Hey, there it goes. There it goes. All right, guys. We're live. Welcome to the
Lionus Tech Tips live stream featuring
the one and only Slick PC. In spite of that one guy who keeps asking me to fire
him. I haven't done it yet today. Today.
Are those mine? No. Oh, where'd mine go?
Oh, there they are. We both have the same earbuds, which causes no small
amount of confusion or would cause no small amount of confusion if we ever put
them in a pile next to each other, which would be a bit of a problem. So, we're
both using Flux in Ear Pros. What do you think of them? I like them. Did you ever
try the nonpros? Yeah, I didn't mind
those. They were good, but I like how well these will hook around your ear,
right? And how well they sit in your ear? The only complaint I have about the
non-pros is like these ones, um, they talked about when we were in their suite
that they're designed after hearing aids, right? Yeah. So, they fit in your
ear really well and they don't really come out of your ear that much, right?
And then the cable can go right up and around your ear so there's not a lot of tension. With the nonpros, um, they're
designed to to kind of stick out of your ear and then go down. So, they stick
fairly far out and then go straight down. You know what I discovered though
is that with the nonpros, if you really jam them in there. Yeah. I Well, hold
on. No, no, really though. That's That's why they're so long. You're supposed to
I I found if I put a size smaller ear
tip on it and then I put them right in, not only did they sound great, the noise
isolation was outstanding and they didn't stick out really far anymore. I
was I even able to lie down on them without them being uncomfortable. So
there there's sort of That's pretty cool. I didn't go that far with it. I
don't like Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Fair enough. Cuz they're more like in-
ear canal almost. Yeah. Which is kind of
weird. Well, it's not for everyone, that's for sure. And wouldn't that be worse, too, for your ears? I mean, if
you cranked it, maybe. Sure. Yeah, I would think so. Yeah. All right. So,
what's our first topic for the week? Sorry if my voice sucks, guys. I'm kind of sick.
Yeah, I know that's a common topic. Yeah, we sort of talk about that a lot,
but yeah. Let's move on to a uh a new
topic. So, our first topic of the week is um Tomb Raider 2013 edition is
already 50% off on Steam.
It's not even the summer sale yet. Like I kind of expected stuff like this in
the summer sale because the summer Steam summer sale is always like just the most
ridiculous thing ever. It's like please stay inside and play video games,
please. I don't even for a few months I've already I've started doing this
like a few months back and for until the summer sale comes around. What I do is
I'll actually for any games that I hear of that I want and any games that go on
sale that I'm like, "Oh, that looks interesting." I put it in a list in a
notepad on my computer and I just wait. Even if it goes on like a crazy weekend
only sale, I'm like, "No, I'll just put that in a list. Wait for the summer
sale cuz it's so cheap." It's basically
like like boxing boxing week or I guess
uh for the American viewers kind of like like a Black Friday type thing. It's
kind of it's kind of awesome. It's just not worthwhile to buy anything any other
time. Yeah. But I mean this comes back to our discussion about Crisis 3. So
that came out and then it was discounted within a couple weeks in spite of being
evidently a hot selling title. Should you pre-order anything
ever? See, like at this point, the main reason
why I would ever see to pre-order anything is if you can find a place
where you're going to get some amount of benefit from it. Because like sometimes
Steam will do the oh, if enough people pre-order and you always hit the third
tier, and there's three tiers of pre-order benefits. And sometimes like
it comes with other games, right? And it'll come with like other games, DLC,
like all this stuff. So sometimes the pre-order benefits are really big and
exclusive. So sometimes it's worth it. I have Bill's hat in left in uh Team
Fortress 2. See, like see like that. But
that's I think where the benefit of buying early is going to be now because
it's not price. It's not price anymore.
Yeah. It's like two, three weeks, four weeks after the uh after it actually
comes out. It's already like Yeah.
So, someone says, uh, yeah, people are
still complaining about the audio levels. I actually don't
understand. Um, okay, here we can try moving it a little
closer. That might actually help. So,
the mic. Yeah,
we will try. Whether just said audio is great. Well, I adjusted it a little bit.
Okay. It's easier to turn down than it is for people who are maxed out to turn
it up. So, I I understand um
yeah, I understand why that's a problem. Why don't we turn to a little bit of
Twitter Q&A? So, let's go ahead and do this. Oh. Oh, yeah. Another topic
actually before we uh before we go any further, is our afterparty this week,
assuming Slick and I can get it working, we'll probably get it working, right? I
would think so. Is going to be our Super Mario World live stream.
At least like the start of it. At least the start of it. We'll probably have to do more than one segment. Yeah. It's not
going to be in one sitting. I mean, the reality of it is I told my wife about
the concept of the Super Mario World live stream and she was kind of like I
mean, you can't expect wives to necessarily always get the whole like
game stream. Quite frankly, I don't really get the whole game streaming thing, but I mean, it's more for us.
We're not doing like a let's play. This is more of just we're doing a normal
we're probably going to be talking about random stuff just like we do in the afterparty. Yeah. But just instead of
the whole screen being us, it'll probably be a small webcam view and then
Super Mario World. And like who doesn't like Super Mario World? Can I have a
webcam view of you? What are you wearing? What? That's true.
I can see what you're wearing. Your exposed knees are very sensual today.
Exposed knees. Well, slip shorts to work, which I mean, I'm not the best
dressed gentleman. You wear sandals. That's true. But sandals are very
practical. And you only wear nice shirts when you need to. Yes, that is true. If
you're not going to be in front of camera, you wear like badminton shirts and stuff. Yes, that's true. You
probably just don't like How many shorts do you own? Uh, a couple. They're all
the same. And you probably don't like them, do you? I have three pairs of jean
shorts that I actually don't like cuz they make my butt look big there. So
that's why you don't wear shorts. I love shorts. Shorts are amazing. Okay, that
actually could be part of the reason. All right, so moving along to Twitter
Q&A. Ah, watching from Norway, but not at a land party. Second time tuning in
from Austria. I think this new time slot really does work well for a lot of uh a
lot of people. Really, really well. George says, "Apparently there's a
giveaway of leftover Steam codes on the forum." Cool. That actually happens like
a lot. Yeah, it's neat. If you're if you don't have many Steam games, like
honestly, hang around the forum. There's there's one guy that does Steam giveaways all the time for just drawing
him random things. That's kind of cool. And he'll pick like not the best drawing
at all. He'll pick like the thing that he just kind of likes the most. And
usually it has nothing to do with the best drawing at all. It's just what makes him laugh. So that's pretty cool.
I know one of our mods has done a giveaway. I know. Like there's a lot of
giveaways on the forum actually. Um, speaking of giveaways on the forum, the
user Dragon Tale submitted a Mass Effect 2 Steam code or I think Oh crap, I think
it's an Origin code. Yeah, I think it's an origin code. But one way or another,
it's a free copy of Mass Effect 2 that he sort of told me I could give away on
the live stream. So instead, I opted to
give it away on the forum in the D. I'm
gonna see if I can remember what my hotkey is for this one. This Whoops.
Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Oh. Uh oh. We'll be back in a
moment. What are you
doing? What's going on? There we
go. All right. So, in this thread here called the post Linus memes here thread,
which actually has some pretty funny stuff. Okay. This one's not that great,
but basically the winner selected by me and Slick is going to win a copy of Mass
Effect 2. And I think it's just sort of for fun. Twitter's up and running and
it's gone. Love it. I have to keep going
until I find my favorite one, which I don't actually burst out laughing at
that much stuff I see on the internet, but this thread has got me going a couple times. Yeah, this thread's
actually just kind of awesome. But where is it? Here we go. Here we go. Oh, no.
Yeah, that one's not bad. That one's not bad. But there's another slick one that I think is my personal favorite so far.
I don't remember where it is. I don't remember where it is, too. I think it's pretty early on. I like this. Have you
seen this? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I saw this one. Oh my goodness. That was so funny.
Okay, you know what? Hold on. We're going to cut back to back to us for a second. V Bulletin has taken care of us
at this point. They've issued a full refund. So, we are now square with them.
It's all good. Yeah. Still funny, though. This one's just terrifying. This
is weird. I mean, there's like a black Linus
I' I've never seen that before. Uh, okay. I think it's got to be
page three because it was pretty early on.
Um, okay. Hold on. Close cell phone.
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Trust me. Trust me. It's worth it. Oh, I thought
it was on page two pages now.
Okay. Close cell phone. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Final assembly.
Okay. Okay. Yeah. No. No. Did someone get rid of it? Maybe.
That's bizarre. Okay. Well, there's a Slick one that we both saw that we both
really liked that I thought was quoted in here a few times. A lot of people
talked about it, but it was basically Slick giving a big thumbs up with the
caption EA at the
bottom. And I have no idea what happened here. I haven't seen some of these. So,
so anyway, must be gone. Guys, feel free to post on the thread. You can win a
free copy of Mass Effect 2, courtesy of Dragon Tale, one of the members of our
forum. All right, so back to Twitter, right? That's where we left off. I was
like, so are you ready for Haswell? Uh, we have
Haswell chips. We have Haswell boards coming soon. We had a conversation with
ASUS that involves um a lot of uh a lot
of really cool stuff heading our way. So, we're going to be hopefully doing
like some build guides and some benchmarks and talking about Haswell. A
whole a whole heck of a lot. Um Andy wants to know when we're expecting the
NVIDIA 700 series. We have no idea. And
if we did, we wouldn't be able to tell you. So, if we did, I would tell you we
have no idea. So, there you go. That should tell you all you need to know.
Uh, Slick, have you tried Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon yet? No. Why not? So, well,
I don't have a code yet. Oh,
well, you have a Never Settle. Yeah, but they haven't sent out I don't think
Never Settle has sent out their codes yet. So, I'm waiting for Never Settle to
send out their codes and then I will play the crap out of Blood Dragon. I'm
so excited. You saw that gift I showed you, right? Yes. It's a It's a gift
where two guys are fighting on the road and then some gigantic techno lizard
just dives by and takes the guy out. I'm just like, "Oh, I'm so excited for this
game. It's so 80s." Oh my goodness. So
excited. Uh, so what's up with Haswell?
What would you expect from online gaming platforms in the future? We've talked
about that a fair bit, I think, already on previous live streams. 15th top
poster on the forums today is apparently Dylan Grant. Nice. Awesome. Yes, Super
Mario finally is coming here. Do you want to scooch forward a little bit? Apparently you're a little out of focus.
