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welcome this is I think we're live to both now we should get which angels about be like all right if you can't see us right now or hear us then say something welcome to awesome Hardware episode 153 your watch inside a in about an hour or so will be switching beside be on Paul's channel youtube.com slash Paul's hardware you can find a link to that in the video description on my youtube video that's my channel and this is a fun laid-back exciting tech news show that Paul and I like to do every single Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Pacific time right here on Twitch on TV and our respective YouTube channels so we'd like to have a few drinks on occasion yeah am I kidding every time every episode we have a few drinks always drink beer we encourage you to do the same if you are of legal drinking age or you can just drink something non-alcoholic that's fine too only thing that can distract us from that just endless nothingness of existence god we crack this quick yeah alright and then we also 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through the same merch guys so you have to sit there and scratch your head and wonder all those stuff is better if said the differences is very very small but he's got a lot of awesome stuff here 2x blood t-shirts RGB everything we got thumbscrew desk mats also back in stock every friggin thing the Sun and we will Johnson the shit out of you see and we always get positive feedback on the merchant people get yeah you know yes we have very few very few returns I will say very low return rate on these things so I'm go ahead and buy something from from both of our stores and we will yell Johnson at you at the end of the show slightly violating oh it's gratifying let's crack this beer shall we yeah it's getting I like the name of this beer it's the it just says hey yeah hey yeah where's my beer it's a double dry hopped double India Pale Ale it's got double doubles it's like an in-and-out beer but they say you're double twice your openers little literally under a stack of CPUs and an SSD your beers oh your beer open air isn't here you go what my story what a lucky opener yes bottle openers on both of our stores but you can only find this the thumbscrew one on on pulse it's true let's see okay we do ship we do ship worldwide although a worldwide shipping can be on the more expensive side our apologies for that fuel prices and all this is like plastic on the cap look at that plus you know they hire a guy with a gun to like let's guard the shipment the entire way the holy I might be exaggerating about that but yeah yeah oh yeah okay yes they are heavily depends or arm to it it depends on you know what all is in the order but usually there's some protection going on there always use protection kids all right let's pour the showi over here hey yo this is a again double dry hop double India Pale Ale with moat Wicca and galaxy hops I'm probably butchering that this this was sent to us by a fan when we opened it on the awesome Hardware live showed just before we went on hiatus but right before Computex and everything so I intended to look up so we could double check and thank the fan again who sent this in and I totally didn't because time before the show okay so if anyone like right now wants to find that out because it's in like I said the the live show before Computex yes maybe we could think in the person but that would be nice regardless thank you kind fan for sending this in I think part of I think part of the mo here was to have me drink some good IPAs because I always say yes you know I don't hate IPA but it's not my favorite mm-hmm so it's true this I believe perhaps is a good IPA Kyle actually opened the bottle there it wasn't one of the quark style bottle suit yeah yeah it's not quite - my true tennis it had tape around there for shipping purposes and then a you know on a scale of one to five rows only like a five in terms of nervous so I'm getting better and this is from microphone brewing in case you were wondering 8.5% well cheers Cheers all of you thank you so much for being here choose to the Phoenix as this whoo double cheers that's very tasty hmm it is mmm that's mmm I like it that's really really like I like guys now I'm an IPA guy you made Paul a believer I need more hops right there more hops in this okay okay um let's let's just dive right in shall we - our and really quick shout out to to sell that in moderator for moderating check and my wife wifey sauce is in the YouTube chat at least thank you very much honey for being here as well I know they're given giving so a hint so oh all right our first segment I thought I would bring back to fund or not to fund haven't done this one in a while it students and this is a great yes there's gonna be a special wearables edition no I kept finding you know interesting items that just happen to be wearable so I was like you know what that's I'm just gonna turn this into a thing I love a nice theme turn it into a thing and and yeah it's gonna be glorious so the first one we have here is a wire or a wireless not a wireless a wearable charging cable called the Nils not a huge fan of that acronym whatever it stands for it's probably right there nerd niños what's that stand for I don't know I didn't really look for it it's by Nordic Union so maybe it's a Nordic or dick in inversion duction lithography synapse synapse nailed it nailed it you nailed it okay all right so what is this and what does it do you shouldn't spend too much time on this because it's essentially a charging cable that you can wear around your wrist like a bracelet oh and and I feel and I should I should mention it's already had forty-three thousand dollars raised of it's ten thousand dollar goal I feel like that figure would be doubled if their campaign video wasn't so damn cheesy if they actually targeted it to like nerds and and not like this this dude and his sappy girlfriend I don't know marketing is absurd I reserved a cartoonist leg shot their marketing is very important and I think this video is super cheesy but let's talk about the product itself it's basically a charging cable it comes in a variety of connectors lightning type-c micro USB they're not interchange which actually might end this video up it's making my eyes bleed thank you thank you everyone else thanks you to it it's not interchangeable the the connectors which I like I prefer them to just be stuck on there and solid just by the one you need and be done with it it supports fast charging and it's water-resistant so you know if you accidentally fall into a ocean you should be okay and yeah I think this is a neat concept if anyone's just in it for the like oh my gosh time's wasting literally five minutes to go on the $4 pledge to get one of these and there's six left six left Wow better jump on that now although there was still six left when I saw this article earlier today that was before it was featured super successful live stream yes six dollars in more and you get it's cheap though well it's four bucks what four bucks for one six bucks I get I mean it's it's so cheap that it's like all right even if it's not everything you hoped it would be it's four bucks if you're one of the lucky few the last six people to get one that's a provocative image yeah I thought that was kind of weird and bondage II it's also not even the cable that's being sold it doesn't really have a whole lot I was like this is stupid now I have to fat oh this is trying to say the old cables which are long and annoying and will strangle you now that's a double double entendre there it's saying that you're