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I'm going to do something you've never seen before and I'm going to start this

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video sponsored by MSI with all of the worst things about the MSI claw 8 AI

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plus they went and they took a great

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looking product seriously this thing looks outstanding and they went and they

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bolted AI on the product name that's it that's kind of all I got

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because on paper the claw 8 AI plus is a

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huge upgrade over the original MSI claw

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for starters look at that screen it's

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eight flipping Ines and those bezels man

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pretty small all right let's do a quick external tour here we got a whole lot of

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nothing on the bottom at the top that's right not one but two Thunderbolt four

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ports meaning that you could use this thing as a fully fledged PC with a

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Thunderbolt dock we've got our volume controls headphone jack power button

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with fingerprint sensor pretty nice feeling shoulder and

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triggers she is a little bit on the heavier side but I promise the heft

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comes with some benefits because inside this thing is equipped with Intel's new

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lunar L core Ultra 7258 V that means on

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top of having Intel's latest CPU architecture it uses their new ark battl

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Mage GPU which means that the claw has gone from clawing its way toward the

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competition to clawing the competition

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this thing looks absolutely flipping outstanding by the way I missed there's

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a Micro SD slot at the top on the back

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we've got a couple of paddle buttons as well as ample cooling intakes for the

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dual fan cooler nice contoured grip and

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on the front we've got a couple of what look like nearly full-size joysticks oh

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that feels like a much improved d-pad

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Xbox style face buttons and of course Xbox style buttons as well as a couple

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buttons that we'll figure out what they do once we get this thing fired up shall we while it's booting up let's take a

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look at what's in the box we've got not much there's a quick start guide and a

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65 W charger with integrated cable not my preferred style of charger but hey at

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least there's a charger in the Box oh this is fun okay sorry we will fire it

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up in a second but first I want to show you guys the easy access SSD upgrade

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slot I'm just going to open that up with my LTT Precision screw driver set LTD

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store.com that's right MSI you can sponsor the video but you can't make me

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stop including my own stuff while we're opening it up why don't we talk specs

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she's got 32 gigs of LP ddr5x memory

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running at a whopping 85 33 megat transfers per second which is really

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important for both the system responsiveness as well as GPU

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performance because when you've got an integrated graphics card of course it's

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going to be using your system memory as vram So the faster the

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better there she goes it is a 30 mm m.2

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so you're not going to be be able to put a full siiz one in there but it is easy

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to access and it's 1 Tab out of the box what else is in here we've got

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integrated y57 and Bluetooth 5.4 we've

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got their new intra flow thermal design which helps keep everything cool not

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just the CPU and integrated Arc GPU

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we've got a gigantic battery that's a big contributor to the

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795 G weight that thing is 80 wat hours

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and MSI claims that they can get over 20

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hours of battery life in endurance mode playing back video we didn't quite match

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that we ended up at around 17 hours but we tested it under different conditions

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and I got to say 17 hours is still a really impressive result oh that's still

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on uh especially when you consider that

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it Powers a larger screen than other similar devices of course you guys are

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far less concerned with how long you can watch videos on it you guys are more

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concerned with gaming and MSI claims up to 4 hours gaming on low settings and we

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got nearly 2 hours under a torture test

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worst case scenario so I actually find that to be quite believable now let's

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flip things over and have a look at the screen I already told you guys it's 8 in

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so it's obviously flipping huge but it's even bigger than you would think because

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it's 16 by10 aspect ratio 1920 x 1200 so

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that is a larger 8 in display than if it was 16x9 in fact it's 37% larger than

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the original claw it also Al hits up to 500 nits Peak brightness according to

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MSI and runs it up to 120 HZ with

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support for variable refresh rate that is a really nice display on a mobile

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gaming device they completely retooled their software so you can go in there

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and make adjustments to your power profile for instance you can here

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actually let's get let's get it fired up here you can change your controller scheme you can adjust your RGB we got

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this AI engine thing here which as far as we can tell tries to kind of adjust

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the system settings depending on what applications you're running in practice

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we actually find it's better to just set the TDP in screen brightness according

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to your preference but hey AI oh which actually reminds me I am contractually

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obligated to tell you guys that with a dock right like Thunderbolt connect to a

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monitor egpu doc whatever you want this

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could be one of the most affordable co-pilot plus PCS truly ready for the AI

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age oh man dude this is flipping wild so

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you can adjust your TTP you can adjust your fan speed obviously 8 watts is going to give you

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the longest battery life and 30 WTS is going to give you the most performance

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but this is wild at 17 Watts we found in

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almost every scenario everything other than rocket League the new claw 8 AI

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plus outperformed the original claw even

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when the original claw was at 35

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Watts had half the

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power yes that's what this kind of

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battle mage efficiency is going to do for you flipping exciting too bad Pat

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Ginger isn't here to see it rest in peace Pat he's actually alive but pray

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for him man this screen is big it's not

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the biggest screen on a portable gaming device but I think it's about as big as

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I would say is practical no I missed God