Tuning in from Sweden at 1:00 a.m. Love it, guys. Thank you for tuning in. And
apparently lots of new interactions. Oh, this is interesting. So, we got our
hands on a 7990 today. Um, but the only
hands-on time we had with it was to basically just like video the card
itself. We didn't actually get a chance to benchmark it at all, which was sort
of disappointing. Um, so that made me that made me sad,
but hopefully we'll get a chance to really benchmark it. The problem with
benchmarking the 7990 is that due to the
fact that it's running Crossfire and AMD's drivers aren't really optimized
for um the best frame times, the frame rates
might be really high, but the actual perceived performance is not necessarily
that high on a Crossfire solution right now. And unless you have a really
high-end capture PC with um some special
software and a lot of time to sit down and and really go through frame by frame
what was actually being displayed. It's really hard to get performance numbers
for Crossfire these days until AMD fixes
the issue. They have a prototype driver that looks a lot better, but it's
nowhere near available to the public yet. So, supposed to be like 20%
increase, right? Um Oh, way better. Way better than that. like in terms of the
perceived performance and the perceived u stutteringness of it, it's supposed to
be absolutely way better. Can you email that to me so that I can open it up over there? Yeah. All right. So, we found I'm
trying to get the user's name. We found the meme that was sort of mine and uh
mine and Slick's favorite so far that we dug through a thread only to find out it
like isn't there anymore for some reason. I have no idea why. So, we're
going to bring that up soon. Uh we're going to have a guest next week. I don't
know if I told you this yet. vaguely mentioned something, but I don't
actually know what's going on. Okay, so our guest here, I'm just going to open
up our live stream agenda here, and I'll take you to his website. So, he's a bit
of a local technology media personality. He goes by the name of Steve Doto. So,
there you go. He's got a website. He does more radio stuff. he's uh he's a
little bit more focused on the business side of the technology and how to how to
enable yourself to sort of save time and make your life a little bit better with
it. He doesn't focus on graphics cards or stuff like that. So, I asked him to
come do a 20-minut segment or so. He does a lot of speaking engagements
locally. So, um so yeah, I had I had a meeting with him and he was he was
interested in coming in and joining us. So, I think it'll be interesting to just kind of do the whole guest thing again
and see how it goes. uh very knowledgeable. He's been doing I
mean he's run um TV broadcast tech shows in the past.
He's done online tech shows. Like I said, he does radio now. Extremely
experienced. He's been doing tech talks since I mean I basically knew where to
find the turbo button on a 386 or 486 or
whichever one was the one that came with a turbo button on. I can't even remember anymore. So, uh so yeah, that should be
kind of fun. Um, I don't know how carefully you've gone through some of
the topics that I submitted for the live stream, but have you seen this yet?
Yeah, crazy. So, guys, absolutely nuts.
Check this out. I don't know what ad that is, but uh this is from uh this is
from nofilmchool.com. Netflix streaming loses
2,000 titles as Universal and MGM
licenses expire. So, there's a lot of
talk right now about what the heck does
this actually mean? And I'm gonna I'm going to throw this at Slick. And so,
what's your take on this? I'm kind of worried for
Netflix. And it's actually pretty brutal. That's so many titles. How 1794
1794 titles. And I guess the thing that
sort of got a lot of people scratching their heads right now is that at the
same time, Warner Brothers is launching their
archival video service. Yeah. Which is
more focused on older and obscure titles, but there's some overlap with
the stuff that the license just expired from Netflix for.
And it's like, okay, so you got your own
service now. Netflix is branching out
into content creation now. Like crazy. Like crazy. They're investing. People
are apparently really liking it, too. So, I mean, at some point in the
future, is is ne does Netflix become
pretty much the same as any other content delivery company, except they
were the kick in the pants that forces the other guys to figure out this whole
digital content distribution thing, right? The reason why everyone pirates
everything. So maybe at some point I mean what I what I've loved about Nve
I've only used Netflix for I had it for a few weeks because I'm a cheapkate and
I don't really watch movies like I I just actually don't
watch movies. I've watched one movie since my son was born and that was over
a year ago. I went to see The Hobbit. That was it. It's like okay. Um, so I
don't really watch movies, so I didn't have it for long. But what I liked about it is that you weren't locked into this
service or that service or that service to the point where all of a sudden if
you're paying $7 a month for 10 different services, it costs just as
much as a cable subscription, which is what I'm trying to get rid of. Yeah. At
that point, um, so are we moving towards
more fragmentation where each of the studios maintains their own content
library? Is someone like YouTube gonna
win to the point where they get all the original programming? Well, it could
explode and then come back in because they're they're doing the subscriber
thing on YouTube. Like everyone is trying to you know how YouTube rolled
out their like you can set up your channels as a subscription base. Yes.
Um, everyone is kind of rolling out their own big content subscription
setup. And I'm wondering if everyone all
the users are going to go, "This is too much
crap." And like they're going to want to
go back to just one group that maybe charges more. So maybe it's going to get
out of Netflix's hands for a while and then someone, whether it's Netflix or
maybe someone else, might be able to pull it all back together because it's going to be frustrating managing like 10
different subscriptions for all your stuff. Oh yeah, it's just ridiculous.
It's annoying. That was nice. Like United States based
Netflix, Canadian Netflix was never really that strong, but United
States-based Netflix where you just kind of had everything. Yeah. Almost all the
movies you could think of, tons of documentaries, all the shows, almost.
And quite frankly, that's the kind of thing I could see myself subscribing to,
whereas Canadian Netflix really wasn't that special. Yeah, VPNs. Um, yeah, VPN,
true enough. But yeah, so there's a lot of uh there's
a lot of stuff being pulled off. So things like uh so hold on, hold on. Here
we go. So South Park is is off, but it's
not that big of a deal because you can watch South Park online legally anyway.
Um Audrey Rose, James Bond classics like
Dr. and golding cuz those are still pretty good to watch. Um, so Netflix's
take on this is you know what our library has always been in flux. We're
also adding I think they said they were adding several Yeah. 500 titles are
being added May 1st. So that was 2 days ago. So they're losing almost 1,800 but
a lot of them are very possibly super old that people possibly aren't watching
that much. So they're adding Bachelorette, adding Hunger Games,
adding Mission Impossible 2. I mean, it's one of those things where if you're
subscribing to Netflix as a service, it's kind of like if I turn it on,
there'll be something to watch. Mission probably accomplished as
long as they can maintain. Well, especially the States one. Yeah. Where I
think this is going on. Yeah. Because they have so much stuff.
Which actually reminds me um there was huge news the other day that I actually
didn't have in our live stream um in our live stream document, but I'm going to
open this up. I just moved it over there now. So, the first major YouTube channel
acquisition just went down. So, DreamWorks announced the acquisition of
Awesomeness TV for 33 million, which is
absolutely incredible. So, Awesomeness TV
was okay. Mark Turbique and hold on.
Yeah. So, he's basically been involved in some other uh So, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Here we go. The key to this success according to Turbique was Robin's
experience creating traditional television content aimed at young viewers such as Smallville and One Tree
Hill. So, they basically took this channel. They got one of YouTube's
grants. I think they got 3 and a half Yeah, 3.5 million from
the series A round last summer, which added to a 5 million original content
grant from YouTube. So, they got a bunch of money to build this channel. They
built it up to 500,000 subscribers and around 80 million monthly views. So,
this was on Po Daily, just so that we're citing our source here.
um they got it up to that level and all
of a sudden it's worth 33 million which
is incredible because this could be the beginning of you know guys like I mean
YouTube hasn't really said okay yeah
we're going to develop content we're going to hire all the people and do it I
don't think they're interested in that they want to be a platform but they've started investing in content creators uh
whether it's Freddy Wong or whether it's Awesomeness TV or whoever else to turn
their platform into something that major
studios like DreamWorks are going to walk in and buy and start being content
producers on YouTube's platform, which makes room for premium channels that
people will actually legitimately, I think, pay for.
Interesting. One thing like Freddy Wong and stuff, it almost sucks that it's
named exactly after him because for him,
he probably can't sell it, but or if he did sell it, he'd have to stay a part of
it. But that's what's going on here as well. Oh, he's staying a part of it.
He's staying on board. So, hold on. Let
me just uh let me just browse down. I I read this sort of in with great interest
uh last last night, which was Yeah, it
just it kind of blew my mind. So, he's going to stay on for I think it
was can't see how long, but yeah. So, so Robins is staying on and he's going to
be continuing to to develop it under DreamWorks. Of course, if they're
acquiring it for 33 million, they probably have some more money earmarked
to continue to invest in it and make it uh more awesome. But what I figure based
on this is that I must be a millionaire.
I'm worth about four million views a month online as tech tips. So, I figure
it it works out perfectly such that uh you can just extrapolate. And so, no.
Yeah. Okay. I guess our production values aren't really there. That's never
really been our strength, has it? No, no, no. I guess it has. And like the
sale of a tech channel on YouTube, I don't think is quite as much as like an
original content creator. We create original cont.
Yeah, fair enough. But not exactly the same platform. Either way, the, you
know, between looking at sort of Netflix's uh constant eb and flow of
their content as well as, I mean, this whole thing where YouTube channels might
turn into TV channels. Yeah. I hope that
happens as soon as possible, which is just crazy. Yeah. Which is just
absolutely crazy. I mean, YouTube's been they've been doing all this stuff. I
mean, they've been they've been one step ahead. Yeah. We need to support live. We
need to support this. We need to support that. We need to incentivize content
creators to stay on this platform. It's like they support things unlike EA.
Wow. Okay. Yeah, I guess we're we're half an hour in. I guess I had to throw
a shot. It wasn't that it wasn't that early for for a shot at EA.
Um, speaking of speaking of EA, did you
did you put that meme in here? No, I can't edit the doc. Did you email it to
me? Uh, I think so at some point. Yep, there it is.
Okay, so here we go, guys. So, this was this was the meme that Slick and I were
looking for before. So, it's basically
just that's the entire punch line. That's all the punchline we
need. How every joke on their live stream ended from now on.
