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you and I'm bourbon and I'm a de bourbon would you like some more I am of course so you're enjoying it then yes it's a lovely supplement to my normal it's quite tasty drinking repertoire and your double-fist with beer I'm doing my best uh hello everyone and welcome to awesome hardware he watched inside be the second half of the episode number 35 it is October 20th 2015 and if you missed the first half of the show well you should watch it unless you're watching live if you're watching live hello thanks for being here great people but if you're watching it in the future you can go over to Kyle's channel on YouTube and you can watch this first half of the show and that will explain many things to you lots of the origins or create mark just as many questions as we answer anyway that's on Kyle's channel which is awesomesauce network my channel is Paul's hardware thanks you guys for joining us today we do this show every Tuesday we broadcast it live to twitch.tv slash awesome hardware 5:30 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right now I define ass blow up the chat with your best caption yeah for this video with the captions many caption contest go this in great detail I liked his sort of I liked his look of like casual disdain that he can pants in there is just like I'm just this is what I do I'm Josh and I ride it it's like he's like any other day yeah I love the light peeking through the clouds letting him know it's epic it's an epic thing so fractal josh on twitter if you guys want to tell him he's got hair works in there alright in the meantime if you want a shirt that doesn't have that on it I imagine that will be made into a shirt at some point okay anyway if you want to buy a shirt from Kyle store it's awesomesauce network.com slash store he has lots of fabulous designs as you can see here and we have an ongoing sweater sale so Kyle only has one sweater left that's this one if you want to buy sweaters there's they're 10 bucks off my store is over here at store dot Pulsar Burnett and I also have the sweaters for 30 bucks I also have the thumbscrew shirts like the one I'm wearing today and then I also have mugs and glasses some glassware so if you want a nice mug or a 20 ounce Imperial peg glass you can buy them it's stored at Paul cybernet Yukie real and that's a great way your what if you're a team rebel I don't know I called it an English pint too thick it's not an English but I don't know it's hard to classify glasses these you know you try to just be an ignorant American and say things that maybe aren't true and just go with it and people call you on it I don't know what deals it's a cup you put it's just a cup let's just take a drink yet okay do we have other announcements yes since we got some Johnson John Doe guys if you happen to purchase goods from both of our stores at the same time they will get shipped to you together in the same box and you will get a refund for some of the shipping costs depending where you live it's usually about five bucks so you'll get back but also Cal and I have been trying to give shout outs at least to the people who buy stuff while we are broadcasting so have a Johnson to go Matthew Matthew hey big ol Johnson for you sir nice indeed Oh GG all right mm-hmm Thank You Matthew yep you get to Johnson's nope that's all for me I just got one more that rolled in just five seconds ago from Rudolph Rudolph thank you sir runner Johnson mom I am okay anyway so uh thank you that's that's that's all what kind of bun the Johnsons oh he got a hoodie no he got a hoodie nice very nice thank you mrs. battery the awesomesauce better love it this isn't an announcement but this was this came across my my desk across the Twitter desk earlier this week Oh the glorious PC this is the easy machine by ace vanquish he just posted this picture is he going for a job with the bay right with the with the computer strapped in there but look at the comment the comments afterwards are just awesome right seesee right boys in the hood right can we I was gonna I wanted to have a back and forth cruisin down the street with my ex 6fo jock and the peasants clock him doe went to the steam to get the scoop knuckleheads out there playing ninety-eight hoops a car pulls up who can it be a fresh shovel Picador rollin new well gee it rolls that as window when he starts to say it's all about playing that GTA ok yeah the Chevelle Picador by the way is it's like one of the cars in Grand Theft Auto yes it's like the right okay it's like an El Camino I really hope all those people that are different I don't know there I'll block that so all right so let's let's let's kick off my half of the show we have news we usually begin the second we usually end the first half and begin the second half with with good old tech news so pull up my stuff so I know what I'm talking about here all right so let's start out with some info Unzen we've been trying to keep you guys updated with AMD's upcoming new line of processors based on new architecture the new architecture is codenamed Zen this is an OSI 3d net article claiming that AMD Zen and their k12 CPUs designs which actually are ARM based CPUs for servers have taped out which is a significant point along the developments pipeline when you're when you're making a processor okay it basically means that the the architecture itself is finalized yeah so the funny thing here is is like where this information comes from which is actually a LinkedIn profile of an AMD employee so the am the employee was very keen to update their LinkedIn profile right away when this happened who knows if that means they were like actively searching for new jobs or anything like that I hope that's not why they did it but they updated that LinkedIn profile and put stuff like in Keller's profile it's it wasn't Jim Keller's profile but um wait where did it go five plus years of digital design experience at high performance x86 arm and CPU cores spanning microarchitecture RTL methodology and physical design from concept to tape out successfully designed and taped out various x86 ARM cores including piledriver excavator excavator Zen and k12 piledriver and excavator the market microarchitectures that are currently in AMD processors if you buy them right now physical design experience across different technologies ranging from 30 to 90 meter 20 nanometer to 16/14 nanometer FinFET designs so there's some important details and some of these points on on this LinkedIn profile what is it based on the new that they're based that based on those manufacturing processes these must be based on the new FinFET process nodes they mentioned 16 nanometer and 14 nanometer fin fit which suggests that AMD will be using both TSMC and Global Foundries fabs because they're both working on different process nodes right now okay also the Zen architecture just generally speaking is said to have at least a 40 percent gain in performance compared to AMD's existing excavator CPU cores which it needs at the very least and then also some recent rumors from AMD claim that they're doubling the number of decoder units al use and floating-point units in each core of a Zen CPU when compared to a to AMD bulldozer based designs and just to give you a high-level that would basically put them on par with Intel's current designs when it comes to those those specific elements and how many of