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Our Smallest Gaming PC Build EVER!

Why in the world, would you ever want to build your own monitor? I mean there are already a ton of good cheap monitors out there. That would be as good or better than something that you build yourself. In fact, we showed off a few of them recently. Well, the answer lies not necessarily in using this puny little screen as your main display, but rather in giving it a new lease on life as a secondary or even like tertiary display, and the best part is, if you're anything like me and you hoard a bunch Of old technology, you may already have a panel, that's just waiting to be reclaimed from an old, laptop or a tablet. So today, we're gonna show you just how easy it is to make your own monitor from just a couple of cheap parts and a little bit of creativity. Speaking of creativity. How creative is this segue to our sponsor rage, wallet Ridge wallet is a sleek way to keep wallet bulged down with their compact frame and RFID blocking inner plates use, offer code Lynas to save 10 % and get free worldwide shipping today [, Music ]. So first up here is the star of the show the panel, so ours here is probably something you've seen before it's a super common 15.6 inch IPS panel with a resolution of 1920 by 1080. Next up is something you probably haven't seen before. This right here is an embedded DisplayPort controller, which is roughly analogous to the scaler module that you would find in a typical desktop monitor. So this here converts the HDMI signal. That'S coming out of your graphics card into a signal that the panel here can understand. So we purchased both our LCD and our EDP adapter from ebay, but guys before you go out and like buy a screen, take a look on Craigslist or at local electronics recyclers like free geek and see. If you can find something that doesn't need to be shipped. You might be able to score a deal and get some of that bonus karma for keeping a perfectly good screen from going to waste wherever you get your panel once you've got it. The first thing you're gonna want to do is establish what specific connector it uses so the most common connector that you're gonna find on 1080p panels like this one is a 30 pin EDP connector, like the one I'm holding here now. If you do decide to harvest your LCD from a laptop or otherwise make sure to verify that the connector on the back matches with the display adapter that you choose another word of warning. If you plan on using an old iPad or a MacBook, do a little extra research and make sure that you can even find an adapter for it Apple. Has this tendency to use proprietary connectors for their displays? I know I'm shocked moving on now then to the brains of the operation, our display adapter. Now, in addition to acting as a signal converter here, you might notice in there. This provides our on-screen display, which hopefully will allow us to adjust things like screen. Brightness contrast and all that kind of good stuff, it's really easy to gloss over how important this little driver is and even harder to believe that it only 20 bucks. Now that we've got all the components of our display figured out here, but next thing we need to do is be responsible and boot it up and make sure it works before we assemble the whole thing, then we're gonna Visit this link put it in that frame over there And try and use it as an actual monitor. The golden end goes into the bottom of the monitor, just like that. Just be careful when you're putting these - and these are quite fragile, connectors they're not intended. You know like at like a USB plug to be unplugged and plug back in and all that stuff and then on the other side. We'Ve got a little flip up plastic piece here and then our contacts go down so that they touch the pins on the inside of the connector. We slide it in and then lock it down like that, and do it a lot more evenly than that. That'S better! We found this 12 volt 3 amp power, adapter and a bin know. All I need is my laptop Hey. Well, that was painless. Look at that. I wonder if our OSD works menu and it's in Korean, so with that out of the way all we need now is this little baggie of 256 and 440 screws and nuts. This little knife here for cleaning up our 3d prints, this screwdriver for screwing everything together and in the interest of completeness this power drill that we actually only use just to the the clearances were a little tight on the holes for the on-screen display. So you loosen them a little bit and now it's fine, but I won't actually use that on camera. So for all the details on these parts, guys, you can check out the for link in the description where we have all of the components, the 3d models, the fasteners and where you can find them. If you wanted to do something like this for yourself now, the real bulk of this project was actually getting all these parts printed. The design that we used is from Fox underscore Exe on Thingiverse, so we got to give huge kudos to him for a pretty well thought-out design, especially how the back panels interlock with the EDP adapter case with that being said, the design is clearly marked as being A work in progress, so we did find some areas needed improvements and we've uploaded the remix of his design, for you guys to enjoy so you'll need to print 17 parts in total, so be prepared to spend some time cleaning up 3d prints for this project. As between the successful ones and the less successful ones, they're, probably gonna be quite a few of them, so with all that out of the way we're ready to build so step number one for us is gonna be assembling the base. Now this was one piece that we did have to reassemble and honestly our solution - it's not perfect, but it's functional enough, so you go ahead and you pop the top of the stand in learn this here now here. Just yeah. There we go and then this loop right here kind of hooks onto it and holds it in place if you want it to hold more securely. What you could do is put a big washer on here and then screw it in from this side and thread that, through the 3d printed hole in the back it'll just kind of self tap in there, and that would hold it better. But honestly, our monitors not heavy enough that we consider that to be an issue, so we're just gonna go ahead and pop that on there boom stand just like that. Next, we're gonna lay down our display panel and we're gonna arrange these four pieces. Like so, you can tell the top pieces from the bottom pieces from the extra little nubbins that they have for the components at the bottom of the panel. We pre-installed the bottom bezel here just because it's a little bit of a pain in the butt, but with some elbow grease, you'll get it on there. I'M just gonna go ahead and pop that on there we go now's a good time to reinstall the ribbon. Cable from the monitor so we're gonna go ahead and pop that on there then we're gonna route it up here, because that's where we're altom utley gonna need it for bonus points. You can do a little bit of cable management here. Have it come out about like so that's gonna make it the finished, install a little bit tidier. Now that we're at this stage we can go ahead and insert our buttons in the rest of the front bezel. So we just go ahead and pop this puppy. On there you go look at that. Do they work, hey nice, alright! So we're gonna throw this on here. There we go and then this piece is a little bit finicky guys but yeah. Let'S make sure that our buttons are all still exposed all right. So we're using our shorter screws here, and these will helpful together our bottom bezel. So now we've put the rest of our backing back in place and we can go ahead and connect our EDP adapter. I'M sure you guys expect nothing less, but I'm gonna mention it anyway. Once again, it's a little bit finicky here as we position our port solemnly corresponding holes. You can see that actually lines up quite nicely, though, and then our ribbon cable, through this gap here in the housing, now that these are more info installed we're gonna go ahead and flip it around like this. You can see there's a little notch here, where the cables come out. One thing that will help you get this lined up. Is it's gonna be hard to see in the camera, but there's little guides to kind of lock all these pieces in place there we go so theoretically, once they're all in there. It'S not gonna move around too much and it should screw right in then. We get these parts which are gonna attach to our stand, and we put them on right here and it's finally time to screw the thing together with. Hopefully, all those holes aligned and we're gonna use our long screws this time around. So now we can pick it up. You can see it's a little floppy there. That'S why there's these clips, so these go on a little, something like that: Boop and there it is Boop and that for better or for worse, is a monitor. Now, a perfect monitor. No don't be stupid, but it's a monitor now we're gonna take one of our 440 screws and we're gonna put it through here with a nut. On the other side, we need quite a bit of clamping force, which is why we're gonna use a nut, rather than just relying on threading into the 3d filament. Tighten this up, because this is what's gonna https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2frouterhosting.com keep our monitor from tilting when we don't want it to that, holds on there yeah now, the other side. There we go. Oh, not bad, pretty tight, alright, oh there we go. Ladies and gentlemen, it's a monitor. It'S alive, actually, I don't know if it's alive yet, okay, so let's plug our power, adapter right HDMI goes in hey. Well, that's great! That makes sense, that's cool! These are designed to have the back of the laptop on them, so you can actually see the backlight fire up here. Yeah check it out, give me a sec there. It is it's lit boom secondary, monitor. Just like that. I just note guys the original plan did kind of call for side bezels, but they were either incomplete or we couldn't find them or some combination of the two and all it would really serve to do is put a bigger bezel on us. So we just didn't really worry about it. We do have a bit of a problem, though our brightness low sucks. So fortunately oh it speaking of things that Melissa our menu ain't great, that buttons jammed up. Okay, we never said it was perfect. There we go. Okay, that's our brightness cranked. It would be really nice if I could find the English option - hey there. It is English yay, fantastic. Okay, let's have a look at what options we have here: dynamic contrast ratio, so basically it'll dim on darker scenes and brighten up on brighter ones, Eco mode, brightness contrast and that's like, basically it depending on what we're using it for for a secondary display. Maybe that's all we need so there you go guys. Is it perfect? No, but it's functional, and my favorite part of this project is that while we may have taken the easy path, just making a desktop monitor out of a laptop panel here, there are so many possibilities for these cheap panels. You can use the same hardware that we're using here to build an index Spotify screen or a smart mirror heck. You could even build a screen into the side of your computer if you want, speaking of which make sure you're subscribed, because we've got a build planned in NZXT sexy case with the screen built into the side panel. It'S finally available, but that's a topic for another day. What isn't is this segue to our sponsor? I fix it. The I fix it pro tect toolkit is designed to help you tackle any electronics repair challenge. It includes over 13 different tools, including their 64-bit steel, screw driver kit, the Jimmy a flexible steel, prying, blade, a small suction cup for removing glass panels from phones and tablets, and all I fix the tools are backed by a lifetime warranty. You don't need to be a genius to fix your electronics. You just need the right tools, so visit ifixit.com forward, slash, linus and pick up your protec toolkit today. So thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed it and we will see you at our next video yeah. Not perfect, but functional

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3rd-gen Ryzen Overclocking - Everything you need to know!

