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say that again sometimes sometimes we occasionally use all right good morning ah forgot that sometimes it really kicks you in the balls so yeah just just so your morning I may or may not be able to stream next week I'm gonna try I'm gonna try really hard and if we do it's probably gonna be at your house again okay because I will be tearing apart the studio the whole office is gonna be disassembled completely boxed up into little boxes and then transported to the new house so um that would be my hell week next week me and why if we saw something very busy with that hopefully I could still squeeze the show in next week so more on that later just so you're aware apparently you're clipping I am always click sorry I am a mother clipper like that thank you for your super chat donations very appreciative or very appreciative of those I will be reading any messages attached to those lovely charitable causes at the end of the show would we do the after party so thank you just just keep giving us money well we'll get we'll get to you eventually our first news article here is a YouTube video actually from a fellow tech tuber Dave QD he deals a lot with the like a mobile expert I'm just a lot of laptop and some smartphone reviews but I saw this on reddit it was actually kind of trending on the hardware side reddit I thought was a pretty good video worth worth noting he's talking about 2019 laptops and why you shouldn't buy them specifically the gaming ones featuring RT X GPUs which are for the most part like the max Q variants of the desktop equivalents and what he was saying you know makes makes quite a bit of sense here he's saying that these RT x cards are really they're really solid for you know hypo 10 at ETA me for higher resolutions to be pushing the framerate to that hundred to 144 Hertz refresh rate you know you you really can't get the full value you don't really see the full benefit of these cards unless you're gaming at higher resolutions and he's making the argument here that most gaming laptops until even in 2019 still are limited to 1080p displays a lot of them are also limited at 60 Hertz which is I agreed a definite waste if you're giving like an RT X 2070 max Q in one of these but there are some 1080p screens that go up to a hundred 144 Hertz so you know couldn't couldn't dinar TX card lend itself nicely to both specs that is true yes of course his argument there is that there's already really really good 10 series laptops on the market that can be had for a lot cheaper that also saturate the the 1080p hundred hundred hundred 444 Hertz demands and he's saying that you know the 10 series was just like a you know God's gift to to mobile gamers when it came to laptops and to the point where it still they're still good I haven't really been showing their signs of age on these 1080p screens so I thought it was kind of an interesting quick little video he's very precise with his videos they're usually not terribly long which means every every second is is used carefully to get as much information in there so feel free to check him out Dave TD you've had the privilege of talking to him once or twice at events and stuff and he seems like a really cool guy make some good content so just thought that would announce this little PSA that he's brought to our attention anything Paul lumion no I've been trying to fix the audio oh you're clipping and now it's too quiet you've been needed the whole time no no okay I don't know I don't know we don't know guys give us a break I tried to fix it before the show but then where computers are hard alright it's not like we're experts or anything all right so let's move on to the next article here from Tom's Hardware chugging along this is about the asus rog dominus and the Zeon W 31 75 X which have both been listed online and with the official prices and stuff too so Intel Xeon w31 35 X is their new flagship CPU with 28 cores and 56 threads it's it's it's crazy it's a crazy madman CPU and the availability for this chip is very confusing at first a lot of people were speculating that it would only be available through an SI or a system integrator or through om means but then Intel confirmed a while back that no we will be shipping a boxed retail unit you could buy on store shelves and so finally now we see our first glimpse of a 31 75 X on new egg for expensive $3,000 3 grand 3 grand which is I think a lot of people just knowing Intel we're speculating it to be a lot more expensive than that I think 3 K which is insane - because it's $3,000 on a freaking CPU but I think people were expecting you know I remember my guess was like when remember recording my own you asked us about it like how much do you think that's gonna be at that Intel event we were speculating I think I said like 4k something like that I said five you might have said even more than me no I'm pretty sure I said 3,000 actually nice at $29.99 2977 yeah sure and I said and I said the Box would say power your creativity well get we'll get that we'll get that clip from from Gordon called all this to back all that up video evidence of it in no time there's no way God destroy it at the last minute so it's also kind of interesting because this is the first time Intel's sort of rolling out their tuning protection or performance tuning protection plan which is basically an additional warranty on top of the standard warranty that protects overclockers so if you wanted to tune and tweak your chip and not potentially fry your $3,000 CPU without being able to replace it how much more but they don't say for this for this for the Xeon but it ranges based on the chip so I think 30 bucks for a 77 77 70 K and 150 for like a i9 79 80 XC 70 70 70 K that's what the article said I guess people are still buying those 77 or 77 39 70 x o XE oh I'm trying to find the new egg listing where is it no 77 77 97 that's what I was saying 7700 k39 80 and then 79 80 XE XE what did I say I think you had extra 7s in there I was I think no I think for this order for the cable I said 77 70 K which was too high okay okay you're thinking to the 30 3770k 37 - 37 70 K 15 Ivy Bridge Ivy bridge-e I was thinking of 3770k yeah if that chip married