He's NEVER experienced REAL PC Gaming.. - ROG Rig Reboot 2018
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,650 words · ~13 min read
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get it get on over here chris so this is an interesting one our
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final contestant for rg rig reboot 2018
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or rather our final winner chris here had only one request for this
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machine wireless internet that's it that's the one special request
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well hopefully ASUS managed to send over a board with wi-fi because tough series
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boards didn't used to have it oh they did
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cool well we're off to the races then aren't we let's put the jet up
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what are you wearing an LTT hoodie an LTT t-shirt
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actually chris i forgot to show you the best part of my ensemble today
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everyone's been complaining about my socks and sandals so
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i agreed finally to switch to sandals and bare feet
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oh bear bare feet
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so have you ever built a computer before yes really so this will be easy peasy go
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ahead and get started do it i got the case open first
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do you not like my method fine i'll do the motherboard no it's a free country no it's a free
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country keep an eye on me make sure i don't try not to be judgmental right now
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how would you go about it then well i don't know you don't seem like you care
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you seem like you just want to forge your own path and so far be it for me to
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to interfere with whatever it is whatever this is what kind of system you
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built before uh i have some old like
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Windows xp computers like early 2000s oh
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wow okay so first of all never open anything over top of the socket you drop
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it just in case you dropped it good point yeah so you drop enough things you
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start to come up with mitigation strategies
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yeah that's good so what are we loading in here 9700k
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how do you pull this off did he end up with the best CPU
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oh it's because he got to go last
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that's the secret dang
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eight core chip man nice sorry you were having trouble getting
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the box open right yeah i'm gonna show you um a secret technique for getting
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past these seals that's been handed down by my unboxing forefathers
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oh just to just go around it yeah like if there's a detour you just drive
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around yeah so you put it in the 2280
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socket here or at least you try you just
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scrape it around on the board for a bit and then yeah go ahead yeah yeah yeah
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grab grab a socket there gotta find the right size
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nope too small
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uh so there we go we've got our m.2 drive we've got our CPU
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what would you think comes next old timey chap we put the motherboard
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into the computer no he's just like no foreplay graphics
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let's put the graphics card on now and then just put it in there with no power supply no power supply um
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the RAM yes let's put the round then okay
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instead of putting in the RAM last so you know what's cool you actually ended
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up with the coolest wham too this is the trident z
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royal heck yeah all right
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all right how does RAM go in well normally
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there we go nice he's done round before
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that is kind of blingy to the point of
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ridiculous and it is like RGB up the butt what
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would you like to do now i'm gonna go with my first impulse and say the power
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supply so these are your custom individually sleeved cable mod cables
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and once you get those sorted out then we can plug them into your power supply
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molex cable back that's what i figured
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okay then have you considered the possibility that you're done oh
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done we got more cables
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oh you seem so stressed out man
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it's expensive nothing can go wrong
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okay put your cables on first
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it's a lot easier to put them on now than to try and finagle them in in there
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it's facing up this would be the closest
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you were already getting basically the banginess
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gaming computer and it's just gonna get a little bit
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more banging because we're gonna have to go with an rog motherboard here because
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your case has one of these connectors
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so these are designed for high data rates and high power
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delivery such as is needed for usb
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type-c ports so um you know i'm just
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gonna do a quick swap here for the components that we have
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uh installed so far that's a pretty nice
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upgrade
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yeah right why i've been installing RAM
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since before i was born
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i'm gonna need a minute but i dress older than you so it's okay
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you're gonna be all right yeah i'm fine no i'm good okay
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you're only as old as you feel yeah well i feel really old today Colton thank you
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you're only as old as you act how about that where
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the chuffing hell is the i o shield for the oh it's one of
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the ones with the built-in i okay it's fine okay so now i really wish you
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hadn't exploded the packaging for this motherboard
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do we need like a clean up session like a montauk no it's
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going to be fine because it's going to be Colton's problem
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oh and he's gone there is not a lot of clearance here
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yeah we are going to have to take the fan out in order to install this
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motherboard wow that's a tight fit
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snug like a bug yeah
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okay it goes in but the tolerances on
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this case could be better
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um you know what
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i'm just going to do these sounds fast i'll hand you screws
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helpful that way
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one job chris one job
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i drop things almost as much as you do it's nothing to be proud of you could be
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my real dad
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all right so the motherboard's in
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i'm gonna say put the SSD into its
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holster like a texan
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is this gonna be your everyday carry SSD
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uh yeah but i can't take it in to work not allowed
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are you sure you don't have a knife
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see i thought those were fake no real fake knives you don't need regular
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real knives when you got real fake knives you got fake fruit
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there's no way that you could do this any worse than our last winner
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is this a challenge no
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and okay
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okay i lied that it is possible for you to be as bad at this as the other guy
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and yeah now do i mount it like that
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after looking at i'm like oh i i see where i am
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screwing up screwing it up yeah that's good i'll get
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there in the end it starts with no
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you know lincoln park yeah of course i do huh he knows lincoln park right check
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mark maybe you are an old soul check no check my phone you'd see a lot of old