What Ram you choose can have a profound effect on the performance of your new gaming PC, but because memory isn't as Sexiest, CPUs or graphics cards, it often gets overlooked. Well, not today. Behind me, courtesy of g.skill is 11 kits of dual channel ddr3 and with it we intend to arm you guys with all the information that you need to choose the best option for your new 3rd gen AMD Rison system. What'S going in and out of your PC when you're connected to the Internet? Well with glasswire, you can find out and see if there are any suspicious or badly behaving. Apps use offer code Linus to get 25 % off at the link in the video description. [, Music, ] AMD's news n2 course have twice as much onboard high-speed cache which keeps them fed with data much more efficiently than before, which is great. But the thing is all of that: cash still has to pull data from somewhere, which means that we still need fast system memory. Now, third gen Rison increases the stock supported memory, speed all the way up to a whopping, thirty two hundred megahertz. That means, but not only can you count on that speed being a good fit for the platform. You can also count on being able to achieve much higher speeds than you previously could and that's, even without the best RAM chips that money can buy and a degree in overclocking from the University of oh, my god, I'm so bored. When will this end? So that sounds great just buy the fastest, cheapest trend you can find and run. That is what I might say if it weren't for the close relationship between memory bandwidth and the high speed interconnect between rise and CPU cores called the Infinity fabric. Now this generation AMD has opened up some new and interesting options by allowing users to decouple the Infinity fabric clock from the memory clock so from stock speed around 3200 up until around ddr4 3600, which most people should be able to hit you'll be at what a.m. Do you refers to as one to one, that is to say both the memory and the Infinity fabric share the same input, clock and run in sync, just like last gen, but it's also possible to crank your ram speeds much higher than you otherwise could by abandoning That one to one ratio, so that needs to be investigated, because higher memory speeds should yield an increase in RAW throughput, but they could also cost you dearly because of the extra latency that is introduced due to the unsynchronized clocks, making matters even more complicated. advice You can also go the other way and crank your Infinity fabric clock. Even if you have slower memory modules that can't keep up, then you can try to make up some of that latency penalty by tightening up your round timings. So we began our journey by making some educated guesses first, because the Infinity fabric is known to reliably hit 1800 megahertz. Investing in a ddr4, 3600 kit and running that at one to one should be a pretty safe bet and then the lower the rated Layton sees the better the overall performance in theory. Second, there's probably a higher tier of performance to be had by decoupling, the Infinity fabric and the memory speeds, if you're willing to put in the work, because otherwise, why, in the devil, would AMD have put the engineering resources into making that an option? Many questions still remain them so to answer them, we gathered our giant pile of g.skill, Trident II, memory, high speed, low latency kits high latency, low speed kits, and then everything in between and blocked Anthony in a room until he was finished testing them. Let'S start on the lower half of the performance spectrum: here we see that memory speeds lower than 3200 mega Hertz are in fact pretty harmful to rise and third gens overall performance. That is unless we run slow but very low latency memory and then crank our Infinity fabric as high as we possibly can, which on our chip, was about 1900 megahertz that actually yielded performance similar to our low latency, 30 200 megahertz kit. But at 2/3 the memory clock speed. So then, if you can't afford or find a high frequency Ram kit cranking your Infinity fabric could help make up a lot of the difference. Especially if you get a golden chip, then, when we switch to the higher performance kits, things get even more interesting now at first, as you might expect going from 3200 to 3600 and then 37 33 megahertz makes for some pretty healthy, boosts and performance, particularly on those Low latency, kids, but look what happens when we go to 3800 megahertz and beyond as a result of the higher latency involved with memory this fast and the D synchronized infinity fabric, we actually end up losing some performance, putting our Infinity fabric back to 1900 megahertz, which Is the highest that ours will go without crashing? We do pick back up a little bit, particularly with our thirty eight hundred megahertz kit, since that can run at that nice sweet one-to-one ratio. Now. As of writing, ddr4 36-hundred can be found for around the same price. As thirty-two hundred depending on where you live, and where you look so, we also tried running both of those memory frequencies at the maximum infinity fabric clock that we could muster, and it turns out that, depending on the application, this can provide a boost or a slight Hindrance to your overall performance, finally, because Anthony couldn't leave well enough alone, we ran the fastest one to one ratio kit that we could and tightened up the timings to test memory, overclocking potential and holy schmoly with averages anywhere from two to eight percent higher than our Previous best and percentiles jumping up by up to twenty seven percent, we've not only validated our low latency results for the twenty 133 megahertz kit, but we can also confidently say that aggressively tightening timings on any memory kit on Rison can dramatically improve your gaming experience. If not your Cinebench score, which didn't really seem to care about any of this, unfortunately, this is where our journey into high-speed memory on rise in third gen ends. At least in these early days, we did manage to reach 4000 megahertz ram stable by the way guys, but we had to dig deeper into system voltage, adjustments that were not that comfortable recommending to the average user, and then we weren't able to get anything beyond that. To post, at least with our CPU, the good news is that we've already got enough results to boil down our https://kevin85766.wixsite.com/windows-vps recommendations to a few key points. Number one, don't stress the super high memory speeds and instead target memory that your system can support. If all you want is something that's fast, but that you know will work grab a 36 megahurtz kit with low latencies number two. If you're adventurous go for it, get a higher end kit and see how far you can push your infinity fabric. The worst case scenario is you: can clock the memory down and use DRAM calculator for Aizen to help you convert that extra speed Headroom into tighter timings? It'S not going to result in worst performance under any circumstances. Number three. If your region's market is bad for memory, pricing or availability, you really shouldn't stress too much find a low latency 2133 memory kit and focus on overclocking. Your Infinity fabric you'll still be getting darn near the full experience. It really is a testament to how good of a job AMD has done in engineering. There'S end, to course, that, even though, of course, memory does still affect performance, it's not quite as necessary to get a great experience as it might have once been. Ting is the mobile carrier, that's focused on customer service and customer satisfaction and with ting you pay only for what you use with the average ting bill coming in at just $ 23 a month per device. 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The All-ROG Gaming PC!

Recently we checked out the three cheapest 144 Hertz gaming monitors that we could get on amazon.com and we were pretty impressed well mostly, except for one common problem that they all had they're all running out by modern standards, lower 1920 by 1080 resolution. So today we've got something new for you guys. We'Ve actually never covered a product from AOC before, but this the CQ 27 G 127 stood out to us for a number of reasons, one its 144 Hertz, which means theoretically, it should be great for gaming too. It'S running at 2560 by 1440 resolution 3. It'S got a V a rather than a TN panel and four it comes in at just 280 US dollars. We couldn't find anything else that has this feature set at this price point. So we've got high expectations and hopefully they don't disappoint us instantly, see your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device with glassware use, offer code Lynas to get 25 % off glass wire at the link routerhosting in The video description, [ Music ] - I'm actually pretty excited about this, because we've had a ton of requests to cover AOC in the past, but the main reason that we haven't done it is that ever since the CRT days, their presence in North America has been fairly Limited so I've been aware that they're kind of a big deal over in Europe - and I believe Asia, but over here they've, had basically very little availability and certainly no marketing. So I don't really know what to expect, because even from other media outlets, I haven't like read a ton of reviews of their products or anything like that. First, impressions of the stand are pretty good. It'S got a nice metal base under fairly tastefully if a touch gamer II top to list assembly is always a nice touch. Honestly, I got ta, say initial impressions, pretty positive, so far height adjustable stand. I mean to be clear. This is not like a 140 dollar gaming monitor or anything like the ones we looked at last time, but considering how much higher their costs would be to get this better panel technology, it's a larger display. Ah, I am I'm pretty pleased so far with the overall fit and finish now. I can't say that this is a perfect job that they've done of the the plastic housing here. You can actually see some of the tape that they've used. To probably put the see this unit in the back here that houses, the power supply and the scaler you know, and all that stuff you can see some of the tape that used to it like tape it on, but in terms of the like. The overall feel of it it doesn't feel cheap, it doesn't feel crappy and we've got a reasonably fun, exceptional i/o. So there's no built-in USB hub, but you've got dual HDMI ports, DisplayPort a headphone, jack and power supply built into the monitor, rather than as an external brick, which some people care about. It'S not a huge deal for me, but it is considered a a better feature. All right, the two lessness continues here and we're just gonna peel. This off bezels are looking pretty slim actually, and this is nice, not just power, cable included, but also DisplayPort and HDMI. So in terms of adjustability, we've got your tilt. We'Ve got your swivel no pivot, but we do have height adjust. I still remember when that used to be like site a super premium feature. Now, it's only really cheap stuff that it's not included on. It'S really. Nice makes a big difference immediately. The deep blacks on this monitor are quite noticeable compared to if we were looking at like an entry-level, IPS or especially a TN like, as this wallpaper fades off towards the edges. It'S it's quite dark, not bad. At all. All right, 144 Hertz fuckin showed up just fine there, yes, and because this is a variable refresh rate monitor. That means that, even if it is not certified g-sync compatible, we can enable G sync, and it is in fact enabled right now. So without further ado, I don't fire up. Some games now feels like a good time to have a look at the on-screen menu. Everything here is reasonably intuitive. Personally, I prefer just an instant switch rather than animation. I can see how they might do that right frame. What even am I looking at here? Can you see anything? Let'S see? Oh, what the crap? Oh, what it just brightens the top corner of the screen. So it's like a faded out washed out section in the top-left corner, so there you can change the brightness contrast. You can move the position of it around. Actually you can put it wherever you want guys. Let me know in the comments. What is this feature for? I would love to know. I thought that was interesting. Game mode is off by default. Oh that's! The FPS mode! That looks terrible, okay hold on a second, let's get, let's get our settings adjusted here I have to say I have just never understood these weird color profiles that they create for particular genres of games. The correct color profile is the accurate color profile, because that's the way that the developer intended it quite frankly at least they've got customizable ones. So you can have gamer one gamer, two gamer three, and then you can just things that might actually be meaningful, like whether you want the low blue light mode on. So you have like nighttime gaming mode, whether you want the built in frame counter on. That'S pretty nice to have so their gamer display modes are not necessarily useless. Just the canned ones are stupid. Okay, overdrive can be adjusted to weak, medium or strong. Medium is usually the best bet there, but we'll play around with that. A little bit and low input lag we will leave on. I will say that there's no discernable increase in input lag compared to what I'd expect from a 144. It'S gaming monitor, so that's nice to see really responsive. I touch on the smeary side, so these are not the fastest pixels that I've ever seen by a long shot. If you pick up a like a decent TN gaming monitor - or you know, even one of those really high-end IPS - is that LG released recently you're gonna see better readability of things like text as you're as you're. Moving around like this, you see that everything's got kind of a trail behind it, but for a VA panel. I would consider this perfectly reasonable and acceptable. Now. One thing that's hard for me to tell right now, because I'm playing kind of a dark and gloomy game is whether this gets any brighter. So what I'd like to do is get rid of doom, let's switch to something like csgo and see. If my impressions here are correct, cuz, it