being you you're bonded you're bound by your by your shitty non bracelet cables interesting marketing technique they're very very right to tell from wholesome wholesome coupling yeah just vanilla looking couple in the world to like bondage and trying to cable chains trying to cast a wide wide net here yes fishnets scandalous all right let's move on to the next item here is an auto black block turn oh well interesting YouTube's on it we have also got or maybe twitch we've also got the smart belt 2.0 oh good which means that there was at one point now at some point he does stupid my belt is where are you smart like oh the other cell stupid fucking belt that would be a great campaign video yeah is your belt stupidest shit why don't you ever tighten the right alright so what's going on here you never do math okay alright 1 million dollars funded Jesus what for a belt ok for a belt 1 million dollars of it's $10,000 goal still has 16 days to go like a million dollars wasn't in fact this broke records this is the highest funded fashion item in history ok according to them so sure it's it's on the internet it's true Senate record that many people have sought to achieve and it's smart son it's on my bucket list meld it fashionable so okay at first I was like what kind of stupid app is this gonna be synched up with what is there's actually no tech involved really watch which I kind of I'm torn with why call it a smart belt if it's not like a pin able or doesn't have any sort of tech behind Bluetooth doesn't it bluetooth doesn't have anything well it doesn't have a calculator Paul it can't do your math equations for you but yet they call it a smart belt anyway so it's kind of weird advertising I don't know if that's the best thing for it Lauren there but at the same time I'm kind of relieved at the city you know I'm kind of relieved at the same time that it's like okay great we we really don't need to be syncing our belts to our smartphones now do we so what's worried about it I mean I was excited about the prospect of making fun of the garbagey technology the thing that would have been the only redeeming quality rated smart belt so now I'm disappointed that's true well now we can just be enlightened by how reasonably subdued this yeah they obviously could have thrown some RGB and been nice though but that'd be great you just take take suggestion RJ shoes somebody needs so yeah the RGB belt with RGB shoes RGB shirts are to be pants sunglasses so this is so basically it's the number one thing that makes this a smart belt is the adjustability so instead of having like seven loophole or belt holes or whatever that you can adjust that are all like you know an inch or an inch or two apart this has third a thirty two step track system that's 1/5 of an inch apart so you can basically adjust it very very accurately to your needs or and has a very easy like quick-release mechanism so if you wanted to just like release it a couple notches after a big meal this is what they are saying in the video or like you're sitting down for like a five hour meeting at work and you're like I'm not wearing this belt right now this this tightly you can just easily loosen it without having to like do the thing you know we've all been there it's like I could really loosen or tighten my belt right now but you're in public and it's just kind of awkward it looks like you're about to strip down and just like pull your Wang out all is about to do right now wouldn't be the first time he pulled his dick right and those are good I've been wearing the same belt since high school yeah this is like that no joke this belt is so old and like it still does the same job and it does everything that you just said because it's it's one of the class ones of course I used to have one so you can connect it wherever you want Sasuke everything cuz that's vans right when was in its etnies one that I had four years after high school was gonna say and quickly broke just just like I just did I am amazed yours is still intact well this belt is very old I know but I'm going to keep wearing it and you should there's no reason you should see you don't use a smart belt cuz yours is already spelled was smart long has time ago all those jokes about how stupid your belt blows are they were all lie in fact you've just probably just rediscovered your your love for that belt I'm very proud of this bill you're welcome it's like things I haven't spent any money on in a really long time like haircuts belts I don't know what are their regular expenses have I have I saved a lot of money and over these tangent but you die grass is so I'm disappointed in the smart belt joke Bluetooth but is yours made out of Kevlar can your can your belt stop a bullet I've never been shot in the waist fortunately well you know the day that you are you'll greatly regret wearing your dumb non bulletproof all right all right that's probably shade you got a smart belt gonna come back it's gonna come back to haunt me it's gonna come back to shoot you and then finally we have the pocket monkey this is advertised as being a ginger pocket I have it's the most that's the tiniest the world's most portable Fitness device pocket monkey it just sounds like you jerk off in your pocket get work out that's it that's why I'm that's why it's beginning of this videos really what they're implying here and what what is this guy carrot top with like black dyed hair he looks like carrot top yeah I kind of do I shouldn't I shouldn't focus too much on his appearance but it looks like he's about to pull out his wing but it's just the pocket monkey um so it's basically a gym in a portable bag for people who are fit basically no one who watches the show nor me or Paul I shouldn't say that but stereotypes are funny it's for when you're traveling on the go when you're on the go and you still want to get your burn on alright but you're in the hotel room you don't to use the hotel gym or you're you know somewhere else traveling cuz you're cool and never home well you can still do these sexy workouts and maintain your sweet bod and flush toilet paper down the drain that you've written on instead of these fatties eating delicious donuts that I kind of want right now you can be like this guy you can be black carrot top hair again I'm gonna stop the video yeah you gotta you stopped it right before the monkey working there's got a play that is actual right now you can stop okay so it's it's a it's a gym on the go and yeah it's it's $100 for one executive use elastic band it's a few elastic bands that they're selling for $100 you could probably make this yourself for good just get $15 some bungee cords and maybe some duct tape I'm not exactly sure why it's so expensive a hundred dollars it doesn't you you realize people realize they have to actually use it like every other day for other work right it's insanely durable oh wow insanely insanely durable I was hoping I was thinking it was just gonna be super durable definitely a durability rating that is you know it's grounded in some sort of real scale it can be measured and tested to prove that this is advertising within it might as well have said it was like spacecraft material space grade Space Gray yeah there's rubber bands it's it's aircraft grade aluminum probably too they got in there to Jesus crazy yeah and this I feel like they would just snap back and just there would be a blowback effect there's gonna be injuries there's gonna be so many returns on this thing but it's already got a million dollars fund any can you believe that a million I'll take the smart belt so if we were gonna choose out of these three I the charging cable around your wrist