May 3 Live Stream Archive
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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19,952 words · ~99 min read
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Hey, there it goes. There it goes. All right, guys. We're live. Welcome to the
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Lionus Tech Tips live stream featuring
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the one and only Slick PC. In spite of that one guy who keeps asking me to fire
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him. I haven't done it yet today. Today.
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Are those mine? No. Oh, where'd mine go?
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Oh, there they are. We both have the same earbuds, which causes no small
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amount of confusion or would cause no small amount of confusion if we ever put
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them in a pile next to each other, which would be a bit of a problem. So, we're
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both using Flux in Ear Pros. What do you think of them? I like them. Did you ever
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try the nonpros? Yeah, I didn't mind
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those. They were good, but I like how well these will hook around your ear,
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right? And how well they sit in your ear? The only complaint I have about the
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non-pros is like these ones, um, they talked about when we were in their suite
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that they're designed after hearing aids, right? Yeah. So, they fit in your
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ear really well and they don't really come out of your ear that much, right?
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And then the cable can go right up and around your ear so there's not a lot of tension. With the nonpros, um, they're
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designed to to kind of stick out of your ear and then go down. So, they stick
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fairly far out and then go straight down. You know what I discovered though
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is that with the nonpros, if you really jam them in there. Yeah. I Well, hold
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on. No, no, really though. That's That's why they're so long. You're supposed to
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I I found if I put a size smaller ear
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tip on it and then I put them right in, not only did they sound great, the noise
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isolation was outstanding and they didn't stick out really far anymore. I
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was I even able to lie down on them without them being uncomfortable. So
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there there's sort of That's pretty cool. I didn't go that far with it. I
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don't like Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Fair enough. Cuz they're more like in-
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ear canal almost. Yeah. Which is kind of
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weird. Well, it's not for everyone, that's for sure. And wouldn't that be worse, too, for your ears? I mean, if
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you cranked it, maybe. Sure. Yeah, I would think so. Yeah. All right. So,
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what's our first topic for the week? Sorry if my voice sucks, guys. I'm kind of sick.
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Yeah, I know that's a common topic. Yeah, we sort of talk about that a lot,
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but yeah. Let's move on to a uh a new
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topic. So, our first topic of the week is um Tomb Raider 2013 edition is
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already 50% off on Steam.
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It's not even the summer sale yet. Like I kind of expected stuff like this in
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the summer sale because the summer Steam summer sale is always like just the most
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ridiculous thing ever. It's like please stay inside and play video games,
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please. I don't even for a few months I've already I've started doing this
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like a few months back and for until the summer sale comes around. What I do is
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I'll actually for any games that I hear of that I want and any games that go on
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sale that I'm like, "Oh, that looks interesting." I put it in a list in a
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notepad on my computer and I just wait. Even if it goes on like a crazy weekend
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only sale, I'm like, "No, I'll just put that in a list. Wait for the summer
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sale cuz it's so cheap." It's basically
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like like boxing boxing week or I guess
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uh for the American viewers kind of like like a Black Friday type thing. It's
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kind of it's kind of awesome. It's just not worthwhile to buy anything any other
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time. Yeah. But I mean this comes back to our discussion about Crisis 3. So
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that came out and then it was discounted within a couple weeks in spite of being
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evidently a hot selling title. Should you pre-order anything
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ever? See, like at this point, the main reason
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why I would ever see to pre-order anything is if you can find a place
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where you're going to get some amount of benefit from it. Because like sometimes
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Steam will do the oh, if enough people pre-order and you always hit the third
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tier, and there's three tiers of pre-order benefits. And sometimes like
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it comes with other games, right? And it'll come with like other games, DLC,
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like all this stuff. So sometimes the pre-order benefits are really big and
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exclusive. So sometimes it's worth it. I have Bill's hat in left in uh Team
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Fortress 2. See, like see like that. But
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that's I think where the benefit of buying early is going to be now because
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it's not price. It's not price anymore.
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Yeah. It's like two, three weeks, four weeks after the uh after it actually
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comes out. It's already like Yeah.
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So, someone says, uh, yeah, people are
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still complaining about the audio levels. I actually don't
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understand. Um, okay, here we can try moving it a little
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closer. That might actually help. So,
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the mic. Yeah,
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we will try. Whether just said audio is great. Well, I adjusted it a little bit.
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Okay. It's easier to turn down than it is for people who are maxed out to turn
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it up. So, I I understand um
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yeah, I understand why that's a problem. Why don't we turn to a little bit of
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Twitter Q&A? So, let's go ahead and do this. Oh. Oh, yeah. Another topic
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actually before we uh before we go any further, is our afterparty this week,
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assuming Slick and I can get it working, we'll probably get it working, right? I
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would think so. Is going to be our Super Mario World live stream.
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At least like the start of it. At least the start of it. We'll probably have to do more than one segment. Yeah. It's not
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going to be in one sitting. I mean, the reality of it is I told my wife about
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the concept of the Super Mario World live stream and she was kind of like I
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mean, you can't expect wives to necessarily always get the whole like
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game stream. Quite frankly, I don't really get the whole game streaming thing, but I mean, it's more for us.
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We're not doing like a let's play. This is more of just we're doing a normal
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we're probably going to be talking about random stuff just like we do in the afterparty. Yeah. But just instead of
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the whole screen being us, it'll probably be a small webcam view and then
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Super Mario World. And like who doesn't like Super Mario World? Can I have a
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webcam view of you? What are you wearing? What? That's true.
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I can see what you're wearing. Your exposed knees are very sensual today.
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Exposed knees. Well, slip shorts to work, which I mean, I'm not the best
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dressed gentleman. You wear sandals. That's true. But sandals are very
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practical. And you only wear nice shirts when you need to. Yes, that is true. If
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you're not going to be in front of camera, you wear like badminton shirts and stuff. Yes, that's true. You
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probably just don't like How many shorts do you own? Uh, a couple. They're all
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the same. And you probably don't like them, do you? I have three pairs of jean
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shorts that I actually don't like cuz they make my butt look big there. So
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that's why you don't wear shorts. I love shorts. Shorts are amazing. Okay, that
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actually could be part of the reason. All right, so moving along to Twitter
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Q&A. Ah, watching from Norway, but not at a land party. Second time tuning in
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from Austria. I think this new time slot really does work well for a lot of uh a
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lot of people. Really, really well. George says, "Apparently there's a
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giveaway of leftover Steam codes on the forum." Cool. That actually happens like
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a lot. Yeah, it's neat. If you're if you don't have many Steam games, like
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honestly, hang around the forum. There's there's one guy that does Steam giveaways all the time for just drawing
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him random things. That's kind of cool. And he'll pick like not the best drawing
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at all. He'll pick like the thing that he just kind of likes the most. And
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usually it has nothing to do with the best drawing at all. It's just what makes him laugh. So that's pretty cool.
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I know one of our mods has done a giveaway. I know. Like there's a lot of
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giveaways on the forum actually. Um, speaking of giveaways on the forum, the
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user Dragon Tale submitted a Mass Effect 2 Steam code or I think Oh crap, I think
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it's an Origin code. Yeah, I think it's an origin code. But one way or another,
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it's a free copy of Mass Effect 2 that he sort of told me I could give away on
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the live stream. So instead, I opted to
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give it away on the forum in the D. I'm
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gonna see if I can remember what my hotkey is for this one. This Whoops.
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Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Oh. Uh oh. We'll be back in a
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moment. What are you
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doing? What's going on? There we
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go. All right. So, in this thread here called the post Linus memes here thread,
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which actually has some pretty funny stuff. Okay. This one's not that great,
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but basically the winner selected by me and Slick is going to win a copy of Mass
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Effect 2. And I think it's just sort of for fun. Twitter's up and running and
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it's gone. Love it. I have to keep going
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until I find my favorite one, which I don't actually burst out laughing at
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that much stuff I see on the internet, but this thread has got me going a couple times. Yeah, this thread's
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actually just kind of awesome. But where is it? Here we go. Here we go. Oh, no.
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Yeah, that one's not bad. That one's not bad. But there's another slick one that I think is my personal favorite so far.
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I don't remember where it is. I don't remember where it is, too. I think it's pretty early on. I like this. Have you
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seen this? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I saw this one. Oh my goodness. That was so funny.
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Okay, you know what? Hold on. We're going to cut back to back to us for a second. V Bulletin has taken care of us
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at this point. They've issued a full refund. So, we are now square with them.
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It's all good. Yeah. Still funny, though. This one's just terrifying. This
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is weird. I mean, there's like a black Linus
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I' I've never seen that before. Uh, okay. I think it's got to be
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page three because it was pretty early on.
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Um, okay. Hold on. Close cell phone.
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Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Trust me. Trust me. It's worth it. Oh, I thought
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it was on page two pages now.
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Okay. Close cell phone. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Final assembly.
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Okay. Okay. Yeah. No. No. Did someone get rid of it? Maybe.
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That's bizarre. Okay. Well, there's a Slick one that we both saw that we both
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really liked that I thought was quoted in here a few times. A lot of people
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talked about it, but it was basically Slick giving a big thumbs up with the
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caption EA at the
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bottom. And I have no idea what happened here. I haven't seen some of these. So,
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so anyway, must be gone. Guys, feel free to post on the thread. You can win a
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free copy of Mass Effect 2, courtesy of Dragon Tale, one of the members of our
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forum. All right, so back to Twitter, right? That's where we left off. I was
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like, so are you ready for Haswell? Uh, we have
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Haswell chips. We have Haswell boards coming soon. We had a conversation with
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ASUS that involves um a lot of uh a lot
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of really cool stuff heading our way. So, we're going to be hopefully doing
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like some build guides and some benchmarks and talking about Haswell. A
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whole a whole heck of a lot. Um Andy wants to know when we're expecting the
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NVIDIA 700 series. We have no idea. And
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if we did, we wouldn't be able to tell you. So, if we did, I would tell you we
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have no idea. So, there you go. That should tell you all you need to know.
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Uh, Slick, have you tried Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon yet? No. Why not? So, well,
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I don't have a code yet. Oh,
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well, you have a Never Settle. Yeah, but they haven't sent out I don't think
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Never Settle has sent out their codes yet. So, I'm waiting for Never Settle to
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send out their codes and then I will play the crap out of Blood Dragon. I'm
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so excited. You saw that gift I showed you, right? Yes. It's a It's a gift
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where two guys are fighting on the road and then some gigantic techno lizard
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just dives by and takes the guy out. I'm just like, "Oh, I'm so excited for this
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game. It's so 80s." Oh my goodness. So
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excited. Uh, so what's up with Haswell?
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What would you expect from online gaming platforms in the future? We've talked
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about that a fair bit, I think, already on previous live streams. 15th top
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poster on the forums today is apparently Dylan Grant. Nice. Awesome. Yes, Super
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Mario finally is coming here. Do you want to scooch forward a little bit? Apparently you're a little out of focus.
