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show which is a weird little fun thing we do if you buy something from both of our stores during the show will double Johnson the shit out of you and that's always fun so both yeah it's both sides hey you and with that said let's dive into our first article which is from CPSC not necessarily a tech news outlet or anything but this is the Consumer Product Safety Commission website pretty obvious what they're into what they do and this article in particular though this little post here is about an amazonbasics power bank that has been recalled due to its proneness of fire and chemical burn causing nice which is pretty sketchy so that's what it looks like there's actually a few different models that use the you know similar innards from the same manufacturer and China of course with the model B 0 0 0 lr k 8 eb 0 Oro printed on it so check your battery banks everyone if it's an Amazon basics model because it might explode in your friggin face the recall involves six different models or variants of the unit 16100 milliamp option 10,000 a 5600 a 3000 and a 2 thousand milliamp model all of these are sporting micro USB ports if you have one immediately unplug it and stop using it before you die and then contact Amazon for instructions on how to return it for a full refund they shouldn't give you any problems because they are aware of the issue they've already received 53 reports of power banks overheating which isn't a huge deal overheating that's getting a little warm that's not a huge one report of chemical burns one report though of chemical burns due to contact with battery acid and four reports of property damage involving fire and smoke damage so and you know that chemical burns one that's gonna lead to more stuff right oh like like like like like hurt pain like what do you mean because like that's that's how Joker became Joker's I have to assume however we've suffered from this time to have yes probably follow a similar path this is true we have an a we have a supervillain in our midst on the roads battery bank beware dandy surprise I'm really surprised from from this is just some shoddy quality coming from Guangdong China well well Gwang no one saw that coming woah I think I'm slightly better at pronouncing Chinese words Wong okay more of us it's more of a sound than a word all right perfect exactly I'm pronounceable symbol all our Chinese viewers understood everything I just said alright so um now that that's out of the way guys hope you're safe and no one's gotten affected by that but let's talk about our next article here from our good friend Anthony at weak town this is about potentially a GPU demand for crypto mining showing signs of slowdown okay hmm and this was actually an article that sort of isn't really out yet it's it's only available in the digit times special section which is there before going to press like their pre-release section which you actually need a 410 dollar yearly subscription to in order to access these articles that really you know saturated the the public market yet the public space of all these tech reviewers so there's not as much digging that Anthony could have done here just because he didn't have full access to the article but what he does know from the article it says that nvidia and AMD have been slowing down their developments he doesn't have full access well I would assume not because the article is very very short maybe he read like the synopsis blurb at the top or something like that I'm actually not sure maybe he did have access to it but if he did it's a pretty short article because there's not a whole lot of detail here it didn't sound like he like had full access but that's just what I what I gathered from it but at any rate AMD and NVIDIA have been slowing their developments down of their of their new GPU architectures and prolonging their existing GPU platforms life cycle since the profitability for graphics cards has been weakening in in recent weeks but that's alright that's a row that's a relative term that's a relative term it's like it Israel they're no they're no longer making 5,000 percent profit there's any making more like 4,000 right it's like this the the the beginning signs of the decline even though it's still way up and nvidia may be you know eventually controlling GPU prices right because right now they have pricings been mostly determined by the retailers so Nvidia might crack down on the GPU prices among all this and they also might make mining specific cards there's a couple articles going on going around about that this was a rumor from a crypto mining blog and I forgot to link the article so Paul will diligently save my ass where it was a rumor from crypto mining blog but I don't you can probably just find you know just type in Nvidia mining cards and it's probably an article on TechRadar TechRadar pro um yeah here's the current music card itself the picture that I've seen going around yeah looks like a so tech card a you're right it does that travel very much it's a prima job like an identical to that you'll notice there is no IO there they didn't even bother to put a bracket on there cuz right why do you need that for yeah and it's gonna be based on the same GP 102 GPU as the tight necks tight next little P and 1080i yeah so there's a couple specs about it 3200 CUDA cores this is all again speculation 1582 megahertz 5 gigs of gddr5 X TDP of 250 Watts dual fans on the cooler the one that this pictured here five copper heat pipes and a hash rate of 47 mega hashes per second in etherium and 879 hashes a second for Manero this is the leak claims this infos straight from the manufacturer no pricing at the moment and I think it's gonna be a lot of people are gonna think that this means that GPU prices are gonna immediately fall down what's more mining specific cards come out or once any mining specific cards come out but the article also reminds us that a big part of this is also because there's a huge scarcity of vram and vram is something that's used across all GPUs whether it's mining specific or gaming related so there's there's an issue there and additionally some people might not some miners might still prefer to go the geforce route or the radeon route simply because those cards tend to have a higher resale value than something like this that doesn't even have video outputs no gamers gonna buy this card let's say you know when it's time to resell this thing so for physics what you could use it for physics and there's a granite it's so much smaller market than then the whole gaming landscape but we also don't know how well these are gonna be priced or how terribly this will be priced if they're much more expensive than you know an equivalent 1080i or or gaming card you know that uses the same GPU then it's gonna take longer for miners to make their money back their investment back on a card like this and they're just gonna go for the GeForce or Radeon cards anything I think in today's market this would sell no matter what yes probably not for quite as much as you'd pay for an equivalence equivalently performing GPU like a 1080i or something like that because of the hits of the resale value but like I mean you can you can see what they've done here they basically try it like so Nvidia the like push pumping out the GPUs is not invidious problem they they can make plenty of GPUs the problem is pairing those GPUs up with memory and the memory