting to think I should be. Is it? And yeah, sorry about that. I had uh I

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had my stream running. Sorry about that. So, okay. At this point, do you feel

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like it's a little bit too late? Um, you know, I think it's never too

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late. I think it's later than I would have liked to have, you know, uh, been

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interested in the whole thing, but, uh, you never know how much higher it can go

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from here, you know. So, um, I I'm

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thinking about doing like a Bitcoin mining build, right? You know, maybe for

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my channel or something like that. The problem with Bitcoin mining is that it's

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gotten to the point where the hardware has stopped getting so much more

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powerful so fast and bitcoins have become so difficult to find that unless

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you're buying I mean I don't know if you know this but they actually have dedicated boxes maybe you know you know

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a little bit more about Yeah. They have dedicated boxes that are just for

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Bitcoin mining. That's all they do. It's an appliance. You plug it into a wall and it Bitcoin miners. They're built

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specifically for it though and they'll really outpower what else whatever else

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you can do pretty much. I feel like I feel like your electricity would

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electric sorry the electricity bill would outweigh the money that you'd be

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getting from Bitcoin mining because isn't it pretty taxing on your system and just consumes a crap ton of power

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from what I've heard. Well, that is the problem that a lot of people had even at

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the beginning of Bitcoin was that it wasn't really worth that much. And I I

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think the most of the calculations that I saw people doing were okay, here's how

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much Bitcoin is worth, here's how much my electricity costs. And they weren't

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necessarily factoring in what if Bitcoin is worth a hundred times what it is

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today, not that long from now. And so that was the thing that kept a lot of

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people from getting into Bitcoin mining. That's honestly the reason that I I

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actually set up a mining box and then I was like, "Okay, forget it." One,

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there's a few things you can do. You can join a pool because solo mining, it can

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take like a year for you to get your own bitcoin block. Um, if you join a pool,

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your whole group is calculating towards bitcoins. Then you can get a cut, which

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is a good idea. And then for two, you can go to I think it's like bitcoin

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calculator.com or just Google bitcoin calculator and you can figure out like

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your cost versus your gains and it helps you figure out whether or not it'll be

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worth it for you because power around the world is different. So there's two different things to think about. Guys,

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we'd love to do a Twitter blip. So, if you have any questions or anything you want to ask Kyle, maybe like what's it

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like working with Paul, you know, anything like that, guys, hit us up at

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Linus Tech on Twitter and uh let us know if you have any questions for the one

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and only Kyle. So, my Google Docs just

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randomly signed out for no apparent

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reason. So, I have apparently lost my ability to find our next topic here. And

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this 680 Ti 6 GB edition. Yeah. Ah, did

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you hear about this? You know what? I This is the first time I've heard about

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it from that list. What? Actually pretty cool. My favorite part is no TDP unlock

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voltages. Mhm. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. Holy crap. Cuz 680 Ti is like a

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beast card and it has overclocking headroom sitting there. It does. Oh

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yeah, it it won't break even if you set

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it higher. There's like a few things. Now, do you guys know if this is a new

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model that NVIDIA's put out or if this is just a like a barebones 780 Ti that

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EVJ has kind of tweaked? Well, what I think has happened here is two things.

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Number one is this has got to be EVGA pressing really hard on NVIDIA to give

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them the flexibility to deliver the cards that they want to build to their

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customers. I I know a couple guys at EVGA and I know how they feel about

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stuff like Project Greenlight, which was NVIDIA's program that they put in place

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to restrict the board partners' ability to RMA dead cards back to NVIDIA if they

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did anything that goes outside of the uh the guidelines with respect to uh power

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consumption, voltage, and clock speeds, particularly voltage increases on the

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GPU that would cause them to die. So NVIDIA put this green light thing in place that basically went, "Look, do

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whatever you want, but don't come crying to us when it dies." And this is both

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unreasonable and a little bit just kind of kneecapping in terms of what the

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board partners can do because AMD doesn't put the same restrictions in place or at least not ones that are

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nearly as restrictive. I mean, they're still like, "Hey, you know, don't do anything phenomenally stupid, but you

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have a little bit more flexibility." So for 780 Ti 6 gig here, it looks like

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EVGA has pushed NVIDIA to get the green

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light on a card that is just going to be

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completely balls to the walls unlocked.

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The first thing I did when I saw this is I was like, EVGA, I am so sorry that I

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haven't finished that Hadron Air unboxing yet. Um, I will do it right

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away. I need one of these cards. And they're like, "Yeah, dude.

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We'll put you on the list." I'm like, "Yes,

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I don't think you knew that." That's all this has been. They're holding the card hostage until you do that video. What

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graphics card do you run at home these days? Uh, you know what? Honestly, I

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haven't been doing a a huge amount of gaming lately just because I've been so busy, but uh I still have a GTX 670 in

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my rig. It's a ASUS Direct CU2. And um

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honestly, I I do have like a 770 lying around that I just I don't know why I

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haven't installed yet, but um I I probably should. Is it air? Yeah, it's

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air. You have no excuse, sir. Yeah, right. Air cooled graphics card upgrade

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not happening. No time at all. I know. It's It's It's really just because I

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haven't done much gaming at all. Cry yourself to sleep every night. We're

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going to go to our Twitter boards here.

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All right, guys. So, first up, uh,

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what's your main rig? Okay. You know what? Here, why don't you answer Ricardo

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here? What is your main rig? So, aside from the graphics card. Okay. Right now,

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I'm still a couple generations behind. I've got a Core i7 2600 K. It's

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overclocked to 4,400 MHz, which is still about as good as it gets. So, yes. Yeah,

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exactly. So, I mean, it's it's doing everything I needed to right now. I'm

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just doing a lot of editing and it's handling it beautifully. Render times

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could be a bit faster, but uh I am planning on upgrading to an X79 platform

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pretty soon. Um, have you have you heard of the Intel? It's like the retail edge

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program. Yeah. So, uh, I think they're having a

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ridiculous deal on the fourth where you can get a 4930K for what is it like 190

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bucks. You know what else I heard about the retail edge program? I heard that I

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heard that technically you're not eligible for it. Oh, really? Yeah. I

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already I already did my time. I already got 10,000 points, so I got the voucher

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for the for the deal. I'm going to call Intel and I'm going to tell them that you don't work at a retail store. How

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dare you? I had it for like six years after I worked at one. Yeah, Retail

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Edge. I uh Well, did you ever try to claim any any of the deals? Oh, yeah.

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Oh, okay. That's unusual cuz I had to when I There's ways to do it. When I

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first submitted, I had to submit like Oh, well, I guess you could fake

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pasteubs. Yeah. Yeah, I did that a few times. Photoshop is a thing. Yeah, Photoshop. So, I what I used to do Not

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that I actually did that. Okay. Wink wink. The second The first time I did

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Retail Edge, I did everything legit. I actually went to a live event, so I was

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able to bring a payub and like show it to them. Well, okay. It was sort of

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legit cuz I also brought my wife and photoshopped one of my old payubs with

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her name on it so that I could get two of them.

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So she did use Photoshop. So she actually went to the sh Well, I used MS

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Paint to be clear. Oh. So she actually went to the event with me and got

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validated at the same time. Oh god. Then the second time I wanted something from

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Retail Edge, this was back when I wanted like I before I built my current rig, I

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always wanted like a RAID card and

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multi- SSD setup because I looked at SSD and I went, "Okay, this is perfect

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except it's not enough space." So, I was like, "Okay, I'm willing to just drop

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all the money." So, I found four co-workers and this was back when each

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of them was like $300 or something stupid like that or like 200. Even on

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retail edge, it was like $200 or $300. And I got four

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X25M 80 gigs, I think, or 160s, I don't

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remember. But it was like my second retail edge deal. And so that was the

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the illegitimate thing there was I got a bunch of co-workers to sign me over

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their accounts so I could do all the quizzes.

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Nice. And then uh I don't remember. I

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think eventually I just got tired of it because Retail Edge used to be really easy. You could challenge all of the

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tests. So, if you knew the answers already, which I usually did because I

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had read the Anantech article four months earlier because it's not like

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they're showing off the latest stuff on there, then I could just answer all the questions and I was good to go. But now

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now they make you like sit and watch stuff, right? Uh, you know what? That's

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that's true for some of them. But I noticed that maybe three out of five I

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could just go straight to the quiz and get it over with. Maybe they've maybe

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they've refined it a little bit. I think like the one or two um quizzes that I

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actually had to uh wait to watch that ridiculous tutorial, it was like a

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00:28:44,159 --> 00:28:48,960
twominute long TV like soap opera type

411
00:28:47,679 --> 00:28:55,200
thing and it was just the cheesiest thing I've ever seen and they made me watch it and I and I failed the test

412
00:28:53,039 --> 00:28:59,880
afterwards cuz I was distracted so I had to watch it again. Oh, it was bad. I got

413
00:28:58,159 --> 00:29:03,600
to go to so many free movies cuz those guys So many free movies. Oh yeah. Nice.

414
00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:07,200
because they'd come by and be like, "Yeah, free Dark Knight screening."

415
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,799
Awesome. Like, all right, I'll go to that. Sounds good. I have no extra

416
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:15,600
money. I want to see this movie. Awesome. Sweet. I'm still amazed how how

417
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:20,559
good your MS Paint skills are. I just can't get Yeah, that's actually pretty impressive. No, I couldn't do it. My

418
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:24,360
wife did it. Not that I did it, but even more impressive.

419
00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:29,360
Someone I I Not that I Yeah, whatever. Um, I had

420
00:29:27,679 --> 00:29:34,880
automatic scripting things that would rewrite the date and I could just uh

421
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:36,240
snipping tool and pull it in. So, every

422
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:40,880
single time that I had to change a date, I was just like, done. Took me like 10

423
00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:44,320
seconds. I mean, Intel should have some more security behind that site knowing

424
00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:48,399
that everybody that's applying for it is in the tech industry and is more or less

425
00:29:45,919 --> 00:29:52,159
techsavvy. I know. Easy to hack into that. You would think that. You know,

426
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:57,039
the funny thing about Retail Edge is I'm not convinced that anywhere near like

427
00:29:54,720 --> 00:30:01,200
probably 20% of the people buying those things are actually putting them in

428
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:05,360
their own reselling it. All of them. If you check eBay immediately after retail

429
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:10,159
edge thing is just like swamped with all of it. Mhm. The flipfest. Yeah. It's

430
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:13,799
ridiculous. Guys, it's going to be a real good time to buy a six core ivy

431
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:18,320
bridgy real soon here. And it's always like extreme

432
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:22,640
editions and stuff. So, like people get these theoretically $1,000 process or it

433
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:26,320
used to be extreme editions all the time. So, people would get like 980X's

434
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:31,679
and stuff like that and then they'd be like, "Oh, yeah, it's $1,000 processor." And then everyone would like list them

435
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:34,440
on red flag deals and I'm like, "Uh, you know, overclock.net and they'd be like,

436
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:39,520
"Ah, $875." People be like, "Yeah, no. That

437
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:42,919
that and there's like a hundred of you selling that exact chip right now. We we

438
00:30:41,919 --> 00:30:46,720
Yeah, no. See what you're up to. It's pretty

439
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:53,919
epic. All right. So, how are you guys' uh Thanksgiving? Um, we have Thanksgiving a

440
00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:55,760
month before you. Oh, you're right. Oh

441
00:30:53,919 --> 00:30:59,120
my gosh. I'm such an out of touch American. I know. I know. We're We're

442
00:30:57,679 --> 00:31:04,880
basically We're just your hat to you, aren't we? Yes. Yes, indeed. I wish we

443
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:08,159
could not mine. I saw this meme and I wish it was true where we could just

444
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:12,399
have like second Thanksgiving like the hobbits. That would be awesome. Yeah, we

445
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:17,760
should just inherit the American Thanksgiving. You know what's funny is it only took Okay, Black Friday only

446
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:23,039
started happening in Canada about 5 years ago. It only took 5 years and now

447
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:26,240
it's a thing. Yeah. So, if we just started this

448
00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:30,399
second Thanksgiving. Second Thanksgiving. We're thankful that

449
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:35,200
America Pilgrims Turkey hasn't blown us up yet.

450
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:38,720
Yeah. Hasn't decided to invade us for a second time. Yeah. I'm really happy

451
00:31:36,799 --> 00:31:46,399
about that. We're glad that we're America's hat and

452
00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:48,000
not America's cup. Yeah. Yeah.

453
00:31:46,399 --> 00:31:52,720
You know, you're not going to last long around here on this here show.

454
00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:57,679
I love you guys. No, I was just in Toronto last weekend to cover an expo

455
00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:01,279
there and everyone was very friendly and I ate a lot of poutine and ketchup

456
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:04,880
chips. We're from Vancouver, so we're not particularly fond of Toronto either.