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Tuning in from Sweden at 1:00 a.m. Love it, guys. Thank you for tuning in. And
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apparently lots of new interactions. Oh, this is interesting. So, we got our
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hands on a 7990 today. Um, but the only
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hands-on time we had with it was to basically just like video the card
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itself. We didn't actually get a chance to benchmark it at all, which was sort
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of disappointing. Um, so that made me that made me sad,
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but hopefully we'll get a chance to really benchmark it. The problem with
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benchmarking the 7990 is that due to the
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fact that it's running Crossfire and AMD's drivers aren't really optimized
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for um the best frame times, the frame rates
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might be really high, but the actual perceived performance is not necessarily
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that high on a Crossfire solution right now. And unless you have a really
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high-end capture PC with um some special
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software and a lot of time to sit down and and really go through frame by frame
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what was actually being displayed. It's really hard to get performance numbers
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for Crossfire these days until AMD fixes
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the issue. They have a prototype driver that looks a lot better, but it's
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nowhere near available to the public yet. So, supposed to be like 20%
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increase, right? Um Oh, way better. Way better than that. like in terms of the
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perceived performance and the perceived u stutteringness of it, it's supposed to
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be absolutely way better. Can you email that to me so that I can open it up over there? Yeah. All right. So, we found I'm
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trying to get the user's name. We found the meme that was sort of mine and uh
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mine and Slick's favorite so far that we dug through a thread only to find out it
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like isn't there anymore for some reason. I have no idea why. So, we're
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going to bring that up soon. Uh we're going to have a guest next week. I don't
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know if I told you this yet. vaguely mentioned something, but I don't
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actually know what's going on. Okay, so our guest here, I'm just going to open
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up our live stream agenda here, and I'll take you to his website. So, he's a bit
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of a local technology media personality. He goes by the name of Steve Doto. So,
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there you go. He's got a website. He does more radio stuff. he's uh he's a
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little bit more focused on the business side of the technology and how to how to
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enable yourself to sort of save time and make your life a little bit better with
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it. He doesn't focus on graphics cards or stuff like that. So, I asked him to
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come do a 20-minut segment or so. He does a lot of speaking engagements
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locally. So, um so yeah, I had I had a meeting with him and he was he was
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interested in coming in and joining us. So, I think it'll be interesting to just kind of do the whole guest thing again
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and see how it goes. uh very knowledgeable. He's been doing I
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mean he's run um TV broadcast tech shows in the past.
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He's done online tech shows. Like I said, he does radio now. Extremely
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experienced. He's been doing tech talks since I mean I basically knew where to
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find the turbo button on a 386 or 486 or
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whichever one was the one that came with a turbo button on. I can't even remember anymore. So, uh so yeah, that should be
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kind of fun. Um, I don't know how carefully you've gone through some of
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the topics that I submitted for the live stream, but have you seen this yet?
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Yeah, crazy. So, guys, absolutely nuts.
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Check this out. I don't know what ad that is, but uh this is from uh this is
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from nofilmchool.com. Netflix streaming loses
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2,000 titles as Universal and MGM
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licenses expire. So, there's a lot of
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talk right now about what the heck does
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this actually mean? And I'm gonna I'm going to throw this at Slick. And so,
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what's your take on this? I'm kind of worried for
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Netflix. And it's actually pretty brutal. That's so many titles. How 1794
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1794 titles. And I guess the thing that
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sort of got a lot of people scratching their heads right now is that at the
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same time, Warner Brothers is launching their
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archival video service. Yeah. Which is
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more focused on older and obscure titles, but there's some overlap with
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the stuff that the license just expired from Netflix for.
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And it's like, okay, so you got your own
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service now. Netflix is branching out
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into content creation now. Like crazy. Like crazy. They're investing. People
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are apparently really liking it, too. So, I mean, at some point in the
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future, is is ne does Netflix become
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pretty much the same as any other content delivery company, except they
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were the kick in the pants that forces the other guys to figure out this whole
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digital content distribution thing, right? The reason why everyone pirates
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everything. So maybe at some point I mean what I what I've loved about Nve
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I've only used Netflix for I had it for a few weeks because I'm a cheapkate and
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I don't really watch movies like I I just actually don't
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watch movies. I've watched one movie since my son was born and that was over
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a year ago. I went to see The Hobbit. That was it. It's like okay. Um, so I
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don't really watch movies, so I didn't have it for long. But what I liked about it is that you weren't locked into this
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service or that service or that service to the point where all of a sudden if
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you're paying $7 a month for 10 different services, it costs just as
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much as a cable subscription, which is what I'm trying to get rid of. Yeah. At
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that point, um, so are we moving towards
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more fragmentation where each of the studios maintains their own content
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library? Is someone like YouTube gonna
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win to the point where they get all the original programming? Well, it could
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explode and then come back in because they're they're doing the subscriber
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thing on YouTube. Like everyone is trying to you know how YouTube rolled
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out their like you can set up your channels as a subscription base. Yes.
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Um, everyone is kind of rolling out their own big content subscription
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setup. And I'm wondering if everyone all
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the users are going to go, "This is too much
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crap." And like they're going to want to
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go back to just one group that maybe charges more. So maybe it's going to get
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out of Netflix's hands for a while and then someone, whether it's Netflix or
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maybe someone else, might be able to pull it all back together because it's going to be frustrating managing like 10
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different subscriptions for all your stuff. Oh yeah, it's just ridiculous.
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It's annoying. That was nice. Like United States based
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Netflix, Canadian Netflix was never really that strong, but United
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States-based Netflix where you just kind of had everything. Yeah. Almost all the
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movies you could think of, tons of documentaries, all the shows, almost.
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And quite frankly, that's the kind of thing I could see myself subscribing to,
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whereas Canadian Netflix really wasn't that special. Yeah, VPNs. Um, yeah, VPN,
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true enough. But yeah, so there's a lot of uh there's
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a lot of stuff being pulled off. So things like uh so hold on, hold on. Here
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we go. So South Park is is off, but it's
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not that big of a deal because you can watch South Park online legally anyway.
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Um Audrey Rose, James Bond classics like
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Dr. and golding cuz those are still pretty good to watch. Um, so Netflix's
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take on this is you know what our library has always been in flux. We're
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also adding I think they said they were adding several Yeah. 500 titles are
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being added May 1st. So that was 2 days ago. So they're losing almost 1,800 but
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a lot of them are very possibly super old that people possibly aren't watching
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that much. So they're adding Bachelorette, adding Hunger Games,
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adding Mission Impossible 2. I mean, it's one of those things where if you're
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subscribing to Netflix as a service, it's kind of like if I turn it on,
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there'll be something to watch. Mission probably accomplished as
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long as they can maintain. Well, especially the States one. Yeah. Where I
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think this is going on. Yeah. Because they have so much stuff.
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Which actually reminds me um there was huge news the other day that I actually
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didn't have in our live stream um in our live stream document, but I'm going to
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open this up. I just moved it over there now. So, the first major YouTube channel
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acquisition just went down. So, DreamWorks announced the acquisition of
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Awesomeness TV for 33 million, which is
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absolutely incredible. So, Awesomeness TV
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was okay. Mark Turbique and hold on.
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Yeah. So, he's basically been involved in some other uh So, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
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Here we go. The key to this success according to Turbique was Robin's
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experience creating traditional television content aimed at young viewers such as Smallville and One Tree
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Hill. So, they basically took this channel. They got one of YouTube's
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grants. I think they got 3 and a half Yeah, 3.5 million from
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the series A round last summer, which added to a 5 million original content
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grant from YouTube. So, they got a bunch of money to build this channel. They
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built it up to 500,000 subscribers and around 80 million monthly views. So,
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this was on Po Daily, just so that we're citing our source here.
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um they got it up to that level and all
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of a sudden it's worth 33 million which
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is incredible because this could be the beginning of you know guys like I mean
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YouTube hasn't really said okay yeah
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we're going to develop content we're going to hire all the people and do it I
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don't think they're interested in that they want to be a platform but they've started investing in content creators uh
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whether it's Freddy Wong or whether it's Awesomeness TV or whoever else to turn
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their platform into something that major
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studios like DreamWorks are going to walk in and buy and start being content
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producers on YouTube's platform, which makes room for premium channels that
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people will actually legitimately, I think, pay for.
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Interesting. One thing like Freddy Wong and stuff, it almost sucks that it's
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named exactly after him because for him,
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he probably can't sell it, but or if he did sell it, he'd have to stay a part of
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it. But that's what's going on here as well. Oh, he's staying a part of it.
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He's staying on board. So, hold on. Let
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me just uh let me just browse down. I I read this sort of in with great interest
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uh last last night, which was Yeah, it
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just it kind of blew my mind. So, he's going to stay on for I think it
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was can't see how long, but yeah. So, so Robins is staying on and he's going to
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be continuing to to develop it under DreamWorks. Of course, if they're
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acquiring it for 33 million, they probably have some more money earmarked
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to continue to invest in it and make it uh more awesome. But what I figure based
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on this is that I must be a millionaire.
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I'm worth about four million views a month online as tech tips. So, I figure
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it it works out perfectly such that uh you can just extrapolate. And so, no.
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Yeah. Okay. I guess our production values aren't really there. That's never
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really been our strength, has it? No, no, no. I guess it has. And like the
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sale of a tech channel on YouTube, I don't think is quite as much as like an
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original content creator. We create original cont.
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Yeah, fair enough. But not exactly the same platform. Either way, the, you
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know, between looking at sort of Netflix's uh constant eb and flow of
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their content as well as, I mean, this whole thing where YouTube channels might
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turn into TV channels. Yeah. I hope that
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happens as soon as possible, which is just crazy. Yeah. Which is just
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absolutely crazy. I mean, YouTube's been they've been doing all this stuff. I
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mean, they've been they've been one step ahead. Yeah. We need to support live. We
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need to support this. We need to support that. We need to incentivize content
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creators to stay on this platform. It's like they support things unlike EA.
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Wow. Okay. Yeah, I guess we're we're half an hour in. I guess I had to throw
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a shot. It wasn't that it wasn't that early for for a shot at EA.
24:12
Um, speaking of speaking of EA, did you
24:16
did you put that meme in here? No, I can't edit the doc. Did you email it to
24:20
me? Uh, I think so at some point. Yep, there it is.
24:23
Okay, so here we go, guys. So, this was this was the meme that Slick and I were
24:28
looking for before. So, it's basically
24:32
just that's the entire punch line. That's all the punchline we
24:38
need. How every joke on their live stream ended from now on.
24:45
Yeah. And they never sponsored Lionus
24:49
Tech Tips ever. Speaking of which, EA, if you would like
24:53
to sponsorship, uh, if you would like to sponsor us, just getting content, go for
24:57
it. Okay. In Germany, apparently YouTube, uh, created some original
25:00
channels that are paid by YouTube to create high quality content. Um, well, I
25:05
mean, okay, they had by YouTube. Yeah, they if they're paid by YouTube and they
25:08
actually hire people who actually get a paycheck, then that's a little bit
25:12
different from what we've seen over here. So, there you go. Seems I can't
25:16
watch because my sister took the tablet. It's okay. The archive will go up right
25:20
away this week. We'll be back to the usual way of doing it. Uh the problem
25:23
was that we had to wait for Twitch's archive which we could then download and
25:28
chop together in Windows Live Movie Maker and then we had to wait for it to
25:32
upload and then we had to wait to put in all the timestamps. It was just a really
25:36
really cludgy way of doing it before. Hopefully it'll actually stay as one
25:39
this time. Hi Andrew, welcome to watching the live stream. Well, live.
25:45
Um, what's your opinion on the Nexus 4? I don't know. I haven't heard much about
25:50
it. It just seems like it kind of was
25:54
there and people were really excited about it. I I I've heard sales are
25:57
really good. Like like it's not a huge
26:01
talking point. I mean, it's an Android stock Android device, but honestly,
26:05
Nexus S also wasn't a huge talking
26:09
point. Lots of people had them. Yeah. But it wasn't a huge talking point. I
26:12
think quite a few people have Nexus 4s as Well, by comparison, you look at how
26:15
much someone like a Samsung is spending on advertising. Yeah. So, because
26:20
Samsung is pushing all their phones, Google doesn't really they do a little
26:23
bit. I think the login page for Gmail now has something about I I didn't even
26:27
look at it, but I saw a phone. So, maybe they're doing something, but like the
26:31
advertising push behind Samsung is so much bigger, making it a talking point,
26:34
right? And I mean, you have to look at it from Google's perspective is why are they going to push their hardware
26:38
hardware platform so hard when ultimately it was partners like Samsung
26:43
that made Android a success that were willing to build the hardware before
26:47
Google got around to it. Yeah. Um, so
26:50
yeah, I mean, and the other thing too though is with faster, more modern
26:54
devices like the HTC1 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 hitting the market being
26:59
available now, there is a unique experience with Nexus devices though.
