Linus Tech Tips Live Show Archive - September 21th, 2012
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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Let's do a quick sound check, shall we? For those of you who
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are watching already, we're like two
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minutes early today. So, uh Oh, I
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thought I thought we had a cat about to join us, but we don't. He's he's running
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off to go somewhere else. Do you want to leave them in
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here? Yeah, there we go. There. So, I'd just like to know if this
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is working. So, if someone on Twitter or someone on uh you know, something can
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let me know. Actually, I can check the I'll
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check the Twitch chat. Here we go. And we're live. Yes, there we go. Uh for
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those of you who have not seen my my intro teaser video on YouTube, we are
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potentially going to have a live
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unboxing of the iPhone 5 tonight, which I know you guys are super super excited
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about. unboxing of the iPhone 5 tonight.
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No. No. Am I not? I'm not. I'm not. Echo. What do you mean echo? Okay. Let's
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see if the echo is gone. Echo gone. Echo gone. Here we go. Echo. I'm waiting for
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people to say the echo is done. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We know there's an echo. See, here you go, guys. Here you
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go. All right. Tell me something. When you see that 10 people have typed echo,
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do you feel the need to say echo? When you see that 10 people have typed
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echoing, do you feel the need to say echo? When you see that 10 people have
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typed echo still gone, please mute your stream. No, no,
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the stream is muted. Hold on. Hold on. Still gone. Okay, we might have a
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problem here. Please mute your stream. No, no, the stream is muted. Hold on.
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Good thing we started early tonight. Okay, we might have a problem here. Please mute your stream. No, no, the
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stream is muted. Hold on. Good thing we started. Browser page isn't even showing
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my stream. That's bizarre. All right, let's go to a different website.
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Okay. Okay, let's see if that helps. See, see, it's great that we're It's
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great that we're having this uh great that we're having this time
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together like 10 seconds apart. Okay, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. It's great
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that we're having this time together. 10 seconds apart. Okay, hold on. We cannot
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see the Echo results until people say close your stream. My stream is closed.
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Okay, hold on. My stream is closed. There's no need to tell me to close the
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stream. Hold on. Let's see if this uh let's see if my stream is closed.
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There's no need to tell me to close the stream. Hold on. Let's see if
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this. Okay. How about
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now? Still echo. There we go. Are we good? We
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good. All right, we're good. Apparently, I have to mute XSplit because XSplit is
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uh I don't know. I'll have to figure that out later. I I have I have no idea
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what's going on because I've only got one mic actually. I want to know how is
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the audio quality tonight because I am using something pretty sweet. This is an
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ASUS Thunder FX sound external sound
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card that has an environmentally
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cancelling noiseancel thing. That red
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light that's on what would be the top to you guys and the right hand side of the
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unit to me that audio is the same. It's
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a little worse than last time. Good clear voice.
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See? Yeah, you guys uh you guys are giving me mixed messages here. So, why
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don't we kick things off with a couple of Twitter questions. I'm just going to
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I've got my hotkeys working this time, so we'll actually be able to see what
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each other are talking about. Let's go. Eight new interactions. Oh, okay. There
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are two audio. Fine. Aha. HKG who is
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here wants to know how do I feel about
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the Trinity APUs that are coming out. So I don't really have feelings about
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hardware per se, but I am definitely excited to see what AMD has done in
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terms of uh faster gaming performance on
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what would otherwise be a very entrylevel processor. Now, it's no
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secret that AMD's APUs already destroy
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Intel's actually here, I'm going to find a uh There we go. Let's go.
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YouTube.com. And we're not going to have sound here, guys. Sorry. Uh so,
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YouTube.com. Let's have a look at our
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IGP
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showdown. There, that's me right there. See, very few people watch these videos,
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which is frustrating because they're pretty informative. See, look at that.
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Lots of likes, very few dislikes, but no one wants to uh no one wants to watch
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these like these uh these more educational videos. So, as I have
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apologized for numerous times in the past, and people think my voice quality
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is way worse than before. I mean, I can turn off the
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environmental. You know what? I'm just not going to play with it. So, skip
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ad. Going to try and skip the ad. That's their new strategy is to not let you
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skip the ad. So, this is me with a crazy
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hairdo that and uh this is the video not
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playing which is obviously really helpful to make it look you know less
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horrible. So, basically we do graphs and those green graphs there are the AMD
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graphs and this this is Crisis right here and those blue graphs are the Intel
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graphs. So, this is Ivy Bridge versus
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Intel's or AMD's first generation APU. So, with their next generation APU, I am
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super excited to see what they come out with. I actually have about three of the
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new APUs on hand already. Well, rather Slick has them, and he's working on
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testing them as we speak. At least he's supposed to be working on that as we
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speak. But, uh, he he actually he actually may not be. So, there there's
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only way one way to find out if he's actually working on it, and that would be to call him. Maybe we'll make that
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like part of the live show at some point. Like crank calling slick whenever
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we're doing a live show. You know what? Okay. Okay. I want I want I Okay, we're
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gonna do this. So, the first tweet,
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okay, of what I should prank text
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Slick. I will I will take that I'll take
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that tweet and I will text it to him. So, we're gonna we're going to start
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watching the Twitter feed here. And uh I'm just going to change just just so
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you guys just so you guys can can be can
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be pretty confident that I'm actually doing it. We're going to we're going to
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go because he was trolling me during uh during one of my previous live streams.
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He actually phoned me in the middle of it and was asking me sort of smartassar
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remarks questions. All right, hold on. I'm going to change his name in my
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phone. I'm going to change it from his real name to uh his his other more
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different real name, which is obviously Slick. And I'm just going to cover up
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his phone number here. Whoops. So you guys can see that this is the whatever.
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You can't see anything. Forget about it. So you'll just have to take my word for
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it. Okay. Here we go. New interactions coming in. I'm going to find the first
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one. I'm going to find the first one. So I'm not uh it's not a Okay. Will you
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marry me? That's the first one. I think it's lame, but I'm going to
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do it anyway because that's what you guys have asked for here. Okay.
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As long as he's not watching the uh as long as he's not watching the live
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stream, then uh here. Here we go. Here
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we go. So, that's slick. And that is uh
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that is my I can't I can't do this. Trying to look through the screen. There
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we go. There it goes. See, we just prank texted someone. Let's
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see if he replies right away. So, I'm going to leave this here for now, and
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then I'm going to switch to my other view so that I can move over here. No,
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better yet, I'll put this over here. So, we can keep an eye on that while we see
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if we have any other topics coming in.
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We'll see. We'll see what he says. This is going to be live, right, guys? So, I I have no idea. I have no idea what kind
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of a reaction we're going to get out of him. All right, tell him you broke the
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iPhone 5. Okay, no more suggestions. No more suggestions. And besides, I tell
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him he's fired like every other day, so he won't even be surprised by that.
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Christian wants to know, "What's the difference between DDR2 and DDR3?" Uh,
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you should definitely look that up on YouTube, Christian. Uh, if you if you
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search for DDR2 versus DDR3, I have a video all about
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that. Thomas Thomas Heckler, you know what? Here, we'll put this away for now.
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Thomas Heckler wants to know, "What is the best way to clean out CPU fans and
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case fans? I have filters in my case, so
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I would suggest checking out the dust
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PC. Let's start. Let's try PC
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dust." Oh. Oh. Oh. Dust
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resistance. Oh. Oh. Oh. Apparently that
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uh that search term is not going to work for me. So, we'll try something else.
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Computer cleaning.
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And there it is. 140,000 views. PC
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cleaning tips removing dust bunnies. Maybe if I'd used uh better search terms
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for that, that would have been better. Uh oh, here we go. Here we go. We've got
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Slick's message back. He wants to know if he's going to get a dowy of a
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3960X. So, it looks like he's actually down for the idea. And uh that's very
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exciting for me and of course all of my viewers who are very happy about my
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impending nuptuals. We're not going to give him any more context for that. I'm
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just not going to reply to his text anymore, which will be for the walls, of
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course, as well. Let's move down. My Little Pony theme song.
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Okay. All right. 18 new interactions. Thoughts on DDR4? Good question. Um,
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DDR4 is probably going to be lower power, higher frequency, and higher
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latency than DDR3. We honestly haven't seen any big um on the desktop anyway.
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We haven't seen any big performance improvements come from upgrading our
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memory technologies since pretty much dual channel DDR2. I mean uh if you go
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back and look at the at the numbers um
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back then even especially on platforms with an integrated memory controller. So
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AMD's platforms at the time, not Intel then, but Intel now. Uh we don't see
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that much of a difference in terms of performance because we don't need all
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that memory bandwidth these days. I mean, if you're buying like an X79
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platform system, um, you know, for extreme Uber gaming or whatever else,
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you might as well get four memory sticks because they're so cheap these days. But
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the actual difference in performance running on an X79 platform between dual
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channel and quad channel is on the order of like singledigit percentages. It's
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not actually that
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huge. All right. Hey Lionus, is it worth
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me waiting for any tablet with a keyboard dock on Windows 8 or just get one of the Android ones? Personally, I
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find with the Transformer series, the the keyboard experience on Android is
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actually not that uh not that
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satisfactory. It it doesn't feel that clean. I haven't used it with Jelly
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Bean, though. Um and I haven't used it extensively with ice cream sandwich. So,
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this is based on the honeycomb days. Uh,
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however, I think we can all assume that a Windows 8 experience with a keyboard
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and mouse is going to be pretty seamless compared to what you might see from its
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uh from its competitors. Nikil, a see I always do
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this wrong. This guy right here wants to know, "What are my opinion on Corsair's
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Dominators?" So, Dominators are RAM um available in DDR2 and DDR3 varieties.
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Well, rather that's two and three.
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Um, often times they're faster than other RAM. It doesn't make a huge
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difference to your system performance, but they look outstanding. The new Dominator Platinums, especially with
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that like silver bar along the top, makes your system look ballin. And they
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have like interchangeable lighting effects and stuff that you can put in them. So, that's pretty cool. Um, other
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than that, they have a lifetime warranty. They're hand tested. They're Corsair, so it's probably good stuff.
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That's about all for my opinion on dominators, unless you meant some other
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kind of Dominator. I'm assuming you meant Corsair Dominators.
