The Most Popular PC - Viewer's Choice Nov 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,511 words · ~7 min read
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I know we cover a lot of hyper premium stuff on this channel GTX Titan XPS
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extreme Edition CPUs and the like mostly
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it's for the wow factor because you guys seem to love that stuff but that doesn't
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mean that that's what any of you actually buy so what does the typical LT
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viewer buy to find out I went through our entire Amazon Associates report for
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last month all
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7,690 line items of it to to find the
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most popular PC components in the list
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and put together what I'm calling the viewers Choice Award computer I also
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found some other really interesting stuff in there you guys be freaky
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ra Intel skull Canyon knck features a
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sixth generation core i7 quad core processor and Thunderbolt 3 learn more
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at the link in the video description the CPU was a shocker I said very clearly to
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our I thought gamer heavy audience in
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last month's video entitled what CPU should I buy that I didn't recommend
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anything higher than the core i5 6600k
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for gamers but more than all other CPUs
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combined the most popular choice was the
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core i76700k with half of those folks evidently
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opting for cooler Master's Great Value if not particularly amazing hyper 212
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Evo heat sink to go with it most people
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chose Corsair Vengeance lpx memory with the mode average speed being 3200 MHz
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and the most popular capacity being a single 2x8 gig kit for Chrome far into
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way the most popular motherboard was the ASUS
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z170a which outsold the rest of ASUS lineup put together so it looks like
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then my message about higher-end motherboards not performing any better
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came through loud and clear with most of
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you not valuing the extra features on the higher-end models video cards were
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the most popular computer component purchases among our viewers with NVIDIA
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holding 87% of the market share by units
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and a staggering 95.1% by Revenue though it would here
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that our viewers at least the ones who shop at Amazon using our code skew
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heavily toward the high end the GTX 1070
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and 1080 combined for over half of all
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video card sales on our report I mean these are 450 and
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$700 cards then on the board partner side of
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things EVGA was alone out front with Aus
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Gigabyte and MSI all battling hard for the number two spot and the top selling
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video card overall then was a tie between the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW gaming and
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MSI's gaming GTX 1070 maybe putting
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gaming in the product name really does work at least on Amazon where it's damn
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near impossible to use the filters to find anything storage was a landslide
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Victory the Samsung 850 Evo outsold the
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rest of Samsung's lineup and everyone else combined with 500 gigs as the most
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popular Capac capity by far this is what
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happens I guess when Intel just doesn't
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refresh their SATA ssds except when they
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feel like it though in Intel and micron's defense Samsung's industry
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leading TLC 3D nand flash and ACC
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companying controller technology makes them very hard to compete against
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without losing your shirt on every sale
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most of our viewers unsurprisingly chose the cheaper OEM Windows 10 home but this
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is cool about a third of them went with retail copies of Windows 10 on a USB
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drive instead of a download or a disc something I suspect more people would do
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if they knew it was available for 30 bucks more than OEM and the same cost as
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the download one with the more flexible retail copy license terms the most
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popular power supply was a bit of a surprise to me though maybe it shouldn't
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have been evga's Supernova 650 G1 80
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plus gold 650 wat unit has a full fully modular interface and a 10-year warranty
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both of which likely allowed it to handly beat out the rest of the crowded
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power supply Market the case was sort of
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a tie actually both the NZXT s340 and
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fantex Eclipse p400s sold the same
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number of units but fantex moved almost
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as many of the $10 cheaper and nearly
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identical P400 so I'm going to give them the win here and it's a really
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impressive case for 70 to 80 bucks for
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cooling fans this was another are you guys even paying attention moment for me
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Corsair's AF series was Far and Away the
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most popular to be clear I've got no issue with Corsair fans but the SP
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series is a better allrounder I know it
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Corsair knows it how many AF variants do
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they even have of their newer lineup so why are you guys buying AFS when SPS are
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available to monitors I'm giving the win to Acer with the r240 HW BX IPS 23.8 in
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the Dell SE 2416 HX also a 23in IPS sold
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more units but it was one guy buying 10
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of them in one shot that pushed it Over The Edge versus individual buyers so one
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person really liking something a lot doesn't make it popular peripheral wise
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y'all have very expensive taste in mice with the Logitech g502 protus Spectrum
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on a steel series qck mouse pad taking care of your RGB desk decoration needs
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more of you went with cmstorm quickfire Rapids than any other keyboard though I
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did notice that keyboard sales seemed a little tepid I mean maybe if you push
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out enough mechanical keyboards that can handle 50 million keystrokes before they
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break people stop needing new ones at a certain point and Kingston's hyperx
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Cloud 2 gaming headset was trailed closely by sennheiser's hd598 special
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edition and the antl mod mic either of
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which are great choices for a headphone or headset we've got smart viewers
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sometimes so let's throw up a summary of our viewers Choice PC here while I go
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over some other highlights we'll have Links of course to where you can buy all
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of this stuff in the video description so more of you buy Microsoft
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Xbox wireless adapters than I expected and TP-Link seems to be the go-to for a
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cheap and cheerful network switch oh and
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we sold a whopping five Swingline staplers it looks like at least some of
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you have learned that it's better to buy your own than to steal one from someone
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else they're like $12 on the subject though of that last
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item which isn't strictly speaking tech there were a lot of cool things that I
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encountered more than enough to do a full segment of cool and weird stuff our
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community buys on Amazon or maybe if you have a suggestion for what we should call it you could post that below but
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with all the Flack that I take every time we deviate ever so slightly from
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technology with some going as far as to complain when we talk about tech that
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isn't PCS hopefully you can understand my
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hesitation here so let me know in the comments did you like the PC version of
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this should we start tracking that regularly and looking for Trends do you
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want to see the non-tech stuff as a separate segment I promise you I will
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over to Braintree payments.com Linus which we've got linked below so thank
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