them there are per quart these n architecture will be launched and CPUs will be a m4 platform so a new socket it'll use ddr4 and then AMD's k12 CPU which is the second part of this article is scheduled to release in early 2017 and it's aiming to make arm a more viable server platform which makes sense because you can put lots of them together you can do many many cores and arm just from the get-go has been very power efficient true which you want if you're doing a server ok a little bit of Zen news there for you guys let's move on to this guy this is a Canadian inventor and this is another one that popped up on my Twitter feed earlier this week and he has this is a test that he ran of a new prototype record-setting hoverboard and we were just talking about back to the future we were just talking about there's some back to the future tie-ins today so this whole video which you guys might be able to barely hear this whole video is very long it's this is CBC News this article I'm going to jump ahead to the point in the video where I've put a note that this is where it starts so this is a crazy hoverboard so it's like it's like a drone that's like uses drone helicopter thingies I'm using all the wrong terminology here around the edges propellers propellers yes a couple of these but then he stands on it so this is his first attempt going out over the water and you can see just like how he's moving across here but this one he actually there was a system failure the right side just kind of collapsed so he kind of took a tumble there but not to be daunted he went back to the drawing boards what kind of record did he set it was the longest longest hover hover board flight so here's him taking off and just cruising around the lake like like this is what I do all the time I just stand on this thing he's ready to bike like four or five meters above the water and I just look how stable it is I mean granted the one before this he fell but but but you also have to imagine that he's he's got the learning curve down like I doubt something like you or I could just jump on that thing and be like we're good to go it's probably actually unique a different experience that you probably got to get used to it also also advancements in just drone technology in general for like self balancing stuff and that kind of thing all is things that he said integrated you know if he was controlling it just then by leaning or I think he controls it okay yeah as far as I know cuz yeah he's got a he's got a wire with the thing about his hand that I think he eases so what was the record like did how long was he in the air for or hovering for um so the 275 meters yeah that was the record yeah five meters above the lake for a distance of two hundred seventy five point nine meters last night actually no this is this is not so let me let me clarify that is his old record that he broke in this this didn't mention specifically the new record what it was um but in May this guy his name is Katalin Alexandra Kellen and Alexandra Daru Mouse Alex will call him Alex so Alex may broke the world record for the longest never bored flight this was a few months back that was five meters five meters above the lake for a distance of two hundred and seventy five point nine meters and that lasted one and a half minutes this article is about him breaking that record I said but they don't say save those numbers so I'm sorry I don't have that it's not directly for you guys but I'm still impressive this is a prototype that him he's working on with his company which is called Omni hoverboards and it's a secret next-generation version and from what I understand this video that we're watching is him Reeb raking that record but again they they don't really say specifically what it is but pretty badass freaking hoverboard I want one I want one to do your Santa cool yeah all right Villar saying that there's a train coming through their house again yeah there was a train sorry about that we've improved our audio situation with these multi monoprice microphone you can hear the train so now you can get that surround sound thing when the train rolls through okay here is a USB flash drive that can fry your computer ooh fun yes I'm kind of shy been on oh joy some arts Technica yeah I could have done a no joy segment this week but I didn't all right so this is a researcher who goes by the name dark purple which must mean he's a prince fan or something I don't know but he's developed this this us beat killer flash drives this is actually secondary version of this that one of these has already existed this one's just more badass and kills your computer even more so there's him plugging it into a system yeah so within seconds of being plugged in the USB stick delivers a negative 220 volt electric surge to the USB port the earlier and less powerful version of this that he did I think last year it drew it would draw power from the USB port using a DC to DC converter until it reached negative 100 volts and then it would discharge that to the system causing permanent damage to the hardware inside this one goes up to negative 220 volts and then it process and then this process runs on a loop until the circuitry the rest of the circuitry and the computer fails so they're they're assuming based on that information that the second version the more badass one he made it works kind of based on the same principles best April thumbs gift ever oh yeah hilarious look look you need a huge be 332 gig here you go just yeah just fire it up just pop it in there so what what practical purpose could this server is this just purely to like really piss someone off like because if I need like you somebody's sitting just similar sitting at their laptop but you know to Starbucks you just like walk by pop it in and like they're $1200 MacBook or whatever issues yeah so thank you it's so quick without even them like knowing what's happening yeah you could literally just start to be like excuse me there's something right here and just plug it in and it's completely toast yes although you could also just pick up their laptop and smash it on the floor you could that be less subtle sure you play check out this video I have on this USB Drive Oh what's wrong with your laptop it totally killed but you have to be drew I've got a GU yeah I don't know I mean they they do like SSDs that self-destruct and that kind of thing if you know you can enter a kill command if you're you know if the feds are raiding you or whatever yeah this seems like I don't know a booby-trapped USB Drive seems like someone mentioned and this is a good point I was thinking this two spies would use this or US military like could be a military type thing like like like let's say someone's about to you have really important files on your well and you just somewhere but that's part of the article to is it saying that this will this will likely deliver like enough voltage to kill like the port it'll probably permanently damage the like motherboard in there but there's a very good chance you know it's not the damage isn't gonna spread far enough I see two damage like your drives oh well then this is just totally a troll device yeah for someone you think yeah and I guess just another reason to totally be afraid of key USB flash drives yeah like oh thank you like Steve has taught me to do I think we go to I go I gotta like trade shows with Steve and the you get USB flash