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I mean, you know, whatever you're into. I'm not I'm not here to judge on this
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live stream. That's not what this live stream is about. Phil, have you heard about any
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high pixel density monitors coming out soon? Actually, I have something very
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exciting to show you, Phil. I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to go into my uh my
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folder where I archive all this like stuff that I don't know might be
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interesting or might not. So, in my pending folder, you can see that we
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have ASUS
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PB278Q showcase coming out on NCIX Tech
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TT tips. So, that is going to be pretty cool. And I hope you guys are going to
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check that out. Don't forget to be subscribed to the NCIXCOM channel as
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well as my Linus Tech Tips channel. Otherwise, you won't necessarily see all
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of my content because I do upload completely different sets of videos to
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both of those channels. and uh that yeah that that particular monitor is a 27in
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monitor with a 2560x440 resolution. No, it's not quite
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up to the kind of pixel density that you see with like a retina display or or
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with some of these new fangled Android tablets such as the Transformer
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TF700, but it's still significantly higher than well what we're used to on
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the desktop and is therefore therefore exciting. So, I'm going to move that
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away. I actually have no idea how many people are watching the live stream
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tonight. So, I'm kind of uh I'm kind of I'm kind of curious, but I guess I'll
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I'll look a little bit later. Okay, scrolling down. Oh, okay. We're back to
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uh we're back to where we left off. Let's have a look at Oh, 75 new
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interactions. That means we're we're starting to see a bit of a bit of a ramp
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up here in terms of how many people are watching. And it's you again. You're my
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favorite. Let's see if we can get rid of you for good this time. And you are
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blocked. Byebye. Thank you for playing. Come again.
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Actually, probably don't come again. That would be best. All right.
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What's What's better to use for 120 Hz
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gaming? DisplayPort or dual link DVI?
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I'm using a GTX 690 and the BenQ XL
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2420T. Simple answer, totally doesn't matter. They're both completely digital
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connections. They're both more than capable of delivering the bandwidth that
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you need for 1920 x 1080120 htz. Um
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DisplayPort is believed to the rumor is
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that it has slightly higher latency compared to DVI. So if you don't for
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whatever reason need the smaller connector versus the DVI connector, then
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I guess you might as well go with whatever cable you have lying around.
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Cables make digital. So there's there's there's
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no difference between like an expensive DVI cable and like a like a cheap DVI
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cable. It just it just doesn't matter. The only time you really run into trouble with cables is when you're
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talking VGA cables. So with any analog cable, the actual quality of the cable,
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the quality of the connector makes a big difference. With digital cables, you'll
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know right away if there's anything wrong with the cable because it just flat out won't work. And I think we have
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a visitor. Come here. You want to come visit
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Rocket? Here you guys can see him
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perhaps. Where'd he go? Rocket. There you are. There you are, sweetheart. Say
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hi to everyone. There he
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goes. Yeah. Yeah. Saying hi to everyone.
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Hey, there you go. They can see you. Okay. Well, that was fun. Rocket joined
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us for for just a moment, then he he had to leave. Bye, Rocket. Okay. Personal
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rig updates. No. Oh, no personal rig updates this week. I've been super busy
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this week. David wants to know if I have an NCIX discount. You bet I
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do. It's awesome. By the
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way, uh Kevin says, "Thank you for taking the time to live stream to us,
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your loyal fans. Watching you right now. I'm watching you, Kevin."
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No, but seriously, um, thank you guys for watching because if nobody watched,
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then I'd be one of those sad people on the internet that actually like like
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this was very sad. I came across this YouTube channel that's been around for
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about five years, like five years. And
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it had like hundreds of videos on it and
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like a hundred subscribers, which at
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that point is basically probably fakes. Like it's it's probably not even real
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people. And it just like like all these hours of content that have been created
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and nobody ever watched them. I do feel truly lucky and truly blessed that you
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guys even want to watch me on the internet. So, no. Thank you, Kevin, even
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though I gave you the staredown earlier before and I'm very sorry about
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that. H Vincent wants to know if there's any
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news on the rumored Corsair H80i and H100i. I haven't heard anything, but I
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can tell you right now that that sounds pretty exciting because if it's an I,
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then it's probably like a new AXI power supply, which is
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awesome and it probably goes with that somehow. So, that would be my entire
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that would be my entire take on on all of that. Oh, random, random, random. You
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just won the fail tweet of the night award because when is NCIX coming to
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Ontario? We are going to go on a little voyage of discovery here on the contact
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us page of
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NCIX. Ontario location Missaga Markham other Markham
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Scarboro and a warehouse. Bam. I'm sure
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you meant Toronto city but you know
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whatever. The suburbs are basically the same. So you can still go to NCX. You
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just have to like put some effort into it.
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Justin, I've heard using canned air is bad for cleaning your case because of
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chemicals or something. Is this true? You know, I probably wouldn't
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worry about it too much. I mean, I wouldn't just like turn it upside down
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and like spray the liquid directly onto everything, but um yeah, I Yeah, I just
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I wouldn't I wouldn't over I wouldn't overthink that. JJ wants to know what I
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think of Chromebooks. JJ is Oh, see, I do that every time. JJ's right there. So
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JJ, Chromebooks are, in my opinion, not
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there yet. Now, if the Chromebook had
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apps in much the same way that Android has apps, for example,
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then I might see some more utility to it because not everything runs in a browser
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yet. I mean once we see some more consolidation in terms of web standards
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like if flash just goes away which is
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going to take time it's not going to happen instantly then then there might
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be more more possibility of of writing apps that are completely universal and
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will work 100% of the time and uh aside
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from aside from the lack of that sort of unified structure to it uh the other
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problem to me is this the requirement for constant connectivity. I mean, for
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me here in the uh in the in the Canadian
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ghetto, um it's still expensive for data
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for for my device. And then if I have multiple devices, then I'm paying for
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multiple data connections, which um again gets sort of more expensive. I
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mean, you can bundle things together, but yeah, the idea of having a device
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that only really that only really functions the way it's supposed to if I have a
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connection is not that appealing to me
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personally. But in places like Japan or places where the population density and
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the IT infrastructure is much better then it might be better. Uh Justin wants
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to know FX6200 or 8150 for gaming.
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Justin I would suggest that you consider an alternate platform if gaming
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performance is your only consideration. I did do a review of the 8150 when it
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came out. Um let's see if I actually here we'll see if I can dig it up. You
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know what? Let's just use our Let's just use our half our half panel here.
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Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Nope. That's not what I meant to do. Okay, let's find another
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Okay. Yeah, Slick sent me a follow-up message. You know, one of those big O,
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you know, period, small O things. He's like, I'm not going to reply though,
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just for lols. It'll be funny, right? Okay, let's search for um FX
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8150. It helps if you type for Oh, that
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change. Right. Whoopsy daisies. 8150.
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Let's try my other number pad. All right. Hey, there we go.
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Unboxing and first look has really that one has 240,000 views. Go figure. And
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there's the uh there's the gaming benchmarks versus the 2500K, which is a
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pretty pretty last generation processor there, guys. So, let's go ahead and
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Yeah, my power line internet's really slow. I think in this one I just showed
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like an Excel chart and since it's not in HD right now, that's going to be
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pretty hard to read. I can understand why you guys don't like the way I do these charts. In my defense, though, I
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usually read out a lot of it like during the process. Here we go. Here we go.
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Here we go. Okay, so pretty much if we if we have a look at the data which is
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to our right here, we can see that the
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8150 gets um hold on minmax average oh
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was actually very similar across the board to a 2500
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K. Well, okay then. Okay, so that's a
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last generation Intel CPU. Since games don't really take that much advantage of
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here, how many cores for gaming? Since
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they don't really take advantage of that many cores, you can assume that any modern Intel CPU is going to be slightly
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faster than that. Although, it should be noted, see how many CPU cores is enough
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for gaming. There's another good video about this. It should be noted, however, though that where was I going with this?
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Ah, yes, my legendary bottleneck video.
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Let's see. Let's see how. Yeah, right there. You search for bottleneck right
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there. Understanding hardware bottlenecks and how to avoid them. If you have your graphics details turned
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up, which you should if you're running a decent machine with a decent graphics
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card, you're going to discover that it almost pretty much doesn't matter what CPU you have to to a point as long as
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you've got something modern and something reasonably fast with a reasonable number of cores. Uh because
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you're going to be GPU limited anyway once you turn the details up. And
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bottlenecks are not necessarily a bad thing. Every single system is
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bottlenecked. I have so many people ask me, will this part bottleneck this part?
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And it's not that simple. Watch the video. Watch the video right there.
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Watch that video later. Bookmark it now. Just do it now. Watch that video later
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and hopefully you'll understand it a little bit better. But any given
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hardware configuration, let's say CPU A and video card B. Depending on the
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settings I'm running, the CPU is the bottleneck or the GPU is the bottleneck.
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It It's not just as simple as, well, this thing bottlenecks this thing. And
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no, it doesn't work that way. So, it comes down to how you're using the
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hardware more than anything else. Do you like cheese? What is this
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cheese meme? You know, I actually I just watched um Gangnan Style or whatever
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that video is called. Yesterday was my first exposure to this. And uh honestly,
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these memes just pass me by a lot of the time. I mean, I'm working during the day
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and then I get home and it's baby time and then I upload my videos and then I
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sleep. So, I haven't I haven't had much time for really anything else. But, uh I
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got to say that's very confusing. I mean, it's it's sort of like it's
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entertaining because he's like riding a horse, but
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um I don't know that it's my favorite song, per se. So, yeah, let's just sort
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of move right along. AJ wants to know if he should one of these days I'll get
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this. AJ right there wants to know if he
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should with his X 109 and 6970 upgrade
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now or wait for nextG stuff. My performance in games is average to low.
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I would really like to know why your performance in games is average to low. I'd say your video card is getting a
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little bit I mean it's not even bad. I
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And your CPU too like the 1090T is actually not really slower than the
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current generation bulldozer stuff as as long as I mean that's a black edition so
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you better be overclocking it. Um and the same with the 6970. It's a good
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overclocker if you haven't already done so. Maybe overclock your hardware and
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see if it lasts you a little bit longer because that's still pretty modern stuff.