seems like our maximum brightness, I mean even just opening up something. Like you know, our own website here by the way tech tip song is awesome forum. You guys should go check it out. This is supposed to be pretty much white white and it's kind of a gray and not like we're at a very, very low brightness. Even actually, the brightness is cranked 100 % already actually before we do that. I wanted to play around with the overdrive settings. A little bit off is clearly terrible, like you guys, I'm sure you can see these comet trails behind icons, as I'm dragging this around on the desktop here, but as usual, strong also yields a really kind of over sharpened, visual artifact e-type look and our best bet Does once again appear to be medium overdrive in fairness. White to dark is a very challenging scenario, so let's actually get that game fired up now. So this is a little bit more fair, and it's not great and coming out here into the the daytime. Arabic, freaking Sun here I've been informed from off camera. This is a 215 it peak brightness display and I believe it because, while the blacks are deep - and that was impressive - it's a lot less impressive to have deep blacks. When your monitor is just dark. I mean maybe this would be the monitor for you if you're trying to game at night and be stealthy and while you're at it, you could grab a hoodie like the one, I'm wearing it's the LTTE, stealth hoodie LTT surakameth. Now, to give credit to the strength of this monitor, the 1440p resolution does look a lot clearer than what we were dealing with with those 1080p monitors, but something that you guys have got to consider is that there is more to perceived sharpness of an image than Just the number of pixels and contrast is actually a big part of what makes an image look, clear and sharp and crisp so yeah. The lines are fine, but the image doesn't look great, so it just feels like the monitors a little self-defeating, because it's key feature is that it manages 144 Hertz and higher resolution, but it gives up so much contrast that you a lot of the perceived image, quality And that's not a problem just for like scenic games, it's it's a problem in general like it's noticeably bland. This is a bland looking game in the first place, but it's really bland. Like. Can you tell on camera how bland this is new it nope hold on? I think what we need to do is grab another monitor and swap it out for you guys so David hold, as still as you can, or even put the camera on sticks, but the camera on sticks. Now this monitor costs about twice as much, and actually you might have noticed that, especially in terms of brightness, it looks pretty similar except funny story. This is actually the monitor that we use for b-roll shots, so it has its brightness turned down to 20 out of a hundred in order to make it appear not too bright for certain shots that we do so putting it up at something more reasonable, like around 80 Wow - that is a really really different experience back to our AOC. The difference is very clear and I'm just gonna double-check. Yes, we are at a hundred percent brightness. On this thing, that's a little unfortunate. This looks a little bit more palatable official site right. I think that's why all the gamer modes have this game. Color option turned up because it might hurt the accuracy of your color, but it'll certainly make your games as long as you don't go too far like their fps and their RTS modes. It'Ll certainly make your game look a little bit more vibrant. You can see I've overdone it a little bit here. So I'd probably say that if it's purely for gaming use, knowing that you're giving up some of the color accuracy that you might have gotten in the native profile, going to a game color of somewhere in the 11 to 13 range, improves the playability a lot like It makes it not look like I'm looking at a super cheap. You know washed out, monitor and what's interesting, you saw how that flashbang wasn't even bright. What'S interesting is part of the reason, for that is that the way that humans perceive brightness is affected by the saturation of the color, so looking at a more saturated color makes you think that your looking at something brighter, even though the panel itself is not particularly Bright and if we were to alt-tab out of the game, you can see things like my icons look way overdone here. So this is a monitor that you're definitely giving something up at the price point. But if you're willing to fidget around with your on screen menu, which to their credit, is quite usable, actually has workarounds that work if you're willing to go around them so bringing our 8020 7qd back up on the table. This is a clearly better display. It looks great not only in games when you adjust this dial or on the desktop if you adjust it the other way, but in both all the time, thanks to its 10 bit IPS panel and it's much higher brightness. But if you think find here about it as paying yourself, two hundred and fifty dollars to adjust a knob every once in a while, I still think there's a very compelling value argument to be made for a OCS display here. Even if it does give up some of the creature comforts that you might get with a higher-end panel, so guys, let us know, does this look like a great option or do you want us to explore some of the other 1440p 144 Hertz monitors on the market? They are a bit more expensive, but there's options from vo-tech Roxul dell has one that's fair, bit more expensive and make sure you're subscribed. So you don't miss it. If you do leave a comment about that, do you need to create a beautiful website without the hassle we'll check out Squarespace their all-in-one platform makes it easy to get up and running quickly, and there are word winning templates can be used as a starting point for A wide variety of projects, if you're having trouble Squarespace, they offer webinars a full series of help guides and you can even contact their customer support via live chat and email 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you already have a third-party domain, you don't have to give it up. Just transfer it over to Squarespace and every Squarespace site includes ecommerce features. So you can easily sell merch or services online and manage your inventory and orders so go to Squarespace, comm /l tt. 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Microsoft DOESN'T CARE - WAN Show Aug 16, 2019

Mac or PC, whichever one you personally prefer. You have to admit that there are advantages to the other side. Let me think about it. You simply cannot run, say, Final Cut Pro or Logic Pro on Windows and, at the same time, gaming on Mac OS Sox only there were some way that you could run both of them at near full speed simultaneously on the same PC. Oh, what's that there. I guess there is so behind me and Anthony is a machine that we call the indecision ater. It can be a Mac, it can be a PC and through some software magic it can actually be both of them at the same time as you can see right here so uh. What do you say guys? Should we walk you through how we did it and take it for a spin? I think so after this message from our sponsor Vertigo's PL 4500 RGB LED upgrade kit. Wirelessly connects to your PC and features tons of color customization options, including audio and visual sync, and more check them out at the link in the video description, [ Music ]. If you've seen any of our videos involving hackintosh virtual machines, you'll probably have some idea where we're going with this. If not, here's the twenty second version using Red, Hat's, KVM hypervisor many modern computers can actually have their resources like CPU cores system memory or even graphics cards, divide it up and then allocate it to multiple users or workloads. Using this technology you can even install two operating systems on the same computer that exists completely independently of each other, as we've done in the past. So for today's project, then we've got something really really cool for you guys. So we've taken an AMD reisen. 930. 900. X12 core processor and then what we've done is: we've split those 12 cores straight down the middle between two virtual machines that will run Windows on one side and Mac OS on the other for graphics, we've gone with an RT X, 20 atti for our windows box And a Radeon 7 for our Mac, then we've passed those graphics cards through to their respective VMs, this method of assigning our GPUs results in relatively little lost performance. So the main challenge we ran into for this project. While there were many firsts and videos, legendary code, 43 error, Nvidia, obviously doesn't like consumers running their GeForce GPUs in a VM just go out and buy a Quadro. Combating some weird stuttering in Windows was the next issue that we had to fix and we fixed that by switching to message. Signaled interrupts instead of traditional electrical line based interrupts like you'd, normally get in a processor these days or ever really and finally, getting the mac OS catalina beta to use the drivers that Apple included for virtualized storage. That last one in particular, is prop really exciting, because Apple has never supported it in the past, make sure you're subscribed, because I'm already working on convincing Linus here to let me work on a video on Mac virtualization. Once we get the Mac Pro in yeah. We'Re definitely gonna be doing that. Anywho, where things take a bit of a turn today, is how we're going to interact with our Frankenstein machine. So in the past, if you wanted to use multiple computers, you'd either have to use a hardware switcher and conveniently also call KVM multiple monitors or in the case of the LGU d 79 that we used once before. You would have to be content with 1080p quadrants of a single 16 by 9 4k display. Today. We have something quite special. This display from Phillips is the 499 p, 9 H and it's a 1440p super ultra wide display, with a double wide 32 by 9 aspect ratio, which means that what we're effectively looking at here is a bezel free single display setup where we've got the equivalent of 2 27 inch monitors side by side with no bezel in between them, so we can completely seamlessly interact with both of our VMs. How do you do that? You might be asking well well so did you do that? Yeah? This energy is still kind of trying to work out the kinks of their 2.0 release. So I decided to use a different piece of software, just kind of switched things I'll call share mouse, which has some, unfortunately, agro marketing, but hey if it works, it works and for the most part, although there are some glitches like you can see my Mac OS Cursor is actually still kind of ghosted over here there you go and you can see kind of the header of my windows cursor. For the most part it actually does work. We can move the cursor seamlessly from one of our displays over to the other, as if the imaginary line down the middle didn't exist, in fact, actually we could probably do some really cool stuff. Like pretend that the whole thing is one machine, so I actually don't know how to switch the wallpaper on a Mac, but I'm gonna go ahead and do this one nice, it's an abomination, isn't it beautiful? Oh, I like this too LTTE store.com by a water bottle. Ok, then, so we're good. Essentially, what we've got here is to rise in 5:30 600 systems, but on one machine, we're running Mac OS and, on the other, one we're running Windows with seamless Mouse movement between them, which means, if I wanted to. I could browse the Internet over here in Safari and then potentially use an Apple Magic Trackpad for gesture control. While I fire up, let's say game, like shadow of the Tomb Raider over on the other side. Wait am I just running in a circle right now? Yes, so I'm like okay, I'm bored of playing video games or whatever and I go over - and I browse the forum. Then I'm just like oh yeah, you know what I'm gonna go back to playing video games, freakin nuts yeah and you can set up a keyboard shortcut to switch automatically, so you don't need to Creole tap. We just haven't set that up yet so, let's say game play, isn't your number one priority, maybe you're a content creator like a youtuber or a twitch streamer and that's kind of more of your jam. So what you could do, then, is capture some gameplay with shadow play or OBS and then port that directly over to the Mac by dragging and dropping and there you can use that if you're more comfortable with it check this out. So I just grabbed the clip that I recorded right now, while you're talking dragged it over the middle line and loop there. It is, let's see what the back looks like boom nice just like that now doesn't copy that quickly: we're limited to about 20 megabytes. A second, so there's probably some work. The developer could do on that, but hey the footage is there now. One thing I did want to mention is that we didn't manage to login to the App Store. We think it might be something to do with our copy of Final Cut Pro being on my consumer register at Apple account and this being a developer only OS, because it's still the preview but hey. The point is, if you're comfortable, editing in Final Cut Pro, you can create your content on Windows and then you can edit it together on the Mac, and then you could log into YouTube on Windows, and you can upload it from Windows. If you wanted to pretty cool best of all, if you want, you can select just one of the VMS for full productivity, with the press of a button and another button and another button and another button, this they told us it was gonna, be just like One button to switch yeah yeah. They said that they could actually set it up to just switch by a single button. But as far as I can tell no, but it does have a KVM and that is the keyboard, video mouse rendition of KBM, so ready hat. So, what's cool about that at the very least, is that if you want to use just one set of peripherals for both of your OSS, you can by plugging in through the monitor right? Let me just switch inputs here. Obviously, I could change it to full resolution, but yeah as we can see it's being a little bit dumb and also our Mac needs to be unplugged and replugged. Sometimes, in order to pick up this yeah, that's just Apple things. I think. Okay, it's a little janky, but what's cool about our setup here is that it doesn't even have to be Windows and Mac OS. It'S just that, thanks to the Mac OS catallena beta Mac OS now supports not just virtualized storage like Anthony mentioned before that allowed us to take our single PCIe gen 4. So like this high performance, 2 terabyte SSD and split it up, but it even supports other verdi, o devices. Now so we can get access to near native speeds over the network as well. Like imagine what it would be like to take a machine like this and be able to split something like the upcoming 16 core Raisa 939 50 X, I mean, even without all the PCI Express Lanes and memory bandwidth that you could get from something like a thread. Ripper you'd be compromising very little janky NASA side with a dual setup like this, so I mean. Maybe we should come back to this concept when that launches, make sure you guys are subscribed and stay tuned, because if nothing else we'll definitely be checking out virtualization on the upcoming Mac Pro yeah and by that time I think that there's a lot more, that I Could do to smooth out the experience overall like having a virtualized 9p shared drive between the two OSS that lets it basically become a network drive that native speeds, but that's all we have time for today. So if you haven't seen it already check out our previous Mac, virtualization videos, we'll have them linked below pulse way, is a real-time, remote monitoring and management software that helps you fix problems on the go you can send commands from routerhosting any mobile device and the software is Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux pulse way, single app gives you remote desktop functionality, so you can get access to real-time status system resources. You can see logged in users, you can monitor network performance, you can manage Continue windows updates and more, in fact, the sky's the limit, because you can create and deploy your own custom scripts to automate your IT tasks so try it for free at pulse wacom or through Our link in the video description hi thanks for watching

