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excellent the razor ripsaw is an external USB 3.0 capture card that rounds out razor's selection of products specifically aimed at game streamers who use live streaming services like twitch or YouTube gaming get yourself a razor blade laptop a razor mouse razor keyboard razor headsets razor mouse mat a razor siren mic a razor stargazer webcam and this then take a picture of yourself using it all while you're live-streaming and tweet it to raise their CEO mainly hang ten and he'll be your best friend forever at a hundred and eighty US dollars MSRP though this product definitely isn't cheap so why would an aspiring twitch streamer drop their sub dollars on this when webcam can get the job done I'll have two reasons one would be capture much higher quality video footage using an actual camera with clean HDMI out like a gh4 or second would be to play your games on one computer or console I suppose while streaming the gameplay to the internet from another computer which requires a capture card so right out of the gate there are three features that I like about this device one is that it uses USB 3.0 so no buffering or delay like you get with the Elgato Game Capture HD 60 which is USB 2.0 - it's external and portable so you can take it on the go with you and three is that it supports 1080 resolution at 60 frames per second rather than 30 let's get some details sorted out though as with all Razer products the packaging is immaculate you letter telling you how awesome that you are for buying a razer product that I honestly think is so pretty it shouldn't be framed and very clearly label accessories these accessories include an HDMI cable USB 3.0 cable component AV and component AV multi cables and a 3.5 millimeter audio cable the ripsaw itself is pretty small weighing in at point 4 pounds or 183 grams and measuring 5.1 inches wide 3.4 inches deep and 0.7 inches tall or 130 by 86 by 17 millimeters for those of you who want to post in the comment section about how useless the Imperial measurement system is the top is a matte black finish with the razer logo the sides are unfortunately glossy black plastic which is bound to get scratched up and the bottom is rubberized to keep it sitting still on the front is an LED that will be red if your drivers aren't set up but it will be green if things are good to go as well as two separate 8-inch audio jacks so you can connect an mp3 player to inject music into the stream or a mic to inject your rants and tap form senses that moves out of your mouth as you're trying to gain on the back are the connectors a mini USB 3.0 out to connect to your computer a component into use with your component cable for component cable connector things or you can use that multi adapter for older Playstations and your HDMI in and out to use the ripsaw you'll need a computer not a Mac it's not supported but the computer has to have at least an Intel desktop core i5 4440 or a mobile I 740 810 MQ processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 GPU or AMD equivalent thereof USB 3.0 port and Windows 7 or newer now I didn't crack my ripsaw open but the good folks over at the twitch subreddit did after noticing that this device has a very similar layout to the AVerMedia live gamer extreme a competing capture card with a very similar feature set based on these photos it seems that the internals are near identical meaning that they're probably using the same OAM since I don't have an ever media live gamer extreme to test and the price of either card is about the same at a hundred and eighty bucks now let's speculate any further as to what this means but I did want to point it out testing was very simple I'm happy to say and after connecting the HDMI in the USB 3 out to the computer and loading the drivers via the Razer synapse software the ripsaw was recognized and appeared as a capture device available in both xsplit and OBS I wanted to say more about the testing process here but there's really not a whole lot to add as long as my source was outputting correctly at 1080 xxx or 1080 60 I was able to configure that on the capture software side achieve a very nice clean signal the card won't capture 10-bit color unfortunately but when recording footage from my GH 4 it's very sharp I didn't notice any artifacting our noise gameplay captured from a second PC also looked great and the lack of latency between what's captured and what's displayed was minimal it's not quite zero latency like razer claims but it's almost good enough to actually play in the preview window on OBS and that's actually saying quite a bit so to wrap up this review and the pros column for the razer ripsaw are the USB 3.0 connectivity the almost zero latency capture 1080 60 support ability and also add the convenient audio imports and the component video capture for older devices can and video is analog 1080 and doesn't have HDCP protection by the way there's a few people whose eyes just lit up when i said that for cons i'd have to say that a DisplayPort connection would have been nice to support newer video cards of higher bandwidths but my guess is that the internals would require an update as well to support higher resolution that kind of thing also point out that the similarity to the intermediate live gamer extreme is uncanny that's more of a neutral point than a con but if a price war were to break out between the two of these it would be hard to recommend the more expensive one as for other competition I have an Elgato Game Capture HD 60 that I've already showed you this is still very useful I'm still going to use it but it is clearly inferior to the ripsaw and I would be remiss if I didn't mention the new Elgato Game Capture HD 60s which does have USB 3.0 type C even and similar performance to the ripsaw when it comes to latency although it does lack audio inputs or component video connectivity ultimately I'm very happy with the Razer ripsaw and it will probably stay that way until consumer 4k capture cards start 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