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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers access Tana and I am joined by a hardware editor Patrick stone alone and today we're talking about cables we have a lot of freaking cables on the table here we got some video cables some data cables some Ethernet even fiber over here everyone needs a little bit of fiber in their day have a pretty crazy power cable I want to talk about we have a secret cable and I'm giving away something I think it's gonna be a game I don't know I'll mention it in the comments below I want to give you something if you can identify this we'll talk about that at the end and then we have some legacy junk over here so starting with display Intel and AMD set their phasing out support for legacy connectors in 2015 still DVI is used every day in our lives so DVI is still important we have a lot of different types of DVI yeah what we got here to begin with is a small dvi-d single link cable the way you can tell a D is that you're going to see a little slot here in the connector that's that's your DVI D which is digital stuff there's also a dual link if you look at the two connect two cables here you can see that the cable flyes is tremendously different and that fat yeah fat right exactly and this guy that can carry more bandwidth because it's got two links dual link and that produces the better images the other types of DVS you're going to run into are one like this right here is the DVI a which is the analog you can tell analog because it's missing a bunch of pins inside and DVI - I is analog and digital together so that's going to have a whole bunch of pins in there 24 pins on this side then the bar and then four pins around it and just to quickly mention DVI dual link there there are a lot of fake dual link cables out there we did a video on this previously hid in the side bar or wherever it is on YouTube I don't understand YouTube anymore it's somewhere on this space hit that link and we show you how to test for a fake DVI duelling cable yeah and so the the other thing that I would like to say again is if you're going to go say like at 2560 by 1440 resolution or higher then you're probably gonna want to go with that dual link cable technically the dual link cable cannot perform hdmi 1.4 but that's a really technical difference and for all practical purposes it's about the same so moving to hdmi and displayport in terms of the the technical difference between hdmi 2.0 and display for one point two they're pretty much capable of the same thing so they both do a 4k resolution they both output at 60 Hertz and I guess there's a difference in the color depth hdmi 2.0 is a little bit it's like 24 bits per pixel or something like that versus DisplayPort yeah is 30 that's right so if you really care I guess maybe if you have super eyes you can tell the difference other than that DisplayPort does have slightly higher bandwidth DisplayPort also is important in AMD Eyefinity setups that is required absolutely so that is if you're buying video cards or monitors do you keep that in mind otherwise ACMI 2.0 and DisplayPort are they're both pretty darn good at what they do now HDMI 1.4 though the thing to know about 1.4 HDMI 1.4 is that it can only do the 4k at 30 frames per second so be aware of that if you're looking for HDMI yeah so before we move into data connectors with we have SATA different types of SATA connectors I just wanted to point out this stupid creation this is an HDMI to VGA converter if I have that correct and it is so we've got a digital signal here and analog over here that doesn't work it does not work if you plug this in it will not work do not buy this and they sell it they sell it if you want you can buy it if it has like a converter box on or some kind of something to switch the signal then it'll probably work but the cable alone will not do anything so moving it to SATA I guess the thing we want to address here there are two primary types of SATA cables as advertised on the market they advertise them as six gigabits per second or SATA 3 or three gigabits per second or SATA two so yeah so the thing to realize here is if you look on the web for hey is there a difference between a SATA 3 cable versus a SATA 2 cable what you're going to find is the answer if you dig far enough is nope definitely not but some of you could notice the SATA 3 or SATA version 3 SATA 6 gigabits per second standard of cable does say that you have to have a little clip on top here in summary though SATA connectors don't pay extra for a six gigabits per second connector unless you really want the clip but you go so other than that we have a bunch of USB it's over USB connectors we basically have USB a and B B is the square we have USB micro which is the smallest and USB mini which is used for cameras and stuff like that and then we have of course USB 3.0 and 3.1 so USB 3.0 is always identified with a blue header that is for devices and for cables and and the header itself is shown here as well this is what you connect your front panel for in your case if your motherboard supports it but USB 3.0 transfers at four point eight gigabits per second and the new USB 3.1 standard is at ten gigabits per second and it can also plug it in both ways so it is a universal header that way it doesn't require a hundred tries to plug it in anymore uh Thunderbolt I should mention Thunderbolt we don't have any cables here for none sorry guys there was a silverstone video i did where you can see it and use and thunderbolt one moves at ten gigabits per second but it's it's like a parallel thing and then thunderbolt 2 is 20 gigabits per second which is pretty awesome if you want to do an external video card oh yeah and uh I guess we'll move over here very quickly to fan connected fan connectors so yeah so the thing I think about fan games does know is that there are two types that you're interested in a 3-pin which looks kind of like this right here and then a 4-pin which looks like this right here on a three pin what you've got is got a ground a 12-volt connection and then a fan tachometer connection and that's just going to tell your motherboard how fast the fans spinning what's added in a four pin is a fan control now which means that the motherboard or the bios or somewhere in your software and Windows or Linux can actually control the speed of the fan as as you have a higher powered set up that maybe needs more fan power finally we have this crazy power connector I want to talk about if you look at the end of it it looks like a unimpressed face I will do so that is an unimpressed bass note on the and what's special here is it is a sixteen it's cable delivering 16 amps so that's just a lot of current on a standard power cable you're probably not going to be delivering 16 amps for instance put it like this a power breaker that's in your home's power circuit to your room if I going to run 10 amps and so this thing can actually pull more current than a circuit breakers used to producing like other words if you pull 16 amps off of your computer's power supply in a room that has a 10 amp breaker that breakers going to flip in a hurry some rooms do have 15 amps some rooms have 20 amps so you want to have a pretty beefy power setup in the room where your plug in this joker in yeah and that goes with any power supply that's like 1500 watts or more because a lot of us homes hit the wall at 1500 watts before you start blowing things up so finally we have this special connector we've got some zoom in on on it for you if you can identify this for me if you got maybe a little bit of history behind you then huh you're old that's one way to put it um leave a comment below on this video I won't count it if it's not on this video leave a comment on this video tell me what it is the first person to get it correct well you know I'll message you and we'll send you like a game or something I think actually I have some wizard wars codes if you like magicka I'll look it up it's a pretty crazy just like hectic co-op game I will send you a wizard wars code if you can identify this connector so that's it for our cable video anything else here leave a question we will get to you with the second video we'll try to answer it yeah and as always please subscribe check out our patreon page and we will see you all next time peace literal