HANDS-ON the AMD Radeon R9 290X & Ultimate Fangirl Moment at #GPU14 Event Vlog Part 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Corsair RM series power supplies are optimized for silent operation click now
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to learn more so here's day two of the event
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where Chris is making the argument that it's not the size that counts it's what
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you do with it is something that small people say as a fellow small person who
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doesn't happen to be very tall I uh I'm
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with you on this you hear me lus uh oh we're going to piss bump piss bump yeah
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these computers that we have in our hand are doing everything we need them to do
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we're just getting information out there right that's what everybody else is
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doing except that our batteries are probably going to last longer oh I'm
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sorry do you need more power he got
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plenty here oops charge your laptop here
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can you why you attacking me I win because before recording the video you
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decide to smack talk me so now I didn't smack talk in I asked if you were
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seriously going to work on an iPhone no when I am seriously working on an
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iPhone that's all I asked no no no you said something else no no what you say
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no I said Are you seriously going to okay now if you're going to make if
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you're going to make the argument that Size Doesn't Matter would you actually
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fight him if you want me to sure no I'm out I'm out so basically
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because the uh the stream hasn't started yet we're all just kind of sitting around trolling taking pictures of each
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other can can I see that picture uh yeah
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it's don't worry I I have a I have an actual like Zoom that doesn't suck cuz I
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don't have a DSLR so uh oh there we go
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there we go oh I can't focus on it though cuz I don't have a
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DSLR so we're about 50 minutes late but
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uh we're still pretty excited to see what we're going to see here uh just
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means that I have now had all of that
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water so it is time for a bathroom break
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and the presentation hasn't even started yet so
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vodka water it's 9:00 a.m. mod yeah ex it's
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yeah it's 9:00 in the morning what's wrong with you
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nothing you're feeling great right I'm I'm flying
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ey live stream with this many people don't they usually have to do like some
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sort of load balancing to make sure that they have the proper bandwidth probably
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but I mean live stream oh hi I was just discussing with
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my colleagues right here some of the intricacies of live streaming which I know uh you over
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lineus Tech tips have experience you
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mean the difficulties of live stream are what I have the most experience yeah I
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mean saying you're going to do live stream and then there be there be no
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live stream I mean you're not familiar with that at all iPhone 5cw like I guess
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you kind of owed me one at this point all right all right it's like I
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got to I got to stop saying these type of things if I really want to be in your video at all two two sh sir two two sh
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no you're you're in the video that I upload that is sitting in my room uploading right now so uh awesome yeah
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it's uh it's the video that I took of you while you were Roofing though not
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the one that you're aware of so don't worry you look great hope
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hopefully I didn't do
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anything music's off maybe we're starting I better run back to
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my ladies and Gentlemen please welcome
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corporate vice president Global Communications for AMD on John
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Taylor
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exciting I hope you guys are tuned in live cuz I'm not going to videotape this
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whole thing since there's a live stream so yeah hey good morning Aloha to those
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of you here with us and all
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right so if you guys have never seen me fan girl out before then it's definitely
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about to happen on a on a new level here so behind me right there is Chris
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Roberts the Mind behind Wing commander freelancer and the upcoming Star Citizen
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which you guys have probably heard me talk about a fair bit I pre-ordered my
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uh my constellation ship uh which was
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250 bucks which is definitely more than I've spent on all other games combined
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in about the Last 5 Years so uh that's how stoked I am on this so I'm just kind
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of waiting for an opportunity to jump in here and and shake his hand which is uh
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which is about all I'm going for I can see uh Charlie over there is going going
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for the business card which I I guess I could I guess I could sort of wonder if
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that'll
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work I just wanted to say hi that's about it here can you get get this on
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video sure I watched you Tech tips occasionally on on YouTube really yeah
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yeah yeah whenever I'm trying to figure out what the best cooler or something to do well I appreciate that thank you very
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much uh we're we're definitely uh we're definitely fangirling out as much as we
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as much as we ever have I mean what I said a minute ago that you probably didn't hear was I pledged 250 bucks to
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Star Citizen which is more than I've spent on every other game combined in my
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entire library in probably about the Last 5 Years well thank you cuz you're letting us make the game without having
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any publisher or VC or anyone it's just
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I mean that's actually what I tell everyone it's like it's like it's a really cool thing to develop a game and
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not about anything but making the best game not worrying about pleasing the marketing department the only people you
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worry about is the people that are going to play the game and yeah so it's cool
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so thank you very excited just checked out the hanger module and we're actually
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going to be publishing a video very shortly we know it's totally irrelevant
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but we're taking a bunch of graphics cards we're throwing them at The Hanger module we're doing we're doing some
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benchmarks we're kind of going okay how hard is this going to push it and it's
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pushing it pretty hard which is exciting it's just not very optimized at the
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moment so we don't do any lods like I mean I wasn't joking when I was saying
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it was 18 million py like on the because we haven't got any LED so like the
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constellation a million and a half the Freelancers a million 3 even the small
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ones are 300,000 then you got that big environment and we found some fantastic
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bugs where like your die Cuts in half and stuff like that and it was like it's
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it's totally not there yet but it's so exciting to be able to see it when it's
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no it's awesome I'm actually I'm enjoying the process of people playing
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and checking out and then you actually sort of see feedback and it's like a
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great feedback with right so it's like in my old days when I used to make games
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i' a team and like a lot of times be like okay we going to do this or this and I'd like Open Up For Debate just cuz
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I'd like to have a discussion and then it helped me make my mind up what I was going to do and so that's kind of what I
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view having 250,000 backers you just have a much bigger debate pool except I
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mean the key difference between a backer giving you feedback and an employee
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giving you feedback is you pay the employees whereas they pay you I can't