457
00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:08,880
Leave some. Oh, wow. You guys know that civil wars within Canada. That's that's

458
00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:13,039
harsh. Yeah. If there was a Canadian Civil War, it would be between like the

459
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,919
Vancouver Conucks and like the Toronto Maple Leafs. Yeah. And there would just

460
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:20,399
be this like huge walk in between. Yeah. There'd be like there'd be there would

461
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,519
be like an enormous ice rink and then there would be no We wouldn't even We'd

462
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,240
do away with the hockey sticks and the hockey pucks entirely and everyone would

463
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:31,039
just throw off their gloves and charge at each other. Yeah. That would be like the Canadian Civil War. Then afterwards,

464
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:34,000
everyone would shake hands and go out for drinks and then it'd be fun. Yeah.

465
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:40,799
There'd be lots of beer. You all just compliment each other on your fighting skills. Yeah. The the beer would both

466
00:32:37,919 --> 00:32:47,200
enhance the uh the violence and enhance the camaraderie after the violence. Yep,

467
00:32:43,279 --> 00:32:48,799
that's right. Welcome to Canada.

468
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:53,840
Oh, that's a great place. All right, so Oh, you know what? I guess we didn't actually do much Twitter blitzing here,

469
00:32:51,679 --> 00:33:02,399
so of course I requested, will there ever be a GTX 790? We don't know.

470
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:03,840
Um, okay. What do you think? Ah, hey

471
00:33:02,399 --> 00:33:07,600
Kyle. I don't know if you've been paying much attention to New Eggs Black Friday deals, but it's gonna be pretty

472
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:14,240
embarrassing if you hadn't. What do you think was the best New Egg Black Friday

473
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:15,600
deal so far? Oh. Oh, boy. Yep. Time to

474
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:20,640
be embarrassing. There's some pretty good stuff. I I looked through the deals

475
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:25,200
and um I saw like a bunch of little things. Like I wasn't really looking for

476
00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:28,640
straight up PC hardware because I I recently built a system and I I don't

477
00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:33,600
need to spend any more money on that for the next few days. Uh, but I did see a

478
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:37,039
kilowatt on sale for like 17 bucks. That's not a bad deal. Yeah. And I

479
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:41,279
totally bought one because they're usually $30, $40 and um there were some

480
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:45,840
other things like a few tool kits that were just dirt cheap. Not sure. I It

481
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:50,559
remains to be seen the quality of them, how easily they'll break. Yeah, I bought

482
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:54,640
the iFixit one and considering the price, I was pretty disappointed with

483
00:33:52,399 --> 00:34:00,480
how it's just a rebranded Chinese tool kit. Right. So, you was afraid of. But I

484
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:04,320
did see a we we did have a pretty nice TV. Um well actually I've heard mixed

485
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:08,560
things about it. It's like a Chang Hong TV. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of that brand. It's like a Chinese

486
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,040
No, we really haven't. I thought you surprised. Yeah, I thought you were I

487
00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:15,359
thought you were joking. I thought he was making fun of Siki. Yeah, I thought you were I'm not being racist at all. I

488
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:21,599
thought you were making fun of every Asian brand cuz you can kind of get away with that, right? Um I only only half

489
00:34:19,839 --> 00:34:26,079
the time cuz I'm only half Asian. Ah, okay. The other half I'm I'm being

490
00:34:23,359 --> 00:34:31,440
racist. Is it like a dice roll? Is it like actual 50% random or is it like

491
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:35,599
specific things? It's It's like 50% Well, okay. I'm a quarter Chinese and a

492
00:34:33,119 --> 00:34:40,800
quarter Thai. Okay. And then and then half like just white. Just obscure

493
00:34:38,399 --> 00:34:44,000
whiteness. I love how that's a thing. Obscure whiteness. You're a white

494
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:47,679
person. Yeah. What's your heritage? I don't know. Europe

495
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:51,280
probably. I'm white. I don't have a heritage.

496
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:56,480
You know what's funny though is in Europe it's totally different and it is a thing. Yeah. Whereas it's just North

497
00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:00,880
America cuz we're this weird like melting pot of whatever culture it all

498
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:04,520
came from. So we just we make our own culture and we have monster trucks and

499
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:08,960
you know poutine trucks poutine and maple leaves.

500
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,839
Yeah. Exactly. It's like yeah that's a culture something something like it's

501
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:16,800
like what are you? I'm Canadian. What's that mean? I don't know. I don't know.

502
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:21,119
Half Union and half Confederate. I don't know.

503
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:26,160
So you might say that you have frequent internal conflicts then.

504
00:35:23,599 --> 00:35:32,160
Yes, all the time. But only 100 plus years ago.

505
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:34,640
I'm an old soul that way.

506
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:38,240
All right. Um, minus I haven't heard much about DDR4 for a while. It's coming

507
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,920
coming later. I wouldn't hold out on a system upgrade, though. No. And at the

508
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:45,520
beginning, it's not going to be very good anyways. So, this is a topic. Um,

509
00:35:44,079 --> 00:35:50,000
Kyle, I'm not sure if you'll have much to say about this, but I certainly do.

510
00:35:47,359 --> 00:35:53,119
OCZ filing for bankruptcy. Have you heard about this? Did you see this? No,

511
00:35:51,119 --> 00:35:56,880
I heard about that. It's very sad. It's very sad. I actually have two Vertex 4s

512
00:35:54,720 --> 00:36:01,440
in my system right now and I'm I'm sad that I'm never going to see a Vertex 5.

513
00:35:59,839 --> 00:36:05,520
Are you going to create like a shrine to them? I should. Or maybe I'll sell them

514
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,720
on eBay when they're like really rare and extinct. I doubt that will be I

515
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:13,359
doubt that'll be a thing. Computer hardware doesn't really that much. Yeah.

516
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:18,640
Yeah. Unless it's like Apple apparently. Yeah, you're probably right. We even saw

517
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:21,119
old um Apple iPhone first going on eBay

518
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:25,680
for like thousands of dollars. Wow. Yeah. kind. Well, no, I don't know if

519
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:28,160
they were selling, but they were listed.

520
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:32,320
So, that's that's a thing. So, I'm going to weigh in on the whole OCZ filing for

521
00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:36,480
bankruptcy thing a little bit here. And um guys, I worked with OCZ for a long

522
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:39,680
time. This time, I'm guys the audience, not guys, you and the other one. See,

523
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:44,000
that's why that's confusing. I know. I know. So, I worked with OCZ for a long

524
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:48,160
time. I um I used to be the product manager for OCZ. That's going back

525
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:52,480
almost about four years now, I think. And there were a lot of warning signs

526
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:57,920
here. There were a lot of warning signs. I mean, there was stuff going on like

527
00:36:54,720 --> 00:37:00,240
I'd buy inventory at this price and then

528
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:03,520
by the time, you know, I would work through all that inventory. Not to say

529
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:09,359
that they weren't selling well, you know, they were selling extremely well for a long time, but like but they

530
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:12,240
they'd want you to take so much so that they could hit their quarter end and

531
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:17,280
year-end goals and all that that you take it in and by the time you're selling it, they're giving you instant

532
00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:22,920
rebates and stuff like that that are so high that you know that they lost money

533
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:27,119
on just the cost of the flash chips alone. Never mind manufacturing and

534
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,640
customer service and shipping. I mean, they would cover the shipping and and

535
00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:36,560
management and all of these commissions for the sales people. I mean, it all adds up to the point where the only way

536
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:41,760
to keep it going was to keep selling more and more and more and more and more

537
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:45,760
more volume. And um that was something that with the profit margins that they

538
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,760
were promising to their shareholders, they couldn't do because as long as it

539
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:54,000
was fine to take investor money and sell every drive at a loss to hit higher and

540
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:57,839
higher volume targets, it was going to work. But when investors kind of went,

541
00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:02,160
"Hey, you know, you're um burning through all this cash really fast. What

542
00:37:59,839 --> 00:38:05,200
exactly are you doing over there?" Well, they were buying market share and that

543
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:09,200
uh that wasn't going to fly in the long term. So, when it came time to to try to

544
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:14,240
make money on the drives, I think what they discovered was that their brand name and their brand strength really

545
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:18,800
wasn't as strong as they had hoped that it would be. And that by that time, SSD

546
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:22,960
had gone from being an enthusiast type product to being a commodity type

547
00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:30,160
product. It happened very quickly. Um, in fact, I'd say in the time between

548
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:32,320
Vertex 2 and onward, SSD went full

549
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:36,720
commodity. And so trying to release a Vertex 4 and a Vector and trying to to

550
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:40,640
dress it up and gussy it up and put, you know, maybe they should have put gold heat spreaders on it. They were the

551
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:45,359
pioneers of putting gold heat spreaders on things to make them sell for more.

552
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:47,920
Me, too. But you you just weren't able

553
00:38:45,359 --> 00:38:51,440
to do it anymore. And that, I think, ultimately caused their downfall. So

554
00:38:49,599 --> 00:38:55,359
Toshiba is looking at buying the assets which is interesting. I had a lot of

555
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:58,480
people comment on um something must have been Twitter. Really? Toshiba? They're

556
00:38:57,119 --> 00:39:02,240
really small. No, they're not. No, they're not at all. Toshiba is a flash

557
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:07,760
manufacturer. In fact, you know what's funny is I had someone make the same

558
00:39:03,839 --> 00:39:09,599
comment about SanDisk and Adata about

559
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:14,640
their oh well they're really small SSD players. No, they're not. They are

560
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:18,480
manufacturers which means they're huge which means that they actually make the

561
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:22,640
drives that smaller companies rebrand. So don't worry, they're okay. Um, so

562
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:26,960
Toshiba is a step above drive manufacturer. They actually manufacture

563
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:30,960
nan flash. So they're going to be all right if they do they make SSDs yet? I

564
00:39:29,599 --> 00:39:35,040
don't think they do. But if they acquired OCZ, then that would be very

565
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:40,400
interesting because Indelinks's controller technology is not bad. It's

566
00:39:37,599 --> 00:39:46,520
good. And Toshiba toggle Nand is among the best out there. So this could be a

567
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,520
match made in heaven.

568
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:53,280
I like it. Looks like it on Newegg.

569
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:56,079
Apparently they do have them on Newegg. Oh, out of out of stock though, so I

570
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,839
don't know. They I don't think they've been doing anything for a while. I'm

571
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:03,920
kind of assuming. Yeah. Like is this SEATA 2 or SATA 3 or what? No, this is

572
00:40:01,599 --> 00:40:08,200
SATA 3. So yeah, they've got one the HDTS. You They could use some branding

573
00:40:06,079 --> 00:40:13,760
on this. HDTS225XZ STA. Yeah. Oh god. Yeah. Yeah.

574
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:18,400
So they need some help. Sounds like a Lean Lee product. Yeah. You know, Lee

575
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:22,320
and Lee's that this company that I just I love their products and the quality is

576
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:26,560
fantastic, but even I can't figure out their product line. I agree. I think

577
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:30,800
they'd do so much better if they just had some better branding, marketing, and

578
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:34,640
whatnot. Yeah. Some some co even some coherency to like the positioning of the

579
00:40:33,359 --> 00:40:38,800
products. Like you go on their site and it's just like which case would you

580
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:44,079
like? Here are all the cases. Yeah. And I'm like well I don't know the

581
00:40:41,119 --> 00:40:47,440
like the one. The gaming one. Like the train one. the train one. This is the

582
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:51,920
best. I even requested a train a train set. I tried to get one, but I couldn't.

583
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:55,520
Well, more like you couldn't at a reasonable price. Yeah, cuz they Man,

584
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:59,760
they were expensive. Yeah, they were. You know what? I actually had a while

585
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:05,119
back. Um it was a swag item. It was a Lean Lee um dinosaur. So, it was like a

586
00:41:03,359 --> 00:41:07,920
sheet of aluminum and then it had all the pieces and then you assembled it

587
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:13,040
like you know those dinosaurs that you like put the ribs on the back of the spine and like like you made a little

588
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:16,720
Lee and Lee aluminum dinosaurs. Awesome. So cool. Yeah, that's fun. I I don't

589
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:22,560
know what happened to it, but that was one of my favorite swag things that I ever got. Did they Did they call it like

590
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:26,079
a 95608? You're like, "Dude, it's a Tyrannosaurus

591
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:30,400
Rex." No, but I'm sure they were I'm sure they

592
00:41:27,599 --> 00:41:35,839
were tempted. All right, what do we got next? Um,

593
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:40,560
okay. There's a 4K Ultrabook apparently that costs less than $1,400. I think

594
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:44,640
more than anything that's revealing of how inexpensive 4K displays actually

595
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:47,920
are. and how manufacturers need to just screw off and just give us our displays

596
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:51,680
now. I wonder how well that Ultrabook's pushing that display, though. Yeah,

597
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:56,720
exactly. Kyle, how awesome is your sauce?

598
00:41:53,359 --> 00:41:59,599
Uh, incredibly excellent. Incredulously.

599
00:41:56,720 --> 00:42:03,920
Incredulously awesome. Uh, Jeremy asks, "How to work at Linus Techch or NCIX?"