is a very expensive part and that's what's preventing them from putting more cards out in the market so they've taken this and that guy we've got our GP 102 GPU which we can just crank out all day and we've been working on for a while and you know we've refined the process they're probably getting really good yields on it by now and we can plot that on a card that we've completely minimized the excess cost everywhere else so no i/o means that at least for something like HDMI you now have to pay any licensing costs for that as well as the hardware all those connectors do cost money and then pairing something like GP 102 with five gigs of VRAM which is completely impractical when it comes to gaming but you don't need a ton of VRAM for biting so you've cut down the excess the frills on the card that you don't need when you make it mining specific card and then the key factor that's preventing them from pumping out more graphics cards which is the scarcity of gddr5 X they basically put what they have considered to be the minimum amount on there to still give you the good mining performance so it'll be interesting to see if you know if that if that cut in vram for these mining cards will be allocated to the gaming cards in such a way that it actually lowers the pricing a little bit I don't know well the other stuff I thought I thought you were gonna talk about this story but I should have pointed it out to you but there's another story going around right now no you are talking about this right which one memory prices no you're not talking about this memory prices are going up like not as in memory prices over the past year have doubled in everything memory prices as of two months ago when everyone was like wow memory prices are really absurd and crazy and really high and some articles came out that was like hey probably in 2018 we're gonna see Laura memory prices they have gone up and they're probably gonna continue to go up yeah so that's a pretty crappy the article does mention that you know memory is video memory is expected to improve later this year in terms of availability but if the prices are already going up then by the time we have more memory way later this year it might just bring the prices of memory the pricing of memory back down to what it was a few months ago not necessarily lower it you know it's a significant amount so I don't know it's all messed up man yep yeah the only orphan orphan a nice and in chat asks about NAND flash prices and if there is one silver lining one area where we're like well at least this isn't also continuing to be crappy NAND does seem to be relenting some and SSD prices are not absurd yeah I don't think they're quite down to the lowest point that they were at last year or earlier in 2017 but they're they're reasonable you know you can get it you can get a 256 gig SSD for 60 to 80 bucks that's a decent performer and you can get 500 500 ish gig SSD for in the low hundred dollar range and that's not too terrible so anyway thank God for that yeah but man the memory like memory like many old prices need to come down and the memory crisis is a hundred percent because of cellphones yeah ddr4 yeah Danny phone okay all right enough Corsair has accidentally leaked out their latest case the 1000d the obsidian 1000d which was spotted on their own website as well as Amazon's so this was just a complete you know complete screw-up from a couple people not sure if this was intentional or not probably not but it happens all the time and time it does article or outlets like Tom's Hardware tend to pick it up and tell us all the juicy details so what do we know about this case right now well it's a behemoth it is one of the biggest cases Corsairs ever made it's actually bigger than the nine hundred date which says a lot because I think it's got wings that's got wings like the cosmos it's got a wingspan it opens up looks like it's got some latches or it's on hinges right some back hinges on either side tempered glass on both sides so you can show off the cable management as well it's a dual system case so it houses an ATX system as well as a mini ITX system but if you look at the back there looks like there's only one power supply and also one i/o right when one area for the shield so I'm curious to see how they're actually gonna configure it if it you know if you're gonna have to do some pass-through action people are speculating that maybe it's a single power supply that has a splitter but then it's unclear how you're gonna how you would choose to power one system on versus the other it'd be interesting if we can get a closer look at the i/o the front i/o to see if there's two power buttons on the case or something like that but it doesn't look like we're gonna get that right now it's up here and all I can tell is it you must be three backlit USB and headphone jacks yeah so kind of fuzzy on how that's all gonna work but it is kind of kind of neat that we are gonna get a dual system dual chassis here it looks like we can also house a pair of 480 millimeter radiators at the front of the case something you don't see too often is is having dual radiators at the front or or any of any side of a case for that matter so this thing is that just goes to show you know just how huge this thing is and the aesthetics kind of or someone borrowed from the recently launched 500 D steel body as we mentioned tempered glass side panels on the top and the front are made of brushed aluminum and they look pretty nice it also includes a commander pro fan and lighting controller I'm kind of surprised it only has one one one yeah one fan yeah unless it was a typo and they met commander Pro fans no the commander pro fan and lighting control Oh Oh got it okay yes I was thinking just but the fans are very different the lights into it yes by fan and letting controller okay so as far as actual fans included didn't say did we see any fans here I don't see any that are visible in the pictures right I mean which makes sense because but the case like this most people are gonna add their own fans anyway you're gonna want some ml pros or some NOK to us in here just you know you're gonna trick it out yourself with whatever RGB fantasies you're hung up on and then we've also got how much do you think this this case is gonna be journey through the price no I didn't ah speculation any guesses any wild eight hundred wild guesses I mean we're definitely in that upper echelon at 500 bucks 500 okay yeah alright which is no so that's a bargain it's a bargain whoo $300 off only $500 it's like you know how they always say like you know like the top ravier like you know you got the damn good award little put the little badges on the retail side oh yeah just have like you know Paul's like over estimated price hardware a little bad you're a little badge I mean that was just based on like what I've seen case manufacturers charge for they're like best and biggest case you know like your fan texts ear and to elite and all that right and that seems to be the trend right one case manufacturer or one manufacturer comes out with this product that's phenomenally more expensive than anything that's ever existed and then all of a sudden other manufacturers are like hey that exist now we can we can start upping our price to we know that like Nvidia do the same thing when they released was the Titan X like their first $1000 GPU and now it's like I mean you know inflation and shit aside $1,000 