Yeah. And they never sponsored Lionus
Tech Tips ever. Speaking of which, EA, if you would like
to sponsorship, uh, if you would like to sponsor us, just getting content, go for
it. Okay. In Germany, apparently YouTube, uh, created some original
channels that are paid by YouTube to create high quality content. Um, well, I
mean, okay, they had by YouTube. Yeah, they if they're paid by YouTube and they
actually hire people who actually get a paycheck, then that's a little bit
different from what we've seen over here. So, there you go. Seems I can't
watch because my sister took the tablet. It's okay. The archive will go up right
away this week. We'll be back to the usual way of doing it. Uh the problem
was that we had to wait for Twitch's archive which we could then download and
chop together in Windows Live Movie Maker and then we had to wait for it to
upload and then we had to wait to put in all the timestamps. It was just a really
really cludgy way of doing it before. Hopefully it'll actually stay as one
this time. Hi Andrew, welcome to watching the live stream. Well, live.
Um, what's your opinion on the Nexus 4? I don't know. I haven't heard much about
it. It just seems like it kind of was
there and people were really excited about it. I I I've heard sales are
really good. Like like it's not a huge
talking point. I mean, it's an Android stock Android device, but honestly,
Nexus S also wasn't a huge talking
point. Lots of people had them. Yeah. But it wasn't a huge talking point. I
think quite a few people have Nexus 4s as Well, by comparison, you look at how
much someone like a Samsung is spending on advertising. Yeah. So, because
Samsung is pushing all their phones, Google doesn't really they do a little
bit. I think the login page for Gmail now has something about I I didn't even
look at it, but I saw a phone. So, maybe they're doing something, but like the
advertising push behind Samsung is so much bigger, making it a talking point,
right? And I mean, you have to look at it from Google's perspective is why are they going to push their hardware
hardware platform so hard when ultimately it was partners like Samsung
that made Android a success that were willing to build the hardware before
Google got around to it. Yeah. Um, so
yeah, I mean, and the other thing too though is with faster, more modern
devices like the HTC1 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 hitting the market being
available now, there is a unique experience with Nexus devices though.
Okay, I brought this up with my Nexus S. I went through three major platform
changes with that phone. Like that was crazy. And like right when it's
announced as released, it's on my phone, right? Like that's one thing with the
Nexus phones. You always get the updates because you're getting pushed from Google, which is kind of fantastic.
Just that like awesome support that you expect from directly being attached to
Google, right? Let's talk about this. So, Razer
has launched their comm software. It's in beta right now. Um, I tried to
install it and it basically just kind of closed. So, I I kind of gave up because
I was going to test it with Slick, but what I discovered is that when I uh
reinstall it might have been a problem actually with my audio drivers. I
updated the firmware on my SS1 and the drivers and everything's working 100%
now. So, it might not have been Comm's problem, but I haven't tried it yet
personally, but I sent this the link over to Slick. So, what are they trying
to do here exactly? Um, I think they're trying to replace
Skype because the interface style, like,
you know, there's the like Ventrilo TeamSpeak kind of style where there's a
server and you join and disconnect from the server and there's chat rooms and
all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's not set up like that, right? Which is why a
lot of gamers have started using Skype instead of Yeah. the complicated setup
that goes into that, which honestly I still kind of like I like I like Mumble.
I love Mumble. Mobile's the same kind of thing though. Yeah, same kind of thing. Oh,
right. We have something else to talk about, but I will continue this topic until we're done. Sorry, just uh mod
chat reminded me about a serious serious thing going on. Um,
sorry for that segue. I'll come back. So, it has the social pane just like uh
Skype does where it shows everyone on your friends list. So, on the left side,
I'm I'm looking on his um everyone on your friends list on the left side. And
then you can open up chat groups super
super easily and you can save those chat groups. So you can kind of make channels
kind of because you can save chat groups. So if you have like your team
for whatever game you can save them all as a chat group. Are we streaming this
page? Okay. So let's see. Team Diablo. Yeah. So he's got a chat group going on.
Apparently there's a channel within there. I haven't used it enough. I'm sorry guys. I guess you can maybe within
individual chat groups make channels. It's kind of interesting. So, that's a
cool option to do there. Um, for like
general feedback on its performance, its autodetected settings I'm finding are
not quite as good as Skype. With Skype, as far as I can tell, anyone just
clicks call and it works, right? Like, as long as you have the right device
pointing at it and stuff, it just works. Um, with uh what is it? Comms. Yeah.
Used it for a while. I think we had up to six people on it. And all we noticed
that is that maybe you had to turn one dude up or maybe you had to slightly
turn your own mic down or up, but it wasn't like
uh it wasn't crazy hardcore settings. It was up or down. One slider. Like not a
big deal. Anyone can do this setup. Fairly easy level settings. Like I had a
fan in my room pointed directly at a desktop mic. So you would expect it to
pick it up. And it was a little bit but it doesn't in Skype. But then I just
turned the slider down a little bit and it was totally fine. I see. Okay. So,
the auto detect isn't quite as awesome as Skype, but is super super easy to uh
tune in. So, that's awesome. One big problem that a lot of Skype users,
especially myself, hate is that if we're
in a game and someone calls you
like the crazy annoying call, it's so loud. It's insanely loud and it will
probably put an overlay on your screen or it'll tab you out of your game. And
like if someone hangs up the call, you might get tabbed out of your game and
your whole call ends if it's the person who started the call. And like there's
all these kind of major problems. This one, it will now transfer the host. Oh,
that's cool. We think um we tried it and
then a really really loud high-pitched noise came in and then everyone could
hear each other, but it was kind of crackly. Okay. But it isn't the call. It
isn't beta. That's one big takeaway people need to understand. It isn't
beta. Beta. And that's not like the audio codec or anything. So, right.
Okay. Might just deal with that for now. It'll hopefully be fixed. Um, so I think
it's supposed to transfer the host in the call. Um, if you get a call, you
don't really get a call in a game. If you get a call in a game, it'll come up
in the bottom right hand corner. It will not tab you out. It'll pop up like a
Steam or Xfire overlay. Okay, if anyone knows about that, it has a key command
just like Steam or Xfire. So you can bind it to I think whatever you want.
But it's uh control tab. Okay. Which
still kind of sucks because crouching and then checking your score, right? But
you could change it to but I think 99% sure you can change it. I don't know why
you wouldn't be able to. I haven't changed it yet, but I will. Um so that's
kind of nice. Very unobtrusive while you're in games, which is Skype's
problem, right? And then the audio is not quite as good, but after a few seconds you can get there. So Okay. So I
actually like it a lot so far. I I think I'm going to kind of make the jump
really. I've been using Skype forever. I'm still going to use Skype for um text
chat for a lot of people just because I have more people on Skype, right?
Um but yeah, for comms in games, I hate
Skype. It pisses me off because it constantly tabs me out and just is a
massive annoyance. So I So what's the impression? You said you had six people
on. What are they? Everyone's kind of down with it. We've tried a lot of
different voice chats. Uh, most of the guys most of the guys that haven't been
gaming as long as say like my brother and I like the Skype style where it's a
friends list. Yeah. More than the old channel-based vent kind of style, right?
Um, so we've been using Skype for a while, but none of us have been totally
satisfied because of it tabbing it out of games and stuff. So, we've been looking for a different solution, but
there hasn't really been one quite as good. So, usually we'll all download the
new thing that comes out, try it for a little bit, and everyone bails and goes back to Skype. Everyone's actually been
consistently using coms since we downloaded it. So, I wonder what's the
benefit to Razer to create this
uh branding, I guess. I think they're doing ads on it. Okay. So, there's that.
Yeah. Price also branding is apparently their their intention. I mean, you know,
so but their branding's all over it. So,
if you're using coms for all your games and you go to a store and you're you're
if you're just getting into gaming and your buddy who's been into gaming forever is like, "Yeah, download this
Razer coms thing." And then you get into gaming a little bit more and you want to
buy some peripherals and you go to the store. If you see Razer on the shelf,
what are you going to think? You're probably going to want to buy the Razer thing. So, you think that's probably
their intention then? Yeah. And I think they're doing some ads. Some ads to
help. I mean, if they run ads for the hot new game or whatever else, I think
they have enough relationships with developers as it is. is I mean you look
at even the branded peripherals they do someone will run advertising with them
if they can get the user. I don't think they'll have a problem with getting ads.
So I'm not 100% sure about the ads thing but I I think I remember. Very cool. So
there you go. There you go guys. Razercoms. Uh check it out. I think it's
razor.com or razorzone. Yeah. Razorzone.com whatever your region
is or something like that. So there you go. That's what the page looks like. If
you Google razorcoms then that'll come up for sure. Find it. I I didn't expect
it to be that good, especially after you said it just completely crashed. Yeah.
Well, I was like, "Ah, whatever. I'll test this out." And me and a buddy jumped on and then it was a pleasant
surprise. So, that was cool. Um, okay. So,
apparently, what's going on?
Apparently, EA shut down PopCap Vancouver. Oh, really? I don't remember
when they did this, but they did it during something else. Oh, okay. Um, so
that it it wasn't like a major news item. I I don't know if they planned
that. They probably didn't plan that, but it happened during something else big going on. I don't know if it was uh
the Boston bombing or something, but it was like something really big was going
on and they shut down Popcat Vancouver and laid off 2,000 employees.
Wow. And they're planning a complete company restructure. So, their plan to
win the hearts back of the community was to fire 2,000
people. It's probably I don't know. Oh, yeah. So,
here we go. Electronic Arts. Uh, this is on Tech Vibes that I'm on right now.
Electronic Arts, Shuttering PopCap, and Quick Lime Studios in Vancouver, sources
say. So, this was Yeah. on the 25th of April. Yeah. Um, Electronic Arts,
dubbed, Here's a quote from, again, Tech Vibes. Electronic Arts, dubbed the worst
company in America in both 2012 and 2013, laid off 170 people in Montreal on
April 11th, followed by this layoff,
which is uh let's see if I can get an exact number here. Internal memo,
something about a restructuring.
Wow. Wow. That's terrible.
I mean, how much uh how could a comp how could they have
taken something like PopCap and gotten it to the point where they have to lay
off a whole team? I mean, PopCap was rolling in money.
EA's really good at killing things. Wow.
I mean, I feel terrible for the people who were working for doing something
that was, you know, successful and awesome and then, you know, in order for
EA to have a clean start in
2014. So, in 2011, EA bought Popcap for
$1.3
billion. And they've they made Plants Versus Zombies and Bejeweled Blitz.
Like, those are two huge games. Yeah. I
mean, merchandising alone, they should be able to keep these people employed.