the 7700 K it would be a 77 7 B okay okay okay that should be a new segment right make up cpu a so the other thing that was listed on a website they're actually multiple websites was the asus rog dominus extreme which is one of two only one of two motherboards that concurrently that currently support this xeon powerhouse the other motherboard is the gigabyte a x1 and I feel like the Dominus extreme has been getting a bit more attention on the a x1 lately so the x1 like we saw first right I haven't seen any updates to it like it seemed like an engineering sample when we first saw it and that's still the only version that I feel whereas whereas the Dominus looks like a full-on like Asus yeah you know crazy finished product motherboard with the you know with little low going and the fat cooler for the the VR M's and all that good stuff yeah and yeah the costs how much seventeen hundred and nineteen ninety nine almost 2 grand for a mother which which other computer parts can we just like skyrocket up into the mid 1001 to two thousand dollar range we got CPUs that's easy cables other boards now graphics cards of course you got your twenty atti no problem there what we do have a thousand at like a thousand dollar case is the em through elite from fantex which is the only officially sanguine case for this mug that's a thousand dollars Kyle I'm looking for like mid I'm closer to the mid range 1500 and finish in when in win needs to come out with something that's like you know solid gold twisted helix for the Dominus they already have it they already have a case that's made for the Dominus extreme but anyway point is everyone save at least $20,000 for your next PC build that's all it's kind of your entry-level let's see it's gonna be entry level map yeah twenty eight cores they're they really need to go three and four Way SLI again for for graphics cards because imagine for way 2080 TI's I really break that 20-grand barrier that's easier that's what we're trying to do is spend more money like sixth grade graphics cards I think I can't do it till hack the Nvidia drivers and make them all for work together but the other thing about these boards like the Dominus is it's kind of like two motherboards than one it's got dual 24 pin 80 exports it has dual 8 pin I'm sorry a quad a quartet of a pin ups quartet quartet and and and the last sort of goes on so you actually kind of need two power supplies to drive this thing for that much money it should come with like a black wire like a church choir and every time you like you open you turned it on in days like like that you have to turn it out in slow motion every time it's a new segment idea there too we'll just put them in a jar so no you're clipping during that oh sorry sorry ears I know I have to get less excited it's hard because I mean I'm gonna be there for you chat I want to be entertaining or I want it I need to work on my sound design enthusiasm yeah we're hiring a professor paired today I mean the audio engineer I was unprepared two weeks ago what happened in the time in between things I was very busy with you had things lots of things life having a baby Hawaii I don't but let's move on to the next Hot Topic item which is an ROG branded our GB backpack now this is probably old news to some of you because it's from a CES video from real hardware reviews but I somehow missed this this is my first time catching wind of this and it must be other people's first time seeing it too because otherwise I wouldn't have this wouldn't have been on a news website today look at that but I also just love hearing JJ talk about a backpack our G backpack it's like it just feels like with the amount of knowledge in JJ's mind this is like a backpack is beneath him but but here he is he can work at Banana Republic if he wanted to he's very good at explaining things as usual this video is no exception and here we have our GB and I guess there's a bit of functionality involved because it illuminates the interior so if you're fishing around for something at the bottom and you're in a dark space and dark environment then there might be a little bit of help there he goes on to say other things that don't interest me nearly as much as the fact that this that's that someone made in RGB backpack kind of screams steal me that that's exactly what I thought I was like could you draw any any more attention to yourself and like look even my backpack lights up like imagine what's inside of it probably things worth stealing definitely you're not gonna carry like lint and you know a piece of gum in a backpack like that I probably cost more than what most people have inside their packs so it definitely needs to be a stealth mode I agree fortunately avoid a backpack there's really no that's and that's the maximum amount of time we can talk about in RGB backpacks yeah we should come on gigabyte this could be in one of Paul's oh joy segments gigabytes is planning to lay off up to 10% of their motherboard staff this is from overclocked 3d nets that's pleasant motherboard sales are have been really low due to decreased crypto mining demand and just weak motherboard sales overall they sold gigabytes sold 16 million units in 2016 16 million and then a year later they went down to twelve point six and then in 2017 I'm sorry 2018 down to eleven point four five so they're hoping to get over ten million this year but I mean down from sixteen million just a couple years ago is uh it's definitely it's got to be some hard-hitting data there MSI and a Chiefs have been feeling the pressure too but they're not laying off anyone at least they're not being a public with it gigabytes the only one here and they might see a bump in sales to some degree with the release of third gen rising once that comes out the second half of this year but I mean rising you know clearly rising second gen and even first gen hasn't really been doing them any favors so far so when it says workforce I have to wonder who that who that applies to like is that across all departments at gigabyte right yeah they just market actory be talking yeah you know I would think it's from every every department but Tibet and it's unfortunate we've we've had some good friends who we've met and worked