600
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:07,560
Um, well, at Linus Techch, we're not hiring, but at NCIX, you could start

601
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:11,119
with going to ncx.com/careers. I think it is something

602
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:13,599
like that. Something like that. If not, it's on the if you scroll down to the

603
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:19,200
bottom of their website, it should be there. I'll find it. Just spam their YouTube channel and pine for a job. They

604
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:25,760
love that. It's a really good idea. Yeah, that works really well.

605
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:30,319
How how uh how tempting is it to have all that crazy hardware around you

606
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:34,319
working at Newegg? Uh it's it's it's really tempting and I feel like I get to

607
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:38,480
purge some of that anxiety that I feel because I uh because I have my own

608
00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:41,760
YouTube channel. And so sometimes if we're backed up and we don't have time

609
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:46,240
to look at a product at Newegg, I can take it home and research it by myself

610
00:42:43,839 --> 00:42:50,319
and and shoot a video of it and whatnot. And uh it's also pretty cool because it

611
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:53,920
lets me look at products more honestly. Um whereas New Egg, you know, we kind of

612
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:58,240
sell everybody. Uh we have to be fair to all the vendors and we can't really do

613
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,760
reviews um because if if we give a bad

614
00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:02,560
review then no one will buy the product, right? It's a company. So that's that's

615
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:07,599
the cool thing about having my own channel is that I get to do what you guys do is be really honest with the

616
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:16,079
product and let them know how you feel about it so that people can actually make a more valid purchasing decision.

617
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:18,160
Mango juice asks, um, what is it like

618
00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:22,880
working with Paul? Working with Paul is pretty awesome. Um,

619
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:26,160
he's just like he's exactly how you see him in the videos. I mean, he's not

620
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:31,440
dressed up at all. He has no hyperextended personality. Um, he's just

621
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:37,359
a really guy. What's that? I said, "What are you implying exactly?"

622
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:39,920
That that he's really laid-back and and

623
00:43:37,359 --> 00:43:44,640
relaxed. That some people do have fake personalities on camera perhaps. Well, I

624
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:47,599
mean, yeah, sometimes sometimes you do, you know, sometimes you you see somebody

625
00:43:46,079 --> 00:43:53,040
on camera and you meet them in person and they're totally different. Uh my old

626
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:54,640
roommate was like that. But, um Paul

627
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:59,119
Paul is kind of like a no frrills type guy. He just says it how it is and you

628
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:02,880
know he's he's not trying to be in the spotlight or trying to be the face of

629
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:05,119
Newegg. He really just wants to share information with people. Can we go back

630
00:44:04,319 --> 00:44:10,000
and he's like he's a really good teacher. Can we go back to that old roommate for a second? So you said your

631
00:44:07,839 --> 00:44:13,839
roommate kind of put on airs when um over video. So did you actually meet

632
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:19,280
this roommate over like a like a webcam chat or No, no, this is this is a

633
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:22,160
roommate that I had in college actually and he had in college. You know the

634
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:29,599
stories about you know what happens between roommates in college. Please go on. Oh. Uh, you're not okay. I don't

635
00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:32,079
know who that was. But speaking of

636
00:44:29,599 --> 00:44:36,960
college roommates, no, but he he actually was the one that

637
00:44:34,079 --> 00:44:41,440
sparked my interest in YouTube, I guess, and like what a YouTube partner could

638
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:45,599
be, cuz he was a YouTuber and, you know, he made all these wacky um I guess they

639
00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:50,640
were kind of like tech videos, but he did more like consumer electronic stuff

640
00:44:47,359 --> 00:44:53,119
and uh movies and TV shows, reviews of

641
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,920
that nature. But um he would be just completely wacky all the time and then

642
00:44:54,640 --> 00:45:01,680
you'd talk to him and he's like a really chill, mellow guy and you put a camera on him and he just puts on this whole

643
00:44:59,119 --> 00:45:06,800
act. And uh Paul's like the inverse of that. And I'm I'm probably like

644
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:10,640
somewhere in between being completely exaggerated and exactly the same as I am

645
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:17,119
because I'm not interesting enough to just be myself on camera. No one would watch me spice things up. So Paul's

646
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:20,319
chill enough on on camera and he's so he's the inverse of the other guy. So

647
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:23,760
basically he it's like he got hit with a horse tranquilizer when he's not on

648
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:28,319
camera. I mean he he gets excited, you know, a

649
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:32,880
new product comes in and and like his eyebrows go up like a normal human

650
00:45:30,119 --> 00:45:36,319
being. But uh for the most part he's just a really down to earth guy and he's

651
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:44,079
super nice. He's lovable. He's like a big teddy bear. He's like the office teddy bear. A if only gave bear hugs.

652
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:47,680
Let's move into our last topic. Now, I know you haven't had much time for

653
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:52,960
gaming lately, but how have you been have you been following much of the news

654
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:55,440
about Steam OS and Steam boxes? Uh, here

655
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:59,280
and there, but um not I'm not completely versed in it yet. All right, so check

656
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:03,680
this out. Top War Gamer posted on the forum. Here is I by Power Steam Machine

657
00:46:02,079 --> 00:46:07,760
prototype. Now, they the funny thing about this is they sent an email to me

658
00:46:05,359 --> 00:46:12,160
earlier this week that was like, hush hush, top secret, blah blah blah. we'll

659
00:46:10,079 --> 00:46:17,119
be showing off a Steam Machine prototype at CES. And I'm like, okay. So, I didn't

660
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:21,280
say anything about it. And then like the next day, it's everywhere and there's

661
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:25,200
like pictures of it and it's like on end gadget and the Verge. I'm just like, is

662
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:29,760
it a secret? Is it not a secret? I don't get anyway. To me, it looks like a Wii.

663
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:34,079
You know what? It kind of look Are you talking about the white one, right, with the different colors? Yeah. Well, the

664
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:38,960
white it looks like a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox One had a baby. It does not look

665
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:44,880
like a PS4. It looks like a PS4 got squished up straight. No, it's not. It's

666
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:50,839
Xbox One. Oh, what? The color is so easy to change. Colors easy to change. Tell

667
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,839
Michael Jackson that.

668
00:46:51,119 --> 00:46:58,160
Good one. I think it is a PS4. They just

669
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,160
put better components in

670
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:03,520
it. They bought a whole bunch of PS4s. They're just like, "Yeah, no, don't

671
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:07,119
worry about it." Yeah, whatever. That GPU sucks. You can take out the hard drive, remember? No, we got this. Yeah,

672
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:12,480
we're going to we're going to put a better one in. Don't worry about it. It's all good. You can you I hear you

673
00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:17,760
can actually flash your PS4 to turn into a Steam box. That would be so epic. That

674
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:21,599
would be awesome. All right, so we have some known specs. It's going to have a

675
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:27,040
multi-core AMD CPU. It looks like AMD is just firing on all freaking cylinders

676
00:47:24,079 --> 00:47:31,440
when it comes to design wins lately. That timing. Yeah. It'll have an R9270

677
00:47:29,359 --> 00:47:33,599
GPU, 500 gig hard drive, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, an integrated power

678
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:39,680
supply. That'll be a little bit bigger than a PS4, but still smaller than an Xbox One. And comes with Valve's Steam

679
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:44,720
Controller. And all this is looking to come in around $500. It's cool that I by

680
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:50,400
Power knows that the X versions are not worth anything. Yeah, I know, right? X

681
00:47:47,599 --> 00:47:53,599
versions. Why do you exist? Why do you exist? You're not as good. All right, so

682
00:47:52,319 --> 00:47:57,520
why don't we do a little a couple more Twitter blitz questions and then I guess we'll have to let you go. We've had you

683
00:47:56,240 --> 00:48:01,839
actually more than half an hour. Sorry about that, Kyle. Oh, it's gone by so

684
00:47:59,599 --> 00:48:05,520
fast. You guys are great. Thank you. A you're you're like he's so nice to us

685
00:48:03,599 --> 00:48:09,520
and then he's self-deprecating. I know. How do you how do you hate this guy? Cuz

686
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:12,800
I certainly do hate him. I mean Oh yeah, absolutely. He works for the enemy. I'll

687
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:16,000
kill you. And you're not okay. You don't work there anymore. That's been so

688
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:21,040
confusing about this stream. Why are you so ra They are a competing YouTube

689
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:25,119
channel too. And we still do work with the NCX YouTube team very closely. But

690
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:29,520
you don't work with them. You work with them. And he called me out on

691
00:48:27,839 --> 00:48:34,319
overclocking our graphics card benchmarks. He did it as well. Oh, no he

692
00:48:31,839 --> 00:48:39,359
didn't. No, he did not. It was It was a friendly poke. A friendly poke. That is

693
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:45,200
That is what I tell my wife. This was not a friendly Sorry. I I can't hold

694
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:49,280
that together. Dear God. Are we still live? Yes, we

695
00:48:47,839 --> 00:48:54,000
are. Yes, we're still live. So, why don't we move on? Um Kyle, do you have

696
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:59,680
any thoughts on the ASUS Mars 760, their dual GTX 760 card? Oh god, that's pretty

697
00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:03,359
awesome. I haven't even heard much about it, but I think it's going to be cool

698
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:08,160
and probably a little overpriced, but that doesn't mean it's any less badass.

699
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:12,400
You know what? That ASUS should hire you to do their ROG marketing because that

700
00:49:10,559 --> 00:49:16,240
was pretty much it. Yeah, it's going to be cool. Demographic. It's going to be

701
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:19,319
expensive, but like it's going to be awesome, but it's going to be badass.

702
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:25,319
It's like, yeah, there you go. There you go. I would Yeah, whatever. They owe me

703
00:49:22,319 --> 00:49:25,319
money.

704
00:49:25,839 --> 00:49:32,559
Uh, I don't know. What what are your thoughts on it? I would rather get two

705
00:49:29,599 --> 00:49:38,000
separate cards or one freaking card. That's what I would rather do. You know,

706
00:49:34,559 --> 00:49:40,160
if they're going to allow um SLI, yes,

707
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:44,160
quad SLI will be enabled. So, that's that's a little bit unique. Yeah, that's

708
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:49,839
really cool. I would still rather buy one 780 Ti or two 780 Ti though. Sure.

709
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:52,800
All right. So, we've got Is it gonna Oh, sorry. Last question. Do you know I'm

710
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:56,240
just curious myself. Is it going to be on air or they have like a integrated

711
00:49:54,559 --> 00:50:00,880
water cooler? It is air. It's not like the last generation Aries card that had

712
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:05,680
that builtin uh that builtin liquid cooler. All right, so we got some troll

713
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:11,040
asking us a question on Twitter here. Which of new eggs elf commercials do you

714
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:12,559
like the best? Oh god. Wait, are those

715
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:17,280
are those live yet? Are those already up? I don't know, man. You tell me cuz I

716
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:21,520
I think this this this guy's kind of trolling us pretty hard here. He's like

717
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:26,000
sort of a sort of a jackass. I know him. Oh, is it is it

718
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:29,119
Paul? I guarantee it's Paul. Yeah, it's Paul. Honestly, I haven't even seen all

719
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:33,680
the elf commercials. I've only seen two of them. One of which all of our voices

720
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:37,599
are altered. So, me, Jenny, and Paul were all in a a national commercial

721
00:50:35,839 --> 00:50:42,480
that's supposed to be broadcasted on TV like today. Really? Allegedly. Yes.

722
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:46,400
That's awesome. I mean, they were so ambitious about it. This was last week

723
00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:48,800
and I think our CMO was like, "Hey, I want three national commercials." And

724
00:50:47,839 --> 00:50:52,280
we're like, "Oh, yeah, that sounds great." He's like, "Buy next week."

725
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:57,359
Like, what? But but we did it. It happened.

726
00:50:55,200 --> 00:51:00,720
And um they they kind of like autotuned our voices to sound like elves. It's

727
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:04,240
it's pretty awful. But uh I think that was only one of the versions. They might

728
00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:07,440
actually turn around and and if they listen to our requests, they'll they'll

729
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:10,440
use our real voices cuz they're much sexier.

730
00:51:10,559 --> 00:51:16,240
Wow. I'm actually going to get a kick out of it. I am really excited to see

731
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:21,200
this because honestly and as much as Okay, I hope no one tells Logan this,

732
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:25,359
but my favorite video of his that I've ever seen is his Tiger Direct commercial

733
00:51:23,599 --> 00:51:32,079
spot from their from the Have you seen it? Yeah. They're great. I'm I'm going

734
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:36,319
to see if I can dig this up because it

735
00:51:32,079 --> 00:51:40,880
is so amazing. Like the level of sellout

736
00:51:36,319 --> 00:51:42,559
going on here is just so far beyond like

737
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:45,119
the real Logan that we that we know and love. Okay, I I don't know if you guys

738
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:52,640
are going to have audio for this or not, but I'm going to go ahead and screen share with you here. So, here we go.