drives like candy at trade shows people like oh you know our press deck is on here it's got all the pictures of the thing and it also happens to be a 64 gig USB 3.0 Drive oh thanks and I get a big oh sweet like I've got I've got these now this is like you plug that in like yes and you just he doesn't trust him and he's probably right to some degree I mean bad USB and all that kind of crap like having unprotected sex yeah kind of is there so Steve that article that we just talked about is they might have already tweeted it to all right here's one more news article this is from Paper Shotgun GTA 5 we talked about a little bit early and earlier in the show yes pretty cool back to the future GTA 5 video on Kyle's half there's a new update for GTA 5 I believe this just went out today 1.6 gig update and in case you're wondering what the size is this is their lowriders update lowriders oh yeah really lowriders update yeah like stars and stuff yes lowriders are those things that's really mature for so it adds a bunch of new ways to customize cars you also get a fourth purchasable property new clothes new hair stars new hairstyles new accessories some extra missions if you watch the the preview here for this expansion that seems to heavily feature Lamar Davis who was very popular I liked it there's some people just really like Lamar I hated Lamar you hated Lamar so badly like a Haley didn't like him I just hated everything about it okay well maybe you're not gonna be into this update then you know but yeah deck out your engine block with covers and air filters coat your interiors with Ballou or leather and patterns Villu you have to say it like like what's-his-face on the simpsons there's a dude dang it I'll remember it later choose custom colors and designs for dowels add new steering wheel and custom shift levers give you ride a lift with hydraulics the more powerful bumps the higher you can bounce okay meet up your friends and fellow car enthusiasts to show off your new ride use the player interaction menu while inside or outside the car to open up vehicle doors hood and trunk oh that's fancy hmm switch to the engine to flash your neons and bump your favorite radio station no can you only apply this to the lowrider vehicles or can you do these things with any car in the game now yes thank you and until a g25 I was like I was thinking of Futurama zapp brannigan not Simpsons but they both use the same animation stuff so forgive me you can always count on catch that exact Branigan Qun velour because that's what his outfits made of and he wants people touch it ok I did it he did a future I'm a reference and I did realize it okay that's that's all for tech news but of course it's freezing because cuz mark Starr knows how to do yeah downloadable content mm-hmm they give it out for free and then if you want to buy Rockstar money then you can buy of in-game money if you yeah what to but you just you get it for free paid up I don't know fun okay uh what state of threat is going on what is going on what's my next segment my next segment is sword fight it's a word fight oh I was taking advantage of our microphone it's fun I thought we should whisper the entire episode we're on these days we might well get the mics right down close to our face right now mine's like too far away next anyone there you go first of all freaking people out now okay sword fights is the segment where Cal and I both take opposite sides of a controversial topic and we argue it and we also allow you guys to join in by letting us know what you think about that topic via a straw poll so not to spend too much time at the introduction but let's jump right into it in video game ready drivers to require GeForce experience to install we already discuss this on Cal so half of the show I already expressed my disdain for it now okay so really anything to argue here no um I'm posting the link in chat right now if you guys want to jump over to the straw poll and argue and start giving us your feedback but I didn't want to argue like is this a good thing or is this a bad thing because I think most people would think that it's stupid and sucks at least that's what I think so instead of asking any of that I'm asking the question of what can we do about it like is there is there anything we can do about invidious dick no if it is dick move what why are you reading that out of context arms what can we do about invidious dick move to lock drivers behind GeForce experience registration can we can we do anything there anything that the public can affect so my answers here we should all just switched AMD of course nothing Nvidia really they really got our balls in a vise it's that's so painful having our balls in a vise or I put a third one which is everyone just wait for that new console Nintendo is working on hey cuz you always gotta have a way out yep through it I'm saying screw screw PC games I'm going console and I'm going intend oh the best one of all I mean alright so we'll leave the third one for anyone who wants to vote on that and what do you think Kyle you want to take switch to AMD or like there's nothing we can do you know take the hopeless you know argue the Pat it's always fun to argue that that everything is shit and nothing can be done yeah or you can say we should switch AMD I'm gonna say that we should switch to Andy okay you want to start it yes okay I'll drink my bourbon you should do that getting nice and liquored up cuz you're about to get decimated to you AMD he's the pain AMD I mean they're just better in every way possible can I vote can I vote on sure all right so you should go with AMD because for one they're just a cooler company all around like if you went to a party there'd be like little cliques you know there's like little groups of people that hang out at parties there'd be like the nvidia group there'd be like the nvidia group who'd be like kind of the preppy kids like the cool kids but they wouldn't like let you into their group unless you like brought him a beer or something and they would like try to like own the party like it was their party and you know everything would be proprietary somehow I don't know how you work that into a party but anyway the AMD kids would be like maybe not as cool maybe not as popular but still very more inviting their monitors would be cheaper their monitor technology because you know free sync and stuff so what what I'm saying here is AMD I don't think is that bad as people say they are and I feel like NVIDIA keeps shooting themselves in the foot with like every every few months nvidia does another thing that's stupid or or shady or proprietary or all the above and i feel like they keep getting away with it because people keep buying their cards so maybe we should just maybe maybe just go AMD go team red for like a year or two and then once nvidia loses all their sales or majority of the market then they might you know be humbled and come back with you know a more reasonable approach to their to their business model are you done and bourbon okay that's that was most of what you said there didn't make any sense oh it made perfect sense paul but nevertheless i think you're wrong no all right so um yeah basically we're we're all screwed we're all screwed in this situation this is an example of why the free market is you know requires competition in order to bring the most and the best out of companies because without