at gigabyte over the years yeah coming on yeah hopefully no one we know is affected only the people we don't know because they were less important I'm just kidding I was a joke great stop peeking it's so hard I'm not used to this this kind of I know annotation I really I really did spend a few minutes on the mics before we started the show today yeah I'm not there's a bunch of other stuff I had to do okay I didn't I didn't test excitement though all i was like i was like hey check check one two testing and it sounds like that sounds like yeah i didn't check like they like that right do the kyle test I didn't have the Cal test there's no way that I can lower it on this thing is there I have a compressor there is a compressor like what am i max the compressors max like this thing isn't like maxed out or something no these are very possible to compress I was good mic because my transmitters have like a setting where it's like there's a plus whatever setting and stuff is that what you're talking about yeah just you know if there's not we're at zero right now we're at zero Oh it is not at the plus it's just like that way and this is the standard standard D Oh minus plus 20 here's is it plus 20 yeah don't do that why are you doing this wait is mine like that why would it have it on the transmitter and the receiver mine's also a plus 20 all right let's sort of okay this is too quiet I can I can put it to ten which would be you don't touch that I've got room over here okay I've got room to where oh my god the quiet is that it's that better yes oh I'm not the gain is that a reason is it a respectable level so quiet I can barely hear you I what our levels here we're back where we should be all right what about now pretty good pretty good getting better better getting better better better better good turn this up everyone's so good yes I think all right good job we figured it out get in there still too low no quiet you're the minority shut up just kind of keep from the peeking damn it alright well let's let's continue since it sounds at least it's a little bit better than it was before okay another article from overclocked 3d net about the whole metro dove debacle a little quiet is better than peaking I agree what we're at here yeah so you might have heard about this Paul the metro fans like you know the Metro franchise oh yeah I met you last night so if we benchmark I pre heard that on Steam I'm really looking forward to downloading it and playing it on Steam pal well that's that's funny that you shouldn't have it's funny you should say that Paul because that's the the whole issue is that for the first time in as far as I can remember the next installment of the Metro franchise will not be launching on Steam oh but rather is being reserved as an epic game store exclusive epic game people gamers are losing their mind epic game store how's Dare that's lame what but steam masterrace all praise be to gave it so gamers have been threatening to boycott the game saying we're not gonna buy we're gonna give in to your platform exclusivity we don't like if a game store we want it we want to be on Steam like it always has been we don't like change it's 20:19 terrible change some change so to make matters worse and just sort of stir things up there was a one of the developers from for a games that's the developer of the the series he posted on the forums in a Russian it was completely in Russian and people translated there's a live shot of Russia right now yeah that's this is a live feed right here snow falls very slowly there yeah this is you can see the devs house in the background hi-hi Hiro so people used a translator and translated what this Russian dev had to say and they basically broke it down to him saying hey look if you don't buy the game if you boycott our game then we'll never make another PC version of this metro series ever again and you'll just never get to play on PC ever that's how the Internet interpreted it Wow when in reality that's not what he said at all he was really saying look if you if you boycott this game and no one buys it the nature of business is that our publisher will say let's not make this game or anything like it on this platform again because because sales because we hate gamers because cameras all suck and is that we just we spite you know it's it's just a nature of business but he was saying it as a very in a very matter-of-fact way that wasn't threatening at all but the internet was very quick to just pop it into like Google Translate and then without any real context or you know Oh Google Translate ability it's very good we're not quite there yet at transmitting subtext not we don't quite have the Babel Fish figure announces between languages figures of speech yeah homina homina menudo okay that's that's hominid I don't know where we went wrong there so editing rate you should also not freak out if like one person from the company says something they're just a person it's not indicative of the whole company's opinion and for a games even came out with a statement saying look it's just the dev side what he said it's you know we have our own opinion so try to keep him separated guys don't freak out and they also said before I also said look this was never really our decision to veer away from Steam this was all that kind of threw their publisher to the bus which is cos media and Deep Silver hook Coke medium coke is it coke yes coke media I like I like that even better they they basically said we have no choice of what platform our game lives on it's not up to us so you're gonna get mad at someone get mad at our publishers we're just we're just making the games bro so yeah we'll see we'll see how how things play out there if if there really is gonna be a boycott how damning that might be or maybe not they make it all I don't know it's kind of like battlefield one all over again or five alpha five all over again but for different reasons obviously yeah I was gonna say that cock media all right let's move on to the next article from hot hardware okay Microsoft and their project X cloud is a streaming service that is going to support all digital Xbox one games very interesting so this is sort of like a it's a gaming streaming service