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yo what is up guys what has happening everybody welcome to booted once again this is episode 3 season 2 it's good to have you all in chat it's a nice seeing you here here on Twitch the most glorious platform of them all I am now convinced thank you guys so much for being here I know that for a lot of you people have their own preferences for which platform they like to view content from whether it be live streaming or pre-recorded so I know this might have been a difficult or sudden switch for a lot of you coming from YouTube this being a original youtube series and moving here to twitch but due to due to all the copyright claim issues that I've been having lately in the last week or so I really do appreciate all the support that you guys have shown and just you guys seeing you guys in chat is really evident of that support so I really appreciate it thank you guys but we're here to have a good time if you guys wanted a quick update on what's been going on with the copyright claim just to just to really briefly touch on it I have been still in talks with fullscreen they did get back to me today they're simply asking for more information about the contents of the video that was flagged for copyright infringement that pretty much left a strike a copyright strike on my channel two more strikes and the channels dunzo for life but they're just trying to figure out what exactly happened the contents of that video it would have been nice if I could have just linked them the video and been like well just here see for yourselves but the video has already been taken down the gameplay footage you know let's play basically that I did with with Steve two years ago so they're doing their best or at least I hope they are to get everything resolved and they've even admitted themselves that a copyright strike on the channel is a bit extreme for given the circumstances I wasn't exploiting the game in any way it was Mario Kart 8 nor was I pointing out any glitches in the game it was just literally me and Steve you know doing how we do talk and shoot on each other as we were racing and stuff like that so hopefully it gets resolved soon I'm hoping for the best I'm hoping that eventually we can bring the stream back we can bring booted back to YouTube at this point though I mean if they live the streaming restriction and I can once again stream to YouTube I think I might just start streaming to both just so it's not so jarring so it's never like okay which which which side is he going to be streaming to today you know if this ever happens again in the future I would like to keep the option open to have the show stream to both platforms I think that might be the for the best given the circumstances so stay tuned for more updates you can follow me on twitter at forever a kyle if you if you dig and yeah that's pretty much it so i'm thank you all for being patient in the meantime now there is before we dive into our last our final five contestants for this season there is something that we have to resolve from last week's episode of booted and that was a potential vulnerability or abuse of the straw poll voting system which is kind of my bad in a way because i didn't enforce the the CAPTCHA to prove that you're not a robot so apparently some of the votes might have been stacked and i can't really be sure if that's the case but in the name of fairness i have issued a revote on two on the two highest ranking pcs from last week's episode so right about now you'll be seeing a link going to chat my beautiful wife heather is on the other line on our on her system and she's gonna be posting a link in chat for you guys to revote now before you go ahead and pick one or two there's only two options here go ahead and look at these two contenders so number one is mac this is max pc and this is number two this is robert okay so i just want you guys to soak it all in take a look at which pc you think deserves to go on to the final round for this season here's number one once again number one is mac and number two robert all right you guys got that all right I'm gonna let you guys think about it just for a sec I'm gonna go ahead and show you one more time number one is over here but for number one if you like this one and vote for number two if you like this one okay and I'm gonna take that take a look at the results in just a moment I'm gonna give you guys a little bit of time to think about it and also for people who are just getting here since this is right at the start of the show so while you guys are deciding that and while we're giving it some time we're gonna go ahead and take a look at our sponsor just really briefly once again we've got fantex with their awesome awesome awesome hardware haha pun not intended that would snuck up on me but yeah we've got a lot of cool stuff they're evolved ATX is an amazing full full or mid tower case go ahead and check that out also there's a panel down below the twitch video player where you can click and open up this website their power splitter allows you to essentially take two power supplies to power a single motherboard I'm sorry it takes one power supply to power several motherboards to two other boards to be exact and they're actually gonna be flipping this on its head pretty soon with