Sell some more zombie. Like, the amount of freaking zombie plushes and like
walnut hats that I saw at packs for a little while there was
insane. Like, everybody had a little walnut thing. Yeah, this is like
terrible news, actually. Yeah. It's never good to see like
buckets of people laid off. And it seems like every single time you hear of
layoffs in the gaming industry, it's like, "Yeah, EA just laid off like
quadruple figure." Yeah. EA acquired something and then ran it into the
ground and just fired everyone and laid off everyone like
Well, so there's the uplifting story of the week, I guess. Yeah, that's
terrible. Um I don't know. So that's no good.
Let's get a new item so we can be happy. Yeah. I have like nothing to say
anymore. That's just really crappy. Really crappy. And like we're not even
that fast on the upkeep. Like that was a little while ago. Yeah. It was a couple
weeks back. Yeah. Just or a week ago. Still totally crappy. Yeah. It's still
crappy. We just heard about it so it's crappy to us at least. And I'm sure it's
still crappy to the uh Yeah. Okay. Well, James makes a good
point. But PopCap made things for tablets and phones and PCs and every
platform. Yeah, there's actually I can't think of a compelling reason. It's not
like Android's going somewhere except like this. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. If anything, there should be more opportunities for Yeah. Apparently,
there's the goal for comms is to have only one ad and it's a banner at the
bottom. I'm getting this from my moderator chat. So, they'll have one ad
that'll probably a really high value ad, right? And it's probably just going to
chill at bottom again. Probably won't be obtrusive. Cool. Probably be fine. Yeah,
that's outstanding. Um, so would a 16 690 or a 7990 be bottlenecked by an
i53570K overclocked to 4.2? Um, it doesn't really matter because an
i53570K right now, I mean, who knows how things are going to change over the next
month or so. Right now is as fast as you can get anyway. So, sure, maybe it's
bottlenecked. I don't know. What do you want me to tell you? It's as not
bottlenecked as it can be. Every system
everywhere the one the one you're sitting in front of the one that you
used before that the one that's in your parents' room every system has a
bottleneck somewhere. It's like people ask me is this system bottlenecked? Yes,
every system is bottlenecked. It's about reducing bottlenecks and making them not
as narrow as possible. So for example, a
system with a sixcore processor and a
GTX Titan is bottlenecked in every
situation is bottlenecked by something. Your system can only be as fast as the
slowest component and some component
will always be the slowest thing for any given workload. That's just how it
works. Um so yes, yes, it will not be
bottlenecked any more than it would otherwise have to be. The only way to
reduce that bottleneck will be to overclock that 3570K even
further. So there uh what's in yours and
Slick's personal rigs? Um well I'm running a 3970X. I'm running a GTX 590.
I've got 8 gigs of RAM in there right now cuz my memory was has been borrowed
back soon for a while. I've got eight 120 gig SSDs in a RAID zero array that I
back up nightly because that's insane. I have an XFX 1000 watt 80 plus platinum
power supply and custom liquid cooling.
Go. Oh, I have to do things to mine first.
No, no, tell them what you have now. I have 2600K and a 660 Ti with an NRE 1200
watt true power, which is like massively actually beast.
absurdly overkill and beast and unnecessary. Um, an Octane 256 GB SSD,
which doesn't back up. Do you really not have it set up to back
up? It's just programs. Oh, I don't store any documents on there at all. Oh,
okay. It's just programs. Like, I could reset up that SSD in an hour or two.
Okay. So, I don't bother. Um, and then a
like big two TBTE drive, which I do back up, that has all my games, which I don't
need to back up, so I don't back up that folder. But then like all my documents and videos and music and everything else
on there. Uh, what am I missing? 12 gigs of kind of mis mix mismatched RAM. Half
of its dominators, half of it's like uh
Do you still have that AON stuff? Yep. Half of it's Anon. Nice. Kimo went out
of business years ago. That was like four, five, four years ago. Yep. It's
like a neon RAM like a boss. Totally awesome. That was such a good deal. I
paid 10 bucks a gig for it or something
like back then for DDR3.
That's so sweet. Yeah, it's like ridiculous. Um and then um 800D
800D TJ7. Yeah.
All right. Um apparently there are rumored GeForce
GTX 700 launch dates. We can't really comment one way or the other. Good night
from Portugal. Good night Portugal. Good night. Um, first time watching live.
Love the new schedule. Thank you. Have you tried raid call? I haven't,
unfortunately. I have. I don't mind it. Again, the group though wasn't down.
Right. Apparently, if you put Skype on busy, it won't interrupt your game, but
it also won't tell you things. Yeah. A lot of the time, so it's like it's like
I either get completely interrupted or I get no notifications at all. Yeah.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Yeah. kind of with that the thing I
liked about comms is and like another thing with comms just little like ease
of life situations where if you call someone it's like a deeper quieter tone
instead of freaking Skype's like I'm going to kill your ears ringtone which
is nuts like being on the receiving end of a Skype call isn't even as bad as
calling someone. It's kind of bizarre that you can't change it and it's so
loud. Like I understand it's a branding element for them. Do you always know
when a Skype call is coming? But I mean, when you're going out, it doesn't ring
that way when you're going out. Like, it's the annoying Yeah, super
common one. And it's insanely loud when you're going out and it's terrible and
really annoying with comms. It's actually totally fine. I don't know.
It's like it's I guess it's not the biggest thing, but that's one of the
first things I noticed, right, was when I first called someone, I was like, "Oh,
wow. That's pleasant." Uh Kevin Norman
says he's watching on his Nexus 4. fantastic device. Smoothest he's used.
However, battery life is apparently not satisfactory. Uh we've talked about
NVIDIA Grid quite a few times. Uh we don't really click links during the live
stream just cuz sometimes it's bad. Yeah. Um Frostbite says apparently call
quality is 10 times better than Skype. I haven't experienced that. Okay. He's com
saying that about comms, right? Okay. So, let's uh let's sort of move on to
our next news topic of the day. I kind of wish we had these tabs open already.
We're going to do some community news items. However, we have a bit of a
public service announcement uh right now with respect to people posting community
news items because yeah, it's um we do
want to encourage people to post news items um on the Linus Tech Tips forum in
the news section. It's great. We want that to be super active. We want anyone
visiting the forum to be able to go to the news section and kind of be able to
catch up on the tech news. Awesome. However, we don't want to run into a
situation where Linus Tech Tips forum looks like we're plagiarizing in any
way. So, don't copy paste the body of
text from someone that you're you're pulling news from unless you're
surrounding it in a quote. And I think a basic requirement for posting in the
news section, we should probably add this to the to the guidelines is that
you should be contributing some of your own take on it. start the discussion up
yourself rather than just posting the topic and then kind of leaving it there.
So say something about it, post it, quote it appropriately, and link to the
source. I mean, everyone's been linking to the source really well as it is, but
we don't want to run into a situation where we're like bad guys because our
forum community posts um copypasted news
articles from other websites. I mean, come on. those those websites where they
just copy paste everyone else's stuff is like we don't we don't want to do that.
The idea of the news section is yes it should be nice and fast like is already
happening but we've had cases where people are just copy and posting things
from articles and like he said try and start the discussion. Okay, so with all
of that said, Good Bites contributed this article where The Verge is
reporting that Intel is claiming the new Iris graphics embedded in the upcoming
Haswell CPUs can offer double or even triple the performance of Intel HD
graphics 4000 that comes with current IV processors. There's a couple couple
things I'd like to comment on to start with. Number one is that not all IBridge
processors have HD 4000 graphics. The
lower-end ones don't. In fact, it's only the high-end ones in many cases, which
is ridiculous, that have higherend integrated graphics. And it's like, it
makes no sense because anyone buying that CPU probably is running a dedicated
graphics card, but that's that's the way
it's been. So, while it may be double or triple in HD4,000, compared to whatever
you're running already, it may be even more than that. So, let's go back to
back to the graph. And one thing is that it's 3D Mark 11. Well, okay, I was going
there. Okay, I wasn't. So, I want to
point at bars on the graphs. So, the dark blue one on the far left, this is
3D Mark06, 3D Mark Vantage, and 3D Mark
11. So, the one on the far left is
um Hold on. Oh, this color coding seems
off. Okay, well, whatever. I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be colors other
than just shades of blue. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be HD
4000. And then I'm pretty sure that uh
one of these is supposed to be Oh crap. No, I looked at this before. Scores
normalized to the last gen and then I
think it was uh because there's going to be two different levels of Iris
integrated graphics as well. So, it's not just going to be HD whatever on
exactly the same thing. Uh, but apparently I'm getting confused
now. So anyway, here, let's just look at this. So with the premium Iris
integrated graphics, you're looking at up to a two times increase over the last
gen product. However, I I would actually
look at something like 3D Mark06 as more of an indicator for something like this
because of a couple things. So number one is 3D Mark 11 and 3D Mark Vantage
are both going to perform significantly better when you have more features
enabled on the hardware. So Iris looks
like it's probably a DirectX11 part,
which doesn't mean that it's necessarily twice as powerful, but if it has more
features, it'll inherently score better on 3D Mark 11 than a nondirectx11 part.
Whereas if you go back to Ivy Bridge, that was a DirectX10 level part. So if
you go back to a really old benchmark like 3D Mark06 then you are looking at
it as okay well let's take away any advantage they get from an updated
feature set let's go based on raw horsepower uh it looks like more of
maybe a 40 to 50% improvement and then 3D Mark is often very
theoretical and so we might be looking at a smaller improvement than even that
but you know leave it to leave it to well Slick I was going to say me and
Slick to test it and let you guys know what's actually up. But in all
likelihood, it'll probably be Slick who is uh figuring out how Haswell stacks
up. We asked Intel this time around. In the past, we'd only asked for K chips
because we know our audience is mostly interested in that, but actually we have
uh four Haswell chips. So, I'm going to run and grab them. Um so that we can
tell you guys not probably can't hear you anymore. Okay, you tell them so that
why we're doing that. Um I don't actually know why we're doing that.
because of lower TDPs. No. So we can
evaluate the lower levels of integrated
graphics cards. Oh, right. Okay. I hope they heard that. Yeah. Mod's not telling
me. So that we can take these chips and
we can compare them to the actual appropriate market competitor. Because
it's one thing if we take, you know, a 3770K and we compare that to AMD's APU
and it's like, okay, well, it costs three times as much, almost four times
as much, and the lower-end Intel chip doesn't have the same onboard graphics
as a 3770K. So this way we can take
something like a 4430 which is one of the ones that we asked for and we can
compare that against the last generation
products as well as AMD's APUs and let you guys know if you want a low-end
entrylevel gaming experience on the cheap. How well does does Haswell
actually stack up for you? So So yeah,
there you go. The Verge is talking about this Intel. Obviously those slides have
Intel all over them. There's a nice big Intel logo. So, I wonder where that came
from. They only used blue. And the whole slide is
blue. So, that's that's Intel's spin on it. But, we're gonna we're going to
check it out. We're going to let you guys know. What I've seen already from
some of the die shots. So, for those of you who don't know, the die is the part
of the CPU. There's there's a big metal piece on top. The die is the actual
silicon inside that actually does all the work. And from some of the die shots
that I've seen, the GPU portion of Haswell is huge. Yeah. Percentage wise
compared to Ivy Bridge. So, I'm expecting a big performance improvement,
but I just don't know if it'll be that or if it'll be something else or, you
know, depend on the game, depend on the drivers, all these things. So, let's
move on to our next community news topic. This one is
D was posted by Josie.