27:04
Okay, I brought this up with my Nexus S. I went through three major platform
27:07
changes with that phone. Like that was crazy. And like right when it's
27:11
announced as released, it's on my phone, right? Like that's one thing with the
27:15
Nexus phones. You always get the updates because you're getting pushed from Google, which is kind of fantastic.
27:21
Just that like awesome support that you expect from directly being attached to
27:26
Google, right? Let's talk about this. So, Razer
27:31
has launched their comm software. It's in beta right now. Um, I tried to
27:36
install it and it basically just kind of closed. So, I I kind of gave up because
27:40
I was going to test it with Slick, but what I discovered is that when I uh
27:44
reinstall it might have been a problem actually with my audio drivers. I
27:48
updated the firmware on my SS1 and the drivers and everything's working 100%
27:53
now. So, it might not have been Comm's problem, but I haven't tried it yet
27:56
personally, but I sent this the link over to Slick. So, what are they trying
28:00
to do here exactly? Um, I think they're trying to replace
28:04
Skype because the interface style, like,
28:08
you know, there's the like Ventrilo TeamSpeak kind of style where there's a
28:12
server and you join and disconnect from the server and there's chat rooms and
28:15
all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's not set up like that, right? Which is why a
28:19
lot of gamers have started using Skype instead of Yeah. the complicated setup
28:23
that goes into that, which honestly I still kind of like I like I like Mumble.
28:28
I love Mumble. Mobile's the same kind of thing though. Yeah, same kind of thing. Oh,
28:34
right. We have something else to talk about, but I will continue this topic until we're done. Sorry, just uh mod
28:39
chat reminded me about a serious serious thing going on. Um,
28:44
sorry for that segue. I'll come back. So, it has the social pane just like uh
28:49
Skype does where it shows everyone on your friends list. So, on the left side,
28:52
I'm I'm looking on his um everyone on your friends list on the left side. And
28:57
then you can open up chat groups super
29:00
super easily and you can save those chat groups. So you can kind of make channels
29:05
kind of because you can save chat groups. So if you have like your team
29:08
for whatever game you can save them all as a chat group. Are we streaming this
29:13
page? Okay. So let's see. Team Diablo. Yeah. So he's got a chat group going on.
29:18
Apparently there's a channel within there. I haven't used it enough. I'm sorry guys. I guess you can maybe within
29:22
individual chat groups make channels. It's kind of interesting. So, that's a
29:26
cool option to do there. Um, for like
29:30
general feedback on its performance, its autodetected settings I'm finding are
29:34
not quite as good as Skype. With Skype, as far as I can tell, anyone just
29:40
clicks call and it works, right? Like, as long as you have the right device
29:43
pointing at it and stuff, it just works. Um, with uh what is it? Comms. Yeah.
29:50
Used it for a while. I think we had up to six people on it. And all we noticed
29:54
that is that maybe you had to turn one dude up or maybe you had to slightly
29:59
turn your own mic down or up, but it wasn't like
30:02
uh it wasn't crazy hardcore settings. It was up or down. One slider. Like not a
30:08
big deal. Anyone can do this setup. Fairly easy level settings. Like I had a
30:12
fan in my room pointed directly at a desktop mic. So you would expect it to
30:17
pick it up. And it was a little bit but it doesn't in Skype. But then I just
30:21
turned the slider down a little bit and it was totally fine. I see. Okay. So,
30:25
the auto detect isn't quite as awesome as Skype, but is super super easy to uh
30:29
tune in. So, that's awesome. One big problem that a lot of Skype users,
30:33
especially myself, hate is that if we're
30:36
in a game and someone calls you
30:40
like the crazy annoying call, it's so loud. It's insanely loud and it will
30:45
probably put an overlay on your screen or it'll tab you out of your game. And
30:48
like if someone hangs up the call, you might get tabbed out of your game and
30:52
your whole call ends if it's the person who started the call. And like there's
30:55
all these kind of major problems. This one, it will now transfer the host. Oh,
31:00
that's cool. We think um we tried it and
31:05
then a really really loud high-pitched noise came in and then everyone could
31:08
hear each other, but it was kind of crackly. Okay. But it isn't the call. It
31:12
isn't beta. That's one big takeaway people need to understand. It isn't
31:16
beta. Beta. And that's not like the audio codec or anything. So, right.
31:20
Okay. Might just deal with that for now. It'll hopefully be fixed. Um, so I think
31:25
it's supposed to transfer the host in the call. Um, if you get a call, you
31:30
don't really get a call in a game. If you get a call in a game, it'll come up
31:33
in the bottom right hand corner. It will not tab you out. It'll pop up like a
31:37
Steam or Xfire overlay. Okay, if anyone knows about that, it has a key command
31:41
just like Steam or Xfire. So you can bind it to I think whatever you want.
31:44
But it's uh control tab. Okay. Which
31:48
still kind of sucks because crouching and then checking your score, right? But
31:52
you could change it to but I think 99% sure you can change it. I don't know why
31:55
you wouldn't be able to. I haven't changed it yet, but I will. Um so that's
31:59
kind of nice. Very unobtrusive while you're in games, which is Skype's
32:03
problem, right? And then the audio is not quite as good, but after a few seconds you can get there. So Okay. So I
32:09
actually like it a lot so far. I I think I'm going to kind of make the jump
32:13
really. I've been using Skype forever. I'm still going to use Skype for um text
32:17
chat for a lot of people just because I have more people on Skype, right?
32:22
Um but yeah, for comms in games, I hate
32:26
Skype. It pisses me off because it constantly tabs me out and just is a
32:30
massive annoyance. So I So what's the impression? You said you had six people
32:33
on. What are they? Everyone's kind of down with it. We've tried a lot of
32:38
different voice chats. Uh, most of the guys most of the guys that haven't been
32:42
gaming as long as say like my brother and I like the Skype style where it's a
32:46
friends list. Yeah. More than the old channel-based vent kind of style, right?
32:51
Um, so we've been using Skype for a while, but none of us have been totally
32:55
satisfied because of it tabbing it out of games and stuff. So, we've been looking for a different solution, but
32:59
there hasn't really been one quite as good. So, usually we'll all download the
33:04
new thing that comes out, try it for a little bit, and everyone bails and goes back to Skype. Everyone's actually been
33:08
consistently using coms since we downloaded it. So, I wonder what's the
33:11
benefit to Razer to create this
33:15
uh branding, I guess. I think they're doing ads on it. Okay. So, there's that.
33:21
Yeah. Price also branding is apparently their their intention. I mean, you know,
33:27
so but their branding's all over it. So,
33:30
if you're using coms for all your games and you go to a store and you're you're
33:34
if you're just getting into gaming and your buddy who's been into gaming forever is like, "Yeah, download this
33:38
Razer coms thing." And then you get into gaming a little bit more and you want to
33:41
buy some peripherals and you go to the store. If you see Razer on the shelf,
33:45
what are you going to think? You're probably going to want to buy the Razer thing. So, you think that's probably
33:48
their intention then? Yeah. And I think they're doing some ads. Some ads to
33:52
help. I mean, if they run ads for the hot new game or whatever else, I think
33:56
they have enough relationships with developers as it is. is I mean you look
33:59
at even the branded peripherals they do someone will run advertising with them
34:03
if they can get the user. I don't think they'll have a problem with getting ads.
34:06
So I'm not 100% sure about the ads thing but I I think I remember. Very cool. So
34:10
there you go. There you go guys. Razercoms. Uh check it out. I think it's
34:16
razor.com or razorzone. Yeah. Razorzone.com whatever your region
34:21
is or something like that. So there you go. That's what the page looks like. If
34:24
you Google razorcoms then that'll come up for sure. Find it. I I didn't expect
34:27
it to be that good, especially after you said it just completely crashed. Yeah.
34:31
Well, I was like, "Ah, whatever. I'll test this out." And me and a buddy jumped on and then it was a pleasant
34:35
surprise. So, that was cool. Um, okay. So,
34:41
apparently, what's going on?
34:44
Apparently, EA shut down PopCap Vancouver. Oh, really? I don't remember
34:49
when they did this, but they did it during something else. Oh, okay. Um, so
34:53
that it it wasn't like a major news item. I I don't know if they planned
34:56
that. They probably didn't plan that, but it happened during something else big going on. I don't know if it was uh
35:01
the Boston bombing or something, but it was like something really big was going
35:04
on and they shut down Popcat Vancouver and laid off 2,000 employees.
35:10
Wow. And they're planning a complete company restructure. So, their plan to
35:14
win the hearts back of the community was to fire 2,000
35:18
people. It's probably I don't know. Oh, yeah. So,
35:22
here we go. Electronic Arts. Uh, this is on Tech Vibes that I'm on right now.
35:26
Electronic Arts, Shuttering PopCap, and Quick Lime Studios in Vancouver, sources
35:31
say. So, this was Yeah. on the 25th of April. Yeah. Um, Electronic Arts,
35:37
dubbed, Here's a quote from, again, Tech Vibes. Electronic Arts, dubbed the worst
35:41
company in America in both 2012 and 2013, laid off 170 people in Montreal on
35:47
April 11th, followed by this layoff,
35:50
which is uh let's see if I can get an exact number here. Internal memo,
35:56
something about a restructuring.
35:59
Wow. Wow. That's terrible.
36:02
I mean, how much uh how could a comp how could they have
36:07
taken something like PopCap and gotten it to the point where they have to lay
36:11
off a whole team? I mean, PopCap was rolling in money.
36:16
EA's really good at killing things. Wow.
36:22
I mean, I feel terrible for the people who were working for doing something
36:26
that was, you know, successful and awesome and then, you know, in order for
36:31
EA to have a clean start in
36:34
2014. So, in 2011, EA bought Popcap for
36:38
$1.3
36:41
billion. And they've they made Plants Versus Zombies and Bejeweled Blitz.
36:47
Like, those are two huge games. Yeah. I
36:50
mean, merchandising alone, they should be able to keep these people employed.
36:54
Sell some more zombie. Like, the amount of freaking zombie plushes and like
36:58
walnut hats that I saw at packs for a little while there was
37:02
insane. Like, everybody had a little walnut thing. Yeah, this is like
37:06
terrible news, actually. Yeah. It's never good to see like
37:11
buckets of people laid off. And it seems like every single time you hear of
37:14
layoffs in the gaming industry, it's like, "Yeah, EA just laid off like
37:18
quadruple figure." Yeah. EA acquired something and then ran it into the
37:23
ground and just fired everyone and laid off everyone like
37:30
Well, so there's the uplifting story of the week, I guess. Yeah, that's
37:36
terrible. Um I don't know. So that's no good.
37:41
Let's get a new item so we can be happy. Yeah. I have like nothing to say
37:45
anymore. That's just really crappy. Really crappy. And like we're not even
37:49
that fast on the upkeep. Like that was a little while ago. Yeah. It was a couple
37:52
weeks back. Yeah. Just or a week ago. Still totally crappy. Yeah. It's still
37:56
crappy. We just heard about it so it's crappy to us at least. And I'm sure it's
37:59
still crappy to the uh Yeah. Okay. Well, James makes a good
38:04
point. But PopCap made things for tablets and phones and PCs and every
38:10
platform. Yeah, there's actually I can't think of a compelling reason. It's not
38:14
like Android's going somewhere except like this. Yeah. Yeah.