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Um, canon tow, what do you make of individually sleeved cables? I like
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individually sleeved cables. However, I think they can look a little bit busy.
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Um, cable sleeving
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Linus. So, this is how I've decided to do my sleeved cables. So, this is my
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personal rig update series of videos, which I started like a bajillion years
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ago. This is part six, and it was in February 22nd. And we're up to part nine
25:01
now, and I'm still nowhere near finishing my uh my system. But what I
25:05
decided to do was take two wires and put
25:09
one sleeve over them for a slightly You
25:12
know what? This one actually here, let's try personal rig. Linus. Let's find one
25:18
where I can actually show you what the cables look like. So, part two, three,
25:21
four, five, seven. Test fitting and sleeving progress. More up. Yeah, there
25:27
we go. Sleeving progress. So, if you check this one out, part seven has some
25:30
sleeving progress in it, and it shows you my uh my idea for my idea for cable
25:35
sleeving with two wires per per sleeve. And then I think the end of this one
25:39
actually, nope, doesn't have anything else in it. There's one that has has my
25:44
baby in it. I think it's part eight. Lorenzo DK wants to know, "What
25:49
is the possibility of water cooling leaking?" If you puncture it with
25:52
something, it will leak. I mean, it's water. Um, if you mean if you're
25:57
diligent and careful and build water cooling, you know, as well as you can,
26:01
the odds are actually very, very low. I mean, when we're talking custom water
26:05
cooling, guys like Swift EK, those those guys are pressure testing their
26:09
components before they ship them to an end user. Every single one gets pressure
26:13
tested up to however many PSI, which is many times more than you will ever
26:17
encounter in a PC water cooled system. So, the the odds of those parts leaking,
26:23
not so much. And really, a leak on a
26:26
live system should never happen because you should always have leak tested the
26:30
entire loop with the system not powered on first. There's lots of guides on the
26:34
internet for how to do that though, so I'm not going to cover that there. Here,
26:37
here, there. Do I have a computer making
26:40
video? Asks Jake Bob. Jake Bob, I would
26:44
suggest that I have the best computer making video. Um, here PC build
26:52
guide right there. Top hit under the
26:56
advertised video. Number one above PC Whiz Kid, who
27:01
I also like, but that's only part one of his
27:05
video. This is the entire video. Let's see if anyone else even shows up on the
27:09
radar. Look at these guys. They got a million views for that. How to build a
27:13
computer, choosing your components. That's outstanding. Here's part two.
27:18
Here's part three of that. Build your Ah, this is a good video. How to build a
27:22
PC. The ultimate guide from Tech Syndicate. That's uh good old Logan the
27:26
uh the ex-tiger guy who's uh who's taking care of that channel now. So,
27:30
it's pretty good pretty good stuff over there. You should definitely subscribe to raise the world with a zero rather
27:35
than an O. David wants to know what I think
27:38
about Hackintoshing. I still haven't done it yet. I keep I keep telling
27:42
myself I'm going to work on that next and then I keep putting it off for something else.
27:46
Um, I think it's awesome. I think it's I
27:49
think dual booting a Windows and OS 10 environment is probably the best
27:53
compromise. So, if I was going to get a notebook tomorrow, I'd probably get some
27:57
kind of a MacBook with a unibody frame. I mean, you guys can hate all you want
28:00
on the MacBook and OS 10, but it's a beautiful notebook. Um, but for the
28:04
desktop, it's yeah, it really doesn't make sense because the price to
28:08
performance and the component selection is just not there on the Apple machine.
28:14
So, it'd be great to be able to to hackintosh it to have a real computer
28:17
and then run a toy OS on it if you want to, you know, Final Cut, although my
28:23
understanding is the new Final Cut isn't that sort of fantastic.
28:27
Um, aha, iOS 6, did you download it? I
28:32
have not. I am still using iOS 5.1.1.
28:36
Uh, with all the horror stories about the maps, I'm a little bit terrified to
28:41
uh to try to try iOS.
28:46
Um, oh, so disappointing. It looks like
28:50
cameraman might not be able to join us tonight for our live iPhone 5 unboxing.
28:55
Although, if we end up doing it, then
28:58
you know what? If he arrives here tonight at some point, I promise you
29:02
guys, I will turn the live stream back on. However, I'm not going to do another
29:06
YouTube video announcing this. So, you guys are going to have to just subscribe
29:09
to me here on Twitch if you want to make sure that you catch this because it's
29:14
going to be very exciting. I promise not to rip on it too hard,
29:21
though. Francisco wants to know Windows 8 versus Windows 7. You know what? I
29:25
haven't had enough time with Windows 8 to really make some kind of an intelligent decision about that. So, I'm
29:29
going to wait till I actually have a release copy in my hands. I'm going to install it on my personal machine and
29:34
see how it goes. Uh, Alex Rupert wants to know 3820 or 2600K. I would love your
29:38
input. I would suggest to you, Alex, that those are both last generation
29:42
processors. Um, and given the parody in pricing between a 2600K and a 2700K, you
29:48
probably shouldn't be looking at the 2600K in the first place. And with the
29:51
fading availability of Sandy Bridge processors, you're probably going to want to look at an Ivy Bridge, which is
29:55
a 3770K and is definitely faster than that 3820.
30:04
When will 1440p TVs and monitors be
30:07
available as a standard resolution? Question from Nathan. Nathan, I would
30:10
suggest that they will never be a standard resolution much the same way
30:14
that um well, lots of resolutions were
30:17
never really a standard resolution. Um we're going to move straight to 4K would
30:22
be my guess. I mean, you can see everyone's working on um denser. They
30:27
say, "I keep holding up the iPhone tonight, you know, because it's pixel
30:30
density." Uh, everyone's working on pixel density. Everyone wants higher
30:34
resolution, but when it comes to broadcast standards, they don't like
30:38
changing that often, and they don't like just sort of willy-nilly shifting things
30:41
around. It's not like the PC where we can just have some resolution because we
30:46
use like power strip and deem it to be thusly. Um, there's a there's a lot of
30:51
infrastructure that goes into a standardized resolution. So, we're going to we're going to be moving to 4K. and
30:56
asking me how much they cost. Come on, man. You just are the runner up for
31:01
Whoops. There you go. More light. for
31:04
bogus. How could I possibly know? They'll cost as much as No, they'll
31:10
cost 4K dollars. I don't know, man. I know
31:17
you can buy 4K cameras now for as little as five, six grand. I've been looking
31:21
into new cameras. I'm hoping to not be using this webcam in like I don't know
31:26
couple weeks. Uh got a shopping list at
31:29
B&H that I'm pretty much finalized. I think we're going to get a Sony
31:34
FS100 with uh with a lens and with
31:37
tripod and with some new lights which are hopefully going to make me not look
31:41
like washed out and blue and pale. I can't even figure out how to fix it. This webcam is not not that great. I
31:46
mean this all this stuff behind me looks about right. Maybe I'm just sitting too close. Hey, that might be the problem.
31:52
It's fine now, but I kind of have to be here because I have to like read the
31:55
screen and stuff. So, what can we
32:00
do? Uh, George wants to know if there was a water block for the Extreme 11,
32:03
would you use it? Because I know a guy that says he's talked to you. Um, no, I
32:07
wouldn't because I'm done with the Extreme 11. Um, I honestly the
32:12
performance of the board isn't that great, especially for gaming, just because of the the two PLX chips that
32:18
are installed on it. um will give you a higher number in
32:22
terms of the bandwidth readout in GPUZ, but it won't actually improve your
32:27
performance. I know I've just shattered your perception of reality. Um more
32:32
bandwidth is not always better, especially if it adds latency. So, the
32:35
only reason I was considering the Extreme 11 was um because I hoped it
32:40
wouldn't coil wine and it looked outstanding. It's just like an awesome
32:43
looking board. I'm not going to invest a whole bunch of money into a custom water
32:46
block for a board that really for me doesn't have any advantages over the
32:51
X79 SUP5 that I ended up settling on.
32:54
So, it's a Gigabyte board. Um Ian wants to know, is SAS just multiplug for SATA?
32:59
Actually SAS has different features than SATA. It does have um it's more RAID
33:05
friendly. I believe you can run longer cable runs.
33:09
Um SATA supports breakouts as well. So
33:12
it's not just SAS that supports breakouts. I mean SAS tends to get
33:15
better features earlier than SATA. So SAS had NCQ before SATA did. So there
33:20
you go. No, they are different standards. Remember guys, SAS
33:24
controllers will work with SATA drives, but SATA controllers will not work with
33:29
SAS drives. Okay. Emanuel wants to know how old my
33:33
cats are. They're going to be three years old this December
33:37
28th. Yep, they will be three years old. Let's see if any of them want to visit.
33:42
Yeah. Rumble. Rumble. Come
33:48
here. Kitty.
33:53
Rumble. Usually he comes when I call. Hey,
33:57
cat. Oh, there he is. See, he's giving me the he's giving me the old
34:01
staredown. See, there he is. Hey, come
34:06
here. Come on.
34:10
So, not interested. Nope. Nope. We're not getting any special guests tonight.
34:14
I know. I promised special guests and then I did not deliver. I'm sorry for
34:19
that. Brian wants to know, "Is it frustrating when people constantly ask
34:24
you questions you've answered in your videos?" Actually, no. It's okay because
34:27
um for one thing, they're easy to answer because all I have to do is go
34:32
click video where I explain for five or 10 minutes the answer to a a complicated
34:38
question.
34:41
Um yeah, no, if anything, it's more convenient. Tuon wants to know, how is
34:46
your massive RAID fix with your Seagate 3 terabytes? Any problems with dropping
34:49
out since error recovery control is not supported? Actually, I haven't had any issues with them. Things are going good.