739
00:51:48,079 --> 00:51:55,280
Here we go. Oh. Oh, hold on. Hold on.

740
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,280
Okay, let's try

741
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:01,079
again. Oh, this is classic.

742
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:29,760
You know what? You know what it reminds me of is like those crazy commercials that you see late at night at like 2:00

743
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:34,720
in the morning. It's like, "Come down to Crazy Girls Television sets. We got the

744
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:37,280
hottest deals around town." Oh, I love

745
00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:40,240
that. I love that. Oh, Logan. Apparently, there was no sound. I'm

746
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:45,280
sorry, you guys. There's nothing I can do about it right now. But the point is

747
00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:49,520
it's it's ridiculous. If you search for current Tiger TV commercial spot or

748
00:52:47,839 --> 00:52:53,119
something like that, it comes up. But like that is got to be the most

749
00:52:51,119 --> 00:52:58,559
embarrassing video on the entire internet of uh of our of our favorite of

750
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:02,000
our favorite buddy Logan there. And you can see the pain behind his eyes the

751
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:06,559
whole time. Like he knows what kind of commercial he's in. You can see the act

752
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:13,920
of defiance. He's wearing his Raise the World shirt under his sport coat to like

753
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:15,520
be like, "Look, I I I I didn't want to

754
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:18,640
do this. I didn't want to do this, but they made me I had to, but I didn't want

755
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:22,960
to." It's like Superman like worked there. Worked. But isn't that recent?

756
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:27,920
No. No, that's old. Yeah, that's old. That's old. I thought that was new.

757
00:53:25,839 --> 00:53:31,760
Yeah. No, that was uh that was amazing. All right, so I think that's pretty much

758
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:35,680
it. Thank you, Kyle, for joining us. We really appreciate having you on the

759
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:41,920
show. Thanks for having me on, guys. All right, take care. You, too. Let's jump

760
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:47,359
directly into these two confusing topics. All right. Yeah, this is uh this

761
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:52,559
is this is kind of a whackload of weirdness. Yeah. All right. So, this is

762
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:55,520
actually from the NCIX forums of all places. I'm going to go ahead and screen

763
00:53:53,760 --> 00:54:00,800
share with you guys here. Was posted by Bloody Lunatic and the original article

764
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:05,599
is from Tech PowerUp. And the rumor is that NVIDIA is working on a GTX Titan

765
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:10,960
refresh, but like it totally looks like someone

766
00:54:09,119 --> 00:54:14,880
just painted a And I have some reasons for it. Don't those look like silver

767
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:18,720
fins? No, those look like those look like dark aluminum fins to do. They look

768
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:23,200
like dark aluminum or shaded. No, I think they look like dark aluminum. I

769
00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:30,480
think you'd have a hard time um changing the texture of the shroud here to make

770
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:32,880
it like more more dark than it than it

771
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:35,920
already was. Like I don't know, man. You should see some of the pictures of

772
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:40,400
people painted Titans. That's some pretty easy stuff to paint. Okay, fair

773
00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:44,319
enough. Like real easy stuff to paint. Okay, hold on. Let's go. But they Okay.

774
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:50,559
Okay. Okay. When we've seen photoshopped cards in the past though, no

775
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:52,559
one no one really seems to bother with

776
00:54:50,559 --> 00:54:56,319
uh doing like two chops of it. It's usually like one good Photoshop or

777
00:54:54,960 --> 00:55:01,520
something like that. And they've done two different images of it. No, I mean people have actually painted Titan,

778
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:05,760
right? Oh, okay. So, you think that this is just a painted Titan? I just I don't

779
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:11,200
understand why the hell they would release this. I mean, okay, here's It

780
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:17,599
has a few more CUDA corores. I I guess if we weren't if we didn't have 780 Ti 6

781
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:23,119
gig cards coming, then this might make sense. Yeah, because then Titan could

782
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:26,400
still be positioned as the multi-way SLI

783
00:55:23,119 --> 00:55:29,760
6 gig monster. But with EVGA releasing

784
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:31,680
that Kingpin edition 780 Ti, um it's

785
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:35,359
like why does this exist? We can tell you guys like okay well it would have

786
00:55:33,359 --> 00:55:42,400
slightly better performance with you know it's full double precision floating

787
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:44,960
point enabledness but like but I it's

788
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:49,920
very weird. Yeah, but it doesn't seem like I I kind of I get it. Okay, so if

789
00:55:48,079 --> 00:55:54,640
we had to gamble are you and I going to gamble not a real thing? Probably. But

790
00:55:53,119 --> 00:55:59,359
like it could be. I'm not saying it's not. But I just like I still don't

791
00:55:56,559 --> 00:56:04,880
recommend buying one. No. So, that's a thing because it's going to be so much

792
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:07,040
money. Yeah, 780 Ti is like right there.

793
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:11,599
Yeah, I've had quite a few people asking me, should I get a 700 series now or

794
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:17,119
should I wait until Maxwell? And the answer is unfortunately the same as it

795
00:56:13,599 --> 00:56:19,200
always is, guys, because we don't know.

796
00:56:17,119 --> 00:56:25,200
No idea. I mean, the thing about Maxwell is it should be on a new a new process

797
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:27,200
node. Um, it should be at least a a

798
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:30,960
strong step forward in terms of performance. But with what NVIDIA has

799
00:56:29,359 --> 00:56:36,240
done in terms of pricing of new generation cards with the exception of

800
00:56:33,119 --> 00:56:38,160
680 Ti, they've just taken whatever is

801
00:56:36,240 --> 00:56:42,960
out there now and they've taken their cards and they've gone, "Okay, well, this one performs about in between those

802
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:45,599
two, so here's the pricing." So, it would this one performs better, so

803
00:56:44,079 --> 00:56:49,839
here's the pricing. Yeah. So, it wouldn't it's not like actually I don't

804
00:56:48,079 --> 00:56:53,920
know. It doesn't We can't really say. We could be wrong. They could 8800 GT the

805
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:58,559
market again. Yeah, they probably won't. I I I kind of doubt it. I think that uh

806
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:01,839
I think that their their strength right now in terms of graphics card market

807
00:57:00,319 --> 00:57:06,720
share and graphics card perception is such that they don't need to to do that.

808
00:57:04,799 --> 00:57:11,200
So AMD is doing real good though, especially with R9290s, not 290X's, but

809
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:19,359
290s. 290 is a strong looking card. I got to wonder how profitable it is for them though. That is a bigger die than

810
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:21,599
7970 and it's selling at pricing that is

811
00:57:19,359 --> 00:57:25,280
pretty near what they were doing 79 what they were doing with 7950 back when that

812
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:28,400
launched. And then you factor in the fact that it is a more expensive board

813
00:57:26,799 --> 00:57:32,240
to produce because it consumes more power and it is a more expensive cooling

814
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:36,400
solution because it kicks out more heat like and it and it's a newer it's a

815
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:41,920
newer design so the yields aren't going to be as high. Like I really got to wonder if if what they're doing right

816
00:57:39,359 --> 00:57:46,400
now isn't just totally crazy town. Yeah. I mean, R9290, big thumbs up. In fact,

817
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:49,920
we've got something exciting coming, you guys. Our water block for our R9290

818
00:57:48,559 --> 00:57:55,040
arrived. So, we're going to be doing water cooled R9290 versus GTX 780 cuz

819
00:57:53,359 --> 00:57:58,400
those are the closest priced cards that make the most sense. And we're going to

820
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:02,480
get them both to the point where throttling goes away and we find out

821
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:06,000
what they're both truly capable of. So, stay tuned for that on Linus Tech Tips.

822
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:10,000
Actually pretty stoked. Yeah, I'm I'm pretty excited about that because up

823
00:58:07,359 --> 00:58:13,520
till now I haven't even people It's funny. I get called an NVIDIA fanboy a

824
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:18,079
lot and I get called an AMD fanboy sometimes, too. It's fine. On our on our

825
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:21,119
recent video, the uh Can I just rotate depending on what card is released?

826
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:24,079
Yeah, of course. If there's an AMD release, we're NVIDIA fanboys. And if I

827
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:29,200
mean, if there's an AMD release, we're AMD fanboys. If there's an NVIDIA release, we're NVIDIA fanboys. So, on

828
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:33,920
our holiday buyers guide, I had someone asking why I hated on NVIDIA or on AMD

829
00:58:31,599 --> 00:58:37,839
so hard. And I was like, okay, well, two things. Number one is that one out of

830
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:42,079
our three systems had an AMD CPU in it. Number two is that two out of our three

831
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:46,880
systems had AMD graphics cards in them. So out of a six possible spots that I

832
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:52,160
could have assigned to AMD, they got three.

833
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:55,040
So yeah, in like the three most logical

834
00:58:52,160 --> 00:59:00,480
spots cuz I looked over everything. Yes. So we both agreed on those parts lists.

835
00:58:57,839 --> 00:59:06,480
So if I'm an NVIDIA fanboy, then so is he and so is anyone who looks at things

836
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:11,440
objectively, I guess. All right, so moving on to our next topic that is like

837
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:15,839
what the heck was this one even about? I can't even find it right now. The black

838
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:19,760
uh Titan. No, no, the other one. We already talked about that. Power color releases crazy fan design. It's right

839
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:24,880
under the Black Titan. Yeah, there it is. Okay, so this thing is ridiculous.

840
00:59:22,079 --> 00:59:30,559
What the heck are they doing? So, it was posted by Brown Ninja on the forum and

841
00:59:28,079 --> 00:59:33,760
it looks perfectly normal. Okay, until you like There's a box. Hold on. Hold

842
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:38,000
on. Hold on. There's a box. That's normal. Yep. It supports 4K, which is

843
00:59:35,839 --> 00:59:43,480
normal. It's got two fans, which are normal. Oh,

844
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:46,559
what the heck? What the heck is going on

845
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:49,440
here? So, we got five big Okay, so first

846
00:59:46,559 --> 00:59:54,880
of all, it looks like instead of being a downdraft cooler towards the heat sink,

847
00:59:52,319 --> 00:59:58,640
it is sucking air from the heat sink. Okay, so there's a couple of advantages

848
00:59:56,799 --> 01:00:02,720
and disadvantages to this. So, advantage number one is that this implementation

849
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:05,520
can be quieter is my understanding. Although you're gonna have to have a

850
01:00:04,079 --> 01:00:12,079
reasonable shroud on it and stuff like that, blah blah blah. Less turbulence.

851
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:13,280
But disadvantage. Um, whatever. I think

852
01:00:12,079 --> 01:00:18,480
that's about the only advantage I can come up with. I guess another advantage would that be that it doesn't exhaust

853
01:00:16,319 --> 01:00:21,280
air down towards the PCI Express slot on the motherboard. So, your motherboard

854
01:00:19,599 --> 01:00:25,359
might not run as hot. So, it's going to be pulling air from around it and then

855
01:00:23,599 --> 01:00:28,559
blowing it down towards your other addin cards or something like like Okay. None

856
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:32,000
of this that's not necessarily an advantage. Okay. Well, why don't I just

857
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:38,559
say this? Imagine your raid card was there. I'm not overheat. Okay.

858
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:41,760
So, okay. The other weird thing about it, aside from the fact that it pulls

859
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:44,440
air through the fins. Oh, right. The So, the disadvantage of pulling air through

860
01:00:43,119 --> 01:00:47,760
the fins is that you can't control the

861
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:51,839
directionality of the air flow as much. It's going to come in from around the edges where it doesn't actually have to

862
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:55,040
come through the fins unless they've sealed it extremely well. In which case,

863
01:00:53,839 --> 01:01:00,880
they might as well just turn the fan around because it's the same thing. So then number two weird thing about it is

864
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:04,000
look at these little baby baby blades right here. I thought they were like

865
01:01:02,319 --> 01:01:09,119
reflections at first and then I was like nope no those are things. Nope. Those

866
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:12,400
are those are definitely things. So I will be interested. I don't think we

867
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:16,480
have a power color contact. But this is funny. This is what the OP is like.

868
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:19,960
Yeah. It kind of reminds me of like of like Nemo Finding Nemo little fins on

869
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:26,319
like clownfish. So yeah, I guess we'll reserve judgment

870
01:01:24,559 --> 01:01:30,640
on this one for now. There is also some feature that makes it

871
01:01:28,079 --> 01:01:35,359
spin at like basically max fan speed when you turn your computer off. I am so

872
01:01:33,119 --> 01:01:40,720
tired of seeing that feature. It doesn't do anything. It's going to cool down. I

873
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:44,799
had I had an unboxing I did that someone complained I didn't mention that feature

874
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:48,559
because it keeps the fan spinning after your system powers down. Blah blah blah.