38:19
Yeah. If anything, there should be more opportunities for Yeah. Apparently,
38:24
there's the goal for comms is to have only one ad and it's a banner at the
38:30
bottom. I'm getting this from my moderator chat. So, they'll have one ad
38:33
that'll probably a really high value ad, right? And it's probably just going to
38:36
chill at bottom again. Probably won't be obtrusive. Cool. Probably be fine. Yeah,
38:41
that's outstanding. Um, so would a 16 690 or a 7990 be bottlenecked by an
38:46
i53570K overclocked to 4.2? Um, it doesn't really matter because an
38:53
i53570K right now, I mean, who knows how things are going to change over the next
38:57
month or so. Right now is as fast as you can get anyway. So, sure, maybe it's
39:03
bottlenecked. I don't know. What do you want me to tell you? It's as not
39:06
bottlenecked as it can be. Every system
39:09
everywhere the one the one you're sitting in front of the one that you
39:13
used before that the one that's in your parents' room every system has a
39:17
bottleneck somewhere. It's like people ask me is this system bottlenecked? Yes,
39:22
every system is bottlenecked. It's about reducing bottlenecks and making them not
39:27
as narrow as possible. So for example, a
39:30
system with a sixcore processor and a
39:34
GTX Titan is bottlenecked in every
39:37
situation is bottlenecked by something. Your system can only be as fast as the
39:42
slowest component and some component
39:45
will always be the slowest thing for any given workload. That's just how it
39:50
works. Um so yes, yes, it will not be
39:54
bottlenecked any more than it would otherwise have to be. The only way to
39:58
reduce that bottleneck will be to overclock that 3570K even
40:03
further. So there uh what's in yours and
40:06
Slick's personal rigs? Um well I'm running a 3970X. I'm running a GTX 590.
40:12
I've got 8 gigs of RAM in there right now cuz my memory was has been borrowed
40:20
back soon for a while. I've got eight 120 gig SSDs in a RAID zero array that I
40:25
back up nightly because that's insane. I have an XFX 1000 watt 80 plus platinum
40:30
power supply and custom liquid cooling.
40:33
Go. Oh, I have to do things to mine first.
40:38
No, no, tell them what you have now. I have 2600K and a 660 Ti with an NRE 1200
40:44
watt true power, which is like massively actually beast.
40:47
absurdly overkill and beast and unnecessary. Um, an Octane 256 GB SSD,
40:54
which doesn't back up. Do you really not have it set up to back
40:58
up? It's just programs. Oh, I don't store any documents on there at all. Oh,
41:02
okay. It's just programs. Like, I could reset up that SSD in an hour or two.
41:06
Okay. So, I don't bother. Um, and then a
41:10
like big two TBTE drive, which I do back up, that has all my games, which I don't
41:16
need to back up, so I don't back up that folder. But then like all my documents and videos and music and everything else
41:20
on there. Uh, what am I missing? 12 gigs of kind of mis mix mismatched RAM. Half
41:24
of its dominators, half of it's like uh
41:27
Do you still have that AON stuff? Yep. Half of it's Anon. Nice. Kimo went out
41:31
of business years ago. That was like four, five, four years ago. Yep. It's
41:37
like a neon RAM like a boss. Totally awesome. That was such a good deal. I
41:41
paid 10 bucks a gig for it or something
41:44
like back then for DDR3.
41:48
That's so sweet. Yeah, it's like ridiculous. Um and then um 800D
41:54
800D TJ7. Yeah.
41:58
All right. Um apparently there are rumored GeForce
42:02
GTX 700 launch dates. We can't really comment one way or the other. Good night
42:07
from Portugal. Good night Portugal. Good night. Um, first time watching live.
42:11
Love the new schedule. Thank you. Have you tried raid call? I haven't,
42:14
unfortunately. I have. I don't mind it. Again, the group though wasn't down.
42:19
Right. Apparently, if you put Skype on busy, it won't interrupt your game, but
42:23
it also won't tell you things. Yeah. A lot of the time, so it's like it's like
42:28
I either get completely interrupted or I get no notifications at all. Yeah.
42:31
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Yeah. kind of with that the thing I
42:34
liked about comms is and like another thing with comms just little like ease
42:38
of life situations where if you call someone it's like a deeper quieter tone
42:46
instead of freaking Skype's like I'm going to kill your ears ringtone which
42:51
is nuts like being on the receiving end of a Skype call isn't even as bad as
42:54
calling someone. It's kind of bizarre that you can't change it and it's so
42:59
loud. Like I understand it's a branding element for them. Do you always know
43:03
when a Skype call is coming? But I mean, when you're going out, it doesn't ring
43:07
that way when you're going out. Like, it's the annoying Yeah, super
43:12
common one. And it's insanely loud when you're going out and it's terrible and
43:15
really annoying with comms. It's actually totally fine. I don't know.
43:20
It's like it's I guess it's not the biggest thing, but that's one of the
43:23
first things I noticed, right, was when I first called someone, I was like, "Oh,
43:26
wow. That's pleasant." Uh Kevin Norman
43:29
says he's watching on his Nexus 4. fantastic device. Smoothest he's used.
43:33
However, battery life is apparently not satisfactory. Uh we've talked about
43:38
NVIDIA Grid quite a few times. Uh we don't really click links during the live
43:41
stream just cuz sometimes it's bad. Yeah. Um Frostbite says apparently call
43:46
quality is 10 times better than Skype. I haven't experienced that. Okay. He's com
43:51
saying that about comms, right? Okay. So, let's uh let's sort of move on to
43:57
our next news topic of the day. I kind of wish we had these tabs open already.
44:01
We're going to do some community news items. However, we have a bit of a
44:04
public service announcement uh right now with respect to people posting community
44:10
news items because yeah, it's um we do
44:14
want to encourage people to post news items um on the Linus Tech Tips forum in
44:19
the news section. It's great. We want that to be super active. We want anyone
44:23
visiting the forum to be able to go to the news section and kind of be able to
44:27
catch up on the tech news. Awesome. However, we don't want to run into a
44:31
situation where Linus Tech Tips forum looks like we're plagiarizing in any
44:36
way. So, don't copy paste the body of
44:40
text from someone that you're you're pulling news from unless you're
44:45
surrounding it in a quote. And I think a basic requirement for posting in the
44:49
news section, we should probably add this to the to the guidelines is that
44:54
you should be contributing some of your own take on it. start the discussion up
44:58
yourself rather than just posting the topic and then kind of leaving it there.
45:03
So say something about it, post it, quote it appropriately, and link to the
45:08
source. I mean, everyone's been linking to the source really well as it is, but
45:11
we don't want to run into a situation where we're like bad guys because our
45:16
forum community posts um copypasted news
45:19
articles from other websites. I mean, come on. those those websites where they
45:23
just copy paste everyone else's stuff is like we don't we don't want to do that.
45:28
The idea of the news section is yes it should be nice and fast like is already
45:32
happening but we've had cases where people are just copy and posting things
45:36
from articles and like he said try and start the discussion. Okay, so with all
45:41
of that said, Good Bites contributed this article where The Verge is
45:45
reporting that Intel is claiming the new Iris graphics embedded in the upcoming
45:49
Haswell CPUs can offer double or even triple the performance of Intel HD
45:54
graphics 4000 that comes with current IV processors. There's a couple couple
45:58
things I'd like to comment on to start with. Number one is that not all IBridge
46:03
processors have HD 4000 graphics. The
46:06
lower-end ones don't. In fact, it's only the high-end ones in many cases, which
46:11
is ridiculous, that have higherend integrated graphics. And it's like, it
46:15
makes no sense because anyone buying that CPU probably is running a dedicated
46:21
graphics card, but that's that's the way
46:24
it's been. So, while it may be double or triple in HD4,000, compared to whatever
46:29
you're running already, it may be even more than that. So, let's go back to
46:34
back to the graph. And one thing is that it's 3D Mark 11. Well, okay, I was going
46:39
there. Okay, I wasn't. So, I want to
46:42
point at bars on the graphs. So, the dark blue one on the far left, this is
46:46
3D Mark06, 3D Mark Vantage, and 3D Mark
46:49
11. So, the one on the far left is
46:53
um Hold on. Oh, this color coding seems
46:58
off. Okay, well, whatever. I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be colors other
47:02
than just shades of blue. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be HD
47:06
4000. And then I'm pretty sure that uh
47:10
one of these is supposed to be Oh crap. No, I looked at this before. Scores
47:15
normalized to the last gen and then I
47:19
think it was uh because there's going to be two different levels of Iris
47:23
integrated graphics as well. So, it's not just going to be HD whatever on
47:27
exactly the same thing. Uh, but apparently I'm getting confused
47:33
now. So anyway, here, let's just look at this. So with the premium Iris
47:38
integrated graphics, you're looking at up to a two times increase over the last
47:42
gen product. However, I I would actually
47:45
look at something like 3D Mark06 as more of an indicator for something like this
47:50
because of a couple things. So number one is 3D Mark 11 and 3D Mark Vantage
47:54
are both going to perform significantly better when you have more features
47:58
enabled on the hardware. So Iris looks
48:01
like it's probably a DirectX11 part,
48:04
which doesn't mean that it's necessarily twice as powerful, but if it has more
48:09
features, it'll inherently score better on 3D Mark 11 than a nondirectx11 part.
48:15
Whereas if you go back to Ivy Bridge, that was a DirectX10 level part. So if
48:20
you go back to a really old benchmark like 3D Mark06 then you are looking at
48:25
it as okay well let's take away any advantage they get from an updated
48:29
feature set let's go based on raw horsepower uh it looks like more of
48:34
maybe a 40 to 50% improvement and then 3D Mark is often very
48:39
theoretical and so we might be looking at a smaller improvement than even that
48:45
but you know leave it to leave it to well Slick I was going to say me and
48:49
Slick to test it and let you guys know what's actually up. But in all
48:53
likelihood, it'll probably be Slick who is uh figuring out how Haswell stacks
48:58
up. We asked Intel this time around. In the past, we'd only asked for K chips
49:02
because we know our audience is mostly interested in that, but actually we have
49:07
uh four Haswell chips. So, I'm going to run and grab them. Um so that we can
49:12
tell you guys not probably can't hear you anymore. Okay, you tell them so that
49:15
why we're doing that. Um I don't actually know why we're doing that.
49:18
because of lower TDPs. No. So we can
49:22
evaluate the lower levels of integrated
49:25
graphics cards. Oh, right. Okay. I hope they heard that. Yeah. Mod's not telling
49:31
me. So that we can take these chips and
49:34
we can compare them to the actual appropriate market competitor. Because
49:38
it's one thing if we take, you know, a 3770K and we compare that to AMD's APU
49:44
and it's like, okay, well, it costs three times as much, almost four times
49:47
as much, and the lower-end Intel chip doesn't have the same onboard graphics
49:52
as a 3770K. So this way we can take
49:55
something like a 4430 which is one of the ones that we asked for and we can
50:00
compare that against the last generation
50:03
products as well as AMD's APUs and let you guys know if you want a low-end
50:08
entrylevel gaming experience on the cheap. How well does does Haswell
50:13
actually stack up for you? So So yeah,
50:16
there you go. The Verge is talking about this Intel. Obviously those slides have
50:21
Intel all over them. There's a nice big Intel logo. So, I wonder where that came
50:26
from. They only used blue. And the whole slide is
50:30
blue. So, that's that's Intel's spin on it. But, we're gonna we're going to
50:33
check it out. We're going to let you guys know. What I've seen already from
50:37
some of the die shots. So, for those of you who don't know, the die is the part
50:40
of the CPU. There's there's a big metal piece on top. The die is the actual
50:44
silicon inside that actually does all the work. And from some of the die shots
50:48
that I've seen, the GPU portion of Haswell is huge. Yeah. Percentage wise
50:54
compared to Ivy Bridge. So, I'm expecting a big performance improvement,
50:59
but I just don't know if it'll be that or if it'll be something else or, you
51:03
know, depend on the game, depend on the drivers, all these things. So, let's
51:07
move on to our next community news topic. This one is
51:12
D was posted by Josie.