34:54
Things are going fine. and uh and and they're and they're
34:58
awesome. Things are good. I'm I'm loving my massive RAID 6 with all of my with
35:03
all my stuff stored on it. Adam B right
35:07
there wants to know, did you hear about more Thailand floods coming? Do you
35:10
think this will affect hard drive prices again? If the manufacturing facilities
35:14
flood, then yes, prices will be affected again. However, my understanding is
35:18
Thailand floods on a fairly regular basis. Um, but that was just sort of
35:23
very extreme and all the manufacturing
35:26
facilities were on like one flood plane. So, so hopefully we won't see a repeat
35:31
of that again. And we are all the way down to
35:35
the end, I think, of the questions that uh that are new. So, let's go ahead and
35:40
have a look at the 307 new interactions that I don't stand
35:45
a freaking chance of getting to entirely
35:49
here. Um, I am curious how many people
35:52
are watching tonight. 1,400 people. And guess what? I
35:59
did find where I already where I had the Twitch stream open before, which might
36:03
have been the problem with the echo. So, um, I'm going to try something here. And
36:08
I'd like you guys to let me know if this works. Do we have an echo
36:14
again? Just tell me once.
36:20
Do we have an echo
36:24
again? No. Excellent. How is the sound
36:34
quality? Bad. Yes. No. No. Pretty good.
36:39
Okay. You know what? I'm done with the Twitch. You know what? We're turning that on to slow mode because I can't
36:44
uh I can't I can't I can't understand
36:47
anything you guys are saying
36:52
here. Okay. Medium fine fair.
36:57
Okay. Someone wants to know if he can be a
37:01
mod. Okay. Well, back to Twitter.
37:09
to 344 new
37:15
interactions. Oh, uh oh, that'll be a problem. There we go. That's that
37:19
Windows uh arrow shake feature. That's
37:22
uh that's amazing.
37:25
Okay, Twitter questions. Good quality. What's your
37:29
opinion on jet skis? Uh jet skis are awesome. And anyone who doesn't think
37:33
they're awesome doesn't know what they're talking about at all because jet
37:36
skis are amazing. I've only actually really been on a jet ski myself a few
37:41
times. Uh because here in Vancouver, the water is pretty cold. So, it's
37:47
um yeah, not that not that great. Like, it's cold. So, uh when I was down in
37:52
Mexico a few years back, I uh I spent a
37:55
fair bit of time on the jet ski near the the all-inclusive thing where we were
37:58
staying. And uh yes, it was a blast, especially when the water's not cold.
38:03
Okay, Paul wants to know full screen versus windowed benefits and what
38:07
exactly is the difference from a processing standpoint and performance hit? I'll tell you right now, it really
38:11
depends on the individual application. Full screen will always be consistent,
38:15
but Windows might run fine with some things and might run totally rubbish
38:19
with other things. So, um I personally
38:22
have never really understood the appeal of running things in window mode because
38:25
then you got like frames around it. I find it detracts from the
38:29
immersiveness. But hey, to to to each their own. Someone wants to
38:35
do Steve Jackson wants to know, "What can I Oh, there we go. What can I do
38:40
with my old LG75 processor and motherboard?" Steve, I would suggest to
38:44
you that you can do any number of things. You can build yourself a storage
38:47
server using like a Windows home server. You can uh you can build yourself a
38:52
router using psfense. Um, you know, and throw a couple like network cards in
38:56
there and uh that would be that would be pretty neat. You could you could give it
39:00
away to charity. You know, lots of lots of charitable or getting donations of
39:05
old computers. So, um there few suggestions for
39:10
you. When wants to know, why don't I use
39:14
a 5D Mark III for the camera? I'm looking for a camcorder. Um not for a
39:19
DSLR. Just I don't want to deal with the the DSLR hassleness. I know the big
39:25
sensor, it looks clean, etc., etc., etc., But we're going to be doing some pretty different stuff um involving
39:30
needing a clean HDMI feed out from the camera because we're going to be using
39:33
some HDMI capture cards and stuff like that. And so it should be uh should be
39:38
pretty pretty good news bears as far as the quality of our overall operation
39:42
here. But a DSLR really just isn't going to do it for
39:46
us. Uh DJ I did it again. TJ wants to
39:51
know, "What are the 2420T and the TX the Oh, wait. And
39:57
the 2410T, what are the major
40:01
differences?" Never ever type duh in the place of the I'm not answering your
40:05
question. You can retype it and maybe we'll get to it
40:08
later. The differences. Um, does my baby play with
40:13
the cats? He's still a little young. Um, he's
40:17
correct. When do I think 3D monitors will
40:20
decrease in price and become more popular? Uh, over time they will decrease in price and over time they may
40:25
or may not become more popular. It really depends on what people think of
40:29
any of the uh the advances that get made
40:32
in the whole 3D technology thing. Oh, hold
40:40
on. Okay.
40:46
having a little bit of uh trouble with the
40:49
whole Twitch
40:53
stream with some people who are being inappropriate and apparently the sound's
40:57
cutting out now. Brilliant. Okay, hold
41:00
on a second. I have I have one
41:04
idea. Oh, someone says Mike
41:08
is Okay.
41:13
And let's turn off
41:17
the let's turn off this feature here in
41:21
the Thunder FX settings. So, if you guys haven't used a Thunder effects card
41:24
before, I'll show you how the control panel
41:29
works by hopefully putting this over here, which apparently Oh, look at that.
41:33
That's bizarre. It doesn't work at all.
41:37
It actually doesn't show
41:40
you the uh the Thunder FX window that I'm dragging over there. So, I'm going
41:44
to try turning off the environmental noise cancelling. So, you guys will have
41:47
to let me know if that's a little bit better. And
41:52
hopefully uh hold on. I'm going to set a
41:55
couple of moderators in the
41:59
uh in the chat because this is pretty
42:03
annoying.
42:07
Okay, it says audio is cutting out. Well, that's massively improvement. Oh,
42:10
okay. Apparently, it's better now. You know, it's funny because when I did a TW when I did a test of this, the uh the
42:15
noise cancelling feature was actually like worlds better than when I didn't
42:19
use it. And I guess for the live stream, it just doesn't work at all. Mr. J Bacon
42:24
wants to know what's my middle name. And that will forever be a mystery of tech
42:29
tips. Am I excited for the new Haswells? I'm actually extremely excited for
42:34
Intel's upcoming architecture. I hope that it's more of a difference over the
42:37
previous generation than Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge was. Um I'm a little bit sort
42:42
of I'm a little bit nervous that we're going to have the same issues we had
42:45
with Ivy Bridge where the tininess of the transistors means that they run hot
42:50
again, but h you know maybe in that time Intel's made some some big advancements
42:54
and it's going to be you know really exciting. It's going to overclock like stink. Yes, I'm very excited to check it
42:59
out. And uh right now I know absolutely nothing more about it that any of you
43:07
do. Miles, I'm actually afraid I haven't heard of the new ICU PE power line
43:12
rumors. So maybe you can tell us all more about it. At some point in these
43:17
live, people can actually call in like kind of like a radio show. I think
43:21
that'd be that'd be super exciting. But uh for now, I don't have the means to do
43:26
that. that I mean I'd need to have like you know some kind of like TV here and
43:30
people would be able to like Skype in or something like that and uh and that
43:35
would be that would be actually really really neat and people
43:40
say coming cutting out
43:44
um sounds like it's the headset not the hardware I don't know guys it shouldn't
43:48
be the
43:52
headset we will figure this out at some point someone's asking how to Find my
43:56
Twitter. I'm Linus Techch. And there's a cat on my counter. He needs to get down.
44:01
Hey, get down. Thank you. All right,
44:04
let's go back to some Twitter questions here. Does the GTX 660 have better
44:09
performance than the GTX 570? Um, I
44:12
don't know. Actually, I haven't I haven't tested them head-to-head. Um,
44:16
although your best bet would be to look at any GTX 660 review and just find one
44:20
that has GTX 570 numbers in it as well, and then you'll know. um sites like
44:25
hardware connects and antec are good
44:29
ones can see performance of video cards and CPUs and various things like that.
44:34
Nick who has a fantastic picture of Mr. Bean for his avatar asks 3770K or 2600 K
44:41
for gaming. Both would be cool by an H100. They're pretty similar, especially
44:44
if you're overclocking. The 3770K getting my personal pick because I do a
44:49
lot of video transcoding and the onboard graphics is much better for that versus
44:53
the 2600 K.
44:56
Sean, since you've decided on the Gigabyte board for your rig, what's the
45:00
next thing you're looking for for the rig? Um, the next thing I need to do is
45:03
actually stressing me out a lot because I have to cut up my Silverstone TJ7,
45:10
which is like eating me up inside. Um, I have to carefully plan where I want to
45:14
cut some cable management holes in the motherboard tray as well as where I want
45:18
to cut some other cable management holes throughout the rest of the case. I don't
45:22
want to make any mistakes. Um, I'm not a Dremel expert by any stretch of the
45:26
imagination, so I'm a little bit worried about lining something up wrong or
45:31
cutting a line that's supposed to be straight and level and kind of looks
45:34
like this. Um, I mean, I am going to be powder coating it after I'm done,
45:39
so a little bit, but it's still still making me very
45:44
nervous. Which leads us to Matthew's. Oh, man. Matthew's question. What is
45:48
your favorite case? My favorite case is the Silverstone TJ7 with some of my
45:52
other honorable mentions being the Fractal Design Define R3, the Corsair
45:56
650D, the 800D. Um, Antex P280 is also
46:00
outstanding. So, those are some of my favorite cases.
46:04
Um, the Corsair 300R is a great value considering the price and how good it
46:09
looks. Daniel is upset that he bought a Thunderbolt cable and didn't gain any
46:14
superpowers. Daniel, you must have cheaped out. You must not have bought
46:18
the $50 Thunderbolt cable. So, that's
46:21
probably the problem. Go buy yourself a more expensive Thunderbolt cable and
46:25
then you shouldn't really have any trouble with
46:30
that. Do my cats swim? Not if they have
46:33
a choice. Just like uh just like most cats
46:37
don't swim if they if they have a choice.
46:45
Uh okay, moving right along.
46:51
Chris, right there. Are there any NVIDIA
46:54
3D Vision 2 with light boost technology
46:57
monitors that don't have TN panels?