GPU we don't even like think twice like that's just like a new standard for that top tier of product so it's a you know things aren't getting cheaper to say the least anyway I've been lied to all my life so let's move on to our last article for this half before we dive into Pitt my PC this is a quick quick news article from overclocked 3d about Microsoft officially releasing Intel Specter and meltdown microcode in Windows Update oh and you know it's been it's been decided just in general that distributing these Specter and and you know these these micro codes on a hardware level just isn't isn't quite as viable as we'd like it to be simply due to the countless number of motherboard models different hardware configurations that makes it really impossible to deliver a universal micro code that works for everyone plus most users absolutely know how to flash the BIOS yeah if you're relying on end-users to flash their BIOS in order to patch this then you're gonna have a very very low adoption rate yes indeed so at a general consumer level Microsoft is sort of stepping in here and they're expanding Intel's coverage of their micro code updates so that Windows 10 users on version 1709 can access updates for for skylake KB Lake and and copulate processors Windows 7 and 8.1 will be covered shortly after and Microsoft has made this as an official announcement they've suggested that all Windows 10 users update to 1709 which is the most secure version of course and reminds us that version 1607 also known as the anniversary update will soon reach its end of life support on April 10th sensor ominous end of life through the cutting legs I know it's smothering it with a pillow we'll be pulling the plug okay then it'll be incinerated ashes be spread just my PC hey guys I'm tweeted in some pictures of your beloved systems and Paul and I are gonna laugh at them no I'm just kidding we're gonna give you some helpful tips to hopefully look look and feel of your sister and make everything look all broke that sexy sexy and stuff so our first our first submission is from post gaben with the pentium g 4400 four gigs of DDR 4 it says ddr4 our IP I don't know what rip means rest in peace because oh because it's a smaller gigs one terabyte WD black GTX 560 TI m SI h 110 gaming motherboard an EVGA 450 bt power supply we definitely got sort of a older semi budget system here again with 4 gigs of ram we got a Pentium chip and an older graphics card 500 series GPU from chief a g-force car like that old ass cooler man and the Intel stock cooler is the first thing that stands out to me one because it's just so ugly and and oh rip mint Ripjaws oh really cuz it's a rip shit so it looks like a g.skill no that's Aegis nevermind I think you just met ripped yeah it was just cool that's just pure quinces I'm sorry ok so Intel stock cooler we have to give him credit though it's a modded Intel stock cooler he is blacked out the Intel logo which got rid of the blue which would contrast which would have not matched with the other colors in the build but but I feel like the blue also distracts you from that god-awful cable the cable is just it's gonna be there nothing to show you where the power goes that's where the power goes I want to see the power well let's highlight it for you we also have we have a single LED fan right as the sole light source in this build no I'm sorry there's a friend LED fan too it's just not that weights is what type of physicist this is one of those that's like one of the like overseas brands I I could be wrong that's gonna be like this you have a $40.00 Corsair Maglev fan alright so what so I said replaced I mean honestly the hardware so old that it's not worth upgrading the system yeah it's just time for an overall fresh system so like Paul was saying earlier maybe wait a month and see what risin two has to offer or second gen risin has in store for us and if you like what you see make the switch I mean if you really wanted to keep our like if we're just doing our typical critiques you know there's a few loose cables in here that you could tidy up a little bit here and there but that's not gonna really affect anything performance wise yeah so yeah I mean honestly I think based on a level of hardware you're working with I think this is a pretty nice-looking build yeah I think that's I agree that's what it boils down to for me yeah yeah I knew it's not like your case has a side panel or anything so something you can be able to see any of the loose your cables and stuff it's hard to say what you should go for first when it comes to upgrades but um yeah it seems like you know what you're doing as far as the bill goes but yeah and next gen you know arising builds with a lot more cpu horsepower I think you'll you'll you'll feel you'll feel the improvement that oh yeah big-time thanks gaben move on next we have Kyle Kyle my other half in the Kyle with a core i7 6700 K gigabyte Gaz 170 xqd 3 GT X 1080 and 16 gigabytes of RAM so first off I would sell your GT X 1080 for any any debt that you're in yep immediately pay off all your life debt with that single card spend the rest on the hookers and cocaine yes absolutely sinus picks no dick picks please just so the hackers we only have a single picture here so although this is an NZXT this is the noctus noctus for 420 board for 20 to 420 the duck just 420 blaze it so or if it's got like the the under undercarriage lighting and stuff like that I feel like if the side panel was on you wouldn't be able to see see these two LED strips right right now they're standing to me like wow yeah looks gross but we only have this single picture I will give you the immediate critique that it definitely seems like your computer lives on the floor yeah and that's a bad that's bad man publicly shamed I would highly recommends for the sake of future cleaning of your system to find a better solution for that it looks like you have a vert desk possibly a sit-stand desk I would just scoot it to the right by 5 or 6 inches and put the PC to the left of it but just give it give it us give it something to sit on and give it a small pedestal let's raise it up a little bit I find it curious that you have orange cable extensions right but black and red case and yeah black and red case and then you have this big ol knot to a cooler then which I believe is NHD 15 it's like you cared about color coordination at one point and then just gave up so I don't know this is a conundrum because it's like what do you tell them to fix if your focus is aesthetics then maybe swap the NHD 15 for one of their chroma ones or or that I mean because you can get it man you can get equivalent performance with a much better-looking deal a much better looking setup yeah I just I feel like your cable extension is really a waste it doesn't match with anything right can you swap it just make a black or red one yeah just swap it or black and red all black would be much better than the orange yeah and then and then you've got a stock Nvidia cooler which doesn't match with anything unless it's silver black and green so what heats I don't know I was it they there are modifications you can make to those fans edition cards to make the LED white or whatever you've seen that happen yeah that's ending on how far you willing to go also a cable extension I mean don't bother with this unless you're fixing all the other color coordination issues but a cable extension for your graphics card would be would