875
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:52,960
Increases longevity. Actually, it's been proven that it does nothing for

876
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:56,960
longevity. It's it's proven. It's done. It's put to rest. We've taken that book,

877
01:01:55,200 --> 01:02:01,599
closed it, and put it away on the shelf and then burned the shelf. It's done. It

878
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:05,680
doesn't do anything. No. All it does is make your system loud when you turn it

879
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:11,839
off. Yep. Hooray. Cuz 100% fan speed is like real

880
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:15,440
loud. Real loud. It doesn't usually go that fast. I can

881
01:02:13,599 --> 01:02:20,160
tell you that much. All right. So, um, we actually had a couple Razer things

882
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:25,280
this week. So, number one was we had uh the Razer Kraken Forged headphones that

883
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:30,559
we just released our unboxing of. And number two is that Razer did a press

884
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:34,920
release about their Evil Genius branded

885
01:02:30,559 --> 01:02:34,920
esports gaming products.

886
01:02:35,359 --> 01:02:41,359
I'm going to let you take this one cuz if you saw my notes on this, I have no

887
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:46,240
idea why this is a big deal. Me neither. Why are people Okay, good. Thank you.

888
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:51,040
Why are people freaking out? Well, color schemes are a thing. But like

889
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:53,760
people are freaking out in like negative ways though. They're freaking Well, they

890
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:58,799
shouldn't because it doesn't matter. It's just another boxing so much. I mean

891
01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:02,559
for everything here. I probably have Steel. Yeah, there's a Steel Series 7H

892
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:07,599
fanatic edition. That's my point. Steel Series has been doing it forever. Team

893
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:09,440
Team Na'vi uh headset up there. They're

894
01:03:07,599 --> 01:03:12,319
yellow. Well, no, there's a blue one. There's also a blue one. There's a blue

895
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:16,480
one for No, no, that's just a special edition. It's not an esports team. like

896
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:21,760
this this whole sponsored thing is like are you going to are you going to like phone up Nike and be like yo Air Jordan

897
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:26,720
shoes that's not cool man don't do like sponsored sho I don't know I mean I

898
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:31,200
don't think it's a big deal in terms of like I don't care they look good though

899
01:03:29,039 --> 01:03:34,240
if an esports team you know puts their branding on a peripheral I don't I'm not

900
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:37,760
going to buy it I'm also not going to be upset about it yeah I just I mean

901
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:43,119
something to something to understand about this guys is that sports teams

902
01:03:40,799 --> 01:03:47,760
rely on sponsorship esports team sports teams they rely on sponsorship. And

903
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:52,480
while frankly a lot of the time I mean it's no secret that there are esports

904
01:03:50,079 --> 01:03:57,359
players out there that wear the branded headset that their sponsor put on their

905
01:03:54,480 --> 01:04:02,039
head and then have like IM running underneath them and like just like put

906
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:08,319
the cables kind of down their shirts like it is what it is. If you want to

907
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:11,760
buy real gear don't buy things based on

908
01:04:08,319 --> 01:04:14,000
what someone uses on camera. buy things

909
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:18,079
based on, you know, what they use off camera or buy things based on what you

910
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:22,160
can actually try and you can actually find out works really well for yourself.

911
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:26,960
You shouldn't make purchase decisions based on just well, you know, Joe from

912
01:04:25,599 --> 01:04:31,520
whatever said that it was great. Now, there are exceptions to this. Um, TTERS

913
01:04:29,599 --> 01:04:34,960
has a couple of mice that I actually feel pretty strongly are are quite cool.

914
01:04:33,599 --> 01:04:38,559
I forget what they're called now, but there's one there's the white raw one.

915
01:04:37,359 --> 01:04:43,920
Does that actually have a lot of input on it? Yeah, because I put my hand on the mouse and I went, "Oh, it's made for

916
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:48,079
a big Russian dude." I was like, "I can't use this because I'm not a big

917
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:50,799
Russian dude." Where that made a lot of sense to me. But rebranding existing

918
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:53,920
products, if you don't feel strongly about the color scheme or You were

919
01:04:52,559 --> 01:04:57,200
thinking white raw. Yeah. Did I say white raw? Sapphira. Yeah. Safhira is

920
01:04:55,599 --> 01:05:01,280
the mouse. Okay. Okay. Yeah, the white raw Safhira mouse. Um, so I mean, if

921
01:05:00,079 --> 01:05:06,720
you're just rebranding an existing product, if you think the color scheme is great, then go for it. If you think

922
01:05:04,799 --> 01:05:10,960
Team Evil Genius is great and you want them to get a small commission on the

923
01:05:08,319 --> 01:05:15,760
sponsorship, go for it. It's a great way to support someone that you, you know,

924
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:19,440
feel strongly deserves the support. That's I think all there really is to

925
01:05:17,599 --> 01:05:22,960
it. It's uncomplicated. Yeah, they look really nice. Yeah, they look really

926
01:05:20,799 --> 01:05:26,559
good. The color scheme is really sharp. Like, it looks really good. I actually

927
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:32,799
really like the color scheme on that keyboard. Yep. The keyboard looks amazing. Too bad it's uh uh too bad it's

928
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:36,480
not Cherry MX sort of something. Yeah. I'm not into the keyboard, but I like

929
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:40,000
the It looks good. Yeah, looks great. And if you if you like the switches that

930
01:05:38,319 --> 01:05:44,000
happen to be on it, then that's like great. You know, the design of the mouse

931
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:46,960
pad looks nice. And most my mouse pads are one of those things where it's just

932
01:05:45,119 --> 01:05:50,799
like, okay, whatever. It's a mouse pad. Um, there's differences. There are

933
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:54,319
differences. I personally really prefer QCK's. I won't use anything else. So, I

934
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:58,319
guess I shouldn't say it's just a mouse pad, but if you don't already have a

935
01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:03,200
specific It's just a mouse pad. I will only use this one. If you if you if you

936
01:06:01,839 --> 01:06:07,599
have a specific mouse if you don't already have a specific mouse pad that you really really like, then it's worth

937
01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:13,039
a shot because I don't think it comes at a huge premium. Um I' I'd rather Okay,

938
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:16,480
here. How about this? I would rather buy a peripheral that's branded around You

939
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:20,559
know what, guys? Hit us up on Twitter. Tell us what you think about about

940
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:25,200
sponsored branded peripherals. We'd love to hear it because there's tons. There's

941
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:30,240
ones for like Modern Warfare 3. Logitech did a Modern Warfare 3 thing. Um,

942
01:06:27,359 --> 01:06:33,119
there's ones for actual gamers. There's ones for I think that's about it, but I

943
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:38,799
was going to try and come up with at least Well, there's there's gaming groups and there's individual gamers.

944
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:42,079
That's true. Yeah. So, whole teams. I mean, the thing about particularly the

945
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:46,000
whole team branded ones is I kind of look at those and I raise an eyebrow because there's no such thing as two

946
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:50,000
gamers. Even on the same team, they're going to be like, "Yeah, I want exactly like that one." You know what? And

947
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:55,200
another thing to actually along the lines of gamers who wear IM under their

948
01:06:52,319 --> 01:06:58,960
their sponsored headphones, um there are the rumors are abundant that Yonx, so if

949
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:04,240
you don't follow badminton, you might not have any idea what Yanx is, but that

950
01:07:00,799 --> 01:07:06,720
Yanx actually makes special rackets for

951
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:10,720
their sponsored players that have the the paint job of whatever the current

952
01:07:09,039 --> 01:07:15,319
high-end thing they're pushing is, but are actually the racket that that player

953
01:07:12,319 --> 01:07:15,319
likes.

954
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:21,119
That's pretty funny. It makes sense. So, it makes sense. You're not gonna you're

955
01:07:19,839 --> 01:07:25,359
not going to like your professional players that you sponsor by giving them something that they don't

956
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:29,359
like, even if it's a great product. There are great products that I just

957
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:33,119
don't like. So, it's perfect. And I'm not even going

958
01:07:31,359 --> 01:07:36,720
to be as picky as a pro gamer. The the one thing that kind of ticks me off all

959
01:07:34,799 --> 01:07:40,720
the time is stuff like this. Giving the formidable pro gamers at Evil Geniuses

960
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:45,839
the fastest, smoothest glide to get the last hit on enemies effectively. It's

961
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:47,680
like, shut up. The last hit on enemies

962
01:07:45,839 --> 01:07:50,799
effectively. Yeah. cuz the smoothest possible glab in your mouse pad is going

963
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:55,520
to give you an actual noticeable advantage over some dude with a

964
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:58,160
cardboard. No. Like come on. Your last

965
01:07:55,520 --> 01:08:04,400
hitting things in League like or Dota, whatever. Like geez. But you got to look

966
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:10,000
at who it's marketed to. I mean I really feel like there's this divide between

967
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:13,280
gamers and hardware enthusiasts where

968
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:14,640
gamers I I feel like get lied to a lot

969
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:18,480
and I feel like they're they're vulnerable to that. Yeah. Whereas

970
01:08:16,480 --> 01:08:22,000
hardware enthusiasts spend all their like this is what I used to do. I spent

971
01:08:19,839 --> 01:08:26,799
all my freaking time reading up about you know the bloody sensors in the mice

972
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:30,239
and the you know micro you know laser reflections on the various surfaces to

973
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:36,239
the point where I actually have no time for gaming. And that's really where I feel like there is there is room for

974
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:39,440
someone to bridge the gap there a little bit. Maybe we should probably try a

975
01:08:37,679 --> 01:08:43,359
little bit harder to do that where we take some of these products and try and

976
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:46,719
talk about sort of reading between the lines of the product marketing because

977
01:08:44,799 --> 01:08:50,719
quite frankly that mouse and that mouse pad probably provides an excellent

978
01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:56,080
gaming experience. I haven't used them yet, but I don't think there's going to

979
01:08:53,679 --> 01:09:00,880
be anything wrong with them. I can't find it, but someone in the chat can

980
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:02,880
probably um say the quote, but there's

981
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:08,880
one of the JDong is one of the guys on EG and he has a review of I think it was

982
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:12,560
their mouse mat and if someone No, I don't want to click on something during

983
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:17,040
the stream, but um and like the one guy's like, "Oh yeah, it makes my

984
01:09:14,159 --> 01:09:22,159
performance better and this gaming thing like stupid regurgitated crap." And then

985
01:09:20,159 --> 01:09:27,120
there's Jaydong's review and it's like, well, it wasn't as soft and supple as

986
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:31,279
10,000 fan girls, but I think it was acceptable. And I was like, yes, there

987
01:09:29,199 --> 01:09:34,239
you go. See, that's cool. And it was funny. And he's like, yeah, I'm

988
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:38,080
sponsored to say this, but here's something funny. Yeah. And then the

989
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:42,080
other dude's like, here's something actually realistic that

990
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:45,679
I don't mind saying. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Mark says, "I don't care

991
01:09:43,759 --> 01:09:49,679
where and if it's sponsored, I'll if I won't want to buy it, I'm going to try

992
01:09:47,199 --> 01:09:53,440
it. I don't care for them. Less stupid logos is better. It's funny you

993
01:09:51,359 --> 01:09:57,040
mentioned that because it's it's not like it's not going to have a logo on

994
01:09:55,440 --> 01:10:00,239
it. It just might have an Evil Genius logo instead of a Razor logo. Just food

995
01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:03,920
for thought. I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily. Usually they're not

996
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:06,880
that good and just cost more for the sake of costing more. Um a lot of the

997
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:11,840
times they're rebrands of other products. So it's it's whether or not you think that product's good. Although

998
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:16,080
sometimes they do like add in five or 10 bucks because I was talking to a

999
01:10:14,480 --> 01:10:21,120
manufacturer about potentially doing a co-branded line of tech tips product and

1000
01:10:18,239 --> 01:10:26,880
they figured by the time there's you know packaging and uh color changes and

1001
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:31,520
whatever whatever whatever if I even said I wanted a dollar commission on

1002
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:35,040
each one that would add about $4 to the end user

1003
01:10:32,679 --> 01:10:38,800
price because the retailer is going to want additional markup there blah blah

1004
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:44,320
blah this and that. And I was like, "Oh, all right then. That's good to

1005
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:47,120
know." Sponsorship related products are useful sometimes for different color

1006
01:10:45,679 --> 01:10:50,080
schemes. However, don't like the price premium. I think sponsor branded

1007
01:10:48,719 --> 01:10:53,920
peripherals are cool. I like them, but they're pointless. Buy what you want.

1008
01:10:52,320 --> 01:10:58,960
And that's where I stand. Companies can't sell their product with actual quality. I'm not going to buy it. That's

1009
01:10:56,560 --> 01:11:03,199
interesting. So, you prefer a company to focus on their own brand and sell it

1010
01:11:01,679 --> 01:11:09,040
that. But, but a lot of times they do because it's just the like that 7H. It's

1011
01:11:06,480 --> 01:11:12,960
a 7H. It's just the fanatic edition which has yellow accents. It's still a

1012
01:11:10,719 --> 01:11:17,600
7H though. Yeah, but they're selling you a 7H. Yes, you're buying a different

1013
01:11:15,199 --> 01:11:21,040
version which is like colorized. So, they're still selling you the quality of

1014
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:25,040
the brand. Lots of love for the idea of better color schemes and supporting your

1015
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:29,679
favorite teams. Someone says, "Please lick Slick's ear for me, not on

1016
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:33,040
camera. I buy keyboards for feel and look. Looks good and goes to a team I

1017
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:36,480
like, then that's great. I have the Fanatic 7H, but I hate Fanatic." All

1018
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:39,600
right, then. But the color scheme on that headset is outstanding, isn't it,

1019
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:43,120
Tyler? I think it's a good way to support your favorite teams, even

1020
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:45,920
though, okay, Matio feels that the quality isn't as good as other products.