is actually pretty pretty handy because you can just wear it as an emergency charging cable that's there have been times where I'm like holy shit I could use a charging cable right now but I'm never gonna put it in my pocket of the around the brace limit I would go for that yeah cuz it's four bucks it's for buzz odds to get one of those last six yeah a four dollar got really weird belts all that much so it's I mean for the least amount of money drew of these options so overhead and I might actually use a journeyman cable mm-hmm it's very pretty okay alright that was tough under not on those epic round of to thunder net hell yeah run firing now let's let's let's continue our fire streak funded with some pimp my PC hey but not just any kid my PC we're doing the micro ATX Edition today folks because I feel like micro ITX is kind of the middle child when it comes to form factors my Chrissy I thought you're doing Mini ITX no micro are you chain rule I did change it I initially put down Mike Mini ITX when I woke up this morning and then I was like you know what micro ATX never gets any love they were forgotten middle child so I thought I would I thought it would toss him a bone so let's let's talk about let's talk about Donna blames no Donalbain Donna Bane's system okay Donnell based an extreme budget V our computer that does really well right for a bunch of computer cool Adele Optiplex 390 motherboard in case core i3 twenty one twenty eight gigs of generic ram 1333 question mark a GTX 780 coolermaster or I'm sorry that's the CM 550 watt 80 plus power supply it's cool a master have fun judging it oh we certainly will okay you have a core i3 in here and a GTX 780 I guess yeah that would be okay for some entry-level VR look at those 3.5 inch drive mounts I really like that Wow that is sexy okay so now we today I learned Paul is super into suspended hard drive mounts know that just they're so DIY and they're they're so like so it's integrated with the existing like floppy cage that's right there right and then just these vertical just I just appreciate that you know they're spaced out a little bit for some airflow in between true you know they're it's making use of some otherwise dead space in this case that's a good point I I agree with you why not some other things to note here is that we have well it's hard to even begin with pimping this PC when the components are pretty low-end you got a green PCB motherboard so it's right there's not a whole lot you can do about which is a good excuse to upgrade the whole platform you've got a you know unpaid end unpainted interior case there's not a whole lot you can do about that and it's used to buy a new case your power supply is adequate it says it's eighty plus but why not buy a new power supply while you're at it I mean honestly if you were upgrading here and you're trying to salvage something the power supply could probably kick kick around for another year or two yeah you know it's not the best efficiency rating but yeah yeah I mean drives curious you're doing VR with this also you said there's a GTX oh there's a 780 I'm sorry there's a picture with it out 70 these down in the bottom yeah like there's there's just not a whole lot you could get a bunch of zip ties and go at the cables and try to cinch him down and tie them back to the back here as much as possible I mean that's that's something good rule but then that'll guarantee that like the power supply dies and then you have to undo yeah yeah I mean I I applaud this this system because it's some you know slightly outdated parts but using it for a pretty modern application of VR yeah 780 can probably just barely kind of hang with that I think you've done all you can with this particular system yeah and there's really no point in pimping it the next logical step would be to upgrade it and when I say upgrade I mean change everything except like Paul said the power supply and perhaps the hard drives if they're still kicking I mean graphics card 2 is oh yeah the graphic starts fine you know if you would like a nice uplift in your VR performance then I would definitely suggest something a little bit faster you can still probably saw the GTX 780 for a decent price so maybe but apart from that all right Thank You Donalbain Ian thanks appreciate it morris forest with two R's get it right 8700 can use e 370 g motherboard Corsair 64 gigs 2400 speed H 115 i Galactic Empire Titan XP and Wardell Corsair RM 1,000 X capable on extensions crucial MX 300 one terabyte m2 SSD and 2 terabyte MX 300 Wow and a 10 terabyte Barracuda Pro with shit so this thing is pretty stacked this is like balls to the wall probably this fast of a gaming PC you can get I like to start every aeration in 2018 storage configuration yes I mean hell yeah he's got a 1 terabyte m2 SSD in there it's nvme he's got another 2 terabyte SSD that's two and a half inch yeah three terabytes of SSD and 10 terabytes of hard drive at least act in three drives 64 gigs of memory yeah this is a high-end s system yeah so this is like the polar opposite of the system we just took a look at where you already have your specs where they need to be and you can now afford to start actually you know spending money on aesthetics there's nothing more important right now that you need to upgrade first so the system already looks pretty good cable management's pretty good I feel like the wires coming off of your water block could be tucked away a little bit better mostly yeah I guess that kind of stands at little this little guy what's this little one here I don't know yeah but even even the bigger one who looks a little it's just very noticeable maybe it's cuz of the flash on the camera but just sticks out this might be for the other fan you could push it closer push it closer to the PCB of the motherboard the baby try to hide it under the heatsink there of the virial theorem heatsink I would also say if you're into it getting some LED fans not the clear ones not the clear heal ones but maybe some tasteful LED fan some of the high-end ones you can go that extra mile now you already got freaking Titan XP at 87 octane here I'm going to tactfully disagree with you well you can tactfully be wrong then do this just because it's AG lactic Empire it's like a it's like kind of a dark side themed red and black and I feel like with the amount of LEDs he has going on already like with the lid up picture the Galactic Empire on the graphics card and then the wraparound with the LEDs on the top like there's already a good amount of red light in there you know yeah dad the the LED fans to it might be might be overkill I don't know I don't know overkill sounds like sounds like what the Empire would want doesn't it but see like this picture here with the side panel on you know you got kind of it says red highlighting on everything even even the non LED fans have this sort of red hue but they're still black so it's got that sort of ominous feel oh yeah like a nice little red ring around that fan might be cool maybe the maybe that was fantasy fan Tex does the halos or whatever cuz here's my thing this is what I'm thinking right now if I did a an entire theme system I want the LEDs to be to do more than static obviously I keep them all red like he's done but I'd probably create some kind of fun effect maybe this would be a good opportunity for a breathing effect I think I think the breathing red red LED is kind of a kind of sinister looking and I've really never found these might already be breathing they might be we don't know but see that's if there's a state if there's more than just a static effect then it could benefit the the overall cosmetics to have an