47:01
Great question, Chris. And the answer is no for a couple of reasons. So monitor
47:06
technology is kind of um is not
47:09
advancing that fast in terms of the speed of the of the pixel changing which
47:13
is which is ultimately what is drawing us what is holding us back and people
47:18
are still complaining about the mic. I don't know what to do about the mic
47:22
guys. So sorry. Um so that is still the bottleneck for us
47:28
is how fast we can switch the pixels. Now there's a lot of
47:34
tom foolery that can go on to enable the panels to switch faster. So TN for
47:38
example is a faster panel technology
47:41
than IPS or MVA or PVA or PLS. It's the
47:46
fastest one by far, but it compromises
47:49
in terms of accuracy. So, it's kind of like asking, it's kind of like, okay, so
47:53
here your your PLS panel, which is my personal favorite, is kind of like
47:59
um, you know, a sniper rifle where, you
48:03
know, it's like slow to reload and, you
48:07
know, it takes a while to aim, but it's very accurate, whereas a TN panel is
48:12
more like a, you know, like a machine gun or something. So, speed versus
48:15
accuracy. So the PLS panel or or any of the other technologies are going to give
48:19
you better color accuracy, better color depth.
48:23
Um generally generally an overall better
48:26
image whereas a TN panel is going to flip the pixel as fast as it can. It'll
48:31
get kind of close but not quite there um every time. So that's why all of the 120
48:37
Hz panels that are u validated for 3D
48:40
are TN. Even those panels that people are buying from Korea, they're buying
48:44
from overseas, those cheap 2560x440 27inch monitors, the cat leaps
48:48
and the like that everyone's kind of into, right?
48:52
Even though you can set it to 120 Hz and it'll do 120 refreshes of the image per
48:57
second in terms of motion blur, which is
49:00
when you're actually changing, for example, from a dark background to a
49:04
light background, like with my finger and the and the window here, you will
49:07
see the pixel having to change. Even
49:10
though with a static image, it might be sending a signal to itself 120 times a
49:15
second. So, I hope that makes sense to you guys.
49:19
no else would validate
49:23
um a nonTN panel for 3D because when the
49:26
pixels are shifting so that they show you the right or the left eye back and
49:30
forth like that the the pixels won't be fast enough even if the refresh rate is
49:34
fast enough so it would never get certified at least not the way it is now
49:38
OLED on the other hand might be a different story once those get bigger
49:41
and a little bit more uh more mainstream I mean personally I'm super disappointed
49:46
that we never saw SED see the light of day. That was Canon's display technology
49:50
they were working on and it just disappeared. Um, another really good
49:55
solution is a DLP projector because DLP
49:59
is again much faster for switching um in
50:02
terms of the not the refresh rate but the response times than uh LCD
50:08
is. Good question Chris. Thank you for
50:12
bringing that question to us. Ruben wants to know, "Ozar ozar ocezzex 3 or 4
50:18
versus Intel 330." Um, I'd probably go
50:21
with the Vertex 3 out of those out of those choices. Vert.ex 4 also not a bad
50:25
choice. Intel 330 is uh it's it's a lowerend it's a lower-end
50:30
product, but it's Intel, so it's like it's fine. It's reliable. Sebastian,
50:35
what is the model of your Snap-On screwdriver? I don't know. It's their
50:38
Snap-On ratcheting screwdriver. Why don't we go on a voyage of discovery together and we'll try searching for
50:44
Snap-On ratcheting
50:48
screwdriver. See if it comes up based on
50:51
the magic that is Google. There it is.
50:55
There's one. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. There's an orange one
50:59
just like mine on the eBays. There's a
51:02
picture of one just like mine. Oh, look at this. There's a whole like Oh, wow. I
51:08
need to collect them all. This is like Pokemon for like Snap-On screwdrivers.
51:12
I'm geeking out over here. Are these all different colors? No, they couldn't be.
51:18
No. No. There's a handful of orange ones. There's some multiple black ones.
51:23
That is awesome. So, here's something you guys probably don't know. Each of
51:27
those screwdrivers costs about 80 to 100 bucks. So, that's actually like in terms
51:32
of sheer dollar value like a sexier picture than like two GTX 690s next to
51:37
each other. but you just don't know it because you're not into like Snap-On
51:40
tools, which some people might be,
51:43
but Mike A, what do you see as the next Battlefield 3 in terms of graphics card
51:48
testing? Crisis 3 probably. I mean, U said that Yurly or however, I don't know
51:53
how you pronounce his name, but the the Cryc guy basically came out and said,
51:57
"We are going to pone PCs with our upcoming version of Cry Engine." And I
52:01
am personally very excited to see them try because every time we have a game
52:07
dev actually properly utilize the PC hardware, we end up with a game that
52:11
looks awesome and uh and has makes us feel a little bit better
52:16
about the money and the time that we've invested into using this PC platform for
52:20
gaming rather than, you know, popping a disc in the drive and like sitting slack
52:24
jaw on our couch like this with like a controller in our hands, which is um not
52:28
as satisfying for everyone. And I mean, satisfying for some people, I'm sure.
52:32
And I'm not judging at all. I mean, it's not like I have a uh it's not like I
52:37
have a totally unbiased and not at all,
52:40
you know, PC glorifying PC versus
52:45
Xbox video about this kind of a topic.
52:48
Oh, there we are. There we are. By NCIX. Um although this guy right here is
52:53
probably not me anyway, so I don't I don't know what you're talking about.
52:57
Um, PC rules. Justin, I want an ASUS TF700T. My
53:04
girlfriend wants the new iPad. Which would you choose? We both already have
53:09
iPhone 4s. Fascinating question, Justin.
53:13
Um, hard to say. I actually don't really
53:16
like the Gen 3 iPad for a couple of reasons. Number one is it is noticeably
53:21
heavier than iPad 2. Anyone who tells you it's not is doesn't know because
53:25
they probably haven't used an iPad 2 extensively. Um I'm I'm still using my
53:29
iPad 2 on a daily basis. Um so it is
53:32
heavier. The thing that really bothers me about it though is it runs warmer. So
53:35
if you're using it without an insulating case, like kind of a thicker case, you
53:39
will notice it gets warm in your hands to the point where your fingers will
53:42
probably sweat and it like you won't be comfortable. Um, TF700T doesn't run 100%
53:48
super cool either, but it was cooler than iPad 3 from my from my time with
53:53
it. Um, however, the Android platform isn't for everyone. If you're used to
53:57
iOS and you like iOS and you have all the apps that you want exactly where you
54:01
want them, then you might find that you're better off going with uh going
54:05
with the same ecosystem. But if I was really buying an iPad like today, I'd be
54:10
looking for one of the new generation iPads. Actually, Anantech did a
54:15
fantastic article about this. One of the new generation iPads using the smaller
54:20
process technology that enables it to have better battery life, like just way
54:25
better battery life than the uh than the iPad 3 and even the original iPad 2. So,
54:31
I hold on iPad uh two.
54:35
Oh, right. iPad 2 and
54:39
tech. I keep forgetting which keys I'm using for the uh for the switching. Ah,
54:44
yes, this one. 32 nanometer brings better battery life. So, let's let's
54:48
check out their graph here. If you guys don't don't read an Nantech, then you
54:52
should definitely uh definitely check out an Nantech because it's like best.
54:56
I've been white reading an anteced for years and years and years and years. Learned tons reading this site. So, here
55:01
we go. iPad 2.4 gets 11.7 hours of
55:05
battery life. iPad 2, which is orange, gets 10.1. iPad third generation is all
55:10
the way down here to 9.25. So that means
55:14
a difference of more than two hours of
55:19
battery life between So okay, you got
55:22
your high resolution screen. Good for you. I'll be using my device for 2 hours
55:25
longer than you between charges. Comes down to personal
55:29
preference, but uh I'm I'm just not that sold on the iPad 3. When we get the high
55:33
resolution screen in a slightly thinner form factor with longer battery life,
55:37
then then we're talking and then I might be convinced to pull the trigger on that
55:42
one. Shane wants to know, is the 660Ti
55:45
good graphics card comparable AMD
55:48
cards? YouTube is full of awesome
55:54
information like this
55:57
GTX 660 Ti review.
56:02
And there's me. And there's me. And there's me
56:07
again. And there's everyone else. So go
56:10
ahead and check it out and decide if you think it's good. And what are the
56:14
comparable AMD graphics cards? Because they're all in there. Austin says, "I
56:19
live in Vancouver, too. I want to ask you high school." Okay, this this kind
56:24
of thing won't be tolerated. If you spell school like that and if you spell
56:28
you like that, then I'm not answering your questions. Brian, when is the last
56:32
time you went to a land party? Just for fun and not for work. Wow. I think the
56:38
last time I went to a land was uh probably Kaplan a few years ago. Maybe
56:44
Sitoan land a couple years ago. Like there there was a time when I was kind
56:48
of going to I was going to Kaplan. I was going to Stowen. I was going to uh
56:52
whatever iteration of Lancouver, Lower Mainland, Van Land, whatever they were
56:56
calling it at the time. Um it's just it's been a long time. I suck at video
57:00
games, especially now, and so it's just
57:03
been hard to justify. Okay, let's see if there's any
57:08
new questions here. Ah, William, I am
57:12
getting an SSD, but I'm not sure what one would be the best to get, such as
57:16
Brandon size. Thanks for reading. Oh, he only wanted me to read it. Moving right
57:20
along. No, I'm just kidding. U, so back to William's question. In terms of size,
57:24
you should buy the size that you need and the size that you can afford. I
57:28
mean, come on. I can't answer that question for you. If you're like, "Oh, well, it's going to be for, you know, a
57:32
PFSense router box that I just want to use a solid state drive in so that I can
57:35
uh so that I can not listen to a worring hard drive and worry about it failing."
57:40
Well, then get the smallest one you can. or if it's like I'm
57:43
gonna like gigantic like 3D models of swimming
57:48
pools um or something, I don't know, then you
57:53
better get a big one. So, you only you can decide how big of a size you need.
57:57
And as for the best brand, I mean, there's lots of good
58:01
brands. Intel, OCZ, these are all good choices.