their power combo system and that unit essentially does the inverse of what the power splitter does so it allows you to take two unique power supplies to power one PC and benefits of that include things like redundancy so if one power supply were to fail you have a second one to back it up so this eliminates the need for like a UPS and an uninterruptible power supply for example and also giving you you know the addition the option of upgrading your power solution if you happen to be if you if you want to save some money let's say you got a new graphics card that has a higher TDP your current power supply can't cut it you can use the power combo and slot basically install a second power supply in there you know typically on the cheap and that'll give you enough enough power to uh to drive that system they've also got extension cables there and through Pro em is a pretty awesome case it's really good for budget water coolers so if you've you know got an AI o in mind you want to get some nice thermals but you don't want to pay out the out the wazoo for for a nice case that supports that sort of thing there and through proem is is a really nice option has a lot of actual high-end features that we'd see on the the evolved ATX for example I really like the the a IO the radiator bracket system here that is removable up at the top just like the ATX the evolved ATX and yeah there's a lot of good cooling potential with this chassis but that's all I should probably say about the sponsor will take another look at fantex later on in the show but why don't we go ahead and take a look to see once and for all who last week's finalist should have been so we've got number one as Mac and number two as Roberts and as soon as I click the results button here whoever's on top in that exact moment is the winner doesn't matter if I open it in five seconds later the the ranking switches its whoever is at the top right when I click results and I've specified this in the previous episode so hopefully there's no confusion there all right here we go number one or number two who is last week's season two finalists boom number one Mac all right 59% of the vote yes sir you you you for sure have have now secured your place in the final round next week so congratulations Sir Robert I'm sorry I know you were the the alleged finalist last week but there was some discrepancy or there were some issues with the voting system and I think now that I've implemented the CAPTCHA the capture requirement in strawpoll I think that's gonna make it a little bit more secure but I am still looking into other avenues or alternatives for a polling system that is rock-solid in terms of security as well as doesn't show you doesn't allow you guys the viewers to see the results until I want you to because I guess that ruins part of the suspense right already knowing beforehand but before I actually announce the winner and stuff like that so anyway discussion for later thank you Thank You Mac and Robert and congratulations again Mac for making it on to the final round so why don't we go ahead and take a look at this week's first contestant this is technically PC number I don't know 11 because we've already looked at 10 pcs so far in the season this is our 11th guy but for this episode he's number one Ethan and no that is not to be confused with DMC trolls whose name is also Ethan in chat he is a moderator no he is not giving him any special treatment here this is a completely different Ethan but Ethan has a pretty nice system here this one caught my eye and was instantly included as a contestant among all the others on top of having some decent photo quality here so that really does play a huge role in whether or not I choose someone to be on the show so keep that in mind if you're gonna be submitting in the future so you've got a Zalman z9 su3 I'm not too familiar with that case but it looks pretty clean and I'm sure you've probably cleaned it up a bit before you snap these photos but you've got an AMD phenom ii x4 955 Black Edition a cm cooler master hyper 212 evo asus motherboard 8 gigs of ram dual channel Asus Radeon HD 7770 and I think that's a fair pairing with that CPU more or less you've got a 240 gig SSD from AMD and a one terabyte WD black thermal fake power supply no comment there okay see what you're working with alright interesting ok so first off I'm getting the blue and red vibe and again I'm gonna be a little bit more lenient here in terms of aesthetics because this is the budget season aesthetics is really one of the biggest factors when it comes to factoring in cost I don't know things that look nice even in the PC industry cost more so I can't really fault you for the the mishmash of of a color palette here but it does look very clean inside in terms of there's not really much dust so I like that again you might have dusted it off before you submitted your PC but it looks very dust free and clean cable tidiness on the other hand could be improved I think particularly these are these green and white wires coming up you're you know stemming from your five and a quarter inch bays those are obviously your front panel connectors and they're they're not very pretty because they're they don't match the other colors in your system and I think it would have been wiser had you routed them in