51:16
Okay, so there's a picture of what is rumored to be the HTC M4. So the HTC1 is
51:23
a phone that I have been using for over
51:26
a month now. I absolutely love it quite
51:30
honestly. Um I got a Samsung Galaxy S4
51:34
about two weeks ago and I haven't actually brought myself to move my SIM
51:38
into it yet.
51:42
That's actually kind of funny. S4 has some cool features. We did use it for um
51:47
for like a a spot in a video where I'm getting a call from someone and I wave
51:51
at the phone to answer it and it works and it's cool. Smart stays cool where it
51:55
locks onto your eyes and doesn't dim the screen when you're reading things. Um
52:00
it's wicked fast, super fast. the fact
52:03
that they have a built-in like I have power toggles on my phone so I can
52:06
quickly turn off my Wi-Fi and do things like that. But the fact that they have a
52:10
built-in uh power toggles that's like this big and has every setting you could
52:15
possibly need on the S4 is really cool as well. You know, nice and quick. It's
52:19
efficiency-minded. But I just love I'm I'm an
52:23
Apple convert. I came from an iPhone. I
52:27
want something that feels like Yeah, it's like solid. It doesn't bend. I've
52:32
dropped it. It didn't break more than once. I've dropped it a couple times.
52:35
It's got a couple dents on it and like pretty far onto tile. Onto tile. I've
52:40
dropped it. It's happened. These things happen. When I saw it, he dropped it
52:43
from up here and it like hit a chair, like a wooden chair, and then flipped
52:48
like crazy and smacked against tile. So, that was not cool. I was not happy. No.
52:53
Didn't scratch the screen, fortunately, which is really nice. I think it landed
52:56
on the screen, right? Uh, it landed on the edge on the corner on the corner of
52:59
the edge, which can be a sensitive spot. Oh yeah. Um, so, so anyway, I'm excited
53:05
about the M4 for a couple reasons. Number one is if I had to complain about
53:09
something about the one, it's that it's still a little bit big for me. I can use
53:14
it one-handed. It's extremely awkward for me, though. I have small hands. The
53:18
M4 is rumored to be a 4.3 in smartphone,
53:22
which will make it like Oh. Oh, that I
53:26
like that even more. That'd be perfect for me. Isn't it a little bit spec
53:29
chopped? It is. So, the rumored specs, it's still going to be dual core
53:34
processor, LTE capable, 16 gig storage.
53:37
Um, ultraixel camera, which is nice to see. Um, because it really I actually I
53:43
took some I took a picture of the other night of uh of my baby uh playing with
53:48
an Ethernet cable. And someone on Instagram was like, "Did you take that picture with the one?" Because
53:52
considering how little light was in there and how good it looked, how much
53:56
detail there was, it's awesome. When you compare the HTC1, the Ultraixels to
54:01
something like a Galaxy S4 in broad daylight, the S4 destroys it because
54:07
more pixels, if you can get the light to them, will give you a sharper image that
54:11
you can blow up to all, you know, oblivion. Often can't. That's you just
54:16
often can't do it. Um, you know, it's funny. People ask about the marks on my
54:19
necks neck in some videos. I don't know if you guys saw me. I scratched my neck
54:22
a little while ago. My skin stays really red for a long time. You can see it in
54:26
there. My skin stays really red for a long time whenever I scratch it. So, a
54:30
lot of the time it's just like eh and then I end up with a weird mark on my
54:34
neck. Um, so anyway, 720p screen, uh, 2
54:39
gigs RAM. They're saying similar build quality to the HTC1. Is it going to go
54:44
through the same manufacturing process? Which is very cool. They they have to
54:47
cost it down somewhat, I would expect. Well, how much cheaper is it going to
54:51
be? I don't know because you look at like the one's already what a 199 with
54:55
threeyear term phone. So maybe this will be a 99 with three-year term phone. Wow.
55:01
Making I mean would you consider something like that if you were up for
55:04
renewal or would you go Nexus actually
55:07
there? That's a good question. What would you do? Guys, I want to hear from you on Twitter. Would you go for build
55:13
quality and construction and speed of the device or support or would you go
55:18
for direct Android support and stock Android experience? What's more
55:22
important to you and why? And I'll let Slick answer his question while we uh go
55:26
through that. I don't know actually. I haven't had enough actual hands-on time
55:30
with a one and I haven't had any actual hands-on time with the recent Nexus
55:34
phone. Okay. You've heard me rave about it though. Yes, but again I haven't
55:37
touched any at all with the Nexus phone.
55:41
But you know what your Nexus experience was like compared to the S3? My Nexus S
55:44
was my favorite phone I ever owned. Okay. So, knowing that, would you would
55:48
you just kind of blindly go for it? Next, very possibly. The reason why I
55:52
got an S3, like I like my S3, but the reason why I got one was because Nexus
55:56
was not available, right? It wasn't because I actually chose it over that.
56:00
My carrier did not have anything else, right? I had like four options. Okay.
56:07
Like it was not that many options. And like S2 S2 was one of them. S3. Yeah.
56:12
And then I don't actually remember the other two, but like it was it was an S3
56:16
that I was going to get because it was clearly the best option. Um and at that
56:20
time there was only two that I would really want and it was Nexus or S3 and I
56:24
was going to get the Nexus if I could because of the amazing experience I had
56:28
with Nexus S, right? But I didn't have the option and S3 was a really good
56:31
solution. So Okay. Well, let's take it as a more general thing then. Forget the
56:34
one, forget the current gen Nexus. Would you take the guarantee of software
56:39
support or would you take the beefy hardware and the nice feeling build
56:43
quality? What's more important to you? The device or the software? Uh, with
56:48
mobile right now. Yeah. Almost the
56:51
software. You think so? But what if I mean honestly HTC has been one of the
56:56
more cooperative manufacturers in terms of unlocking bootloaders. And I was just
57:00
going to say with certain bootloaders and stuff, you might just be able to install it yourself. So, there's that if
57:04
it's with HTC, but there's been certain phones that have been problematic with
57:08
that, right? So, it's it's interesting. Um, I'd have to do more research on
57:14
older HTC phones to see how they reacted
57:17
to different things. Okay. Like, like
57:20
their perspective on people messing with their stuff. I suspect that with their
57:25
current attitude, which is, "Holy crap, we're
57:28
desperate. We have to get the community like on board. they got to be on our
57:34
side. We need to make this then it would probably be fine and I would probably
57:37
end up going with a one. I mean looking at okay looking at sort of the fact that
57:42
they're even launching an M4 is extremely encouraging. Like I as you
57:46
guys probably know I have a contact at HTC who provides us with phones. We've
57:50
done some giveaways. Uh we do we've done I switched with two of their phones now.
57:55
Um the overall impression that I get is they're extremely
58:00
pleased with demand and sales for the one which it means they have some cash.
58:05
Yeah. Which is allowing them to produce
58:08
something like an M4. I mean they were so close to the edge or even produce
58:12
more once. Or even produce more once. They were so close to the edge they
58:16
couldn't get cameras for the one because they weren't a tier one supplier
58:19
anymore. Whereas I suspect that's going to change over the next little bit with
58:22
how much excitement. I mean, did you see the Anant review of the S4 and the Anant
58:27
review of the One? Yeah. The entire One review was basically slamming the S4 and
58:32
the entire S4 review was, "Well, but wait, you could also get this other
58:36
thing." Yeah. I was like, "Really? You guys did that?" We got flamed because
58:41
people were like, "Oh, it wasn't that bad." Read between the lines, people. It
58:45
was that bad. Read between the lines. when a major publication says that they
58:49
mean like like that's what they were doing.
58:54
Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, whoa. But I mean, you know, it's not like a major
58:58
publication is going to not is going to get snubbed on a future Galaxy device.
59:02
You know, if anything, Samsung's probably going to come back with
59:05
something to prove. I think they've proven time and time again that they are
59:10
resilient when it comes to being dominant at things. It's like we I mean
59:15
where was Samsung for TVs 10 years
59:20
ago, five years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Now
59:23
they're just like why would you buy anything but a Samsung TV? If you walked
59:27
into a store, what would you buy? Not a Samsung TV. What would you buy? What is
59:30
it? Psyche. Psycho. Oh, okay. We can talk about that. But okay. Okay. A month
59:36
ago 50inch 50-inch 4K LED TV. I'm not
59:40
buying a Samsung TV. I'm buying a psycho 50inch. A key or whatever it is. What
59:45
was it? Was it $1199 or $12.99? It was $1.99. $1199. It's at a new low. $1,200
59:51
gets you a 4K TV. And I think there was a shipping promo on it from Tiger Direct
59:55
at one point. Well, Groupon, it's free shipping. Group the Groupon is free.
59:59
Okay. Free shipping. Is it still running? I have no idea. Okay, guys. I
60:04
hope I sent it to you. It's in your email. It's in my email. Okay. Okay,
60:07
guys. We're gonna we're going to launch this up for you because you can be 4K
60:12
ready now. Apparently, it might be Psyche. I don't know. Psyche. I didn't
60:17
look at the name for Psyche. Okay. Apparently, this is still running. So,
60:20
I'm going to Look, look. Free shipping,
60:24
free returns. So, if there's some kind of a problem. Okay, hold on. Hold on,
60:29
guys. If you want a 4K TV, psycho, we
60:32
don't get any kind of referral fee or anything for this. So, we have we have
60:36
no skin in the game when it comes to whether you buy one of these. Oh,
60:39
there's four hours left. Look at that. Wow. So, the timing is perfect. So, you
60:45
for 11. Should I just buy one right now? Oh my goodness. Should I just do it? Oh
60:49
my god. Is that the craziest thing ever? That's pretty freaking crazy. Should I
60:52
just do it? What do you think? No. Okay. No. It's Slick's fault I didn't buy one.
60:58
So, my my wife's going to be super pleased with you. Yay. But you got just
61:02
under five hours to buy a 4K TV for um
61:06
$1,200. Now get this. Uh I feel like the
61:09
I feel like QVC right now
61:13
for a limited time only. You can get this
61:17
4K. Um free shipping, free returns. I
61:20
forget who it was. It wasn't N Gadget. It might not have been Gizmodo, but I
61:24
was reading an article from one of the writers at a fairly major publication
61:29
like that. Like I I don't know if it was wired like it was one of those guys and
61:32
they were saying this thing's actually kind of incredible. Like it's not just a
61:37
piece of crap. And you know what? It's one of those things where people see it and they go, "Oh, it's too good to be
61:41
true because the other traditional manufacturers aren't doing this." But
61:45
you know what? They could. They could. If if either of us had the money, I
61:49
would suggest that either of us bought it. Just to like clear up Twitch chat
61:53
being unhappy with me. Neither of us should actually buy. Uh, I don't really
61:58
have the money right now. No. So, okay, but get this. This is a 1080p screen.
62:03
This notebook entirely costs like 1,200
62:07
bucks. So, if you can't manufacture four
62:11
of the screen for 1,200 bucks, then you suck. Um, so they could do it, they just
62:16
don't. So, so Sei's basically gone, "Yep, we are going to screw the
62:22
traditional market and we are going to drive pricing down. We're going to buy
62:26
market share by doing this. And uh yeah,
62:30
whatever everyone else. Yeah, come at me, bro. Like I honestly I wouldn't be
62:35
surprised if like Seiki's CEO gets like assassinated.