competition then you basically have companies doing whatever the heck they want in this situation you have nvidia vs AMD we're talking specifically about drivers here so let's ignore AMD on the CPU side let's just specifically talk about GPUs and nvidia it's it's there's no question about it you can just look at the numbers and vidya has kind of a stranglehold on the market they have a much larger share of the discrete GPU market if people are buying graphics cards to game on chances are they're buying an A or an Nvidia graphics card and not an AMD Nvidia has seen this and they basically said that we have a mandate from the masses to do whatever the hell we goddamn please so they're like we don't have enough people on GeForce experience we need to harvest more emails so that we can we can send them emails to advertise them things and we also need more people to use GeForce experience so we can have stuff pop up for them to I mean do you first experience isn't then when it comes to like ads and that kind of thing you know it's supposed to be there to help you but um it's still there doing stuff in the background when you might not want to but this is the grave we've dug ourselves we have no choice but to resign ourselves to forever doing whatever that or just accepting whatever the heck nvidia wants to do will swallow it and will like it I still vote boycott okay let's see what you guys think what can we do about this situation I got the results nothing all right I was wrong it's doom and gloom we're all screwed yeah I mean pretty much but there you did have quite a few people you know who did seem to say you know just switch to Andy mm-hm that's alright that's heard I mean that's that's the thing that sucks about this is that if you bought an Nvidia graphics card three months ago or six months ago or a year ago and you know you can only build a new system or buy a new graphics card every three years or something like and you don't like this decision I don't know if you're on the point if you're on the cusp of making a purchase then you can do then something like this can can cause you to affect your decision of what you might purchase and you might say you know what like look at lo novo right now I used to recommend them the LoVo as a laptop to people all the time because I don't spend a lot of time with laptops but it was always a solid recommendation now because it's tough lenovo has done recently I would not recommend him yeah but if you bought a Lenovo laptop six months ago before you know this crap came out then you're kind of stuck with that or whatever but anyway yeah I'm referring to super fish in the other garbage in the lenovo is pulled recently by the way but okay thanks to all of you guys for giving your feedback for the straw poll let's move on to one other sort of fight question here so the u.s. actually they sort of tease us last week and then I believe I think it was yesterday maybe even the day before yesterday knows yesterday was Monday they have announced the task force a task force task force aimed at mandatory drone registration and we're not talking about that drone we're talking about that drone no yeah so this this that's a government drone dude that shoots missiles and kills lots of people this is a small drone that flies in the path of a 747 and kills lots of people that an 11 year olds flying yeah 11 year olds are flying or something like that look at that that's a cool picture actually so what's the deal every single drone or just certain drones that are people or that are doing certain things or is it's like you buy a $20 drone that can go a thousand feet in the air you got to register it so what this is talking about as small rogue drones weighing less than 55 pounds these have been an increasing concern among safety regulators for years specifically when it comes to US airports and flying drones near US airports and there's something to be said there because a tiny drone that gets sucked into a jet intake couldn't cause a pretty major problem yeah in fact we talked about this a little bit when there were a bunch of fires here over the summer in Southern California and they were trying to do the air drops for the fire retardants to help fight the fire and they couldn't because people were like flying their drones up there to try to get pictures of the fire and stuff like that yeah so the question we're gonna add ask or argue or answer right now is this one right here I should also be posting this in chat which is should you be required to register your drone this is at a federal level this is the US government and I vote from the last option this task force this tech what can I say the task task force asked for pork it's at this task fork as they've been they've been tasked with such a difficult word to say I have tasked with all right coming up with a solution for this by basically requiring mandatory drone registration if you buy a drone and you live in the u.s. you have to register it right that way if you fly it into something and cause damage I guess then they immediately know who is a fault right so Kyle what do you watch which side of this do you want to take options are what are the options yes drones are dangerous especially in the hands of humans no it won't help and I don't like filling out paperwork or the third answer which is what if the drone has again attached and that's as close as I'm gonna get to comparing this to gun laws cuz that's just a can of worms that I don't want to dive into right now okay uh should you be required to register your doing I am gonna go with the obvious and correct no it won't help and I don't like filling out paperwork okay mainly because just like any other thing that's the US government tries to regulate and you know there's there's a bunch of examples examples of this like like gun control right I mean you have to be in a lot of states you have to actually register for a gun have that gun tied to you or whatever and that doesn't really stop or keep anyone from getting killed or hurt if someone wanted to fly a drone into the place just to interrupt here the parallel lied that was certain there's an obvious parallel here there is no federal gun registration laws there nothing like that exists in the u.s. there isn't no this would become this would be a federal federally mandated register your drone thing so this is this is our state regulated and it depends on your state that's what I mean in some states there's actually you actually have to register your gun no you yes well okay this is this is it all right I didn't want that I didn't want to make this one about guns but what I'm but yeah use I'm using that but this is my point this would be a more strict control when it comes to actual registration of something if you're comparing guns to drones right then then the current federal gun laws in the United States right but I'm comparing these some state laws of guns to this federal regulation of drones because there are some parallels between those two things yes what I'm saying is if you try to regulate anything they're all be a group of people then go out of their way to to do whatever they want to bypass those laws okay um and and even if I mean who's to say that they're not registering it under a false name or a false identity and then you have some people getting in trouble because someone has committed drone registry fraud like if I