one of the slots in your five and a quarter inch base to kind of like conceal them a bit more instead of just routing them straight over to that large cutout on your motherboard tray so that stands out to me a bit and I like how much airflow you have in here you've got plenty of fans here I think you might be rocking some negative air pressure cuz it looks like you have more exhaust fans than an intake but I'm not gonna knock you for that I mean the urban studies shown that negative pressure can sometimes be more effective than positive pressure in certain situations and I don't think that's really an issue here however I would say that if this case does have some ventilation at the bottom of your of your chassis for your power supply fan then I probably would have switched that over I probably would have flipped that unit over just so that your video card in your power supply aren't competing for air flow that would have been a wiser choice I think you also got your CPU cooler here excellent choice with the 212 Evo however I see that it's an in pull it's in the pull configuration you've got your fan that's pulling air through your heatsink and delivering it outward towards the back Y case most of the time I think you know rule of thumb is to have it in push that generally provides a degree or two higher performance or higher thermal cooling in some cases but I don't know if you were running into any clearance issues with that Ram there that you had all together though it looks pretty nice money shot is very pretty this is definitely a slightly older motherboard got a brown PCB here again budget season not gonna knock you any points for that oops and you have some optional photos here too you clearly wanted me to see how hollow your five and a quarter inch bays were or at least where you had put some of your front panel connectors so okay I mean that's there's a little bit of dust in there not too bad though and your SSD there's your 240 gig radeon r7 and clearly there's no space in this chassis no mounting solution for two and a half inch drive and we can kind of tell that from from the the hard drive cage over here older case probably not gonna have two and a half inch mounts so you just pretty much left it on the floor which you know it doesn't look the best and I don't like the fact that it's not mounted to anything so if you were to move your chassis around you kind of have this Drive that might be banging against the sides of that hard drive cage things like that it's also collecting a lot of dust wallets down there which obviously for an SSD doesn't matter much but it sure doesn't look all that great I would have probably tried to mount it behind the motherboard tray with a I don't know with some adhesive velcro maybe because you clearly have some room behind this motherboard tray I mean you've got cable cutouts and you've got cables that are being routed behind there so I think a two and a half inch you know a seven millimeter SSD could have been fit back there as well all together though quite a nice formidable system you have here Ethan so I believe you are you are certainly in the running sir so thank you for that let's go ahead and move on to Mario this is PC number two and I should have been showing off the case picture first kind of a far away shot Mario got it you gotta get it you gotta get it a little bit closer next time that's okay you've got a cooler master and 200 which I hear is a pretty decent budget case actually and athlon x4 860 K also a really great bang for the buck older older chip from AMD but also really great price to performance there you got a cooler master hyper T 4 gigabyte motherboard one stick of Corsair Vengeance Ram at 8 gigabytes and the gtx 660 let's go ahead and take a look again at this side profile here ok i said in last week's episode that I wasn't gonna knock anyone for for ketchup and mustard cables because it is the budget season and I'm not gonna knock you here and in fact I think he did a really good job with your cable management everything looks really clean and and tight however the one thing I would point out is your SATA cables I feel like you should have probably routed those through the same cut out as your PCI Express cable instead of just dangling them at the bottom of your chassis it looks a little bit sloppy that's probably the only thing I would clean up but altogether everything looks really really clean cable wise even your your rear exhaust fan they're you you managed to conceal that cable fairly well so props for you on that I would have liked to see a cleaner power supply solution maybe remove that sticker you know the EVGA one with all the the specs on it and stuff the rail configurations not the prettiest but however at the same time this is a budget case without a side panel window so I don't know how much that matters to you but I don't know for me it's like if I know how it looks inside it doesn't matter if there's a side panel window or not I just I need it to look good even with the side panel off even if I can't see it with the side panel on just a personal preference but but I suppose I suppose my opinion does have some value some weight in this series and looks like you've got your your your cooler they're mounted horizontally again another rule of thumb for for chassis