1021
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:51,120
And that is an interesting point because it's going to be difficult with again

1022
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:53,920
that that cost adder that a sponsorship

1023
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:58,480
adds to the spending more. Yeah. So, so it's going to be hard to take a top tier

1024
01:11:55,600 --> 01:12:01,920
product like a $160 keyboard and then work in a reasonable amount of the

1025
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:05,360
margin to give to the esports team and have it not become a $200 keyboard all

1026
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:08,560
of a sudden. And then it's like, okay, well, now who's going to buy it? But

1027
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:13,360
then at the same time, like, okay, if if I was going out and buying a if I was

1028
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:19,360
buying, say, a keyboard and I knew exactly what keyboard I wanted and there

1029
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:21,840
was a 5 or $10 more variant that had say

1030
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:25,840
um EG on it and it was colorized like that, I'd probably go for it. One, I

1031
01:12:24,159 --> 01:12:30,640
like Team EG. We have over 6,000 viewers. I think that's a new record. That is actually really cool. One, I

1032
01:12:28,719 --> 01:12:35,199
really like Team EG. I like a lot of the guys on the team. In Control is really

1033
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:36,719
cool. Um, Jaydong's really cool. Huck's

1034
01:12:35,199 --> 01:12:41,040
really cool. Like I I like a lot of the guys on the team and it looked so cool.

1035
01:12:38,719 --> 01:12:45,120
Yep. I would play I would pay enough for just the recolorization in itself. So,

1036
01:12:43,199 --> 01:12:48,080
Christian says, "The way I see it, if a big notorious company like Audio

1037
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:52,719
Technica started sponsoring themselves, then I'd be more skeptical." I'm afraid

1038
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:56,080
I don't quite understand. Uh, John Port says he bought an OCZ Fatality Series

1039
01:12:54,960 --> 01:13:02,000
power supply, but I think it's the same as the original except with a sticker. Yes. And a red LED light. That's the

1040
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:04,480
point, though. Yeah. Yeah. The red LED is cool. Doesn't it also come with

1041
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:08,239
sleeving? Does a normal one? That's the Fatality 1000. Only the 1000 does

1042
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:13,679
individual sleeving. That was the first one to do individual sleeving. Speaking of OCZ going out of business, I always

1043
01:13:12,159 --> 01:13:20,800
thought pro gamers wearing earphones under their headset was purely for isolation. Um, you can get headphones

1044
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:22,800
that isolate pretty well.

1045
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:27,920
That's a thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's like Bose Quiet Comfort 35. Hey, Brandon,

1046
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:33,280
what? Those are really good. What headphones do you have?

1047
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:36,640
QC15s rather. Sorry. Like you put them on and you're just like, "Oh, where'd

1048
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:39,679
everybody go?" Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I'll like yell at him from the door and

1049
01:13:38,239 --> 01:13:44,159
he can't hear me. Well, that's probably him just ignoring you. No, he doesn't

1050
01:13:41,679 --> 01:13:48,600
ignore me. He ignores me. I don't mind that. I Hey, all the Every Fanatic

1051
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:52,880
Edition 7 Oh, I think that's the same guy. I thought everyone who owned a 7H

1052
01:13:51,199 --> 01:13:56,000
fanatic in the world was watching our stream. Hey, I like Fanatic, too.

1053
01:13:54,640 --> 01:14:00,400
They're really cool. Yeah, Tiger Woods use Counter Strike for the win. I don't mind them personally, but I won't buy

1054
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:04,800
them at full price. Actually, that's funny you should mention that because Logitech always clears out the Modern

1055
01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:10,159
Warfare branded peripherals for super cheap. You could get G9Xs for like 29

1056
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:13,760
bucks if they're Modern Warfare. Great mouse. I wish I bought like a half a

1057
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:17,920
dozen of them. You can uh wrap them, too. Vinyl wrap them. I've seen people

1058
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:21,120
vinyl wrap G9Xs. Looks really cool. Awesome. So, if you like don't like

1059
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:25,120
Modern Warfare, you can still buy a cheap Modern Warfare peripheral and then vinyl wrap it and it's it's fine. All

1060
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:31,440
right, I'm going to let you take this one. Star Citizen cracks 32 million is

1061
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:35,199
the uh so is the name of the thread and

1062
01:14:31,440 --> 01:14:38,480
then it was $31 million the day before

1063
01:14:35,199 --> 01:14:40,080
and the original poster a skew is saying

1064
01:14:38,480 --> 01:14:44,960
I don't understand why this game has raised so much cash it's ship reselling

1065
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:48,480
it it's ship reselling 100% so for so for a while there and why this burst

1066
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:52,400
happened I I'll get into why the burst happened because if you look at the

1067
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:56,640
trending it's already trending down um in a second but why they're actually

1068
01:14:54,480 --> 01:15:00,960
making so money is they're selling large components in the game already. And the

1069
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:05,120
problem I have with this is that we cannot fly in the game yet. We cannot

1070
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:08,080
feel flight mechanics in any way of all these different ships. Yet, they're

1071
01:15:06,239 --> 01:15:11,920
selling tons of them and they're hyping it like crazy. And one thing that bugs

1072
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:15,199
me, too, is they're hitting milestones and these multi-million dollar

1073
01:15:13,679 --> 01:15:19,840
milestones are like, "Look, more ships that you can buy right now." So, they're

1074
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:23,440
getting more money, which is kind of bugging me. And they shut down the LTI

1075
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:27,440
system, which is lifetime insurance system, which a lot of the Kickstarter

1076
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:30,560
backers got. And I think if you backed early enough after the Kickstarter

1077
01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:35,679
thing, I think you might have been able to get it, too. I'm not sure. Probably explain what lifetime insurance is.

1078
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:39,600
Lifetime Well, you can't lose your ship. You can't lose the hull. Yeah, you can

1079
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:42,800
lose like the weapons and cargo and whatnot. Yeah, but you can't lose the

1080
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:45,840
hull, so you can like fix it back up again, which is really nice. So, they

1081
01:15:44,480 --> 01:15:49,600
got rid of that, but they got rid of that before you're able to fly the ships

1082
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:52,239
yet. Yeah, you're not able to fly the ships or try them out yet, which I'm

1083
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:58,640
okay with. I don't want everyone having insurance. I want there to be like when I'm like one of the Kickstarter back get

1084
01:15:56,159 --> 01:16:02,880
it anymore. You can't buy in to be able to have it anymore. But um but no,

1085
01:16:01,199 --> 01:16:08,400
that's been like that for a while. Old accounts have been able to buy ships that have If people want to like if

1086
01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:13,040
people want to, you know, buy a bunch of ships or whatever and I can blow them up

1087
01:16:10,480 --> 01:16:16,159
later, then whatever. But then they'll be on LTI, so it doesn't really matter.

1088
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:21,040
No, no, the ones that are buying now won't. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's that's what my point is though. That is why

1089
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:25,199
there was the surge. They took it away. So, right before they took it away,

1090
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:28,719
everyone went but buy all the stuff. So, there was this like oh my god milestone.

1091
01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:32,000
Oh my god, another milestone immediately afterwards because of that. I'm still

1092
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:36,080
excited about the game. Me, too. Although we're getting pretty close to

1093
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:41,920
we should have uh combat soon and we'll see if it I wish I wish they dropped LTI

1094
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:45,120
like even a week after dog fighting because I've been I poured a little bit

1095
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:48,640
of money in and I've been really careful since then because it's always like

1096
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:54,800
there's such a draw like oh my god that ship looks so cool and there's all this cool stuff but then it's like my ship

1097
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:58,000
might already be good enough for me once I make some modifications to it and

1098
01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:02,640
since I'm just going to be parking it in the back of Linus' ship anyway while we

1099
01:17:00,239 --> 01:17:07,760
fly around together, you know, exploring the universe.

1100
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:11,440
Yeah, basically. So, like I I just It's going to be awesome. Uh I I wish I could

1101
01:17:09,440 --> 01:17:16,239
fly the ship. Yeah, that's it. I'm I'm really waiting for dog fighting. I think

1102
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:21,679
Star C is still like 32 million sounds like a lot. GTA 5 cost what? Like $500

1103
01:17:19,199 --> 01:17:28,560
million to make. I don't I think it was 50 or not 500.

1104
01:17:24,159 --> 01:17:30,400
50. GTA 5 budget. Maybe it was 500. Hold

1105
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:35,360
on. Budget. Budget. Budget. biggest budget ever, etc., etc., etc. Someone

1106
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:41,040
says cost more than an American city. Here we go. Uh, 265 million. Okay. So,

1107
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:44,960
yeah, GTA V cost 265 million. They have 32. Yeah. And this game is supposed to

1108
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:48,159
be way bigger in scale. So, so it's a lot of money, but it's still not an

1109
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:52,239
insane amount of money. So, when you consider when you consider other things.

1110
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:55,360
So, I'm a little bit worried, but I think dog fighting can either completely

1111
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:58,880
make or break it in. And Chris seems like a cool guy. Well, he's so

1112
01:17:57,120 --> 01:18:01,920
dedicated. Yeah, that's why I'm not that worried. I had the opportunity to meet

1113
01:18:00,239 --> 01:18:07,120
him personally, which is kind of cool because mo Yeah, I know.

1114
01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:11,600
Because most uh most Kickstarter projects you find just like it's a it's

1115
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:14,719
a guess. You don't know the integrity of the person that you're like I'm pretty

1116
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:19,360
sure Star is going to be fine, but I'm still I'm still kind of staying away from it a little bit until I can fly

1117
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:25,199
around and then I know that the second I can fly around and it's awesome, I'm going to be like, "Oh my god, I'm so

1118
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:28,239
excited. I'm so stoked." But I've just I've been trying to stay away from it a

1119
01:18:26,719 --> 01:18:33,040
little Speaking of Kickstarter and flying around, oh, brilliant segueing.

1120
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:37,600
MGS Star posted on the forum this amazing video about a Kickstarter

1121
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:42,159
campaign that I had to fund. Look at this thing. It is a smartphone

1122
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:46,080
controlled paper airplane. So, it's a battery and propeller that goes onto the

1123
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:49,679
back of a paper airplane that allows you to fly it around with a Bluetooth smart

1124
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:54,640
enabled smartphone or tablet. So, right now, or actually not right now because

1125
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:57,199
they have they have busted the Android

1126
01:18:54,640 --> 01:19:00,400
uh stretch goal. So, at the beginning it was iPhone only, but I just kind of went

1127
01:18:59,199 --> 01:19:05,760
for it. I was like, "Yeah, whatever. This is going to destroy the stretch target." So, I'll be I'll be flying this

1128
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:08,800
around on my Android phone, no problem. But, we just got an iPad Mini anyway.

1129
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:13,199
So, you'll be able to fly it or we'll be able to fly it and try it out. But, uh I

1130
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:16,719
hope they show it a little bit uh later. Uh on the Kickstarter page, it shows it.

1131
01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:20,719
No, they they show it later in the video, I think. Hold on. We'll just we'll let it keep flying. But, it goes

1132
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:25,040
for about 10 minutes apparently, and they're going to be shipping them, I think, in March or April next year. It's

1133
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:28,400
not that expensive when you consider what an RC aircraft costs. It's just a

1134
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:32,960
30. Like, it's really not that bad. And there's not much to break about it, which is really cool. So, the propeller

1135
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:36,560
is actually at the back of the plane, which means that if you go down nose

1136
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:41,520
first into something, it's a lot less likely to cause serious problems for

1137
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:45,520
you. Although, it's not crash proof. No. As they claim Oh, look at it go. So

1138
01:19:44,239 --> 01:19:52,480
awesome. It's cool how he slows it down when it comes close and he just takes off. I know. I love it. So the original

1139
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:54,800
article was from uh Tech PowerUp or Tweet Town rather. Tweet Town. Tweet

1140
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:59,920
Town. Got to make sure we give credit where credit's due. So there it is. So you guys can see there's the uh the

1141
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:03,679
receiver. So the transmitter will obviously be your phone or tablet. Here

1142
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:08,719
are the electronics. And then there's just a simple

1143
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:14,640
um piece, whatever this is called that goes back to a motor and a rudder and a

1144
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:18,760
propeller. Looks pretty simple. Looks balling. I

1145
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:24,719
love it. 4,400 backers with 56 days to go. It

1146
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:31,440
just went up. Amazing. I love how they like crushed their goal. I I I backed

1147
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:32,560
that so fast. I I actually had no idea

1148
01:20:31,440 --> 01:20:36,719
you backed it. That's kind of cool. Yeah. As soon as I saw it, I was like, "Oh, yeah." Well, I know. I'm pretty

1149
01:20:34,719 --> 01:20:41,679
stoked to try. I love RC crap. Yeah, I know. So, cheap RC crap that's difficult

1150
01:20:39,199 --> 01:20:43,920
to break. It's cool because a lot of the times what's going to get damaged is

1151
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:48,320
like the wings and stuff. It's like, dude, it's a paper airplane. Let's make

1152
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:51,520
another one. Exactly. Who cares? It's like you show up at the park with like a

1153
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:58,640
bunch of spare batteries and like a bunch of paper. No way. Oh, come on. I

1154
01:20:55,199 --> 01:21:00,239
don't know if that really counts.