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The Best OLED on the Market! - Sony A9G Review

wait. Did we edit the restream? No, but it streaming on YouTube, so someone must have done it. Maybe AJ did it. I don't know I just will find out if we are alive hi. Everyone, hey welcome to the wine, show we're off to a fantastic start. Today, we've got a lot of great topics for you. We just finished filming scrapyard wars. So in the comic moments we are gonna be giving you all the spoilers. I'M totally doing it's gonna be like two months before everything's out, but we had a lot of fun. That'S what we were shooting all we know I'll, give you the details. I know fun. I actually didn't have any fun. Maybe we'll talk a little bit. What else we got going on? Oh, yes, AMD's prices are rising, Intel's prices are getting it slashed, it turns out, competition works, doesn't it what else we got going on? There'S some Google's getting sued for like a whole ton of money and a whole ton of people are gonna, be getting like 750 pounds or 925 u.s. dollars each. What really? Oh yeah! It'S it's huge, we'll talk about that later, also jiu-jitsu into Microsoft. Dual screen devices they recently had a product launch or not product launch yeah, an announcement ignite and there's some actually genuinely pretty interesting devices. Commandeth there's some really cool. Looking stuff, Microsoft has been a fun company for a while. First, let's look at the intro whoa Wow. So good Wow, amazing, graphics, [, Music, ], not that big Wow, okay, I'd be lying. If I said, there's not a little bit of salt from this season of scrapyard. Worse that do you think it's fair to say salty. This is the most dramatic we've had, and I mean drama in like a salty sense, salty drama. No, you don't think so, for which one was for Oh with Paulin Kyle. No, no, no, those! Five! That'S five! There was a fair bit there. Where was Bob and Ron? Ah, because that was the only time there's been aesthetic, so there was a lot of chirping because the aesthetic yeah, I guess, there's that you know what I don't think it was like genuine drama, though we'll, let you guys we'll, let you guys be the judge. I don't know you guys were kind of dicks, so were you guys? So maybe there was some genuine drunk? Why don't we jump right into our title topic to start with, just because people seem to like that for some reason s imagine why? Yes, so the source here is from Anandtech intel has slashed the pricing of their high-end h, EDT processors. That'S not to say that the pricing of the CPUs that were already on the market are going anywhere. It'S just that great post to read in much the same way that they used to do like back in the day when they kind of just released new chips that were faster just for the lulz of it, a lot of the time it seems yeah. They have come in and they're giving you kind of. You know something similar for less money or something better for the same amount of money and joie. Here it comes so here's the summary the astonishingly stupidly named core, I 9 10 9 8 exe woof. Now, that's a that's a name, it's something! I don't think it's a name because there are actually more numbers than there are letters in there. That'S a number. Are there hold on a second, we got six numbers, we got. Oh, we got seven letters never mind. It is technically more name than number or more number now than man twisted me. So we get a small base clock or we excuse me. We get no base clock boost hold on a second here. Yes, we do hold on no right. Here'S the spares! We get an all core boost of 3.8 gigahertz. We get turbo boost 2 of 4.6 and turbo boost 3 of 4 point 8, and this is a 165 watt part, but none of that's exceptional that is very similar to the 99 8 exc. We already had what is exceptional is that it is now half the price. It is 980 dollars instead of a cool 2 grand - and I remember talking about this back when Intel launched their 18 core flagship, I was like hold on a second. You guys didn't launch, like you guys, didn't launch a new generation. This is not a new like it is a new flagship. How do I explain this? You guys didn't replace. You know the previous flagship you guys just shut up. I was loud yeah. Sorry, you guys didn't replace the previous flagship you just like added a new flagship on top of it. Cuz thousand dollars was basically the Extreme Edition price for the longest time and we were like oh well. Here'S one for 2, grand and somes. Looking at this going, you guys have you guys. You clearly have an innovative you've different categories. Yeah, you just you went, took a server product. That was like super super scarce hard to make, and you made it a desktop product and you just charged way more for it. Ok, I guess that's a strategy. If you know all of a sudden AMD has thread rip renew like oh so anyway, now that AMD has and nothing against, first gen, Rison or first gen thread Ripper or any of that stuff, nothing against those chips, but they they were competitive, but they weren't a Class-Leading, except at the at the lower end where, yes, they were a class-leading, but only in certain workloads. Now second gen, then, is class-leading in many workloads and then very close in one of those, some of the ones that intel has traditionally been very dominant in so Intel for the first times. I'M trying to remember the last time because Intel's one of those companies where a lot of the way they sell product - and you can interpret this. However, you want frankly, I don't care, but a lot of the way that they sell product is not by the specs and the price, and any mature company wants to get to that point. That is, that is a comfortable position to be in where, instead of having to scrap it out, like you know, you look at. You know entry-level Android phones, instead of having to scrap it out over who has two more pixels per inch on their display and who has you know, eight more megapixels on their rear camera or whatever the case may be. You want people to buy your phone because you made it not because it's like slightly better more spec here you want that that trust yeah and that I bought this thing three times in the past. It'S worked well for me every time I'm gonna. Do it again, so a lot of intel's sales strategy is not around just like having the highest gigahertz, it's marketing, it's building, partnerships, it's building infrastructure and like logistics to actually be able to distribute chips all over the world. I mean it's all fine and good to have a great CPU, but if no one in Europe can get their hands on it at a reasonable price and that doesn't do you any good. So so it's all those more business, see corporate II, things that they've that they're well established and that they're very good at you know forecasting making sure they have enough chips. Although it's been a bit of a rough year as far as that goes for both of them, apparently, generally speaking, those are things that Intel's been very good at and they tend to be quite aloof. To you know a particular SKU that you know performs quite well and is selling quite well like even back when I was at NCIX, you know, AMD would have chips that moves really well, like. I remember the Phenom 720 black or something like that. This was an unlocked triple core. If I recall correctly, please don't quote me on that, but that thing moved like billy-o, because AMD had lots of cheap motherboard options out there. So you could get a. I mean, not amazing, but you could get a feature complete. Like a good enough motherboard for like 70 bucks, I remember like 72 73 dollars like somewhere in that range. You throw one of these triple cores on there and all of a sudden. You'Ve got something that games well enough and it's got like one more core than you were gonna have if you went Intel - and it's like a this - is this - is a pretty good time at this price point yeah yeah at that price point it was outstanding And Intel took forever to counter it because they were just like we're not gonna we're, not gonna, like trade potshots on ask you by SKU basis, we're just gonna have a stack and we're going to. You know market ourselves as a solution provider, blah blah blah, etc, etc, etc. So, the last time that I can remember them, responding this directly to a competitive threat has to be Athlon 64, I mean, and even then even then Intel went to market when AMD launched. The Athlon FX 51 okay Intel responded with an Extreme Edition chip. I think, was like a galatin core Pentium 4 with hyper threading. Like three point: four six gigahertz like furnace of a chip - and it was it - was based on their server, something something like it was. Actually kind of a similar response, but get this it was slower, it wasn't as good, but they priced it on par with AMD's, offering as if to make a statement that, like it's Intel, it's our bestest bestest thing. Therefore, you know it cost that much and people will buy it and you know what people did buy it. I remember I used to I used to spend so much time on online forums just like helping people configure systems because it was a hobby for me. You still spend oh not doing that, but you still spend a fair amount. Well, yeah, okay, specifically yeah the kind of person who hung out in what was the venn equivalent of our slash, build a PC and just waited for people to. I was sitting there waiting for people to post what they wanted to do with their system and I'd put together a recommended spec list, and then I'd get. So I would argue with people about their configurations. Cuz people would come in and they'd be like I'm gonna, buy this extreme edition, TM thing and I'm like that's dumb and they're like yeah, but I want until I like Intel like. No, no you don't like Intel Intel is not theirs, they're, not emotional. They don't reciprocate your love. They they they're out and to be clear AMD is no different. Don'T kid yourself? They don't reciprocate your love. You are a customer, that's that's the relationship here yeah, and so you should not be buying what is objectively worse for the same price and they go well. It doesn't make that much of a difference. You know it's like 5 % different in this game and 10 % different in that game. You'D never noticed, and I go. Who cares? Why would you ever knowingly get less for your money like that is offensive to me on such a such a deep level to go in and like knowingly eyes wide open be like here is more of my money. Please give me less of something worse. Thank you. This has been a tremendous transaction, but even at even at the darkest times. Okay, there's some stuff, if you were trying to evaluate based off of this, has never really been that big of a problem for CPUs but yeah. If you're trying to evaluate based off of like okay, I've had experience with their customer support or I've had its transient reliability. That'S I know, and I know that's not what you're commenting on they're all pretty darn, reliable, both AMD and Intel. Yes, it's kind of irrelevant here, I'm just saying in general. Some of those arguments can have some validity to it, but usually no, I just always used to get so mad, because Intel would do these things and they would just get away with it. I mean the number of people, so I was working PC advisor at NCI X when I'm changing. I'M changing gears a little bit here when Nvidia launched the GTX 480, which was a steaming pile of hot garbage, literally hot, maybe not literally garbage, but given how many of them probably burned themselves into a crisp yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure quite a few them ended Up in the electronic scrap heat for, like you, know, scrap gold recovery, and I - and I would just like - I would just hate that people are like no. No I'm needy force likes. People would have legitimate reasons. Like look, I'm a kuda developer, I'm like sure. Okay. Well, then, you should probably buy four GTX 480 s and cram your PCI Express slots full of GTX 480 s lot of fun. But you know people who are like yeah, I'm playing this game or that game. It always made me so mad. It was actually because of my insistence that my position is PC Advisor was a non-commissioned position, because that way I could be free to tell people whatever they actually needed to know yeah and when they asked me, are you on Commission, which many did many people asked Me if I was it's a valid question, I would always say: no, because I wasn't, I did get a monthly bonus for being the PC advisor, but it was a flat monthly bonus. I just got like $ 300 a month or something like that for monitoring that email address. What else was I gonna talk about yeah? Oh just fan, fanboys really make me mad. I remember this one time I was doing yeah I freaked out on stream, not that long ago, like it actually had close to a breakdown, because there was this giant war going on on the stream about Linux versus windows, yeah, and I just I was trying to Get it to just stop for so long and it just wouldn't stop, and then I just kind of spaz Dal ittle bit and it was like shut up. It'S whatever's proper for that situation. It'S what it they both have positives of benefits, and it was funny because not that long after I released that video people were so mad about, like the funny thing is, I would love to see the numbers for what percentage of the people who were mad about That video daily drive windows and to be clear, I know, Windows, isn't perfect. Yeah, there's problems with Microsoft's data collection, there's problems with basic functionality, not we're gonna. Do you remember how long it took them to get the Start menu working its? You know the same issues. In my opinion, it still has some issues but remember when it just actually didn't work at all yeah yeah I mean the search is so bad yeah. It is shockingly bad, like I search, is so much better than Windows. 