Um, Lionus is setting up a video upload
right now. Hey, that one's good. Hey, we're in pretty good shape here. We got
our screen capture. We got our Twitter feed. We're one minute late. Come on,
man. Ah, what are you trying to do to us
here? Hold on. Some of the settings are wrong here. I just got to tweak the color. We're using a different camera
tonight. Hopefully that uh hopefully that works out pretty well for us in
general. How's that look? Looks pretty good. Looks better at least. See, it's
that versus that. That's like way better, right? I wonder if half the
problem was our settings in XSplit because that looks much more natural
probably. All right, so welcome to the show, guys. Um, as you probably know,
Oh, shoot. Oh, crap. This is on. Go
away. Go away. There it went away. Okay.
Uh, okay. You know what? Did you talk about the end of the world?
Um, we didn't really prepare anything for this topic, but Lisa thought we
should talk about the end of world. By the way, my voice is a little bit messed up because I'm pretty sick. I probably
won't be talking way too much this stream, but I will try for now.
Um, as most of you know, it was supposed
to have been said that the world ended uh today, I think. Yeah, midnight
tonight or something like that. Midnight tonight. I thought it was just today in general. Uh, I think it's midnight
tonight. I could be wrong. Okay, so it's supposed to be midnight tonight, but
then realistically it's happened a while ago because of like other places in the
world. Black screen. All right. Oh.
Oh, there we go. All right. Looks like
it's going well. Volume is a little low. People are complaining about the
volume. It's probably my voice. Oh, okay. Okay. Uh oh. Where's our remote
thing? You got it. Okay. So, the end of the
world. Stupidest thing I ever heard. Discuss. I agree. So, this is not going
to be that interesting of a discussion. But there's multiple things like other
places on the planet being at different time zones and um the fact that leap
years exist, which kind of made it bull crap. Anyways, no, but I thought that
the leap year compensation I thought this is the one that factors in the leap
year compensation. Mayan calendar. They didn't have leap years then, right? But
I thought the world was supposed to end a while ago and then they were like,
"Oh, but wait, I don't think so." I mean, the thing is that it's not real
scientists that are not at all that are predicting this kind of thing. Yeah. I
like um Neil Degrasse Tyson. Have you ever heard of him? Him? I've heard I've
heard him. Yeah. Yeah. He sent out a tweet and he was like, "Don't worry guys, if the world was going to end, I
would tell you how and I would tell you when." Excellent. I was like, "Yes,
yes. That is terrific. I'm just going to
move this so that I can actually see the screen. Sorry guys, we uh we had to tear
apart the studio a little bit last weekend and then we're going to have to
sort of tear it apart again this weekend. And uh yeah, things have gotten
pretty real over the last little bit for Linus Tech Tips. I'm actually working on
my computer again, which is pretty nice. I would show you guys the progress, but
one second. Oh, no, no, it's okay. It's okay. Yeah, I see it. No, no, it's okay.
I'm not going to move it anymore. We're good. We're good. It's all good.
Um, so something something, right? I can't show it to you because I have
actually packed it up and I have put it
in a box and I'm shipping it out Monday for the powder coating. And uh, so so
basically I figure um, if nothing else,
I will have at least made progress on my computer before the world ends. So, I'd
love to take some tweets on um you know, what you guys are are doing tonight in
preparation for the end of the world. So, here we're gonna we're going to
throw Twitter up here and we're going to have a look at what people what people
have to say about this. Wouldn't the end of the world as
predicted by the Mayans have to be in their time zone? Um, presumably yes. I
don't know. Did the Mayans have the whole time zone concept down? I really
really don't think so. But they did know things like, you know, Then it would
have been like a like the sun coming up. So it would still be time zone. So he
does have a point although it's not exactly a time zone. Okay. Presumably
yes then. Okay. So so presumably yes. I
mean we're talking about very pseudocience at this point. Whole end of
the world nonsense anyway. But Tom says why is shipping to Australia so
expensive? Um because fuel costs a lot
of money. And the thing about Australia
is that um shipping is by
air and it's a long flight and fuel is
expensive. I mean the exceptions are are places like China and Hong Kong where
they for whatever reason have like the cheapest post. I mean you know that deal
extreme ships everything out of Asia, right? And you can buy stuff for like $2
that has free shipping. And I'm just kind of looking at this going what? Well, if you look into a lot of it, like
a lot of like someone was recommending that I get an aluminum backing for my S3
and I can get one off eBay and it's like three bucks and then postage is like 50
cents or a dollar or something, but they send it to you labeled as a gift. Yeah,
but even that doesn't make a difference because the postage still costs the same
for that item regardless. The only thing they're saving you money on is the
import and duties, right? So, no, they
actually are legit paying 50 cents or a dollar for shipping. So,
I don't quite understand how any of that works because the reality of it is the
prices of of like fossil fuels are dictated by forces that go beyond like
cheap labor. Yeah. Yeah. So, I Yeah, I don't quite get that. I don't know why
it's cheap in some places, but I do understand why it's expensive is what
I'm trying to say. I just built a new computer for my brother. He plays League
on the highest settings. It crashes after about 30 minutes. Any tips? You're
the League player here. He plays for it about 30 minutes. I have
no idea. Okay, then. Is it stressing out
his computer? Like, we need way more information. Yeah, we need more. You
know what? That's actually that's a good that's a good idea. You know what you should find out is you should be
monitoring your temps using real temp as well as MSI Afterburner. Check your CPU
and your GPU temps. If something's overheating, that can be a symptom. And
prime 95 it. Yeah. Make sure the system's actually stable. Prime it.
Memest it because it could be that
something that happens like when you're 30 minutes into a game, there's
probably, I don't know, more stuff going on. Like I haven't played League, but
you know, more of the map is open, more team fights, a lot more graphics going on, whatnot, more particle effects. Like
it's possible that there's some kind of instability with the system that is being triggered by that. So, or it could
even be leaking RAM. Uh, oh, that's true. Memory, but that
would be a software issue. So, probably not a hardware thing, but you never like
that's still something to test. So, you should monitor your memory usage as
well. Uh, ditching work to watch your live stream. Hello from Indonesia and
hello back Indonesia. Good work. Yes.
All right. Uh, what are you guys going to get on the Steam winter sale? Have
you checked it out yet? I I I honestly haven't. I've been way too busy. I will
check it out, but I haven't yet. Guys, I guarantee you that Slick and I will be
less busy soon and things will get a lot
more a lot more um lax. Nathan says, "I
know Slick is a hacker, but do you do any programming, Linus?" The answer
would be no. I can barely put bold tags
on HTML input.
So, shut up.
I don't even think that showed up because your Twitter box. It's okay.
Yeah. Yeah. He he he gave me a reassuring pat on the shoulder, which I
of course uh interpreted as being purely platonic. And oh, I mean, the box will
probably hide this, too. Oh. Oh. Whoop. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I didn't mean for
that to
my grandpa's probably watching this live stream. Hi, Grandpa.
Hey, Slick. Is there anything you can recommend for a new Android user? Why
don't you handle that one while I go get a jacket cuz I am freaking freezing.
Okay. It's cold in here. Um, first off, if you're a gamer, if you haven't
already heard of Humble Bundle, Humble Bundle is kind of amazing. It's a really
cheap way to get a lot of games and support charity, which is just awesome
on Android. Humble Bundle for Android. Yeah. Um, they've got Humble Bundle for
a bunch of different things. There's Humble Indie Bundle. Recently, there's Humble THQ bundle, but that can't be
Android. No, no, no. Um, but then they
have specific Android packages. So every once in a while, like I think the most
recent one was Humble Bun Humble Android Bundle 4. So I picked that up. And just
give me one second. I'll figure out what games it came with. Um, and it was super
cheap because the whole idea is that it's not that expensive, but you can pay
however much you want. Uh, so how some people pay tons of money, it supports
charity, all that kind of stuff. Some people like students and whatnot maybe won't pay as quite as much money. But
then the companies that develop the games and the charities still make a lot
of money because there's so many sales that go through. Sorry for my voice. I'm
quite sick right now. So, in Humble Bundle, Humble Android Bundle 4, which
is, I believe, the one that I'm talking about, I got Crayon Physics Deluxe,
Euphoria HD, Splice, Super Brothers
Sword and Sorcery, Walking Mars, Machinarium, Cannibal, Avdon the Black
Fortress, Cogs, Zenbound 2, and Sword
and Soldiers HD. That's a lot of games, and I got it for like six bucks, so
that's actually pretty epic. Um, another big thing is Swift Key.
SwiftKey 3 is what I'm running. I believe there's a new one called Swift
Key Flow or something like that. It's just a keyboard app, but it's amazing.
It's so so so so good. I recommend that completely. It learns from like your
Twitter, your Facebook, uh your email, and all that kind of stuff. And it'll
learn how you type. So, it'll learn um Oh, you're talking about that keyboard
Swift key. Yeah. Yeah. Good work. Um, so it'll learn as you type things that you
commonly type. So it's auto corrects are more tuned for you, which is kind of
cool. And it's hilarious because it has predictive tech text every single time
you press spacebar. So if you just open a new message and just spam spacebar,
you get to see like what it thinks you would probably say, which can be
hilarious. And you can start it with the different words. You start with like 'the' instead of just nothing. And it'll
go off of 'the' and try and figure out what you would say if all you type was the. You can just press it like 30
times. I don't know. Means nothing but is hilarious. But that's a great app.