additional little little LED ring over there in the fan I don't know I'm just saying I'm just saying if you're my sister well we'll leave it to but it looks really good to the viewers at home to the side looks good but thank you very much for a nice system very nice I like it excellent oh dude dear ad core i7 4770k learn master hyper 212 Evo Biostar b85 motherboard 4x4 gigs of g.skill area 1600 ddr3 an EVGA GTX 760 2 gigabyte and you've got a 120 gig 530 series SSD and an NZXT s340 elite so thank you for the high quality pictures by the way and the good lighting very much appreciated yeah they're there well done um this kind of reminds me of my old system the hyper 212 cooler the fan looks awfully close to the graphics card so it's just like in taking all the hot air that's wafting off of the card that's always what I think when I see that configuration if your cpu temps are totally fine then you don't really need to do anything I also personally from an aesthetic standpoint like the way that the these towers look when they're vertical as opposed to horizontal but look the cooler master logo is you can read the cooler master on it this way but it's not a very attractive faceplate for a heatsink tower anyway so I try to even look at it okay but opinions or opinions the other thing here is that you have a nice black flat black cable going to your graphics card ketchup and mustard for the ATX ATX cable yes thank you chat for pointing out ketchup and mustard you're you're always on it and we appreciate that so maybe get some extensions you know maybe some extensions would do a body good would do a PC good you also looks like you have purple LEDs in your fans is that just the camera mmm I think don't they look proposed are purple LED fans okay cuz sometimes I mean it looks weird on camera but that looks definitely purple to me which you should find some purple sticks of RAM or find some blue LED fans because I feel like the purple and blue yeah I don't know doesn't really match to me um I'd like to see more white in the case to match your graphics card because it's just so prominently doing you could mod the memory like cuz you don't want to spend a lot of money on this but like you know you can probably get a relatively inexpensive 24 pin extension to get rid of your ketchup and mustard leave the GPU extension cuz that's fine it looks a little tortured right there where you got the the twist there the zip tie on it but I would say get an extension for your graphics card too just to match okay I'm trying to get the budget option here so screw that inexpensive 24 pin extension and then take see if you can heat gun off the heat sinks are the heat spreaders on your memory spray paint them purple to match your fans and then everything in this system matches pretty nicely one last little accent take your SSD because it's one of the Intel ones as that weird like when they were doing the 4000 series CPUs design in the corner of it spray paint that corner of it purple as well yeah I agree on everything I look nice I agree with that okay and maybe get a new cool okay thank you very much thank you Andrew and your wire and your swear 6700 K a Susie to 70 mg scaled to buy 16 gigs of 21 33 megahertz Fram overclocked to 2666 and asus strix GT x 1080 with an h 80 may upgrade to an 280 in the future Thermaltake V 21 and cm 200 millimeter fan 256 gig 960 pro SSD bloody blood blood will take 1000 watt power semi modular power supply all right we got here um good case I like that case it's fun interesting placement of the case badge here it's like overlapping oh yes overlapping the side panel in the front huh wonder he was stuck to one or the other or if it's somehow actually keeping that closed I don't know so you just use a thumb screw interesting that he would have taken this picture of the front of the system there's all these extra cables plugged into it you just don't give a shit yeah I mean I can appreciate the cables draped over the front and stuff like you know and do that temporarily but but not long-term you know yeah if he if he can employ your i/o you need to you got it you got a mess of cables going on also this the system needs a dusting that looks like it's been in use for a while see bunch of dust bunnies and you've got one of them power supplies with the red connectors on the part and the PCI Express graphics is that an EVGA or a thermal take thermal tape EVGA did that a long time back yeah Thermaltake is probably the more common perpetrator of that crime right just I mean I guess in this case you could say oh it matches with the memory but the memory is kind of standing out not that blending it very well either here right and it's conflicting with the blue LED fan the front Finny's art must be our gb you're right it does look like it's only synced with the graphics card right so I can appreciate that so do the same thing with yours if you want to get fancy and you don't want to get like a sleeping kit for your power supply get just they're pretty cheap you can get one of the pin extractors and you could replace just the caps on your extension cables here it's pretty easy if you're gonna go that far see if you can get your second cable so you can have a separate cable for each plug and just do two of them that'd be a fun little project it's not too terribly difficult to do and then that would look a lot better same suggestion I gave for the last submission to to maybe consider is like a black or a matte black spray paint job on your memory and then you get your are jeebies you know can do whatever they want and that'll be your color accent and everything else to be black then of course dust things out and clean up all these cables here these cables here looking they need some work would you would you still do two cables to the graphics card if the only cables that were included with that power supply were the dual header ones it's a thousand watt power supply so I think there's gotta be I would guess with the thousand watt power supply that's probably six PCI Express graphics power for like triple SLI well if there you get plugs on each one I don't know but you're never gonna do more than then to weigh on this system and you're probably never gonna do anything more than what you are currently have so you know if you're doing a little project and sacrifice one of those PCI Express graphics power cables if you got three of them you probably at least got three of them if not four and if you got three of them you could sacrifice one to do that project and you'd still have one left over if you do add another graphics card I'll tell you whatever really I would snip one of those headers off yeah oh yeah you snip it replace the other ones me upstairs it's fun fun times gives me the chills alright thank you very much and then we have one honorable mention that I just could not resist systems yes virility PC I just thought this was so nice looking yeah and just a way to preheat the micro ATX form factor beautiful beautiful like n3 evolve ATX modification here with that panel wooden in front wood panel oh my god it looks so nice oh my goodness I don't know about airflow but but hey it looks great and then just like the tubing and stuff the symmetry with the yeah the connectors yeah symmetries gorgeous Gorge super super Gorge this is a full-blown show show PC and it looks like there is maybe some airflow coming in through the sides of the of the front panel looks like you've got some pretty large gaps there's obviously with this picture you can see where the sun is shining behind that and even lighting up right here I know right Suns the best source and then just yeah that's a nice I'm