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I suck at this game I am like unbearably

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bad at this game one thing I can say for sure is that it's not msi's fault that I

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suck they've upgraded the holifa analogs to and triggers they've upgraded the lb

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and the RB buttons they have upgraded the d-pad which actually does feel a lot

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better now you're definitely going to enjoy best if you have bigger hands my

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tiny hands MSI thank you for putting

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these ribs down here so you can kind of rest your fingers anywhere you want so

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there's kind of a spot to put your small fies if you KN and a spot to put your

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bigger fies if you're someone else um

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but it's it's definitely a heftier device oh we haven't even tried the

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speakers

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yet almost no Distortion at full volume

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they don't have the highest level of clarity that I've ever seen but just by

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Merit of being forward- facing they sound pretty darn decent and they do

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shockingly well in the Lowe's MSI apparently upgraded the rubber for the

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speakers so make of that what you will now that's everything that I absolutely

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have to cover which means now I just get to play games let's fire up a class CL

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Shadow the Tomb Raider here we go man that's a big screen I didn't even notice

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when we were playing rocket League which

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means that cooling solution she's

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quiet not just that but this machine

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runs so much cooler than the last generation one we kind of couldn't

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believe it check out these numbers from the lab really impressive okay total

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power 24 Watts 23 Watts

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355 FPS now obviously you're like oh Shadow

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the Tomb Raider that's an old game 35 FPS yeah but my friends check this out

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it's cranked is that wild or

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what like seriously you guys if I turn this down to medium okay I turn this

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down to medium now I'm getting over 40

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FPS that is freaking crazy like yeah

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it's an older AAA game but this is like a real game you know there's no there's

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no Super Meat Boy and on a screen this size you really don't need to crank all

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the details you don't even need to crank the

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resolution like running this at a man 8

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in display 720p might be a little low but I bet you could get away with like

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900p all right I see super sampling as

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well sure yeah why not let's go quality

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the smaller the screen the less you're bound to notice something like super

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sampling not bad not bad this is wild man if you'd

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shown this to me like a few years ago

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I've been like nah isn't how quiet that is I'm running a AAA freaking game right

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now can you even hear that

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Andy as soon as you've got game audio on you are going to literally completely

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forget about

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it oh I haven't even mentioned there's another version there is a 7in version

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that's $100 cheaper has a smaller battery and obviously doesn't have the

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same screen it's 7 in and it's 1920 x

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1080 I think this is the more compelling version personally but I leave that up

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to you oo tape to tape let's go this is

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such a great device to play a game like this screen a tiny bit no I can't dim

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the screen I like it bright yes I'll dim the screen give me a sec here's a fun

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fact by the way while I turned down the brightness these quick settings are just

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part of the Xbox game bar see that so

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there's all kinds of other functions in here as well oh no they got us chasing

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oh here we go I'm on the Breakaway I'm on the Breakaway oh come on uh okay

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sorry I can turn down a bit there you good now that we're down to like 30%

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Andy yeah let's

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go man there's no way I need 17 Watts for this okay hold on a second oh yeah

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okay yeah I would like to see instead of

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having settings sort of change which

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settings are here um I'd like it to like

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open up a deeper settings menu or I mean realistically I don't even need that I

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just need to be able to switch between all the different ones here like i' I'd

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like to have like my just give me the tdps just give me the just tell me how

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many just tell me how many watts it is I think that's what I would probably

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prefer I mean maybe that's not the best for like a more mainstream user but

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your mileage may vary just my T my manual TDP modes in game that's what I'd

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like to be able to do just so that if I don't launch the right one before I'm in

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game I can just quickly change it after the fact oh man I got to spend less time

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trying to talk about this thing and I got to spend more time trying to win this game here where is everybody guys

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there's no line change just oh follow me

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up the ice see finally someone joins The Rush with

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me that's how we do it like any piece of

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gaming Hardware it's not going to make you a better gamer but I guess the

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endorsement that I can give it is the claw won't make you a worse gamer that's

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for sure this thing rocks uh while we

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wait for this to load I'd love to see MSI introduced a TDP option between 17

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watts and 30 Watts we found 17 Watts

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even in not the most demanding titles we saw the odd frame pacing issue it's

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probable that this can be addressed in drivers but it would just be nice to

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have an in between cuz 30

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Watts great in some cases just Overkill so I'd love to have like a 25 watt or

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like a 22 watt was my CPU at

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100% I mean yeah it kind of checks out

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GPU at 96% the really impressive thing is that

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it's still not loud can you hear it can

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you see how close I am to the mic like that is that's too close you're not

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supposed to measure noise from that distance but like I have to get it that

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closer you're not going to hear it at all so you throw on a little bit of music and you're vibing that's an

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advantage of building a bigger device so yeah you get a little bit more weight

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you get a little bit more heft but you also get more room to put fat Cooling in

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it and a fat battery there is one uncomfortable part of this conversation

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how much is a claw 8 AI well

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$900 thanks for watching ShortCircuit