be nice I don't know yeah too many there are too many things with this build that I feel like need to be switched and then I of course go back to the fact that this probably is a very there's nothing wrong with this perfectly fine perfectly fine and it performs very well and it probably has really good temperatures and stuff like that so but we have to keep this a strictly superficial segment exactly otherwise very superficial otherwise people giving okay well thank you Kyle Kyle and things for sending that in and thanks cat let's with that - captain Kilroy my PC is ar5 risin 5 1500 X power color r9 380 gigabyte horas X 370 gaming k7 the cooler master ml 240 L I've got 8 gigs of crucial sport LT at 2666 and some other stuff with an H 500 p4 cooler master recently upgraded to rising from my old effects okay cool so nice upgrade all right now you've got the original H 500 P case which depending on who you talk to and how much gamers Nexus they watch it's either like a functional case that's just fine and you know maybe doesn't have the best airflow or it's like the most horrible thing ever created and you should take it and destroy it things will explode destroy it burn it in the fires of hell hell before it burns you and now it's perfectly adequate case and it doesn't look like you have an insane amount of hardware in there either so you're probably doing just fine there all right so like overall everything's looking pretty good you don't have anything that's just immediately standing out as in that looks horrible so we got to be a little bit more nit picky your front panel cable connectors here maybe braid those you can braid those up that would make those look a little bit tidy you've got a daisy-chain PCI Express graphics connectors here I never really liked the look of those it's possible to take that little extra hoop that little extra loop and kind of zip tie it and and and and work it back behind the main cable coming from from behind there and I can make it look a little bit cleaner so maybe something like that would make it stand out a little bit less beyond that everything is looking pretty clean yeah I mean no real complaints hey it would look pretty blingy if you matched your rear exhaust fan to the other fans that are on your radiator yeah that look kind of cool yeah that could balance everything out a little bit more but like Paul said you've made all the right moves here for the most part yeah I mean you've got a you've got a lot of blank space at the front but I mean it's a larger case so room for expansion right got that one SATA cable that's going into the grommet and another one that's just going straight behind that motherboard tray panel okay that kind of kind of pokes my OCD just a little bit true that's true I mean again everything looks really good overall so we have to be a bit more NIC nitpicky here a little more symmetry but yeah you know obviously you can swap the cables out for for some black extensions or something like that which you know if they were custom sleeved or something then it would make it make the system look overall a bit more like a showpiece okay final critique and then again this is just not a big deal but just something you could do if you want to make a nice a more aesthetically pleasing swoosh with your tubing here for your for your CPU cooler I don't know I feel like right now that kind of goes across the middle and then arcs back and just just make it a nice nice it should come down and then loop in how do you prefer to bind your AO tubes Pole I mean if you can get away without doing it I think that's best because that's just best but like I would take a single or at most two zip ties going around them so it's minimal and it's it's not very avoidable and then twist zip ties around so that the clasps are in the back so they're not visible yeah that's where you can kind of get them to go together right without looking too too heinous I guess yeah cool next up is Alan dub yeah with this he has the fire and ice bill r7 1800 excellently zero one one case crosser 6 here motherboard 16 gigs of flair X and g.skill memory at 3200 speed an asus strix 1080 cio see of course our H X 1000 I power supply 960 Evo turn 50 gig SSD crucial MX 500 one terabyte also SSD for Triple A games 3 2 terabyte Barracuda pro hard drives in raid 0 for steam 6 courser ml 120 fans ek blocks and rads and source 2 cables singularity protium reservoir and bits power fittings Wow damn what what an all-star lineup of parts here this definitely you can tell was a labor of love as far as builds are concerned hey I like the the like I know this is all right so this is probably Allen's choice as implemented by and sourced but I really like your choice of sleeping with the cable sleeping oh and you've got you've got a nice color scheme there what's kind of that accents textured on there I think that's classy I like that definitely um gosh whatever what else can we say here you know I mean even the rear cable management is looking looking quite clean your barracudas are tucked away as they should be and I'm really digging that vertical GPU alright with that block I have just looked so found I found a critique to make and it's not anything to do with aesthetics yeah all right so Alan you have what appears to be three Seagate green drives in a raid configuration now these are the barracudas and I could be wrong about this but I know on the Western Digital side the green drives are not ideal to use and a raid configuration depending on how often you're using the system if it's on 24/7 or not and whether that raid array typically raid arrays will will have more uptime and depending on how the Raider is configured there might be more maintenance that goes on from the rate controller so if this is a system that you're just powering on to play games a few hours a day or something like that you're probably just fine if you're keeping it on 24/7 if you're accessing the that raid array more frequently like remotely or something like that to give the system a reason to keep those drives spun up more often I might consider swapping the drives out simply because the green drives are typically not made for 24/7 access I would go with either WD reds or blacks or the equivalents on the Seagate side that's my only suggestion beyond that you have a really really nice system I really like all of your choices well done and I have to also say it's very rare when you see someone pull off red and blue oh yes well I do not like this color combination I just think it's not for me personally but yeah it's not very red these are kind of there's like a cherry slightly darker I feel like slightly yeah maybe that's just a color there the the picture maybe contrast or something better but yeah it looks great really nice build nice man all right and then I think we have one more sub or a board with his Xigmatek midgard 2009 case an i-5 2500 K MSI rx 474 gigabyte gaming x OC and a gigabyte z77 XD 3h 8 gigs of ddr3 Corsair Vengeance at 1600 with other stuff 250 gig 850 Evo and 7 terabyte miscellaneous HD DS ok this is another system that seems pretty stacked with hardware ooh looks like a full house in this case thank you also for the outstanding lighting in these pictures good picture quality that helps I mean I like I like what you've done with the height 4 to 12 adding a more high-end corsair fan one of those AF fans or maybe the static pressure one on there that matches with the