7 holy cow. I am far from an expert programmer. Let'S, let's get that out of the way, but I am pretty sure I am pretty sure that it would be fairly straightforward for Microsoft to create some kind of demon that runs and just indexes every file name of every and like sorts it by okay. These are executables, these are probably the most important ones. These are batch files. These are probably less important and just searches against that. It would be your instantaneous and if you can't do it, and so even when it does turn up the right result, you'll type, something in it for seconds later it comes up. The result. You'Ve got your. It comes up with some like stupid result and you're about to click the right thing and it like it moves and you clicked the wrong thing. You'Re like what are you actually doing? I had to know very recently on my work PC, which is the only computer. I work on that is running. What is 10? I even the apt Windows 10 off my laptop, which now it doesn't even like some of the Razr stuff, is all derped. Oh because that, but whatever I typed in Mouse yeah, because I wanted to check to fit with my mouse and it showed the actual like Mouse settings thing yeah for a second and then it disappeared entirely and just nothing was there. Yes, I deleted the word and retyped yeah Mouse and then it showed up properly and I was like okay yeah. Where did it go? Do you want to search the web for mouse yeah? No, why did it leave if I wanted to search the web for mouse? I would have opened my Chrome browser and searched the web for Mouse. It'S just probably already open because that's how like people use computers now yeah so Wow yeah, browsers, remember that now, like I remember, I used to get really annoyed with my mom because, like back in the Windows, 3.1 Windows 95 days, she didn't understand the difference between Minimize and exit, so I would always get onto the computer and it would be super chuggy because everything she had minimized, absolutely everything she was doing. I was like yo, like my program, can't run because you are using literally all the computer's memory. She'D be like. I closed it all anyway, where I was going with the fanboy thing is I remember one of the most frustrating systems I ever had to build was on this motherboard. This was like a super niche. Where is it where's the pictures on Tom's? How are we going really throwing this video all over the place, though ya know this is really annoying. It was this super niche platform socket 1207 socket F. This was my god. The ads grow up a little bit just pause right there. This is all ads Wow. All this all this all this all this and all this Oh cow - I just I just I didn't see that for a second that is actually it's almost admirable at a certain like they have they have put. They have crammed more ad in there than I would have thought possible. Yeah you congratulated for that. I guess here it is so this was that, like the stupidest motherboard ever been, visit this site right here can I can I find a picture this thing so AMD adapted their server platform, which wasn't completely dead at the time, even though their desktop was like dying, a fast death in terms Of competitiveness and was like okay, we're gonna go after Intel on core count and they built this platform called four by four. So I don't know why they called it four by four: maybe it was four PCI Express slots for cores times two sockets. I don't know anyway, you can put two quad core 2 quad core processors in it. If I recall correctly - and I remember - building this system and just like it driving me absolutely nuts, because the thing was so oversized - it's 24 pin like mid yeah. The design of the board is terrible because I'm sure they rushed this thing because no one like they knew that's wrong, like a few hundred people were gonna buy it like nobody was gonna buy this stupid thing. The performance was terrible. The power consumption was terrible and I was just like looking at it going why? Why would anybody buy this and it was? It was like not. It was not a great board because what tends to happen at the very high end, you can buy a six seven. Eight hundred dollar motherboard and get a very, very poor experience, because the thing is the BIOS development that goes into a board is kind of not quite but kind of the same, regardless of whether you sell 500 of them, five thousand 50 thousand five hundred thousand of Them, and so it's like okay - well, where do we sink the the little bit of extra polish into the one? That'S going to turn into five hundred annoyed customers on the asus forum or the one? That'S gonna turn into five hundred thousand annoyed customers on the issues forum da, like it's usually better, to buy the mainstream thing than the super halo niche things. From my experience, we've had experience yeah I was just gonna say. We'Ve had experiences had experience with that many times. Actually. Here we go especially back in the house. I remember that quite a few times, AMD's quad FX, technically quad core. Oh wait no hold on each physical nevermind. It was. It was dual course and then two sockets. So that you had a total of four course, of course, you're dealing with Numa nodes and like let's go ahead and have a look at what the performance looked like compared to here's gaming performance. So this was a gaming machine. I was building like it's just so I'd have people say: well, it's not that far behind Conroe, it's like, so what it is behind and it's a terrible value. Where'S the power consumption numbers is like just this thing was just such

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10 Years of Gaming PCs - 2009 - 2014 (Part 1)

let's open with the most important thing to take away from this video simply switching on incognito mode or private browsing - is not enough to keep your data safe online. Also, just because you aren't doing anything illegal doesn't mean that no one is after your personal information and that there's no benefit to staying private thing is guys these days pretty much everyone and their dog is out to get your browsing data and that's not tinfoil hat Paranoid delusional stuff. The main reason is that companies and other organizations like political parties, want your eyeballs glued to their message and the data that they get from your behavior online helps by giving them an advantage when they serve up those juicy ads everywhere that you frequent. The good news is that staying private online is actually less difficult than you might think and pretty much anyone can do it. So, let's go through some easy strategies, starting with one of our favorites using a VPN like private Internet access. For those of you new to VPN or virtual private networks, they take in your data encrypt. It then send it through their network of servers before forwarding it to the destination country of choice. When the VPN sends your data out into the world towards the intended destination, it decrypt the data and makes it look like the data originated from that exit point rather than your computer, so whether you're torrenting or looking up content that might generate embarrassing ads in your Browser the next time someone sits down at your computer. We consider a VPN an essential part of staying safe online with that said, while a VPN does secure your data in some ways making it so, your ISP can't tell what you're doing and allowing you to circumvent. Most firewall blocks when your information leaves the VPN network, it's all still there and can be used to track you. So a VPN is just one of the tools in our belt. Now, let's talk about the onion router or tor, as some of you know, it we've actually covered tor before, but summary version goes a little something like this. The Onion Router isn't a physical router like you'd, think of plugging in in your home. Rather, it's an internet networking protocol, that's integrated into the Tor web browser and it's designed to anonymize the data relayed across it. So it keeps your online activity anonymous by encasing your traffic in multiple layers of encryption, then sending it through a number of nodes that peel back those layers one at a time. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, for snoops to see your webmail search, history and other online activity now tor is also imperfect and leaves us vulnerable until our traffic reaches its network. That'S why we're using our PI a VPN to mask that initial jump now thing is using a VPN, can actually lead to issues if you are specifically being hunted by some government agency, because your traffic will have a predictable exit point. But for most people, whose goal is to thwart more casual surveillance and advertisers, this vulnerability isn't that important, now incognito mode which, by the way, isn't useless, plus a VPN and tor, is pretty good and probably enough for most people. But since we're going for the ultimate private set up, we're going to take things a step further with our secret weapon, the hey there, it is super secure, password. The linux-based tails is the operating system equivalent of your weird uncle after too many drinks. It'S designed to forget everything it ever heard or saw. The entire OS is built around the Tor protocol and runs all Internet traffic through the Tor network, not just your browser traffic. One of the other key benefits of tails is that the OS essentially runs off of your computer's RAM. So once you turn off the system poof any data that was lingering on it is gone and there's nothing to your identity to the last browsing session. Another advantage of this solution is that you can take it with you and launch it on nearly any computer with a USB port. So then, now we are ready to browse the web anonymously. Almost the first thing, you'll, probably notice about the tor browser, is how similar it looks to firefox and that's not by accident. It'S because it is Firefox just set up to use the Tor protocol and that's nice, because it makes configuring all these little tweaks pretty familiar and straightforward. So in no particular order, regardless of our browser choice, we want to make sure that JavaScript can't run. We want to install the privacy badger extension to stop trackers and provide ad blocking, and we want to set our default search engine to DuckDuckGo, for what I hope would be fairly obvious reasons. So then, now we are fully ready to both browse the web and stick it to the man. At the same time, let's do a few tests here to see what that looks like so. We'Ve got two machines for our side-by-side test: a completely vanilla one running Windows and using Google, and then our tails Linux, one with the https://www.debate.org/routerhost/ tor browser. Now. Something to note is that we're not actually using a VPN on either of these machines, because here we're trying to get a representation of the worst case scenario, and here P ia actually doesn't recommend using their VPN from within tails. Although they do have a free proxy included with your account, which they do say, could be a good idea depending on what it is you're trying to achieve. So, let's go ahead and search for Expedia. Ok, first hit is expedia.com this one Expedia dot CA. So immediately. Our location has been anonymized and also Expedia blocked us from even accessing their site. That'S cute did we know that was gonna happen. Expedia blocks tour. Let'S try a different provider. We can't tell if you're a human, I'm human Xperia t3. It'S like pretty sure. I'M a bot hey, taking it sweet time, three freakin CAPTCHAs, no we're good all right. Let'S find a friggin flight here, New York departing tomorrow. Okay, let's do a quick search matter. Ch now we haven't actually been researching flights and hotels, so there may not be much benefit in terms of pricing to anonymizing any of this, but there's only one way to find out all right, so we're looking at 699 dollars, Canadian round trip and 347 pounds. Let'S do a quick conversion. There 556, I just saved a hundred and forty five dollars. This is the same damn flight and it's over a hundred dollars. Cheaper includes taxes and fees, including taxes and fees, yep, yep, yep, apples to apples. You have ear to ear. First Expedia hates Canadians now, let's click to read more do another fun little test. Let'S go to what is my IP comm, that is, in fact our IP and over here my public IP is some nonsense. I'Ve never seen or heard of before, and I'm apparently based in Bessel bsch, where the devil is that Switzerland. Now, let's do another fun