a huge fan of like horizontally mounted reservoirs like that that are really long it's really awesome build I wonder if this is ptg or glass it could very well they're all straight and I kind of like also that he sort of fused glass or whatever with metal tubing because there's metal tubing on the horizontal tubes are all met out here yeah but then the vertical the I'm sorry that the vertical ones are all metal and the horizontal or something yeah it's just really really nice like the horizontal tubes are like mini versions of the horizontal reservoir you thank you very much really well done super sweet alright and that concludes Pitt my PC yeah let's do a quick little segment here called case off where Paul and I argue which of these two cases are better and they're the same price within the price point we're going for today is $100 the first case that's on the line is the Coolermaster h 500 which was actually launched to dick ke sath a sophomore beer will be oh well you're already you're beating me how is that possible when do you've been talking oh yeah you're right no no remind me later Windows updates go away Microsoft okay all right you get some b-roll I'll talk about these cases when they play this video is Steve and his cat yes so Bo we have provisionally we have Steve from gamers Nexus and his the video he did recently on the H 500 he actually reviewed it you guys should check it out we're gonna play this in the background with no audio as a visual aid so you can enjoy my voice to the you can enjoy the sound of my voice to the replay this deals with information from gamers Nexus yes of course how I got their permission in writing before the show Steve if we ever get our streams ever get flagged for having one of your videos in it I will murder you I will personally chop off those luscious locks sir give them to your cat your cats doing all right so the H 500 mesh and acrylic front panels are included so you can optimize the case for airflow or aesthetic if that's your thing it features to 200 millimeter RGB fans yep let's do a sour yeah Wow do we ever find in the name of this fan because whoever said thank you again for sending us this amazing beer I love sours so the H 500 you'll notice is just an H I've wondered M or P or whatever without that ending suffix whatever so it's kind of a cut-down version for 50 bucks cheaper than the H 500 P mesh for example so it's all the extra stuff that you don't really need or want if you're just looking for a solid case that's more streamlined riddler support you get 240 or 140 at the top up to 360 or 280 at the front 120 at the rear pretty solid pretty solid radiator uh-oh options excuse me it has 1/2 PSU shroud doesn't go across the entire depth of the case kind of stops the hard drive cage some people are gonna hate that like why other people will be like it's coming around other people will be like Steve and be like well that actually opens up a bit more cooling for your graphics card just based on the natural product thanks have to cut away from damn it Steve why'd you cut away we're trying to show the hard drive shed oh you suck you suck at this live editing thing Steve let's see what other get on it so I don't know I think the cooling in this case actually based on the review of the cooling in this case is pretty damn good and you would expect it to be because the front is just pure mash and it's got two 200 millimeter fans the front yeah unfortunately the RGB side panel still has that crappy screw the flat head screw hate the supply heads yeah yeah so it wasn't like it's really clean and cool then other times like open it without a freaking tool this should be Julis so and there's two of them that's even worse no that's that's actually I didn't notice that till just now bollocks having two of them that's even worse but okay a hundred dollars for this case versus a hundred dollars for for the relatively new NZXT th 500 ah so they're exactly the same price bear that in mind that all right that's almost exactly the same product name yes this is the Battle of the H five hundreds no kidding I do not know I did I did I just forgot to point it out just now but yes I was gonna say the H rep hundred game is strong right now now that this case is totally different has has a few tricks up its sleeve as well it's got a can powered smart device built-in that we saw at the H 700 I for example that allows you to connect your fans your lighting and control those things through the cam software it can help you piles of bamboo sticks and stuff like that' clear aces up out of a big pile of black sand I have always confused when I see promo videos with just like things like that that aren't really nice can't tell what's going on in zxt not artena what the hell am I looking at oh it's okay see that's a PC that okay I see PCs that's not the case that's a cooler that's a cooler that's that looks like there's nothing wire it is what power supplies finally sees oh there's no second so now there's two of them and is that literally all that's literally all that's horrible smoke and mirrors people smoking mirrors that's so bad video NZXT a No I don't like it give us some more info it's kind of artistic and cool-looking I'm not saying it's not cool-looking right but show me the freaking product true Jesusita see I think the problem was that we didn't have the audio had we had the amazing epic song attached all that we'd be like ooh James Cameron direct this but ok what else does this have besides a cam Howard smart device that most people or a lot of people from one of the comments I would read them h7 how to review aren't really interested in it has to air f2f1 41 geez I can't words to air F 125th so obviously you would connect both of those to the camp our device the smart device be able to configure all that with him cam tempered glass side panel that is tool this full power supply shroud spends the entire depth of the case unlike the H 500 reading your support it's actually quite limited compared to the H 500 from Coolermaster it only has up to 240 or 280 at the front and you can do it 120 at the rear stupid arguably though most people these days are only gonna need one are only going to put one radiator in their whole system it's probably gonna be for their CPU unless your custom water cooling this is not advertised as being a custom water cooling friendly case so that's fine in my opinion cooling in the case I don't think the cooling in this case is gonna be good as the H 500 it just it just on paper the to the the cooler master is a try 400 with the to 200 millimeter fans that's front panel I just feel like it's gonna blow the H 500 I out of the water with its one 120 fan at the front and it's semi limited air flow with the the clean front panel that looks really nice but I think the intake is only really coming from the top and bottom of that panel if I remember correctly so cooling I think has to go to the H 500 from cooler master performance and cooling cooling master but as far as aesthetics I like the way this case looks infinitely better than the cooler master one again super subjective but the cooling is not the cooling is objective and I think the cooler master does a better job so I think it really depends to me what components am I putting in this system am I am I putting relatively high-end hot running how long have you been chef what's happening here sure my disks in my peripheral this has ryan not to focus on you try to ignore you as i usually do fidgeting you just you're spitting with something so if I was gonna put really high-end hot running components in my system I'd go with the cooler master H 500 if I wasn't the