I can SEE what you Bought Online! - Viewer's Choice
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,682 words · ~8 min read
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welcome back to another episode of viewers choice we looked back at our
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amazon affiliate data to see what you yes you thomas
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uh bullock actually bought since new year's eve and
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had a look at what kind of pc that you could build out of the most popular
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parts and this time was really interesting not only because of Intel's
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coffee lake launch that's six core cpus for the masses
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a mere seven years after AMD did it but also because RAM prices have been so
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stupid and cryptocurrency broke the GPU
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market like man
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i cannot believe how much some of you had to pay for a graphics card it's like
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actually depressing cheer up Linus
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so as much as people moaned and groaned when coffee lake was announced i mean
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it had been less than a year since kb lake and it had its own new chipset that
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was a requirement it looks like a lot of you were ready for an upgrade because
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the core i7 8700k was far and away the most popular chip
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this quarter but given its big performance bump over previous products
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that's not nearly as surprising as the way that the most popular chips
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previously the i7 7700k and i5
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7600k have been knocked way back by a
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red sea of rising processors occupying half
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of the top spots overall AMD has actually managed to
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completely catch up to Intel in CPU
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market share at least as far as our
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viewers and what they buy on amazon is concerned so
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wow great job AMD
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on to motherboards silver metal went to a z370 board with support for all of
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those 8th gen Intel chips that you guys are buying
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but when you look at the price you pay to go Intel an average of
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200. for that board i guess it makes sense that the top
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selling motherboard was actually for AMD's socket am4 the ASUS rog strix
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b350f gaming with a similar but more expensive
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variant this guy coming in third place
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also from ASUS fun fact the first
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non-asu sport doesn't appear until sixth
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place in cooler land we've got the
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combo breaker
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the forever champ of coolers cooler masters hyper 212 evo the cooler that
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tripled the sales of the runner up in our last episode has been beaten
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by none other whoops then the Corsair h100i v2 all in one liquid cooler could
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it be the RGB logo on the pump
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yeah that's probably it on to RAM
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sadly our audience hasn't been spared
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the jacked up prices Corsair's 2 by 8
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gig 3 000 megahertz vengeance kit was
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the best selling this time and last june and if you guys are
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looking at this going well there's a RAM shortage because you guys have got all of it well we've had all of this stuff
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for a long time since it was way cheaper
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this kit was an average of 75 dollars
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less last june Corsair somehow managed to get us 128gb
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of their vengeance RGB it's entirely possible that we are
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single-handedly causing the continuation of the global dram shortage so sorry
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about that which i guess is a good segue into GPU
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prices which have also been inflated due to
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demand from cryptocurrency miners while we're used
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to seeing NVIDIA gtx 1070 and 1080 cards
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on the podium this time around people mostly bought 1060s
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and specifically from evga
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but were the people buying them gamers
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well the absence of an uptick in 1060
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usage in the steam hardware survey over the same period would seem to indicate
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that no no they were not
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so does that mean that all of those cards were bought by miners
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not necessarily but consider that all but two of them
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were bought on the same day in january and that one person bought four
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and that the 1060 doesn't support four-way sli
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and all right then so then did any
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gamers buy a new GPU in 2018
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well looks like they tried the third most
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popular card was actually a gtx 1070
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inside a Gigabyte auris gaming box egpu for
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about 600 bucks so those folks had to pay for
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and presumably discard a Thunderbolt enclosure that they probably didn't want
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but hey i mean other people were paying anywhere from 500 to
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900 dollars for just the card
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so yeah
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bt dubs if you're wondering if AMD's vega made a big splash oops there it is
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um well only seven of them actually sold this quarter
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at least on in our amazon data so
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probably that's due to short supply
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now let's take a look at monitors it appears that you guys either wanted to
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spend around 500 bucks for a high refresh rate gaming monitor like a
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really an ultra wide one
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so it looks like it's the 144 hertz lg 34uc79g-b
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which i guess kind of makes sense since it merges two of the features that you
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guys have indicated are the most important to you in a display
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so anyway you either spent a lot on a gaming monitor or you think a monitor is
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a monitor as a monitor and you bought a 21.5 inch hp pavilion the best selling
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monitor on amazon for a mere 85 bucks that actually looks like a good deal
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maybe we should take a closer look at this thing let us know in the comments
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below anyway speaking of cheap stuff that
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seems to be your preference when it comes to peripherals too keyboards and
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mice from red dragon have been absolutely smashing the competition ever
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since we did those budget roundups and now the same thing is happening to
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headsets everyone was buying the hyperx twos
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forever and ever until we did our cheap headphone roundup and now they are in
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15th place with a mere seven percent of
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the sales volume of the be excellent gm
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ones now in case you were wondering the top
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selling chassis come on come on come back i'm sorry i
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know i've used that joke before just kidding i'm not sorry i'm gonna do
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it again anyway the top seller was the fantex eclipse p400s and i mean why not
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it's got a touch of RGB a splash of tempered glass and it comes in a bunch
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of different colors at a fair price what's not to like
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the most popular fan was the Noctua nf
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f12 which half of you opted to get in black completely reasonable and the
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other half went for this which i guess is also sort of reasonable and then an
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honorable mention goes to the Corsair light loop 120s that just came out last
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year they took the bronze medal with their super modern not to mention
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incredibly expensive dual RGB look
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over in storageland there was an upset
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NVMe m.2 ssds won
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for the first time ever with 250 and 500
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gig samsung 960 evos topping the list
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even though they still cost 50 percent
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more than samsung's two and a half inch runners up
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i'm attributing the wind to the price difference now being small enough to
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make the speed gains and space savings appealing to mainstream people with
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notebook upgrades also seeming like a likely driver of this category
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for spinning discs the wd one terabyte blue is still on top but interestingly
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sales of eight terabyte drives tripled
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compared to last time and while i might have initially assumed
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that this was to do with people using optane memory which is a good value way
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to accelerate an internal hard drive
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it seems like this blip has more to do with one particular model going on sale
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because upon closer inspection it's an external drive anyway
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finally who could forget the power supply
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here we've got another first evga's supernova 650 g3 80 plus gold fully
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modular psu took the chicken dinner so
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gold efficiency is finally going mainstream
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so then can we actually make a compatible pc out
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of the winning parts this time the answer is
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no thanks to that pesky am4 motherboard
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or Intel CPU depending on how you look at it but if it were compatible
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the system would actually be almost exactly
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the same price as last time and considerably faster in some tasks thanks
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to the extra couple of processing cores though it should be noted that it would
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be quite a bit slower in games because of the massive video card
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downgrade so hopefully by the next time we do one
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of these the market conditions will have improved somewhat
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the mass drop 67 key mito mito
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thank you the mass drop 67 key mito laser ult mechanical keyboard features a
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mechanical frame a cool retro look gmk
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laser keycaps and you can choose a case color laser dusk or laser dawn
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you can swap switches with no soldering required the keys are fully programmable
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via qmk firmware it's got dual usbc
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connectors and custom RGB backlighting
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and underlighting check it out and learn more at the massdrop link below
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