little test, let's go on a popular shopping website like say newegg.com. Now, let's shop for let's say video cards, maybe a rock phantom Radeon, seven, what's a site with really really obnoxious ads. What'S that one that, based in Australia, that's like super obnoxious, tweaked out tweaked out thanks, Luke, alright, and let's have a look at what kind of ads are lurking for us on the page ho ho? What do we have here, Vancouver to London Vancouver to New Delhi? Vancouver to Lima and Vancouver to San Salvador shockingly, they didn't manage to come up with any graphics cards ads which was sort of what I was going for here. But I think we've made our point as for this. Well, it looks like they're not getting any ad revenue from us, which, of course, we feel pretty badly about as an ad-supported enterprise ourselves. But at the very least, we are not being tracked across the internet, which is the only reason that we enabled the ad blocking on this particular one. In the first place, you can of course, anonymize your browsing significantly without blocking ads altogether, just saying so for fun. We'Re gonna disable, both privacy, badger and you block origin and reload this page. So there's our ads, but as you can see, they are completely irrelevant. So we've got some scarlet audio interfaces in whatever language. This is an ad for the stream deck excel. That'S an English at least an ad for Corsairs hydroxy Rees liquid cooling. So there you go so that was a pretty compelling demonstration of the benefits of private browsing, but it has some clear disadvantages as well. Now this machine on the right is actually faster than the one on the left, but you guys might have noticed that browsing from within tales using the tor browser was slow as hell. That'S because the more hops you go through the more latency you're, adding to the connection, also some of the creature comforts that we've gotten used to on the modern web. Things like shopping carts that remember all the things that you added to them or websites that remember that you logged into them, so you don't have to enter your password every time that stuff ain't gonna work over here also something to bear in mind guys is That no matter what you do, it is going to be imperfect. This was fairly basic guide and privacy. Browsing is a rabbit, hole and a half. Furthermore, even on a properly set up machine, while you're browsing and searching and almost all of your internet usage might be basically invisible. Nothing is bulletproof because the weakest point in the entire chain exists between the keyboard and the chair. You and I are human and we are nothing if not creatures have had it, and if someone is trying to find you, your habits are likely to end up being the thing that gives you away with. All of that said, though, for the vast majority of use cases following either of the methods that we laid out here, should obscure your data footprint enough to make it nearly useless for advertisers and other parties. Speaking of advertisers. This video is brought to you by PI, a private intern. Private Internet access supports a variety of VPN protocols and types of encryption and authentication allowing you to dial in the level of privacy that you need. They'Ve got apps for Windows, Mac, OS Android, Linux and Google. Chrome and you can connect up to five devices at once, using a single account. Their apps include DNS leak, protection and ipv6 leak protection, as well as their internet kill switch feature which blocks all traffic if the VPN becomes disconnected unexpectedly so check it out today. At LM GGG, /, p ia, we're gonna have that links down below. So thanks for watching guys, if this video sucked, you know what to do, but if it was awesome hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the video description link below also down there is our merch store. It has a cool shirts like this one join our community forum. It looks like that or like that, if you're in the tor browser well

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A Fanboy's Note 10_10+ Review

and welcome to the wine show. Ladies and gentlemen, we're a little bit late, but at least we got the video done right. No, no, we didn't we didn't. Actually it was all for nothing. I'M really frustrated, but the least that we can do is give you guys an update on what exactly it was that had us, so gosh darn busy we're finally doing it. Alex has been chasing me to make this video pretty much since he started. We are doing a thermoelectric cooled computer, but instead of doing it kind of the like the the janky way well to be clear, it's still janky, but it's probably the janki's thing we've ever made, but what it isn't is the stupid way of doing it. True yeah. So it's it's, it's janky, but it's like the right way, but also it it's the right way to like do it from a Peltier perspective. But we have this. Like box, that's filled with electronics, that's going to have. It has AC power and, like 600 Watts going through it, and it's so sketchy yeah, it's pretty sketchy, so we've got a great show for you guys today. Of course, the big headline is Apple, allowing third parties to repair iPhones, so we'll get into that. We also want to talk about the some serious nerd drama. That'S going on with Global Foundries, issuing a lawsuit against TSM see so these two chip fabs are going toe-to-toe and finally, AMD apparently agreed to pay out $ 35 per chip over their FX series. Marketing lawsuit that is actually a pretty internationally all three of these have a ton of meat, so let's go ahead and get dug into them after we remember for a change to roll that intro brought to you by savage jerky, private Internet access and chrono dot. Gg. All right, so it has been a pretty busy week. The first thing I saw on the chat there was people who are like where's Anthony, and you know what that's pretty rude. I haven't been on wine show in a couple weeks and if we just had Alex and Anthony doing it, then I'd feel pretty left out. Know that instead of you but but actually Anthony, is really busy. So Alex and Anthony have both been working on really really cool projects this week, so alex has been doing the Pelletier one that we just talked about. So it's like a what 545 watt Peltier yeah strapped directly to the top of the CPU, unfortunately didn't quite get that one done, but at least you got further than Anthony with his, but his is really cool too. So this gets talked about sort of every once in a while, and then the new cycle passes and we all ignore it again. But I don't know if you even realize, because you don't do our cpu reviews or really any of our legitimate actual. You know cooler, reviews you're more, like okay, build the most overkill thing with you know: 300 2000 watts of cooling capacity and then whatever we hook up to it, it'll be cool enough. Don'T worry about yeah, but the way that Intel and AMD report the TDP. So the thermal design power - I think it's thermal design, power whatever it is thermal design parameter, can't remember. The point is the amount of heat that their that their chip is going to output. The way that they calculate TDP is completely different. So right now with rice and third gen and Intel's, I guess they call it ninth gen, so I don't know that it is strictly using the ninth Janet. It all depends on how you calculate generations, because we've been on skylake for a while windows vps hosting now, according to my watch anyway, with their current products on both sides, the way that AMD handles is they basically do you know all this, or am I just talking to them? No, not really, okay cool, so the way that AMD handles it is whatever the maximum amount of heat that that chip could output, assuming that it is going its run in Full Tilt, that's considered to be the TDP under like a reasonable load. So if I were to, if I were to take my my you know, risin 3700, whatever processor and I were to throw you know an egg on top of it. I can assume that if that thing is rated at a hundred and five watts that I'm getting one hundred and five watts of heat - and it's gonna take, however long to cook my egg pretty much because it will turbo as high as it possibly can within Its power and its thermal restraints, our constraints, excuse me all right so, on the intel side of things now, intel has an eight core desktop processor, just like AMD does the ninety-nine hundred k and it's rated it on Mir 95 watts. So, given that 95 watt rating, that thing should be easy to cool right, yeah sure so here's the thing intel allows that chip to spike up to its max turbo and then what it expects it to do what's within the Intel specification is for it to Ratchet Back down so as the as the power consumption and therefore the the heat that it is outputting goes up and as its temperature climbs it's gonna ratchet that down until we meet this point that I think it's called P 2, that is the TDP that they Rate it for so really what it's rated at is its base clock so they're there they're producing are they're using TDP as a guideline for anyone who's producing a cooler that will satisfactorily cool it at base. Clock speeds without causing thermal throttling, which is different from not boosting. Now, that's something you have a lot of experience with. You want to explain for the people out there. What is the difference between thermal throttling and boosting, because you see this in laptops all the time right, yeah, good, a good one to think of it's like the course they're one. So in that it's very small and although a 9900 K can boost to. I don't know four point eight or maybe like four point: five all course something out that it only does like three point: six, if you hit it for an extended period of time right, whereas in something like the MS, I tried an X, it hits for four Point three ish right for a continued amount of time, because it's cooler right so the point to clarify there is that neither of those products necessarily thermal throttled they just boosted more or less, and that MSI product is a great example of a customer of Intel's. So, in this case, it's an aside, but a sous actually had a big scandal around this, a while back, but a customer of Intel's, basically designed the the firmware of their motherboard to operate the chip in a way that Intel doesn't necessarily intend for it to yeah. So they intend for it to do it, but only for short periods of time. So there was that whole thing. Do you remember back when it was the 8700 K? Was it that one or was it 7700 K? I think it was 8700 K when all the review sites had these completely different multi-threaded numbers for this chip, because some of them were using motherboards that used what's called a soos calls it multi-core enhancement, which basically takes that elevated clock and then just holds it there Indefinitely and others were behaving the way that Intel calls for them to behave, which is to boost up to it and then fall down so anyway, back to our discussion of TDPS, the project that anthony is working on involves taking. I believe it's a rise in seven. Thirty seven hundred X yeah, I think so I think that's what he's using and then a ninety nine hundred K where the ricin 730 700 X is rated at 105 Watts TDP and the 99 hundred K is rated at 95 Watts. So, on paper you as the let's say, the uneducated layperson consumer walking into a store. You look at these two products. One'S got a course. The other ones got eight course right. Yeah, one of them is clocked at some clock, speed and then also it turbos to whatever, because that's written on the box yeah, the other one is set some clock speed and it turbos or whatever one of them ooh. You know what I don't want, that extra 10 Watts on my power bill all the time. One of them runs, you consumes less power and outputs less heat. My room gets really warm in the summer. I think I'm gonna go with that. One. That'S 10 watts cooler yeah, but since it's not an apples to apples comparison and the chips are behaving completely differently, we think that the way that that's being presented doesn't make a ton of sense. So do you know much about what Anthony's working on yeah? Isn'T it just like you take a liter or some amount, I don't know exactly a liter of water and you just set it on top in a vial and see how long it takes for it to heat up yeah. Basically, so two thermal probe just well. We actually don't even need thermal probes because we're not trying to we're not trying to get as granular as like exactly what is the TDP, because then we'd need like this thermally, isolated environment we'd have to make sure we're not losing any of the CPUs heat through The copper traces of the motherboard, like it's, not realistic, so what we're doing is we're taking an apples-to-apples to the greatest extent that we can comparison so the same amount of water and then we're putting a thermal dye inside the water and we're basically gonna. Go alright who's dieters. I think it turns from white to black something like that. Our black to white, so whose dye changes color first to see if Intel's, lower TDP rating is actually representative of the behavior of the CPU. We'Re gonna run the Intel one twice. Once at Intel's specified yes behavior, so we're gonna not run multi-core enhancement and then one at the way that I think most enthusiasts immediately flip the switch on their CPUs in order to get it to run faster. So I'm really excited about that one. But unfortunately, we weren't able to get all the little details like how do we put vessels of water on top of our CPUs without spilling them all over the place securely, while maintaining enough mounting pressure to have good thermal conductivity, etcetra etcetra, etcetra minor details, we've actually Got it all sorted out now, but we didn't have enough time to get it shot this morning, which was when I had time to shoot so stay tuned for that people are asking. Where is Luke League legitimately? Where is Luke he's down in packs? Luke goes to pax every year with his family, and now that we actually don't cover pax anymore, he gets to spend it with his family. Again, there was a period of about four years there, five years, I think where Luke was still going to pax and he'd like sneak away