head go with the H 500 I you guys let us know what you think in all right any thoughts before we move on mr. Paul I'd agree the practical choice is the H 500 the aesthetically beautiful choice is the H 500 I yeah age 500 I like is as as a practical case I think it looks kind of awkward because the front goes up front goes up high and then the mop is still flat right for the handle yeah that part looks awkward to me yeah let's introduce this beer that I've been struggling to open yay this finally got it is most 2017 - 9 I don't know why it says that Flanders style Flanders Oh Debruyne American wild ale with Morello cherries Morello 6.5 percent alcohol by volume this is the Grand Monde a wild sour so this is a sour revering away from IPA the PTSD kicked in oh my god I got the head right there I know but that was like literally I you probably shouldn't tell Rick's it to your IPA puts a black and tan Cheers okay ready sure it seems like we've both had our fair share share of bottle opening struggles on the show it's the theme if it's a running theme it's a motif a structuring motif look how red this is it's like blood juice well it does have cherries in it didn't-didn't merino cherries thank you I gave instructions on how to make blood juice didn't I on the show recently I did I remember that vaguely I probably intentionally block that out of my memory good old me ooh it smells like a sour I'm very excited very excited all right we should move on though to share two news because ahead yeah this is a long ass running side so far um fortunately I think I only have five stories I'll go through these quickly five I'll go through these put my god Kyle alright gigabyte gigabyte this is an article from hexxus which was originally pulled from digit x gigabyte hosted a conference with its investors recently and basically warned them basically said that hey the graphics card the demand for graphics card graphics cards has actually been weakening so it might affect revenues in the future just so you guys know and gigabytes actually predicting that GPU shipments are gonna drop up to 20% in in you know after q2 for this 2018 report as a result in response gigabytes also considering dropping their their average selling prices by 10% as a result which means that GPU is at least from gigabyte according to officially here it could drop around 10% which is good like this white and orange one here and so you might be wondering why why is why is why is there such a weakened demand for GPUs all of a sudden they were like tip top at the beginning of the year well a lot of you guys also know the exchange rate for a lot of popular crypto currencies has also kind of tanked or stagnated or gone down as of around April of this year and so the profitability of mining is not as much of a draw when the value of Bitcoin or aetherium is not what it was the beginning of the year so it makes sense that people aren't interested in graphics cards as much right now I'm gigabytes GPU sales are expected to be around 1 million dollars in q1 that's 1/5 I'm sorry not with 1 million dollars but yeah the sales are expected to be around 1 million dollars in q1 that's 1/5 lower than its q1 sales are QQ sales figure no wait oh there's a typo around 1 billion dollars in q2 which is 1/5 lower than its q1 sales of 1.2 million dollars and it could drop beyond that even so to avoid to try and avoid any big losses gigabyte is they said that their little conference that they're gonna focus more on promoting graphics cards for gaming devices specifically and not really targeting minors anymore because they're not really the the go-to audience as of now with cryptocurrency kind of in a rut at the same time they're gonna be lowing there a ESPYs or their their pricing so they're gonna have to you know say goodbye to their 49% margins that we're making they were making it they were may number 40 they were getting 49% margins early 2018 those are some huge gains and they're gonna have to say goodbye to those as they lower their pricing to meet the lower demand of their products other admin board partners are likely to follow suit asus msi asrock known as rock EVGA and so forth they're probably gonna have to follow suit their stocks are probably gonna drop in a price chart makes graphics card I okay sure way to be current Paul we paid some AMD cards dropping the knowledge and then you know so ok sure the GPU market is super saturated and we're still waiting on new products from AMD and NVIDIA maybe we'll get some Nvidia action around the corner in August who knows but as of now it's a supersaturated market and there haven't been any really new products and the GPU market so stock prices are bound to fall at some point and and board partners are mean the same boat as gigabyte which is good for us because if that if they're in the same boat as gigabyte that means they'll also be dropping their prices which means lower GPU prices for everyone at some point eventually so so they're all in the same boat and the boat is sinking and the boat is sinking which means it's good for us we get to step on the boat to hop across to PC building lit the corpses Haven short and this in this metaphor that's what we'd be doing that is genius genius metaphor Paul that makes so much sense and speaking of sense let's talk about Intel's ninth gen core CPUs being officially listed that's nothing to do with sense in the core i5 9600 K and so forth this is an article from WCC F Tech there was an official listing on the micro code revision guidance documents that revealed 9th gen core family and the fact that it is upon us this will be based on you had this dramatic pause it as I that's waiting for the follow up and that's that's just you delivered that wasn't okay well the dramatic pause was more so just to let my brain load more so than like some epic statement tomorrow or have a buffering thing that is buffering like wait for this next words the next few about to drop on your face big mystery change your life forever I'm going to go to the best so this is basically the same coffee like s microarchitecture that we saw last year it's more or less a refresh it's not the most exciting thing we've seen from Intel they confirmed however by listing seven unreleased nitrogen core processor SKUs which will arrive later this quarter so it's right around the corner they'll range from I threes to I 5s to I 7s and finally up to I 9s this is the first mainstream launched with an i-9 in it nine these which I guess is kind of exciting the seven SKUs five of these of the seven SKUs that Intel kind of just handed out to us recently five of them are core i5s all this and the other two are quarry threes so officially listed now we have an i-5 9600 K an i-5 9600 I five ninety five hundred five ninety four hundred I five ninety four hundred T those are all the I fives and on the I three ninety one hundred and I three ninety one hunt I broke I three ninety one hundred twice there's a ninety six hundred K okay so maybe there's an i3 scroll down what are the what's the other i3 that I missed or no this is a micro code update so this is referencing all all the CPUs that are supported by that microcode update which are seeing lots of different ones but amongst the existing CPUs or like 8000 series CPUs are scattered all the 9000 series ones I only wrote down one of the i3 9000 series though oh I three nine hundred nine thousand sorry okay so it's worth noting that all the i-5 parts I just mentioned again all of the i-5 parts I just mentioned are going to be six core with G - I'm sorry gt2 graphics while all the core i3 parts that I mentioned are going to be quad cores with the same