like this a regular basic mid Tower is to have them mounted vertically with the with the fan pushing air towards the back for example but I don't know maybe you just liked it liked it this way better there's some clearance issue with with the RAM which I don't think there is because your stick is all the way to the right we've got one Corsair Vengeance module all the way to the right and even in this horizontal position I mean mounting your your heatsink horizontally doesn't really do anything for clearance unless it's for radiator perhaps that's mounted at the top your chassis and you don't have one here so I'm wondering why you mounted it that way it is in pole I can see at least you're pulling air up and out of your case instead of a down onto your video card that wouldn't be very good so so that that's that's a good sign but yeah you know I also like the fact that you're you you managed to get some Corsair Vengeance in there even though it's one stick it's a budget system you couldn't afford a dual-channel kit at least you got a module that had a decent looking heatsink on it instead of just a nasty green PCB stick so I think that was also a nice choice for a budget rig this is this is pretty nice not bad Mario not bad all right let's move on to Carson PC number three is Carson in a fractal design define s now I find this kind of hilarious because my $5,000 PC back there hotline is also in a define s and yet here we are in the budget season of booted and Carson's rockin the same chassis as I am I think that's kind of funny don't you and it's a little bit odd in a way because you have some really low end components here some really entry-level but still very you know well performing for what they are pieces of hardware here like the FX 6300 you've got an R 9 380 in there from gigabyte no SSD but that's fine but you've got this I don't know a pretty premium case granted it is very affordable for what it is and you have a ton of air flow here I think you have the best airflow for today's episode out of all the other contestants so that's really nice however I can't just help but think that you could have used some money you could have saved some money on a you know on a slightly cheaper case and put it towards maybe a better processor or even a better better video card something that would really help you with with gaming performance if that is what you're doing with this chassis with this rig I should say stock cooler very frugal very noisy but that's ok cable management's could be better there's room for improvement there there's your SATA cables or kind of mixing and mashing over your PCIe cables and you're you know what you know what it is it's really the the front panel connectors that are at the bottom of your motherboard which are really throwing me off because you've got a micro ATX motherboard in a full ATX chassis so and unfortunately in the define s there's no cutouts in the motherboard tray that accommodate a smaller form factor motherboard like the one you have so that that kind of forces you to drive the cables all the way down to that bottom power supply grommet and it looks a bit a bit sloppy I will say and also for sure the the define s has a some decent ventilation for the power supply fan and yet you still decided to flip it up were upright and have the the fan competing with your your wind force card which I'm a bit confused on it's like at least if you're gonna spend the you know go the extra mile and buy a really nice case that's clearly out of out of your league when it comes to your other components at least utilize all the features it has like like power supply fan ventilation but you might have your own reasons Who am I to judge and taking a look at the money shot here I would have liked to see again going back to the the whole dim situation if you were able to afford this case then I think you could have also picked up a nicer looking module there even a dual channel kit you should have gotten a dual channel kit and saved you know and and dumped down the case a little bit there are certain things here that uh that aren't perfectly matched together in my opinion however that being said at least it's an 8 gig module and functionally it's the system's going to perform quite well when you're gaming yeah those are my thoughts Thank You Carson let's go ahead and take a look at Jan Jan's got an NZXT s340 are you guys really like lovin how few NZXT cases there are the season because I I'm really glad that like even at the budget level there's not just a bunch of h4 40s that would have really pissed me off however in s340 isn't too bad if it's just once in the blue moon here you've also got an F on - 4 X 640 another cooler master cooler righteous rightfully so eight gigs got a dual-channel kid here kingston ddr3 and a gtx 550 ti Cyclone - i have not seen a system with that card in a while it's been years but I was that was a kind of interesting video card it was like I was like one of the rudest video cards I've ever seen and by that I mean like you know if you look at the cooler it's not really enclosed in any way and it's essentially exhausting hot air from all sides just heating up the rest of your chassis and warming up the rest of your components it's very rude it's a very encroaching on the other hardware there but it does