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auguste what a month things happen in August many funny things I spent most of last month running benchmark after benchmark after benchmark and I suppose that's not that unusual but I have to say last month it really was a slob having been just hit with Rison three late in July so the month prior we were then hit with frag Ripper in early August but damn that thing was a lot of fun to test and before the thread ripper dust even had a chance to settle AMD came out swinging once again this time with Vega though fewer punches landed on that one in between all the chaos there was plenty more going on here at the harbour unbox channel so this is the monthly recap getting the ball rolling last month was your boy Tim and well we did the young fella make a big mistake and what ultimately turned out to be a really successful video so Tim got his hands on the asou cx30 4vq an ultra wide monitor boasting support for the 34 40 by 1440 resolution 100 hertz refresh and 1800 our curvature it also packs a frameless design qi wireless charger and an impressive three year warranty all of this for $750 us makes this one of the cheapest models available boasting this impressive array of specifications the problem being that a worryingly large amount of viewers commenting on that video didn't seem to understand that cheap is a relative term Tim told that video a sous MX 34 V Q cheap 100 Hertz 1440p ultrawide monitor an appropriate title at least Tim and myself foolishly believed before releasing the video a good number of commenters were outraged that we called a $750 us monitor cheap despite the fact that they fail to provide any evidence of anything cheaper mind you cheap doesn't actually mean cheapest but even so counter arguments were interesting for example Jose paid just 180 dollars us for a Korean 27-inch hundred Hertz 1440 display and that's cool probably a pretty good deal but it's also consider smaller works at a lower resolution and is questionable in terms of build quality it's also certainly not frameless nor curved oh and it comes with a limited one-year warranty a questionable limited warranty at that nino says $700 isn't cheap I was expecting like $400 you here too here folks $400 is the new cheap apparently it is a relative term then Jack swoops in with the save but instantly take it out of context anyway when I get my core i9 79 80 XE later this month I'll probably go and call it cheapen the title since it will technically be cheap for an 18 called processor even at the stupid $2,000 price tag I guess I'm just a bit of a troll moving on before I continue to look at more humorous comments we did have a battle royale between the rise and 7 1700 and core i7 a 78 20x this was an application in gaming comparison and the results were quite interesting so if you're thinking of buy either I suggest checking that one out Diego one top comment on that one I have to appreciate him sharing the love then what by 101 pointed out a serious flaw in my testing methodology which I have since corrected after the serious benchmarking session it was time to relax and do a little unboxing this time for unboxing boxes episode 33 we had a thread ripper on deck and it was a heap of fun overall that really was a fun video that went down well though I did trigger a few people with how casual I went about the whole thing thankfully though I was able to set the record straight recently with a second thread Ripper unboxing a truly massive CPU I'm so tempted to see if that's now the temptation here is to go wow that's a sexy-looking processor but it's in an orange caddy and that's just gross so I don't want to do my b-roll with that gross or interesting around let's take out don't do that I know the temptations there you do that you're going to trigger the whole internet people are going to tell you that you're a moron because you need this orange thing to install it I don't care if you put text on the screen saying be careful with the orange thing don't throw it away because it's important don't just don't take it out there's no need then Tim was back at it again this time rustling a few less feathers with these one plus five battery life test those keen on smartphone battery life should check this one out Tim tested well over a does popular phones next up we have the rise in three ultimate gaming benchmark guys and this was part one of a three part series this video went down a treat you guys really seemed to like the benchmark method used here so I'll certainly do more of this in the future that said amorous wasn't too impressed I love this comment so much I just had to pin it and wrasses only ever made a single comment on the channel but he made up for the lack of quantity with this little gem finally unsubscribed I'm so sick of this guy he's trying to create the perception that aim day is worse than nvidia and intel all the time it can be reasonable but even if he says good stuff about AMD he always makes me feel like he doesn't approve of what he says i don't find him sincere damn one minute i'm an Nvidia shield the next minute at AMD shell and I guess if you give it another minute probably an Intel shill you guys really need to get together and get on the same page thing I really love about this level-headed comment is the fact that 72 other people were like yeah right on bud give that an upvote or maybe they just uploaded it without reading it because I pinned it either way thanks to a morass for the laughs shame we lost you though ever wonder what the difference between free sync and gsync is and how they compare in 2017 well good because Tim put together a 10 minute long video covering that very topic it was a very informative bit by Tim we also learnt in the comment section that Shrek has desync it must be a new technology that we haven't heard of and disarmed scroll thinks I look weird well you look weird wait it was a video with Tim alright back to some serious business with another unboxing boxes episode for this one though I was really just taking a break from all the thread Ripper testing and of course what did I get more thread Ripper motherboards to test it wasn't long though before I got back up some more thread Ripper content this time with a sexy RGB build this one was a heap of fun and as usual I enjoyed reading through the comments my Mac Brian from Everett tech ear Sydney stopped by with a few tips he thought I was wasting far too much time using a credit card to spread the thermal grease the yes-man doesn't mess around with such nonsense anyway if colorful rainbow builds get you excited then be sure to check that one out finally after much hype the thread Ripper review went live with the 1950 ex and 90 20 X and they lived up to expectations as it stands the 1950 X is the fastest desktop CPU on the market though that could change later in the month as the biggest 16 core and 18 core core I 9 parts arrived that