graphics configuration WCC F Tech ultimately a better chart to look at for just intense that's perfect though you see CF Tech also lists to high-end chips they already knew of from their previous report which includes the I $9.99 hundred K that's gonna be the Big Kahuna eight core 16 thread part and then there's gonna be the i7 9700 case excessive to the 8700 K which is a lowly six core twelfth red part official specs reveal a two hundred megahertz boost in clock speeds with these with the quinine and core i7 I just listed compared to previous and the power management optimizations will be there to allow for either similar or even better overclocking performance with the next-gen the 9900 K octa-core is most definitely a response to two AMD's Rison seven 2700 X and even the 1800 X that one's that one's still in the rumor category and still more or less in the rumor category all all this technically is in the room Gouri a micro code update is a little bit more firm you might say cuz that's not the type of thing that somebody would have the resources to go and fake or something like that so you like in this hour it's just it's very sour oh my god it's so good I love it's very sour I'm such a sour person okay mmm so yeah okay just just just want to point point that out nope but that's that's a very good thing to point out Paul people don't get too excited take certain things that we say here with a grain of salt in terms of the i9 i7 listings and the specs that are following but you can also expect a refreshed z9b platform to be released alongside the knife gen core family which is pretty cool we talked about that last week that was maybe canceled the refresh the z3 90 the fact that would be oh the whole thing in general well it would still be z3 90 there would be like a z3 70 gen 2 or something something to that effect but the we had heard the z3 90 as a name might not be Oh as the name no or they might not be doing a new Z 390 chipset that's manufactured on a 40 nanometer process because of manufacturing constraints right it might just be an updated back requirement for of z3 70 right that requires z3 70 motherboards to have add-on ships that provide the same features that like be 360 and H 370 have yeah such as USB 3.1 gen2 and 802 mm and AC yes which kind of sounds like a refresh I think I got all that right that all sounded good yeah it sounds good to me ok cool as long as it sounds good yeah it's probably right sounds great um so that's exciting we all look forward to later this quarter when we see some nitrogen core CPUs launch competition is good obviously it's gonna be more of a refresh this time around no crazy microarchitecture changes but you know we should still see a nice little bump in performance overclocking abilities and stuff like that so good stuff next up we can talk about WCF star WCF text article on the right three 2300 X which is a quad-core CPU having its benchmarks and overclocking details late riser brazen three Verizon three yes what this is the resin three 2300 X that we're talking about here so it's on the low end its sub 150 dollars us we're looking anywhere between 120 and 140 dollars why is it rising three if it's a 2000 series because 2002 is still the second generation two indicates that its second generation Rison doesn't it so Verizon 383 and 2300 X in my minds are self-defeating is it Rison to what Rison to is 12 nanometers instead of 14 nanometer it's no it's like just like we had first gen rising want or a verizon 3 this is the successor to first generation 3 this is rising Oh God second gen rise in 320 300 X okay you've clarified that formula okay let's proceed oh yeah yeah that'd be like you saying why is it called core i5 when it's the sixth generation yeah I was confusing yeah rising through your is second generation to third generation resin and I don't blame you at all because every year should get way more convoluted used every year it gets pretty more convoluted yeah Paul was drunk apparently in check no I'm it's been clarified now every we're back on track everything is good the world is falling apart so this is this is actually a very interesting proposition the Rison 320 300 X is gonna be a quad-core no SMT unfortunately so you're not gonna get eight courses still gonna be four threads but sub 150 us people are expecting this to be as cheap as a hundred and twenty dollars that is damn good for a quad-core CPU backed by the rise in name it's gonna be a great value hopefully competing with the price here I 570 600 K which I think that chip is probably going to slaughter it in terms of IPC and whatnot 3.5 gigahertz base with a four point zero gigahertz boost but let's talk about the actual benchmarks that were leaked from chip hell that show more leaks than the previous report from WCC of tech this was tested on a Biostar X 370 racing board results are showing performance between a core i3 8100 and a core i3 83 50k this is while the CPU was overclocked I believe to 4.3 gigahertz actually the user was able to take it beyond just beyond 4.3 gigahertz at one point three eight volts using a high-end liquid cooler he said that that was required to hit that that those numbers the 2,300 X and the B 450 boards should be appearing very soon the launch is right around the corner we don't know exactly when but it's coming soon so I think I think that's actually pretty damn good a core i3 8100 I 3 8100 right now goes for a hundred and twenty dollars and the 83 50k goes for about a hundred and seventy depending on where you look so I mean he'll if it's closer to the 83 50k that it is the 80 100 I would say it's a damn good deal and the fact that you can overclock this you would have to pay the 170 dollars to get an overclockable case q Intel chip whereas if it were 120 dollar AMD chip you can still overclock it to apparently over 4.3 gigahertz which is it's pretty good it's something that the 8100 the i3 8100 just can't do um so it's exciting you get a lot of other cool features with second gen rising right like improved a precision boost and exit far and things like that so we look forward to testing those out testing that chip out as it comes comes to light so let's move on to our second to last story here which is about Google potentially planning a gaming platform that a was to compete with the Xbox and the PlayStation this is big news this is from Kotaku Jason Schreyer I yeah okay so Jason Schreyer apparently has broken a lot of news stories in the past that have turned out to be very legitimate and valid and stuff so this isn't just fluff necessarily but still it's preliminaries to take it with a grain of salt anyway just because there are sources saying that Google is planning to break into the video game industry with its own gaming platform and there are sort of three pillars to this platform that we know of right now the first of which is that it's going to be it's gonna involve gaming streaming very much like Nvidia's GeForce now the second is that there is still going to be some hardware based device in your home that allows for this process to happen but that takes advantage of the streaming element and the third is that Google's is gonna make a strong attempt to bring game developers under their umbrella under the Google umbrella either through aggressive recruiting or major acquisitions which is definitely interesting at GDC back in March and most recently III Google was actually having private meetings with a lot of big developers not just to gauge their interest in working with them on this platform to make develop games exclusively for her Google station or whatever the hell you want to call it their code naming it