Okay, so there's a picture of what is rumored to be the HTC M4. So the HTC1 is
a phone that I have been using for over
a month now. I absolutely love it quite
honestly. Um I got a Samsung Galaxy S4
about two weeks ago and I haven't actually brought myself to move my SIM
into it yet.
That's actually kind of funny. S4 has some cool features. We did use it for um
for like a a spot in a video where I'm getting a call from someone and I wave
at the phone to answer it and it works and it's cool. Smart stays cool where it
locks onto your eyes and doesn't dim the screen when you're reading things. Um
it's wicked fast, super fast. the fact
that they have a built-in like I have power toggles on my phone so I can
quickly turn off my Wi-Fi and do things like that. But the fact that they have a
built-in uh power toggles that's like this big and has every setting you could
possibly need on the S4 is really cool as well. You know, nice and quick. It's
efficiency-minded. But I just love I'm I'm an
Apple convert. I came from an iPhone. I
want something that feels like Yeah, it's like solid. It doesn't bend. I've
dropped it. It didn't break more than once. I've dropped it a couple times.
It's got a couple dents on it and like pretty far onto tile. Onto tile. I've
dropped it. It's happened. These things happen. When I saw it, he dropped it
from up here and it like hit a chair, like a wooden chair, and then flipped
like crazy and smacked against tile. So, that was not cool. I was not happy. No.
Didn't scratch the screen, fortunately, which is really nice. I think it landed
on the screen, right? Uh, it landed on the edge on the corner on the corner of
the edge, which can be a sensitive spot. Oh yeah. Um, so, so anyway, I'm excited
about the M4 for a couple reasons. Number one is if I had to complain about
something about the one, it's that it's still a little bit big for me. I can use
it one-handed. It's extremely awkward for me, though. I have small hands. The
M4 is rumored to be a 4.3 in smartphone,
which will make it like Oh. Oh, that I
like that even more. That'd be perfect for me. Isn't it a little bit spec
chopped? It is. So, the rumored specs, it's still going to be dual core
processor, LTE capable, 16 gig storage.
Um, ultraixel camera, which is nice to see. Um, because it really I actually I
took some I took a picture of the other night of uh of my baby uh playing with
an Ethernet cable. And someone on Instagram was like, "Did you take that picture with the one?" Because
considering how little light was in there and how good it looked, how much
detail there was, it's awesome. When you compare the HTC1, the Ultraixels to
something like a Galaxy S4 in broad daylight, the S4 destroys it because
more pixels, if you can get the light to them, will give you a sharper image that
you can blow up to all, you know, oblivion. Often can't. That's you just
often can't do it. Um, you know, it's funny. People ask about the marks on my
necks neck in some videos. I don't know if you guys saw me. I scratched my neck
a little while ago. My skin stays really red for a long time. You can see it in
there. My skin stays really red for a long time whenever I scratch it. So, a
lot of the time it's just like eh and then I end up with a weird mark on my
neck. Um, so anyway, 720p screen, uh, 2
gigs RAM. They're saying similar build quality to the HTC1. Is it going to go
through the same manufacturing process? Which is very cool. They they have to
cost it down somewhat, I would expect. Well, how much cheaper is it going to
be? I don't know because you look at like the one's already what a 199 with
threeyear term phone. So maybe this will be a 99 with three-year term phone. Wow.
Making I mean would you consider something like that if you were up for
renewal or would you go Nexus actually
there? That's a good question. What would you do? Guys, I want to hear from you on Twitter. Would you go for build
quality and construction and speed of the device or support or would you go
for direct Android support and stock Android experience? What's more
important to you and why? And I'll let Slick answer his question while we uh go
through that. I don't know actually. I haven't had enough actual hands-on time
with a one and I haven't had any actual hands-on time with the recent Nexus
phone. Okay. You've heard me rave about it though. Yes, but again I haven't
touched any at all with the Nexus phone.
But you know what your Nexus experience was like compared to the S3? My Nexus S
was my favorite phone I ever owned. Okay. So, knowing that, would you would
you just kind of blindly go for it? Next, very possibly. The reason why I
got an S3, like I like my S3, but the reason why I got one was because Nexus
was not available, right? It wasn't because I actually chose it over that.
My carrier did not have anything else, right? I had like four options. Okay.
Like it was not that many options. And like S2 S2 was one of them. S3. Yeah.
And then I don't actually remember the other two, but like it was it was an S3
that I was going to get because it was clearly the best option. Um and at that
time there was only two that I would really want and it was Nexus or S3 and I
was going to get the Nexus if I could because of the amazing experience I had
with Nexus S, right? But I didn't have the option and S3 was a really good
solution. So Okay. Well, let's take it as a more general thing then. Forget the
one, forget the current gen Nexus. Would you take the guarantee of software
support or would you take the beefy hardware and the nice feeling build
quality? What's more important to you? The device or the software? Uh, with
mobile right now. Yeah. Almost the
software. You think so? But what if I mean honestly HTC has been one of the
more cooperative manufacturers in terms of unlocking bootloaders. And I was just
going to say with certain bootloaders and stuff, you might just be able to install it yourself. So, there's that if
it's with HTC, but there's been certain phones that have been problematic with
that, right? So, it's it's interesting. Um, I'd have to do more research on
older HTC phones to see how they reacted
to different things. Okay. Like, like
their perspective on people messing with their stuff. I suspect that with their
current attitude, which is, "Holy crap, we're
desperate. We have to get the community like on board. they got to be on our
side. We need to make this then it would probably be fine and I would probably
end up going with a one. I mean looking at okay looking at sort of the fact that
they're even launching an M4 is extremely encouraging. Like I as you
guys probably know I have a contact at HTC who provides us with phones. We've
done some giveaways. Uh we do we've done I switched with two of their phones now.
Um the overall impression that I get is they're extremely
pleased with demand and sales for the one which it means they have some cash.
Yeah. Which is allowing them to produce
something like an M4. I mean they were so close to the edge or even produce
more once. Or even produce more once. They were so close to the edge they
couldn't get cameras for the one because they weren't a tier one supplier
anymore. Whereas I suspect that's going to change over the next little bit with
how much excitement. I mean, did you see the Anant review of the S4 and the Anant
review of the One? Yeah. The entire One review was basically slamming the S4 and
the entire S4 review was, "Well, but wait, you could also get this other
thing." Yeah. I was like, "Really? You guys did that?" We got flamed because
people were like, "Oh, it wasn't that bad." Read between the lines, people. It
was that bad. Read between the lines. when a major publication says that they
mean like like that's what they were doing.
Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, whoa. But I mean, you know, it's not like a major
publication is going to not is going to get snubbed on a future Galaxy device.
You know, if anything, Samsung's probably going to come back with
something to prove. I think they've proven time and time again that they are
resilient when it comes to being dominant at things. It's like we I mean
where was Samsung for TVs 10 years
ago, five years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Now
they're just like why would you buy anything but a Samsung TV? If you walked
into a store, what would you buy? Not a Samsung TV. What would you buy? What is
it? Psyche. Psycho. Oh, okay. We can talk about that. But okay. Okay. A month
ago 50inch 50-inch 4K LED TV. I'm not
buying a Samsung TV. I'm buying a psycho 50inch. A key or whatever it is. What
was it? Was it $1199 or $12.99? It was $1.99. $1199. It's at a new low. $1,200
gets you a 4K TV. And I think there was a shipping promo on it from Tiger Direct
at one point. Well, Groupon, it's free shipping. Group the Groupon is free.
Okay. Free shipping. Is it still running? I have no idea. Okay, guys. I
hope I sent it to you. It's in your email. It's in my email. Okay. Okay,
guys. We're gonna we're going to launch this up for you because you can be 4K
ready now. Apparently, it might be Psyche. I don't know. Psyche. I didn't
look at the name for Psyche. Okay. Apparently, this is still running. So,
I'm going to Look, look. Free shipping,
free returns. So, if there's some kind of a problem. Okay, hold on. Hold on,
guys. If you want a 4K TV, psycho, we
don't get any kind of referral fee or anything for this. So, we have we have
no skin in the game when it comes to whether you buy one of these. Oh,
there's four hours left. Look at that. Wow. So, the timing is perfect. So, you
for 11. Should I just buy one right now? Oh my goodness. Should I just do it? Oh
my god. Is that the craziest thing ever? That's pretty freaking crazy. Should I
just do it? What do you think? No. Okay. No. It's Slick's fault I didn't buy one.
So, my my wife's going to be super pleased with you. Yay. But you got just
under five hours to buy a 4K TV for um
$1,200. Now get this. Uh I feel like the
I feel like QVC right now
for a limited time only. You can get this
4K. Um free shipping, free returns. I
forget who it was. It wasn't N Gadget. It might not have been Gizmodo, but I
was reading an article from one of the writers at a fairly major publication
like that. Like I I don't know if it was wired like it was one of those guys and
they were saying this thing's actually kind of incredible. Like it's not just a
piece of crap. And you know what? It's one of those things where people see it and they go, "Oh, it's too good to be
true because the other traditional manufacturers aren't doing this." But
you know what? They could. They could. If if either of us had the money, I
would suggest that either of us bought it. Just to like clear up Twitch chat
being unhappy with me. Neither of us should actually buy. Uh, I don't really
have the money right now. No. So, okay, but get this. This is a 1080p screen.