rear exhaust fan that looks really snazzy along with the the intake that you have at the bottom of the case looks like we've got yet another red and blue theme going on here with the blue accents on your motherboard heat sinks and it works though it works I was gonna say again like we have another example of you know it's it's not overly done and it's uh doesn't seem like it's clashing too much I would say the sticker on your power supply looks a little bit budget oriented or maybe just slightly dated and maybe gonna take take a heat gun to it or something like that and remove the the sticker just for a cleaner look I like the Coolermaster logo on top of the power supply tasteful more than the sides only yeah I'd leave the one on top alone looks fine and cable management is pretty top notch lovely that's leaving this list leaving job here is very nice I mean I can't find much to critique with this build there's maybe a few cables over in the hard drive area that I can't quite tell where they're going that might be a configuration so you can pull drives out this is my guess just because there's a couple molex adapters or cables sticking out there that I'm not sure about but honestly even those are routed pretty well so it's not it's not very noticeable at all yeah I'm kind of curious what the situation is up here at the looks like possibly an old optical drive mount or something like that that was there was ripped out of there that's definitely standing out but it's hard to say for sure with these pictures because the side panel isn't done but I would guess that with the side panel on that that's not gonna be visible at all yeah that's the only thing that stands out like you know not not looking super clean right so good job great job it's on board yes thank you so thank you everyone who submitted their systems for PIM IPC we'll be doing this again in a week or so so don't be discouraged if you can get picked this week nope let's let's do some mail time ma'am um in fact we can actually do a combo here if you want to start reading off some questions while I also unbox things and open envelopes okay alrighty I'm gonna start reading donation comments this one's from bazinga X $10 donation need a recommendation for monitor more than 100 megahertz 100 Hertz not megahertz Hertz refresh rate 2 millisecond or better g-sync ultra wide curved greater than or equal to 34 inches basic capable prefer quality over price will end up getting four of them for a multi monitor system bazinga I feel like if you entered all of that into a drill-down search and a website you probably come up with like two monitors that actually meet all those criteria I don't know if the monitor off the top of my head that would match up to that especially when you're talking about greater than an equal to 34 inch also I'd be curious what resolution you're interested in probably 4k at that size so yeah but I don't I don't know the exact model to tell you what what to get I can say that my preferred monitor manufacturers the brands that I typically like and have had a good experience with would include Asus BenQ Acer Samsung thus named all the big ones yeah so check for one of those MSI is making gaming monitors now I doubt they have this specific oh and what's he looking for Oh ultra wide curve yeah oh he did say ultra wide so Acer predator X 35 is what you want to go for I didn't even see old curved ultra wide the Acer predator X 35 these are also very nice 2 or the Asus what is that PG 3 I honestly forget I'm really bad with remembering model numbers after months of receiving a product it's PG something I'm sure wide PG 3 4 8 q haha PG 3 4 8 Q that's the one it's already switched yes yes there it is blows which is about looks like it's about 1,200 bucks right now depending where you buy it okay all right so sorry that's next I have a letter here from Charlie Charlie says I'll just read it briefly I won't go through the whole thing but he said dear bit wit hi my name is Charles and I am 11 years old you were my favorite youtuber that's awesome your videos are awesome and funny I like your PC build videos the most I built my first gaming PC over the summer but it doesn't work at all Oh doesn't work well at all so the first I use where gtx 1050 it's got an Intel Pentium G 4560 that's actually a really nice pairing of CPU and GPU right there with a asrock be 250 and motherboard and bunch of other I think it's know the case perfectly perfectly fine if you could please help me fix it that would be so awesome I live in Pasadena California thanks so much sincerely Charlie Charlie I don't know how to really help you because unless I have the system on hand I'm not going to be able to fix it or know what's wrong with it if you want to send me your system I'm serious if you mailed me to my mailbox my PA box your system I would take a look at it and possibly make a video on it but that's really the only way it could help you out at any rate my friend thank you very much for sending me the lovely letter and picture of your system I hope I hope I hope you can find a way to make it work because it looks like I mean I don't see any red flags from the picture even though it's kind of hard to tell but yeah good good luck good luck I hope I hope I hope you figure out what's going on with it let's move on we've got another other donation here wait I've lost my next donation is from Scotts Dilbeck yeah okay six dollars and sixty six cents lol yes sure that OD is no comparison better side note I have three rx 480 Strix I need to flip for a profit if I could get a 1080i strix below 1,300 bucks Hey wow I mean yeah that'd really sell those four 80s ASAP but it's like yeah I would want to sell those and then wait however long it takes for prices to level up but who knows when that's going to happen next up is El Jefe reviews five dollar donation thank you guys Kyle loving the improved lighting and video quality in your latest videos on floatplane keep up the great work and hashtag free heavy thank you for noticing lighting this is what Heather must feel like when I noticed when shadow or hair hair done Kyle shut up Lloyd I was like what's going on he's got an that lady's pointing like not at us and then this light over here is it's dressed up like a ghost I just laid over here it's point at the wall for no apparent white we're not going a wall Kyle alright sure sure I can I can thank slash blame Chris because he's the lighting fault okay what do we got here oh this isn't actual hey an actual Bitcoin Bitcoin that's actually pretty cool that's $40,000 yeah what are they so let's quick before it plummets before the value plummets it's pretty fun it just says so this is just says thank you for your order if you have any issues with this product so this is just from the manufacturer of the seller and there's no letter or anything from the person that's straight from Amazon it looks like someone just ordered it through Amazon had it shipped here but I don't see any sort of note attached to it so I don't really know who to thank this is awesome for like you should just take a bunch of pictures of this and upload it to a stock photo website there's so many people who get random like that's true I need a visual representation of Bitcoin my presentation at work her my article ler this is not one it so there was a very small number of bitcoins from my understanding really really early on that were minted that actually had a code