Yeti at the moment but to potentially talk in acquisition could you imagine if Googlebot like Epic Games or something and maybe that's what they have to do because Google doesn't really know anything about game development or how to build a gaming console from the ground up but the fact that they're going the streaming route they definitely know how to cloud if I think Google would have a better chance of doing a streaming gaming service than Nvidia even but they don't have the resources to make a badass exclusive game that's gonna make people want to invest in their ecosystem and their platform so that's why they need to potentially look into acquiring these big developers so it's very interesting certain other challenges like internet bandwidth right to stream a game to actually have it at like a reasonable quality that people aren't gonna bitch about you're gonna need some really good bandwidth for uploading and downloading huge data potentially maybe this might be an opportunity to integrate for Google to integrate their own Google Fiber service with with the gaming platform because that can obviously take advantage of of those speeds and you know and and be able to run games no problem via the interwebs at the same time there's also the game issue that I talked about are there gonna be enough awesome Google exclusive titles for people to swap switch over from their Playstations and their Xboxes waving their PC like a Halo or a Mario bruh yes they need they need some good-ass content not some like Android based game that you can probably get on your phone that's just gonna be fun for ten minutes so that's I think that's the biggest challenge honestly out of this list and then Google also has a reputation as the article is saying of starting and abandoning their initiatives Google glass anyone there are a lot of initiatives that Google gets very ambitious about but never quite never it never quite materializes into a finished product so it remains to be seen how this is all gonna go the nice thing is that whatever hardware based solution that they're gonna offer is probably gonna be relatively cheap and low powered I would think because they're gonna be offloading all the rendering to off-site system since this is a streaming platform so that's kind of cool I don't think they're gonna try to compete with Xbox and PlayStation in terms of console specs they're gonna go a slightly different route and stream everything and have a more low powered entry level more cost-effective console to put in people's homes but I guess more on that when we know more details so so if Google came out with something like a chromecast that you could buy for somewhere in the $5,200 that you plug into an HDMI port on your computer and then has like controller - that comes with it it just connects wirelessly and suddenly you can stream and play games from the Google service exactly you know of whatever library they put together - this little device yeah yeah I mean I could see that being a viable alternative to consoles and gaming pcs yeah but I'm in a lot of it comes down to price and ends playability and right latency yes how good how much of it actually relies on your you having a solid internet connection right but see what happens it's also kind of interesting like when you consider that Google owns YouTube and how they might integrate that with their platform more strongly than anything existing YouTube owns Google no Google owns eg because everyone's YouTube yes alphabet someone alphabet owns YouTube alphabet owns all of them knows the world so somewhere in the article it mentioned that you could potentially have some YouTube integration with the Google platform where your gaming and you're like I don't know that's a level that's hard to beat you can instantly bring up like a walkthrough guide on on YouTube and have it overlaid with your game so you can be gaming while watching YouTube at the same time in a very like seamless integration instead of having to like open up your laptop or go to your desktop to look up a quick walkthrough or something like that I thought it was kind of interesting I think I think the just the fact that we would be streaming games as opposed to having them on discs or whatever would change everything I think would change pretty much everything so it'll you're seeing to see if it if it actually happens and then finally let's just move on to our last article because we're super late now EVGA released two new GTX 10 50 cards recently these are actually three gigabyte cards as opposed to two gigabyte cards like the original so they offer increased vram first of all article from overclock 3d net it offers increased vram to 3 gigabytes obviously more CUDA cores if you get the higher-end 1050 model and higher clock speeds than the existing 2 gigabyte variant the catch there is a catch because these cards are accommodating the 3 gig frame buffer they're also gonna have to suffer a 25% reduction in memory bandwidth so you're kind of upgrading and downgrading the card at the same time which makes you kind of wonder what the heck is the point and I'm very curious to see the reviews on these cards how they stack up to the original gtx 1053 gigabyte cards in certain specific applications where either frame buffer is needed or memory bandwidth is needed based on those priorities to see what the real-world consequences are of a 25% reduction in memory bandwidth even if you have that additional gig in frame buffer so it's kind of a confusing card from what the article states and from just what I can what I can perceive at the moment the two Spears that EVGA is launching is the gtx 1050 gaming 3 big that's kind of like the base and then the gtx 1050 gaming SC or superclocked also 3 GAE that superclocked version will have a higher base and boost clock and and will actually have higher CUDA core 768 CUDA cores which is the same same CUDA core count as the EVGA GTX 1050 TI 4 gigabyte card so but still will have that 25% reduction in memory bandwidth so it'll be interesting interesting to see the the in-game side effects of the reduction of memory bandwidth I'm sure there will be lots of testing on it I wouldn't be surprised of gamers Nexus have a really good in-depth vehicle video or article for it I said vertical and and you did say that and and to see if the extra gig of frame buffer makes up for that reduction in memory bandwidth I'm not sure but yeah did did the GTX 1050 even need a new variant of itself in the first place I'm not sure I think I think I really think vendors are just like kind of twiddling their thumbs and getting antsy they're getting antsy because nvidia and AMD in this case nvidia hasn't come out with a card in like two years it's ridiculous just looking for looking products to fill the gap yeah let's just let's make the GTX 1051 it's got one more coup de coeur it's a plus one it's a benefit yeah that's a that's feature so that's my side of the show guys we still have Johnson's and and stuff oh yeah do we want to say that for your half at least the Johnsons maybe or here we could okay or how about this how about we do Johnston's right now but then we'll save donations for your half does that work okay okay let me see if we have any Johnsons Oh some big old long Johnson's holy moly okay that's the Nick today he's just happy to be here as me oh no I actually have very few Johnston's which is I'm kind of thankful for because we're tight on time here thank you very much Eric Johnson to Eric for picking up an awesome hardware Star Wars black t-shirt Alexandra evolution gaming desk bat who the evolution 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