you know registered your name and identity to a drone and I flew it into a plane killed 200 people then that's not very good for you and there will be it doesn't matter how how tied up a grip you know the government has on on on things like this something is always gonna slip through the cracks so this really just costs more tax dollars or more energy and effort and time and creates more problems really than than it than it solves okay yes and that's why you wrong if i were agreeing with kyle would say and why do we even have laws against killing people because people are gonna break those laws anyway but rather than pointing out his logical fallacy if what i will actually do is argue the opposite which is that yes drones are dangerous especially in the hands of humans I think what this comes out to something called accountability and people being accountable for their actions if you look at stuff like how people act when they're online for example and there's been lots of arguments philosophical and otherwise about this that ever since the advent of being online that people have been able to register in sand use pseudonyms or that kind of thing Google for example for quite a while tried to really encourage people to use their real names because what they found and lots of studies is that when you're forced to use a real name and identify yourself as who you are that guess what you're not an asshole to people anymore or like you don't feel comfortable going out and being a troll and like randomly throwing hates at people and that kind of thing and that's because you're accountable because you now know that if I go out and say hey you you know whatever hateful thing I want to say to this person or this group of people or whatever you want to say that cannot be directly attributed to me this is the same thing that they're trying to do with these laws when it comes to drones which is basically saying hey for all of us who might say look at those jerks who were you know flying their drones near the fires in Southern California and preventing people from you know you know preventing the planes from going in there and and firefighting and everything well there's a small percentage of people who maybe who were in that situation at the moment who might say hey I can get some cool footage here and upload a YouTube video and get a bunch of hits or something like that which is probably what's on your mind and you might not even consider the the other possible ramifications my point here is though you would definitely second you would definitely think twice about doing something like that if you knew immediately that your drone was registered to you and that via whatever means of identification anything you did with your drone that same extension of yourself was no longer anonymous but we're arguing swordfight which means I was taking a cite for that I think there's definitely more nuanced arguments when it comes to that but as always let's see what you guys think about the drones I'm actually pretty curious about this one no it won't help and I don't like filling out paper at paper so people duck against this I would say argued against paperwork and I would have one that's true I would say when it comes down to it I would be against this - I don't think drones should be registered they like it said that it definitely when it gets to a certain size like it needs to be yeah I mean looking at the video that we showed earlier if the dude flying around you know the the hover board drone or whatever means that it's a manned vehicle it's not an you UAV unmanned aerial vehicle is what this actually was referring to but yeah be online anyway very interesting I'll be curious to see how that goes I don't own a drone right now but um I don't know making it more difficult for people to get them or just more of a pain in the ass because you have to register it or whatever or if you if you had to have like a drone license I'd be interesting to see how that goes drone insurance alright next up it is time for our buzzer spots that's right yes another live show is sponsored by Giga bytes and we say huge thank you to gigabyte for sponsoring our show yes as always we explained to them what we do on our show and all the drinking and stuff that goes on and they still wanted to sponsor us so they're cool we said okay we're cool like that and we said hey gigabyte if you want to sponsor us how about you send us some of them products that you have and we will show them to people on the channel yep on the show and that's pretty much how it's gone so today we're taking a look at you just know you're Vanna White here let me and good all right so we got a top-down view here this is the H 170 and - Wi-Fi motherboard from gigabyte and this is actually a board that I will be doing a build with fairly soon I think in the next week week-and-a-half give us give us give us some teasers Paul are you are you building for yourself or for this build was actually gonna be for my brother-in-law Jason my sister's husband and he's just he has been wanting to build the new system for quite some time and he has a rose bowl case already make sure I get this closer what you're gonna be doing with system it's not gonna be a gaming system although I might still like throw in a last-minute graphics card in there right now it's not gonna have a GPU but it's gonna have a 6400 the i5 6400 processor which is a quad core which goes for about a hundred and seventy hundred and eighty dollars and it's it's gonna go right in there this is an H 170 board which means it's not gonna be good for overclocking you can do like a tiny little bit of overclocking with it but if you're going for one of the case Hugh unlock processors like a 6700 care 6600 Kay probably not the best board for you however this board can be had for about 110 or 220 dollars depending on where you buy it at trying to make the camera autofocus it's not another focus oh it's not yeah I can barely focus like a little bit I could get like really close in then but then I'd have to get the board like up here for it to be focus okay thank you wait good thank you anyway you guys know what a motherboard looks like again use your imaginations do that anyway this bird has lots of cool features though and as long as you don't need to overclock your unlock processor it's got lots of cool stuff all the features you like and I want to point out that it's got an MDOT two on the back right there as well as nice snaked in there so for just a little bit more than $100 each 170 in Wi-Fi and it's also got that integrated Wi-Fi you can see little Wi-Fi card right there and that's nice to have that it's got Intel NYX I believe it does yeah I think it does that's a good question though I think it'd be on the box where the box yeah you check area let's duel Intel Gigabit Ethernet LAN yes yes to to Intel NYX dos on there and actually the Wi-Fi what is the Wi-Fi I can't read it's AC probably yeah it's it's a total of an HD I think display memory say it uh land man wait no doesn't say it doesn't say oh yeah ah hey don't eat that 11ac yes so we got the Wi-Fi in there too and all just like black pretty much black yeah yeah motherboard how many see the ports one two three four five six yeah you got six SATA ports and two of those are SATA or well four of those can be plugged in with SATA Express kind of nice too and oh and it's got USB type-c 3.1 type