1155
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:05,199
They could have been. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Okay, so guys, Black Friday

1156
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:09,360
deals are cool, but it's not worth people dying over or getting hurt. So,

1157
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:15,120
there's actually a site called Black Friday Death Count, and uh it's actually

1158
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:20,320
it's being updated for for Black Friday right now, and it seems to be getting

1159
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:23,440
worse. Yeah. So, they record all of the injuries and deaths. So, there was that

1160
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:29,440
I actually remember the Toys R Us shooting. I remember hearing about that back in 2008. Um Target shoppers step

1161
01:21:27,440 --> 01:21:34,719
over Walter Vance as he collapses and dies. I remember that. 20 people injured

1162
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:39,360
in I think it was um no no it was 10 people injured in a stampede back or

1163
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:42,880
four people rather 10 10 in the so I remember this one too that was back

1164
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:47,120
before we really had Black Friday in Canada I was like what what's a black

1165
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:51,280
Friday it's like I thought it meant that people died

1166
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:54,480
it wasn't until I worked for a retailer that I that I understood that it's

1167
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:57,840
supposed to be the first day of the year that retailers are in the black not in

1168
01:21:56,320 --> 01:22:00,520
the red in terms of profitability which it isn't because everyone loses money on

1169
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:04,400
Black Friday. All right, so injuries and

1170
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:10,159
deaths this year looks like the longest list yet. So someone shot carrying a TV

1171
01:22:07,199 --> 01:22:15,400
home from Target. There's a brawl sends one police officer to hospital. Virginia

1172
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:17,920
man stabbed over a parking

1173
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:20,880
space and you can see the links. So apparently there's been a death now. A

1174
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:25,840
teen returning home from Black Friday shopping falls asleep at the wheel is killed in the wreck. That one I think

1175
01:22:24,159 --> 01:22:30,480
you could debate whether that's it's a little bit. Yeah, I I would if if he

1176
01:22:28,239 --> 01:22:36,000
camped out like crazy or something. I kind of get it. But like

1177
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:41,120
Yeah, just buy things online. Hey, like please just go buy things online. Yeah.

1178
01:22:38,239 --> 01:22:46,080
I mean, okay, you saved $40 or even if you saved

1179
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:47,360
$400, is it really worth it? But

1180
01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:50,320
comparing to online, you're probably not going to save $400. That's true. A lot

1181
01:22:49,199 --> 01:22:55,679
of people have like straight up equivalent Black Friday sales. a lot of great deals online. Like check out

1182
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:59,280
Amazon. There's some really good sales, you know. I didn't find anything that

1183
01:22:56,880 --> 01:23:03,199
appealing. I saw the um I saw the Audio Technica M50s. Yeah, those were at

1184
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:08,400
$99.99, I think. Uh Brandon, did you buy those M50? Sold out. They sold out. Did

1185
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:13,120
you buy those M50s? Yeah. Yeah, Brandon got them. I think they sold out. Ran out

1186
01:23:10,719 --> 01:23:17,080
of stock. I was thinking about it, but um Have you seen Have you heard of um uh

1187
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:24,239
what is it called? Uh Outlet Amazon. No. If you

1188
01:23:21,520 --> 01:23:30,400
Google Amazon outlets, uh, let me see if I can find it real quick. Amazon

1189
01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:32,719
outlets. And be sure to use our

1190
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:36,320
affiliate code. Yeah. Linus TechTips-20. So, yeah, if you Google Amazon outlets,

1191
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:40,560
there's an outlet on Amazon where they're kind of getting rid of stuff and

1192
01:23:38,480 --> 01:23:43,840
they have crazy sales all the time. Really? I haven't even heard of this

1193
01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:49,199
before. Yeah. Well, you go. Apparently, it's a thing. So, there's like men's

1194
01:23:45,679 --> 01:23:52,400
cuff links, for example.

1195
01:23:49,199 --> 01:23:56,480
Yeah. So it's like H. All righty then.

1196
01:23:52,400 --> 01:24:01,280
So moving on to our next topic. Dell is

1197
01:23:56,480 --> 01:24:04,960
teasing. I know. I know. Dell is teasing

1198
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:06,400
a 4K 24 in monitor. Now you and I have

1199
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:11,520
had this conversation before. How do you feel about the 24 in size? What? Like

1200
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:17,120
why why the hell do we not have 2560 by440 or 2560

1201
01:24:14,199 --> 01:24:21,920
x600? Why the hell do we not have that? Because like I went out and I love 24

1202
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:28,400
in. 24 in is like bam, I'm there with 16x10 24 in like yes like it. But it's

1203
01:24:26,239 --> 01:24:32,239
always been like the best I could get was 1920 x 1200 because it's like yeah

1204
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:39,360
there's there's no higher resolution that size. Oh wow. I didn't even know it

1205
01:24:34,719 --> 01:24:41,440
was wide gamut. Yeah. 99% Adobe RGB

1206
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:46,560
coverage. Check my notes, bro. That's like that's equivalent to Okay, so

1207
01:24:43,840 --> 01:24:51,760
that's equivalent in terms of RGB coverage to they're advertising a claim

1208
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:58,159
delta E of less than two. So this is basically with 1 billion colors. Yeah.

1209
01:24:54,560 --> 01:25:00,719
So this is a 10- bit panel. Yeah. Holy

1210
01:24:58,159 --> 01:25:06,480
crap. Read my notes, dude. Oh, three-year

1211
01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:11,120
warranty. You can get a premium pixel guarantee. Details are unknown for this

1212
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:15,440
resolution screen, but if it's like the 32 inch of the same res, it'll be a zero

1213
01:25:13,440 --> 01:25:20,920
bright pixel guarantee. Yeah, it's on there. No, it's it's they have one. Holy

1214
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:28,480
crap. You know, Dell used to be

1215
01:25:24,440 --> 01:25:30,800
such a driver of the LCD industry.

1216
01:25:28,480 --> 01:25:34,719
Remember when Dell was, you know, Dell and Apple were the only ones that had

1217
01:25:32,480 --> 01:25:40,080
the coahones to release a 30-inch monitor? Dell was the only one driving

1218
01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:45,040
things. The 2405 FPW is legendary because it was a great monitor and at a

1219
01:25:42,480 --> 01:25:47,920
fair price. Yeah. No pricing yet. No pricing yet for this one on their

1220
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:52,239
website officially. I I looked elsewhere. I I did all I did everything

1221
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:56,000
I could. No pricing. Well, basically I felt like they were asleep at the wheel

1222
01:25:54,239 --> 01:25:58,719
for the last few years. It's like, yeah, here's kind of that one we did and it's

1223
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:04,159
like kind of different, but like whatever. We made the ID slightly uglier

1224
01:26:01,199 --> 01:26:08,880
looking. Um, sorry about that. But, you know, here's some QC issues with

1225
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:14,080
revision A1 or A2 or B2 or whatever. Um, this is an opportunity that has been

1226
01:26:11,440 --> 01:26:20,159
waiting for someone to grab it by the horns and place a bloody order for

1227
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:23,679
panels. Commit and bring it to market and we will show you how much we want

1228
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:28,960
it. I am really excited about this because it's one thing to talk about

1229
01:26:25,679 --> 01:26:31,280
stupid things like that 50-in or 55 in

1230
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:35,199
4K TV. You know what? Who cares? It's 30 Hz input and on top of that, the image

1231
01:26:33,679 --> 01:26:39,120
quality, the contrast ratio is apparently terrible. Like just terrible.

1232
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:45,360
You might as well buy a 1080p. And isn't it like 30 Hz? Yeah. Yeah. 30 Hz only

1233
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:47,679
because it's HDMI in who cares. So this

1234
01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:54,239
on the other hand, yeah, it's it's made by Dell, so I

1235
01:26:50,159 --> 01:26:55,520
inherently trust it. Yep. Oh, I've I've

1236
01:26:54,239 --> 01:27:00,000
never had a Dell monitor that I've been like, "Oh, wow. That was built poorly."

1237
01:26:57,440 --> 01:27:04,000
My wife's still using our 2405 FTW. I was sitting with you the other day when

1238
01:27:01,679 --> 01:27:08,960
we found the buy, sell, trade thread that I bought by 2405 FPW off of. I left

1239
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:13,600
the guy feedback in his thread on Red Flag deals. That was what, 2006? I

1240
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:19,360
thought it was five somewhere around there. Yeah, whatever. Anyway, um so I I

1241
01:27:17,440 --> 01:27:22,719
so I was like, "Oh, wow. That monitor's still working. It's still on my wife's

1242
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:27,280
desk." Like eight years later, it's starting to fade. I have I have LG

1243
01:27:25,199 --> 01:27:32,719
monitors that have been lasting like I have an LG monitor that got booted in

1244
01:27:30,159 --> 01:27:37,280
the screen really hard while someone was running through my house and it fell

1245
01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:40,560
flat on its back and like got nailed and there's just a little crack thing. The

1246
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:43,679
rest of the screen has lost no quality and it still works and it's like 10

1247
01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:48,480
years old or something. Did I tell you Rumble knocked over her 2405?

1248
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:52,800
He jumped on it and knocked it over flat onto the desk just the way he did with

1249
01:27:50,159 --> 01:27:57,040
my 30 in. I'll kill him. I'll kill him if he breaks. If he breaks my 279 Q,

1250
01:27:55,199 --> 01:28:02,000
I'll kill him. Mark my words. I think that's illegal. I'll skin him.

1251
01:28:00,159 --> 01:28:06,639
Wow. I was so mad. That's like not okay. You

1252
01:28:05,440 --> 01:28:12,880
should just lock him out of that room. I'm I'm I'm kidding. I know you're kidding. I mean, if I if I haven't

1253
01:28:10,239 --> 01:28:17,120
killed Rocket yet, I'm not going to kill He's been peeing on the couch again. Not

1254
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:22,239
just on the couch. All over the window and the blinds. And like, it is such a

1255
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:27,760
mess to clean up. My mom my mom tried to train my dog to like go to the washroom

1256
01:28:25,280 --> 01:28:31,679
inside on this like mat thing and that was a terrible idea. And it like kind of

1257
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:37,920
worked but then stopped working and then it was Yeah, it was a mess. She she got

1258
01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:39,000
it a diaper but it won't it won't go in

1259
01:28:37,920 --> 01:28:43,120
the diaper. So she puts the diaper on it

1260
01:28:41,199 --> 01:28:45,760
when it comes inside so it won't go and but then it'll like complain when it

1261
01:28:44,639 --> 01:28:50,560
needs to go. So my mom will take it off and put it outside and then it goes.

1262
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:55,040
So she can just use one all the time. It's fantastic. I love Chloe. That's

1263
01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:58,480
fantastic. I love Chloe. She's awesome. She's pretty awesome. She's awesome. We

1264
01:28:56,960 --> 01:29:03,520
should totally do a video about your dog.

1265
01:29:00,159 --> 01:29:06,080
Your dog's awesome. His mom is like a

1266
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:09,360
genius dog trainer. Like genius dog trainer. My dog can'ting. If you lean

1267
01:29:08,159 --> 01:29:14,719
forward, she'll come up and scratch your back. Yeah, I'll do that, too. Thank you. Thank you. That's fantastic. Uh she

1268
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:17,600
can play the drums on Tupperware. She can put herself in Tupperware. If you

1269
01:29:16,159 --> 01:29:20,239
drop money, she'll grab it and take it to his mom.

1270
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:26,400
I think my favorite though is when you're like she falls over and she's

1271
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:29,120
like and even if I do it like she doesn't

1272
01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:34,480
even have to listen to me. I don't have any treats or anything. Yeah. All right. So, moving on to our next topic. And

1273
01:29:32,239 --> 01:29:39,120
she's a Chihuahua. The US government caught pirating military software. It's

1274
01:29:37,360 --> 01:29:43,280
like who else were they going to sell it to if not you? Do you realize what

1275
01:29:41,199 --> 01:29:46,400
you're doing? Well, they didn't catch them because of

1276
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:49,440
like too many installs. They caught them because they just like talked about how

1277
01:29:48,320 --> 01:29:57,639
many they had installed and they were like, "Wait, what?" They're like, "Yeah." Like, "But you only but you only

1278
01:29:53,639 --> 01:29:59,159
bought. That's not a thing."