This notebook entirely costs like 1,200
bucks. So, if you can't manufacture four
of the screen for 1,200 bucks, then you suck. Um, so they could do it, they just
don't. So, so Sei's basically gone, "Yep, we are going to screw the
traditional market and we are going to drive pricing down. We're going to buy
market share by doing this. And uh yeah,
whatever everyone else. Yeah, come at me, bro. Like I honestly I wouldn't be
surprised if like Seiki's CEO gets like assassinated.
Like Yeah. The amount of people have
been killed for less money than Seiki just lost for Sony, Samsung, LG, other
guys like that. 100%. There's more than one person I've seen go by in the Twitch
chat. I don't know how honest this is, but more than one person so far, other
than wanting me fired for telling you not to buy it. Um, but more than one
person has gone gone by so far, um,
saying that they've bought it already. Really? Yeah. Wow. So, Groupon should be
giving us, mind you, I don't think there's much margin left in that to give us a cut. Groupon kind of removes all of
the margin. Yeah. Reaper is saying, "Did you actually just buy one?" I know one
of my Twitch mods is saying that he just bought one. Seriously?
Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently, one of the Twitch mods just
bought one. So, there you go, guys. Wow. We should start, you know what? We
should figure out like affiliate programs that are good and we should
actually tell these people deals that don't suck because if we We could do
like a a deal of the week or something. Deal of the week or we have to like make
sure it doesn't suck. You know what, guys? Okay, we're going to go through the Twitter responses that I asked for
before, but would you guys be down if we found something this crazy and we were
getting a 3% cut or whatever we were getting on it. Would you guys be down to
have us tell you that we found a cool a cool deal? So there, let us know what
you think because we got to figure out if you guys even Wow, Twitch chat is
Twitch chat is like extremely in support because we don't want to be we don't
want to be QVC. That's not what we are. We already do unboxings, which as far as
I'm concerned is not that far away from basically just video merchandising for
the product. So apparently people are
Twitch chat is very very into it. Twitch
chat is apparently pleased. I haven't seen a single person with this deal
we've presented. Twitch chat is pleased. So uh
so there you go. Let's um let's go back. What question did I ask on Twitter? I
actually don't remember. I don't remember anymore. Fire like a 4K TV. Oh,
okay. There's a lot of there's a lot of Twitter. Okay, so Slick, you're fired
apparently. Um, what are your thoughts on Google Glass? You know what? This is
one of the topics I do want to talk about later. I think Google Glass is a
great idea. What time is it? And I don't really care about it at all right now.
One thing, we got to do build logs before the end of the stream. Oh, wow.
Okay. And I want to do a call out for the forum and something on the forum
before the end of the stream. Okay. I'm put I'm putting this down. Forum call
out build logs. So, I'm adding that to make sure we don't forget this stuff
cuz, you know, I felt like we started out a little slow today, but we have
picked up some steam here. So, we'll talk about Google Glass. Okay. Right. I
asked about uh phone software versus hardware. So, let's go back and let's
take some of these uh take some of these callers. Caller, you're on the you're online as tech tips.
Um I like the BBZ10 because I can
install apps from Android. I've heard about that. Try that. Uh Slick's done
his day one video. We're going to upload it soon. I've heard that the support for
it is kind of funky. Okay, so let's um but I haven't tried it yet. Um so I'm
going to try that and hopefully in a review soon I will be talking. We'll get
into that in Slick's I Switched. He's doing a 30-day BlackBerry 10 trial. So
um no, you can't over you can't RMA a card because it doesn't overclock.
Sorry. Sorry, man. How's the AMO LED on the S4 at night? The AMO LED on the S4
is actually outstanding compared to the S3. It doesn't have that same blurriness. It's still not quite like
LCD in terms of if you look at it under a microscope, but it looks pretty darn
good. Which socket should I get for an Intel gaming rig? I'd still go 1155, but
if you can hold off for about 30 days. Uh, should you get one of those special
agent wired earpieces for when you're sitting on the live stream? I almost do
cuz I wear I don't wear it the whole time, but I have my inear pro. First day
forum member. Very nice. Everyone should
join the forum if you haven't already. Linus techtips.com. I can transition
from that into my forum call. We are serious business. Uh, okay. Okay, hold
that thought cuz Okay, so this guy says, "I'd go HTC1." HTC1 more more batter. He
either means better or baller. I'm not quite sure which. Um, Samsung Galaxy S3
user so far hate interacting with Sense UI from HTC. I'm with TouchWiz on this
until they improve. So he's saying software is a huge factor for him or
she. Jamie Jamie could software is very easily as a Nexus 4 owner. I'd go for
the phone that gets updated first. Get all the jelly beans. Okay. Build
quality. I'm a skater and I've broken lots of phones. There's an interesting
perspective. That's a very good point. Build quality with custom firmware. If
it doesn't fit my needs stock, all right, I have a Nexus 4. Isn't as
amazing as the HTC1. Both both sides glass still feels good. I prefer Nexus
device. Hardware quality is way more important to Eric. So, it looks like
people are very divided on this issue.
Very interesting. It really depends on what you do. Like the skater, that was
actually one of my favorite comments. Great point. I'm a skater. I break
phones. Okay. He's going to want to wait more durable phones. Fantastic point.
Makes sense. Conversation. What do you guys think about bitcoins? We're actually going to be starting a Bitcoin
mining pool on the forum at some point. So, check it out.
Maybe more and more complicated, but Okay. Okay. Maybe not. Andrew says, "Of
course, build quality. wants the device to last. At least if you don't get a
software update, the device might still work. Yes, but like if you But you
dropped your Nexus S all over the place tons. Like it wasn't bad build quality.
It just wasn't like solid piece aluminum. Dion says, "I'd go with
software because better software means a better experience." Did Slick's S3
battery life drop significantly after he updated to Jellybean? You should talk about that. Yep, definitely. Um, and
then your forum thing. And then my forum thing. Yeah, it dropped massively, but
it kind of came back. So, tell for for
about a week or two, my brother and I both had a problem where the battery life on our S3 just completely tanked. I
have a screenshot of my battery app telling me I was at 20% battery life and I had 5 minutes left and I was not super
actively using my phone. So, that was kind of nuts. Um, but then it's just
kind of fixed. So, I'm not actually entirely sure what even happened. Well,
you were telling me the other day that it seems like when you charge it from
the wall, when I charge it from the wall, it actually seems to last at 100%
charge on battery reading at 100%. If I charge it from USB to my computer
compared to USB to my wall, USB from my computer, it will last drastically less
time than USB from the wall. So guys, S3 users, let us know if you observe the
same thing. Someone make a someone make a post on the forum. Yeah. Under uh
mobile devices. Let's talk about this. Let's figure out what's going on. Yeah, very very bizarre. Um, so let's speaking
of the forum forum call out. Go. Okay, so first off, I want to thank all my
people again. Mr. Wizard for again making just everything happen. He's kind
of a wizard. So Mr. Wizard, if if he doesn't already know, is going to be
getting some kind of a beast gaming rig sometime in the next couple months here
for all the contribution he's made. He's we're gonna hook him up with a Naz
that's going to have RAID five backup. I don't think you've told him this yet,
have you? Nope. Okay. We're going to be hooking him up with a Naz that's going to have RAID five backup because right
now he's using like 10 ghetto like
couple hundred gig hard drives. He cut a hole in part of his case and then bent
the metal back so that he could shove a hard drive in there. And then right now
he has the hard drive cases cages outside of his case cuz they don't
properly fit with some of his hardware. So he's like running long SATA cables into his case. Totally unacceptable for
for someone who's contributed that much to the Linus tech tips for him. I mean,
the hours he's put in are countless, like days and days and days, days and
days and days and days and days. We haven't paid him a penny. And he dealt with not to hate on Vivolton now that
they've given us a refund, but he dealt with VBolton, which was nuts. Y So, we
already hooked him up with a 590, but we're going to be following that up with
a full gaming rig at some point here in the near future. So, uh, so thank you,
Mr. Wizard, because we're doing amazing things now. Um, IPS is awesome.
Everything's awesome. Thank you, mod team, for sticking with us. Um, thank
you to all the members of the forum and the mod team and Mr. Wizard again for
sticking with us through these crazy downtimes we've been having the last little while. We're rolling out a
solution that will hopefully fix it, but we'll talk about that more maybe next
live stream. Yeah, next live stream. Not yet. Um, and I want to do boink and
folding call outs real quick. Sure. So,
boink Oh, there it goes. Boink. Our world rating is uh 176 out of almost
100,000 teams and we climb about 10 places a day. So, we're doing great
there. Um, our Canadian ranking is 42
out of almost 2200 teams. Wow. So, we're
doing pretty great there as well. Um, a big thanks to Ryan L. Booth from the
Boink Team Captain because he's been doing awesome and contributing a ton at
this pace. In about three and a half months, we should be 13th place in
Canada and 550th in the world. So, Boink's doing just awesome. I had a
folding update somewhere, but I don't remember where it is. By the way,
there's a shout out from the Boink team to the folding team as a like thank you
for being awesome and contributing your gigahertz to a good cause. Um, more
gigahertz. Hopefully Wher can throw me a
folding update here because I don't remember what it Okay, well I can move on. I have lots of topics to to move on
to. So, uh, AMD has slashed prices on
CPUs and APUs. They also launched a couple products. So, check this out. You
can get an A6 3600 which is a quad core
APU if I were that's a quad core isn't it? I think so. I think so. Which is
basically a Okay, let's look at the A83800 because that is a decent CPU for
under a hundred bucks with a decent onboard GPU. Even the A85600 K, check
that out. Under $100. That's probably
the one that I should have talked about first because that is crazy. That's an
unlocked chip so you can overclock it. It comes with the best onboard graphics
that you can get other than I think the A10 is clocked a little bit higher but
it's basically there and I mean quite
frankly I mean in our testing where we went 8350 versus
3570K. Did you ever feel like the 8350
was holding back your gaming experience in some tangible way? Not really. So
yes, the 3570K benchmark's better. It's faster. And you know what? Quite
frankly, I prefer Intel platforms because I find I have fewer sort of
random driver issues, whether it's with a SATA driver when I swap out a bunch of
stuff. I love rapid storage tech. Um,
Intel's uh the Intel's like SATA AHCI
manager. It's amazing. Makes my life better. Um, I use Intel platforms. I
prefer them. With that said, when we're talking about $100 for a chip and a
cheap FM2 board, that will basically get you a platform upgrade for probably 200
bucks if you buy yourself like 4 to 8 gigs of RAM, a cheap board, and an A8.