Um, Go SMS Pro is an awesome messaging app. It makes it so that if someone
messages you and then you unlock your phone instead of going into the
messaging app, it's just immediately on the screen and you can just press press
into the text box and type right there and click send. So, you don't have to
open the app or anything which is pretty cool. It has a lot of other features as
well. Okay, let's do our main big topic for the night or our first big topic for
the night. We didn't talk about this last week and we feel really bad about
it. We do, right? This is mainly your fault, but yes. How is it my fault? I
was in finals. I had no topics. You're the only one with topics. Well, yeah, I
had topics. Whose fault? Okay. There was
a rumor last week that Intel and NVIDIA
were potentially looking at, you know, acquiring or merging or somehow
becoming a conglomerated company of the two with Jensen Huang at the head as the
CEO. So, um I guess ramifications of that. What's
your initial thought besides that's Yeah, but that in like a
scared tone, not necessarily just a holy crap tone because
um they both seem to be choking back on the whole overclocking idea and the
whole do-it-yourself idea. And okay, well, here we should flesh that out a
little bit more. So, start with how what Intel's doing because they've brought
I'm playing devil's advocate a little bit here. I don't necessarily disagree with you, but they've brought K series
CPUs to market in the last little while. So, they've brought back multiplier
unlocks, which have were gone since uh
so since the P4 days, P4s had lock
multipliers. So, before that, early P4s didn't have lock multipliers. And then I
think the pro or no, was it P3s even that were locked? I can't even remember
anymore. It was a long time ago. So, they took that away and now they've
given it back to us. So, okay. Okay, so they're doing that. Uh, next is they've
got their Intel extended warranty service thing where for I think it's an
extra 20 bucks or something, you can get an overclocking friendly warranty on
your CPU where they'll replace it, no questions asked.
um all great and a lot of its marketing,
but at the same time they're like, if any of you have seen the leaked specs
for their next launch, like it's
they're they're not tuning it towards gamers. They're not tuning it towards enthusiasts. They're not producing for
the enthusiasts anymore. Yeah, they have these side things like unlocked multipliers and a little bit of extra
warranty, but there's no like But that's speculation, too. the IPC could be
through the roof, but Ivy's was pretty much like I know a lot of people that
2600 case did not care when Ivy Bridge came up. Okay, that's true. But bearing
in mind Ivy was a a talk or whichever one is just it was just a process
shrink. Tick tock tick tock. The fact that we got any IPC improvements at all
should have been great, right? And we did get some. We got 10 to
15%. So, it's not that Intel is is necessarily pulling back on the
innovation. We haven't seen anything like Conro in a while, though. Yeah. And
like there's pretty solid speculation on the next release. Yeah. Okay. It's like
it's from pretty reasonable, consistently accurate sources. I mean, I
would go as far as to say that that that Haswell looks really good for something
like a steam box, though. Yeah. Like a big picture steam box. It's not for
really high-end enthusiasts, which is what I care about. Okay. Okay. So, what
has NVIDIA done to run you in the last little while? Um, more than Intel, to be
completely honest, uh, just completely dropping all their warranty support for
partners that want to include overclocking features like MSI's uh,
triple overvoltage. Okay. They cut it back though. They didn't drop it. You're
still allowed to overvolt, but not but not as much. Yeah. And remember AMD
actually I talked to AMD about this. I don't know if I told you this but I
talked to AMD about Greenlight and I was just like have you guys heard of this?
You know what are the what are the what are the board partners saying? And they
were like uh no we haven't heard of this. The particular guy I was talking
to and he was like well we have restrictions too. Yeah. So they both do
it but Greenlight has just become a
little bit more restrictive. Yeah. Okay. But that's I'm like that's an avenue
that they're going down. Okay. They continue going down that avenue. In my
opinion, that's bad. And when they come together, things like that would
probably happen faster. Okay. Okay. What else has NVIDIA done to make you all
butt hurt? Well, that's mainly it. That's mainly it. Okay. Um, and then
like uh I find separation in companies is usually just a better thing in
general for consumer. Maybe not for them, but for us. What about the
technology they could deliver though? Like what if Intel and NVIDIA between
NVIDIA's strength in ARM development and
GPU on the mobile side on the notebook
side and I don't I mean notebook is technically mobile but like smartphones
and tablets mobile and desktops what could that expertise bring
us because you look at sort of everyone was really excited about the AMD ATI
acquisition. Yeah. And the problem was that nothing
enthusiast grade really emerged from it. But I think we can agree APU is cool for
a budget enthusiast. If you were if you
were actually on the kind of budget that would that would dictate an APU
purchase, would you be pretty excited that you can get graphics performance that's literally double what you can get
from Intel? Yeah, for sure. That's that's a thing. But then like with Intel
and NVIDIA, yeah, they could release good things like that. Um, which would
be great for big picture. It would it would be great for stuff like big picture. It could resurrect PC gaming as
we maybe not as we know it, but compared to console, these are all good possible
things, but then a bad possible thing is that they could just outright kill AMD
ATI. Again, I don't think they would want to.
No, but they're already doing it without really necessarily wanting to without
teaming up, which is scary because you want that AMD
ATI, you want that competitor. Hopefully they get bigger, but you want a competitor of
some sort, right? We want a competitor of some sort. Okay. So, and like Adam,
yeah, whatever. So, they're not going to become a monopoly, but you want a like
market competitor. Okay. Well, I'm done playing devil's
advocate now, so I guess I'll express what would be my biggest concern. Um,
like I don't really see the direction they're headed in terms of development as a problem because I
am, and this isn't going to be popular, but I am I'm kind of on the side of of
these companies in some ways where where I'm saying, you know what, we actually
have enough computing power right now on a CPU um for a mainstream user. I think
it's enough. I think it's enough for the next five years at least. Um whereas
what I want to see is I want to see the PC mature as a platform.
as a as a as a consistent experience,
right? But you can develop stuff for both ends of the spectrum. Like it's
they they seem to be narrowing their product scopes at the same time. And
like you can say that, but then there's always going to be the people like me
and I think like you um that are you
know what my PC spec is? No. Yeah, exactly. But like look at the car
aspect. People build cars that are incredibly fast. People buy cars that
are incredibly fast and they will never be able to use because it's flatout
illegal. Okay. Okay. Either way, I I
agree that I don't have a problem with um because I don't think they're making
a yugo here. Like I think that Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, I think
all of these architectures are very compelling. Um and I mean Intel also has
to adapt to the slower upgrade cycle of the desktop computer. So while they
could if everyone was upgrading their computer every two to three years, they
could develop a new CPU every two to three years because all those people are going to come buy it. Whereas if people
have slid into a five six year upgrade cycle before they make a dramatic before
they even need a dramatic change in performance, we're talking 5 years into
the last one they made and people are still kind of just getting to upgrade to
that. Like you're obviously not why do you even need to develop anything new
because you still have plenty of customers who are going to buy what you developed. So, I mean, I think it's a
response to that. I think again, it's not a Yugo. It's more like a Civic where
it's a perfectly functional vehicle that's perfectly good for, you know,
even if you want to go fast once in a while. You know, you got the SI model, a
K series SI. My problem with all of this
is the is that longer development cycle.
And I don't know if it's anything that either Intel or NVIDIA can control, but
it seems like they're the ones that are most
complacent if you look back historically. So Jensen, who would be
the the the visionary leader, and he's a visionary leader, there's no doubt. Um
having met him only once, um I got I got
the the honor of sitting at his table
when um when I was at an NVIDIA thing
for about 45 minutes. Um just kind of
chatting with him a little bit. listening to him talk about the industry and and all that kind of stuff sort of
in a more intimate setting, not on a stage. It was very it was awesome
because he's a pioneer in so many ways. But um you know, Jensen, if you're
watching, you know, you're cool. Yeah.
Um so, so him at the helm, but you look
at what they did with something like 8800. 8800 is a great example of when
NVIDIA like came out of the door just
kicking ass and taking names. 8800 destroyed 2900 XD. Just was like, "Yeah,
whatever." It was so good that it was
still good enough like one and a half generations later. So NVIDIA released
the same thing as 9800 GTX. Then the
same thing as a talk as a 9800 GTX plus
just as a die shrink. Then they released a flagship GPU that was just two of them
together. 9800 GX2. Yeah. And that was
over a course of a very long period of time. They didn't replace 8800 GTX with
ultra until I think 9 or 10 months into the cycle. Um because AMD had nothing to
respond with. So, what I don't like about an AM and you look at uh Intel's
complacency with P4, they were so far ahead of Barton that they were just like
they were just releasing like, you know, new Northwood cores. They were they were
calling these architecturals shifts when all they were doing was bumping the
front side bus. There wasn't even a performance difference. Northwood B and
C is like nothing.
Actually, Northwood A for that matter isn't that far off. We're talking clock
speed bumps and like, you know, cash tweaks here. Um, so, so looking back
historically, both of these guys are very complacent when nothing happens.
So, we'd be taking the two most complacent guys who are already in
positions of power, putting them in a position of undisputable power over
almost everything. Oh, yeah. I mean, we discussed Tegra 4 a little bit today,
which is going to be 6x the performance of Tegra 3. Bearing in mind that, you
know, the only real competitor for Tegra right now is going to be um what is it?
Crate, which is who is that? I can't
remember. I know that's the code name, but yeah, code name Crate. Um so, so the
only real they only have a couple real competitors left. TI's already backed
off. Um and then Apple's the only other
one that's really relevant, but they're always going to be that closed platform anyway, who, you know, hippies like you
will never be interested in. Um, so they're going to have that.
They're going to have on the on the on the notebook. I mean, you look at what
Intel does with something like an Ultrabook branding where they lock it down to a CPU, a chipset, a wireless
chipset, and a form factor. Yeah. And a
GPU. They're going to add that. However, the experience will be better because
something like NVIDIA Optimus, which allows is the switchable graphics, is
going to be that much cleaner. In fact, you'll probably have an NVIDIA GeForce
chip. Yeah. In sort of two, three years from now on the CPU itself, which would
actually be kind of freaking awesome. Yeah. Like there's a lot of cool stuff
that they could do. I just I just worry about market dominance and complacency
and all that kind of stuff that you said. There's like no desire to push the enthusiast side, which worries me a lot.
I mean, you look at even something like you look at how quickly NVIDIA rolled
out 580 versus 480 because 480 wasn't
competitive. They can turn it on when they want to. However, it was very
expensive. It cost them a fortune to do it. So, they're capable of like
executing, but without the proddding. Um, we've been sitting on 680 for a
while now. And 780 is going to come kind of
sort of whenever. And, uh, you know,
they had a chip they could have released as as a 680 or a 685. They've been
sitting on it. It's a Tesla right now. that could just as easily be a GeForce
GPU if they put it on PCB with some display outputs. So,
but it's much more expensive to produce. Oh, yeah. Um, on the other hand, I mean,
and that's a thing that I I guess is is frustrating for me is that it's not like
an enthusiast isn't willing to pay $1,000 for a GPU. That That's okay. This
is another thing that I meant to bring up, but just totally forgot. What happened to like computers used to be
really expensive and people would go out and buy them if they had like like why
not just bring out the extreme branding but like actually make it extreme
branding again instead of the like ever so slightly better that it is right now
like actually make it crush stuff and like have stuff there for NVIDIA, have
stuff there for everyone where it's just like this crazy premier tier of just
awesome economies of scale. I mean, you look at what it costs for something like
um an 8 core Zeon, which really is the
pinnacle of what Intel can manufacture? You know, would an
enthusiast pay two or three grand for a
CPU? If the volumes were low enough that
for Intel to look at it and go, "Okay, we can justify the development on this.
We have to charge three grand per CPU." Would you
today? because I'm sure Intel, not me, but I know people that would, and I
wonder how many they would need. Hypothetically, let's say they release a
CPU with a 210 or 250 watt TDP because
no cares were given. And it's 12 cores
and it's clocked at 4.5 GHz and it really is like the state-of-the-art
modern technology. They're throwing out 3/4 of the dies they produce for this
thing. It costs three to four grand. How many of those could you sell? you you
consult people on a lot of systems if they really could have that kind of
power. H personally I only know one guy
that would move for that, right? But then that's my circle of people and I
know one guy that But then I can tell you how many hundreds of 20 35 70ks you
can sell. Oh, exactly. Yeah. But I'm just I'm just surprised that they don't
have like like a lot of brands like having that one line that doesn't
necessarily make a lot of money but just is their like claim to fame of just
ultimate badassery. But you're already Intel. You're already the ultimate
badasser. Do you care? I want that to exist. You're already NVIDIA. You
already have the GeForce experience. You already have the 690, the cream of the
cream. You can already engineer a dual GPU for this current generation that AMD
couldn't do. They handed off 7990 development like half finished to Power
Cololor. They were just like, "We can't do this. We we give up." That's why
Powerol is the only 7990 manufacturer. So
yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Okay, we really have no idea until it's
released. Do a couple and and yeah, we'll talk about this more maybe, you
know, if that rumor becomes more concrete because right now I'm kind of
looking at it. Go. I'm very skeptical. But here, do you want to do a couple tweets while I find our next topic?
Sure. Because I do have a few topics. I don't have any way to scroll. Uh it's
right here. Just uh arrow keys.
Oh, right. Wait. maybe go up to the top and just see if we've got any. Yeah, 170
new tweets. So, yeah, people apparently do want to
discuss this.
Um, I don't know how to say your name. I'm very sorry. It is technically
possible to recover raw data from an SSD, but it's very unlikely and much
much much much harder. And many times I've had data recovery guys tell me for
all intents and purposes is impossible. Yeah. Like I wouldn't bother like
technically yes but I wouldn't bother even trying like something that sorry
okay I'll go check a topic after something that they could do is they could resolder like if the controller
dies they could resolder the controller and maybe but understand that the way
SSDs store data even that actually might not work because SSDs inherently write
to the flash as randomly as possible. So, it's not like an SD card where you
could take that flash chip, put it into a reader, and pull the data off. And
even then, that's really hard because of the because of the style of data. Hard
discs are not that bad to recover stuff from. Any other type of it's just not
back up your data. Sorry, I'll be back.
Uh, are you excited for CES? Yes. I'm ridiculously excited for CES. My voice
might not show it right now because I'm ridiculously sick as well, but CES is
going to be amazing. Um, what new or revolutionary tech is in
the works? I think we will figure that out at CES.
Okay, I'm going to start an argument with you.
Um, I would postulate that the optimal
RPM for a fan for a modern gaming system is anywhere from 700 to 800 RPM.
Is that because there's not a huge difference between that and much higher RPMs? Or is that because you don't like
the sound? I don't like the sound. It's annoying.
Okay. I don't care. I like my
SC. For reference, I have Scythe AR-15s,
which are the 1850 RPM. Just call them GTs like every normal person. Whatever,
man. Um GT 1850 RPM. The only sound that
really comes off them is the like worring sound of the wind. So, it's very
smooth. There's some motor noise. Not really. What do you mean not really? I
heard them, too. There's some motor noise. And you hear it when you put it up to your ear, not when it's in a
computer. You put enough of them together, you're going to hear it. And I
And why do you have to hear the whooing noise? I'm not saying you have to. I'm
saying it's technically there. The second I put headphones on, which I wear
headphones 100% of the time that I'm gaming. If there's any amount of noise
coming through them, I don't hear my system. Okay. Well, here's this. I would argue that it doesn't matter how loud
the computer is when you're gaming because when you're gaming, you're focused on something else. The time when
the noise matters to me is more like at idle or when I'm working on a document
or if I'm working on something where I don't have sound constantly like if I'm
video editing. Why would I want to hear
the word of fans? I don't hear it. It's totally unnecessary though. Tell me a
modern component that will actually benefit from you putting higher than 800
RPM fans in your case. That's not the point,
though. I I like playing around with overclock. I like playing with the
cooling with those AR-15s, whatever GTS. I can get really,
really good temperatures. I like those fans. They're really good fans. I The
sound does not bother me at all. Why not turn them down? I don't mind white
noise. If it could be silent, why not have it be silent? Because I don't care.
I just do not care. It's It's a It's a
worring like not annoying sound that's in the background. It's just white
noise. We're used to white noise. If you're in absolute silence, you go
crazy. Okay? And I always listen to music. Or
if I'm video editing, I'm listening to the the audio track that's in the
background. Or if I'm playing games, I'm listening to the audio in the game or music. Or I'm sitting there talking to
people on Skype. Or like there's always sound coming through. What about people around you then? I don't care.
Okay. So basically, the only reason you could possibly disagree with me about
this is because you're inconsiderate. No, it's because I don't care. And
literally no one else does either. Okay, fine. I challenge all the silence
freaks who are watching to tweet that people do care about computer noise.
Okay, then why don't you try and silence your fridge or anything else in your
house only makes noise. So, isn't it
more annoying that it's not consistent? I don't hang out in my kitchen.
I mean, I silenced my media PC. I wouldn't That makes more sense. I
wouldn't buy a TV or an AV receiver with a fan, right? Would you buy a TV with a
fan? Who's watching TV where they're desktop computers? Okay. Who's watching
TV without the sound on? By your argument. What? Because if you have the
sound on No, because in movies there's silent points. Okay. In a game there
would be a silent point. Not that
often on video editing sequence it doesn't really matter.
Totally disagree. It's unnecessary. Why do you need Why do you need the noise?
It's not much noise. It's not absolutely loud. Oh, actually I have another random
topic before we jump into a bigger one. So, um, sorry. Mark Mark Hammer uh,
tweeted to me that his wife is 30 months
pregnant and 30 months 30 weeks pregnant. Yeah, she's like she's like
this big and she's like huge and an alien. And
no, Mark, your wife's not huge. Unless she is huge, in which case like, sorry,
man, but he might like it. Yeah, he might be into that. I can't judge, dude.
All right, you're right. You know what? You're right. I don't judge you for
being into that.
I judge him. Whatever. I'm too sick to care right
now. His wife is 30 weeks pregnant and she wants to name the baby Lionus.
Discuss. Okay. It's has nothing to do with you,
I'm guessing. No, I probably it does, but you know. Oh, yeah. Whatever. Yeah,
I don't think so. He He wants me to Hold
on. His tweet says, "Lion, the wife is
30 weeks prego and clearly not thinking straight. Wants to call the baby Lionus
on the live cast. Can you unconvince
her?" I'd like your thoughts first. And remember, whether or not you get fired
tonight could hinge on your response here. I usually get fired three times
tonight. That's true. You fired me yet today. No, you've been fired once today.
When was that? You got fired earlier when when you said you were going to do
something that I didn't like and I was like, "Well, I could just fire you." You're fired. Oh, I don't remember.
Whatever. That's how much I cared.
Um I don't know. Whatever. Linus is fine. At least there's one good person.
You can look up to Linus Torvoltz. That's a cool person that has that name.
Really? You know what? This is this is sort of this is sort of off that topic,
but I would say Lionus Torvalds is far from the most important person to ever
bear the name Lionus. Come on. I'm sure there's more, but Come
on. Come on. Come on. Take take a not thinking of it. Basically basically like
the father of everything we know about vitamin C. Oh, I'm not going to remember
his last name. Two Nobel prizes. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. One of only, I think, two people to ever win two Nobel prizes.
Yeah. I know. I don't remember. Okay. Lionus Pauling, who is actually the
Lionus for whom I'm named. Oh, really? Yes.
Everyone assumes because I'm a dork that
it's because of Torvalds. Yeah, it's because of So that that it's because of
Torvalds, but I'm like I'm Yeah, that would have been odd timing. The timing
is not quite right. He's like first developing. I would even go as far as to
say his Torvald is number three.
Who's after that guy? Lionus Vanpel, who basically taught us the meaning of
Christmas. Oh, I didn't know. Okay.
Okay. Well, you know what? We're going to have to uh we're going to have to find the uh we're going to have to find
the YouTube clip for Slick here because he clearly he clearly needs uh needs a
little lesson on sort of the importance of of Christmas. And since we're coming
up on Christmas and yeah, I'm calling it Christmas because holiday is stupid. Uh,
whatever holiday you're currently celebrating. Yeah, whatever holiday. I'm
celebrating Christmas. So, yeah. Uh, Lionus Christmas.
So, I would go as far as to say this is the second most important Lionus.
Okay. Yeah. Okay. I didn't recognize the name right away. There we go. Oh, wrong
one. There we go. There we go. Make it
full screen. I muted it. Oh, no. It's It's low. It's low. It should be okay.
Still, it's There we go, guys. So, this is this is the meaning of Christmas.
We're just going to let them watch. Yeah. Yeah. I see.
I sure hope there's audio. Yeah.
This would be a very stale point of the episode.
great joy to all
you
Christy in the manger.
There was the angel a multitude of the heavenly
host in the
highest. So, there you go, guys. If
you're not familiar already with with Lionus from Charlie Brown, who is also
not the Lionus I'm named for, although I've had a lot of people assume that,
uh, that's the Lionus Christmas monologue, which is probably not as
important as Linux,
but whatever, man.
I hope there was audio.
Uh, no one's saying anything about it, so I guess it was probably okay.
Christmas tips. Yeah. Okay. So, why don't we do some
tweets for a bit here, guys? Okay. Bit Phoenix Recon Lionus.
Lionus tips indeed. Oh, yeah. Okay. Speaking of other awesome Lionuses,
there's some soccer player football European football um over in Europe
somewhere. And then there's Lionus Omar who plays for the Edmonton Oilers. Do
you like have a catalog of um Linuses?
No, but I'm sort of I I I noticed them. There's Lionus Chan who goes to like SFU
or something. What? Yeah. How do you Why would you possibly know that? Facebook.
