Gadgetory

what's up guys Jays too sincere and statistics have shown that the summertime are leading right up to summer usually is when people build their computers it's when the most people out there buying looking for deals because maybe it's graduation sales or something I don't know but we find that we like to try and head off some of the questions people have on building new computers and today we're going to tackle a topic we've not actually done on this channel before and I'm kind of curious to see how well receive this is as well as you guys has use your feedback and that is going to be gimmick versus feature take overclocking reliability to the next level with the new Z 390 dark motherboard from EVGA the Z 390 dark is built for extreme overclocking utilizing features such as a 10 layer PCB 17 phase power delivery triple BIOS and 150 percent more gold content meaning you get more of what you need to build the ultimate Intel based PC to learn more about the Z 390 dark in its world-class features visit EVGA calm so we're gonna actually use some of our products here on the shelf to sort of talk about this because here's what happens let's pretend we're at Fry's or we're at Microsoft I mean God knows we've got as much inventory as one of them what tends to happen if someone goes huh looks like a neat board and then they kind of look at it and they start reading the box you know why they read the box cuz they don't know what they're necessarily looking at or what the features are and stuff and so this is where a lot of new people can certainly get in trouble so we're gonna do right here is we're just gonna grab three brands of motherboards to try to see kind of the different ways that these brands do their marketing so we've got three of the big players here we've got EVGA asus and msi now EVGA we're gonna go and start here because i am a huge fan of their packaging they tend to be more minimalistic as you can see there's not a bunch of crazy logos everywhere there's not a bunch of branding all over the place it's not like busy it's not ugly that makes sense so what your eyes are immediately drawn to is just what's immediately like important so there's some some stuff missing from this box that we're gonna kind of talk about and what I mean by missing is my opinion what's missing are the gimmicks they don't put in here gaming they don't put in here via already they don't even have RGB on these boards I mean technically the newer I think this one might actually have RGB but it's not controlled through like mystic light or any of that they don't even have RGB headers on the boards you can't expand it so if you're not a fan of RGB and you're one of those that are in the camp like anti RGB I'm gonna stick it to them by not buying anything with RGB this would be one of those boards so if we move up to a soos it's very similar you get a picture of the board in fact this box is kind of nice because it even opens up there's no board in here but even opens up and you'd be able to see everything in there although in the store wouldn't open hopefully got your basic branding on the bottom these are actually required by Intel if they're an Intel board because it's kind of like Apple with their you know Apple earpods and iPod was iPad iPod iPhone ready or whatever like the accessories so because they are Intel brandon intel whatever they're obviously they're in bits chipset that's it yeah they've got to put on here all these logos because that's part of the licensing since they are Intel product but as you can see I hear it's very basic it just kind of talks about now it does say gaming motherboard it's there it's teeny but it's there I mean you can technically use this motherboard for anything besides gaming if you wanted to but they're gonna call it gaming centric because it's got the lighting on here it's got RGB it's got a lot of functions gamers would want like lots of fan headers obviously there are DB expansion ports or headers on there this particular motherboard actually has water block built into the vrm but there's not really anything on here that would truly make it gaming I mean to be honest it's got wireless Bluetooth lands and there's nothing that makes it gaming so that's kind of gimmick versus feature number one anything that is branded gaming is 100% a gimmick now let's how about MSI I think that make great hardware but I really think they need to work on their advertising / branding department because they kind of double down on the gimmick marketing in my opinion so for instance performance gaming the reason why they have this one here is because it has a little knob you can turn that's supposed to automatically overclock we'll talk about in a minute here misuk light RGB we'll talk about RGB separately in a second here but V already this is the one we saw everywhere in fact I'll even did an amazing little skit about VR ready tempered glass which was freakin amazing if you haven't seen it you need to go watch it he does it as I think that's one of the early Lyle character days look at the back of this oh my gosh VR already as you see as guys got better compatibility for better conformance on performance on VR ready here's the problem with anything branded VR ready on a motherboard the motherboard doesn't do in determining whether or not it's VR ready that's everything to do with the CPU and more importantly the GPU the graphics card is the single most important piece in being v already so something else that's a bit gimmicky that is going to up the price on something like this is we've got little name plates here that you can