1279
01:29:57,639 --> 01:30:06,239
So they So they pirated around

1280
01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:08,000
$250 million worth of software. They

1281
01:30:06,239 --> 01:30:13,199
were sued for the total amount and managed to settle at 50 million because

1282
01:30:10,320 --> 01:30:16,960
we're in the US military and we don't have any money because our government

1283
01:30:14,880 --> 01:30:20,159
shuts down. No, sorry. Sorry. I shouldn't be taking cracks at Americans.

1284
01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:23,040
I love you guys. Um I was more saying like they're just so big and powerful

1285
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:26,639
that they could probably just be like, "Yeah, this is how much we're paying you." Yeah. And if you don't like it,

1286
01:30:25,440 --> 01:30:31,440
then we'll never buy anything from you again and you won't exist because we're the US military. And that was the thing

1287
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:36,320
like the a statement came up from the guys that made the software and they're like, "Yep, yep, yep. No, we're still

1288
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:41,360
working with them in the future. So they they purchased licenses for five

1289
01:30:38,719 --> 01:30:46,800
servers and 150 standalone devices. They ended up installing it on 93 servers and

1290
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:53,440
over 9,000 standalone devices. Over 9,000.

1291
01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:55,360
Just insane. I absolutely insane.

1292
01:30:53,440 --> 01:30:59,520
Completely offthe-wall. I love it. And it's like, you know, the funny thing is

1293
01:30:57,040 --> 01:31:02,960
the RAIAA and the MPAA are going to run around trying to put people in jail for

1294
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:08,960
pirate. Like who goes to jail for this? No one. Yeah. No. So,

1295
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:13,600
and I love how sometimes you get sued for this and you get sued for like way

1296
01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:18,080
more than percentage of worth. No, no, no, no, no. We'll settle for one. Yeah,

1297
01:31:15,679 --> 01:31:22,480
it's okay. Don't worry about it. It's like it's not right. Okay. So, instead

1298
01:31:20,239 --> 01:31:28,880
of us buying uh how many licenses of Creative Cloud do we have? Three, right?

1299
01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:30,560
Brandon, Edel, and then you. So, instead

1300
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:34,320
of buying three licenses, we should just buy one. And then if Adobe sues us for

1301
01:31:32,639 --> 01:31:38,719
like pirating the rest of our stuff, think, oh, we'll just pay you for one. Yeah, we'll just don't worry about it.

1302
01:31:36,719 --> 01:31:42,080
We paid you for one, so that one fifth, right? That's Yeah, we're paying a

1303
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:49,520
little bit over one. Don't worry about it. Yeah, don't worry about it. It's all good. We got this. You know, be cool.

1304
01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:54,080
So, speaking of being cool, this is ridiculous. Um, the city of Vancouver,

1305
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:58,000
that's where we live proudly. Oh, amazing. Van's doorork knobs, which I

1306
01:31:56,239 --> 01:32:02,080
thought was a joke. Like I really did think it was a honestly this this was I

1307
01:32:00,480 --> 01:32:06,400
can't say this on the air but I accidentally scrolled through it. Um so

1308
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:11,920
the city of Vancouver has amended its building code to outlaw the use of those

1309
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:18,159
wrist twisting devices in all new construction including private homes.

1310
01:32:14,639 --> 01:32:20,400
Door knobs had already been uh a non a

1311
01:32:18,159 --> 01:32:24,480
non thing in large buildings but the new ruling effective in March will affect

1312
01:32:22,239 --> 01:32:28,560
private homes and large buildings. Uh, however, it will not affect existing

1313
01:32:26,639 --> 01:32:35,040
homes. So, it looks like I will not have to retrofit my house to remove doorork

1314
01:32:31,800 --> 01:32:36,880
knobs. Why do we really? And this is

1315
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:42,800
from the star the star.com. I kind of get it for public buildings. I don't

1316
01:32:39,679 --> 01:32:46,159
really understand banning it for private

1317
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:47,840
housing. I mean, I and the funny thing

1318
01:32:46,159 --> 01:32:52,560
is like people praising it like there's a quote from a professor professor

1319
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:59,440
specializing in universal design. That's very progressive of Vancouver. Levers

1320
01:32:55,040 --> 01:33:01,440
make access easier. Levers. I'm sorry.

1321
01:32:59,440 --> 01:33:05,120
No, never mind. Yeah, levers. So, so I mean, we're not banning having things on

1322
01:33:03,199 --> 01:33:10,960
doors. Like, levers are still okay. And I will say that yes, I do indeed think

1323
01:33:07,840 --> 01:33:13,280
that levers are easier to use. However,

1324
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:18,080
why ban them? It just seems excessive. I I do get it

1325
01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:22,000
for public buildings. Yeah, okay. I get that accessibility, what not? What? But

1326
01:33:20,239 --> 01:33:26,480
like if someone's like, "I really want to have doorork knobs on my own house,"

1327
01:33:25,199 --> 01:33:32,400
they should be able to probably put doorork knobs. So yeah, I just I just

1328
01:33:30,159 --> 01:33:35,679
you Why are we wasting energy on this? The doororknob. Okay, so there's people

1329
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:39,120
saying, "I say good riddance. It never functioned well," explains Jerry. I

1330
01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:43,040
don't view it as a good piece of design. Okay. And then someone else is like,

1331
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:45,920
"Uh, blah blah blah. I I have a strong feeling about the hardware. Doorork

1332
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:52,159
knobs are lovely. They're the jewelry of the door." Like, you know what? everyone

1333
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:54,400
just it doesn't matter so much that the

1334
01:33:52,159 --> 01:33:58,320
the reason why I'm surprised by it and kind of like what the hell is why anyone

1335
01:33:56,560 --> 01:34:02,080
bothered to do anything about it. I'm not necessarily that mad that it changed

1336
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:06,239
if I bought a new house and it's like oh there aren't doorork knobs. That's okay.

1337
01:34:04,639 --> 01:34:09,840
Probably my house doesn't have have doorork knobs. I had to think about it.

1338
01:34:08,080 --> 01:34:13,280
Oh, good point. I don't know if my parents does. There is one. The external

1339
01:34:11,199 --> 01:34:16,960
garage uses a doorork knob. Okay. So, I would have to I would have to not have

1340
01:34:14,639 --> 01:34:21,920
that there. Yes, we have at least one. Yes. I don't know if our front door does

1341
01:34:19,040 --> 01:34:26,960
at my parents house, but the garage door does, just like yours. Does it matter?

1342
01:34:24,639 --> 01:34:30,320
No. People freaking out over Google Glass again. Speaking of which, I just

1343
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:34,960
got mine. If you watched Net Daily today, then you'll have seen that. Have

1344
01:34:31,920 --> 01:34:37,280
you had anyone? No one's even noticed. I

1345
01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:42,159
went to a movie theater with them. Wow. Yeah, that's kind of No one gave any

1346
01:34:39,440 --> 01:34:45,679
cares. So, it was the same guy as last time,

1347
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:50,920
but he's banned it from his diner. He's asked people to remove the $1,500

1348
01:34:47,600 --> 01:34:54,000
headset or leave.

1349
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:56,320
Um, so it's the same guy. You remember

1350
01:34:54,000 --> 01:35:00,560
the like bar or whatever? The pub. The same owner owns this place. Yep. So like

1351
01:34:58,480 --> 01:35:04,840
it's not that surprising. I mean, okay. Blah blah blah. It's about how much the

1352
01:35:02,159 --> 01:35:09,840
guy freaked out is hilarious. Oh my god, if he doesn't want

1353
01:35:07,440 --> 01:35:13,520
to lose my continued revenue, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. It's like,

1354
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:16,960
settle down. Go somewhere else. Yeah, I think it's off. It's going to get more

1355
01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:20,000
interesting when prescription Google Glass is a thing. Um, you know, it's

1356
01:35:18,719 --> 01:35:26,560
like, "Yeah, I need you to take off your prescription glasses or you can't come in here." You can't see if I take them

1357
01:35:23,360 --> 01:35:28,360
off. Yeah, they're so uncomfortable.

1358
01:35:26,560 --> 01:35:32,960
They're like super uncomfortable. Detachable. That would be kind of cool.

1359
01:35:30,400 --> 01:35:38,800
But then maybe that would add um build quality problems. Yeah.

1360
01:35:36,480 --> 01:35:41,600
I don't know, man. Well, I think that's pretty much it for

1361
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:45,120
this week. Thank Oh, do you have uh build bugs? I do not. You do not build

1362
01:35:43,440 --> 01:35:48,880
bugs. Okay, thank you guys very much for watching the WAN Show today. Big thanks

1363
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:52,960
to our special guest, Kyle from New Egg TV. And thank you guys for watching. I

1364
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:57,040
think I already said that once. It's a good thing we're not keeping on going because we're going to have a repeat of

1365
01:35:55,280 --> 01:36:00,960
last week and I don't think anyone wants to see that. Peace out guys and we'll

1366
01:35:59,120 --> 01:36:04,719
see you again next week. If you tuned in late guys, we will have the archive up

1367
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:08,560
in a timely manner today because we didn't have any technical difficulties.

1368
01:36:06,400 --> 01:36:14,080
I I want to take a moment to explain why the archive takes so long to put up

1369
01:36:10,480 --> 01:36:16,400
sometimes. It has to do with um any

1370
01:36:14,080 --> 01:36:20,719
technical issues during the stream that cause us to have to take the footage and

1371
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:24,080
convert it from variable frame rate footage to non-variable frame rate

1372
01:36:22,480 --> 01:36:27,840
footage, then cut it back together, re-export it, then re-upload it in order

1373
01:36:26,239 --> 01:36:31,920
to not lose an enormous amount of quality in that process. We have to

1374
01:36:30,080 --> 01:36:36,159
output extremely large files. And because the show is so long, it's really

1375
01:36:34,159 --> 01:36:41,360
a timeconuming both for the export and for the upload. So by the time it's

1376
01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:46,400
actually up, it's like midday Saturday and we like have things to do. Yeah. And

1377
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:50,639
then I can't really make the time stamps below it because I'm out doing stuff or

1378
01:36:48,239 --> 01:36:53,840
whatever. It's just it becomes a massive but when it can go up right away then

1379
01:36:52,239 --> 01:36:56,719
we'll get it up right away. Thanks guys. Speaking of one thing before we leave,

1380
01:36:55,360 --> 01:37:00,159
actually speaking of the variable frame rate problem, a lot of people have been

1381
01:36:58,719 --> 01:37:06,480
talking about Shadow Play lately and been trying to use it and having problems editing videos like we did. Oh,

1382
01:37:04,159 --> 01:37:09,280
it's that. Is it variable frame rate recording? It's variable frame rate

1383
01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:14,480
recording. I think I've read a bunch of stuff on it and apparently one of the ways you can fix it is by converting it

1384
01:37:11,920 --> 01:37:17,520
in programs like Handbreak. Okay. But then I have people that have found that

1385
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:20,560
that's not really helping and stuff because if you pull Shadow Play, if you

1386
01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:26,560
watch Shadow Play footage in something like Windows Media Player, it's perfect. But then if you try to edit it in

1387
01:37:24,159 --> 01:37:31,760
something like Premiere, the audio and video become unaligned. If you watch my

1388
01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:33,280
Battlefield 4 graphics cards comparison,

1389
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:37,920
that's exactly what used to happen with Wancho. Yeah. If and if you watch the

1390
01:37:35,440 --> 01:37:41,440
Yeah, exactly. So, like I wonder if that's it. You know what, guys? Um, for

1391
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:45,440
anyone who's been struggling with this with Shadow Play, I'm gonna go ahead.

1392
01:37:43,360 --> 01:37:50,159
I'm gonna find out if there's a way to uh you know, maybe I'll just tweet this

1393
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:53,920
out, but I'll I'll tweet out the uh the video that I use as my guide every time,

1394
01:37:52,639 --> 01:37:57,840
embarrassingly enough. I can never remember how to do it, but I use as my

1395
01:37:55,920 --> 01:38:04,159
guide for how to how to fix that problem. It actually only takes um a

1396
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:08,560
couple minutes to reync things. So, I think it's in my favorite my favorite

1397
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:13,040
videos, but it's awesome. Here it is. It only has 10,000 views, which means not

1398
01:38:10,239 --> 01:38:16,880
enough people are watching it. Or here, actually, I can just show you guys what

1399
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:24,000
it's called. There. So, it's tutorial convert LV to MP4, no re-encode, and

1400
01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:25,760
fixed XSplit sync problems. So, guys,

1401
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:28,480
watch that. It's everything you need to know, and it's completely free. All

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01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:32,239
right, peace out guys. See you next week. Thanks, guys. See you.