AMD’s Comeback MEASURED!- Viewers’ Choice PC [Q2 2017]
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,696 words · ~8 min read
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it's been 3 months since the launch of AMD's ryzen 7 CPUs and the results are
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in it's time for us to pull back the curtain on just what our audience
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members bought this last quarter so come
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away with me as we use
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46,000 lines of Amazon affiliate
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transactions to spot consumer Trends spy
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on your sex toy purchases and yes build
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up a hypothetical PC using the most
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popular parts off to Big Data
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land the Phoenix otor is a full-sized
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minimalistically designed keyboard complete with genuine Cherry MX switches
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and a new white backlit variant check it out at the link below
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so did AMD Dethrone the champ no not
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even close so the core i7 7700k is the bestselling chip for the
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third time in a row but all of that
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crying I did in the last video available here seems to have actually had an
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effect the better value gaming chip the
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cor i57600k has edged its way to the number
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two slot I mean it's a distant second but I still feel better about myself but
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what about ryen well let me put it this way out of the top 10 bestselling CPUs
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from our list four of them are ryzen
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with the 1700 and 1700x Performing just
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about equally in fourth and fifth place
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respectively this brings AMD from just
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7% market share in episode 2 all the way
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to 29% among our viewers so I think it's fair
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to say then that competition has
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returned to the PC space the question
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now then is how much should we expect that slice of the pie to grow as AMD
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launches more products like the value oriented ryzen 3 and as developers start
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to optimize their games to get better performance out of this new competing
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architecture place your bets in the comments below cooler Masters three-time
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champ the hyper 212 Evo blew away the
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competition yet again with triple the
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sales of the runner up the other two spots on the podium are occupied by The
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Usual Suspects as well in third is the hyper T2 which is basically a budget
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version of the 212 Evo and climbing to second is the Corsair Hydro series h100i
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all-in-one liquid Cooler why this change well I'm attributing it to some bank
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account recovery since the Christmas drain and ryzen X processors that need
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beefy Cooling and don't come with coolers Corsair continues to dominate
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RAM sales of the 149 different SKS that were sold
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23% of all sales come from the top three
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bestselling ones with 3200 MHz dims in
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either black or white taking the cake
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build it and they will come AMD ryzen
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compatible am4 motherboards are here and
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they're even closer to the top of the list than the chips that fit in them
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somehow in second place is the ASUS
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Prime x370 Pro for AMD's platform with support for both overclocking and dual
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GPU gaming configurations and in first place well last episode's winning board
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Reigns Supreme once more this affordable
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ASUS B150 the LGA 1151 board isn't
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capable of overclocking all of those 7700 K you people are buying but at
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least it's cheap and it's got an m.2 slot so go for it I guess there was a
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huge upset in the graphics department where the best selling card by just one
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point was the ASUS GTX 1080 stricks this
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was actually the bestselling 1080 last
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time around too but that was only good enough for fourth place overall
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this big jump in 1080 sales seems to be
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due to the $100 price drop that they got after the
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release of the 1080 TI in March so we're
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expecting even more changes in this segment once the gt1030 no I'm just
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kidding it's the upcoming AMD vega cards
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that we're expecting to shuffle the deck somewhat one more thing have you guys
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noticed how many graphics cards have VR
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in the name these days well we have it's
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20% with MSI ASUS and Zotac being the
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I'm going to say it worst offenders here let's see if this trend like putting
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gaming in the name of everything picks up in future episodes in the last
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episode the 250 gig Samsung 850 Evo
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overtook the 500 gig variant of the same drive as our bestselling SSD well guess
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what the 500 gig Evo is back we just
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can't quite figure out why if you think it's because of a price drop you'd be
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wrong on average people actually paid $7
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more for it this time around there's
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just so much gosh darn mystery in the world isn't there something that makes a
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bit more sense though is sales of m.2
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ssds these are on the rise with the most popular m.2 Drive arriving in fourth
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place with a $75 price premium over the
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$ 850 Evo of the same capacity on the
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hard drive front the 1 TB Western
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Digital blue is still King but we're
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going to be keeping our eyes peeled for higher capacity hard drives becoming
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more popular now that Intel optane module sales have started to hit the
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books because those things can accelerate a hard drive in a big way for
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operating systems Windows 10 home USB drives have officially and decisively
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claimed the number one spot we don't even have to count the one person who
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bought the Spanish version and later returned it the USB cost the same amount
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as downloadable Windows but has the more flexible license terms of the retail
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copy EVGA continues to supply the most
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popular power supplies but just because the 500 W bronze won again doesn't mean
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that the technology isn't moving forward overall while the price of this PSU has
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stayed near the Rock Bottom $42 the price of the EVGA 650 watt fully modular
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80 plus gold has actually dropped around 30 bucks since episode 2 making it a
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more attractive option for cases the best-selling single skew was the Corsair
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Crystal series 570x RGB that we featured
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in our wow PC upgrade video and in our
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editing Den upgrade but that's not quite
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the whole story if you count all the color variations then the bestselling
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case was actually the fantex and through evolve tempered glass Edition naturally
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more budget conscious Shoppers went for the NZXT s340 while those interested in
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smaller form factor cases chose silverstone's M8 this time around Noctua
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iced the competition with the nf12 coming in on top even though they cost
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twice as much as Corsair's popular air
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series fans and they only come in one
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distinct let's just put it that way color scheme so we'd like to ask the
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audience do you think it would be better for Noctua in the long term to maintain
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their strong brand Identity or to offer
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more modern flavors maybe even RGB
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blasphemy sorry I got carried
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away okay moving on now we've been monitoring the situation and high
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refresh rate 1080p displays one once
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more this time it's a 24 incher from
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ASUS and the March towards the mainstream doesn't look like it's
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slowing down with high refresh rate gaining way more market share than any
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other key feature over the last quarter
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now really okay well you're not going to
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believe this one but take last episode's
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bestselling Mouse and multiply its sales
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by five that's how many of these damn things you
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guys bought it's the red dragon centr
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for us Mouse from our cheap gaming mouse Roundup and guess what second and third
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place are from that video too but wait it gets even better you guys also bought
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the keyboard to go with it the red dragon k503 har b s color backlit gaming
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keyboard I guess you guys really love these cheap crap roundups Hey cuz it
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gives you so much more money to spend on the ever popular hyperx Cloud 2 gaming
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headset they must sell so freaking many
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of those things so then putting it all together we once again for the third
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time running have a compatible computer
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it's got five of the same Parts as last time but while similar but cheaper was
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the trend in the last episode of viewers Choice viewers Choice PC number three is
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$175 more expensive than even the first
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viewers Choice PC with the price jumps coming mostly from moving up market with
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first so thanks for watching guys let's
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look to see how much market share AMD grabs NVIDIA cards in the next episode
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the last two were at 26% place your bets in the comments or on our community
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