on them but that is not not the case anymore does not have a and now they're all the same wallet address they're in dime-a-dozen I'm gonna open this up yeah yep really why not it's uncirculated so care ok what do you mean uncirculated if you ever if you've ever done coin collecting oh I'm an uncirculated coin what is gonna go with that never touched human hands don't even look at it I opened it did you touch it doesn't it valuing there's a value increase if you've never even looked at it I don't know this is never even if I'm made of like heavy plastic so I'm not too concerned I won't touch it I'll just I'll just sort of now you got me all nervous now I feel like something terrible's gonna happen if I touch it it's probably actually does feel like that hey it just pick it okay it's lost all of its value now what does it say this plastic container it says something approved MGB 2013 no idea but yeah I mean it's it's like an actual coin it's got weight to it and stuff proof coins yes tech full very very briefly did some claim collecting when I was much younger just a scam to get me to pay more money for dude take your pick claim you just put a dollar coin for two dollars yes exactly that's what they do and then like no but it's it's it's freshly minted special and has not been in circulation keeping fans if you keep it for 200 years it might be worth more money alright I live that long reed Johnson 25 dog donation says Kiowa phone do you use it looks like a pixel to or two XL was curious as a pixel to XL owner it's a pixel to non XL 9 X and I love it I have my favorite phone that I've ever owned hands down you didn't ask me because the xl2 heads up to missile XL okay not one - not the - gotcha I ordered the two I got the two and it didn't work the way I wanted to it wanted it to returned it and my pixel two actually had like a physical defect defect and it was enough to the point where it prevented me from doing like a proper video review on it hmm so I was just like all right I'm just gonna return this and I don't yeah I didn't really need a new phone at the time so and my pixel one that I had before this one had a physical defect known as spilling beer on it back yes yeah okay okay let's open this guy up we've only got two more here this might be it could be wrong but this might be pup Shepherds package that he's been inquiring about I think it is right yay we have the one-of-a-kind pup Shepherd t-shirt from goober prints over to it oh no it's just one just one fairly large t-shirt pup shirts oh there's two awesome hardware awesome hardware for awesome people it's the pup ship limited-edition pup Shepherd awesome hardware collab t-shirt it smells so fresh ah yes it does yeah never been never been in circulation that's true until now thanks pop thanks pop appreciate it man pride large that's a large okay hey sweet yeah I get one to wifey sausage - where - awesome cool thanks man alright Tom's brim Smiths with 50 no region Crona KY remember when you said that it would be awesome if NZXT makes a motherboard when the H 700 I launched by the way I challenged start and finish HTPC before me for for Paul you should start an HTPC build and finish it before I finish mine I should that's what he's saying oh oh yes now I've made so many HTTP see videos already I know I'll leave it to you and it wasn't it funny how you gave NZXT the idea to make another boy royalty checks in the mail should have given them the idea to make a reasonable power delivery system on it - for just a reasonable price Jack Oswald with $5 donation hey guys hopefully you can figure out something out of my beer glass suggestion was awesome from Iowa to check out two breweries and Cali nice I don't know what that means wait breweries I says hopefully you can figure something out with my beer glass suggests oh I I don't think we got your severe glass suggestion we get oh wait oh yes yes the one it was it was he tweeted me a ballast point a picture of a ballast point glass up their brewery and it was just like one of the tulip ed glasses okay looks really nice I know I know or a guy John our merchandise guy can get pretty much any kind of glass so oh yeah I'm sure will at some point expand ours and our glass collection class glass master I think this is the last package that we have from real time see here this might be from stroopwafels oh my gosh you got stroopwafels you can have one cuz there's two of them here these are so good Oh dangerous you you let you know these you've had these I only have ever had those on unsure delta flights yeah right meet you that's the only time I've ever had a steer and Delta flight last year I took some short delta flights from LA up to the Bay Area and they would give you a stroopwafel yeah just once to buffle there was a little waffle shell with like some caramel it's just a little flat thing and you're supposed to take it and put it on top of your coffee and then the coffee like warms it up and makes it soft but they're very delicious I want one right now to puffles you want one - I would totally eat one right now all right before we continue on I was talking to Brian from VPS customs recently he said that he did send me something in my p.o box which I thought I was going to open up tonight but it appears that it may still be in my Peele box Brian so don't you miss don't be discouraged I'll let you know next to my visit it next up quite a few more donations I'm gonna try to go through these a little bit quicker handle it hi long with the five dollar donation I maintain that we need a dedicated pimp my PC video once weekly I apologize dream on switch to come say this hey that's that's a tall order but it's been suggested before I might do something similar to put my PC on the channel he says oh I love y'all hey long out Thank You head lapel on Michael the vote devote a $5 says just wanted to say love you guys Sephora Janice weakly thank you man cool that feels good to be loved kind of you say we appreciate that and ruch wire thought I have Canadian dollars I'm a Quadro noob but I may use it for Ark survival evolved server thanks anyway Cheers that is interesting I have not heard of a Quadro card specifically used to run a server I'm not sure if that would be taken advantage of I mean a Quadro is like you know you got a lot of parallel processing going on but you need software that's able to take advantage of it do you think are just don't really have too much of an issue running servers yeah especially you listen man I don't see why you would need a gaming card I feel like a server would be that's true would be less concerned with its actually rendering stuff and more answering with player processor and updating stuff memory yeah so I don't think you would need a Quadra for that Andrew I'm sorry if we're not we're kind of Quadro noobs juice no do some more research maybe okay MB 67 lenticular thank you for your 1 $13.30 on a shoe Kyle I have nothing important to say other than cheers Cheers Paul hope all goes well for you and yours thank you very much sure and you've been sending a very very picturesque sunset photos recently Thank You poeple who gave us the damn stroopwafel doesn't say really whoever Hegel just says hi Kyle enjoy this Dutch treat and sorry to Heather because I do not think it's vegan from Omar Omar thanks Omar yo Omar whoo awesome yeah not not vegan definitely not more for me all right um Aaron Porter $5 donation the GPP G first program talked