62:40
Like Yeah. The amount of people have
62:43
been killed for less money than Seiki just lost for Sony, Samsung, LG, other
62:50
guys like that. 100%. There's more than one person I've seen go by in the Twitch
62:53
chat. I don't know how honest this is, but more than one person so far, other
62:57
than wanting me fired for telling you not to buy it. Um, but more than one
63:01
person has gone gone by so far, um,
63:04
saying that they've bought it already. Really? Yeah. Wow. So, Groupon should be
63:09
giving us, mind you, I don't think there's much margin left in that to give us a cut. Groupon kind of removes all of
63:14
the margin. Yeah. Reaper is saying, "Did you actually just buy one?" I know one
63:19
of my Twitch mods is saying that he just bought one. Seriously?
63:24
Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently, one of the Twitch mods just
63:27
bought one. So, there you go, guys. Wow. We should start, you know what? We
63:30
should figure out like affiliate programs that are good and we should
63:34
actually tell these people deals that don't suck because if we We could do
63:38
like a a deal of the week or something. Deal of the week or we have to like make
63:41
sure it doesn't suck. You know what, guys? Okay, we're going to go through the Twitter responses that I asked for
63:46
before, but would you guys be down if we found something this crazy and we were
63:50
getting a 3% cut or whatever we were getting on it. Would you guys be down to
63:54
have us tell you that we found a cool a cool deal? So there, let us know what
63:58
you think because we got to figure out if you guys even Wow, Twitch chat is
64:02
Twitch chat is like extremely in support because we don't want to be we don't
64:06
want to be QVC. That's not what we are. We already do unboxings, which as far as
64:10
I'm concerned is not that far away from basically just video merchandising for
64:15
the product. So apparently people are
64:18
Twitch chat is very very into it. Twitch
64:21
chat is apparently pleased. I haven't seen a single person with this deal
64:25
we've presented. Twitch chat is pleased. So uh
64:30
so there you go. Let's um let's go back. What question did I ask on Twitter? I
64:33
actually don't remember. I don't remember anymore. Fire like a 4K TV. Oh,
64:37
okay. There's a lot of there's a lot of Twitter. Okay, so Slick, you're fired
64:40
apparently. Um, what are your thoughts on Google Glass? You know what? This is
64:43
one of the topics I do want to talk about later. I think Google Glass is a
64:47
great idea. What time is it? And I don't really care about it at all right now.
64:51
One thing, we got to do build logs before the end of the stream. Oh, wow.
64:54
Okay. And I want to do a call out for the forum and something on the forum
64:58
before the end of the stream. Okay. I'm put I'm putting this down. Forum call
65:02
out build logs. So, I'm adding that to make sure we don't forget this stuff
65:06
cuz, you know, I felt like we started out a little slow today, but we have
65:09
picked up some steam here. So, we'll talk about Google Glass. Okay. Right. I
65:13
asked about uh phone software versus hardware. So, let's go back and let's
65:17
take some of these uh take some of these callers. Caller, you're on the you're online as tech tips.
65:22
Um I like the BBZ10 because I can
65:25
install apps from Android. I've heard about that. Try that. Uh Slick's done
65:30
his day one video. We're going to upload it soon. I've heard that the support for
65:33
it is kind of funky. Okay, so let's um but I haven't tried it yet. Um so I'm
65:37
going to try that and hopefully in a review soon I will be talking. We'll get
65:40
into that in Slick's I Switched. He's doing a 30-day BlackBerry 10 trial. So
65:46
um no, you can't over you can't RMA a card because it doesn't overclock.
65:49
Sorry. Sorry, man. How's the AMO LED on the S4 at night? The AMO LED on the S4
65:54
is actually outstanding compared to the S3. It doesn't have that same blurriness. It's still not quite like
66:00
LCD in terms of if you look at it under a microscope, but it looks pretty darn
66:04
good. Which socket should I get for an Intel gaming rig? I'd still go 1155, but
66:09
if you can hold off for about 30 days. Uh, should you get one of those special
66:14
agent wired earpieces for when you're sitting on the live stream? I almost do
66:19
cuz I wear I don't wear it the whole time, but I have my inear pro. First day
66:23
forum member. Very nice. Everyone should
66:26
join the forum if you haven't already. Linus techtips.com. I can transition
66:30
from that into my forum call. We are serious business. Uh, okay. Okay, hold
66:36
that thought cuz Okay, so this guy says, "I'd go HTC1." HTC1 more more batter. He
66:42
either means better or baller. I'm not quite sure which. Um, Samsung Galaxy S3
66:47
user so far hate interacting with Sense UI from HTC. I'm with TouchWiz on this
66:52
until they improve. So he's saying software is a huge factor for him or
66:57
she. Jamie Jamie could software is very easily as a Nexus 4 owner. I'd go for
67:02
the phone that gets updated first. Get all the jelly beans. Okay. Build
67:05
quality. I'm a skater and I've broken lots of phones. There's an interesting
67:09
perspective. That's a very good point. Build quality with custom firmware. If
67:13
it doesn't fit my needs stock, all right, I have a Nexus 4. Isn't as
67:17
amazing as the HTC1. Both both sides glass still feels good. I prefer Nexus
67:21
device. Hardware quality is way more important to Eric. So, it looks like
67:25
people are very divided on this issue.
67:28
Very interesting. It really depends on what you do. Like the skater, that was
67:31
actually one of my favorite comments. Great point. I'm a skater. I break
67:34
phones. Okay. He's going to want to wait more durable phones. Fantastic point.
67:38
Makes sense. Conversation. What do you guys think about bitcoins? We're actually going to be starting a Bitcoin
67:41
mining pool on the forum at some point. So, check it out.
67:44
Maybe more and more complicated, but Okay. Okay. Maybe not. Andrew says, "Of
67:49
course, build quality. wants the device to last. At least if you don't get a
67:52
software update, the device might still work. Yes, but like if you But you
67:56
dropped your Nexus S all over the place tons. Like it wasn't bad build quality.
68:01
It just wasn't like solid piece aluminum. Dion says, "I'd go with
68:05
software because better software means a better experience." Did Slick's S3
68:09
battery life drop significantly after he updated to Jellybean? You should talk about that. Yep, definitely. Um, and
68:15
then your forum thing. And then my forum thing. Yeah, it dropped massively, but
68:19
it kind of came back. So, tell for for
68:23
about a week or two, my brother and I both had a problem where the battery life on our S3 just completely tanked. I
68:29
have a screenshot of my battery app telling me I was at 20% battery life and I had 5 minutes left and I was not super
68:35
actively using my phone. So, that was kind of nuts. Um, but then it's just
68:40
kind of fixed. So, I'm not actually entirely sure what even happened. Well,
68:44
you were telling me the other day that it seems like when you charge it from
68:48
the wall, when I charge it from the wall, it actually seems to last at 100%
68:53
charge on battery reading at 100%. If I charge it from USB to my computer
68:57
compared to USB to my wall, USB from my computer, it will last drastically less
69:02
time than USB from the wall. So guys, S3 users, let us know if you observe the
69:08
same thing. Someone make a someone make a post on the forum. Yeah. Under uh
69:11
mobile devices. Let's talk about this. Let's figure out what's going on. Yeah, very very bizarre. Um, so let's speaking
69:17
of the forum forum call out. Go. Okay, so first off, I want to thank all my
69:21
people again. Mr. Wizard for again making just everything happen. He's kind
69:25
of a wizard. So Mr. Wizard, if if he doesn't already know, is going to be
69:30
getting some kind of a beast gaming rig sometime in the next couple months here
69:35
for all the contribution he's made. He's we're gonna hook him up with a Naz
69:39
that's going to have RAID five backup. I don't think you've told him this yet,
69:42
have you? Nope. Okay. We're going to be hooking him up with a Naz that's going to have RAID five backup because right
69:47
now he's using like 10 ghetto like
69:51
couple hundred gig hard drives. He cut a hole in part of his case and then bent
69:56
the metal back so that he could shove a hard drive in there. And then right now
70:00
he has the hard drive cases cages outside of his case cuz they don't
70:03
properly fit with some of his hardware. So he's like running long SATA cables into his case. Totally unacceptable for
70:08
for someone who's contributed that much to the Linus tech tips for him. I mean,
70:12
the hours he's put in are countless, like days and days and days, days and
70:15
days and days and days and days. We haven't paid him a penny. And he dealt with not to hate on Vivolton now that
70:20
they've given us a refund, but he dealt with VBolton, which was nuts. Y So, we
70:25
already hooked him up with a 590, but we're going to be following that up with
70:28
a full gaming rig at some point here in the near future. So, uh, so thank you,
70:32
Mr. Wizard, because we're doing amazing things now. Um, IPS is awesome.
70:37
Everything's awesome. Thank you, mod team, for sticking with us. Um, thank
70:41
you to all the members of the forum and the mod team and Mr. Wizard again for
70:45
sticking with us through these crazy downtimes we've been having the last little while. We're rolling out a
70:49
solution that will hopefully fix it, but we'll talk about that more maybe next
70:52
live stream. Yeah, next live stream. Not yet. Um, and I want to do boink and
70:57
folding call outs real quick. Sure. So,
71:00
boink Oh, there it goes. Boink. Our world rating is uh 176 out of almost
71:06
100,000 teams and we climb about 10 places a day. So, we're doing great
71:10
there. Um, our Canadian ranking is 42
71:13
out of almost 2200 teams. Wow. So, we're
71:16
doing pretty great there as well. Um, a big thanks to Ryan L. Booth from the
71:22
Boink Team Captain because he's been doing awesome and contributing a ton at
71:26
this pace. In about three and a half months, we should be 13th place in
71:29
Canada and 550th in the world. So, Boink's doing just awesome. I had a
71:35
folding update somewhere, but I don't remember where it is. By the way,
71:39
there's a shout out from the Boink team to the folding team as a like thank you
71:43
for being awesome and contributing your gigahertz to a good cause. Um, more
71:48
gigahertz. Hopefully Wher can throw me a
71:51
folding update here because I don't remember what it Okay, well I can move on. I have lots of topics to to move on
71:56
to. So, uh, AMD has slashed prices on
71:59
CPUs and APUs. They also launched a couple products. So, check this out. You
72:04
can get an A6 3600 which is a quad core
72:08
APU if I were that's a quad core isn't it? I think so. I think so. Which is
72:12
basically a Okay, let's look at the A83800 because that is a decent CPU for
72:18
under a hundred bucks with a decent onboard GPU. Even the A85600 K, check
72:24
that out. Under $100. That's probably
72:27
the one that I should have talked about first because that is crazy. That's an
72:31
unlocked chip so you can overclock it. It comes with the best onboard graphics
72:37
that you can get other than I think the A10 is clocked a little bit higher but
72:41
it's basically there and I mean quite
72:44
frankly I mean in our testing where we went 8350 versus
72:49
3570K. Did you ever feel like the 8350
72:52
was holding back your gaming experience in some tangible way? Not really. So
72:57
yes, the 3570K benchmark's better. It's faster. And you know what? Quite
73:01
frankly, I prefer Intel platforms because I find I have fewer sort of
73:05
random driver issues, whether it's with a SATA driver when I swap out a bunch of
73:10
stuff. I love rapid storage tech. Um,
73:14
Intel's uh the Intel's like SATA AHCI
73:17
manager. It's amazing. Makes my life better. Um, I use Intel platforms. I
73:22
prefer them. With that said, when we're talking about $100 for a chip and a
73:28
cheap FM2 board, that will basically get you a platform upgrade for probably 200
73:34
bucks if you buy yourself like 4 to 8 gigs of RAM, a cheap board, and an A8.