C I believe ya know what what Rozsival case is he using for that it's like did it's it's not one you can get anymore okay yeah he I forget where he got it but like he's he's like I have this case I was like okay is it it's just one of the taller it's one of the tall taller Oh new genetics ones it's not the new trend though that's probably the newer one I one of these it's not for sale anymore yes you probably won't find it on there anyway okay thank you bye Thank You gigabyte for sponsoring us oh you know what one other thing we need to say what this this right here we forgot to say this on behalf of the show one other thing for our sponsor guys gigabyte has a feedback program that they have started up so if you go to review gigabyte us you can review a 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found giant alien mega structures what are a lien mega structures and why dude astronomers think that they found them okay so Jason Wright is an astronomer from Penn State Penn State University and he is the one who published an article specifically about a star that's not in the Milky Way but it's just above the Milky Way it's about 1,400 light-years away it is between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra and the stars name is K I see 8 4 6 to 8 5 2 rolls off the tongue yes but these scientists renamed it or given it the loving nickname WTF 0:01 oh that's easy WTF stands for what's the flux does really yes it does it makes perfect sense science missing hippy scientists are great at naming things exactly what they are and I kind of like it sometimes but then they make it an acronym so it sounds I love how it 0:01 like it's the first day the first WTF what the flux so alright the way that s telescope in space and the kepler telescope is one that's specifically made for planet hunting the way that they figure out if there's a planet with the star this is the star dims every so often because as the planets rotating the star planet moves between the star and our point of perspective and then you get a bit of reduction in light that's called flux or the the the the amount of fluctuation of the amount of light coming out and this star was was actually identified back in 2009 as a candidate for having earth-like planets orbiting earth-like planets now this new stuff that they've been talking about is okay I'll give you guys the creepers to run do the appropriate thing which is that this is really really really probably not true it's probably not what's happening this is according to the article and according to scientists who do their job right this is like the very last thing that you might consider as a possibility but it is a possibility okay and for me much like when you get on a plane and you have to turn off all your electronics devices chances are your electronics devices aren't going to mess with the planes flight or guidance systems or anything like that they busted no busters but on the very very very very small chance that it does you do better safe than sorry so on the very very small chance that there is something orbiting this star that is not naturally occurring then that's definitely something we should take a closer look at so um do you wish do you are you hoping that they're the third alien megastructures yeah you are why not yeah me too I mean because some people get freaked out about it like they don't they don't like the idea of aliens they're like no I want us to be the only one like I don't know it'll just come to I've seen Independence Day I know how it ends yeah yeah but I figure if they're out there I mean might as well meet him sooner rather than later cuz they're probably if they if they really are that advanced they're probably gonna find us before we find them true anyway okay so the encryption is nutrition alright so the light from from from this star dims like he would expect for a planet rotating it but the light from the star dims and random patterns it also dims much more it dims as much as 20 or 22 percent of its light is blocked most planets orbiting a star even large planets only blocked maybe one or two percent of the planets light so it's huge I mean they can they already know this is pretty much confirmed there's something big or orbiting the star that's blocking the light and a much larger much more of the light than you might expect that's eerie the other weird things about it is that it's a regular regularly shaped and a periodic the dips and the flux down below the 20% levels so not what you would expect from a regular orbits of a planet or something like that so they have said that one of the possibilities here that is more likely than aliens since we have never confirmed aliens to exist anywhere would be a cluster of comets that's orbiting the star okay I couldn't dim the light from it in a regular intervals and could dim more sometimes unless at other times right or it could just be alien megastructures so um we'll go with that now what they're talking about here is something called the car - of scale are you familiar with the car - of scale that sounds too close closely - the other thing I don't like what Oh like the Kardashians gas card a photo correcting you and even autocrine did you mean yeah and unfortunately my car daddy right because that comes up i spells card acid I stopped her - shit with the K H was just sad it's still ok I know the Kardashian scale is a scale made up in 1964 by a dude Kardashev what's his first name Nikolai Nikolai Kardashev which is a scale for identifying civilizations and their announcement so type one civilization is where we're at right now right or a technological level close to the level presented on earth it's and it's it's a scale that's based on energy consumption so the amount of energy we're consuming is currently a fraction of the amount of energy produced by our Sun right Kardashev scale type - would be like if we grew up to the point where we can harness all of the energy from our Sun mm-hmm that would put us at type 2 and I think that actually goes up beyond that yeah the entire radiation output of its star and then a type 3 civilization would be able to possess or utilize the energy on the scale its own galaxy which is obviously far beyond that but even just being able to harness the all of the power from you from just your star that you live on or near it's pretty impressive and there's different ways that you might do this one of them would be a Dyson Sphere in the Dyson Sphere something is like a large sphere and this is a bad picture of one here but um put the star in the middle you build a bunch of structures around it you get through solar panels or whatever you you you harness the energy coming off of that star so this is why they think they're maybe maybe maybe might be alien mega-structure surrounding the star is because it's not outside the realm of possibility for that to be what that's what they're saying is that that what is a lot of wishful thinking - this is the quote they keep coming back to a large cluster of objects in space looks like something you would expect an alien civilization to build that you might expect and I'm not coming guys so I'm excited moons are so pretty up upshot of all this is that they're gonna be focusing a little bit more attention on this on this star I don't know if there's anything further that we can derive from this but hey kind of exciting yeah but even if like