I was like, "How many Lionuses are there?" Oh, yeah. One of my favorite
things to say when I call in to like Shaw or something is like they're like,
"Can I get your name and phone number?" I'm like, "Yeah, you can probably search
for me by name. It's okay." I I'm pretty sure I'm the only line of Sebastian,
which is kind of neat. Uh, okay. So, someone says,
"You're 26. I thought you were 30 plus."
Do I look that old? No. Like,
it's probably just cuz your job. Oh, because people knew you were product
manager at NCX. Oh, okay. Quiet fan
solution. Quiet fan solution. Noctua F-S series. In fact, we got some for the uh
for the behind me here is going to be our heat sink and water cooler test
bench. We are going to switch from using
random fans that are included with things to only using Noctua pressure
optimized fans at a fixed RPM that I find acceptable to where I would say
this is a quiet computer if you configure it like this. And that's going
to be in ter his his terms like silent. So that's going to be awesome and those
are great fans. Yeah. So basically what you guys can assume is that if you want
a quiet computer and you get good quality fans and you buy the heat sink
that I say gets these temperatures, you will be able to reproduce our results.
So that's the objective there. So instead of just it being like random
then and and because so often like you end up every heat sink review ends up
being the same thing. Yeah. It's like here's the temperature reading and
here's the noise reading and you have to decide what's the trade-off and it's
like in decb and you're sitting there going well a decibb are completely
meaningless to most people because they don't really understand the scale.
Remember every three decimals is a doubling of volume. Number two is that
the the quality of the sound is way more
important than how loud it is. Definitely like a a a light rattle will
drive me crazy. Oh yeah, 100%. But a low drone, which could actually be like
louder, it's fine. Well, not fine, but
fine to me. Rattling pisses me off, too. There's a difference between in like we
were talking earlier about really quiet computers and then what I was describing. There's a huge difference
between what I was describing and like one that rattles. If it rattles at all,
it'll piss me off. But a very consistent droning sound, I find perfectly
acceptable. And I mean, lots of little fans are actually not that loud. Like
the 40 mil fan on the saber-tooth actually does pretty okay. Not loud. Oh,
I I think it's annoying. Well, pretty okay for total audio, but then like you
just very high pitched, so it it uh okay
like the the decibb will probably not be that loud.
I really don't care about fan noise. I used to run my GTX 480 with the stock
cooler. Well, yeah, but the stock cooler on the 480 doesn't get that loud. It's not really loud. It gets really hot, but
it's really loud. That's okay. I mean, it's not like uh, you know, a 4870 X2.
Like, that's a loud card. Uh, what are
your favorite 120 mil fans? Knocked to a F-S series. Cooler for i5 3570K. I don't
know. Like Hyper212. That's the most common. Yeah. Hyper 212.
Or if you want something really nice, knock to a D14. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Knock
to a D14. Side with slick. As an audio engineer, I would silence my studio rig,
but you just won't hear a fan when editing anyway. Uh what is the PNY
Quadro 6000? It's a workstation graphics card for accelerating things like um
particle effects when you're doing a after post-processing on video editing
and stuff like that. What does Linus mean? It means golden or flax
inherently to do with the effect of naming your children
Linus. Oh, okay. People agree with you.
Oh yeah, you were fired today for calling a hockey period halftime. So
that's three so far today. He called the hockey break halftime. Okay. What kind
of Canadian are you? Not only am I horribly sick and not fully at it today,
usually the second intermission is referred to as a halftime. You did you
just call it an intermission? Oh, okay. Okay. Here, let
me explain to you something. Okay. Hockey has three periods. Yeah. No
intermission is half. Okay. None of them are called halftime.
No, I said referenced as No. Yeah, the
second one is often references. No, it is. It's only called halftime. Okay,
they're going to rip you apart cuz it's only called halftime in NBA and NFL
because they have four quarters. I know. I played sports. I played hockey. Okay.
Anyone you know who ever called the second period of a hockey game halftime
is a It's just so you can discern between them easily. No, it
isn't. It's called the first and second intermission.
Okay, settle down, big man.
I'll play you in hockey. Do it. I will win. Actually, I don't want to do that.
I will destroy you. No, I'm planning on getting a 3570K. Is
the H100i worth on a different cooler will be just fine if you're only
planning to go to 4.2? However, I would go as far as to say that if you're going
to 4.2, the overclocking bug will probably bite you. So, get something
better and push it. Why stop at 4.2? Low
RPM fans rule. Bam. Noise blockers. 700
RPM inaudible. Yes. And he makes a good point. I would say you're way better off
with 10 low RPM fans than one high RPM
fan. Yeah. But the same argument as before. I don't mind the droning noise.
So it doesn't really I mean that's why for you for those of you who are following my personal rig, even though
I'm a silence freak, I have two 120s in
the top, two 92s in the back. So that's four so far. I have another four on my
radiator at the bottom, another two on
my radiator at the top.
And did I cover the radiator at the front already? Yeah, I think I did. So 6
+ 4 I don't know, like 10. Why did I say
11? I don't know. Whatever. A lot of fans, but I have them controlled with my
MQTT balancer. So most of them are off a lot of the time and then the ones that
are on are running at an extremely low RPM. So, I can honestly barely hear my
system. Line is pimp tips. I have eight fans in my case and three graphics
cards, but I don't care because Battlefield 3 drowns them out. All
right, play your precious Battlefield 3. I like the sound of fans. I can't stand
it. Uh, yeah, Slick. Maybe if you put on
a jacket, you wouldn't get sick. I'll let you feel that one. That has
literally nothing to do with me being sick.
Oh my goodness. I'm just going to skim over that anyways, but look it up. It
doesn't No. New big topic. Instagram owns your photos.
Didn't they? No, they revoked that when like a couple days ago. Yesterday? No, I
think it was a few days ago. Oh, all right. I don't I don't know the whole story, but they they they announced the
big thing. Everyone freaked out and they bounced back and forth for a little bit. I don't know exactly where they are now.
Okay. I don't know. Let me see. When did I send that to myself? That's from three
days ago. So, it must have been Okay, you know what? Maybe you guys tweet at
us and let us know if it's been I could be wrong, but I know I know they bounced
around a little bit after it was originally announced. Let's pretend for now that it hasn't happened that they or
that it has happened and they haven't retracted it. That is the craziest thing
ever because basically their assumption
like they're operating like almost like a like it's almost a piracy issue at
that point because they're operating like a torrent site that was
monetizing like the the movies that they're that they're uh letting people
download like like that's what they're doing. They're acting as like like a con
except that they're hosting the content too. So it's like even worse. But in the
agreement, you're giving it to them, aren't you? You're giving it to them, but it might not be yours,
right? Because you could upload whatever there, right? So, they would be
monetizing and and asking for the right to sell something that
potentially you don't even own to give them, which would either be a liability
for them or would actually be a personal liability for whoever uploaded it. I'm
sure they'd find some way to make it a personal liability for the uploader. and
like photos taken of people within houses and stuff. Yeah. You're not
allowed to just public. Not allowed to do that. You can do it if you're in a public area, but not if you're just
randomly in a house or in a some type of private area. And so whose liability is
that now? If you take a picture of someone and and it's not even just private area like a house, like private
area like a library. Oh yeah. Like not
public land like a like like holy crap. I was just I was like I
was looking at I was like really that's just insane. And it's generated so much
bad publicity for Facebook. Yeah, of course. Because it just gets people
talking about, well, here's all the other, you know, bull crap things that
Facebook's done and just gets that like
negative buzz. I mean, will Facebook ex here's a discussion topic. Will Facebook
exist in five years? I I find this very interesting and I have no idea. I see it
like Facebook in everyone's lives as far as I knew used to be so much
bigger like a year, two years agoish.
like year and a half, two years ago, it used to be huge. And now I see a lot
more people going away from it. What are they going to though? Plus sucks. Just
nothing. Back to calling and text
messages because I think a lot of people are getting on there getting like a
thousand friends and then going, "Holy crap, I don't know most of these people
or care about them." It's offensive when you delete them. It's offensive. It just
gets kind of like this awkward kind of space and then you start creeping other
people's profiles. other people start creeping your profile and you're just like, I don't want this to be the way
that I figure out who people are and I don't want this be the way that people
figure out who I am. On the other hand, it can be extremely convenient for certain things at the same time. Yeah.
So, it's it's got a lot of pluses and minuses, but I think it's not just like
the golden holy grail that it used to be. I think a lot of people are seeing
that they don't necessarily need or want it all the time. My mom's a teacher and
her whole thing is that the perception of Facebook is changing to like that's
something my mom and dad and grandma and grandpa use to get in touch with me. See
that's more interesting because she's more in tuned with the kids.
So that is to me I'm looking at that going okay well that's sort of where
it's trending. On the other hand, if older people are using it, then Facebook
has managed to be that magical like
accessible to everyone pervasive thing.
So that's like yay. But then the young people moving away from it is like boo.
And then what are they using? Just like I said, text messages to phone. They te
they text incessantly. Yeah. Um, I mean, but I mean, Facebook's great
for that, too, because you can you can message on Facebook, and I like the
integration between private messages and chat. Uh, personally, I I I do
appreciate it. Um, but I don't
know if it exists in five years. I don't know in what form. Mhm.
Because I just have no use for it. I
think it'll be there. I don't think it'll do the MySpace dump because
they'll have those consistent people like the like the
groups that they have their whole family on there and that's how their family communicates. Like there's a lot of
people that are like that. So they'll I don't think they'll necessarily
disappear. I think it'll just be a completely different form.
It could be the same thing. I don't know. I don't
remember. Okay, so we're at the top. You tweeted about a gaming giveaway a few
days ago. Later. Ah, it'll come later. Tuning in at 5:00 am in Wales. Yes.
Yeah. Oh, he's in a hospital bed, though. Boo. That's no good. Sorry to
hear that, man. I only use Facebook to communicate
with extended family. For other purposes, I hate it. Yeah. And then anyone who Oh, sorry. We're not showing
the tweets. Uh, for anyone who is doesn't want to communicate with their
extended family, then it's like, yeah,
whatevers. I mean, I've I've always been actually I mean, like I'm I'm techsavvy
in some ways, but in other ways I'm very resistant. Like I never had a MySpace
account. Never had like a Zenga account or or um you know, I was on the Palace,
so that was a long time ago. I'd love it if anyone who also used the Palace
tweets because I've never even heard of this. This is this is before your time,
son. Um so I was on the palace. I it's
it was basically like a chat room and like every chat room was just like a
like like it was just an image and then
um people's avatars you could just kind of move around the room and then there was this little speech bubbles. The
palace is the only reason I learned to touch type because there was no log of
messages. You had to just be looking at the screen and reading. So if you wanted
to say anything Yeah. you had to be quick. You had to be a touch typist. You
had to be fast. It's the only reason I know how to type. That's funny. Um, so I
was on that and then I didn't do any I was I used MSN Messenger a lot and then
I didn't get anything until I finally gave in and got Facebook. I went I went
from Nixopia which I very rarely used.
