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it's been three months since the launch of AMD's rise in seven CPUs and the results are in it's time for us to pull back the curtain on just what our audience members bought this last quarter so come away with me as we use 46 thousand lines of Amazon affiliate transactions to spot consumer trends spy on your sex toy purchases and yes build up a hypothetical PC using the most popular parts off to Big Data lad the phoenix auteur is a full-sized minimalistic li designed keyboard complete with genuine Cherry MX switches and a new white backlit variant check it out at the link below so did AMD dethrone the champ no not even close so the core i7 7700 K is the best-selling chip for the third time in a row but all of that crying I did in the last video available here seems to have actually had in effect the better value gaming chip the core i5 7600 case has edged its way to the number two slot I mean it's a distant second but I still feel better about myself but what about portion well let me put it this way out of the top 10 best-selling CPUs from our list 4 of them are rising with the 1700 and 1700 X performing just about equally in fourth and fifth place respectively this brings AMD from just seven percent market share in episode two all the way to twenty nine percent among our viewers so I think it's fair to say then that competition has returned to the PC space the question now then is how much should we expect that slice of the pie to grow as AMD launches more products like the value-oriented rising 3 and as developers start to optimize their games to get better performance out of this new competing architecture place your vet in the comments below cooler masters three-time champ the hyper 212 Evo blew away the competition yet again with triple the sales of the runner-up the other two spots on the podium are occupied by the usual suspects as well in third is the hyper t2 which is basically a budget version of the 212 Evo and climbing to second is the corsair hydro series h 100 i all-in-one liquid cooler by this change well I am attributing it to some bank account recovery since the Christmas drain and rise in X processors that need beefy cooling and don't come with coolers Corsair continues to dominate ram sales of the 149 different SKUs that were sold 23% of all sales come from the top three best-selling ones with 32 hundred megahertz dims in either black or white taking the cake build it and they will come AMD rise incompatible a.m. for motherboards are here and they're even closer to the top of the list then the chips that fit in them somehow in second place is the asus prime x 370 pro 4 AMD's platform of support for both overclocking and dual GPU gaming configurations and in first place well last episodes winning board reigned supreme once more this affordable asus be 150 LGA 1151 board isn't capable of overclocking all of those 7700 keys you people are buying but at least it's cheap and it's got an MDOT 2 slot so go for it I guess there was a huge upset in the graphics department where the best selling card by just one point was the Asus GTX 1080 Strix this was actually the best-selling 1080 last time around - but that was only good enough for fourth place overall this big jump in 1080 sales seems to be due to the $100 price drop that they got after the release of the 1080 Ti in March so we're expecting even more changes in this segment once the GT 1030 drop no I'm just kidding it's the upcoming AMD Vega cards that we're expecting to shuffle the deck somewhat one more thing have you guys noticed how many graphics cards have VR in the name these days well we have its 20% with MSI Asus and ZOTAC being me I'm going to say it worst offenders here let's see if this trend like putting gaming in the name of everything picks up in future episodes in the last episode the 250 gig Samsung 850 Evo overtook the 500 gig variant of the same drive as our best-selling SSD well guess what the 500 gig Evo is back we just can't quite figure out why if you think it's because of a price drop you'd be wrong on average people actually paid $17 more for it this time around here's just so much gosh-darn mystery in the world isn't there something that makes a bit more sense though is sales of MDOT - SSDs these are on the rise with the most popular MDOT - Drive arriving in fourth place with a $75 price premium over the 850 Evo of the same capacity on the hard drive front the one terabyte Western Digital blue is still king but we're going to be keeping our eyes peeled for higher capacity hard drives becoming more popular now that Intel octane module sales have started to hit the books because those things can accelerate a hard drive in a big way for operating systems Windows 10 home USB drives have officially and decisively claimed the number one spot we don't even have to count the one person who bought the Spanish version and later returned it the USB cost the same amount as downloadable Windows but has the more flexible license terms of the retail copy EVGA continues to supply the most popular power supplies but just because the 500 watt bronze one again doesn't mean that the technology isn't moving forward overall while the price of this PSU has stayed near the rock bottom forty two dollars the price of the EVGA 650 watt fully modular 80 plus gold has actually dropped around 30 bucks since episode two making it a more attractive option for cases the best-selling single SKU was the corsair crystal series 570 x RGB that we featured in our when showpiece the upgrade video and in our editing den up but that's not quite the whole story if you count all the color variations then the best-selling case was actually the fan tax and suit evolve tempered glass edition naturally more budget-conscious shoppers went for the NZXT s340 while those interested in smaller form factor cases chose Silverstone's ml o 8 this time around Noctua iced the competition with the NFF 12 coming in on top even though they cost twice as much as course there's popular air series fans and they only come in one distinct let's just put it that way color scheme so we'd like to ask the audience do you think it would be better for not to us in the long term to maintain their strong brand identity or to offer more modern flavors maybe even RGB blasphemy sorry I got carried away okay moving on now we've been monitoring the situation and high refresh rate 1080p displays one once more this time it's a 24 inch or from a soos and the march towards the mainstream doesn't look like it's slowing down with high refresh rate gaining way more market share than any other key feature over the last quarter now really oh okay well you're not going to believe this one but take last episode's best-selling mouse and multiply it sales by five that's how many of these damn things you guys bought it's the red dragon central forest mouse from our cheap gaming mouse roundup and guess what second and third place are from that video too but wait it gets even better you guys also bought the keyboard to go with it the red dragon K 503 harp the seven color backlit gaming keyboard I guess you guys really love these cheap crap roundups hey because it gives you so much more money to spend on the ever-popular hype Rex cloud 2 gaming headset they must sell so freakin many of those things so then putting it all together we once again for the third time running have a compatible computer it's got five of the same parts of last time but while similar but cheaper was the trend in the last episode of viewers Choice beers choice PC number three is a hundred and seventy-five dollars more expensive than even the first viewers choice PC with the price jumps coming mostly from moving upmarket with the graphics card case and SSD Skillshare is an online learning community for creators with more than 15,000 classes available in design business technology and more everyone can take a class try a project or even teach a class themselves Premium Membership begins at around ten bucks a month and gives you unlimited access to learning and you can do it from anywhere download the mobile app on Android or iPhone and just tap into classes even when you're offline they've got great tutorials even for things that are highly applicable to our business like editing with Adobe Premiere the first 200 viewers to click the link in the video description will get a two-month free trial so don't miss it there was finally an advantage to being hashtag first so thanks for watching guys let's look to see how much market share AMD grabs in video cards in the next episode the last two we're at 26% place your bets in the comments or on our community forum and if this video stuck do you guys know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join