58:06
They're all good drives. Here's here's the cold hard truth with the whole SSD
58:11
performance thing. And there are people who would disagree with me. You know,
58:15
notably my favorite SSD reviewer, who's the guy over at Hardware Connects. He
58:20
does not agree with me at all about this. But I would argue that an SSD for
58:24
for 99% of users out there who are still using hard drives, any SSD is going to
58:30
be such an enormous upgrade that it's totally doesn't even matter what they
58:34
choose. Pick any SSD. Find a modern SSD,
58:37
buy it, and put it in your system, and who freaking cares because you won't be
58:42
able to tell the difference. I mean, if you go back to SSD versus hard drive,
58:46
which is a video I did a long time ago,
58:49
this one right here with the legendary lizard hat, I show realworld demos like alt
58:56
tabbing. And now, this is an episode of Tech Tips that I've wanted to do for a
58:59
long time. I'm finally getting around to it. This is SSD versus hard drive. So,
59:04
without going any further, Vertex, uh, what was this? SSD. I'm going to alt tab
59:08
out of the game. Boom, you're at your desktop. I pressed Alt Tab at exactly
59:12
the same time on that hard drive machine. And I am still waiting for it
59:15
to go to the desktop. Same thing when you want to go back in a game. Or if you
59:20
want to see Supreme Commander 2, when you want to go back to the game, there's
59:24
a bunch of applications. The SSD is having back in the game with the SSD.
59:28
So, now let's hit old systems a little bit harder. Let's say you're searching for all of a particular file like let's
59:34
say you're looking for every JPEG on your computer or every txt file on your
59:38
computer. So you can enter a search pretty darn close in terms of
59:42
real world noticeability extension and let's say let's choose the
59:47
extension hybrid I because there will be
59:50
tons of those on any Windows machine. So you can see that the SSD is populating
59:54
my list way faster. You can tell by how much smaller the scroll wheel is versus
59:59
on the hard drive. That's a really difficult demo to show. And you can also
60:03
tell that the search is completely done. There we go. And the hard drive is still
60:07
working at it. This is the green progress bar that is showing how far the
60:12
hard drive is. Yeah, we've got 451 items. We're still at 411
60:17
412 451. The hard drive is finally done.
60:20
So that is how much longer it took for the hard drive to populate with 451
60:24
items here. And then let's not forget
60:28
that one of the most stressful things you can do with your computer is dare to
60:32
use it while you're running an antivirus scan. So let's open up the computer
60:36
scanner in AVG and let's scan whole
60:39
computer. Now when you're scanning your
60:42
computer obviously anything that you try to do is going to be hampered by the
60:47
fact that you're doing that. So why don't we go ahead and just do a simple
60:50
thing like open up Microsoft Word. I'm pretty disappointed SSD is done. the
60:55
hard drive to recover from where it's
60:59
scanning for the file that contains Microsoft.
61:04
So, in conclusion, I thought I'd open up our test machine here and let you know
61:07
that there is no smok and mirrors going on behind the scenes. Every test you saw
61:11
was run on two identical machines. One with the Vert.ex, one with the Western
61:15
Digital 1 TB Black, which is one of the most respected, fastest magnetic hard
61:19
drives on the market today. But after the demo you saw today, why isn't
61:23
everyone using an SSD? The answer to that is because right now they have
61:27
significantly lower capacities and much higher prices. The SSD we're using today
61:32
costs over $900 and it is a 200 GB
61:36
model. The hard drive we're using costs about $100 and it is a 1,000 GB model.
61:41
to a lot of people. He apparently was calling to tell me
61:45
that the YouTube video playing in the background was causing problems, which I
61:49
suppose if I'd been looking at the uh at the Twitch TV chat, you guys were
61:54
probably Oh, whoa, there we go. Yep. Yep.
61:57
BG286 says, "Slick calling to tell you about the
62:01
audio." Outstanding. Thank you, Slick.
62:04
Say 1 billion bleeding lambs all at the
62:07
same time. So, there you go. See guys, I'm still new to this, so whatever, man.
62:13
Slick rules. Thank you, Slick. Slick. Slick. Slick. Thanks, Slick. Thank you.
62:17
I love you, Slick. That's what everyone has to say about all of this. Praise
62:21
Slick. Okay. Bye,
62:25
Slick. So, there you go, guys. If there was any doubt that I was sort of faking
62:29
the uh the address book entry when I when I texted him earlier, then um let
62:34
that be a lesson to you. Oh, I've got a
62:38
message. Uh, mute the YouTube audio. Thank you.
62:44
So, yeah, I whatever. You guys run your
62:48
own live stream then and I'll watch your live stream and I'll I'll troll
62:56
you. Let's go back to Twitter. People respect me, unlike the
63:02
my phone where people call me and tell me that I'm live streaming. Uh, Ahmed
63:08
wants to know, "What would be a good water block for Galaxy's GTX 670s?" Um,
63:12
any water block that is compatible with from EK. Um, I don't know who else.
63:19
I don't know who else has a has a GTX 670 block here. Why don't we do research
63:24
together? So, I'm going to show you guys the process that I go through whenever
63:28
someone asks me a question or whenever there's something I don't know. First, I
63:32
Google it. Did you mean GTX 670 water
63:37
block? Sure. Okay. Then I go to some store. In this
63:44
case, let's go with frozen CPU because they have lots of good stuff. And then I
63:50
look at all the different GTX 670 water blocks and I find the one that looks
63:54
pretty cool. Okay. Oh, the XSPC one is cheaper.
64:00
XSPC makes good stuff. EK makes good stuff. SwiftTech makes good stuff. These
64:03
are all good brands. I don't like their new circle design, though, so we're going to go with the acrylic top. And
64:09
there's your There's your answer.
64:16
Done. Um, and that's assuming you have a reference GTX 670. If you're using a
64:22
Galaxy card with a nonreference PCB, you
64:26
pretty much probably won't be able to find a water block. If you want to water
64:29
cool your graphics card, you're probably better off to go with a reference card
64:34
like 95% of the time. Every once in a while,
64:38
you'll see some special card like an MSI Lightning Edition that has a full cover
64:43
block available, but it really doesn't happen that
64:48
often. Okay. Sad
64:52
cigar cigar. Dear Lionus, hi, I'm from India
64:57
and biggest fan of your reviews. Please allow Indian for all giveaways. I have
65:01
not done a North Americaon giveaway in like two years. Everyone needs to just
65:07
get over it. I did it one time. Every other giveaway I've done has been
65:11
worldwide. So, I don't want to address this anymore. And thank you for writing
65:16
into the show. Lucas, did Logan have any
65:19
hand in helping Lionus TechTips? I would be greatly interested in knowing the
65:23
origins of your info. Lionus Tech Tips is called Lionus Tech Tips and not Logan
65:27
Tech Tips because it comes from yo me.
65:31
Um, Logan had a hand in helping Tiger Direct blog for many years and he has a
65:36
hand in doing his own thing with Raise the World, but we've never actually
65:40
collaborated on anything. So, uh, I mean, we've exchanged emails, you know,
65:43
we've exchanged YouTube private messages a few times, but that's about
65:47
it. Yep. Keith wants to know which GTX 660 would
65:52
I choose that is non-reference. Um, most GTX 660s are non-reference if I recall
65:58
correctly. This is one of those cards where NVIDIA has made the reference
66:01
design sort of very very optional. So, I would probably do something like this. I
66:05
would go to my favorite computer retailers store and then I would look
66:10
for a GTX 660, which I would find more easily if
66:16
the page layout wasn't totally broken because I'm scrolled funny. I'd find one
66:21
with like a sweet cooler or something and then I' I'd buy it.
66:28
Um, yeah. You know what? I don't really have a preference on the 660s. The only
66:32
one I have any experience with is the MSI Twin Frozer 3 one. I had no problem
66:36
with it. It's got a Twin Frozer 3 cooler. You know, I'd look for one with an aftermarket cooler. I usually prefer
66:40
like a dual fan cooler versus uh versus a blower cooler just because they tend
66:44
to be quieter and they tend to run cooler. But yeah, uh Phil wants to know
66:51
I'm never going to get this, am I? Phil wants to know, is there a huge
66:55
difference between surround and stereo headsets? I use cheap earbuds in game
66:59
and can still pinpoint the directions of sounds. Great question, Phil. Um, and I
67:04
would suggest to you that it is a simple matter of mathematical calculation that
67:10
you can kind of go, okay, if I have two audio inputs, which
67:16
are my ears, and two audio outputs,
67:19
which are my speakers, then as long as
67:23
the software mixing is done correctly, okay, and this is complicated. this
67:28
is ality of audio then in theory a
67:32
stereo setup is as good as anything in
67:36
theory. Um for headphones I would never
67:41
really use ones with dedicated speakers
67:44
because what you tend to end up with is lots of small tiny sounding speakers
67:50
instead of two larger better sounding
67:54
deeper sounding speakers. Um, however, when it comes to speakers, actual
67:58
physical speakers set up around you, I would suggest if you
68:03
want speakers are actually better than two stereo speakers in front of
68:07
you. So, there you go. That is my answer to that
68:11
question. Francisco wants to know if it
68:14
is worth spending the money on water blocks for two
68:19
HD5770s. Francesco, these kinds of value
68:22
analyses are actually quite simple. First, let's find out if anyone even
68:26
made a GTX 5770 water block. Uh, okay.
68:31
Apparently EK did. Okay. So, let's go
68:34
ahead. Let's go to Aqua Tuning. Let's find out how much one of those is going
68:37
to cost you. 5770.
68:41
Oh, okay. We're in USA and Canada. Look
68:45
at that US flag for the USA and Canada
68:49
region. We Canadians get no getting no
68:52
love. Okay. Yeah, let's proceed
68:56
again. Okay, let's try this. 5770.
69:03
Go. So, it looks like your water block
69:06
is around 40 bucks. So, for 40 bucks times 2 plus
69:11
whatever you can get for your 5770s, which is usually a quick thing. This
69:15
This is the way I always do this, guys. So, we go on eBay. So, so far we're
69:19
spending 80 bucks. 5770. We go on eBay and we can find out
69:24
about how much a 5770 is worth. So buy it now. Six bids around. So let's assume
69:29
it's worth around 65 bucks. So if you sold your two 5770s, that would give you
69:34
65 times to $130 plus $80. It would give you $200 to spend. Okay? So, if you had
69:40
$200 to spend, you could go to NCIX and
69:44
search for GTX
69:48
660 and you would find that a new graphics card. Oh, okay. 660, right? The
69:54
non Ti is around a little over 200 bucks for an
69:59
EVGA 660 superc clocked. Then you go and
70:03
look at a review of a GTX 660.