73:41
And honestly, why buy a console? The driver thing, which you and I have both
73:45
brought up offcreen before, but AMD's
73:49
been making leaps and bounds in the driver field. True. that and the the
73:53
better driver assumption for Intel. I'm not talking graphics. No. So, if you're
73:58
using onboard graphics, AMD gets the nod there for
74:02
sure. I mean, how much experience do they have compared to Intel when it
74:05
comes to gaming? And to jump in line with the comment right below this post
74:09
actually. Yeah. Um, he's talking about how especially like I don't know if he
74:13
actually brings this up exactly, but especially with nextG consoles coming
74:16
out, instead of rebying your whole setup, uh, it might be might be time to
74:21
get a gaming PC to move to gaming PCs. I mean, they've got the FX8320, which is
74:26
an unlocked chip. There's pretty much once you overclock them, pretty much no
74:30
performance disadvantage compared to an 8350. That's an 8 core, and the
74:34
wholesaler bulk pricing is that 153 bucks. I mean, this is like just
74:39
earthshattering stuff. It's awesome. Um, so, so go AMD. I I don't know if you
74:44
guys saw this, but AMD's stock price has gone like this. So, between some of the
74:49
new people they've been acquiring, between them beating their projections,
74:52
between them being the technology powering both major upcoming consoles.
74:57
Well, all three. They're the GPU and the Wii U for that matter. I mean, I said
75:00
major consoles. Whether was that a slight at Nintendo? I love Nintendo. I'm
75:04
not going to I'm not going to beat up on them. But if EA developed a game for a Nintendo platform, then I'd still go
75:09
after that. So that's the line for me. But um but AMD is powering all that.
75:15
So AMD stock has just exploded, which
75:18
means hopefully a little bit more uh
75:21
well, a little a little bit more room to breathe for they've been struggling.
75:25
They for a little while there. It was it was looking like it might be game over.
75:30
Yeah. Which like pretty bad. Like I
75:34
don't know what a game over AMD would look like. Whether it's selling all the
75:37
patents or whether it's acquisition or like who knows something terrible, but
75:42
it was looking like just terrible, terrible things were going to happen. So
75:46
that's really exciting. Um I'm going to jump back a little bit just to do the
75:50
folding team call out. So our current rank worldwide is uh 212, which is
75:55
insane. We have fist bump to everyone who's a member of the folding team. You
75:59
guys, we have 499 users, which is insane. And for for all time uh or okay
76:07
for all folding teams currently. Yeah. We have we're placed 15th for active
76:11
folders. Wow. Which is nuts.
76:16
That's crazy. There's a lot actually insane. There's a lot of folding teams
76:19
that have been around a lot longer than us. So to so to be ranked 15th for
76:23
active folders is just actually insane.
76:26
So that's very cool. Good job everyone. I think I had left another uh I think I
76:32
had left another question for the Twitter folks. Do you remember what it was? Okay. Console players apparently
76:37
don't want to build PCs. Well, we should educate them. 4 p.m. time slot sucks for
76:41
guys in our time zone, ironically. But sorry, guys. We got to do what we got to
76:45
do. Apparently, we're number 41 in Canada. I think you said 42. Well, that
76:49
Yeah, that was from uh a while ago. A
76:52
quarterly pimp my rig for forum members. Um, you know what I would like to do is
76:56
I'd like to do more like uh more giveaways at some point, but we got to
77:00
figure out the logistics because there's a lot of laws involved that we've just kind of ignored. But Lionus Media
77:05
Groups, an actual company now, not just some dude with a YouTube channel. So, we
77:10
have to be we have to be careful. The last thing I want is to run across
77:14
Canadian gaming laws, which would shut down my company like that. If they're
77:19
like, "Oh, you're running a lottery, therefore you are this, this, this,
77:23
this, and this." that could take everything. Yeah. Um, so I got to be
77:27
careful, guys. There's And there's more to it than just Lionus doesn't want to
77:30
give things away. Just to be clear. Yeah. Uh, okay. So, according to what
77:36
was the something I'd watch the live stream, but I'm out skiing. Try and get
77:39
them to send you a free 4K TV. Oh, yeah. I asked them if they wanted us to do
77:42
deals. Uh, I joined the forums just because you said so. Yes. Thank you.
77:48
Just because we said so. He joined the forums and joined Twitter just to say
77:51
this. Thank you guys. I mean, it drives me crazy when people are like, "I know
77:55
it says on your Facebook not to send you messages here, but I don't have Twitter,
77:59
so I sent you this message." It's like, "Twitter's free. You don't have to do
78:05
anything other than just send me a message on it. Like, I'm not asking you to marry it. It's just that I can't
78:10
handle monitoring my private messages and my emails and my Facebook and my
78:14
Twitter and actually making videos, which is priority number one is actually
78:19
making videos, not talking about videos.
78:23
Um, look in the meme topic. More EA stuff on the N page. Okay, there we go.
78:27
Okay. Apparently, apparently Twitter really didn't have much to say about
78:31
that. So, there you go. It's going to be hard to offer deals that satisfy all
78:35
territories. That's true. Although sites like Amazon might be an exception where
78:39
a lot of territories will be able to get a benefit. Um, Slick's Blackberry Z10
78:44
thing will be coming up either tonight or tomorrow. So, guys, stay tuned. And
78:49
apparently Logan's been doing something similar with games on deals. Cool. Um,
78:53
do you want to handle our rigs of the week? Uh, I actually haven't looked at
78:56
these enough, but this will be kind of I was working with this curious. Then I'm
79:00
I'm I'm up then. I'll do uh I'll do this. Well, we should do rigs of the
79:04
week. Yeah. Yeah. But I can do this to solve for some time for you. Oh, okay. Okay. So, check this out, guys.
79:09
Apparently, and this was posted by Mr. X
79:12
on the forums. Thank you, Mr. X. Uh, there's a big Intel logo at the top. PC
79:17
enthusiast, top PC, top PC, I guess, but
79:21
the capitalization's a little funny. With koulaler.com, these guys leak
79:25
everything because they get access to all the good stuff. Has apparently
79:29
leaked um a Core i7 Ivy Bridge E. So,
79:33
this is a multicore, more than four core
79:36
ivy bridgebased chip that'll be coming around coming at some point based on
79:41
that. There's already benchmarks. Um couldn't be that far off. And so this is
79:46
a 4960X and this will be replacing the
79:51
3970X I guess at that $1,000 price point
79:55
on the enthusiast X79 platform. So remember guys, X79 is not going away.
80:00
It's still going to be the enthusiast grade platform with support for dual 16x
80:05
PCI Express lanes, uh more RAM, uh more
80:09
cores, all that stuff is not going away.
80:12
So pretty much the summary is it's 10%
80:16
faster than the Sandy Bridge ebased chips which is if we sort
80:22
of know anything about CPUs and sort of
80:27
anything then we probably saw this one
80:30
coming. So there you have it. Ivy Bridge
80:33
E just like Ivy Bridge was compared to Sandy Bridge is about 10% better. You
80:38
can see the overclock that they've got going on. So, it's a 3.5 gigahertz
80:42
overclock on what appears to be Let's see how many physical cores we got
80:48
here. I don't even Yeah. So, there you go. Six cores, 12 threads, 3.3 GHz stock
80:53
frequency. Uh, Linus Tech Tips takes no responsibility. You got their watermark
80:57
all over it. We did not run these numbers. We don't have an IV bridge e.
81:02
Apparently, there's going to be an X79A GD45 plus board that'll support uh looks
81:07
like the chipset is picking up as Sandy
81:10
Bridge E South Bridge X79. So, a lot of this data may not be correct, but there
81:15
you have it. Um it's coming at some point, guys. So, that was pretty cool
81:20
that I picked up on the on the forum. Big thanks for posting that on the
81:23
forum. Here's another Linus Tech Tips forum news topic. This one was posted by
81:28
Josie. Josie Josie as well. So LG is
81:32
launching the world's first 55 in curved
81:36
OLED HD TV. So this isn't going to be
81:41
4K. This is an HD TV. It is 4.3 mm
81:46
thick. So guys, if you look at uh Yeah,
81:50
here I'm just going to zoom in on this so you guys can get a better look at it.
81:53
But that thinness, holy crap.
81:59
OLED emits its own light. So what you guys got to remember is you don't have
82:03
to build a backlight array that goes behind the panel anymore. So the light
82:08
emitting is done by the by the panel itself. In fact, we did a demo at CES
82:12
where I was standing in front of a TV that was sideways and then we shifted
82:16
the angle so you could actually see see the TV because you could hardly even see
82:20
it in the shot. So this isn't going to be cheap. I think the initial quote is
82:25
something like 13 grand, 13,500 and
82:29
it'll be available at 1,400 retail
82:32
locations. Um, pre-orders are apparently started already. So, the curvature gives
82:37
you more of that IMAX experience and the fact that all of the screen is equal
82:42
distance away from your eyes in theory should make for a more natural viewing
82:46
experience. However, it remains to be seen if content that was developed with
82:51
the intention of being watched on a flat screen is actually going to even benefit
82:55
from a curved screen. Hey, B-roll, what's your take on the whole curved
82:59
screen thing? I think it's really
83:02
stupid. Well, I understand like it can help viewing angle. Okay, so better for
83:07
viewing angle. Mind you, OLED doesn't really have that problem. Yeah, it doesn't have that problem. B-roll the
83:11
intern's actually over there. He's been editing videos the whole time we've been doing this. I don't know. Oh, it seems
83:16
like a gimmick to me. I don't I haven't I don't know. I don't know enough about it to see the full benefit, but it's a
83:21
wait until you see it at least. So, it's a wait and see from B-roll. He's kind of
83:25
our when it comes to camera gear and h
83:28
high definition content gear and all that stuff. He's he's our resident
83:32
expert, whereas Diesel the Intern is our post-processing wizard. Um, not to take
83:38
anything away from Mr. Wizard, but uh uh
83:41
yeah, Diesel the Intern is kind of Dr. wizard when it comes to kind of some of
83:45
the stuff he does with video is amazing. So, they can they can both be just
83:49
wizards as far as I'm concerned. Uh there's one more thing I wanted to talk
83:52
about very briefly just because I think it's hilarious. This was also posted by
83:56
Josie. However, once again, Josie, this is kind of directed at you, man. Make
84:01
sure you're posting some of your own original stuff in these threads because
84:04
otherwise we become one of those one of those buttthead sites. So, um
84:10
this is kind of weird. This is the buddy cup, which allows you to add friends to
84:16
Facebook by bumping glass with them. Glasses with them. So, this isn't the
84:21
kind of thing that anyone really expects you to buy, I don't think. Uh, the
84:26
original link was from N Gadget, just so you guys know. So, we're quoting a
84:30
source. Uh, oh yeah, and the original link for the LG Curve TVs was also
84:34
gadget. Um, so this is the kind of thing that they'd expect to be more like at an
84:39
event where you meet people, whether it's at a concert or whether it's at, I
84:44
don't know, a hockey game or something like that where you meet someone and you
84:48
kind of go, "Yeah, let's friend each other on Facebook." Boom. I mean, does
84:52
this just make the Facebook friend process that much more meaningless? Yep.
84:56
I don't like it at all. I don't know. But you don't use Facebook. No. So,
85:01
you're all you already don't like it before I even talk about a glass. I
85:04
guess that makes it not fair. Um I don't know. I kind of see its use
85:09
in some situations, but I also see it being abused by like that guy that you
85:13
don't actually even like buddy me. Yeah. Yeah. Or like walk up to your glass and
85:18
they're like just like hit it. And it's like, well, okay. I don't want that to
85:21
happen. I don't want to like put my cup down while I'm talking to someone and
85:24
have 10 people come by and like rub their cups against you.