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songs on there did he just call it an old song
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oh i'm just gonna if it's if it's from to he was about to say if it's from 2000
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or earlier it's old okay you're right is what he
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was about to say because that's before he was born is
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insync would you consider in sync an old band i am actually going to see the
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backstreet boys i am so excited they're coming to vancouver next summer nice
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oh really yeah i got tickle i'm not even ashamed i'm into it with
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bsb bsb this cooler is pretty cool
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so aside from just being like an asatech
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built dual 120 millimeter blah blah blah it
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has a screen on it does it tell me the temperatures it can
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oh okay it can tell you whatever you want it can curse at you if you'd like
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oh sweet this is a little tricky and i don't expect you to know the right way to do
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it we just want to check our orientation here to make sure that
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so that's going to be probably how we want to put that on
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you know what i'm just going to pop it on there for you so what's the highest
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spec Windows xp computer you've built uh it
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has a gt210 minute okay well that's a graphics card at
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least uh the processor is
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a pentium 4d 3. not three by the time you have a
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pentium d in the machine it doesn't matter how many gigahertz it is really
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it's more of a space heater to be honest yeah okay
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cooler's in looking good what's next
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i guess that needs to be turned around then for cable management in the back
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oh would you like
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LTT hook and loop fastener ties
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sure they're just like regular cable
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ties except they say
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LTT on them
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nice ah there we go i'm just gonna replace those
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uh built-in cable ties for you there with
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some nice decent quality LTT ones decent
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qualities more secure i'd say we're not saying they're the best we're just
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saying they're fine they're functional wow this is coming together now
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okay yeah we can do the graphics card if you want all right this is it
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the scariest part this is the rtx 2080 what do you mean scariest part
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this is fun yeah except
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fastest gaming card known to man
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oc edition 11 gigs of gddr6 memory this
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is probably more gddr6 memory than you
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have in your life of any kind of memory well unless you count my memory drawer
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best part man this is as good as it gets and your
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timing for this build it just keeps getting better battlefield 5 finally
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just dropped with rtx enabled ah it's a
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tight fixed box oh thank you
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don't drop it i know that's why i said this is the scariest part this i don't
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have a replacement on hand for and also
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this is more expensive than any computer i've owned alone
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so yep
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we have a quick peek-a-boo here
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how'd you do that oh i got stuck okay
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i'm gonna bend that back for you there bud
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just uh take care of that there for your bud there and oh and now it fits just
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for that i'm gonna peel your graphics card no i'm not gonna do that i'm not gonna do that i wouldn't do that i
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wouldn't peel another men's graphics cards go for it go for it after all this
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practice
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oh oh oh oh oh no oh
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awful oh wow two-handed p well
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oh my goodness this is i think this is the worst level of chaos
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out of any of these builds is this wireless
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uh nope also you can decide if you want a braided cable
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or a regular cable good because braided cables are i'm going to go with regular
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because braided are heavier and drag fascinating so i had just said on our
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last rog rig reboot why would anyone not choose the braided cable uh because the
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braided cable uh has more drag to it and it's a heavier cable so
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looking good i'm liking the uh old-timey hat with the uh brand new that's how
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that's how i do things look even at home really yeah
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have you ever owned a displayport anything uh i owned a 1080p monitor that
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had a displayport option but i never had a displayport on the computer well this
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monitor has more than just displayport this thing is 160
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hertz 2560 by 1440 resolution g-sync
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and in the other corner nothing
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nothing stands against it okay yeah now this is basically as banging as it gets
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for gaming i think you'll be able to tell that it's really fast and really
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clear have you ever experienced
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greater than 60 hertz displayness the
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highest i have seen is 70 something so i
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just enabled overclocking for this monitor so that'll get you from 144 to
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165 hertz boom there it is i'm going to test it
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out on my favorite game minesweeper oh the mouse
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you can mind sweep like nobody ever mind swept you can see exactly when the clock
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changes its number so each of these only borders one so
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it's either here and here or it's just one of these
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and it's both of these
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now i'm gonna take a 50 50 guess and go with wait you don't have to i do
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i not this one here yep which means that's clear
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which means that's clear too hey yes
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all right that means these three are clear not that one wait no no
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uh one over that that and that yeah those are all these three you play a
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real game now though this is a real game i'll have you know
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okay okay so in typical call of duty fashion people are running around on the
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battlefield with swords just knifing each other all right
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how are you liking it how's it feel much
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better especially on the graphics department
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i don't even think i i could play this game on my old computer how's the
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smoothness uh very smooth
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even though uh i'm not used to sensitivity it's smooth enough that i
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can see and stop myself i can't see that i'd
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be playing this competitively but having a lot of fun
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no no oh the dog's
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you got dogged you shot him like three times
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i get such a kick out of this or thinks like uh hey you're playing cod
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now it's orange did you just die yeah nice turns red when you die
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i'm a rage quit this is my first rage quote on this computer i i'm i'm upset
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wait no how's your kill to death ratio oh i reached it right it was around one
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to one ish i think you were a little bit below but i don't blame you if you're not used to the sensitivity you can get
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that dialed in though that has like tons of dpi adjustments and we're back to
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your regular color scheme now that's that's pretty cool so that's it guys if
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