70:07
Okay. So, see, are you guys following me so far? This is the calculation. So,
70:11
we've got 200 bucks to spend, but we spent about 10% over our budget, which
70:14
is unfortunate. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here's our review.
70:18
We're going to go let's just pick some arbitrary game like uh like one that
70:22
scales pretty well sort of across the board like uh say for example, really
70:26
they're using Crisis Warhead. Sure. Okay. Crisis Warhead. Let's find out how
70:29
Crisis Warhead performs. And then we go, okay, so the 660
70:35
destroys pretty much anything below a
70:40
7850. Then we can go back and we can
70:43
look at a 7850 review.
70:47
Okay. And we can find
70:51
out, well, Guru 3D. See, these are all credible sites. Guru 3D, hardware
70:56
connects and ant Tom's hardware. We're only looking for approximates. We're
70:59
just doing a rough calculation here. So
71:03
prices too, it doesn't really matter. We're looking for approximates and they do not have a lot
71:08
of Oh, there we go. There we go.
71:12
7770 a
71:15
78 gets absolutely rocked by almost
71:19
double. Which means that even if your 7770s scale pretty well in Crossfire,
71:25
your new GTX 660 is going to be more
71:28
than 10% faster than which means that it
71:32
is the same feature set. Um, longerterm driver
71:37
support, probably more worthwhile to get a new card as opposed to spending a
71:41
bunch of money on your old cards. That folks is the way we do it. That is how
71:46
we figure out what's a better value. You compare things across multiple reviews.
71:51
You figure out how much it's going to cost, how much your hardware is worth.
71:54
And then you just flip your 70 or whatever they're called,
71:58
57. And wait, 5770s. Was that even the
72:01
one I was looking at? I was looking at 7770s. Oh, the 5770 is terrible. Yeah, I
72:06
know. It's a terrible value. Yeah. Get a new card there. Now we know. Now we know
72:11
the answer. Oh, look who visited us. It's Rumble the cat. Say hello,
72:15
everybody.
72:18
Can you say hello here? Let's give him a headset. He's not going to feel like
72:22
he's part of the show unless he has a
72:27
headset. Can you say
72:31
hi? Can you say
72:35
hi? Oh, he's not impressed at all.
72:40
Okay. The cat is not impressed at all
72:43
with our uh with our setup here. Anyway, we are going to sit together now and I'm
72:47
going to answer some more Twitter
72:52
questions. Twitch TV is only for gaming. Too bad. That's this guy right here. Too
72:57
bad. Twitch TV knows I'm here. They can kick me off if they want. That's
73:03
fine. Oh, he's getting
73:07
down. Okay, let's go back up to the top here because all these tweets are from
73:11
about half an hour ago. Who knows? These guys might not even still be watching anymore. Let's have a look at some new
73:15
tweets. So, we're probably going to wrap things up in about 10 minutes here,
73:18
guys. And uh I will hopefully Yes, MK. I
73:22
know. Fix my audio. It's cutting in and out and dying and something. Check
73:25
Twitch randomly at least. Oh. Oh. Oh, he wants me to check the Twitch chat. All
73:30
right, let's have a look at the Twitch chat. H, that cat is so cute. Yes, it's
73:35
a cat. Guys, if you want questions answered, go post it on Twitter. Yes,
73:39
guys, if you want questions answered, please do post them on Twitter. I'm on
73:43
Twitter at Linus Tech. Um, and I'm mostly ignoring the Twitch chat tonight
73:48
because I haven't got a better system for arranging the Windows here. I'll figure out something for next week. I
73:52
hope. And by then, I I really hope the
73:55
audio will be fixed. But I I really don't know what else to say about it at this point because I've tried
74:00
everything. I've tried this external sound card. I've tried this external
74:05
sound card. I've tried freaking this
74:08
external sound card which is supposed to be BOS and like balling out and none of
74:14
them are working for me here. So, um
74:17
I've tried multiple headsets and uh
74:20
cameraman wants my address. Apparently, he wants to like hardcore creep me.
74:25
Actually, no. No, I already told you that won't work because I already told you guys that uh he was planning to come
74:30
here with an iPhone 5 so that we can get an unboxing done which is very exciting.
74:35
Gary wants to know, Lionus, what is the most silent pump? Thanks very much. Get
74:40
an MCP655 or a D5? They're the same thing. Turn the dial all the way down to
74:45
one. Very, very, very
74:48
quiet. KMR wants to know, Lionus, how do
74:52
you know how to learn to string a badminton racket? Um, I have a friend
74:56
who works at a badminton shop and he showed me. It's actually not that hard.
75:01
Uh once you get the hang of it, you got to do like the over under over under
75:04
over under. You have to look up the stringing patterns on the manufacturer
75:08
website. Make sure you put everything through the right holes. Who knows? Maybe I'll do a video about it at some
75:12
point. But I'm not very good at it. It takes me about an hour to string a
75:15
racket. And to put that in perspective, he can do it in I think about 20
75:19
minutes, maybe a little less. So I'm incredibly slow and my way of uh my way
75:24
of doing it is actually not that efficient. Paul Tiberius Nicola. That is
75:29
a fantastic name. Paul Tiberius, how much does a PCI Express high performance
75:35
SSD affect video cards using a PCIe
75:39
lanes? Lose the entire electrical lane.
75:42
Okay, Paul. Um, first I'd like to clarify a little bit how the PCI Express
75:46
lane allocations work. So, as long as you install that PCI Express Whoops,
75:52
there we go. That PCI Express card into a slot that isn't in the same slot as
75:56
your graphics card, they're not really fighting over it. So, for example, in an
75:59
X79 board, you've got two 16x slots or you've got
76:03
1688. If you install that PCIe card in
76:07
down here, then it'll switch to 1688, which really won't affect your
76:11
performance much. So, um I know that's what you meant. I was just I was just
76:15
messing with you before. Um but yes, it will change the configuration of your
76:21
PCIe slots. Um but you can sacrifice as
76:25
little or as much as you want. And I mean lots of boards um especially Z77
76:28
boards have PCIe 4X slots usually down at the bottom that are hooked up through
76:33
the chipset and running off a completely different um set of PCIe lanes versus
76:38
the 28x slots. So you just have to look
76:42
at the uh at the layout for your board and see what makes sense for
76:45
you. Um Fazil says from Iraq and I say
76:49
hi Iraq. KPK TDS, how many years will last an i5
76:56
3570K for gaming? Please answer. I would
77:00
love to answer you with a
77:06
video. YouTube.com. Let's see what comes up. Oh. Oh, special daily rewards. Oh,
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I've been selected to take part in an annual visitor
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survey. YouTube.com. What a scam. Don't go to
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YouTube.com. It's probably a scam. Although, when you guys are gone,
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I'm going to go back and find out if I won anything. I just didn't want you to
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get like my activation code so that I'd have to share my prize with you. All
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right. Future
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proofing. Let's see. Oh, it's me. Holy
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crap. Look at me. I'm right there. Proofing your PC. Dispelling some myths.
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This was one of the simplest NCIX tech tips episodes we ever filmed. And this
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time I'm going to remember about the YouTube audio so I'm not going to wreck
77:53
it. But I basically talked for 10 minutes about how future proof Welcome
77:57
to NC Tech Tips. Today's format is going to be a little bit different
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for when you get your next paycheck or like a month later then it makes sense.
78:06
But if you intend to actually
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basically I say don't worry about it. Doesn't work that way. No one has a
78:12
crystal ball. Anyone who tells you you're future proofing your PC is trying
78:15
to sell you something. I mean, yeah.
78:18
Don't don't believe that. Joe wants to know, "GTX 662 gig or 3 gig." Joe, the
78:24
answer is quite simple. If you're going to be running at very high res, go ahead, grab the 3 gig cards. If you are
78:29
not running at high res, if you're going to be running at sort of a more normal like 1080 resolution, go with the 2 gig
78:34
cards because it won't make any difference whatsoever. Edward Dwarkin,
78:39
would you recommend an AMD APU for a very lowbudget rig? Absolutely, Edward.
78:43
I would especially if you want to play entry-level games on it because compared
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to Intel's integrated GPUs, the APU dead
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or integrated graphics that's included is really good. It's way better than
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Intel's even Intel's Ivy Bridge GPUs.
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So, let's see if the cat wants to come back and visit us again. Looks like he's
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thinking about it. Yep, here he comes.
79:06
All right, more Twitter questions. Zack, do you ever use Linux
79:11
for anything? No, I don't. I get that question a lot
79:15
though. Daniel wants to know, "Where do you think a college student should start
79:20
looking for a job related to what I do?" Um, what I do is product management. So,
79:25
if you took like, I don't know, product management program, then you might learn
79:30
a thing or two about managing products. I mean, product management is pretty
79:34
simple. Basically, you find stuff you think people would want. you try and find it at a price where you think your
79:38
company can make money and then you try and sell it at a price where the company
79:41
does make money but people are still happy with the price and they want to
79:44
buy it. So, you know, as long as you can handle handle those basic ideas, then
79:49
you should be fine. It's not rocket science by any stretch of the imagination. Um, as for the YouTube
79:54
thing, the best way to get started looking for a job related to YouTube is
79:58
to well upload videos to YouTube because
80:01
that's probably how someone will see your YouTube video and watch it and like
80:04
it. Speaking of which, you guys should like this video. Wait, no, it won't work
80:09
that way. Well, I'm gonna upload this video to YouTube after. So, if anyone's
80:12
actually still watching an hour and 18 minutes into it, then they can definitely like my video because if
80:17
they've watched that much of it, they probably like it. Jesse just sent me a link to Newegg.
80:23
How dare you, Jesse? How could you do this to
80:27
me? Some heat sink. I don't know. It's a heat sink. Did you know Newegg has a
80:31
site just for Canadian shoppers? All prices in Canadian
80:35
currency. Oh, new egg. New egg. New egg.