it's like the Netflix of gaming very similar to what we've seen from Nvidia's GeForce now or other similar services so Microsoft is coming at it pretty hard and they're they're starting to build the hardware that's sort of required for this this ecosystem they're gonna deploy the hardware in data centers currently that hardware consists of a bunch of server blades outfitted with multiple Xbox one components and the whole idea here that Microsoft is running with is that you'll be able to play any game any triple-a game that's available for digital download on on Xbox one which is a huge library you'll be able to play any of those games anytime on any device whether it be a smartphone or a tablet so you know and with like you know a controller set include old Xbox games I think it's only Xbox one games at the moment I don't think it's backwards compatibility all the way back to the original Xbox what you would think backwards compatibility would be easier to implement with a streaming service than you know hardware based but yeah but something you could have something like this where you've got an Xbox physical controller with like a smartphone on top that you're kind of playing it like a switch in a sense like a Nintendo switch or you can just play your games on the go but these are full-fledged Triple A titles that you can also play at home on a big-screen TV and you know seamlessly integrated completely offloaded although all the rendering is offloaded to a data center somewhere that Microsoft handles so projects s cloud is also an open platform platform or I should say open source platform so it's gonna be easy for for devs - just like create games and not have to worry about porting them over to this service they don't have to change in a single line of code it's all good to go if you made it for Xbox one and it's available for digital download it'll automatically be good to stream the biggest issue the biggest hurdle I think with these streaming services for games anyway is latency you know and because you're just you're real time rendering processing so much data at once that you know you either suffer quality or you suffer lag or latency and you don't want either of those so that's why we've been hearing about these services for years and yet nothing's really officially hard launched they're still working out those bugs Microsoft says they're on it though and we'll see they're saying also that it's not aiming to replace consoles but that they're hoping to deliver a console like experience which I like mediocre yeah I was gonna say so I don't know if that's they're really selling it for me we're squarely aiming for the middle of the gaming experience yeah don't nothing nothing too exciting here don't get your hopes up but it will stream over the Internet and that's that's what Millennials like Microsoft Project X cloud think yeah all right and our last article here is from also from hot hardware about apex legends a brand new game a brand new a firing game Peaks Legion eight Peaks league ins league ins all right so where it hit it hit million players in just eight hours yeah if it's launched yet did which is nuts it also goes to show how insanely popular battle royale games all right now but this game does look pretty cool I watched a bit of gameplay put it pump it up right here hopefully don't get violence guys blood and violent loading whoa so it's also from the developers who made titanfall titanfall franchise it is set in the titanfall universe yes it is so there's a bit of a crossover there but there are no Titans no Titans unfortunately but you have you have you have two teammates yep squads of 360 people per server reset characters yes so it's kind of like overwatch with Battle Royale I know a lot about this game considering that I have not yet actually played it maybe we should play it at some point tonight Paul considering the ear on a computer that hasn't loaded up Kyle oh that could be a very distinct possibility maybe we should just play video games on behalf of the show I would not fight you on that partially well partially do that would not fight you so I I can't I just like saw people kind of buzzing about this last night in this morning so mm-hmm you know yes we'll see we'll see if this is just an initial launch like kind of excitement or if it's the type of game that has the the tendency to there the capability to stand the test of time right I mean look you got a zip line so I mean does look a lot better than fortnight I will say there's definitely more my speed kind of reminds me of evolve a little bit with the different classes and the fact that it's first-person but evolved was really fun at first and then it kind of fell flat there wasn't it wasn't much longevity to that game so it's it's very common when a game will blow up initially in everyone's like oh my god but then it just loses steam really quick so we'll see we'll see if this one is here to stay like fall say it's battle royale the there's 20 teams of three that drop into each game so you're on a team with two other people by default so they're going for the team experience the small team experience versus like a solo experience or I like a big brawl big 20 versus 20 Braille or something like that right and then you have a passive ability and active ability that's on cooldown and an ultimate ability that charges up and you can use and that's those vary based on the eight different characters that you can select so you have looked into this quite a bit I read and it's one of the Articles that I talked about I this I selected to talk about on my half of the show so I've spoiled everything already though but we also are gonna actually play this a little bit on my half of the show because it's loaded up on cows computer there and that's it up to captured and all that stuff sounds good cool that is gonna do it for my half awesome heyo so don't go anywhere guys we're gonna do quit cut really quick on YouTube and then we'll be right back on Paul's channel again you can find the link to that in my video description or go to Paul's Hardware on the youtubes and if you're on Twitch just stay where you are we'll be right 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