No, I know. You're fired for having a Nexopia account at some point. I never
had MySpace and then I didn't get Facebook until I was in like
grade nine and then I didn't even make my Facebook. One of my friends made my
Facebook and attached it to my email and it was like log in. But I think that's
how a lot of people got sucked into it. Yeah, to be honest. And then I used it
for a while and then Yeah, whatever. I mean, the only reason I ever use it is
if I get a private like I I only accept real life acquaintances and then if I
get a private message then I'll look at that. But I don't look at my wall. I mean I use Facebook for the fan page,
right? Like I I monitor that. But then you use that. Yeah. Like my personal
Facebook I only use for like my little group of gaming friends and then school.
That's it. So I don't know. There are some white incinerating lights crawling
over Earth. What do run away from the light? Don't move towards the light.
Should Nope. You should not demagnetize your screwdriver before mounting a
motherboard. Thoughts on Alienware laptops? They're
bulky and they're not powerful compared to a desktop, but they're portable,
which it sounds like you already knew. They heat up a lot usually. Yeah, they
run hot. Ah, they went back to their previous policy agreement and added an
extra filter to say, "Sorry for making you
mad." Okay. Okay, there you go. Apparently, it was yesterday. Yeah, they
won't sell your photos. You're using your photos for advertising. You still
own them. Okay, good. Uh, from Facebook to potentially
Plus or whatever that is. D Daspora. What's Daspora? No idea. Okay, cool. Or
just texting. Facebook sucks. I hope it dies. Stab. Stab, what do you think of
the new Twitch layout beta? Haven't seen it. It's good. Is it? We were supposed
to use it for this stream. I forgot to tell you.
Um, I think it's just Twitch uh slash new. Okay. But I don't know if that's if
they have to set it to that or if we set it to that. Let's look at it. Let's see
how much we like it. So, we just go to our URL and then slash new. I'm pretty
sure is what it is. Let's make this uh full screen here for a
sec. All right. So there's uh you got the chat on the side which looks pretty
len normal and then you've got like a bunch of other cool stuff on the left.
It's just it looks cleaner. Better usage of space. Yeah, it's cleaner. Yeah, it
looks a lot cleaner. Yeah, it's it's nice. Is the size of the player was it
adjustable before? I don't know. But I think the default size is also larger
now. Cool. Well, that's great. I mean, if we're going to stream in 1080p, you
might as well be able to uh you might as well be able to actually like see it,
right? But I don't know if we set it to that on our end. I don't think we set it
to that. Well, he's watching us right now. Yeah. So, the viewer sets it to
that. So, if you guys go to your URL bar and type slashnew at the end, you'll get
the much better link. How many viewers do we have tonight? Oh, wow. 2100.
Apparently, we don't suck as bad as last week. Actually, I think last week just people were in finals. Finals. Yeah. And
we forgive you you guys. We We know school is like awesome. Yeah.
I don't think they even saw our fist bump. Okay. Recreate the fist bump
moment. That hurts. Your knuckles are so big. Sorry. I swear your knuckles are
like twice the size of mine. Doesn't correlate to anything
else. Greetings from Costa Rica. Are you still
at the office? Absolutely not. Uh we are
in my garage. There's an axe on the wall. Yeah.
The Russian has had a paintball gun at work for like two months. What?
How is that allowed? I No, I gave him hell for it earlier this week. I was
like, why is this still here? Cuz I think he brought it in as like a
Halloween costume or something, but like early in October and we're or like
midocctober and we're at like the end of December. I'm just like, you didn't even
end up dressing up in this as a costume. Take this thing home. It's bad enough he
has a sword in his office. Yeah, I saw that, too. But that was that's NZXT
swag, though. Yeah, that was uh that went with the uh here. The sword was
part of the same thing that I allowed me to acquire that helmet right there. So,
I mean, the sword I kind of understand cuz at least it's Tech Swag, but like
this paintball gun and it's like it's like a replica style paintball gun.
Like, it doesn't just look like it's not like a spider or something like a goofy
little marker. Like, it's got a stock on it and like just like, dude, don't do
that. It's like a an office. Like, you
know, with all the things that go on in like offices and schools, it's like
people don't want to see that, man. Oh, speaking of the Russian, did he ever
text me tonight? He was going to tell me. They're doing some kind of like game until the world ends event or something
tonight. I don't know when it runs until, but you I don't know. Go to the I
don't even know where to go. There might be a post on the forum or something.
That would be my guess. I don't know. He was like, "Can you join?" And I'm like,
"I got my live stream." And yeah, and I
don't have a gaming rig yet, but soon. Shut up, noob.
Uh, did I miss the talk about the Intel NVIDIA thing? Yes, you did. But it's
okay. Live stream archive. Archive. Archive. Um, what do you the new 7
series cards going to be like? I am expecting I'm expecting like a 480 to
580 bump. I'm expecting them to be more efficient and a little bit more
powerful. Yeah, I no guarantees though. I mean,
they might pull, you know, GK 110 out of their butts and be like, "Yeah,
whatever. I so I don't know. I doubt it. Yeah, I don't see that happening, but
you never know because if they can sell enough of them to for supercomputing,
then I'm sure they're fine. Uh, what do you think of OCZ in the new Vector SSD?
Actually, Slick, you benchmarked it today. How'd it go? I didn't go way too
into data to own it. Oh, I wasn't done benchmarking. Oh, okay. I got like
halfway through. I can tell you from what I've read and from what I've seen
so far, it looks reliable and the performance is beast. So I think I
understand a lot of what OCZ was doing with the branding of the Vector and with
the way they did the release. So number one is they moved away from any of their
previous branding conventions. So Vert.Ex the reason they stuck with
Vert.ex for four generations was that Vert.Ex had such a strong brand like
back in the agility one Vert.Ex one days the performance difference between those
drives was very small. I mean, we were limited by things that went beyond using
sync or async flash controllers,
interface, all that stuff. And uh but
because the Vertex branding was so strong and there were so many reviews
and the customer perception was so good of a Vertex, it outsold agility, at
least I'm just speaking from my experience as the OCZ product manager at
NCX. It outsold agility like 10 20 to1
like huge. And Vertex 2, I had the same experience. Vert.ex 3, same experience.
Agility started to catch up a lot because async flash got really cheaper
around that time at times. Uh Vert.Ex 4,
same thing, but Agility 4 was a legitimately much worse drive than
Vert.Ex 4. So they went and they changed like how often do companies do stuff
like that? Like when did it like Intel is still using the Pentium name? Yeah. I
would say AMD should still be using the Athlon name. Yeah. Like Yeah. Why not?
Like you have a good branding asset. you use it, why not? Um, as long as you have
a good product to go with it. So, Vector, they're saying, "Look, we're a
new company. We're doing things differently, you know?" So, they're
doing long warranty, which they did on Vert.ex 4, but they're So, they're
continuing that. They did a much more uh rigorous testing of the drive. They
validated it in a way that they haven't done in the past. Well, how how long did
it take them to bring this one to market? 18 months compared to Vertex.
Less than 12 months. Yeah. For previous drives, which means they spent at least
six months. Yeah. just validating at least half a year
more on just the development validating it. So I think that they were trying to
say look we're a new OCZ and they really are like they're I people that I've
known there um like the CEO um the chief
sales officer um or director of sales or
I forget VP of sales I think VP of sales was his actual title. Um but like these
guys they're gone. Um and it's it's a
very very different crew over there. I can tell you guys that much. So, uh,
yeah, very, very positive. I have a really good feeling about where they're
going. I mean, they still got some stuff to get figured out on the financial
side, on the legal side. Um, you know, they're a public company, so there's a
lot of paperwork that goes along with that, and they got to figure that out. But, you know, I I I hope they land on
their feet. Yeah, me too. They're been around for a while, so it' be nice to
keep around. I'm like I said, I'm like halfway done the benchmarks, so next
whenever we'll film it and then we'll release it as soon as possible. I mean,
they've done some things wrong over the years, but quite frankly, so has
everyone. Yeah. Um, you know, you look at uh
uh Intel screwed up the firmware on X25
twice. Do you know about this? It wasn't into SSDs then because they were Okay. Uh,
Crucial screwed up the M4, so it just turned off after a certain number of
hours. You know, you look at things like uh things like RAM. Crucial had a
disastrous batch of ballistics back in the DDR2 days. We were talking like 40%
RMA rates. I remember bad batches happen to everyone. Stuff happens. And OCZ gets
a really bad rap sometimes. Well, because they sell a lot. They sell a
lot. But I'm talking even other categories. OCZ power supplies for
whatever reason have this terrible reputation. Like on forums, you look at
experienced guys going, "Oh, I wouldn't touch that." Let me tell you something,
and I don't normally talk about this kind of stuff because it's kind of confidential information, but the RMA
rate back to NCIX on OCZ power supplies was around
2%. Which I can tell you guys right now was number two in terms of RMA rates at
NCIX. And we're talking Anttech, CIC,
Corsair. Two of those three were worse than
OCZ for the period of time that I was managing it, right? which was like three
years. So, bam. Like, people sort of
talk about it, but it's like where are they getting this data?
Like, maybe they got bitten by something. I still have a Game Extreme
600 watt and like that's a launch unit.
Yeah. That's running in my work machine at at NCIX. So, this is like what, five,
six years down the road. It's not like every one of them dies. And it seems to
be the perception. I don't understand. And you look at recent products like ZX
series built by a very reputable OEM,
very high quality power supply. I don't get
it. Anyway,
OCZ. Um, were you ever on Geio Cities?
Nope. Watching from Ecuador? Yes. Streaming in 360p like a
boss. Thank you for tolerating our terrible 360pness.
No. Come on. No. Ness is a perfectly
legitimate suffix. 360p is a real thing.
Okay. No. No. No. Not for that.
Whatever, man.