80:39
Yeah, you have a Canadian site, but I don't know if anyone cares. Bam. Take
80:43
that, Paul. And the other guy. Shoot. I even
80:48
tried to get everyone to follow him. No, I can't even can't even remember. My
80:52
brain my brain's kind of fried. It's actually been a very long day and I've
80:55
been live streaming for almost an hour and a half. So, uh, and in answer to
80:59
your question, Jesse, go with the better heat sink, which is the one you linked,
81:02
not the Cooler Master
81:07
212. Matt wants to know, "What is going on with the Pile Driver CPU, and when
81:11
will AMD make a new CPU without integrated graphics?" Coming very soon.
81:16
There's lots of information all over the interwebs. Um, if you were to
81:21
search 50, you might kind of
81:24
interesting. I can't tell you anything. But, uh, you know, the rumor sites, for
81:30
all the, uh, for all the flack they take about being wrong about this or that,
81:33
are are right so often that it's definitely worthwhile reading them if
81:37
you really want to know what's coming in the
81:41
future. Stephen, I'm trying to decide
81:45
between is it worth investing in the Intel? Short answer is fine. Uh, it's a
81:50
bit of a longer answer than that, unfortunately. low-end gaming machine,
81:54
entry- level gaming, just basic productivity, go with the AMD machine
81:57
because it honestly doesn't make that much of a difference anymore. Um, any CPU is fast enough for word processing
82:02
these days. If you want a higher performance machine, then Intel will
82:08
perform better. So, do you want to spend more and get more performance? Okay, go
82:11
Intel. Do you not want to spend more? Do you not want more performance? Go with
82:15
AMD. I mean, there are certain applications, however,
82:19
even perform pretty well. something like an FX8150 where all those cores are
82:24
being leveraged can perform pretty well.
82:28
Um, especially given the price points. I think an 8150 is around 200 bucks now
82:32
and the motherboards are
82:35
cheaper. Katsu Lionus, what do you think of two 120 mm rads compared to a single
82:41
240 mm rad? I'm planning to water cool my 550D and I want my sound damp pads.
82:47
Two 120 mm almost identically. The only
82:51
difference is you are going to hamper your flow rate a little bit, which
82:54
doesn't make that much of a difference to the performance of your loop. So, if
82:58
it's more convenient for you to use two 120s, go for it. Do it. It really won't
83:03
matter that much, especially if you have a decent pump. Don't use like a craptastic pump with it or anything like
83:07
that, though. Get an MCP 655 or 350 or 355 for that
83:12
matter. Michael, can you still overclock Intel
83:16
CPUs without a K on the end? You can, but only a little bit. If you really
83:20
want the benefit of that CPU and you want to really crank it up, get one with
83:23
a K on the end. Yan says, "Linus, show us your
83:27
cat."
83:30
Bam. That's my kitty.
83:33
Okay, Phil's question we already answered. Uh, Simrons wants to know,
83:39
"Why don't I ever review ASUS video cards?" To which I would reply, um, I
83:44
don't know. Let's see. ASUS
83:49
Linus. Oh, okay. Let's try ASUS Linus
83:54
video. Okay, we got a GTX 580 Mars 2.
83:58
We've got an Aries 5870X2, although that
84:01
was just a giveaway. There's the unboxing of it. Here's the uh testing of
84:05
it. Here's an unboxing of a 560Ti direct
84:09
CU2. Okay, so I see your point. All right. All right. Okay. So, some of this
84:12
is older stuff. Um, honestly, um, I
84:16
don't have them, so it's harder for me
84:19
to, you know, look at them, investigate
84:22
them, check for imperfections in the
84:26
finish. Um, yeah, it's really that simple. Whatever Whatever crosses my
84:30
path, and usually for ASUS, it's things like sound cards and motherboards and
84:36
uh, notebooks. Whatever crosses my path, I will make videos about. And I just
84:40
really don't I don't really don't get my hands on ASUS video
84:44
cards. Khalil, I missed you when you were at CES. Will you ever be near
84:48
Northern Nevada or Sacramento again? Um,
84:52
I don't know. I might be at CES again next year. I might not. It really
84:55
depends what happens. Um, yeah. And we
84:58
got our favorite troller. Haha. You're
85:02
so cool. A, it's adorable.
85:10
And have you updated your iPhone to iOS 6? I have
85:14
not. Uh, we're going to scroll down.
85:17
Linus, turn off the YouTube video. Ah, we've gotten down to to
85:22
that. Felix says, "Fail night, Lionus. Video is louder than you and getting
85:26
longer mic breaks." I know. I don't know
85:29
what to do. Well, I do know what to do. I need
85:34
to get better equipment and it's coming, but for now I don't know what to do to
85:38
address it. All right, let's go look at some of the newer tweets. 122 new
85:42
interactions. Thank you to those of you who are still watching because uh there
85:46
are still 1500 of you watching the stream, which is just outstanding,
85:50
especially given the technical challenges we've had tonight. I'm sure at least a
85:54
few few people are probably getting sort of frustrated with all the technical
85:58
difficulties, and I'm sorry for that. But I really do appreciate your guys'
86:01
support and uh the fact that you're watching the show. Joe wants to know,
86:06
should I upgrade to Ivy Bridge from my Q6600? Um I would say that is an
86:11
excellent upgrade. You've waited a few generations. You've uh yeah, you you
86:16
deserve it, man. Go ahead and upgrade to Ivy Bridge. Um Haswell is going to be
86:20
faster, but you can always end up waiting for the next thing, and you're going to get a definite performance
86:24
increase from that upgrade. Uh, merit.
86:28
How difficult is it to water cool GPUs if you are already custom cooling the
86:31
CPU? Not that difficult. Actually, the hardest thing about water cooling a GPU
86:36
is installing the graphics card water block. But if you're very careful and
86:40
you pay special attention to the instructions, you shouldn't have too much trouble. So, let's go GPU water
86:46
block guide. Let's see what comes up.
86:50
There's one from Singularity Computers. There's one's from Troubar. There's one
86:54
from Daz Mode. And hey, it's Daz mode. He's Canadian,
86:58
too. And there's me. So, I show you how
87:02
to install a full cover water block on a GPU. As long as you watch that video and
87:07
figure that you can handle that, then go for it. Have fun. It's
87:13
good. Oh, Rubet, can you recommend a cheap gaming
87:17
laptop? That's like asking me if I can
87:21
recommend, you know, a a delicious um you know, a delicious bottle of urine
87:28
or wait, no, it's more like bottle of I
87:33
don't know, um apple juice. I like apple juice. Orange Tropicana. It's like uh
87:38
yes, it's like asking me for I don't know. It's contradicting. Gaming laptops
87:43
aren't cheap because the CPUs, the GPUs,
87:47
the displays, everything about them is
87:50
expensive. So, no, maybe buy one used. I don't
87:57
know. Darien, can you build a computer
88:00
for me? I will tell you all the parts I
88:04
want and pay you for the assembling fee. Please tweet me back. You know what?
88:07
Let's tweet back, Darien. I wonder if he's still watching the stream.
88:13
Let's tweet him back. Let's say is $1,000
88:19
o is
88:23
$1,000. Think he's going to say? You think he'll do it? I'll tell you what.
88:28
If he does it, then I will I will spend
88:31
$500 of the assembly fee that was collected buying some high-end graphics
88:36
card and I will give it away on Twitter. Let's see if he does it.
88:42
Okay, moving down. Uh, Shelby, I just wanted to say
88:47
thanks for making videos and educating me. I ordered my first order from NCX
88:51
yesterday. Way to go, Shelby. You did
88:56
good. All right, we've got only three minutes left,
88:59
guys. No, I promised a test for the XFX
89:03
WD cooling system, but never did one. Um, you know what? I'd totally forgotten
89:06
about it. So, in all likelihood, it's probably not not coming. Um, cuz there's
89:12
enough sort of new video cards coming out and everything that I'm pretty busy.
89:16
But, uh, yeah, I'm I'mma leave I'mma leave that for
89:22
now. Rhino Rager wants to know, "Why is
89:26
it that when I record, I watch it, it's so choppy?" Um, are you talking about
89:31
recording games? I'm going to need some clarification. Maybe resend that
89:35
question next week. Um, if you're talking about recording games, if you're
89:38
talking about recording videos or whatever else the case may be, if you're
89:42
talking about recording this live stream, then maybe just watch it on
89:45
YouTube after. I don't know. Moving right
89:55
along. Ah, Dali wants to know if I can
89:58
speak some French.
90:09
I told him I couldn't in French. Basically, it's too difficult. It's been
90:13
a long time since I've really spoke any French. Uh I I'm not My vocab is I can't
90:18
remember anything anymore. Joseph wants to know, "Do I personally like NCX's
90:22
site design?" Answer truthfully. I will answer truthfully, but partially. I
90:27
liked it eight years ago.
90:40
CJ, sorry to repost this, but I want an expert opinion. I just bought two
90:44
EVGA480s. Is it still relevant or should I upgrade? As long as you're okay with
90:48
the heat they kick out, then they're fine. I mean, you probably only paid a
90:52
couple hundred bucks each, which is still a very valid price for those
90:56
cards. 200 bucks for something that's essentially equivalent to a GTX 570 um
91:01
except kicks out more heat um and scales
91:04
pretty well in SLI for me card. It's actually more powerful for CUDA than a
91:09
570. So yeah, totally
91:13
fine. And I think we're pretty much done here, guys. One
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more one more tweet. Let's take the top
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tweet once I reload this and then we are
91:25
pretty much gonna wrap it up here. So, let's switch back to
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here. All
91:33
right, Alexis. No, that's not really a question. Sorry,
91:38
Alexi. Rumble Muffin wants to know why is it
91:42
that 11 CPU is only clocked to 4 GHz in
91:45
my benchmark videos? Because that was a quick and easy overclock. It's something
91:49
I know that anyone with that CPU will be able to obtain, attain, obtain, attain.
91:55
So, as long as I use a setting that I
91:58
know other people can replicate, then my testing is therefore easily
92:05
replicable. I've clearly had enough of this. So, I'm a eager eager eagerly
92:11
awaiting cameraman to show up with the iPhone 5 and uh you know, maybe we'll
92:14
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