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okay are we back of course there's no viewers now because everyone is gone you are we back I have moved I am live again excellent okay so I don't know what caused that exactly but I am definitely not using Google Hangouts on air anymore I am back tweeting it and that'll probably affect viewership over the next little while here tonight let's get my get everything all set up again so I'm in my computer room now you can see I've got a cat lounging up there I've tried to put on some lights that might make the may make the video quality somewhat acceptable I don't know what this is apparently Firefox is oh no Firefox is good okay all right we're back are we back I think we're back let me just sort of adjust the thing because I'm sitting in a chair that's a different height here and I like I don't okay guys tell me something really quick here is there is there any like is the Liz the original livestream livestream part one I guess I'll have to call it now is that one still showing up anywhere or is the default one when you look at the channel livestream part two let's check the video manager here that over livestream a hangout on air yeah okay okay so that remote you know I'm not gonna be able to get away with doing a half hour segment here because by the time it's half an hour in we're gonna have barely answered any questions ah all right so let's get back to some questions here shall we where did we leave off live stream says we'll be right back yep yeah I broke Google I know okay scrolling down some more she read my comment massive fangasm thank you Rana for that stream is offline how did I get into motorcycling you know what great question Chris I started riding a bike when I was very very young you know one of these kinds no I'm just kidding it's not I got into the middle my dad my dad had a motorcycle just a little 250 cc was like Nighthawk or something you know what's great about this whole like browser sharing thing is I can probably actually find what bike he had and I can show you guys so it was like it was a honda nighthawk 250 I think so I didn't write on the back this and oh right I can't press that too because that'll change my things so there we go at least I hope that's working no yeah there we go okay oops honda nighthawk 250 so we'll search for that yeah okay let's search for a red one though red and images there we go so I used to ride on the back of one of these little guys with with my dad and you know that was fun and so I decided at some point that I wanted to get myself a bike so when I you know grew up and moved out and got my own money I bought myself in and sv650 took some classes you know making sure I actually know how to ride on one and yeah I've been having oh I'm having a blast with it I haven't actually I haven't actually written it as much as I would have liked this year but I've been on it for this past week so it's been great - why do gamers love quiet computers and loud keyboards great question because loud keyboards are a necessary evil if you want that tactile feedback when you're typing it makes you faster and more accurate whereas loud computers are just annoying or for me personally it doesn't serve any kind of functions so it doesn't really doesn't really float my boat I should use Metro twit as my desktop Twitter app you're probably right I have so little experience with Twitter still at this point that I'm learning a lot all the time so this is the best I can do right now so you're just gonna have to live with it apparently I can barely keep my livestream up so you should you guys should be like you guys should be amazed that I can even manage to show you a Twitter feed because in the past I've always just done this and just held Twitter up to the screen and hope that it'll like magically focus and you'll be able to see stuff and hello show us your cats I don't think I'm gonna be able to cuz he's um well yeah actually no there there that is my cat that's rocket he's just sort of hanging out on top of the bookshelf he loves it up there alright kindly lower the quality I can't stream that fast um dude I don't I don't know what to tell you like I don't mean I can barely figure out how to get it working so I don't think I can I don't think I can figure out how to adjust quality okay so let's go to some of the new questions and what do I write today I'm still in the sv650 oh that won't work for me you are just going to have to be banned forever if there's a way to do that ah yes you are blocked goodbye thank you for playing so let's move down lioness do you prefer Intel or AMD you know what Santiago you're gonna have to check out my Intel versus AMD video in fact if you search on youtube for youtube.com/ Intel versus AMD I believe I am actually the first hit so there's no excuse for not having searched for this oh no I'm not I'm hit no no that's a featured video that doesn't count but I'm I'm hit number hey look I can I can point at stuff I'm hit number two so if you watch that video which has 400,000 views wow people care about this then you will know that there is no such thing as Intel versus AMD and one of them is better than the other comes down to each individual product Sabretooth axe 79 does a coil line I don't have a Sabretooth x79 so I haven't actually tried it Wei Ming Zhou is it possible to do a video comparing onboard audio to a dedicated did a lot just subjectively for myself but unfortunately there's not much you can do in terms of in terms of like empirical benchmarks for audio quality because so much of it is personal taste so what I can tell you guys is that my personal taste is to not use horrible horrible onboard audio and if you want to do it then that's fine but a dedicated card is definitely better have I tried out the g600 Mouse yet I have actually so to give you guys some idea what my impressions were like that is my Akari laser and that is the g600 though that is that's a Naga which I like as well g600 I haven't tried installing the drivers properly for it or anything yet but my initial impression is that the there's a there's some delay there's some input lag that I'm really really displeased with but I don't experience with the Naga or with the Akari laser so I'm gonna give it a chance once I've had some time to install the drivers and actually fire up a game with it I've had so little time lately yeah Damian what is the most scary moment in your tech / computer career a scary moment um I don't know it's hard to say probably probably when I braked really hard and I had it I had an entire tray of OAM AMD processors unreleased processors and I braked really hard and it fell off the backseat down below and about half a dozen of them 3 somewhere between three and six of them ended up with bent pins one of them was bent so badly that I ended up breaking the pin when I tried to use it and that was the one I really needed for the tech tips video I was doing so that's the that's the origin of the legendary broken pins camera man's epic grammar here fixing a bent / broken pins pin but that's where that episode came from because it was an impromptu episode we did when I broke the bent pin as I was trying to unbend it and we ended we ended up being able to fix it and that CPU is still running to this day and my parents can ughter so so there you go - sir I have a Linux box - I have a Linux computer I do not actually I'm a strictly Windows guy ah Dallin Ross how important is cast latency and memory timings to gaming performance it makes almost no difference these days the general rule of thumb is if you go from 9 9 9 27 down to 888 24 that's about the same as going from 1333 to 1600 and both of those differences are very mine you so if you go from like 1333 like cast 9 memory up to like 1866 cast 9 memory you'll get maybe a couple percent which will be equivalent to like a third of a frame or you know like one extra fps you're never gonna notice the difference usually when people ask me about memory my suggestion to them is by the RAM that like looks cool with your system because that's about the only thing that that matters these days unless you're really out there trying to set performance records and you're really into a benchmarking and an overclocking your memory and all that kind of jazz ah thinking the new build would you recommend an i-5 35 70 km a gtx 660ti power Edition and a biostar ok well you had me at the i-5 and the gtx 660 power Edition I'm a big 3 guy if it's not a soos gigabyte RMS I am really not that interested so I would go with anything from those three guys I can't guys Dillon particularly Dillon that's that's you I can't really answer every question about a particular configuration and I can't walk you like I can't hold your hand through overclocking over YouTube that's just not gonna work or over a private messages I have so many people message me every day Linus I have this configuration they send me like these pager long YouTube private messages or like here's my configuration here's all the things I've tried can you walk me through this I'm like no I'm sorry I can't because if I walked everyone who asked me through overclocking then that would be all I would do all day every day and I don't think anyone's going to like feed my baby for doing that so it's it's it's just not that realistic however usually if you search for overclocking guide if you search for some kind of overclocking guide on YouTube I will have some kind of a guide up there so it might help a little bit to to throw in the NCIX keyword there you go AMD phenom 2 x6 overclocking tutorial with 400,000 hits so Dillon you got to find these videos as opposed to sort of asking me on Twitter because it's yeah I I could / help you overclock 140 characters at a time but it's not that doable hmm wow that's really warm in this room with all these lights and computers I've got I've got my test bench running with my with my seven harddrive raid and 512 gig samsung 830 SSD as a cache running on an Adaptec raid card I've got that going on in here and that's producing some heat and then I've got sorry I'm just gonna got my wife's computer there then I've got my computer there and I got this laptop here and then I've got that light and that light and that door that door needs to remain pretty closed because there's a baby sleeping on the other side of it that's why I really wanted to do this 10 stairs in the kitchen but if he wakes up then I guess I maybe he'll join us so that'll be that'll be fun for everyone for a computer to record music in what is the thing I can cheap out on what is the must for me well if you're going to be doing any music edit like serious like multitrack music editing you'll need a decent processor you'll need a decent amount of RAM you don't need a video card pretty much make sure it's quiet though because the worst thing in the world is to be trying to do music recording and you got fans going in the background so yeah definitely spend money on making sure it's really silent our ducky shines good mechanical keyboard yes I haven't used one extensively myself but slick swears by it and his his opinion is pretty much all I need to hear for most things he's he's very knowledgeable haha you know what why don't we have a look at some of the some of the newer 161 new interactions alright awesome 172 new interactions ok you guys are you guys are you guys are killing me here this is interesting 7/7 a wants to know what chair I would suggest for sitting done for a long period of time a comfortable one the great thing about chairs is that they are really easy to try before you buy so you like you take your button you can put it in the chair and you sort of wiggle around a little bit you see if it's compatible you know if there's like a good you know surface contact between the bum and the the chair cushions and I mean come on now what do you want me to say it's like there's like tech QA and right like chairs I don't listen to Daft Punk I don't have any computer programming knowledge in fact I can hardly I can hardly like make things bold that I'm trying to do merchandising on NCIX like what the you know the little thing and like the B in the middle and then like the /b sorry guys I'm pretty much a strictly hardware guy Julian did you ever think you'd be doing what you do for a living if the whole YouTube thing failed where do you think you'd be now believe it or not I don't do YouTube for a living so did I ever think I'd be a product manager for a living no that wasn't what I was expecting I I was expecting to be a sales guy and then I wasn't really sure what would happen from there and so the little product management thing really fell fell into my lap and it's been it's been good it's been good but no YouTube is YouTube is not a real job actually this is something that I wanted to talk about a fair bit because I had someone send me send me a private message on YouTube about their attempts they're trying to do like those gameplay videos which honestly guys I mean if you can enlighten me I really don't understand the charm and the appeal of this whole like I'm playing video games and I'm rambling into my mic about like whoa this thing blew up and like oh man that reminds me of the time that I was you know chasing my cat and it blew up like I don't really understand so he's doing these gameplay videos and he's he sends me this message it was very it was very heartfelt so I actually I read the whole thing and I I watched a couple of his videos and he's like dude I want to do YouTube I want to do YouTube like this this is my calling and he's been at it for about five years now and he's got over 4,000 subscribers but I don't think many of them are that active because new videos are only getting about 30 views so for context I've got around almost 200,000 subscribers and every video gets around you know at least 30,000 views which means a lot of that's coming from the subscribed viewers so I'm just kind of looking at this I'm going man what do you want me to tell you because YouTube is not a real job there's very few guys out there who don't need a day job anymore I mean if your name isn't philip defranco ray william johnson some of these some of these like game streaming guys who are very popular and it really can't figure it out you have a real job or you're you know going to school or you're you're doing something else you have another plan youtube I mean YouTube can go away as fast as it came I it's it's a anyway I was kind of marveling the other day YouTube started up in what 2004 that's eight years ago that's nothing I mean if you're planning a career like my wife's a pharmacist so that that is a career YouTube YouTube is not not a career I mean I do this because it's fun I do this because I'd like to educate people yeah I enjoy it I love the hardware I mean I love playing with you know the latest like cool stuff and just kind of having it sitting there you know getting like Linus edition Ram that doesn't exist outside of the U six sticks of it that I own and mean that kind of stuff really gets me excited so that's why I do it not because not because it's a career and where do I think I'd be now without YouTube why be just product managing me and I wouldn't have all of you funding people to talk to you on my Friday night it's funny because I was when I was when I was figuring Hill when to went to schedule these live streams on a weekly basis I was like oh what night works I was like oh you know Friday night should be pretty good because at the end of the work week you know I'm pretty tired you know might be nice to just kind of hang out say stream in front of the camera for a bit and I didn't even occur to me that you know people code on a Friday night and the funny thing is you guys apparently don't go out on a Friday night either although it's okay I'm just I'm just messing with you because I'm sure a lot of you are actually located you know around the globe and it's not Friday night it's like Saturday morning or whatever else Oh someone wants me to show the Linus RAM again this is the Linus edition run it has a special color scheme my understanding is this never actually existed anywhere else yes I've heard of the Raspberry Pi however I haven't actually physically seen one yet and I don't get too excited about hardware that doesn't physically exist yet because I've got way too many like fascinating things that do exist that I can I can focus on okay Curtis has a question Curtis right there house rock isn't part of the big three what's good about their products you're right as rock isn't part of the big three and you will find no ass Rock motherboards deployed in anything that I do I did try out their extreme 11 just to find out if it had coil line but as I've found so many times in the past with anything but I tear one motherboard there's some sort of nagging thing that isn't gonna work for me so on that one it was the loud chipset fan and I had a lot of people send me links to MCW 30s or other generic chipset coolers and I appreciate the help but believe it or not it did occur to me I have an MC w-30 sitting in that room over there see behind that door it's not like I don't know what it is and MCW 30 won't help because there are four chips under that heat safe for not just one and MCW 30 is big enough to cover one so there are 2 plx chips which need to be actively cooled there is one what's SAS controller from LSI that probably needs to be actively cooled and then there's the Southbridge so unless there's a custom lock happening can I recommend a headset for around 50 to 150 US dollars that's quite the range I would recommend the SteelSeries 7h if you don't mind dealing with the sort of fubar connector here if you're willing to be careful with it it's the best balance between comfort and sound quality and price that's out there pretty much if you want something Wireless the Vengeance 2000s a very good choice from Corsair if you don't want something Wireless vengence 1300 is not a bad bet either Big D wants to know - why do you choose an iPhone / an Android phone because I really really like iOS it's like just it's like smooth even jellybean even on the Nexus 7 with a Tegra 3 processor is not quite there not quite there Thomas just wants to know how the cats are they're good there's one Jack wants to know my thoughts on EVGA stuff what do you want me to say they're there in videos number one partner in North America they stand behind their products yeah what else is there to say they have some products that do have a lifetime warranty still anything with AR and the part number does have a lifetime warranty they have other cool warranty perks that other guys don't necessarily have so they have a global warranty that is based on the purchase date and serial number not based on the invoice which means that you can resell your EVGA card and they will still honor the warranty on it which is pretty cool not everyone does that this is a good question down there a lot of people ask me this should I run two SSDs in raid zero or should I resell my current one and buy a bigger SSD for 99.9% of people a single SSD it's gonna be the solution you want I know I run a des SDS in raid zero but I have almost zero important data that I actually keep on my computer like nothing so I'm not worried about it I do nightly backups and I run almost everything directly off of my Windows Home Server so raid does increase the chances that you will suffer a catastrophic data failure so I'd say why chance it I personally can't really feel the difference between like a low performance SSD and a high performance SST and like a daily driver type of usage scenario and I doubt you can either and it's kind of the same thing when you go from a single high-performance SSD to a raid 0 configuration Ria's you must get sick of all these tweets and messages I'm surprised you don't just say forget it and have some lunch well we as it's sort of 10:40 at night here by the way I'm going to do this for about 20 more minutes here guys something we're gonna call it quits after 20 more minutes so it would be like midnight snack time if nothing else instead of lunch time ok so apparently that didn't work last time apparently I don't know how to block people on Twitter so dududu looked ok so hopefully we won't see anything else from this character what do I hope my son's first words are hopefully like dad or mom something along those lines you know keep it keep it simple my favorite hockey team is the Vancouver Canucks thank you for asking although I am super super disappointed that it looks like the NHL is going to go to a lock up this year I think that's just far more devastating to the sport than commissioner Gary Bettman thinks and I yeah like that guy is such a Yahoo Janine's once note I think about that leaked iphone 5 video you know I honestly haven't seen it and I really don't care like I said I don't have that much interest in hardware that I can't actually touch so yeah when I when I can actually get my hands on an iPhone 5 and play with it and I'll definitely be interested to check it out Oh slick is apparently here yeah come on in apparently he's like he's right outside the door there so oh oh hold on hold on hold on hold on we can't show his face we can't show his face no no that's ok guys ok come in just don't oh look there's Rumble - there's my kitty teen hi kitty hey yeah who are you talking to thank you guys oh oh we almost oh I don't I think it's too low res I don't think you guys will be able to make out any details but they're slick in the window everyone loves that see there's this is how the cats get up on the bookshelf by the way there you go hey I'm putting a bookshelf there it's pretty good stuff okay so let's go back to the live stream so I sent slick a message I don't know if you've read my email that I sent you like an hour ago okay so slick I have tasked him with the task of coming up with a more effective way for us to test SSDs because like look at all these SSDs we've got here got like the crucial one and we've got like the Plextor one and I'm gonna rip the vertex floor out of my wife's computer so that we can test that too and the problem is that PC mark 7 is not cooperating with us all the time so we definitely want a we definitely want a better way to benchmark stuff and slick finally brought back the 35 70 K that he borrowed how long ago did you borrow this two months ago three months ago so here he has brought this back to me after after much much nagging see Intel confident you guys aren't gonna be able to read this but it says Intel confidential you're gonna have to trust me and it's a 35 70 K and I finally have it back so uh yeah exciting somehow okay let's see if we can find some more tweets so check this out i'm using i'm using xsplit so i can actually this is my live stream so i can stream like tweets and so people can see what i'm answering at the same time that i'm answering in my grade so let's giving me the nod he doesn't look that impressed though Oh Kyle - you're a total boss from that big island next to you Thank You Kyle and you know hailey Victoria and all of that good stuff well Victoria is not the island but I'm just assuming you live in Victoria because you probably wouldn't have an internet connection if you weren't in Victoria I'm sorry I'm sorry it's not total wilderness over there I'm sure that there's lots of civilized something Eric Bentley if I'm not gaming but using applications like Premiere and After Effects we'll quadrille cards give me a great benefit on rendering you know what there's a lot of great articles out there about the benefits of Quadro cards so if you're actually was doing some reading about this recently so if you're doing editing in 4k for example it can accelerate the playback process so you can playback a lot of what you're working on you can preview it in real time as opposed to rendering it first so it has some really cool benefits but you know nothing for gaming whatsoever so you know what do some research specifically on premiere and After Effects find out if it accelerates the things that you're doing and if it does then yes go for it get a Quadro I'm probably going to be looking into one in the near future for some upcoming projects as well so you know I can be learning how to use Quadro buddies Amir wants to know if I've ever tried liquid nitrogen overclocking I actually have not though the most I've done is around minus 20 to minus 25 degrees with chilled chilled windshield the icer so that's what that's what I was into for a little bit that was on my what were they called the Core 2 Duo XT 600 and I had that thing at 4 gigahertz stable 24/7 stable on my p5 wth was boss and the the air conditioner unit that sat next to my computer actually weighed far more than the computer and I hard core destroyed that board with all the like insulation that I put on in everything it was it was fun but the kind of thing you do once kind of like slicks oil cooled computer which recently died so like can I get a sad face he's given me the sad face so it died and it's gone and he's not going to do it again but it was fun - I saw a meal on your picture feed it looked at vegan I am NOT vegan and I have no idea what you're talking about because everything I eat has meat in it but seriously I actually don't know I mean I take up pictures of a lot of food like I think I took a picture of like cereal and so oh no that's not begin anyway because milk is delicious actually no it's not delicious but cereal is really gross without it so that's where we're at I actually hate milk but I've tried you ever tried apple juice and cereal is awful apple juice or Rice Krispies and because I poured it my mom made me finish eating it is the worst experience ever so got some sake I'm like four right but these are the kinds of traumatic memories that stick with to you uh thank you for reminding me of that I'm like I'm like tearing up now it's fantastic Rishi wants to know if I know that Raptor gaming peripherals brand has been acquired by Coursera I didn't know that it's a lower-cost brand that they can bring lower class peripherals to the market under and I've got a good buddy of mine who's the general manager of Corsair in Canada so he he let me know all about it and I was like okay cool and that's pretty much where the conversation went Diego can you announce your hangouts a few days earlier on your tech tips channel I do but I know that not everybody sees every everything you know what okay Oh McHale yes I've chosen a motherboard I'm gonna be using it as gigabyte x79 s UD 5p or something along those lines the 5p yeah something like the new the new C 606 chips that one it's outstanding all new power design that doesn't squeal awesome as for all the people who were upset about sort of how how picky I was about my my high-end products and whether they make whining noises or not you know people are calling me a diva and whatnot okay maybe I'm a diva but if you spend $300 on something do you expect it to be perfect when it's a motherboard and its sole purpose is to plug in other things it actually doesn't do anything else it does not contribute to the performance of your computer beyond making sure it's