look nice in this system it's got some I can't tell if it's got any blue accents to match your motherboard but it does look nice money shot here again those hideous green - modules they should be they should all be burned so we burnt promptly oh sorry about that oh you sent me an LED shot okay this is cool you know the system actually looks better with the lights off and that you can interpret that however you want but it really looks nice with the blue accent lighting I think you know you got a blue motherboard in there a blueish blueish accents I think it looks really nice it's just when the lights are on I feel like there could have been a bit more color coordination you've got those SSDs in there those uh those two Kingston SSDs they're both 120 gigs my assumption is that they're in raid zero that you've got some striping business going on and if that's the case and your operating system is installed on that raid array I would just make sure that you have an image backup of your operating system up that frequently because you're essentially doubling your risk of dry failure by installing your OS on there on a raid zero right I thought in the past and I was fine knock on wood I mean I was good but you might not be so lucky so just make sure that you've got you know what you're doing but cable management not bad you do have you have this one cable that's going down into that power supply shroud which I guess maybe you could have routed that behind the reservoir bar here in the s340 but altogether this is really tidy and you've got some nice black flat you know style cables and I think that looks really nice as well so all together pretty good gen the one thing uh the other thing critique I'll say is I don't know what this is on your on the side of your case on the right side I'm like towards the front panel I don't know if that's tape that's on the actual enclosure I don't know how to get rid of that and and try dusting off your system it looks a little dusty to me what you guys think yeah anyway last contender for today is Antoine I keep wanting to say Antwone Fisher you wanted to say that all day Antwone Fisher no Antoine you've got a corsair carbide 100 are excellent budget case I like your I like your taste Noctua Nhu 1 2 p SE - excellent cooler I haven't had the privilege of testing it personally but as is the case with most Noctua coolers they freaking Rock and it looks beastly in this system it's just like it barely fits if you look at the side profile here it's like any any taller you probably wouldn't be able to fit the side panel on but good job on you mate for that close call compatibility you've also got a gigabyte motherboard 8 gigs of ram dual channel got some HyperX in there HyperX fury those blue those blue dims yeah none of that green on that green crap got a nice Q I always crack me up H is but they're they're cooler names the ice Q Radeon HD 7870 gigahertz edition still a really nice card and I'm sure you get some good gaming sessions with it still along with that FX 6300 I'm sure you've got it overclocked as far as you can take it with that cooler which is nice one terabyte WD Scorpio blue and a 550 watt power supply from the Kula master this is a really clean system I like this a lot and again like I got to tip my hat to Corsair for making a killer budget chassis here with the the carbide 100 R because the it's got really good cable routing options and you have you seem to have taken advantage of that here so kudos to you on that the cards saggin a little bit huh there's some sag some some GPU sag there which I don't know maybe you can get like one of those PCIe brackets for it the pci brackets that might be cool but you know you know what man this is a pretty good system I don't like it and it looks like you've also got a Wi-Fi card or something like that in the top by one slot you know because this is a really good system I think this is one of the stronger contenders no I I can't fault you for the ketchup and mustard I I'm just saying it would have been nice if that one 24-pin connector was black or white or blue or any color besides ketchup and mustard I'm not even gonna dock you points for it I'm just gonna say that would really clean things up a bit but thank you Antoine this is a really nice rig and that's pretty much all the PCs those are the last five contestants for season two guys those are the last budget rigs you're gonna see on the show for quite some time because just to give you guys a little update I received all of your booted submissions for next season for the high end $1500 or more season and I sorted through about 200 of them in one sitting it took me like two hours to go through all of them but they're good they're they look really good and I think because I have so many submissions we might be doing I might be doing to high end seasons back-to-back I'm not sure yet don't quote me on that you can let me know what you think either in chat or leave me a comment or tweet me but there's some good stuff in there so yeah thank you guys for submitting and fu guys for submitting because I haven't been able to sleep downloading and organizing all those entries all right now uh at this time you should be getting a link to links in chat again my wife is on it she's always on it she's she's a firecracker that one