And honestly, why buy a console? The driver thing, which you and I have both
brought up offcreen before, but AMD's
been making leaps and bounds in the driver field. True. that and the the
better driver assumption for Intel. I'm not talking graphics. No. So, if you're
using onboard graphics, AMD gets the nod there for
sure. I mean, how much experience do they have compared to Intel when it
comes to gaming? And to jump in line with the comment right below this post
actually. Yeah. Um, he's talking about how especially like I don't know if he
actually brings this up exactly, but especially with nextG consoles coming
out, instead of rebying your whole setup, uh, it might be might be time to
get a gaming PC to move to gaming PCs. I mean, they've got the FX8320, which is
an unlocked chip. There's pretty much once you overclock them, pretty much no
performance disadvantage compared to an 8350. That's an 8 core, and the
wholesaler bulk pricing is that 153 bucks. I mean, this is like just
earthshattering stuff. It's awesome. Um, so, so go AMD. I I don't know if you
guys saw this, but AMD's stock price has gone like this. So, between some of the
new people they've been acquiring, between them beating their projections,
between them being the technology powering both major upcoming consoles.
Well, all three. They're the GPU and the Wii U for that matter. I mean, I said
major consoles. Whether was that a slight at Nintendo? I love Nintendo. I'm
not going to I'm not going to beat up on them. But if EA developed a game for a Nintendo platform, then I'd still go
after that. So that's the line for me. But um but AMD is powering all that.
So AMD stock has just exploded, which
means hopefully a little bit more uh
well, a little a little bit more room to breathe for they've been struggling.
They for a little while there. It was it was looking like it might be game over.
Yeah. Which like pretty bad. Like I
don't know what a game over AMD would look like. Whether it's selling all the
patents or whether it's acquisition or like who knows something terrible, but
it was looking like just terrible, terrible things were going to happen. So
that's really exciting. Um I'm going to jump back a little bit just to do the
folding team call out. So our current rank worldwide is uh 212, which is
insane. We have fist bump to everyone who's a member of the folding team. You
guys, we have 499 users, which is insane. And for for all time uh or okay
for all folding teams currently. Yeah. We have we're placed 15th for active
folders. Wow. Which is nuts.
That's crazy. There's a lot actually insane. There's a lot of folding teams
that have been around a lot longer than us. So to so to be ranked 15th for
active folders is just actually insane.
So that's very cool. Good job everyone. I think I had left another uh I think I
had left another question for the Twitter folks. Do you remember what it was? Okay. Console players apparently
don't want to build PCs. Well, we should educate them. 4 p.m. time slot sucks for
guys in our time zone, ironically. But sorry, guys. We got to do what we got to
do. Apparently, we're number 41 in Canada. I think you said 42. Well, that
Yeah, that was from uh a while ago. A
quarterly pimp my rig for forum members. Um, you know what I would like to do is
I'd like to do more like uh more giveaways at some point, but we got to
figure out the logistics because there's a lot of laws involved that we've just kind of ignored. But Lionus Media
Groups, an actual company now, not just some dude with a YouTube channel. So, we
have to be we have to be careful. The last thing I want is to run across
Canadian gaming laws, which would shut down my company like that. If they're
like, "Oh, you're running a lottery, therefore you are this, this, this,
this, and this." that could take everything. Yeah. Um, so I got to be
careful, guys. There's And there's more to it than just Lionus doesn't want to
give things away. Just to be clear. Yeah. Uh, okay. So, according to what
was the something I'd watch the live stream, but I'm out skiing. Try and get
them to send you a free 4K TV. Oh, yeah. I asked them if they wanted us to do
deals. Uh, I joined the forums just because you said so. Yes. Thank you.
Just because we said so. He joined the forums and joined Twitter just to say
this. Thank you guys. I mean, it drives me crazy when people are like, "I know
it says on your Facebook not to send you messages here, but I don't have Twitter,
so I sent you this message." It's like, "Twitter's free. You don't have to do
anything other than just send me a message on it. Like, I'm not asking you to marry it. It's just that I can't
handle monitoring my private messages and my emails and my Facebook and my
Twitter and actually making videos, which is priority number one is actually
making videos, not talking about videos.
Um, look in the meme topic. More EA stuff on the N page. Okay, there we go.
Okay. Apparently, apparently Twitter really didn't have much to say about
that. So, there you go. It's going to be hard to offer deals that satisfy all
territories. That's true. Although sites like Amazon might be an exception where
a lot of territories will be able to get a benefit. Um, Slick's Blackberry Z10
thing will be coming up either tonight or tomorrow. So, guys, stay tuned. And
apparently Logan's been doing something similar with games on deals. Cool. Um,
do you want to handle our rigs of the week? Uh, I actually haven't looked at
these enough, but this will be kind of I was working with this curious. Then I'm
I'm I'm up then. I'll do uh I'll do this. Well, we should do rigs of the
week. Yeah. Yeah. But I can do this to solve for some time for you. Oh, okay. Okay. So, check this out, guys.
Apparently, and this was posted by Mr. X
on the forums. Thank you, Mr. X. Uh, there's a big Intel logo at the top. PC
enthusiast, top PC, top PC, I guess, but
the capitalization's a little funny. With koulaler.com, these guys leak
everything because they get access to all the good stuff. Has apparently
leaked um a Core i7 Ivy Bridge E. So,
this is a multicore, more than four core
ivy bridgebased chip that'll be coming around coming at some point based on
that. There's already benchmarks. Um couldn't be that far off. And so this is
a 4960X and this will be replacing the
3970X I guess at that $1,000 price point
on the enthusiast X79 platform. So remember guys, X79 is not going away.
It's still going to be the enthusiast grade platform with support for dual 16x
PCI Express lanes, uh more RAM, uh more
cores, all that stuff is not going away.
So pretty much the summary is it's 10%
faster than the Sandy Bridge ebased chips which is if we sort
of know anything about CPUs and sort of
anything then we probably saw this one
coming. So there you have it. Ivy Bridge
E just like Ivy Bridge was compared to Sandy Bridge is about 10% better. You
can see the overclock that they've got going on. So, it's a 3.5 gigahertz
overclock on what appears to be Let's see how many physical cores we got
here. I don't even Yeah. So, there you go. Six cores, 12 threads, 3.3 GHz stock
frequency. Uh, Linus Tech Tips takes no responsibility. You got their watermark
all over it. We did not run these numbers. We don't have an IV bridge e.
Apparently, there's going to be an X79A GD45 plus board that'll support uh looks
like the chipset is picking up as Sandy
Bridge E South Bridge X79. So, a lot of this data may not be correct, but there
you have it. Um it's coming at some point, guys. So, that was pretty cool
that I picked up on the on the forum. Big thanks for posting that on the
forum. Here's another Linus Tech Tips forum news topic. This one was posted by
Josie. Josie Josie as well. So LG is
launching the world's first 55 in curved
OLED HD TV. So this isn't going to be
4K. This is an HD TV. It is 4.3 mm
thick. So guys, if you look at uh Yeah,
here I'm just going to zoom in on this so you guys can get a better look at it.
But that thinness, holy crap.
OLED emits its own light. So what you guys got to remember is you don't have
to build a backlight array that goes behind the panel anymore. So the light
emitting is done by the by the panel itself. In fact, we did a demo at CES
where I was standing in front of a TV that was sideways and then we shifted
the angle so you could actually see see the TV because you could hardly even see
it in the shot. So this isn't going to be cheap. I think the initial quote is
something like 13 grand, 13,500 and
it'll be available at 1,400 retail
locations. Um, pre-orders are apparently started already. So, the curvature gives
you more of that IMAX experience and the fact that all of the screen is equal
distance away from your eyes in theory should make for a more natural viewing
experience. However, it remains to be seen if content that was developed with
the intention of being watched on a flat screen is actually going to even benefit
from a curved screen. Hey, B-roll, what's your take on the whole curved
screen thing? I think it's really
stupid. Well, I understand like it can help viewing angle. Okay, so better for
viewing angle. Mind you, OLED doesn't really have that problem. Yeah, it doesn't have that problem. B-roll the
intern's actually over there. He's been editing videos the whole time we've been doing this. I don't know. Oh, it seems
like a gimmick to me. I don't I haven't I don't know. I don't know enough about it to see the full benefit, but it's a
wait until you see it at least. So, it's a wait and see from B-roll. He's kind of
our when it comes to camera gear and h
high definition content gear and all that stuff. He's he's our resident
expert, whereas Diesel the Intern is our post-processing wizard. Um, not to take
anything away from Mr. Wizard, but uh uh
yeah, Diesel the Intern is kind of Dr. wizard when it comes to kind of some of
the stuff he does with video is amazing. So, they can they can both be just
wizards as far as I'm concerned. Uh there's one more thing I wanted to talk
about very briefly just because I think it's hilarious. This was also posted by
Josie. However, once again, Josie, this is kind of directed at you, man. Make
sure you're posting some of your own original stuff in these threads because
otherwise we become one of those one of those buttthead sites. So, um
this is kind of weird. This is the buddy cup, which allows you to add friends to
Facebook by bumping glass with them. Glasses with them. So, this isn't the
kind of thing that anyone really expects you to buy, I don't think. Uh, the
original link was from N Gadget, just so you guys know. So, we're quoting a
source. Uh, oh yeah, and the original link for the LG Curve TVs was also
gadget. Um, so this is the kind of thing that they'd expect to be more like at an
event where you meet people, whether it's at a concert or whether it's at, I
don't know, a hockey game or something like that where you meet someone and you
kind of go, "Yeah, let's friend each other on Facebook." Boom. I mean, does
this just make the Facebook friend process that much more meaningless? Yep.
I don't like it at all. I don't know. But you don't use Facebook. No. So,
you're all you already don't like it before I even talk about a glass. I
guess that makes it not fair. Um I don't know. I kind of see its use
in some situations, but I also see it being abused by like that guy that you
don't actually even like buddy me. Yeah. Yeah. Or like walk up to your glass and
they're like just like hit it. And it's like, well, okay. I don't want that to
happen. I don't want to like put my cup down while I'm talking to someone and
have 10 people come by and like rub their cups against you.