change to put your own name on them I guess said personality add personality to it mystic light RGB again we'll talk about that in a second audio boost what this is basically saying is that they've got an amplifier built into their headphone output because a lot of headphones like studio-grade headphones require a lot of power to drive them because they're high ohms high resistance and so this is just saying it's got better output for the amount of power and they might have headphone that it can drive with the factory or the motherboard but most people who are serious about sound anyway don't use onboard they'll use a DAC or something like that what is this lightning USB okay that's fine lightning ESPYs alright system saver so it says three easy-to-use options and boot system successfully again so they've got some really bad English on the back I wish they'd paid someone to actually make sure this was operating romantically correct the irony of me saying that but I digress basically it just means it has double BIOS so if you flash a BIOS incorrectly or shuts off during updating BIOS you can get it back oh yeah right there what the fast try death VR it's windows compatible that's a good one and it's gaming certified it's right there gaming certified so the next thing we're gonna talk about here is RGB now I'm gonna I'm gonna be one of those people that subscribe to the unpopular opinion that are g/b is not a bad thing what sucks about RGB is the marketing behind it there has been such a ridiculous push about RGB that what was an amazing feature because of choice it's been it's been soured by the amount of just stupid marketing behind it everyone's sick of the RGB rainbow puke that at the shows like Computex and CES and these just freakin disco dancing and going crazy but let's be honest that is the right way to advertise what RGB is that's clearly not a mode you need to leave it on it's nice because RGB is not in my opinion a gimmick because of the fact that you can personalize it and make it what you want but back in the day you could get white green red or blue if you decided later you want to go from red to green guess what you're buying all new fans are buying all new lights and it was kind of a pain in the butt so being able to do that when you want is a nice feature what you guys are confused on being mad about is the marketing behind it and I agree hate the marketing because it's terrible so I mentioned earlier gaming and the problem with the word gaming is that the word itself is a bit of a gimmick because what we have right here are four examples of graphics cards where one is labeled gaming and one is not and it's it's its competitor for instance we've got the MSI gaming extra hairy chest gaming in the name it's a 1650 which is slower than the Radeon rx 570 down here which doesn't actually have gaming in the name anywhere another example here where we have these Strix gaming Vegas 64 versus the founders edition 1080i which doesn't say gaming anywhere on it and the 1080 Ti is faster and it's one of those things where if you were to kind and they're and they're very similarly priced match to on these graphics cards so if you were a new buyer and you're building for the first time and you're standing there looking at these boxes he might be like to go well I want to build a gaming computer so I want the gaming one and that's where the packaging itself and the naming of some of this stuff can completely confuse and disorient and also mislead the buyer into thinking they're getting something better simply because it says the word gaming on it so why do they say gaming typically we're talking about aib cards which are add-in boards which means these are third-party manufacturers for the main designer of the graphics card so in this case we've got an Nvidia founders Edition 1080i and two custom options here available from one from MSI one from EBG so what's changed is where all of these GPU cores used to go to the manufacturers to put into their graphics cards where they would then bend them and come up with their tiered system of graphics card so for instance both of these brands have a expensive model like a medium model and a more entry-level model where some of the feature sets between the cards change they were all Bend which meant the higher more expensive cards would perform better and potentially overclock better than any of the lower-priced cards that all changed when nvidia entered the space because nvidia obviously kept all the best gps for themselves why wouldn't you they designed it they're manufacturing it of course they want to be the best because it's their name on it so they keep the best which means the binning that the AIB is received now is a lot less gapped if that makes sense they're much more similarly specs now in terms of what their max frequencies and crash rates and stuff were versus what Nvidia kept so what happens now is you've got a standard founders Edition card right here complete with blower cooler and all of that which in almost every single case performed better when overclocked then even their overclocking counterparts from the AI B's and that's no fault of theirs that's simply because the way business is being done now with Nvidia but what you're gonna find here is a lot of even the overclocked versions and this is where I'm kind of moving on to gimmick versus function yes it is functional it is indeed 20 to 50 megahertz faster than the the base model but ever since GPU boost was introduced as well they tend to go farther than those numbers anyway and what you find is when you start manually