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on the 16th of November 2013 limas released a video called low end video cards rant and Radeon r7 240 unboxing and review which was known internally as low end graphics cards or you can click here to go check it out if you do go check it out scroll down a bit to the comments this is why we were determined that we needed a follow-up I will address some of those that commented and their misconceptions and try to add a bit of my own points to the conversation through some interesting benchmarks let's do this a Pacers as7 20 is a dual interphase SSD with USB 3.1 type C on one end and se2 on the other with read speeds of up to 540 megabytes per second and write speeds of 450 megabytes per second check the link in the video description to learn more the first comment I'm going to address was from Michael H aka freakazoid 777 Michael claimed that he could think of many situations where one would want to buy a low profile ultra cheap graphics card but that Linus's gamer mind clearly polluted his ability to think outside the box a little aggro but regardless linus already replied and Michael admitted that he may have been a little off the point with that one the point linus was trying to make wasn't that no one could ever use a low-profile graphics card the point he was trying to make is that the r7 240 is actually too expensive for the performance it delivers making it a terrible value this is not only true for games but also for any application that relies on GPU power so thinking outside the box if you needed the compute performance it just isn't there mccafferty ford a mean any way unless they're ill informed that people should buy these if say they have an older motherboard that the video out died on or they just need more ports in general sorry but that would also be ill-informed if someone just needs more video out ports buying this card is literally throwing money away if you just need a graphics card so you can hook up more monitors you could pick up something like the gt2 10 it's 30 bucks on Amazon compared to the 74 an r7 240 has DVI HDMI and VGA connections is passively cooled and if you spend $35 total it has free shipping so grab yourself a couple snacks and a drink within a couple days you've got some nom noms and a GPU for half the price that is going to be equally capable of driving your extra monitors for non gaming or compute applications if you don't care about low profile which is likely but your problem lies more on the affordability side of things I would still definitely not ever buy this card there are comments talking about needing a graphics card but not having the money to get to the price per performance sweet spot Linus suggested just waiting and saving but we also understand that this isn't an option for everyone if this is your budget and it's not gonna change that's fine buy something used checkout scrapyard Wars we build pretty kick-ass computers for like three hundred bucks all the time and the budget that you'd have for something like an r7 240 looking at my local use sites like Craigslist could get a gtx 660 which would kick its ass in terms of performance so no that's not a valid argument basically if all you need is a low profile card get a different one if you don't care about gaming performance this is too expensive for your use case find something else if you don't have the money for something new that's better buy used we're not trying to attack people that don't have the money for the vast majority of my life that's where I was at we're trying to help them to not waste the little that they have on trash that offers no benefit okay so that addresses I hope the issues people had with the first video which brings us to the new part of this video the 2016 update if you will since we don't have the r7 240 anymore I went out and bought the newest card that I could find in that price point and what I could find it up being the Nvidia GT 730 we weren't the Green Team this time to demonstrate that we weren't picking on AMD specifically last time around and that the problem is actually Universal it's basically the same story as the r7 240 I put this on our standard graphics card test bench running alongside an i7 59 30 K in order to not have to worry about bottle necking at all and then I tested it against a 6700 K not overclocked using its integrated GPU the Intel HD graphics 530 the results may be a little surprising the 6700 K with its integrated graphics card handily beat the 730 in Tomb Raider more or less equal that in counter-strike and didn't do quite as bad as it did in Far Cry 4 in every scenario it was better the 730 just had its ass handed to it by an integrated GPU I realize this scenario won't be applicable to a ton of people but if you will be able to save up for more but need a system now I don't have quite the money for everything that you wanted instead of stepping down your platform and buying some thing like at 7:30 just wait and run your eye GPU for a bit and get something more sensible later on basically what we're trying to say is that there are lots of good approaches by a cheaper low-profile card with the video it's that you need buy used or use your eye GPU or APU the only terrible option is buying an entry-level card like the r7 240 or GT 730 speaking of good solutions crunchyroll is a site created by anime fans for anime fans which usually is actually a pretty good solution they offer the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like erased or active raid and they have large collections of popular anime series that everyone has heard of like one piece or Naruto all of them are professionally subtitled within an hour of their premiere in Japan so I head over to crunchyroll.com slash Linus you get a 30-day free trial of crunchyroll premium that gives you no ads you can watch on whatever device you want consoles even phones tablets laptops computers 1080p streaming like I said episodes straight from Japan and if you like it after those 30 days it's only 695 a month so again crunchyroll.com slash Linus check it out thanks for watching guys if that video sucked or if you still somehow disagree with us you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit the like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our Amazon affiliate code to shop for stuff that you know Amazon buying cool t-shirt like this one in the comment in the description down below thingy or with a direct monthly contribution through the forum now that you done doing all that kind of stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click the button in the top right hand corner just check out this video where we unbox and review a car that is great to buy used and has been featured on scrapyard wars twice it's not that cheap but the value is absolutely pretty good so yeah it's a it's a 290 it's an r9 it's an hour 99 it's it's something