I don't know. But then I could also see the application where if you're just out
hanging out and you genuinely meet someone that's pretty cool, it's really
easy to just be like, "Gabon." But then if you have smartphones with NFC,
go. I don't know. I don't I don't really see the awesome appeal. It's kind of
cool. I mean, it's it's like it's kind of it's interesting. It's one of those
like, oh, cool application of technology. I didn't think of it. And like if you went to a some event and
they had it there, it would probably be really cool as a novelty as a novelty
thing or whatever. So like I'm not actually against it. I just I personally
wouldn't be too into it. But then again, okay, don't have Facebook. So um so back
to Google Glass, I personally based on the battery life, I think they were
saying something like what was it 30 minutes uh when you're recording video
or something ludicrous like that. I don't remember the exact number, but the
battery life's not there. Um, I'm personally not even remotely excited
about it yet, but Gen 3 or Gen 5 or Gen
10 of this technology is going to be just incredible. And I'll jump on the
bandwagon when instead of $1,500, I can buy it for 150 bucks and I don't have to
be some special dude with an invite and the functionality will be dramatically
better by then. Um, I also had a one news item was that Google's saying
people are apparently hackering the uh the Google Glass and they want to do
whatever they want, but they're saying, "No, no, no. We meant to do that." Which like I don't know how credible that is,
but yes, but from some people I could see them being like, "Oh, no, no, we
meant to do that." From Google though, Google usually leaves things unlocked.
Okay, true. That's that's my view of that is they often do. Um, now people
are also talking about how apparently there might be like remote shut off and
a whole bunch of other weird stuff. I don't know how true this is, so don't
take this um directly, but apparently Google has like quite a bit of control
over it still. So removing that might be
interesting if that's even real. I don't know. I read that on the comments of a
thread. This is an article from SourceFed, which is um Oh. Oh, hold on.
I opened it on the wrong thing. I know. I know. We're going to we're going to go a little bit over time today. Uh so
we'll we'll do this and then we'll be doing our uh our rigs of the week. Oh
yeah, this was cool. So this was interesting. Speaking of Google and sort
of all that stuff, this was on source fed. It's who has your back with respect
to your privacy. So let's scroll down to
basically just the chart. Yep. Who has your back? Um so the requirements are
requires a warrant for content to share. tells users about government data
requests, publishes transparency reports, publishes law enforcement
guidelines, fights for users privacy in courts, and fights for users privacy in
Congress. So there you go. Amazon only got two stars out of six. And you guys,
okay, I'm not saying that this chart is the be all and end all by any stretch of
the imagination. This is SourceFed's chart and there you go. But as a general
guideline, it's kind of cool to look at and it makes you really think about the
the topic if nothing else. Apple fights for users privacy rights in Congress.
That's it. AT&T, very low rating.
Comcast, very low rating. Dropbox, look
at that. Huge. So other than fighting for users privacy rights in courts,
they're requiring warrants. They're doing all the things by the book. Facebook only got three stars. So no
transparency reports. They don't tell you about a government data request. Uh
Forsquare is a touch better than that. Google scores very well. So, this is
where where I was going with that. LinkedIn, very well. The only thing they
don't do is fight for it in court, much like Dropbox. Microsoft, not bad.
Somewhere in the middle ground here. So, the things that they don't do is fight
in court and tell users about government data requests. MySpace. It's like if you
needed a reason to not be on MySpace anymore. There you go. So, there's the
rest of them. Twitter is across the board. Sonic.net across the board. Um,
Verizon. Yeah, not looking too good. Yahoo not looking too good. So, I just
thought this was a really cool article. I wanted to make sure you guys see it. Head over to SourceFed, check it out.
And let's do rigs of the week, shall we? All right. Okay. First one. Again, not
super wellversed because these are kind of huge, but jump into the first one
real quick. Now, this one has So, this is from PZT, who's a junior member on
the forum. This guy has 10 billion
pictures. Okay. So, we're probably going to have to rip through a little bit, but
as we kind of fly through here, you can just see lots of cool stuff. The
magnitude of awesome stuff that he has, which is everything. What are those? Monsoon compressions. Very nice. Yeah.
Beautiful. Yeah, they're awesome. On an Apple GHD white. Very nice. Very nice.
Swiftech dual DDC block or pump top.
Yeah. NZXT switch again. Uh, yeah, I think
so. I just saw the bottom of it there. Yeah.
GED wings. Nice choice.
Coolance quick connects. You'll see what those are for soon. Okay, we're gonna
have to just blow through. There is actually a ton of pictures like fly
through it quite a bit. And then when you start seeing
certain things Gigabyte board. Here we go. As he's just starting. There's a
test fit. Ah, very nice. He's putting quick
connects on all the components so that you can easily upgrade
things. Very nice. Very nice. makes
maintenance a lot less work. Wait for it. It gets super awesome all
of a sudden. There we go. So that's It changes quite a bit from there. So just
keep going. Okay. Crazy finger at the front. Okay. Okay.
It changes like we're like not even that far through it. Um Dominator Platinums.
Oh, here. Here. Go up a little bit. Whoa. Here we go. Yeah. So what's going
on now? Okay. There you go. So he's making his own basement. Okay. And
running quick connects through there. So go down a little bit. So he that shows
him making his basement. Yep. So that's awesome. He does a very very good job.
Very clean. Yep. And it looks fantastic. Like it looks so good. He takes that
theme and he carries it forward. Look at that keyboard. Yeah. What key caps are
those? Uh that's actually just uh light coming. Oh, that's light. Okay. Okay.
Yeah. Nice blank keyboard though. Very beautiful. Yeah. Ooh. Tons of sleeving
schmexy is awesome. Going with the white and green theme. Pathogen the name going
with white and green, right? So pretty freaking sweet. IKEA desk.
So like look at that. Absolutely
beautiful. Look at the back plate on the video card. I was waiting to see when
you're going to notice it. Nice touch. Like just beautiful build. Gorgeous
gaming rig. White LEDs down there. And
he picked like the perfect fans for it. Yep. The gelled wings look fantastic in
there. Great motherboard for it. It even has the skull
because it's called Pathogen. Like it just amazing build. Great coolant. Sorry
about my voice, guys. All right. So,
yeah, just awesome. Very, very, very
cool. All right. So, we got our second one here before we wrap up and move to
the afterparty, which is going to be a Super Mario live stream if possible.
Okay, we can get it working. So, jump down on this one, too. I think you might
have to be logged in to see these pictures. Yeah, if you log in, it will show them actively or you can click on
them eventually. All right, so let's log in as myself.
Thanks to everyone who tuned into the live stream this week, by the way, guys,
if we don't get stick, I hate this keyboard.
It's very handy, but it's also like
um hold on. I don't remember how far I
was into my password. Guess we'll find out. Nope, that wasn't it. Um just in
case you guys don't know, he's trying to log in. That's why we're not showing the
screen right now. Are we not? Oh.
Oh, are you typing numbers? Yeah, it's okay though. It doesn't do that anymore.
There we go. Okay. I think I think my mod they didn't see the first log of
what? What? They didn't see the first build that wasn't over there. Really? At
all. Oh, no. Oh, oops. No. My bad. No.
Okay. Well, let's go really quickly then. We got to show his build. Oh,
that's so good. Okay. So, sorry. PZT. I can't believe we did that.
I wonder how many tweets we have about that. Anyways, a few at least. Oh, come
on. It's not staying on there for me. Okay, so here's where we get Where do we
get outside where he's cutting the mid plate? Okay, we missed that part. Don't worry about it.
Did we? Yeah. Anyway, you can go check it out on the forum, guys. That's always
an option if we screw things up. I'll tweet out a link for it. Yeah, Dominator
Platinums. Here we go. Yeah, there we go. There's the mid plate cutting holes.
Okay, let's keep on going. Very clean. Beautiful peripherals. That explains why
like a hundred people tuned out of the live stream while we were doing this because I thought it was a cool build.
Uh sleing. Great looking great looking IKEA
desk there. Nice themed build. There we go. Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. The
back plate's amazing. Back plate on the video card. Mentioned this before. I
apologize for the part where I mentioned it and you couldn't actually look at it.
Uh just oh just sexy sleeving matching
motherboard matching the gelled wing fans look fantastic in there. Uh all
these little shots of the inside just look outstanding. I mean look at the
shininess of this. That's so awesome. White LEDs using the built-in uh
lighting the Switch 810 which is a really nice thing to have. And there we
go. Now on to the second build bog.
There we are. All right. So, start scrolling down. I'm
going to tweet out that link for the build log. Another switch. Yeah, there
you go. But very different builds. Like very different build. Why hello there.
T- virus in the back which is just absolutely awesome. T- virus is amazing.
Everyone should have a T- virus. And like the position is very cool. And when
you see his desk set up, it even makes a lot more sense as to why he put it where
it is. So this build is very attainable. I mean, this is something where no
custom fabrication's been done, you know, MCP655 pump, you know, nice nice
water cooling and all that, but this is doable. Yeah, nice pictures. Yeah, they
got better here. Yeah, they they get better pretty quick. Kingston HyperX
memory looks good. Looking good. Saber-tooth boards make for such a clean
looking build. They just look so awesome.
Yeah, I've seen the upcoming Saber-Tooth. Yeah. Yeah. Can't say
anything about it, though. All right, some more night shots.
Looking good. Okay, I'm letting you do
commentary on these. So, I'm sorry. I was tweeting out that thing. Yeah, here.
Here you can see his desk there. You're at his desk. You can see the T- virus.
Yeah. Instead of it being covered up by the side panel because the window is
honestly not that big. No, it's not small on the Switch 810. Yeah. So, by
putting it in the back, he can actually see his T- virus all the time. So,
that's very cool because most people will go, "Oh, just to the right of the
motherboard. Bam. There's my reservoir. That's where mine is. That's That's where mine is. But I can see mine. Yeah.
And I can see mine, too. A big window. But just because of how he has his desk
set up with his computer kind of hanging off the edge, which is kind of sketchy, but um where he's sitting, he can
actually see his T- virus, which is which is very cool and very understandable. So, that's a like
awesome obtainable level build. The one before that was more like the ridiculous
the ridiculously awesome level. Not quite as obtainable. Okay, guys. Thank
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