Okay. I don't expect Intel and Apple to
team up at any point in time. I think Apple's busy alienating absolutely
everyone between the lawsuits against Samsung and they're losing a lot of that
right now. Have you heard about that? I have. They're losing like crazy left and right. They're losing everywhere. And
the fact that it's it's almost like they're kind of going like this at Intel. You hear the latest thing where
Apple says they want to develop their own CPU and move away from Intel on their notebooks. It's like what's the
point of even saying something like that?
I think they're literally just like ever since Steve Jobs pass like you look at
the history of the company like Steve Jobs starts the company. Yeah. Steve Jobs gets fired. Steve Jobs comes back.
Yeah. Steve Jobs passes away. It's like come on. They they just like the second
he is gone, they just try and fight everyone. Like how does that seem like a
good strategy? Let's just like go fisticuffs with every single company we
can possibly. Whereas I mean Steve Jobs was never afraid to go toe-to-toe. No,
he'll go toe-to-toe with Google, but did it intelligently and had a plan. It's
not just like throwing punches in every possible direction you can think of. I
mean, why go against Samsung? That was stupid. Like Samsung. And like, why
why push out Apple Maps when it just doesn't work?
I still haven't upgraded to iOS 6. I've been lazy. I tried last night, but I
needed a 50. I know there's a Google Google. Yeah, that's the only reason I
was considering it. Okay, I'm going to go get another topic. Maybe do a couple
tweets. Apparently, it costs a dollar to send a private message on uh to a
non-friend on Facebook. Really? I've never heard of that before. I've never
tried. Never tried. Yeah, that's interesting. I wonder how they even work
that in. How do you even send a message to
someone who's you're not a friend with on Facebook? I have no idea. I've never
even Oh, you're going to love this. Oh, okay. Yeah, really cool. Uh really cool
news. So, um, I'll be the first one to
say Linux totally doesn't matter because I don't care about it. Has zero
application to my life, but I know you're a bit of a Linux guy. You use it
every day whether you OCZ directly or not. Speaking of OCZ has has launched a
beta um a beta application that enables
SSD caching on Linux. So, wait, on
regular SSDs. But I thought you didn't care about it. Well, I said you should
care about this news. Oh, okay. You were all excited. So, I thought you were
like, I don't care about Linux, but I care about this. No, no, the implications of this are huge. Yeah,
that's awesome. Um, blah blah blah blah blah something something something. Aha.
Beta test program for its Linux acceleration software development and
invites its enterprise SSD customers to participate. So, it's a fast caching
storage solution for their SSDs designed specifically for Linux based physical
and virtual environments. That's awesome. So basically this is kind of
like um this is kind of shoot what's their
what's their accelerator drive called the desktop one synapse uh yeah synapse
cache so it's kind of like synapse except you can use any OCZ enterprise
SSD you can cache a magnetic storage solution and unlike you know what uh you
know adapt or you know LSI or whatever
wants you to believe unlike that they
are not locking ing it down to a hardware platform.
If it works out, that's awesome. That's gamechanging. Yeah, that's like this is
like this is like the end of the end of expensive hardware solutions for this
potentially because it doesn't only work with SATA and SAS, it also works with
PCI Express SSDs. Oh, nice. That's kind of cool. So their entire enterprise
thing is going to be so basically okay so imagine this server was it you where
you were talking about that sort of uber density for you thing okay so what was
the density they were able to achieve I can't remember but it was insane it's called red red something it's this
gigantic red server that just holds a
billion hard drives okay so picture this something like that where maybe you
build like you have like a 50 or 100 terabyte storage server then you go okay
seven PCI Express slots with 1 TBTE of SSD each. A softwarebased solution. So
you don't even have to have like you don't even have to have any cards in your system other than SSDs running off
of wicked fast PCI Express and these storage. Oh no. I guess you'd need
something to plug storage drives into. Oh crap. Okay. Well, fine. So you have a
couple Okay, fine. You have a couple SSDs then. And you get them to do I know
they do custom solutions. So you go to OC. You say, "Look, we need 4 TB SSDs
and we need so you have like four running here to connect all your hard
drives. You have like three running here to be like so like 12 terabytes of like
Uber cache for the thing." I mean, that's that's a whole new generation of
performance really. Yeah. Where instead of FA like I I remember hearing a really
cool stat that Facebook was buying something like like some however many
dozen servers every day just to add to their racks. And I think it's everyone's
Facebook front page has to be stored on SSD. Yep. So if they roll out something,
so if OCZ basically goes, look, here's our solution. Buy our SSDs, which are
competitively priced as far as enterprise SSDs go because it's flash in
a controller. It's not rocket science. Buy our SSDs. We have this Linux SSD
caching system that's ready to go. You just deploy it and it'll cache your
magnetic storage. All of a sudden, you don't have to have dedicated SSDs for
anything. It'll automatically cache the most frequently used data. The first
load will be slow. Facebook would still need it. Okay. Facebook would still need
it. Stuff that needs the entire thing on a dedicated SSD. Yeah. Okay. Yes. But
yeah, but would they Okay. Okay. Front page would have to be on SSD, but
everyone's front pages after a little while would eventually end up in the SSD
cache anyway. everyone's well if they keep adding blades the way
they're adding them and every single one of them had like let's say 10% of the
storage in every blade was SSD then all the all the I think well
like this would come into tune with the thing that you're saying where you can contact OC and get a custom yes things
up so Facebook would need their own kind of design for everything so they'd have
a completely custom thing I'm sure and then they basically decide what is the
appropriate ratio of SSD to hard drive
and as long as the caching solutions enough and we've already seen I mean
almost every well not everyone but you know you look like guys like uh uh
datlex guys like LSI adapt all these
guys have caching solutions that's actually something I didn't think about
the LSI acquisition of sandforce probably has huge implications for SSD
caching sorry I didn't think of that before but anyway um so it's not rocket
science at this point I don't think so if they work it out so that as long as
they've got the right ratio of magnetic to solid state storage. They wouldn't
have to have dedicated SSD machines anymore. Pretty much they could just go,
"Okay, put it in autopilot. Don't touch it anymore because it's all handled by
the software." I think I think you're still going to
want if you're doing something like that, I think you're still going to want someone managing everything. But I mean,
okay, you look at stuff like a photo that people look at once in a while and
if the loading time's a little bit slower, that could sit on magnetic. And
if it could all be
dynamically monitored, then great. Anyway, I thought that was cool. I
thought you'd think it's cooler than you seem to think it is, but whatever. Sick.
You're a constant disappointment.
You're a jerk. Um, I'm trying to find the name of that
thing. It's just gigantic for you and it's painted red and it just has all the
hard drives. It's ridiculous. Got any
more topics or should I go to Twitter?
Um, oh, Intel Ivy Bridge chips may dip below 13 watts. So, that's cool. So,
we're talking like desktop processors that uh so step down further depending
on the situation to as little as seven watts, which would be amazing for
tablets because I'm super stoked on Windows 8, like proper Windows 8 tablets
100%. So, that's cool, but I don't think I want to talk about that for that long.
Um,
I don't know. You got anything? Uh, not really.
Topic suggestion for blah blah blah. Um,
Brendick H asks, "Do you think it's possible for Valve to push the main PC
gaming market to Linux?" No. No, I don't
think so either. No, but they are. How do I bring up I love you, Gabe, but it's
not going to happen. There we go. Um, but I don't think I think he's wanting
to make it viable for his Steam box.
Yeah, but even then like
I think it'll be viable, but people are going to use what they're used to and people are going to you are going to use
what they currently like and that's in the most part Windows. And you could,
okay, even if you were to make the argument that Windows has peaked and is
on the downtrend in terms of its, you know, market dominance or whatever else,
whatever other argument you're going to make, I would say that the tale on that
is so long that Gabe Newell may not even live to see the end of L of Windows as
the dominant gaming platform for the PC. Yeah. Like even if this is the
apex, the li the library and the tool
sets and all of this stuff is so deeply
entrenched for anything but casual. I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Yeah. But then at the same time, you see like it's not it's not just Gabe, it's
not just Steam because um you see like
any Kickstarter game, any Kickstarter game, they they push the game and then
there's a billion comments of people asking like make a stretch goal for Linux and their first stretch goal is
like always Linux. Like people care and it's becoming a bigger thing and like
it's a really local minority. Yes. But then not necessarily just North America.
You got to think about that too. A huge amount of the rest of the world uses a
lot of Linux. Fair enough. North America not so much like at all.
But Right. And bearing in mind that North America for markets like games
just dwarfs almost everything else. No, that's true. I know. But it's like it's
happening. It's I agree with you. I agree with you. Very long tailed, but it
is happening. And I know a ton of people that will get rid of their Windows
partition now. But it's more people that are already dual booting with Linux.
Yes. and which is like a sl a sliver of
a sliver of computer users. I'm just saying it will it will convert some
people. Here's the other thing that will be devastating for something like Linux
adoption and it comes down to our same conversation about the longer the longer
um upgrade cycles that people have these days and that is the fact that so many
people are still running Windows XP machines that are fast enough for every
casual game that comes out in the next 5 to 10 years. So, not only does Linux
have to go up against the dominance of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows, well,
Vista to a lesser extent, but they're they're out there. There are Vista machines out there. Um, but they have to
go up against that every game for however long from now is going
to run on Windows XP. Like, like it's
it's still a requirement. Yeah. So, it's
like how many platforms do you want to build for? Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, like that's that's part of the reason the tail. So I think that upgrade
cycle is going to continue to extend
especially as NVIDIA and Intel slow down their development and release products
less frequently. Your computer will be good enough for longer. And with the
quality of the components that especially on the custom side these
motherboard manufacturers and VGA manufacturers are using, it's like when
would I ever have to replace a Maximus 5 formula? I think every component on that
board is rated for something like 15 years of continuous operation. It's like
it's just ridiculous. And like those new the AX power supplies from Corsair.
Yeah. And like the some of the new SSDs that are coming out, they're all just
absolutely ridiculous. I mean, it used to be that when you bought like high-end
power supply, you were paying for the fact
that it wouldn't die after 3 years. Yeah. Whereas now, you take for granted
that it's going to last 5 to 10 years. Oh, seriously. And you've even got like
sevenyear warranties on stuff. I mean, guys, a manufacturer gives you a
warranty that is like a fraction of how long they actually expect it to last.