so the first link will be linked to the photo album of all the contestants that we've just taken a look at make sure you look at them very carefully and choose wisely because the second link you'll be receiving in chat is the voting straw poll and there you will vote on which PC you think deserves to go on to the final round in week four which holy crap is next week I can't believe we're already almost through March this is just mind-blowing where's the freaking time going it's kind of insane but yeah so choose wisely ladies and ladies and gentlemen and while you're doing that I'm gonna go ahead and talk about the eclipses p400 and the p400s from fantex again you can check you can click that panel that I have below the video player here on twitch if you want more information go to their site the eclipses p400 just launched a few weeks ago and from what I hear from fantex the cases been doing really well has been Steve been receiving a lot of good feedback not just from reviewers but from consumers as well and I can definitely see why it's a very flexible system for quite an affordable price actually cheaper than what you might expect it's like 60 70 bucks and you got a lot of cool features a lot of the same features that you'd find on the Evolve ATX for example or any of other any of fan taxes other high-end chassé ease and the p400 is for those who want to show off the innards of their system so if you like side panel windows and you want to bling it up maybe get some LEDs in there go for the P 400 if you're a silence Nazi and you just want to be as quiet as freaking possible then go for the p400s which I thought didn't have a side panel window but according to this picture it also has a side panel window but one thing I know for sure is that it has foam padding sound dampening material on the inside on the internal the panels and stuff like that so it's quiet it's really quiet oh here we go window and close dirt sometimes it's just right under your nose and you don't even see it but yeah there's a closed option so I guess you could get the p400s with a window as well you get the best of both worlds honestly I would go for the p400s just just do it just do it and get it and get in white white looks badass it's also got this this nice RGB accent lighting on the bottom of the chassis and switches between like 9 different colors same as the enthu Lux if you guys are familiar with that or if you've seen my white build PC on the youtubes same color options here on the P 400 and p400s so all together really good stuff from fantex again click that panel below the video player here on twitch if you want some more information on that but I think it's time to check out these results ladies and gentleman so why don't we go ahead up no wait no it's not that one here we go PC yes cue cue dramatic music I really need like like a DJ or something so I feel like change the music myself because I'm a really I'm really bad at doing that and talking at the same time anyway here are five options we've taken a look at systems from Ethan Mario Carson Jan and Antoine and honestly this was a tough one for me I think there were two or three systems that I could easily see doing really well and potentially making it to the final round but ultimately as you guys know by now it's not up to me it's up to you guys the live audience so without further ado who is our week three finalist for season two of booted Antoine whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa by a landslide holy crap 65% a few chose Antoine man congratulations you have done an excellent job of proving that you have the better PC and I can see why I was I was kind of rooting for you secretly Ethan Mario Carson and Jan thank you guys for playing or for competing and for submitting and making it this far but I'm sorry the audience has spoken and you have been booted so let's take a quick look again at Antoine's PC very nice my brother just excellent excellent job all around I think it's kind of funny how I saved your system for last I don't think that was by design but they do say but best for last right so there's there's got to be some some truth to that here so uh congratulations man you do have some competition I will say last two last two dudes there they're not messing around also nice chop on the photo quality that really helped you I think it helps everyone photo quality really helps but damn dan do we already blow through that freaking episode holy crap it's over it's over well just for now I don't want to say it's completely over until I get a copyright strike on twitch then it's really freakin over but yeah that's pretty much gonna do it for now guys uh before you go go ahead and catch it live if you want to see booted live then don't follow this slide at all because it's not gonna be on gaming youtube calm or youtube.com slash awesomesauce network it's going to be on twitch same time but different place 5:30 p.m. on Mondays on twitch on TV until further notice again I'm still waiting on the full Green crew to get back to me on whether or not we can resolve this issue but yes don't go to YouTube next week either unless I tell you to but this has been fun I like streaming to twitch I've always loves for me to twitch more than YouTube 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