85:29
I don't know. But then I could also see the application where if you're just out
85:32
hanging out and you genuinely meet someone that's pretty cool, it's really
85:36
easy to just be like, "Gabon." But then if you have smartphones with NFC,
85:42
go. I don't know. I don't I don't really see the awesome appeal. It's kind of
85:47
cool. I mean, it's it's like it's kind of it's interesting. It's one of those
85:50
like, oh, cool application of technology. I didn't think of it. And like if you went to a some event and
85:56
they had it there, it would probably be really cool as a novelty as a novelty
86:00
thing or whatever. So like I'm not actually against it. I just I personally
86:04
wouldn't be too into it. But then again, okay, don't have Facebook. So um so back
86:07
to Google Glass, I personally based on the battery life, I think they were
86:11
saying something like what was it 30 minutes uh when you're recording video
86:15
or something ludicrous like that. I don't remember the exact number, but the
86:18
battery life's not there. Um, I'm personally not even remotely excited
86:23
about it yet, but Gen 3 or Gen 5 or Gen
86:27
10 of this technology is going to be just incredible. And I'll jump on the
86:32
bandwagon when instead of $1,500, I can buy it for 150 bucks and I don't have to
86:36
be some special dude with an invite and the functionality will be dramatically
86:40
better by then. Um, I also had a one news item was that Google's saying
86:45
people are apparently hackering the uh the Google Glass and they want to do
86:49
whatever they want, but they're saying, "No, no, no. We meant to do that." Which like I don't know how credible that is,
86:53
but yes, but from some people I could see them being like, "Oh, no, no, we
86:58
meant to do that." From Google though, Google usually leaves things unlocked.
87:02
Okay, true. That's that's my view of that is they often do. Um, now people
87:06
are also talking about how apparently there might be like remote shut off and
87:10
a whole bunch of other weird stuff. I don't know how true this is, so don't
87:14
take this um directly, but apparently Google has like quite a bit of control
87:18
over it still. So removing that might be
87:21
interesting if that's even real. I don't know. I read that on the comments of a
87:26
thread. This is an article from SourceFed, which is um Oh. Oh, hold on.
87:31
I opened it on the wrong thing. I know. I know. We're going to we're going to go a little bit over time today. Uh so
87:37
we'll we'll do this and then we'll be doing our uh our rigs of the week. Oh
87:41
yeah, this was cool. So this was interesting. Speaking of Google and sort
87:44
of all that stuff, this was on source fed. It's who has your back with respect
87:49
to your privacy. So let's scroll down to
87:54
basically just the chart. Yep. Who has your back? Um so the requirements are
87:59
requires a warrant for content to share. tells users about government data
88:04
requests, publishes transparency reports, publishes law enforcement
88:08
guidelines, fights for users privacy in courts, and fights for users privacy in
88:12
Congress. So there you go. Amazon only got two stars out of six. And you guys,
88:16
okay, I'm not saying that this chart is the be all and end all by any stretch of
88:20
the imagination. This is SourceFed's chart and there you go. But as a general
88:25
guideline, it's kind of cool to look at and it makes you really think about the
88:29
the topic if nothing else. Apple fights for users privacy rights in Congress.
88:33
That's it. AT&T, very low rating.
88:36
Comcast, very low rating. Dropbox, look
88:40
at that. Huge. So other than fighting for users privacy rights in courts,
88:44
they're requiring warrants. They're doing all the things by the book. Facebook only got three stars. So no
88:50
transparency reports. They don't tell you about a government data request. Uh
88:54
Forsquare is a touch better than that. Google scores very well. So, this is
88:59
where where I was going with that. LinkedIn, very well. The only thing they
89:02
don't do is fight for it in court, much like Dropbox. Microsoft, not bad.
89:07
Somewhere in the middle ground here. So, the things that they don't do is fight
89:11
in court and tell users about government data requests. MySpace. It's like if you
89:16
needed a reason to not be on MySpace anymore. There you go. So, there's the
89:20
rest of them. Twitter is across the board. Sonic.net across the board. Um,
89:27
Verizon. Yeah, not looking too good. Yahoo not looking too good. So, I just
89:31
thought this was a really cool article. I wanted to make sure you guys see it. Head over to SourceFed, check it out.
89:36
And let's do rigs of the week, shall we? All right. Okay. First one. Again, not
89:40
super wellversed because these are kind of huge, but jump into the first one
89:44
real quick. Now, this one has So, this is from PZT, who's a junior member on
89:48
the forum. This guy has 10 billion
89:52
pictures. Okay. So, we're probably going to have to rip through a little bit, but
89:55
as we kind of fly through here, you can just see lots of cool stuff. The
90:00
magnitude of awesome stuff that he has, which is everything. What are those? Monsoon compressions. Very nice. Yeah.
90:05
Beautiful. Yeah, they're awesome. On an Apple GHD white. Very nice. Very nice.
90:10
Swiftech dual DDC block or pump top.
90:13
Yeah. NZXT switch again. Uh, yeah, I think
90:18
so. I just saw the bottom of it there. Yeah.
90:22
GED wings. Nice choice.
90:26
Coolance quick connects. You'll see what those are for soon. Okay, we're gonna
90:30
have to just blow through. There is actually a ton of pictures like fly
90:34
through it quite a bit. And then when you start seeing
90:37
certain things Gigabyte board. Here we go. As he's just starting. There's a
90:41
test fit. Ah, very nice. He's putting quick
90:44
connects on all the components so that you can easily upgrade
90:48
things. Very nice. Very nice. makes
90:51
maintenance a lot less work. Wait for it. It gets super awesome all
90:56
of a sudden. There we go. So that's It changes quite a bit from there. So just
90:59
keep going. Okay. Crazy finger at the front. Okay. Okay.
91:04
It changes like we're like not even that far through it. Um Dominator Platinums.
91:09
Oh, here. Here. Go up a little bit. Whoa. Here we go. Yeah. So what's going
91:14
on now? Okay. There you go. So he's making his own basement. Okay. And
91:18
running quick connects through there. So go down a little bit. So he that shows
91:22
him making his basement. Yep. So that's awesome. He does a very very good job.
91:27
Very clean. Yep. And it looks fantastic. Like it looks so good. He takes that
91:32
theme and he carries it forward. Look at that keyboard. Yeah. What key caps are
91:36
those? Uh that's actually just uh light coming. Oh, that's light. Okay. Okay.
91:41
Yeah. Nice blank keyboard though. Very beautiful. Yeah. Ooh. Tons of sleeving
91:47
schmexy is awesome. Going with the white and green theme. Pathogen the name going
91:52
with white and green, right? So pretty freaking sweet. IKEA desk.
91:57
So like look at that. Absolutely
92:01
beautiful. Look at the back plate on the video card. I was waiting to see when
92:05
you're going to notice it. Nice touch. Like just beautiful build. Gorgeous
92:10
gaming rig. White LEDs down there. And
92:14
he picked like the perfect fans for it. Yep. The gelled wings look fantastic in
92:19
there. Great motherboard for it. It even has the skull
92:23
because it's called Pathogen. Like it just amazing build. Great coolant. Sorry
92:28
about my voice, guys. All right. So,
92:32
yeah, just awesome. Very, very, very
92:35
cool. All right. So, we got our second one here before we wrap up and move to
92:38
the afterparty, which is going to be a Super Mario live stream if possible.
92:44
Okay, we can get it working. So, jump down on this one, too. I think you might
92:48
have to be logged in to see these pictures. Yeah, if you log in, it will show them actively or you can click on
92:51
them eventually. All right, so let's log in as myself.
92:58
Thanks to everyone who tuned into the live stream this week, by the way, guys,
93:01
if we don't get stick, I hate this keyboard.
93:06
It's very handy, but it's also like
93:13
um hold on. I don't remember how far I
93:16
was into my password. Guess we'll find out. Nope, that wasn't it. Um just in
93:21
case you guys don't know, he's trying to log in. That's why we're not showing the
93:24
screen right now. Are we not? Oh.
93:28
Oh, are you typing numbers? Yeah, it's okay though. It doesn't do that anymore.
93:33
There we go. Okay. I think I think my mod they didn't see the first log of
93:38
what? What? They didn't see the first build that wasn't over there. Really? At
93:44
all. Oh, no. Oh, oops. No. My bad. No.
93:49
Okay. Well, let's go really quickly then. We got to show his build. Oh,
93:54
that's so good. Okay. So, sorry. PZT. I can't believe we did that.
94:00
I wonder how many tweets we have about that. Anyways, a few at least. Oh, come
94:04
on. It's not staying on there for me. Okay, so here's where we get Where do we
94:08
get outside where he's cutting the mid plate? Okay, we missed that part. Don't worry about it.
94:13
Did we? Yeah. Anyway, you can go check it out on the forum, guys. That's always
94:16
an option if we screw things up. I'll tweet out a link for it. Yeah, Dominator
94:22
Platinums. Here we go. Yeah, there we go. There's the mid plate cutting holes.
94:27
Okay, let's keep on going. Very clean. Beautiful peripherals. That explains why
94:32
like a hundred people tuned out of the live stream while we were doing this because I thought it was a cool build.
94:36
Uh sleing. Great looking great looking IKEA
94:42
desk there. Nice themed build. There we go. Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. The
94:48
back plate's amazing. Back plate on the video card. Mentioned this before. I
94:51
apologize for the part where I mentioned it and you couldn't actually look at it.
94:55
Uh just oh just sexy sleeving matching
94:58
motherboard matching the gelled wing fans look fantastic in there. Uh all
95:03
these little shots of the inside just look outstanding. I mean look at the
95:06
shininess of this. That's so awesome. White LEDs using the built-in uh
95:11
lighting the Switch 810 which is a really nice thing to have. And there we
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go. Now on to the second build bog.
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There we are. All right. So, start scrolling down. I'm
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going to tweet out that link for the build log. Another switch. Yeah, there
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you go. But very different builds. Like very different build. Why hello there.
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T- virus in the back which is just absolutely awesome. T- virus is amazing.
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Everyone should have a T- virus. And like the position is very cool. And when
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you see his desk set up, it even makes a lot more sense as to why he put it where
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it is. So this build is very attainable. I mean, this is something where no
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custom fabrication's been done, you know, MCP655 pump, you know, nice nice
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water cooling and all that, but this is doable. Yeah, nice pictures. Yeah, they
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got better here. Yeah, they they get better pretty quick. Kingston HyperX
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memory looks good. Looking good. Saber-tooth boards make for such a clean
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looking build. They just look so awesome.
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Yeah, I've seen the upcoming Saber-Tooth. Yeah. Yeah. Can't say
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anything about it, though. All right, some more night shots.
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Looking good. Okay, I'm letting you do
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commentary on these. So, I'm sorry. I was tweeting out that thing. Yeah, here.
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Here you can see his desk there. You're at his desk. You can see the T- virus.
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Yeah. Instead of it being covered up by the side panel because the window is
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honestly not that big. No, it's not small on the Switch 810. Yeah. So, by
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putting it in the back, he can actually see his T- virus all the time. So,
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that's very cool because most people will go, "Oh, just to the right of the
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motherboard. Bam. There's my reservoir. That's where mine is. That's That's where mine is. But I can see mine. Yeah.
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And I can see mine, too. A big window. But just because of how he has his desk
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set up with his computer kind of hanging off the edge, which is kind of sketchy, but um where he's sitting, he can
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actually see his T- virus, which is which is very cool and very understandable. So, that's a like
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awesome obtainable level build. The one before that was more like the ridiculous
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the ridiculously awesome level. Not quite as obtainable. Okay, guys. Thank
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