Like your appliances have a 1 to twoyear warranty. They expect that thing to last
10 plus years. Think about that in terms of your computer. If they're giving you a 5year warranty, they it's not going to
die. Basically, the only thing I can think of that is going the other
direction is like TVs and monitors
cuz Yeah, I totally agree. But like old school TVs like CRT style stuff just
like still works. Let me put it this way. NCX has a 39 in LED back lit 120 Hz
TV that's going to be in the Boxing Week sale and you guys didn't hear this from
me at $2.99. What? Wow. So, this is a 39 in TV which
is 1080p which basically costs as much
as even like 6 months to a year ago. Oh
yeah. Like a 22 23 in monitor. Yeah. TVs
don't use TN panels. So that's something to bear in mind too. Oh yeah. So it's
not like they get to use a TN panel to cheap out unless they are like super
cheap TVs. And the material costs are obviously
higher because it's just larger. Yeah. In like every possible way of defining
that. Like like just the plastic mold to
create the bezel is larger. Like everything is just everything costs
more. Yeah. Yeah. How could they afford to make it last for 10 years? No, I
know. But I'm just saying like that's that's the only thing I can possibly think of that's going the other way.
Yeah. Even things like light bulbs last longer now. Everything just seems to
last longer. But just the only thing I can possibly think of is TVs and screens
and phones. Yeah, phones used to be built like
tanks. Oh my goodness, that old Nokia one that you could like literally drive
over with the tank and it just wouldn't care. I think I had that one. Was it the blue one? Yeah, it was very iconic.
Black and white screen, right? For some reason, I can't remember. Yeah, it's
yellowy kind of or like like orange back lit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um I can't
remember the name of it, but it's like Okay. I don't know. I I had one though.
such a well-known Nokia phone, but like that thing was a beast. And a lot of old
school phones were just absolute beast. Oh yeah, I used to drop it all the time.
And now like I kind of worry about this one and if I had an iPhone, I would just
constantly worry about Now they do a drop test on like YouTube just to prove
that it won't break after one drop, which is brutal.
And they're slipperier than ever. Yeah, you can see like I obviously
worry. I have an Otter box, which is my case, and that's like armor for your
phone because I'm just like seriously worried that it'll just break if I ever
do anything bad to it. Oh, you know what we should talk about? Uh, how much time
do we have left? Uh, uh, it's 10
minutes. We got We got like 11 minutes. Okay. Um, so I want to talk about a new
idea. I'm thinking I'm going to start this in January. We'll use the forum as
part of a as part of a launch thing. So, for all of you guys watching here, I I'm
assuming if you're tuning in live that you're probably someone who, you know,
watches my videos.
Um, YouTubers need likes. They need
likes. They need comments, and they need shares. One of the biggest things that
I've noticed about my videos is a lot of people watch them, but apparently nobody
actually likes them. Um, which is I mean
I I hope that's not actually the case,
but if the uh 3310, okay, I don't know if that's the one I had or not, but let
how do how do I address this? I don't want to plead for likes. I think it's
lame. If you look back at my older videos, I didn't even ask people to
subscribe because I always took kind of the, hey, if people want to watch my
videos, then they want to subscribe. That's cool. Sorry for my voice. wanted
it to be the most organic as possible. Wanted it to be people that really
actually really desired to see more instead of just felt incentive to see
more. Legit wanted to subscribe or wanted to like the video or or or
whatever else. But what I'm looking at now is more and more and more YouTube is
tweaking their algorithms to focus on engagement. So they're looking for how
many people like the video, how many people comment on it, how related the
comments are to the keywords in the title in the description, and how many
people are sharing it, whether it's on Facebook or Twitter or on or on YouTube
itself. And um for those of you who are
watching right now, consider this sort of my appeal to you. It's not that much
work. In fact, you can download scripts that autoike the video, every video you
watch, and then you can manually dislike it if you don't like it or unlike it if
you if it turns out that you don't actually like it. Um, I would hope you
guys will do that. And so, what I'm thinking is I'm actually going to create
a program where every month we're going
to contribute because as you guys know, there's ad revenue that goes along with
having better search rankings. So, you know, if you guys are able to help me
get better search rankings, get more views, build build this this community,
build this viewership base, then I figure I should probably give something
back. So, what I'm thinking is we do either monthly or quarterly targets
where I basically go, look, for every like on a Linus Tech Tips video this
month, I'm going to contribute X number
of cents and it'll probably be like a fraction of a cent because the last
thing every single like that's just insane. Yeah. The last thing I need to
do is go broke immediately because you guys are so gung-ho. And I mean, like I
appreciate the support, but I also, you know, have a baby to feed. Um, so I'm
thinking we basically go, okay, for every like this month, we're going to contribute this much. And then with the
forum that we're starting up, we can let the viewers decide what we do with the
money. So we can basically go, okay, um,
you know, uh, we can we can create a vote every month. We can go, okay, this,
you know, moderator needs a new computer. Should we contribute to that?
or there's this charity that uh you know
uh like I know particularly Slick MS is really important to him for for some
personal reasons. Um you know for me um Alzheimer's and dementia is pretty
important for some personal reasons. Um so there's a lot of different different
things like that. So we could basically create a list and let the community
decide what we do with the money. So, we can go, okay, look, this month we're
going to do this up to a maximum of $1,000, and then at the end of the
month, you guys get to vote on what you want us to do with that $1,000. BC
Children's Hospital is one I'd also really like to contribute to. We write a
check, we film it, we mail it, and uh that way instead of me having to sort of
gravel for please like my video, which I think is just ridiculous, and I've held
out as long as I can before even making any kind of appeal about it. Um, I think
it's a way for you guys to really contribute something by liking the video
and a way for me to give back to the general world for you guys helping sort
of push the popularity of what we're doing up. So, if you guys think that
makes sense, I' let's take your tweets on that for the rest of the uh for the
rest of the segment here. And like a lot of that interaction would come from a
lot of
I like it. I like it. I like it. Um,
Um, a lot of those interactions would be done through the forum. So, I like it
like that. I like it like that. Um, so
you guys could vote through the forum like we were saying and like say you
guys did a Keval loan or some type of recurring thing that would happen. You
guys could orchestrate that whole process. So, it would be a lot of
interaction from you guys and a lot driven through the forum. And that's the thing, we need your help. That's a
really good point because my whole thing is I don't want every video to be like,
"Please like my videos. My baby needs to
eat." Like I It can't be like that.
That's stupid. It's stupid. I think it's pathetic. And for all the other
YouTubers who are watching me right now, I think it's pathetic. I really do.
Pleading for likes is lame. Um but what
I would rely on you guys to do is to advocate. Like I don't want to say in
the video, guys, like the video and I'll donate to a charity. I want you guys to
drive that. I want the top I want the top rated comment under every video to
be about what this month's thing is.
Like like if you guys come up with a personal goal through the forum or
something that you guys want to hit like oh something happened like say there's a
natural disaster and you guys want to push something towards that natural
disaster. Exactly. We could you guys could push for that and our donations
would go towards that if it's the highest voted thing which if it was a natural disaster probably would be and
if you guys are all contributing together and supporting each other's
ideas in the forum which Slick will actually start working on tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the beginning date the day. Uh well second day but you haven't
gotten much done on it yet. First day wasn't really Yeah. Yeah. First day finals are over basically. So, uh, so
yeah, we're I think we're pretty excited about this idea. And we need you guys to
advocate. And honestly, like, think about it this way. It really does help
me a lot. The sooner you guys get started, the better, the better it will
be. Even though I know we're not doing a target for December, and I'm not 100%
sure if I'll be able to launch in time for January. But tell you what, I'll
commit now. February for sure, I'll commit at least 500 bucks as like a as a
ceiling for this for this new program. And then what I'd like is for
as what I'd like what I'd like is for as
we keep going, you know, if I'm pushing you guys to hit a bigger and bigger
target, then I want to contribute bigger and bigger amounts of money. I think
that's how this should work. Okay. So, yeah, let's let's do some tweets about
this. So, swag. Okay. C uh do it. Can
you buy front panel cables that are sleeved so they don't know, but you can sleeve them? Yeah, you can sleeve
yourself. Seems legit. When will the AMD never settle promotion end? Um, it's
gonna end when they run out of codes, so you should still be okay on Boxing Day.
Oh my god, Blaze.
I don't know. Okay. Can you tell me which components are needed for computer
graphics? Blaze? What? I wonder if that's the name of that server that I'm
thinking of. I don't know. Whatever. The big red thing that holds up. Okay, sure.
That might be something to do with hardware and software needed for computer graphics. Uh, it depends what
kind of computer graphics. We talked about Tegra 4 a little bit. Looks ballin. Yeah, it looks awesome. I gave
away my Gunner glasses to Slick. Should I read between the lines on your opinion
on them? No, my opinion is that they do reduce eye fatigue. 100%. If you sit at
your computer for a long time, they work. What I didn't like about them is
my eyes are sort of going a little bit right now as it is. They have a bit of
magnification on them. So, it's not a prescription, it is a magnification. And
what I found is that for my eyes, even though they were much less fatigued, I
was having more trouble focusing on things when I'm not at my computer. So,
that was what I didn't like about them. Um, when I sit at my computer, 100% they
help. Yeah, I've actually used them and
have the exact same use case. Want to settle a debate? What memory is
better? 2x4 at 1333 or 1x8 at 1600? 2x4
at 1333. However, I would probably go 1x8 at 1600 because it gives you more
upgrade options and it's not going to make that much of a difference in terms
of performance anyway. What's your favorite apps with your Galaxy?
I covered that actually earlier in the episode. There's a few more. Watch the
archive. Yeah, maybe I'll jump on Twitter later. Favorite mechanical keyboards? I know we cover this a lot.
Zyel 60 big red for you. Back blaze storage pod.
That's it 100%. Okay. Uh we were going
to get to that. There you go. Oh crap, we almost forgot that. Right. Oh yes, I
put it here so I wouldn't forget. Okay, sorry. Sorry, sorry. We'll go back to
Guys, keep sending in your comments on the uh on the money likes thing.
Um, okay. So, did I tell you about this?
You I These are Twinkies, right? Yes. Okay. So, I This is the first time I
have ever actually received mail from a viewer. Dear Lionus Sebastian, I heard
on one of your live streams that you have never had a Twinkie. I figured that
because it is the Christmas season, I would give a gift on behalf of all the
hard work you do to bring us Linus Tech Tips, your live stream, and all the other channels you're associated with. I
hope you enjoy your first Twinkie, and have a very merry Christmas. Sincerely,
Ryan 9298B2 on Twitter. Postcript RIP
Hostess. So, I don't know if you remember this, Ryan, but neither Slick
nor I have ever eaten a Twinkie before. So, this is a sealed Twinkie box. Okay.