at night - and you know, hang out with his family and friends and then be back at work in straight from the source the morning. Work in the show floor and I think that he wasn't always he wasn't a fan. I'Ll say have a peek at this site that he was not a fan of that arrangement. I think he's pretty happy that he gets to just legitimately actually go attend pax now, although he's been pretty critical of it over the last couple of years and says that it just hasn't been what it used to be right. That'S okay, LTL TX is gonna step up. Well then, again at LTX like what did he accomplish? Didn'T he try to like walk from one side to the other, to get to something and just didn't make it past the entrance. [, Music, ], okay, nice of a guy. Oh, I have an Alec specific question from John. Why? Oh he deleted it. Oh, it was deleted by nightbot. What oh, why was that deleted? Okay, john, wants to know what happened to the ricer pc. I would also love to have a status update on the ricer pc. Not a whole lots happened with it. We'Ve been doing a lot of other things like the tech coolers and just making videos. That'S about it. Okay, yeah yeah. I have some people that are going to make different parts for us, I'm just not entirely sure who's making, which part so singularity computers yeah. I think they offered to do some blocks and stuff didn't they I'm not totally sure okay well well, not like make them do things right now, yeah. We won't sign them up so yeah guys. We do still intend to do it. The good news is, we have all the hardware. So now it's just a matter of in good time. Getting everything measured up, getting blocks produced, planning out the build. It is quite a bit more complicated to do like a showcase level of PC build on something. That'S running really old hardware that doesn't have a ton of support for it anymore, so give us time we will do it yeah. Also, the workshop is a workshop. Now, there's been like this pretty large period for the past couple months, where we just couldn't really do projects because yeah everything was just in boxes over there, so what all is actually hooked up over there laser cutter, no okay, that's covered in Dustin, no rowdy routers, Fully operational routers good mill, we got the tooling order done so it's fully operational having everything to cut things, drill, press chill press is good. Sander mmm, it's like not bolted down, but it's it's! Ok! Ok! So, basically we're getting there. Yeah, ok, lathe lathe tooling arrives in the u.s., so we you seem to pick it up great, so guys give us time give us time all right. Speaking of giving time. Let'S, let's give you guys the thing that you came for in a reasonable amount of time. The eyebrow turnaround Apple, announces, independent repair program, link boy on the forum posted this, and the original source of the news is naturally Apple themselves. So, let's see how Apple puts their spin on this Apple offers customers even more options for safe, reliable repair. It'S funny that their branding third-party repair businesses as safe and reliable, when for so long the line was that they weren't new independent repair provider program, expands genuine parts access to more repair businesses all right. So let's go through sort of the the key points here. Yeah. It'S new repair program offering customers additional options for the most common out of warranty, iphone repairs, Apple, provide more independent repair, businesses, large or small, with the same genuine parts, tools, training, repair manuals and diagnostics, as it's news Apple authorized, service providers or AAA SPS. This is a quote so when a repair is needed, a customer should have the confidence that the repairs done right. We believe the safest and most reliable repairs when handled by a trained technician, using genuine parts that have been properly engineered and rigorously tested. So here's what I want to know why didn't Apple want the kiosk in the mall to have decent parts before, because it's not like the kiosk in the mall was ever going to go away. So, at the end of the day, your customer Apple, your customer, was going to go there and they were going to have either a really great experience by sheer blind luck, because you guys certainly didn't put any effort into making that experience any smoother. So you got lucky if they had a good time or that customer was gonna have a bad time, and you know whose customer that is yours, so I mean they get applause. They just don't get like okay, they get slow applause for finally, yeah Galt. I, like that, give up the golf clap. Okay, I don't see I fall into this trap, sometimes where, when a company finally does the right thing, you still get mad. I still get mad because they did the wrong thing for so long and it's all this like tent up frustration, but I shouldn't I shouldn't get mad about this. With that said, there's no yeah! I shouldn't get mad about the good parts of this, because there's still parts of this that I can get legitimately mad about so there's a couple things here. The program is only going to allow independent repair shops to offer out of warranty service for iPhones such as display battery replacements. There is no mention of in warranty, repairs or other devices, so mr. Rossman over there not going to be getting diagnostic manuals for MacBook Pros anytime soon. As far as we can tell - and this is another really important claret point of clarification - Apple has not announced, along with this program, any kind of any kind of process for general consumers to gain access to genuine parts to conduct their own repairs so yeah. I think it's the out of warranty service. That gets me the most because we're this probably means the most to a lot of people is like out in the boonies where, like buddy, knows something about tech, but doesn't have the right tools, and so they could just give them the right tools. Cuz, like I don't know, if you're living in Labrador you're not going to get to the genius store, like you speak as though I you, you know this from experience, I don't know if people know where you're from nova scotia yeah, which isn't quite Labrador but like From our perspective, it's been, they only got an apple store, they're like pretty recently yeah. That'S the sort of thing we're like you can go to lots of places to get your stuff fixed but, like I don't know most of time, it's just like a high school kid that has some sputters. So I'm gonna I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and I'm gonna say I totally get it. If you're not a fully certified Apple authorized repair center. I don't see them offering you a warranty on the thing that was opened up by some random person. That is fair, so I get that side of it, but I'm still really frustrated that as a consumer so like from eight from it, just right to repair right to repair doesn't mean right for some specific person to repair. It means that if I have the know-how and the inclination to work on upgrade or repair my own devices, I should have access to the same manuals. The same tools, the same diagnostic utilities that anyone else would because I not they're gonna - be out there anyway. Especially now that they're opening up this program like if they imagine for a second, that they're just gonna certify a bunch of like random mom-and-pop shops in the Philippines and these manuals, aren't gonna be all over torrent sites everywhere, like come on, come on just Formalize, what's already happening so that we don't have this like black market of Apple PCB schematics, I'm serious, oh yeah! It'S that crazy! Like there's like honestly speaking, if you want like a brand new Apple product, you either have to get stolen blueprints for it. If you want to figure out, like you know what every what every cent spin is connected to - or I mean you'd have to, I don't know - you'd have to rip apart or working device and like x-ray the thing and try and try and reverse engineer it. Basically, apples, pretty I mean, sounds fun yeah so anyway, anyway, anyway, in Apple's defense. Again, let's get positive again for a second here. The certification process is simple and free of charge, but meeting the requirements, which is basically that you have to have an Apple certified technician who can report perform? The repairs does not guarantee acceptance into the program and Apple reserves the right to reject any application. Without telling you, why wait should we do? Should we do something on this? We try to apply to be why no, we should have like three or four people just apply and see how many get in, I think Anthony used to have his Apple certified crap. Hmm, I wonder if we could like get him, get him like, but get him what I'm looking for like get his certifications, refreshed and try and see if Linus Media Group Incorporated can become an apple well, what did what are they calling it again? Apple independent authorized service; no, no, no, we wouldn't become an ASP for sure, but if we could just be like an iPhone and iPhone service, whatever get like our get, our iPhone manuals and stuff that'll be cool, go to set

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10 Years of Gaming PCs - 2015 - 2019 (Part 2)

ah PC gaming in one way or another. It'S provided countless hours days weeks, even years of entertainment to generations of enthusiasts around the globe or discs, as it were. These last 10 years have been something of a roller coaster, ride for enthusiasts and novices alike, and today we begin our story, one of sloth and greed, of loss, rebirth and a never-ending thirst for more so make yourself comfortable. As we take you back in time and celebrate PC gaming in the only way, we know how I feel like a bunch of gaming PC's, it's gonna be fun. You ready, oh, and it's brought to you by actually powered by C sonic and brought to you by LG's ultra gear. Ultra wide gaming displays yeah any news crew ever to the first chapter of our story begins way back in the long long ago, time known as 2009, the 44th President of the United States of America was inaugurated. The Twilight series made its debut and James Cameron's Avatar became the highest-grossing film of all time, depending on your take on those events. It was either a great year or one that you'd rather forget but fear. Not 2009 was a pretty good year for PC gaming. We got Borderlands, Batman, Arkham Asylum left, 4, dead, 2 and Dragon Age Origins just to name a few to run those games Intel had just launched the core. I series as a replacement for the core twos that had gone toe-to-toe with AMD in the years prior. As a result, while the Linfield core i7 handily outperformed its core 2 quad predecessors, the price for those older chips fell steadily as the new platform found its legs and they remained a highly popular choice for builders, especially with early ddr3, costing a pretty penny and not Significantly outperforming the outgoing ddr2, so our build then is equipped with everything we need to make a great 2009 gaming machine, a Core 2 quad, q96 50 with gorgeous Zellman flower cooler on it, 4 gigs of ddr2, 800, dual Radeon, HD, 59, 70s in crossfire and, of Course, Windows 7, all for just under 18 hundred US dollars at the time, so I was actually pretty into both of these games. I guess I'll go with Dragon Age. It'S probably the more graphically demanding of the two and a have. You actually tried these games. I loaded them up to make sure they launched in that they're in the right resolution. But aside from that, Oh nope, you're, gonna, have to create a character and everything I actually probably don't have to do that I could. I could remote into my computer at home and load up my safe. I think I still have it alright. So, theoretically, I've thrown my old save file for a lira in here, but I don't know vps hosting seattle if it's actually gonna work. There'S a previous folder that has like a portrait stuffin, it man. I remember this. Alright, let's see if it's in their caverns whoa. Actually that ain't bad. I think I was kind of an evil character, which is why my face ends up looking kind of like scary and stuff arcane bolt winters grasp slowdown, you hoser finding the controls a little clutch in it in this after this. After so long, all right, obviously don't know any of my my binds here. Oh it's immune to fire, not that makes sense how about some lightning for you there. You know it's funny new games or they definitely look better, but this looks all right. Doesn'T it yeah? I mean like most of the graphical fidelity is made up in the lighting. I think, because the textures don't really hold up very well today, no they've aged for sure that was definitely a trip down nostalgia Lane. But one thing I won't miss is how loud gaming machines were back then and how bad the cable management options were. This case sucked the following year, saw Bioshock 2 hits Steam libraries along with Battlefield, Bad Company, 2 sip 5 Mass Effect, 2 and Starcraft 2 wings of Liberty. Carrying on this pattern of sequels AMD's new Phenom, 2 X, 6 offered more threads than the core twos did at a price much lower than the core AI series, particularly when it comes to the supporting hardware. This made it a favorite among enthusiasts, looking for something better than a Core 2 quad and a multi-threading workload without breaking the bank, because, while it was slower per thread, it held its own in most titles, wider availability of ddr3 made for a lower early adopter tax. Although ddr2 would remain much less expensive for some time to come, our 2010 gaming PC, therefore, is equipped with a phenom, 2, x6 10:55 T 4 gigabytes of ddr3 1333 and twin Radeon, HD 6970 s still rocking Windows, 7 or again just shy of 1800 dollars in 2010 well remember when you could right-click on Network crap in the bottom right and then you would well ok when it wasn't broken like that yeah and then you could just go to your network configurations. I did do that all right. So what are we trying to run out here again, 34, 40 by 1440, so full ultra wide. As you can see, it doesn't exactly scale the intro graphics, very well. No, but once again the textures are a little rough and a mocap technology definitely had a long way to go back then, compared to now you can