they launched like right now if we got if we could get in a spaceship right now and head towards that star at the speed of light it would take fourteen hundred years crazy anyway alright let's hope the aliens are a little bit more on tales from space oh wait that's wrong article this one Russia and Europe are going to launch a joint mission to the Dark Side of the Moon and then they're gonna build this be a base there how poetic yes so pink floyd-- I'm sure we'll be suing because they they own the rights to the Dark Side of the Moon this is the European Space Agency of the ESA and Russia working together coordinating they're planning an exploration mission in 2020 there's a picture of the moon for anyone who's never seen it here's a needed some filler there this is an early blue blue print for their Lander it's called the Luna 27 so this was announced by Russian space agency which is a Rus Roscosmos they in November Luna 27 as a robotic Lander that will land on the south pole or the Aitken Basin which is a giant crater on the Dark Side of the Moon and it will prospect it for resources that could be utilized by future moon dwellers and go be a moon miner I feel like the the Gold Rush of the 21st century and then once you hit 18 you're no longer you're correct yeah oh look every cow I become that you're very clever yoke Russia in the meantime is planning to land a manned expedition on the moon by 2030 and then the ESA is expected to supply pilot which is a landing system that uses later get laser guidance and a set of sophisticated cameras to pick the best spot for exploration and a revolutionary drill that will burrow two meters under the surface to make a nest babies moon moon dust death moon metal myth mithril mithril yes sounds very unless they dug the truths to Italy into deep the Europeans are also going to construct an aren't onboard lab that can immediately analyze the samples that they gather pair the reason for going to the South Pole of the moon is because there's more of a chance because it's really cold there somatic crystallized water and you can use that to make fuel makes nice alright one last story here for tales from space and this story is actually not in space but it's got the massive vibe to it so I thought I'd plop it in here 3d printing has been used 3d print it wasn't all 3d printed but it was used as part of the process to make the first real handheld railgun what ya know is this fires plasma projectiles 560 miles per hour and there's the dude being like this is my real gun so these are these are some of the projectiles that it can fire what is a railgun Paul for those of us who haven't played many video games okay let me find it from the article here so I know I'm speaking words that make sense if I don't I mean using a combination of 3d printing and widely available components man built a functional handheld railgun that has the six capacitors and delivers more than 3000 kilojoules of energy for shots what does it shoot he's used metal rods made of graphite aluminum and copper coated tungsten like the ones you can see right there I can also fire carbon projectiles and Teflon plasma rods so a plasma gun plasma is a state of matter by the way I hear it says no the e/m railgun launcher is a long-range weapon that fires projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants yes I use electricity to propel the projectile now there's two videos here and unfortunately these videos are like it happens that was it right there did you see it this is how fast that's it that's the shot firing it's so fast it's like instantaneous so he really needs like the super slow mo guys yeah he needs a slow mo guys or something to jump in here to just to see what's because that's it that's even slowed down so 240 FPS yeah so it doesn't look all that impressive but um there's like a kind of a schematic of the gun and you I mean one shot of that well if you got a head shot of a kill you instantaneously but independence whether you have quad damage or not as well and how many shields you have alright sweet that's all for my scheduled content okay but we have a few more minutes here so guys we're gonna do some Q&A oh and if you have questions then ask them in the twitch chat or maybe send us tweets although I haven't been watching my tweets very closely I saw a tweet earlier I should sell body pillows of myself Selby Master Singh said I should sell body pills with myself I because the money's gonna be making a penny worn out I I can do that missing some hearts I did I do okay what double of zero is still zero I don't know what's going someone said you promised double the nudity and didn't deliver my wife tweeted one swallow doesn't make a summer we're doing wise she's if you guys want to follow my wife on Twitter she's mrs. Paul Hardware that's right and it mostly she tweets sometimes sometimes vaguely suggestive sometimes just lately really blatantly suggestive stats you just know it's your specialty I have it anyway you can tweet us suite of stuff Hallam I I am sore I am freaking sore I spent the past two two-and-a-half days building a part of a fence and a gate on the side of the house over here and it went really well I showed kyle earlier it's it's all functional it sounds so simple when you say it like a lion I made a gate but then like in practice it actually is a lot of work yeah to do a while you to plan the whole thing out yeah there's a lot of work but I'm glad that that's one of my that's one of those projects that I've been meaning to do for the past two years and finally done but yeah any node - OH - builds you have any node - Oh to build spy I could actually do I'm supposed to hit a freckle Josh I should have hit him up like a month ago but I when I built my dad's computer like because the I built my new computer like two months ago I actually gutted out my wife's computer though and used some parts there because she wasn't using her system much at the time and I was like oh this is perfect but now she misses it she misses her computer that I completely I initially gave to her for like Christmas years ago and I took it away from her for my dad's build so now she wants a build and I was like okay she's very picky with like what case she wants but she likes the note - OH - and I gave that to my dad - pretty much everything that my wife could have gotten I gave to my dad so I'm gonna ask Josh hopefully if you can provide you know assuming he can provide another case I might do a build in there maybe for some like gaming and stuff mostly we're browsing the web it could be fun yeah okay but PS if an up-or-down depends if there's a filter at the bottom of your case yep yeah that's from no elf Aaron by the way yeah I usually I almost always go down all up is yeah really only situational you uh Alex Mallin who asks what happened to the Paul's hardware bomb do we have a bone what did we ever I don't think we ever had a bomb why would we have a bomb we don't Adam I don't know I was maybe it was cuz you were talking about growing weed earlier in the show oh maybe now nope notes that has not been a thing so I don't know where that I'm still in process we're making it what can you overclock a monitor currently passed 144 Hertz uh yes you can hand but that doesn't mean it's gonna perform well yeah well at work yeah this is a question I think is it a soos I think it's who's coming up with a monitor that's gonna be