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file you if you say it sucks ex exactly which is both I guess terrifying and
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extremely it's fine now you know what I actually and I've said this before like
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uh when we done um you know like i' be on the forums or whatever is I don't
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mind people having negative and as long as you're constructive in in doing it
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because it shows investment right so you really care like people care they're
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like so if they don't like something like oh you know I want this to be fixed
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because they care it's not cuz they're just being you know a troll or something it's just because they they sort it away
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and they want to and sometimes they have valid points well they put their money up front so I mean it's it's it's it's
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one of those things where no one's going to pay money just to go troll someone
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yeah yeah no no no no so no I think our community is great
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so you take a photo with Chris for our
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fans fans yeah sure sure
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absolutely time to keep you company l so I uh no no no because I I can never be
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embarrassed about sitting by myself at an empty table ever again because uh I I
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introduced myself to Chris Roberts the Star Citizen guy standing over there I
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was going to say and he knew who I was already oh which was like he like
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watches my videos oh I was just like
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change my pants really quick okay minut to go back to were you like the first
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person to invest in in the star Citi hold that for you pretty early no no I
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got this I can do this there we go there you go so so basically so basically I
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had Austin holding the camera just kind of pointed cuz I was just like you catch
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the moment when I meet him but like he was like dude the look on your face when
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you recognized you it's like subtle very subtle get out of
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here he was like dude the on your face when he like knew who you were was like
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Priceless like I was blown away well I saw you during most of the presentation
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you kind of like maybe Jing down and not or something and then Star Citizen came
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up I looked it just
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like like I was dropping my food and my forks and my trinks all over the plet
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looks like a very a very exciting game did you ever play E I didn't play e you
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didn't play e no I was not in gaming at
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that time and it's a little late to jump into the e universe I feel like um but I
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loved freelancer which was the last worked on
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when I found out that that game was just like sequel was Dead on Arrival I was I
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was like devastated so when I found out about this I was just like yeah I'm I'm
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I'm going to need to I bought a constellation which is a $250 ship so I
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my plan is to have like a lus Media Group crew for the ship we're like yeah
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cuz it's a four it's a fourman ship so still like over a year out right oh yeah
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anyway so I've been asked uh very nicely
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by by Chris and the uh and the you know
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I don't even I'm sorry I don't know what your actual compan is called I just know Rob Space
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Industries Cloud Imperium okay's head of
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marketing okay so I've been asked to finish building the PC for the head of
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marketing of cloud Imperium so app she
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need some expert advice I do I need expert advice and it needs to be faster
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than M of Chris Robert and that I I we've already been through this that is
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going to be extremely challenging because he has a great PC that he
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actually built himself and you guys can check out the blog post uh I where was
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that posted it was if you search for Chris Robert's personal rig I think you
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like my you'll find it oh do I like the motherboard okay so you got a Crosshair
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5 formula Z okay yeah that's about as good as it gets for any I haven't seen
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this ID on their memory before so I've only seen the older spreader that
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doesn't have the uh the sort of textured look on the side here um what else what
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you got in here so this is their 9590 so
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once again that is about as highend as it gets for an AMD CPU so that's uh a 5
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GHz 8 core what else you got in here what what have you got Chris uh well
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I've got a yeah I was going to say I think that's about to get awkward
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cuz over clock mine is that what I need to do uh F 3960 or 39 I got I got a CR
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now my understanding is there was a bit of a misconfiguration with the machine
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was we had a 110 what did we have yesterday we had a 110 I think you guys
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had a 280 mm cooler or something like that there's no mounting points in this
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particular case for that and it didn't fit can I help you move that here let me
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turn this off a bit of a thing going on here where um we can't find the
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motherboard screws for the system that I'm supposed to be helping build for uh
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cloud anding game yeah so that's that's
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trick no no they're definitely not under the board oh no I have that them there
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okay I was looking for where the but what we do have is the graphics
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card that's going to be going in this system which is uh about as exciting as
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any screw could possibly be there we go so we can get actually a
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pretty good look at it here so we've got what looks like a metal unic sync that's
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probably covering uh presumably memory
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and vrm and going to help dissipate a little bit of heat you can see it
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actually wraps around the back here AMD's done their usual thing where they
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kind of have a very small penis extension on the PCB so the card is a
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little bit longer than it otherwise would be but not to nearly the same degree as what uh NVIDIA's done with the
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last couple generations of graphics cards where they've got like these weird
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like things that seem to be designed to make them not fit in cases
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um really neat idea on the front of
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it uh these actually illuminate so seen a couple of them running so far so
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that's uh that's a really cool that's a really cool look for it um here on the
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back we've got DisplayPort HDMI and this is an interesting thing so I don't
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know if this was in the Embargo session or not the Embargo session cuz they didn't talk about it at all but you can
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see there's no analog pins on these DVI
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connectors so these are not capable of being adapted with a DVI to VGA adapter
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it actually physically won't fit and the signaling is not there so
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we're ready to go again you oh apparently we found the screws did we
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these are these are the motherboard screws But first you need to put the uh
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liquid that's only eight these came with the uh the liquid cooler you can tell
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because they're colorcoded okay then let's we'll keep searching I mean they
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might they might fit it depends if they have a coarse or a fine threading on
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they I already tested one oh okay yes okay well we could we could use them and
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then we could figure out another way to mount the cooler but that wouldn't help us mount the the SSD we still won't be
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able to oh these could work for the SSD
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okay what else do we have okay why don't we why don't we see
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how far we get
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here