video received over 1000 comments and we did have some familiar faces towards the top of the stack including Jarrod's tech gym from a dog TV and that crazy Kiwi keV from Tech's showdown both Jim and keV asked if I'm switching a thread Ripper as my main rig and the answer is yes very soon and that's going to be an exciting series moving on Tim checked out the newest sous Zephyrus and that was a really sleek looking laptop packin a GTX 1080 and as expected Tim really liked it despite the amazing design and impressive hardware the price wasn't that extreme and in fact was cheaper than quite a few other GT X 1080 laptops so if you're in need of a gaming laptop that packs a serious punch check out Tim's review after that I was back and this time with yet another episode of unboxing boxes for this one I got an awesome new extra no.9 motherboard an impressive GT X 1080 Ti from our viewer and I told a rather unusual story about my RX Vega sample that episode was once again a heap of fun so check it out if you haven't already a few days later I had AMD's Radeon Vega 56 in hand and I threw 25 games at it testing 1080p 1440p and the 4k resolution that one was also a blast loads of benchmarks plenty of great comments and Vega 56 looks ok certainly better than Vegas 64 which I was yet to test at the time tying ass over once again was Tim with another high-end gaming laptop review this time checking out the Auris x5 v 7 it's quite a short name for a laptop what we have here is an overclockable gtx 1070 powered laptop sporting a 4 kg sync enabled display but is it any good I don't know go watch the video and let me know then it was once again time to get very serious I mean what's up with the harbour unboxed RX Vega results there was a little bit of drama bit of controversy from the 25 game Vega 56 review so I decided to address that with the video and well it went surprisingly well who would have thought I didn't call Vega cheap so I think that's where I kept out of trouble for the most part putting the Vega controversy behind us was part 2 of the rise and three ultimate gaming benchmark guide time we were checking out the overclocking performance only 22 dislikes and over 1,700 likes on that one I'll have to study it to work out the formula of not offending people mu EE copyright did have this to say though blah blah blah Rison blah blah blah who cares I mean it does have rise and three as the first word in the title so I reply with this sorry I don't know why YouTube does this you would think by now then you had to deliver their users with content that is appropriate for them find YouTube I'll do your job for you then you click on this link and zap team next up another unboxing dammit I did a lot of these last month anyway I checked out a new X 399 board and then walked out on you guys and never to return and that was met with mixed reactions in the comment section while I was leaving you guys hanging Tim was getting ready to release his Corsair Void Pro headset review we don't do many peripheral reviews on the channel these days so this was a change of pace for sure those that watch the video seemed to really enjoy it I believe Tim is still using the void pros as we speak then finally the last installment in the three-part Rison 3 ultimate benchmark guide series this time we checked out is it worth upgrading Rison 3 from the core i5 2500 K or FX 83-70 CPUs some pretty shocking results in that one I have to say definitely worth checking out if you're rocking an older generation CPU and thinking of upgrading while I was working on the last few videos we've talked about I was also slowly benchmarking my way through this one boy oh boy was it a grind so for this video we have not 25 games not 30 games but for some unexplainable reason 32 games I have no idea what I was thinking there really anyway here we have the results for both the air and liquid cooled versions of Vega 64 along with Vega 56 and a heap of other relevant cards in 32 games a big things to appleton McCool for creating the video index on this one I honestly didn't have the energy to get it done after that mega benchmark session I decided to relax a little bit and play the new f1 2017 video game while I was at it I tried a few different hardware configurations and ended up doing a quick benchmark showdown between Vega 56 and the gtx 1070 if you're an f1 race fan I suggest checking it out then finally after months and months of planning it was time to announce the new upgrade my PC plea series and I was super excited to let you guys know about it the announcement video did very well and generated over 800 submissions many of which were very good if you missed that video please go check it out the more people we can get involved in this series the better on that note please be aware submissions are only open to a few select regions for now but of course anyone can watch the series and by voting you can go in the running to win global giveaways each week with some pretty awesome prizes I was a bit disappointed how many people said they downloaded that series because it wasn't in there region it's really disappointing to learn that's the mentality of some of the sub-base I really didn't think you guys would do this I mean we're paying for all of this out of our own back pocket and of course we want to expand the series globally it's just very difficult and costly to do so once we start to see a return on investment we will indeed expand the series for now though we do appreciate the support so many of you have shown and will continue to work hard to make the series bigger and better for everyone while everyone was getting their upgrade my PC please submissions ready I decided to play around with destiny - and crater what does it take to play episode this time I was targeting 1440p gameplay with at least 60 FPS and it turns out the game is quite easy to run even on mid-range hardware so that was a nice discovery then it was time for some serious destiny - benchmarking so I took 30 GPUs and threw them at the game testing tiny peak 1440p and the 4k resolutions this one was a heap of work but it was really well received and I do really appreciate all the support and amazing feedback you guys gave it's videos like these that I get to appreciate just how awesome the hardware unboxed fan base is well that does it for last month 25 videos in total though it was technically 26 but for reasons I've already discussed on the channel I did pull down at my Vega pricing video I'm still waiting to see how that one plays out for now but yeah fan out demand still heavily outweighing the supply and HBM to memory pricing is becoming a real concern as well so yeah be interesting to see how things look later in the year anyway as always a really big thank you to everyone who tuned in last month watched a lot of videos and showed their support I really do appreciate all of you I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys