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are we live this is working hello everybody welcome to the live show that that I promised I really hope the mic is is working ok because it's been really irritating me so we've run through some some of the different problems that we've had I'm quiet ok I can fix quiet actually believe it or not I can I can do that ok so I'm gonna I'm gonna turn it up I'm turning it up now in fact here I'll even show you guys how I'm turning it up so I'm gonna turn it up right in here see so I tried this this steel series USB sound card that was seem to be fixing some of the issues and then it didn't fix other issues and I'm gonna turn it up just a little bit cuz some of you were saying you don't want it up that high so there we go good evening everybody and we've got a fantastic show for you actually we don't really have a show at all we just have me sort of sitting here and hopefully taking some questions although I do want to start with something that is on everybody's mind so iPhone 5 what do you guys think of this go ahead you can use a twitch chat you can use Twitter so we're gonna go ahead and add another actually no we're not we're not gonna we're not gonna we're not gonna add anything right now so I wanna I wanna know what you guys think I'm gonna let you know what I think so what what I think is that basically I don't understand any reason why anyone who owns an Apple phone is upgrading from a 4 or 4s to this phone because it looks like what we're what we're dealing with is a phone that is basically a little bit see this to me is a lot like the iPad 1 to iPad 2 upgrade because what we're getting is a slightly thinner device with slightly less weight and we're getting basically a slightly longer screen although although that's actually one of the things I like so compared to what I've seen from most people who are saying that they think it's phenomenally stupid that Apple has just enlarged the screen I have small ham so I would like to explain from an ergonomics perspective why they've done that I can already barely reach say I'm gonna show you guys this I can barely reach to the edge of my iPhone screen had they made it a little bit wider I wouldn't be able to reach it all especially something in the top-left corner I can barely make it up there so that's why I think they've gone ahead and and done it that way so yeah okay guys like you guys are giving me a hard time you're like yeah it has a better screen it has a better camera I understand all of that and that's all fine and good but it's very small incremental changes I mean I've got a friend one of my one of my dad mminton buddies is just like I I asked him about this when the 4s was released I was like okay you got iPhone 4 are you what do you think are you planning to upgrade to the 4s he's like yeah I'm like okay oh why and he's like oh because I just I have the latest one and that's that's like the kind of guy I am and I'm like oh okay so so so you're the kind of guy who just like just like buys it because because just whatever and if you followed me on Twitter ozzie 8:32 you would already know that I play badminton so you should be following me on Twitter at - Tech so there you go BAM I'm gonna also I'm gonna try and read some of these comments here for a little bit guys rly Q full your important question about water cooling in a 3930k in a particular sort of configuration I can't take any questions about exact configurations on these live streams because I have to focus on the things that and every one stands a chance of finding relevant alright here we go - your upgrade cycle is good yeah - your upgrade cycle is okay but I don't I don't really understand why my iPhone 4 already does everything I could possibly possibly want someone's asking me when's the next insects warehouse sale probably not coming for a little while if you guys don't know our warehouse sales at NCIX are like crazy crazy things that that basically involved here I'm gonna switch over to my to my other view here there we go crazy crazy things that involve us selling stuff at like half of our original cost and they go ahead and change this to the connect tab gonna take some questions on Twitter as well so I'm gonna try and pay attention to Twitter as well as the as the twitch TV chat I'm just going to move myself a little bit to the side here now let's do some questions when are the 8000 series AMD GPUs gonna be out guys I hope you know that I cannot speculate on any kind of upcoming upcoming video cards or anything like that this really doesn't work like that what do I think of the PS Vita if you've ever tried the Vita you'll know that the screen is actually outstanding it's got the usual sort of like PlayStation controls that you've come to expect but from my perspective I I don't see the point because we can already use emulators on our Android phones or we can use our well our phones and especially if you have like a Tegra powered phone or anything like that to run pretty intensive games and the whole the whole point of a handheld console to me is really really going away very very quickly Bryan wants me to turn down the contrast and white balance you know what dude there's not a whole I can do about it this webcam sucks and I tried playing around with the with the colors and just yeah nothing nothing good was happening there so way gen goo wants to know what happened to slick slick has not gone anywhere we have a new intern his name is diesel slick is 100% still with the show in fact slick is actually spending his entire evening tonight I dropped by his place I had his check I had a tablet for him to borrow for a little while he can use it for his schoolwork he can download textbooks or something like that and I also dropped him off all the latest upcoming Trinity ap use so he has three new processors from AMD that have a CPU and a GPU built into them he also has the all new FX chip so I I dropped off form other five motherboards some competing Intel CPUs for new AMD CPUs and 8150 and an 1100 t just for giggles so we are gonna have a ton of content coming up about all of AMD's new video cards the slick is a hundred percent on board he's working on them and that we're very very excited about that I mean personally guys I really do wish for a competitive and B I think it helps for it helps us have a healthier marketplace I think it gives consumers more options and I yeah I believe it's very very important Joseph wants to know what I thought about the msi empower I think I have three videos about it Joseph I think it's awesome I think that manufacturers stepping up the way that they do quality control should be the way that they're differentiating from each other because that's one thing if you know manufacturer says well it has Japanese capacitors but that doesn't mean anything unless they're backing it up with a longer warranty or they're really cute seeing it in a way that means that you will not receive a deal way I mean MSI won't come out and say you can't get a do a empower motherboard but I would come out and say you pretty much can't get an MSI empower motherboard that's dead on arrival it should pretty much be work should pretty much work right off the bat MB wants to know if streams on Twitch will be recorded and put on YouTube absolutely they will 100% it will it will be happening Rhonda's is not impressed with the new eyePHONE make a lightning cable review on - cat tips you know what this is sort of an interesting suggestion four four four four one one reason here so I'm gonna I'm gonna share this with you guys if you guys haven't already seen this it's gonna I forgot to set my hotkeys for switching between between these things so let's go ahead and search for a thunderbolt cable you know what I wonder how many videos there are about Apple's Thunderbolt cable it can't be that many and apparently yes the Thunderbolt cable unboxing if you guys haven't already seen this you know I don't I don't like I don't like to toot my own horn or anything and oh look at this we're all gonna watch the the ad together I'm showing you guys what not to do don't skip the ad that's that's bad you don't you don't want to do that so we're gonna go to full screen here and this is this is probably one of my favorite videos this look and I have ever worked on together I don't know if can you guys hear I don't know can you can you hear I don't know if you can hear but basically we were we decided to find out what the effects of opening up a 50-dollar cable could be people are saying no we can't hear can u hear now-u no we cannot hear yes no no yes no you guys are making it impossible to tell okay whatever it doesn't matter you don't really need the sound so we we basically yeah we basically figured out that if you open up one of these $50.00 cables it turns you into some kind of phenomenal superhero and that guys there's there's no sound there's really no sound you all you have to do is just kind of watch the video here and and you can you can experience if you want to if you really want to watch it with sound then all you have to do is go search for Thunderbolt cable on YouTube and and you will you will experience something that you will rarely experience outside of this this particular video so I don't know if you guys saw that we're gonna we're gonna go back we're gonna rewind to the part where I go flying through the fence I was planning to fix my fence anyway so you can see there's actually already holes in the fence right here see this spot where there's a hole in the fence so yeah since I was planning on that anyway I decided we might as well just try and try and break the fence and and see how that that went for us my wife was super impressed with this video she she definitely thought it was our finest work and I'm sorry the videos lagging we are going to get better equipment soon I actually have a couple of what are they call Blackmagic intensity whatever the funderbolt one the external one so I have a couple of those coming soon and I'm definitely excited about being able to stream from from an HDMI capture card as opposed to relying on sort of fail fail stuff like like what we're doing right now which is like webcams and and and like audio capture and that's just just terrible compared to what we what we really should be using so let's go back to let's go back to our Twitter feed here and see if we've got any other great questions on Twitter guys if you're not already following me on Twitter it's that Linus tech so make sure you're doing that because Twitter is going to be my primary way of communicating during these live streams so if you yeah if you're not on Twitter then just just get Twitter it's really not that hard you just sign up for it if you people okay people have sort of an interest everyone has a different philosophy about social social media social networks signing up for things so number one Twitter is big enough that like they're not gonna sell your information they have a privacy policy and corporate whatever hoo-ha that it's not gonna be that much of a problem and a social network is only as intrusive and annoying as you allow it to be if you follow every retailer who throws a contest at you on Twitter or if you follow every celebrity that has a staff of six people writing tweets for them and then posting it then yes you will have a really obnoxious Twitter feed and it'll become ignoring worthy however if you just follow people that you genuinely want to interact with then I really don't think it's that bad I think the lightning cables playing awesome I'm really interested to see why the lightning cable like is this a thunder compatible thing is I don't know I'm just finding this whole thing very very confusing although Tim Kirk claims for the iPhone 5 that the Lightning connector is staying for a long time so yeah as for Twitter sucking I I know I know but the reason Twitter sucks is because of all the spam horrible stupid content on it like trending trending topics this is the worst thing in the world and just plain shouldn't exist i toast wants me to take my server off the floor okay i'll tell you what i toast if you buy me a rack to install in my storage closet then I will take my server off the floor no big deal - do I know anything about the iPad Mini no no one no one really knows anything about it ah Lachlan wants to know what's the best cherry MX blue keyboard you know what pretty much any MX blue keyboard is pretty good although out of the build quality of the keyboards that we've really spent time with if I was picking something for doing lots of typing or for gaming or actually basically for anything I would go with the Philco just find any Philco keyboard you can get like the camel one or the ones with like the writing on like the bottom or the side of the switches or whatever it doesn't matter silicon keyboards are built like tanks like they're not model end but they're they're outstanding so yeah that's probably what I'd go with anything from Philco - do you have any any info but a g-force based DK 110 card by Nvidia I would love to explain to you guys what an NDA is an NDA is a nondisclosure agreement basically for anyone to tell me anything whether they're Nvidia Intel AMD whoever else they make me sign my name on a piece of paper that says I will not disclose any information about it if I were to break an NDA I would never get a sample of anything ever again so doesn't happen I will not talk about things that aren't released unless I have prior approval because I want to be able to keep bringing content to you guys and I'm not gonna be able to do that if I can't get any video cards or CPUs or motherboards then I'll just I'll be like I'll be I'll be I'll be an apple channel and I will I will talk about Apple Savage Joe says - I don't use Twitter so here's my question Savage Joe learning to use Twitter and then I will answer your question actually I'll answer your question anyway could an audio chip on a motherboard Cause random freezing and sound looping absolutely onboard audio sucks balls it sucks balls in every possible way you don't use it there are motherboards that do have decent onboard audio something like a Maximus for an accent rather Maximus five formula has truly well-designed onboard audio that has true PCB separation from the rest of the traces the rest of the components on the board however 99.9 percent of boards do not have the kind of engineering that ACS put into that board and are terrible so don't use them you should always be using a real sound card and those of you who don't believe me actually it was great because I did a video about the a Susa sonar DDX or a DG or something like level ol and a su sound card and I had someone message me like they wrote out this long message and they were like Linus thank you so much for enlightening me I always thought on board sound was fine and you know I was on hard for him or whatever the forum it was something forum where they think they know a lot but they don't I was on this forum and everyone said sound cards are for audio files or whatever else they're not and someone says they have a Maximus 5 formula ok something-something anyway so he said you know what I always thought it was fine because people said that it's four audio files only and you can never tell the difference bla bla bla I installed a cheapo sound card and my eyes have been opened because the sound car makes the difference to everything you do whether it's games music movies windows sounds it doesn't matter you need to have a sound card everyone needs a sound card it's not negotiable someone has a Maximus 5 cool story bro - do you love me from Justin absolutely everyone who's taking the time to be here with me at 10 o'clock my time to just listen to me ramble about random Hardware I love you all because lime fire says no I don't love no yes I do I just said I do mind you I think there's a bit of a delay on the stream so we like we should give is John still here like we should give him a hard time about it John fixed her fix your leg or something BAM this is my first time using twitch and I'm already like burning there I'm already burning their service however it's a hundred times better than the bank Google Hangouts on air which I was which I was super not impressed about and super not not happy about because it it it glitched out and was was generally not very good in any way so hold on give me two seconds here guys I'm just gonna try and figure out if I can transition if I can find a way to bind my scenes to the hotkeys because there was a way there's a way to do this and I don't remember how to do it okay you know what forget it I'll just keep doing the mouse speaking of in speaking of YouTube live streams for those of you who don't know I'm trying to communicate as much as I can I will be uploading these twitch livestreams to YouTube when I'm done so if you miss them you can watch them on YouTube no problem and black sudo site it's suit suit suit OS ID says he has to go and I'm very sorry in the future I'm probably gonna be moving these live streams back an hour so it'll be 9:00 p.m. my time which will be midnight Eastern Standard Time which is better for better for Canadians and I mean the rest of the world I'm sorry but I've had no matter what time I do it at someone from Asia or someone from Europe is gonna tell okay remember guys there's 24 time zones in the world not counting like the ones that don't count like Newfoundland where they're like half an hour ahead so there's 24 major time zones and then everyone during that time probably is sleeping for eight hours and at work for eight hours so there is a there is like a 2 in 3 chance that no matter what time I stream at you won't be able to watch it because you're at work or because you're sleeping so I can only do so much and I really appreciate those of you who are tuning in no matter what time it is Luka said SWS - something says it's 7 a.m. his time dude I wouldn't be up if it was 7 a.m. so I really appreciate that you guys are awesome in every possible way Salman Salman elite wants to know why there haven't been any Linus cat tips videos honestly it's been a bit of a well here I'm gonna go get my I'm gonna go get my camera and I'll explain why with a prop so I'll be back in two seconds was that two seconds I hope that was pretty good okay so this camera this is my high-end camera this is my x8n this camera I usually don't transport to and from home so I this is the only one that performs half decent in my house because my house doesn't have a great lighting and my regular blob blob blob camera blob camera blow up my blog camera the SX one is cannot capture video in my house worth crap so the only times I can really use it on weekends because I work during the day and on weekends I like to spend time with my family as much as I possibly can when I'm not like benchmarking stuff and whatnot so and as for you guys complaining about the washed out colors I will be dealing with it soon okay just relax so anyway right so this camera I don't usually bring it home and so there's no time to film the cat's they're adorable still I love them to death and they're always up to their antics but I will be looking at bringing the line as cat tips channel back once we get ourselves a couple of new Panasonic cameras and I can start transporting this one around with me as my general purpose blog camera so yes very exciting stuff Linus from the brimstone is there any real difference between the GTX 670 m and a desktop GTX 670 yes all the difference in the world mobile graphics cards are very underpowered compared to their desktop equivalence basically the the naming schemes on notebook graphics cards seem to be designed to be as confusing as possible so just just give up now the only thing that you can do is you can find a review where someone has benchmarked a notebook with that graphics card and that'll give you some idea how it'll perform that's pretty much all you can do let's see if we can get to some more Twitter questions here guys John Norton to know NSI or a sous for an LGA 1155 socket well first of all if you buy a socket by itself you're not gonna get the functionality that you expect from that product because the socket is not actually what delivers the communication between the CPU and the rest of your system you will need a full motherboard to go with that socket and I would definitely suggest to you that actually either MSI races are great options right now for gamers I would particularly take a look at the empower board from MSI it actually has an incredibly full feature set for the price plus it has that extra QC they're putting into it or the saber-tooth from Asus which comes with a five-year warranty and their thermal armor which is not really that important for cooling but looks badass in your system especially if you want to go for like a nice clean build and those of you who are into get Jason Cheng yes I play badminton calm down stop typing in all caps something not lost fire that's what I was talking about right so the saber-tooth looks badass you want nice clean cabling you want like a sweet-looking gaming system lighting effects and stuff so yes it's a very good choice either of them are good anything from the big three Asus MSI Giga Byte those are your big three a lot of people are starting to count ass rock I don't yet I need to see it proven to me first and I just really haven't really haven't had much experience with their board so I don't feel that confident recommending them alright Daniel says at what point in your life did you decide to make a living off unboxing benchmarking etc electronic products I do not make a living off of what I do here on the interwebs at least not yet I make a living as a product manager at NCIX in fact I'd love to share with you guys another YouTube video here so I'm just going to this is this is a series that I've started doing and I'd love to change this into a live show at some point but this is net linked weekly you can watch all the episodes on the tube and in episode I believe its net linked weekly episode 8 I actually interview myself about my job so I I pose this you okay you know it's funny because here this is hilarious okay so this is an aside Google's Terms of Service dictate to me but I cannot intentionally use my own ads to drive revenue to myself so why does it serve me ads when I'm watching my videos some of which are unskipable this is like paradox mine screwy that's going on here because I can't skip the ad I want to watch my own video but if I watch the ad then I will be violating YouTube's Terms of Service I mean can they can they ban me from YouTube for watching my own ad it's like unbelievable anyway sorry let's switch back so so in this episode of net linked weekly I interview me let's just make the player a little bigger here so you guys can actually see what's going on at least I think I do in this episode if it's the wrong one ah yes here we go so I ask myself like a question and then I I magically appear in the shot to answer the question and I actually I actually changed my shirt in between every shot and see I answered my own question I actually put sunglasses on so if you got yes I know there's no sound calm down I haven't figured out how to do it so anyway this this was this was this was fun and you guys should definitely subscribe to the NCI XCOM channel so that you can you can definitely check out this weekly content as well as all the other videos I do over there in fact I'll - tech tips existed for the sole purpose of unboxing the products just doing like shoki quick showcases of the product I mean to improve our time to market with the videos for NCIX tech tips video so if you go back and some of the older NCIX tech tips videos I'm just gonna gonna bring up the the NCIX channel here and I'll flip over to that on scene 3 because I'm like totally managing the like the scenes I'm using xsplit like a mouse actually I'm not using xsplit like a boss I'm using exploit like that's horrible and doesn't know doesn't know how to use it so let's go back to some of the older episodes like when did we start doing unboxings I think we started doing unboxings around the time yeah it was definitely after the vas okay now I've gotten confused and I've lost track of what's going on it was around the launch of socket 1156 I yes so like around the time we started doing oh maybe it wasn't okay you know what I'd given up on this I'm just gonna switch back to the other scene and let's just let's just let's just forget about that whole thing and let that ever happened because I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about so Daniel in short I didn't Marc I live in Korea where people are glued to their phones and tablets to the point where it scares me well the same happen elsewhere I believe so in fact I was having an argument with one of my co-workers not that long ago where I suggested to him that what will happen and that and that it's happening today that no one will actually know how to drive their car anywhere because for me when I first started driving and you couldn't you didn't know where you were going you had someone like draw on a piece of paper and like label it it was usually inaccurate or you actually kept a physical map in your car and then you would pull over and read it and like try to figure out where you were going whereas now this is the funniest thing and I'm gonna I'm totally gonna burn slick here because he's such a like kids today in this way he doesn't know how to get from his house to our studio he follows Google Maps every time he cannot do it by memory and this backed up my argument with my coworker which was last summer when I said kids are not going to know how to navigate the road and they're not gonna know how to use maps because they don't have to they are going to grow up with turn-by-turn available to them at all times and the world is changing to the point where you're not gonna actually have to remember anything like when I again same thing when I was growing up you had to remember a phone number to call someone if you couldn't remember a girl's phone number you didn't write it down somewhere like like like that was it whereas now with the convenience of of contact lists and lists and address books III don't know anybody's number I know my own number I know my wife's number and I know my work number I know my parents number but guys feel free post in the chat post in the chat on the twitch TV how many phone numbers do you actually know whereas when I was in elementary school I knew all my friends phone numbers I knew you know all my relatives phone numbers there you go I think I think things are changing people asking how how old I am I am 26 so there you go so I've been doing YouTube videos since I was about 21 and 22 and see see people are replying I know 911 actly five five four six eleven thirty people don't remember phone numbers anymore and that's why that's what made me think of this whole map thing this navigation thing if you have a phone that's just gonna tell you what to do and will even do it smarter than you can cuz it'll tell you when there's traffic it'll tell you if there's a road block it'll tell you if there's a cop why would you ever memorize it anymore very very interesting stuff okay um Matt wants to know if you have a 2600 K already wait for Haswell or not worth upgrading probably not worth upgrading to Ivy Bridge especially if you're an overclocker the the performing it is it's a it's either a tick or a talk it's whichever one is the process ring without that many architectural improvements so wait for the big the big architectural improvements Thor h13 wants to be a mod okay done if you want to block the porn links then feel free my friend make it happen sir alright moving on right along something best Linus video ever sweet uh have I heard about the Alec I think we're back to where oh my goodness two hundred two hundred and fourteen new interactions what am I going to do with you guys I should show you some high school pictures you know what if you're subscribed on Twitter or following on Twitter I guess would be the correct terminology it wasn't a high school picture but this is this is one of my elementary school pictures this is just it was just fantastic you guys are gonna love this I had the most outstanding mullet and like buck-toothed overbite that you ever did see check this out I'm just gonna hold this up to the camera I hope this kind of works that is me when I was in elementary school is that is that not like legendary hair right there oh there we go it's finally popped into focus so why would I not post old pictures of myself I think that that should be that should be evident based on that picture that I just shared with y'all see for my American viewers y'all I'm gonna say y'all and a and I got huh someone burned me today at work for calling it ocz because apparently as I say I can never remember I use Z and Zed interchangeably I think these are very minor details in life Stephen wants to know how do I think my son will think of me when he grows up I have no idea because there will be so much video I mean I thought about this because so much of what I've done over the last four years it's like documented on the Internet and try as I might to to to erase any of it it's just it's there forever that's what that's what you realize at a certain point so check this out Linus top moments or something like that like some guy lioness moments I don't I don't I don't remember where it is but some moments they're there I think I think this is the one it might be him it might be someone else like people do compilations of like me on the internet that is to me like the strangest thing the strangest thing ever but like I mean look at this I think there's I think there's another one and no I'm not planning any Linux builds Tec I don't know I don't remember I don't remember what it's called but it's somewhere I I encountered it a little while ago someone like made this video that was just a bunch of random random - tech tips - Texas moments but it really made me realize that no matter what I do I will always be sort of there on the internet on one of the other moments I had about this was to do with not only my my own persistence on the interwebs but also cloud computing so if you guys haven't seen these sorry I'm gonna switch back to that to that other window NCIX cloud watch this episode because it didn't get a whole lot of views but I think what you guys can see here is from the like to dislike ratio which is 2002 14 it was actually an outstanding video that we did where I talked a lot about the the level of discomfort I have over what happened when my accounts got hijacked so if you guys haven't been subscribed for a long time about a year ago both of my accounts got hijacked someone got a keylogger on my machine took them over wiped out all my videos posted a bunch of spam videos it took me about a month to get them back dealing with dealing with partner support dealing with Google's support team which was non-existent at the time but they've been quite a bit better since then and what happened when I got in touch with Google's support was they not only restored my channel which is great but they restored every video I had ever deleted as well so things like test footage that we that we are that we uploaded a long time ago things like like videos that we never intended to release all just got released and what I realized is you never delete anything from the cloud at all and how terrifying is that because it means that your data will always be there so that's that's why I created my own off-site backup server and I do try to turn all of my I do try to turn all of my what I right I do try to store all of my data on my own servers as opposed to using services like Dropbox or whatever else - I have wanted to ask this for ages are you streaming from a kitchen I am an absolutely streaming from a kitchen I would love to share with you guys my kitchen this is my kitchen so this is my rice cooker this is my juice jug this is my saran wrap this is my powerline adapter box so I'm using powerline now guys I am NOT using wireless for my stream this week okay power line is is a beastly that is my Tropicana which I should have some of that is my shepherd's pie which was freaking delicious my wife made it and dad is the tinfoil that was covering the shepherd's pie that is an oven mitt that is my bread box that's my butter dish that's my microwave these are my cabinets okay I don't have a degree for those of you asking that is my fridge that is my backpack that I carry my things in this is my babies swinging seat that is a laundry hamper which is in the kitchen for you know probably a good reason this is my cereal see delicious right mini wheats and behind it is honey nut cheerios and that is cream of wheat this is my dish rack this is my paper towels this is my recycling pile but I take out once in a while my cabinets are here and there's more cabinets behind there but you can't see them that is my water cooler that is a bunch of baby crap that you can see because I have a baby that is his bouncy seat right there with his foams our hibbett is a stuffed animal sock and his soccer ball that I throw and he likes out that's my dinner okay gotten things things got too real there my dinner AJR I'm sorry it's so late we can potentially look at changing the time of the stream at some point but yeah nothing we can do for this week because it's already started so let's go ahead and go back to our go back to our go back to our Twitter and see if we can find anything that anyone wants wants to hear about lioness it's flip do I stay with LGA 1155 or LGA 2011 cuz I just built a new PC with 1155 pickle 1155 for now in fact the highest-end chips yeah are are on LGA 1155 right now in terms of quad course matt says where does linus live this live show is crap I would like to know how those two things are related Matt I am definitely waiting for you to post a follow-up to that because I want to know why where I live is related to my live show not being very good and I'm very sorry my live show is not very good what is oh that's a good question Justin four five six five four wants to know what is your favorite looking GPU of all time the GTX 480 is my favorite looking GPU not my favorite GPU in general but definitely my favorite looking GPU those heat pipes that came out of the top of it are just like oh they're just so amazing I mean for those of you who don't know what a GTX 480 looks like it is just a thing of beauty and it's a thing of beauty out of necessity I mean I don't think Nvidia wanted to spend this much on that cooler Wow look at that my favorite review site hardware connects there you go that is what a GTX 480 looks like this this was all metal so what point in the wrong way that was all metal on the top I have never seen that since except for the GTX 690 which does use a metal shroud but this metal was involved in the cooling because this GPU ran so friggin hot and those heat pipes that came out of the top made it incompatible with a number of cases but like oh they looked so good slicks actually running my my review sample of GTX 480 and Matt mace says you read I was just saying the live show is crap it was legging for me oh you mean it's crap it's legging on it's crap I suck at doing live streams although hey focus although it's possible that I suck at doing live streams but this is still practice for me this is only my third live stream so far so I'm still trying to get the hang of it anyway GTX 480 is by far my favorite looking GPU right slick still using it and he's like he doesn't even want to change it just because it looks so sexy and good and awesome so back to Twitter all right what do we got um moving right along will you be doing reviews for the new hybrid i3 it's not really I mean why I'm really interested in getting one for gaming I need an expert opinion Adam West do not get it for gaming even AMD's last generation ap use are dramatically better for gaming than an Intel Ivy Bridge chip if you do a search for AP you NCIX you guys will find not this one ah yes this guy right here the integrated graphics IGP showdown Intel Ivy Bridge versus AMD Llano and more ads I'm sorry for ads guys but ads really do keep the NCIX tech tips project going in a big way and wow my hair was outstanding in this video so by the end of this video I believe we put up some graphs that show the the APU just just absolutely demolishing even the higher-end Ivy Bridge chips remember these were I sevens and oh hold on hold on wait for it yes I sevens and I fives not i3 is just getting destroyed and yes if this is the real Adam West and I'm a huge fan and if it's not the Adam West then you imposter how dare you defile his good name asking questions about I threes on the Internet have I ever heard of her used to Astro gaming headsets sorry no dice although if everyone who recommends everyone who asked me for a headset recommendation gets pretty much the same one I'm a huge fan of the SteelSeries 7h best audio quality for a gaming headset by far the Asus Vulcan ANC is actually okay and say by far because the Vulcan Agency is closed and has active noise-cancelling and then after that it's just it's a mix because I mean people people are like oh I heard the Siberia of u2's really where did you hear the vite Siberia v2 is really good like who told you this where are you guys getting information from you should be watching my channel if you want information because yeah Siberia t2 is like yeah it's not good it's comfortable so it's kind of like the it's like the Corsair Vengeance oo 1300 or 1500 it's like it's comfortable but this is not groundbreaking audio quality by any stretch of the imagination guys don't kid yourself you want a good headset you buy a good headset not like a 40 50 $60 headset it's not going to be good this is a terrible headset and it's already uncomfortable I've only been wearing it for a while Kyle Harris wants to know if my wife gets along with us sir I would think so they're sisters moving right along Isabella hi Oh Linus showed this tweet on your live cam PS my boyfriend loves your videos there you go Isabella you are live or if you're watching this on YouTube after the live stream then you're not live okay hi I love your show it's your opinion skills here 7g so are similar keyboard you suggest I actually did a huge episode a huge mechanical keyboard round up I know this is just turning into Linus schooling you guys on how if you actually watched my videos here I bet it's the first hit if I search for a mechanical keyboard BAM other than the ad first hit mechanical keyboard overview and showcase featuring pretty much every brand that matters look at all those keyboards we have what is it twelve keyboards here so if you guys paid attention you would already know the answer to that question which is that the 7g is a great keyboard but but the key caps sometimes fall off the hand are the wrist rest on it is outstanding my wife refuses to use anything but a 7g due to the awesome wrist rest it looks ridiculous but it is so comfortable to type one so I would definitely recommend the 7g if you want the best wrist rest ever personally I'm using a me onyx Bible 60 right now which is my favorite well I put my videos on DVD you want a collection why don't you just get a pillow a OS like media set-top box and then use YouTube to watch them because I'm never taking them off YouTube that won't happen ah arrow wants to say to me use Chrome with adblock for skipping YouTube ads I don't believe in skipping YouTube ads I actually make a well now I don't make a living off of it but I I supplement my my income with YouTube ads so it's kind of like asking like like software developers to pirate they usually have some qualms about that because their entire livelihood relies on people not pirating software so yeah just so you know your kitchen looks awesome thank you I think my kitchen is awesome too outstanding ah great question from John Zoidberg and if you're the real John Zoidberg big fan colored tubes are colored water for a custom water loop colored tubes for sure custom water causes so many problems because it just always going something like everybody claims that their solution to the colored water problem is it's gonna cause it to not gunk up but it always does so yeah colored tubes in fact there is no reason for any tubing to exist other than primo flex by primo chill they have outstanding colored tubes that also are antimicrobial so you don't have to put any other additives in your water and they look outstanding Talley says read my Twitter I will try but I can only get through so many of them okay difference between the 660 and the 660ti well performance the actual GPU that they're using or clock speed the functional units the price what do you want me to tell you man ah simran Gill says how do I read tweets like you do I have no idea I think you can search for like at Linus tech and that might help but I'm not not on a processor Josh wants to know what about EVGA and I suspect this is in the context of what I said earlier about the big three Asus gigabyte MSI if you're talking about motherboards I personally don't really in using any motherboard that is not a volume component so though the ones where they sell like hundreds of thousands of them those are the ones that tend to get the after sales support because if they didn't do it then there'd be lots of customers who would be vocal about not supporting it so anything that's not a volume part I generally avoid and that includes every EVGA motherboard ever accept their six ATI board so I mean I I like I like their yeah I like their boards and I mean but I just yeah for video cards though fine yes EVGA is a big three for video cards in fact there the rumor has it that they sell like more high-end video cards in North America than everyone else combined they're enormous move on down what I say the asou sense is still my favorite sound card no there's a better one I forget if it's the ST or the STX but there's one that's actually better I just use the since because it has that sexy chrome cover on it that I really like alright so we've gotten down to where we had left off on tweets so Oh 188 new interactions wow you guys are you guys are crazy and late yeah crazy stuff Daniel says Linus this liquid works perfect Daniel you're wrong whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong you're wrong because it doesn't work and at some point it will gunk they all do I just don't care anymore use yeah use something the other thing use colored tubes someone wants me to answer the Peter Douglas Doug's Peter deuces tweet I don't I don't see it yet at least not yet shout out to fans in South Africa Heil South Africa I really don't think there are that many of you but if there if there are any then fantastic thank you for viewing my livestream I'm actually curious to know if you guys can just sort of post in the chat or posting it in Twitter I'd love to hear how you found the live stream tonight because I had peep request that I post a video on youtube about it so are most of you following me here from the YouTube posting or or what's the deal YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube okay okay so that I'm probably gonna keep doing that then I'll just post a video that the live stream is coming and you guys can tune in and and yeah that battle that looks like it's gonna be the better okay alright calm down that's enough okay I got the point YouTube you guys just killing you here ah Julian wants to know if I'll ever dye my hair again um you know what not unless there's some kind of a particular and yes shout out to Prince Rupert I've been there once before my family had a devastating car accident a car accident near Prince Rupert once my mom broke her back my sister broke her arm yeah yeah my mom suffered a head injury that actually caused her to lose her ability to read however I would like you guys to know that she made a full recovery and she is she's a teacher now and she finished her degree and she she uh some outstanding lady outstanding lady cuz she was in a coma and was had a head injury to the point where she basically couldn't remember who any of her family were and made me one heck of a comeback okay last shout out to Victoria no more shout outs because shout outs are basically a waste of time cuz no one but you cares you and Victoria you day wants to know if I met Esther first or my wife I met my wife first Esther is my wife's is sister ash wants to know do now his questions boring I'm not su wants to know if I will ever do a four by GTX 680 versus two by GTX 690 test the answer is no because it doesn't matter the GTX 680 and the GTX 690 have exactly the same number of functional units which means that and they're both going to be in four-way SLI so there's no there's no mystical sort of anything going on here the performance will be the same and the price is the same so yeah whatever just by whichever one that you like 691 overclock as well the six ATS will overclock better so yeah bear that in mind moving right along would I recommend a 2500 care 35 7 UK for moderate gaming they're both pretty similar with the 35 70k being a little better and also a little bit more expensive Rob wants a personal rig update if he watched my youtube videos he would know that actually no he wouldn't know if he was subscribed on Twitter if he was following me on Twitter he would know I have found a motherboard the x79 s UD up5 Wi-Fi is going to be my motherboard it is absolutely silent and and it's just awesome new day - did Esther introduce you to your now wife or did your wife introduce you to Esther and she happened to be an NCI ex I got Esther her job at NCI X I've been with ncx for six years if you guys go back and find out sort of when Esther started at n Texas only a few years ago so at that time I was already I was either engaged or in a serious relationship with her sister and I I knew that Esther had a thing for you know social media so so that was uh that was how what went down that was how it happened there are two staff members in here staff members of what can you tell in some way that there are staff members like how does this work I'm just curious like are they marked are they over wrench Fuzzy's otter balls are you all just totally inappropriate why do you have names like that involve like yeah see you're talking you're talking about EP in here totally inappropriate your your band I should ban you can I can I been a staff member I'm gonna try just for fun I'm gonna but I'm gonna bring this over here so you guys can all see what happens if I try to kick a staff member on voice Dan did it work oh my goodness it worked okay can i unban him oh oh oh hold on hold on I'm trying to unban him I can't I can't do it I can't it's moving too fast you guys are moving to get too fast oh he says no I'm not bad okay well now we know what happens it tells me he's been but it doesn't actually ban him so we have learned something today if nothing else Elmo Riggs wants to know if I am going to Malaysia any time soon I may be going to Malaysia sometime soon there's a family reunion sometime next year and I might go or I might not Joel don't your your question is legendary for a number of reasons are they twin sisters no but they're Asian and if you're white then you probably think they all look the same anyway and that is very insensitive of you there are not twins - this is a teef yeah yeah that's probably a worthwhile upgrade Polsky Yi wants to know my opinion on the fractal core 1000 great question I believe I have a video about this if I could figure out how to oh did I break it is the livestream working I switch to the wrong scene oh okay okay hold on hold on and oh there we go yes I have a video about this if you search for core 1000 my search rankings are so good fractal design core 1000 top hit you just got you just got bamned so many people ask me for ask me for like recommendations or like ask me to do videos about stuff only to discover that I have already done a video about it and then there's new eggs video look at those guys look at Paul's arms Oh in all seriousness no I like I like Paul but see he has he has 24 thousand views and I have 45,000 views ha but all but but again in all seriousness Paul's a good guy let's go back to Twitter there we go I should just be using the same browser for this so that I don't have to like break it every time ah rings who wants to know if I've ever answered this but what is my about RAM disks my opinion is that they're not really that useful unless you have a lot of RAM so I haven't really I've really gotten to that yet Chris has a great question Chris Linus do you think arm will ever expand into the desktop market absolutely but not directly arm does not actually make make processors like that that go into products they rely on their partners such as Nvidia to integrate ARM processors with some of the other components that are needed to build the system on a chip and I believe that many of those partners are definitely expecting desktop computers to happen with arm technology powering them we're going to see great power efficiency and good enough performance although I suspect for anyone watching this stream or subscribe to my channel that performance won't be good enough but there we go Adam West I didn't mean I wanted to use the IGP of the i3 I meant I wanted to use it for the processing power then in that case yes and i3 is a perfectly valid choice for a gaming machine the one drawback is that you won't be able to overclock really peter has a great question Peter so burger burger really silver Berger GTX 680 is main card would a GTX 560 Ti be good for a dedicated physics card or would it throttle the system no throttling but I don't see the point because your GTX 680 is already so powerful that by the time it like allocates a little bit of its power for processing physics stuff then it won't actually detract from the overall performance that much I actually did a really oh I did a really cool test back when Batman Arkham Asylum launched where I used a passive 8800 GT as a physics card and the temperature on the card while running the game with maximum physics on didn't change which suggests to me that there's not a whole lot of processing going on although newer games like Borderlands 2 might be different Liza Berg I did not bash you on the live stream I just said that I would be immortalized on the Internet in part due to 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assume that it socially it doesn't suck I use it I like it so whatever all because of gamer name de draak I'm not gonna talk about it anymore they're black screen for you I'm just messin no black screen let's go back to Twitter okay Chaz wants to know what do you think would be the best time to buy or build a PC Black Friday's coming up and I was wondering if that's a good idea absolutely Black Friday is an excellent time to do - sorry someone says they're a ten-year-old moderator I don't care as long as you're willing to be more mature than that guy who is posting crap last time around yes Black Friday is an excellent time to build a PC because there's great prices Michael wants to know how do I know slick was even friend before you worked at NCIX actually slick and I did not know each other before he came to work at NCIX in fact if you check this out so tech tips assistant this is no longer live because I'm no longer looking for an assistant and I'd have people messaging me all the time but this is the video this was the video job job posting that I created in order to in order to have here we go someone join me on tech tips so I basically said I needed someone who could work flexible hours and who was technical and and and that my old yeah and that my old whatever it's called being my old camera man wasn't gonna be able to help me anymore cuz he was just too darn busy and that was that was how the recruitment process went and slick was out of actually I got a ton of applicants many of which who were awesome like I had ten people I think or so that I that I interviewed and I had probably twenty or thirty resumes that were good enough to interview but I just had to I had to narrow it down had to narrow it down yeah yeah all right moving right along will there be any tech tips for unboxings on the nvidia gtx 660 are you freaking kidding me do i have to school you again alright schooling time here we go we're gonna go on the youtube and we're gonna search for gtx 660 we're gonna see what comes up ah new egg beat me there's me BAM no no that's 660ti okay okay okay I got I got on there I got on 660ti see that's the thing about NVIDIA of naming scheme that sort of Arc's me there we go NVIDIA GTX 660 video card introduction and there's probably more there's probably an unboxing gtx 660 video review see these are all front page results guys yeah so there's at least two front page results for me oh there's the unboxing oh no that's motherboard story okay they're thumbnails similar to mine good old Elric but yeah there's plenty of plenty of content about gtx 660 so feel free to check it out and if you if you don't already know about it check out hardware cannot say do fantastic video reviews fantastic video or not video reviews fantastic written reviews that are that are great and just awesome garrett more you really know your tech stuff so why do you use an iphone over an android phone and i because i like it what do you want me to say it's it's outstanding it's a great experience as a user i enjoy it so ha you can think of that what you will know okay we have time for one more question and we are pretty much done here so i am going to take the first tweet the one that's at the top once i click refresh oh wait hold on okay one more question from from twitch so - do you actually play video games if yes what are you currently playing I am replaying Super Mario RPG right now that is a video game but it is not a particularly new one someone wants me to answer tally yes no no no I don't see anything that I like okay okay I'm gonna click it I'm gonna click here we go the top one oh come on hey Linus any idea when the next warehouse sale and in Richmond will be I answered this question earlier in the livestream you need to tune in on time you wasted the last question for everyone alright new one Alex do you have a favorite antivirus program yes malwarebytes was the one that I was able to clear out my my stupid key logger with I also 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