overclockable to 165 Hertz yeah I've seen I've seen a few go beyond 144 but it seems like 144 is kind of like from the current menu you know for the for the stuff that they're currently able to mass-produce 144 seems to be like the the fastest those monitors will go and probably the fastest that they've found that people see a good benefit from it or something like that yeah yeah what are you guys gonna do a performance performance per dollar build that doesn't take for weeks like LTP what's a performance per dollar build uh it just means perform it's like paying for the book oh okay just like most building videos that we do no I made one soon what's your every color what's the airspeed velocity of an inflates well o3 good are we doing it after show yes yes we are Kyle's gonna go home though right cows gonna go home so yeah but yeah well we'll kick that off the after shows we're going extreme individually then so the after-party is on my twitch channel which is twitch.tv slash Paul's hardware or Kyle's twitch channel which is twitch.tv slash awesomesauce news yeah B Brewer no that's never yes thank you sorry V Brewer Allyson Gipson V brewer nine asks do you guys only review things that are sent to you for free no that's not the piece for me I'm pretty sure it's for Paul too ideally I'd like to have everything sent to me for free so that I don't have to like have that as part of my overhead for the channel it helps when I can just ask for a vendor for a product they send to me it works out but if there's something I really want to review and it's not too expensive or even sometimes if it's a really good product that I need it anyway I'll just go ahead and buy that product myself because I can both use it and as well as just review it for the channel yes and I think well I don't think I've ever like bought anything to her just to review and are made it or like send it back for a refund I don't think I've done that yet I've done that once or twice but um yeah yeah I mean I'm kinda the same way if there's a product I know I wants to try or that I have a specific need of actually this motherboard is a good example this motherboard I found in research because I was like this is after my brother-in-law had contacted me and be like I wouldn't build the system and I was like okay and he said I have some parts already and as I got and he told me the case is like I we need a mini ITX motherboard I wanted him to get on the new Intel platform on skylake and so I started looking at motherboards I found this one I was like ah that's got a really nice feature set in a pretty decent price so then I contacted gigabyte and said hey here's what I have planned for this the videos I'm gonna be doing and then they were willing to send that over to me so that's kind of how that goes of course we do also get manufacturers who like hey we have this product we want to send it to you I usually will like I I don't I don't immediately say yes to that when people hit me up in fact I've been finding myself especially recently saying no the vast majority of the time but often I'll look up the product or if they have information on that they can sense me about it like I want to look at the product first because I don't want to waste my time on garbage basically yeah I don't want to I don't want to get a product sent my way that I look at it like like this is I'm either gonna have to say this is terrible which granted I could do a video and say this is terrible but I feel like that's like it's not a popular product already and I'm like hey people you maybe thought this is a good product and it's actually bad then you know it seems like a waste of a room yeah it just seems like more of a waste of time so yeah I agree that's some of the thought process semana geek asks hey have you guys how have your guys's water cooled rigs been holding up so far any issues pop up any regrets or upcoming changes as far as hot lines concerned to my custom water-cooled rig no regrets so far everything is is pretty pretty much working solid no leaks thank God knock on wood perfect perfect all this any upcoming changes no none none as of yet I was considering maybe mounting like another exhaust fan at the back of my case just to make it more neutral pressure instead of negative pressure right now even though that's been proven not to be too bit too much of an issue for my case but I've got like a little LED strip that's I've actually zip tied to the the fan holes the fan the the fan ventilation on the rear so it's actually blocking where the fan would go I wouldn't be able to have both so if I actually put the rear exhaust in I'd have to take out the LED strip yeah there are there's clearance issues there and you know it's it's a showpiece so I'm going for going for aesthetics here other things that I might need to change though any issues the pump needs to be tightened to the the reservoir on the define s because it's rattling a little bit hmm so I just haven't done that yet because you know to define us I've got three full hard drives right behind that wall I need to remove one of them and then tighten it and then replace the other hard drive and when you when you do get around to that and this is a suggestion from Lee all the way back to when we did the water cooling do's and don'ts at Newegg yeah just take all of your fittings and give him a little turn see if any of them though started to loosen up yeah that's thing personally arctic Panthers right there behind me I haven't had any major issues or anything like that last week when I tried I was trying to do or know was the two weeks ago I forget I was trying to do - I was trying to game on him and he wouldn't start up I was like what the hell that was but then the next day everything was fine so I don't know if that's my only issue with it right okay we should wrap up the show I wanted to answer one last question which is from Larry Bennett on Twitter asking if my lieutenant data picture back there is autographed no it's not although I did get that directly from brent Spiner at a at a Star Wars Star Trek and with Star Wars at a Star Trek convention I we do have a majority of the forge action figure in there that was signed by levar burton though no nice anyway okay that's all for today's show awesome hardware thank you all for watching it's like button if you're watching this on youtube subscribe to our channels if you're watching live and you want to catch our after parties follow us on twitter twitter handles are down below and that will we'll be tweeting when we go live and stuff like that and what we're doing but you guys are fantastic thank you so much for watching the show we really enjoyed doing it we'll be back in again back at it again next week on Tuesday evening at Kyle's house I'm gonna get my I'm going to the dentist that day next Tuesday yeah I'm going to the dentist before I go to your house so you we all like numbed up like novocaine I'm not having any extractions down as far as I know but uh who knows maybe I'll see if they can give me an extra dose of whatever they have there and every awesome give me some lb awesome all right thanks for watching guys see you later - do you know what I think I just did I think I think we're still alive are you serious yeah I think we're broadcasting to two channels right now yes this is why you watch this live we're not broadcasting to two channels she like this you