about in my half I would also mean partner program but also mean that companies like issues couldn't sell ROG motherboards for Intel and AMD as well what I thought about that I didn't realize I didn't know if it was only concerning I really included GPUs or mm-hmm like I could see how it could be construed that way but that would make zero sense to me from Nvidia's videos standpoint what benefit would they get from somehow restricting motherboard sales right which is a area of the market that they don't even deal with yeah it would simply generate negative publicity for them mm-hmm so I don't see that happening I mean hobby graphics who knows maybe but I doubt that would happen but thank you for your donation Cody gunts with five dollars and 55 cents traveling was watchdog of violation beasts odds are blue screens I was my 2400 it stuck with all up-to-date driver's updates and BIOS during playback and gaming hmm CPU watchdog violation he says he's running it stock anything usually I get those when attempting to overclock or something like that but yeah that would be something that I would probably try to report either directly back to AMD or to my motherboard manufacturer because if it's something that is repeatable and happening consistently then they would probably be interested in getting some some system logs and stuff from you to find out if that's something that they need to issue a fix for I haven't heard of that specifically though so yeah yeah I'm sorry Cody though hopefully that is fixable with an update next type is Dominic frosene $10 donation Kyle's gonna read this cuz they're you guys so good isn't it isn't it just so good you guys are awesome both you helped me so much with my first build can't thank you enough next rounds on me you're welcome dummy thanks man thank you Congrats on the first build that's always a nice milestone be quick Zach II quit Zach 1499 was wondering what ultra-wide you would recommend for a 1080i having a hard time picking one out an ultra-wide well we just talked about this right the Acer predator X 32 or x 34 well this is X 34 which is a little bit older so I might be able to get a good deal on it or the 35 is a little bit newer right or the new g3 4 8 q PG 3 4 8 q was that right yeah they're all very expensive if you want ultra wide and a good pairing force nati is gonna be 30 40 34 40 by 1440 if you want it all that what do you think then all they're all they're all over $1000 yeah which sucks maybe wait for like a Black Friday deal or something if you can swing it if you can wait that long pup Shepard 10 bucks one shirt for Paul one shirt for Kyle nice I cleaned up my Twitter so no more visible naughty stuff or naughty bits literally naughty bits I'm into your Twitter you know went back in the day I know I know the bits you're talking about also my youtube / Raz Grizz 359 has been cleaned from the start well that's good to know and that'll be won't be promoting any not-safe-for-work material on my chesticles thanks to your shirt thanks bub appreciate it man thank you about eggski 55 norwegian Crona is it possible to make a PC that can play pong cannot play pong wait I cannot play pong why is that a question I don't know I want to make a PC that can't play pong why would you ever want to do that that's a calculator by a calculator that's a computer can't sleep on a SmartWatch yeah that's true so yes the answer to question is yes it is possible very very possible Steve blumquist $10 thank you for always being about the beer and the hardware is it worth it to upgrade to rise in now or wait for rising - I would wait I do virtually virtualization work from time to time but in no rush yes there's been especially few no rush yeah hang out for a month but then a half and see what the rising to lunch does for the market yeah and who knows maybe you'll you might find some deals on first-gen rise and once rise and two comes out if that's turns out to be enough for your needs thanks B but the 109 Norwegian krone oh what's your opinion on singularity computers is pretty quick builds that he does all the time prefer plural co-chairs I'm not familiar with singularity I am his name his first name is I knew it it's escaping me right now yeah he does amazing builds he documents them very well on his channel does a lot of talking over what he's done with the custom set up Sidious put on there and I believe he is now also launched a store where he sells products directly I was actually in a Twitter conversation with him gosh I feel like this was a year or two ago and I think I I think I fell off and I see we were talking about possibly doing something together and I think I completely my fault stopped stopped communicating which I'm very bad at a lot of the times yeah he does really good work these builds are insane they're they're amazing Dez Jones $5 donation my current rig is dead in the water since my GPU died so can't use it shadow to fit out until next month we'll send Plus releases or suffer GPU price gouging there's no indication that the Zen + release will have any impact on GPU pricing so yeah GP price gouging it's pretty much it's just a decision that you have to make for yourself right now it's a crappy one I tend to lean towards telling people no don't spend ridiculous overpriced prices on something that should cost way less money but I understand that some people are in a situation where they just want a game and maybe even saving for it for a while or maybe you just have a decent amount of X of you know disposable income and you can afford it in which case you know go for it it's gonna suck in a year or two when prices come back down but you know it's just just understand that you're overpaying for what you're getting you can still get like a 1080i in the meantime for relatively cheap and and enjoy 1080p gaming like pretty smoothly yeah if you're looking at 1080 T eyes though and they're plus $1,000 then definitely look at Titans because Titans are better and they're often in some situations can be cheaper I think a lot more memory all right Guido Sarducci $5 donation so I guess I missed sight a because I'm in the hospital I'm sorry as such a misspent my PC submissions currently watching side B live on my my phone we all right man I'm sorry you're in the hospital I wish you a quick recovery and no worries for missing side a I'm glad you're able to catch us first I'd be though maybe he's like in the hospital just like vandalizing shit though maybe he's not even a patient that's possible could just be I want to assume that an asshole just dicking around like fucking with the nurses and you know that would be a weird jerking it in the pastime into the doctor's office I'll do two you're a bastard anyway thanks for the donation does Jo five dollars what are your thoughts on this monitor the LG 3 2 TK 8 v 0 G black 30 1.5 inch qHD 1440p 5 millisecond 144 Hertz Nvidia g-sync gaming monitor IMO best gaming mod or out right now for eight hundred and fifteen dollars that's what it's selling for a new agreement 31 inch 140 so or Hertz geez I have a couple monitors this size that are 4k and you can get a 4k monitor this size even with decent color reproduction so yes I don't know let's see the color range cuz I mean IPS Oh gtfo sixteen point seven million colors so probably not so that would probably be your dance might cheat your downfall in this is that I'm not positive it might might not be seeing but it just definitely doesn't