Shut up and Take My Money! - Viewer's Choice PC [March 2017]
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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it's time for episode two a viewers Choice Award computer
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where we tell you about the most common
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PC purchases from lonus Tech tips audience members and check out market
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trends and changes since last time now
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all of this is according to the
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what
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26,000 Amazon transactions since the
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start of the year on our affiliate code holy crap it is a good thing that I
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hired someone to dig through it all for me this time anyway last year you guys
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made some decisions that I found
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disappointing but did you do any better this time place your
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bets Zotac vrgo backpack features a GT X
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1070 and Intel Core i7 processor
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allowing you to enjoy VR without obstacles learn more at the link
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below now in the first episode I lectured you guys for spending an extra
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$100 on an i76700k CPU after telling you that the
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i56600k was the best pick for gamers in
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a previous video well either more of you
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are content creators than I thought or
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maybe no one cares what I think and I'm living a giant lie because once again
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Intel's cor i7 won the day with the new
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generation 7700 K handily beating
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everything else thanks to its higher clock speeds and
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hyperthreading but will that
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last most of you spent between $250 to
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$450 on your CPU a price point that's
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about to be thoroughly shaken up by AMD's new ryzen 7 lineup so by the next
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episode I expect the $329 8 core 3 GHz ryzen 7 1700 to have
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chipped away at the 93% market share that Intel currently
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enjoys among our viewers neither the
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viewer's choice CPU Cooler nor the RAM
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changed the hyper 212 Evo is still a
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great performer with solid compatibility at the same price around 30 bucks but
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the same can't be said for the 3200 MHz Corsair Vengeance dual Channel DDR4 Kit
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they actually went up in price about 30%
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due to fluctuations in commodity memory pricing but they also seem to have
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gotten a strong boost since being
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spotlighted last time around this
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positive feedack back Loop might make it
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difficult for incumbents to be dethroned in future viewers Choice videos we will
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have to keep an eye on that totally different story in the motherboard
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Department the reigning champ the z170a
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from ASUS fell to fourth place with the
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significantly cheaper and lesser featured
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b150m doubling up on it this is really
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bizarre to me given the excellent sales
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of kseries overclockable i5s and
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i7s don't you guys want to use this
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feature that you spent extra for I mean
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let me know in the comments why do you think this is happening this is another
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category by the way that I expect to be turned inside out as the flood of ryzen
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compatible boards hits retailer shelves so stay tuned for that on to Graphics
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town and and more upset victories the
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cheaper Trend continues with evga's GTX
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1070 gaming smashing the sales of the
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two cards that were tied for first in our last episode AMD did make a bit of a
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comeback though scoring 25% market share
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by unit volume mostly on the strength of
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rx480 sales and as for whether or not
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putting gaming in the card's name makes a difference let me put it this way the
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first video card to not do so came in
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ninth place I don't think even special
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snowflake kids get a ninth place ribbon on sports day speaking of podiums
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Samsung's 850 Evo ssds killed it again
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this time with the lower capacity 250 gig variant leading the charge but a
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challenger approaches in third place
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miserly viewers sacrificed 10 gigs of storage for $30 of savings on sandisk's
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SSD plus 240 gig for folks who broke the
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bank with their CPUs and ssds but need a cheap spinning desk to store their steam
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Library the 1 TB WD blue is Far and Away
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the most popular skew with this surprises me hardly anyone in our
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audience buying more than 6 tbte drives
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from either WD or Seagate even PGA is still in
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power when it comes to psus but this
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time you guys for went the 650 wat fully
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modular Supernova G1 which fell to third
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place and went for the cheaper 500 watt
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non-modular 80 plus bronze B1 series
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honestly that's probably a good move for most people you get to save a couple
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bucks while still having the option to remove some unnecessary cable clutter an
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important consideration in the tempered glass era and in case you were wondering
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the tables have also turned when it comes to chassis selection the enthu
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Evolve tempered glass Edition gets an honorable mention here for being the
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most popular tempered glass case but fant's 400 series cases were almost
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completely absent this time around leaving the thermal take Versa H25 as
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the most popular single skew and the NZXT s340 in its various colors to Tower
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Above the Rest am I the only one who's surprised by this I mean the most
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popular color was white go
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figure anyway if you're not a fan of
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these silly Segways we've been doing too bad it's your punishment for once again
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buying Corsair Aeries af-1 120s instead
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of the more versatile SP 1220s
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apparently 64% of you decided that the
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$4 of savings was more important than listening to me so at least we know how
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much my advice is worth and
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finally combo breaker you moved up
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Market in the monitor department since last time when commodity 60 Herz
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monitors Ruled The Roost this time both
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the one and two slots were occupied by high refresh rate 1080p gaming monitors
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made by AOC and ASUS respectively 144 HZ
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gaming is definitely becoming a thing
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with our viewers deeming it as important
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as ultrawide resolution with both of
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those coming in significantly ahead of
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4K as for mice Logitech still sits on
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top but their g502 Proteus Spectrum lost
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narrowly but lost to the more expensive
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g403 Prodigy a wireless gaming mouse
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that we covered back here the first that's considered even by the pros to be
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suitable for high-end competitive play who would have thought a wireless mouse
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did a chance against good oldfashioned copper and your g403 will go perfectly
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with your wait a minute this thing isn't
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made by Logitech the Gan W andq USB
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wired gaming keyboard this puppy has
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been selling like knockoff airpods since
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it rocked the competition in our cheap $25 backlit keyboard Roundup even though
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it has gaming in the name I didn't really recommend it as the best
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experience in that category so let us know in the comments how that thing is
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working out for you there leading us finally to the eternal struggle between
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good and evil Co and Pepsi Crocs and
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sandals and audio we had the exact same
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headset Showdown as before senheiser HD
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598s versus the Kingston hyperx Cloud 2s
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this time the battle has been won by a mere three points by the sisers with as
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always the ant lion mod mic the more
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versatile but significantly more expensive option of the two so how does
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our PC compare to our last one well I gu
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then surprisingly we ended up with a compatible computer right out of the box
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which is pretty neat and it's about $140
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cheaper but that's only if you remove headset spending from the equation
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otherwise we saved around 35 bucks since episode 1 did this penny pinching then
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result in pooper performance not really
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since most of the savings came from the downgraded motherboard and power supply
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and lower capacity SSD
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as far as overall trends go it was interesting to see Intel and NVIDIA's
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continued dominance among our viewers
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especially given the kind of year that we are heading into and I'd love to hear
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from you guys in the comments what do you think those charts might look like
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closer to the end of 2017 so thanks for watching guys dislike
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if you disliked like if you liked get subscribed maybe check out where to buy
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the stuff we featured it Amazon in the video description also down there is our
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merch store as well as our community forum and now that you're done checking
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out all of that stuff you're probably probably probably wondering what to
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watch next so check out one of our other videos which we're going to have like a
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little box that you can click on