And guys, I'm not encouraging everyone to send me mail because I I don't need I
don't need more mail to be perfectly honest, but I was really touched because
this is the first time I've ever gotten mail from a from a viewer and it's the
Christmas season and all that. So, okay, Twinky on live Twinkie unboxing. So,
let's see what Hostess has to say for themselves about the Twinkie. The
product is enlarged to show detail of
the texture. There are 10 individually wrapped cakes with a best before date of
uh December Oh, December 14th. I should have probably eaten it right away. What
year, though? Oh, I don't know. This year. That's okay. I'm going to eat it
anyway. Don't worry about it. It's probably fine. Golden sponge cake with
creamy filling. Follow us on Facebook. Don't miss out on all the great new
recipes, sweet exclusive offers. The ingredients include nutritional facts
that are Okay, I'm sort of skipping through here. So, here we go. When we
open up the box, we discover that inside there are 10 golden
treats. One for you. Oh god. And one for
me.
I have to say part of the reason I've never had a Twinkie is it's never really
held much appeal for me. All I remember growing up as a kid is
the only thing that lives through a nuclear holocaust is cockroaches and
Twinkies. I was always just like, uh,
okay. Yeah, I always sort of took that approach to it, too. So, here we go.
We're having our first Twinkie experience. And there's, of course, nothing erotic about
it. It's a little dry.
A little cold. It's cold. Okay.
It tastes good, but it also tastes like
just fat. Yeah, it's like a bread with like, you
know, fake whipped cream in it. If I had real whipped
cream. I'm going to finish it though, just for Ryan's sake.
So, thank you, Ryan. I got a chance to eat a
Twinkie before they were gone forever.
And just for that, we are going to take
one of these Twinkies or the box and we are putting it on the wall of legend
because this is the first viewer mail
that we have ever received. It was very thoughtful and uh thank you very much.
Merry Christmas as well.
Yeah, I guess this is the last stream before Christmas. Sure is.
Okay, speaking of Christmas spirit and giving all that, let's go back to our
Twitter thing. Okay. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's
it's I'm actually pleasantly surprised, which is it's unfortunate that it's kind
of growing on me as I go.
Soon it will definitely not be a Twinkie up on the wall. It's going to be the empty box after Lionus eats the whole
thing. Jeez, man. You're giving me away. Okay, so go back up to the
top. 122 new interactions. Here we
go. Info on treating Alzheimer's. Very knowledgeable men. Okay, I'm not I'm not
a doctor. I'm not trying to treat it. It's just helpful. Okay, Jose, great suggestion.
Um, but we'll leave it up to the community at large to decide. I mean,
Slick and I might have some influence like some months we might just say,
"Look, we're doing this, you know, get on board." Whereas
most of the time, I'd really like the communicate to the uh the community to
decide. I think a large part of the whole point is to have it all
communitydriven and a lot of interaction from the fans and whatnot. Ps points out
points out that the cockroach thing is a myth, which sort of assumed, but yeah, I
take that Twinkie hard. What about the upcoming gaming bundle? Uh, no, no, I
didn't say I'll talk about it before the end of the stream. I said it's coming later. No, no, that's later.
Later. Um, best show ever. Linus Twinkie
tips. Throw away the Twinkie drivers. Download the latest from hostess.com.
Yeah, as if Twinkies last forever. What form software are you going to use?
We're going to use Vulletin. And moderators will be selected will be
handpicked by me and Slick based on how
helpful people are, how positive they are, as um how regularly they're
contributing to the community. And uh yeah, we're not taking applications. We
are going to look for the people that are really proactive about helping
people. Higher memory on video cards. Yes, it matters, but it doesn't help at
all for higher refresh rates or higher resolutions. You need more memory for
higher resolutions. Yeah. And like multimonitors and stuff. I will download
an auto script. Excellent. I don't know if we're allowed saying
that for liking videos. Yeah, we can say
there's a script. I don't know. We're not providing it to them, but you're encouraging. I don't know. Whatever.
Um, Lionus Twinkie tips just changed my fan speed. I think donating money for
likes and shares on your videos is a brilliant idea. Okay. Yeah. See, that's
that's the attitude. Helping people for the click of a mouse. You guys should
have to do nothing. Ultimately, yes, I will obtain more advertising revenue and
then a portion of that gets to go to help people. So, I think we all kind of
win. Yeah, I think it's actually pretty awesome. Um, money idea seems good. just
feels like a lot of people have already done it. That's okay. We're going to do it regularly and I don't think I
actually know of no one who does based on likes and does it consistently every
month or quarter. The idea is we'll be doing it all the time. So, it's supposed
to be like a fairly big part of the more the forum I think. Yeah. And big part of
the community driven aspect instead of like this random thing. Thoughts on
Gangdom Style reaching 1 billion views? Incredible. That's just outstanding.
Within like six months, it's the most viewed video on YouTube ever. That's insane. I don't even know. That's so
much time spent watching a video. I mean, I would have thought something like Charlie bit my finger was like kind
of untouchable just cuz it's like so legendary. It's like the first
ultraviral video on YouTube, but I was wrong. I've only watched it
once. The first donation should go for some razors for Slick. Very good. Honey
Light's been good. Okay. Have you tried the program Flux? Yeah, Flux is awesome.
Uh, I haven't tried it, but I've heard it's like outstanding. Awesome. Unless
you're someone who's good at like edit photos or video, but best red switch
keyboard. That's like asking us like which semi-truck has the best mileage.
It's like you could answer the question, but Oh, well, no, that's valid. Hold on.
It's like asking us which motorcycle has the greatest towing capacity.
It's like, yeah, neither Slick nor I are really cherry MX red. Yeah, that's I was
just going to preface that neither of us are fans of red. Um I I I actually don't
know anyone who is, but like you're Why are you going to be like that? I'm sure
there are people that are fans of them and I would probably ask them. Um yeah,
I'm more of a brown black guy
and I'm more of a blue. Although based on, you know, my choice of wife, you'd think I'd like Cherry MX yellow.
Okay, moving along. ITX versus MATX versus ATX. Size
versus expansion. Uh you know what? That's not a bad one for maybe next
week. That's a topic in Yeah, that's like a whole topic. Yeah. Live stream on
Twitch TV. Oh, now what? Oh, okay. He's just tweeting that he's Oh, thank you.
He's calling us out or calling out that he does stuff that involves watching us.
Think this is super creative way to not gravel for likes. Yes, cuz gravels are
stupid. I have no idea what the scripts do or don't do. I can't encourage you to
use them apparently and I've never used them myself, so sorry. Oh, well, there
there you go. I didn't give you this.
Um, add a donation button. You know what? I'm actually not going to add a
donation button. Um, I think that that gets very complicated. I would like for
you guys to find ways to donate that are
just liking the videos and like honestly if you guys want to donate, we don't
want it to be through us. Yeah. You can donate to whatever. We want to have our
own pool of money and like the accounting gets very complicated I
think. Yeah. Yeah. And like if you guys want to set up like I've heard of donation teams like there's a there's an
OCN group like if you guys want to make your own little thing on the form like
that's awesome like that's cool but just run it like we we don't want to have the
accounting stuff on our end and we don't want to have the liability on our so
encourage other people to like our videos and you'll be
inherently donating to us and it won't even cost you anything which is great.
Yeah. Um, and we I mean we may take donations for the forum in the form of
like a paid account that gives you a special avatar or something, but for
that we'd be looking at sort of how much we need to keep the forum running, not
as a profit center and not as a charity thing like just that would be more like
donating to the forum. Yeah, that wouldn't be to the charity at all. Yeah.
Okay. THQ gone and bought by Ubisoft.
Have you heard about this? Yes. I didn't know it was Ubisoft, but I knew they
filed for bankruptcy and I knew there's a very highprofile name that was buying
them. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, like the
donations idea. Cool. Yes, please do
spam the likes. Thank you, Brian. I mean, if everyone who's watching this
live stream right now, which is 2,200 of
you, if every one of you guys just take two seconds and like every video, that
will make a huge difference for me personally. Like, it re it actually
does. It shouldn't. And I kind of hate it. Like, I really do. Like I think
about this guys, I've gone five years without soliciting likes. I hate it. I
think it's stupid. It's actually a big deal. Ever since I joined on, he's
commented about how he doesn't like asking for likes. So this Yeah. Yeah.
Enjoying the stream. Lionus will be using VBulletin downloading an auto like
plugin as we speak. Thanks, bro. The idea is great. And sooner you guys
start, the sooner we'll support you in every way. Cool. And we'll get it going as soon as we like get our stuff
together. We've got CES coming up. We both got family stuff for Christmas.
So, yeah, good suggestion. Okay,
community involvement is always great. So, it sounds like you guys are totally
supportive. Oh, going home. And this Alex, great point. I think it's a good
idea, but I don't know how many people will hear about it, but I like the idea.
Alex, I'm putting you personally in charge of being every single person
watching. You guys are all personally responsible for helping us with this.
Like I said, I want the top comment on every video to be about this program,
about how liking Linus Tech Tips videos is going to help support this cause with
some kind of, you know, a link to the forum thread where we're discussing the
one for this month. Like, I want you guys to get involved in a way that
doesn't cost anything, but really helps us helps out everybody. So, that means
if one person comments about it, you guys all need to glom on and like that
comment, help boost it up to the top, help get this ball going so that I don't
have to plead for likes. I'm pleading with you now once and other than
announcing the program on a video on YouTube, which I'll probably do, this
will be the one time I'm going to do it. I want you guys to spearhead
this. Okay. Uh Okay. I think that's pretty
much it for this week. Yeah.
Thank you for for joining us even though I know you're like super sick. I'm going
to go home and go to sleep. Yeah, that's sort of Do you want another Twinkie? No.
All right, guys. Thank you for watching and yeah, I super thank you for watching
because I think this is one of our highest uh viewer numbers that we've ever had on the live show. So, yeah,
thank you so much, guys, for tuning in and good night. Merry Christmas. Merry
Christmas every and happy Hanukkah and just everything generally sort of, you
know, happy winter solstice
time. I have to turn this off somehow. It's way over there. It's hard to see.
See if I can do it from here.
Wait for it. Wait for it.