overclocking these graphics cards they are within one to two percent of each other from max lock because you kind of find a more consistent crash rate where they all tend to sort of crash right around the same frequency plus or minus like maybe 20 25 megahertz so where the difference in performance between them is not noticeable but what you do get with the AI B's though is obviously very robust coolers versus this the founder's addition card at least back when we had a single fan now they have dual fans were significantly louder and hotter than these cards where although these cards may not have performed necessarily any better than this when it comes to performance of fps would they perform better at acoustics and thermals so what you found is that there was still a lot of value to have to these cards even though they were a little bit more expensive than one that could potentially overclock farther in just about every instance like I said though the founders Edition cards that we received had the best overclocks then even the cards built for them there's that RGB again but that brings us to our next kind of topic here which is gaming mice in my opinion what's more important than the level of dpi which is you know sixteen thousand versus eighty two hundred so that should mean this one's twice as better as this one right at twice as good I mean that's that's not the way that this works in my opinion which you should truly care about is the weight of the mouse the type of grip it is as are the claws of the palm these are magnetic they come off you can add weights which I've added them in there like a heavy Mouse you can use this tool to sort of change the height of the pad in the back plus it's ambidextrous like I said it's got the same buttons on either side so these are neat features that are not gimmicky in my opinion but what is gimmicky is like a lot of them muff they put on the box right this has a 16,000 dpi sensor was this has an 8200 with a 150 IPS or inch per second do you know how fast you'd have to be moving this mouse to cover 150 inches per second you'd be gaming like this one of my favorite mouse mouse mice mice nieces that I've ever had in the past was just the basic Microsoft 3 button laser mouse that's it I counter-strike day in and day out with that Mouse then the Logitech came out with their optical mouse which had that kind of a crazy like dimpled looking design on it and I yeah I the 518 I went through like three of them what only differentiates a basic office mouse from a gaming mouse is a gaming mouse actually has a crisper set a crisper optic in it or sensor or laser that gives you a little bit of fine control so the last topic I want to talk about here is gaming chairs you know you know what these companies have done and the reason why there's so many of them popping up they're all they're all made in China they're all made by the same manufacturer with just different stitching of name on there they took cheap cheesy racing chairs like you would find it like Pep Boys and threw it on a base of like any regular office chair and called it a gaming chair sitting in an office chair like a true office chair like a Herman Miller or even in the autonomous which I personally sit in at both home and here at the studio which is only three hundred dollars I say only that's that's very cheap compared to like the price of like a Herman Miller or something like that the way chairs are rated is in a twenty four-hour rating and you have your twenty four-hour chair you have an eight hour chair for our chair six I mean the our rating is where it's basically considered economic and comfortable and good for your posture at that time reading if you guys have never researched that going look at it's actually a lot of science behind chairs in their design there's no science and no design behind a gaming chair whatsoever and they've even gone as far now to start putting RGB in gaming racing chairs that is probably the most triggering thing I've ever seen is like these these gaming chairs and I've sat in a few of them I have some that so I've one sitting up there no one sits in it at this studio even when guests come over they'd rather sit in our IKEA a little metal frame no pad chair than that because they sit in it and they're like this kind of sucks and I'm sure plenty of you are sitting in your racing chair right now watching this video going hey hey hey I like my chair you know it's your but you put it wherever you want at the end of the day but I find racing chairs to be extremely gimmicky and that's why I'm only putting this out there because if you're shopping for a set up and you're putting a new office together or our man cave or a gaming room or whatever you owe it to yourself to at least go and sit in some proper ergonomic chairs because trust me when I say you're but in your back are gonna thank you at the end of the day so anyway that's just some I don't want to make this video for a while and because it's gonna spark discussion it's gonna spark arguments too but it's gonna spark discussion and I'm really curious as to what you guys think as the consumer on what the true gimmicks versus features are every see every single gimmick is pretty much based off of a functional feature but features can also be gimmicky too so guys tell me what you think down in the comments below or head on over to Twitter at JC sense let me know what you guys think is a gimmick and what's an actual function you can't live without thanks for watching guys and we'll see you in the next one I really hope I didn't break this mouse I really like this