using you know a reasonably good sound chipset or LAN chip setters whatever else so yeah yeah it's unacceptable to me if it makes weird obnoxious noises so there you go no I think we should all hold barred we're manufacturers to higher standards um I want some true tests on a 7970 toxic because no one has done an empirical test Joseph it's totally irrelevant because I hear Joseph right there because a 7970 at clock speeds x and y for the core in the memory equals some other 79-78 course b x and memory y so find some guy who has one and who's willing to benchmark it at the same as the Toxic default clocks and you'll know exactly how well up four will perform there is no voodoo magic clock speed equals clock speed when we're using the same GPU with the same frame buffer - do you think we are ever gonna see ddr4 and is there a possibility that single sticks could hold 16 gigs oh cool j0 that's about like asking me if we're ever gonna see processors that perform better than the ones today yes of course we will - I'd like to know if I'm better off going with an i5 or i7 third generation for gaming and some rendering if you're doing rendering you want the i7 with hyper-threading if you're just gaming an i-5 will do you just fine Brandon Olson will I ever interview - Torvalds for a video called Linus on Linus I can tell you right now if I ever did the video would not be called - on Linus because that's just terrible these guys are killing me here and see look you're killing me again 476 new interactions when we're okay next week we're gonna switch to twitch TV and we are definitely going to change the format of the questions people are sending in because I'm gonna use slow mode so that people can't send me the same questions over and over again because it really makes it harder for me to get to everybody's questions here we've got a mirror how much is my electricity bill I don't know my wife deals with it so yeah there you go all right so yeah this guy's really ruining it for everyone here that's a real shame b-roll best headset for gaming and music 7h done and anything with a clip-on mic oh oh you use a headset with a built in micro headphones with a clip-on mic that depends on your well it depends what you want to do you want to use headphones look much better headphones out there than there are headsets most headsets are not very good especially these ones they're incredibly uncomfortable okay Luke wants to know ROG for gaming or not the answer is so you're asking me if a Republic of gamers product is for gaming yes do you want to spend the extra on an ROG product it depends they have some perks they have some some extra stuff that you might like and if you like it then you should buy one and if you don't like it then you probably shouldn't I mean I think there's there's so many there's so many articles and so many reviews and so many forum threads about all of these products that it's it's really not that complicated to figure out if it makes sense for you if you know you need I guess here's the answer if you know you need the features on a rampage or a Maximus level board then buy one and if you don't know that you need it then the answer is that you probably don't and Asus has lots of other fantastic products that are not ROG branded if you like the color scheme there's another reason you might want to buy one should I get a GTX 690 or a GTX 680 you have a 1440 screen you should get a 660ti oh oh you mean ah see I thought you meant 1440 by 900 or whatever that weird resolution is no you mean 2560 by 1440 ah I don't know get a 680 if you don't like it get another 680 it'll be the same net result as your 690 one of my favorite cherry MX keys generally speaking blues however I really like the blacks on the neonics design well 60 this looks giving me the thumbs up he's such a keyboard diva if we're holding out for four-game understable wait some extra copy or tepees I don't know that I mean most of the current stuff does support 4k over 4k is in the media very very commanding no Nathan wants to know my x5 and Steve and I don't really use expired and even most would fall so sweet thank you very has a very that's a fairly private person question mark and I'm gonna tell you right now there's weird at first our minutes Thank You Pete why do I see this nice professional for people to show their face Richie dude okay Todd give me really a good question oh he's very real difference in Ramirez between bands yes of course there is you can't a designer can often be a little difference for me it's between products I mean there's a lot of information and the challenge is that sometimes yeah so I think we just pull the unbalanced and hope come around is gonna be people they're using TV and yes there is you can do a lot of research out there and you can find easily they can be hard to hear about some atoms because you can see a lot of complaints leather product but that may not be related to the rate but it may just be a pop star example videos to be there text we people think it's like this problem at SSD because there's a lot of complaints about it it is beautiful to almost every other process even a large region and even if Adams been after the same heart rate I got any complaints so yeah I can be pretty the green question for me personally anything that Kim unless there's nothing deserving I got better that's taking the color reproduction are much more compared to any the a ride yesterday hospital