have the same it doesn't have the billion color range it's not a 10-bit you know qHD sphere lighting whatever sphere lighting is okay I'm not seeing the panel technology advertised here which probably means it's TN so you're probably not going to get really good color reproduction here you're gonna get really good refresh rate and I'm gonna get g-sync VA that's a VA panel so that's kind of in between so it'll be a little bit better than its yen but yeah it does seem like a very solid set of features for a gaming monitor just bear in mind that your purchase is gonna be largely dependent on what you want to do with it so um if you're gaming then then cool if you're gonna be doing gaming and content creation or something like that then you might also take a look at some of the other options that are 4k that better color reproduction but you're not going to have the refresh rate the my frame the 4k Asus PB whatever that I got yeah depends on if you're prioritizing gaming or productivity okay jj5 cool one $4.99 I'm back missed you guys go to Disneyland on Sunday come say hi I'll be wearing my new shirt I just ordered Kyle you can do that you haven't passed right I do not know you did have a pest we don't have passes you just go well we the last time we went was like the first time in like a year - oh I thought I've seen you go a few times but well I went to like Universal Studios and stuff that's that's where that's Rome but but cool um thank you picking up a shirt is expensive now it's like a hundred and twenty bucks or something to go for a day ridiculous I think we'd like like under 100 it was like 90 that depends if you do though maybe because single being single Park or part copper oh yeah in Southern California you can get a little bit of a discount yeah cool all right enjoy your joy the happiest region a centres sear on curry $5 sorry your name there if my PC has an i-5 2500 K and eight gigs of ddr3 1600 megahertz Ram but also has an asus strix 1080 1070 OC edition how desperate should I be to upgrade I mean you're okay for right now I would probably want to get some more memory at some point and you might actually have an easier time getting some ddr3 to add on to that system if you didn't want to upgrade that beyond that you're looking at a platform upgrade which means you'll need ddr4 and everything so given the price of memory I would say hold out with what you got you know cuz that's not a bad setup especially if the 2500 kg overclocked a little bit yeah I think you're fine you're doing just fine Allen W $5.00 thank you guys for featuring my build much inspiration bye-bye your builds first pc built in a decade keep up the great content Thank You Allen cool yeah dad we could do that mean we enjoyed taking a look at your system thank you for submitting it Austin Maru five dollars no comment oh thank you that follow-up he did a follow-up comment I follow up donation with a comment that says you guys should add beer tankards to your store a tankard like one of the big Stein's with the the flip eel lid is that what that is think tankard I mean I don't know maybe maybe we could do a like a short special edition tankard or something oh yeah yeah one of those looks like a medieval type of medieval medieval mug sure you never know this guy's the limit doubled derp ninety to five Australian Intel i7 47:10 HQ at 2.7 gigahertz from 3.4 gigahertz with gtx 860m 2 gigabyte to Intel i7 7700 HQ 2.7 to 3.7 gigahertz with the GTX 1066 gigabyte is it worth upgrading need to upgrade anyway yes yeah that's a pretty big upgrade he needs to upgrade it's a very very big boost in the GPUs performance as well as a pretty decent boost in the CPUs performance we're not having prices listed but you said you need to upgrade so go for it if you want to fork out 400 investing you know investing in a laptop with the 1066 gig is a lot more price effective than investing in an actual 1066 gig right now - so yeah I don't want to consider that and just buying like a set of peripherals connected to the laptop microdrive $5 just bought a pint glass from you guys thanks you're welcome thank you Cheers finger pistols Brandon bye great with dish pounds what monitor do you recommend under 200 great British pounds there are a lot of panels in that range in that sort of entry-level budget area that I I would go for 2560 by 1440 resolution I would go for a better panel than TN which means preferably IPS yeah maybe VA and I would go for did I say 27-inch 27-inch 25 - 27 inch 27-inch 2560 by 1440 and then get the highest refresh rate that you can afford you should be able to find the 60 Hertz for sub $200 yeah and maybe even one that supports free sink but that would only be useful for you to you for you if you had an AMD graphics card that's true all right oh is it holy crap we're done we're done so much for being here everyone who donated asked questions and just all y'all in chat for making this another fantastic episode before we go we'd like to do some Johnson shoutouts oh yeah all the merchandise - you guys may have picked up so let's quickly do that we've got a few here oh I got several no boy I'm in boy Alex Alex Z from santa clara got the metallic silver black tri-blend shirts thank you very much Alex Johnson Jackson Oh from Iowa got the Star Wars black shirt with both of us and the thumbscrew beer set just classic nice Jackson was at a double Johnson for Jackson no yes double Jackson Johnson for CPU cooler Heather Navy t-shirt hashtag free Heather and a BIOS flasher shirt also heavy metal gray that I said Heather metal gray next up zoo I believe that zoo from Georgia Bigelow Johnson got the metallic silver black lightweight hoodie blue classic lightweight hoodie Johnson took your Dresden Cora Dino he picked up a fidget spinner nice that's a double Johnson for Winston there also got the last gaming a desk mat and the pub glass Craig Davidson you got a bit metallic logo metallic silver logo black t-shirt limited edition big old Johnson for Dewayne Johnson Dwayne from Pennsylvania I got the gaming desk mats the big long one nothin Oh Nathan Johnson to you Nathan you think of an awesome hardware a swordfight gaming mouse pad and a CPU cooler and flash bios full color 15 ounce black ceramic mug set Michael be from California got the Star Wars men's black t-shirt so Johnson to you from both of us Dewayne gets a double Johnson and their navy t-shirt hashtag free Heather Dominic F from Michigan got the a metallic silver black tri-blend t-shirt thank you for your patronage Johnson Johnson to sway it's just x ue jew-jew Wow how'd you know that because I tried to say that a few like two minutes ago oh but you but how did you know it was you X is usually like a Z sound and I thank you very much you for picking up a crystal RGB shirt and a bio splasher shirt and Robert from Missouri got the thumbscrew tri-blend t-shirt bagel Johnson free Robert Johnson Adin Adin CPU cooler Heather Navy t-shirt shake free Heather and Diego from Mexico Diego whole order for Mexico got the gaming mouse flat mouse pad and desk mat said you get two to decimates krystalr thank you very much Diego the crystal RGB shirt and the state positive tri-blend were sold to a Zeus he says Johnson to you hey Zeus should I say Hudson okay um Dominic double Johnson telepathic Dominic Dominic they with metallic silver logo black tri-blend t-shirt limited a dish and then we've got a 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