definitely tell when things like godrays are hard-coded versus dynamically generated by the engine by the light sources. Yeah in this case, if you removed all the geometry in the scene, those godrays would still be there. He looks like he just smelled something bad, so this game apparently scales to ultra wide by narrowing your vertical field of view. That'S not a great gaming experience. Ultra wide support has definitely gotten a lot better over the years, so our number 10 bulb is actually cut off, and so is our point decrease button here. Well, I'm not sure how to proceed from here. To be honest, wha-wha 2011 brought us a huge number of hot titles like portal to Sky roll. Oh, that's! A pretty dead beam, sorry Skyrim, deus ex human revolution and everyone's favorite masochism, simulator, Dark Souls but 2011 was also a dark year for AMD. With the release of Sandy Bridge and Intel's new consumer LGA 1156 platform, until not only had a very fast line up of CPUs at their disposal, but a cost-effective one at that, AMD's response in the form of bulldozer failed on all counts, giving them a reputation as The cheap option that would take years to overcome now because in the early days hyper threading had a tendency to negatively impact gaming performance. There was very little reason to go with the high end core i7 2670 500k with 4 gigs of ddr3 ram, whose price had come down a fair bit since 2010. Now, this time around, we've gone green team for our graphics card, because in videos, GTX 590 outperformed AMD making it the goat card for over-the-top monster machines. But it was also around this time that enthusiasts began to shy away from dual GPU solutions due to the prevalence of micro, stuttering. The GTX 590 would be among the last such consumer cards from Nvidia this year we picked up check this link right here now an SSD for the first time, bumping our total build price to nearly 1,900 dollars, and that SSD option is something we'll be keeping in. All future builds unlike Windows, 7. For which, sadly, the road ends here, one thing that was a big deal that we didn't cover in the blurb for this year is that the define was pretty much the defining case of this time. Unlike the p180 series from an tech that preceded it, it was actually affordable, so you could get a nice looking quiet, discreet case. Without now I actually never actually played Skyrim when I was big into oblivion, but I never played this one. This is the one that everybody played. I know right, I got ta say the texture quality, even just in the loading screens, is feels more than a year ahead of what we were just looking at. That'S a huge difference, and this is even without the modding community. Coming in and fixing it for us yep, however, the 8k texture packs that were available for this wasn't actually 8k, but you know: should we just jump to one of the towns sure you watch out boom yeah you like that boom right fist, let's just oh he's, Got a sword boom, wow, wow, wow, oh great, a sword. Go nice, just got a knife or maybe he only had a knife in the first place. Wow. Oh, I have an axe. How do I equip it? Let'S go axe, some shiz lightning axe, oh wow! This is how waiting works in this game, yeah that is so ugly and unnecessary wow. This is really a much much better looking game, though it's still, it still doesn't hold up that well compared to modern stuff, like you can really tell a lot of the assets and the trees are obviously reused. Shadows are very lifeless feeling mm-hmm. It'S a shadow map. The trees don't move, you know, yeah no breeze, but one of the things that was really great about this game was draw distance like you could really look out into the distance and feel like you were in an immense world. Well, the world didn't end in 2012. It wasn't an outstanding year for gaming as a whole, either standouts include far cry 3 XCOM enemy, Unknown Borderlands, 2 and csgo. The CPU world, meanwhile, arguably came to a halt. Ivy Bridge was a modest tick to Sandy bridges, talk representing a die shrink and not much else. Pci Express 3.0 became a thing and they updated the integrated graphics and improved quick sync support, but neither of those things were earth-shattering at the time. Still, as gamers moved on to the new architecture, the lessons of the previous generation carried forward to this one to so many went with the core i5 this time around, and so did we, the 35 70k powers, our rig this year, along with 8 gigabytes of very Inexpensive RAM and the Radeon HD 7970, which, despite its slightly lower performance out of the gate, mostly kept pace with Nvidia's Kepler and eventually I performed it in the long haul, thanks to its larger frame buffer. At least this build costs less than last year's at just over 1,800, but we're now also running Windows 8, so have fun. With that, I never actually played Far Cry 3, even though I played the first one and loved. It played the second one and literally had my save game tanked because it had autosave and then it auto saved when I was too far from anywhere to recover from some poison or something oh, tennisforum.com/members/346995-routerhost.html?simple=1#aboutme the malaria yeah. So I couldn't I couldn't do anything so my save game got played. This is a crappy game anyway. So yeah didn't bother with this one, even though it was supposed to be good yeah, they skewed a little bit less towards the realism aspect of this one. You know, as far as I know, I was the first North American retailer to bring in the define r2 really yeah. We brought in almost a container of them at a time when they were basically a completely unknown brand. It was like a huge gamble for me as a product manager. They had their issues. I remember there was a big scandal where there learn the facts here now their front USB was like wired up wrong or something Oh, and they had to send us a bunch of like replacement USB harnesses, and I was like what am I gonna do with these, like. You expect me to have someone go in the back and replace all your stupid front panel, cabling literally open every case. I guess they expected them to like be shipped with the cases or something that was ultimately the solution making the customer deal with it, but it was not a good time. People were not happy. Facial animations have come a long way in even just a few short years now. They'Ve come a long way further. Since then, these releases here with specular, highlights, are much better than previous. Yet like we're getting to the point now where I'm not gonna play this game and go oh there's a little yeah see the highlights on those packages yeah, and you can see them in people's eyes too yeah the eyes, especially it gives them a lot more Life vegetation still looks pretty static. Mutants on this is pretty good as well, but I can tell that, like it kind of cuts off around there part of it too, is that they've also applied a depth of field effect. That was something that didn't come into play until around this time. Yep 2013 brought comparatively few, but major releases like battlefield, 4, dota, 2 and Saints Row. 4 AMD wasn't having much fun, though, and their desperate attempts to compete by both lowering their prices and increasing their clock speeds and therefore power consumption never quite managed to break them. Free of the rut they found themselves in has well, then, was the next talk, and this time around, we actually did get a bit of a performance boost, even if it was a single-digit one. Thanks to a move to Intel's 22 nanometer FinFET manufacturing process, hyper-threading also became more useful this year. As the concept of streaming your gaming began to take off in earnest, and the core i7 4770k was also clocked higher than the core i5 variant. So that's what we went with along with 16 gigs of fast ddr3 ram and a geforce gtx 780 Ti Kepler. Second outing certainly did a lot better than the first and unfortunately, for AMD. Radeon, still to this day, hasn't made a return to the top of the benchmark chart. This year, windows 8.1 made its debut, but I don't know that anyone actually cared outside of the fact that it was a free upgrade for Windows 8 users which I guess might have helped a little with the ballooning prices of enthusiasts PC hardware. This build all told commanded, a total of just over 2,100 u.s. dollars now. This is where we get into the games. That really make me say, is this even that old like I could play this game today, and it would be perfectly fine. This is battlefield. 4 textures look freakin, awesome, high res lighting. Reflections are handled differently depending on the type of surface that the light is hitting can actually see objects that move into the god rays, get illuminated by them. Like my gun. A lot of the improvements here aren't even just in technology they're, also in style like you, can really just tell how much more attention to detail is put into mocap yeah character models. These are so detailed compared to the ones that we were looking at at the beginning hall that bloom, yeah and lens flare love it like a really complex lens flare to the final year, represented in this first part of our series is 2014, which was another relatively Light year for high-profile releases with Dark Souls, 2 alien isolation, shadow of Mordor and The Sims 4 representing as for hardware and it's Ivy Bridge all over again. But worse. Tik-Tok and boars law largely fell apart this year and instead of a new microarchitecture or anything of substance, we got Haswell refresh literally just the core clock, improvement and, admittedly much needed more efficient Tim. We did get a new chipset to go with it, though, which, for the first time implements nvme support, not that anyone had any use for that at the time. But hey a features, a feature. So we went with a core i7 4790k, along with 16 gigabytes of ddr3 just like last time, but now we're dropping our hard drive in favor of a faster large SSD. The other main difference is in Nvidia's Maxwell based GTX 980, a complete rework of Kepler that improved efficiency and overall performance to running on the same process. Node. That was a pretty impressive feat and AMD wouldn't release their response until the following year. Mercifully, total cost is down significantly this year, and this will also be the last year that we build with Windows 8.1 with that said, I'm sure that there are still some fans of it out there somewhere. So this is alien isolation and yeah. One of the things that you'll notice - it's got Medicaid, yes, yeah, that's kind of the aesthetic of this, but it was also something that kind of became popular in around this time. Right. Real-Time Instagram filters yeah. So, as you can see, it's like fine when we're looking right at it, but if we move the camera yeah you get that red fringing on it yeah. I think I'll go green over here. That'S cute, yep lighting effects are so natural and it's amazing how much of a difference that makes I mean the graphics card manufacturers are constantly talking about how lighting is such a key component to making a game look more natural and more immersive, but, as we've gone Through this six years of gaming PC's, it's like yeah, certain things have improved like textures, but lighting is definitely the one that has been the most game-changing pardon, the pun, yeah and, like this watery effect here, the way the light plays off. Of that. That'S something that just didn't happen in previous generations, so much subtlety to it like just areas on the carpet that are more lit, like we've, got actual light, bounces yeah. So as we come out here, we can see that you know the carpet here. Well, it's not really carpet but like it's way less well, you lost shiny than this. This trim is yeah. It used to be that, like going back to really old games like doom three, just like the entire environment felt shiny if they wanted to have light reflecting off anything like they elect subtlety yeah, Full Article and in this case you can kind of see here like the way They did with the bump mapping here yeah. It looks shiny, but also greedy at once, which is a really difficult thing to pull off on previous generations. I remember it being a big deal to even be able to reflect the environment scope before this. Oh yeah yeah used to be like he was read an orchestra. You could have something that was either like a static scope or you could have a low resolution or a high-resolution reflection yeah, and there was a significant performance penalties for enabling it. It was a discrete menu option. Man, this the steam effects here, looked great yeah. The fact that, like when you go by them and the the light is no longer I mean it's that's kind of a screen space thing, but it kind of also works because it no longer is in your your field of vision. So it kind of just fades out so this first half of the last decade represented a steady decline in hardware improvements in innovation year over year. But somehow, on the software side of the gaming industry, they still managed to squeeze far more realism and image quality out of said hardware. Now some believed that this decrease in performance improvement would continue ad infinitum as a result of the death of Moore's law and the future. Indeed looked pretty dim. In 2014, it seemed as though PC gaming would begin to drop off, along with the decline in PC shipments. In general, but stay tuned folks, because for part two, where we go from 2015 all the way up to today. Well, let's just say if you're new - and you don't already know how this ends, I think you're gonna be surprised at where things go from here. What will be a surprise is this segue to our sponsors for today's video, LG and C sonic, who provided these monitors and, of course, literally powered all of our systems here? So if you guys are looking for a great gaming experience, LG's Ultra Gear gaming monitors are a fantastic choice. We'Re gonna have those linked in the video description and also down. There is gonna be some c sonic power supplies, no matter what kind of a rig you're, building small form-factor large power, sipping power, chugging, doesn't matter see Sonic's got you covered. So thanks for watching guys. 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