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How I was Liberated as a Fanboi - A Trip Down Memory Lane

2014-02-04
yeah I just got done testing the AMD versus the Intel yes I am the doctor I just got my PhD in curing fanboy ISM oh you want me to make that pledge right now to the tech wall right well I'm gonna do it oh you guys saw that welcome back to tech air city this is the doc dr. easy coming back to you guys today with a video I'm first of all I'm gonna show you this one I'm gonna make the pledge with this certificate I hereby pledge to cure the tech world of famboy isn't but before we get on with that I am going to tell you about my history as a big AMD fanboy and I'm gonna do it over some gameplay with Heroes of Newerth and I'm gonna actually I think it's recorded at 1440p so this will be my first 1440p video anyway let's move on to the gameplay and I'll talk about my history and a couple of years ago some things you know open my eyes and I'll talk about that anyway let's move on to the gameplay okay so let's talk about and we're gonna do this over here is a new earth this is a game that I love and I enjoy and ultimately yeah it's about what you enjoy and not abusing others but I'll get onto that later but let's talk about my fan boy ISM and how it was cured and basically it all started when I was 12 years old and I had a game called Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 2 if you guys didn't know was so good it came out I think in 1996 or something like that and it was just phenomenal I mean Blizzard did a really good job with Warcraft 2 and so after I played that I was just left shocked because it was such a good experience they really you know it was it was better than anything I'd played on the Super Nintendo even though Zelda on the Super Nintendo was really good that was probably comparable but ever since then I really looked at PCs and I could think wow PC gaming is legit and that was back in 1996 and at that time I had a crap computer I mean consoles were better I mean they were better than PCs at that time and I had a I mean I had a piece of crap computer that had like a turbo button I mean you press the turbo button I vaguely remember it was like a turbo button and you press it and put your computer from a hundred megahertz to 133 or something suffice to say it was always left on but after that I managed to build my first computer in 2000 and that was an AMD CPU I think was the case six K three or something like that and it was at the titles it was better value for money than Intel it was faster than Intel and AMD were a really good company in 2000 they were a solid company they were just dedicated to bringing the best architecture always they were always a really honest company they didn't do any of this marketing or the septic so I call it deceptive tactics until I think Intel is the master of that but ultimately you know I think every company is guilty of it now not just Intel Intel AMD Nvidia they're all using deceptive and that's what I wanted to talk to you guys about mainly the focus of this video is that I am no longer a fanboy four years ago pretty much it stopped no longer a fanboy of any product or anything I'm gonna judge a product on its price and its performance and I think in the performance thing I think there's a lot of things that get overlooked but I'll talk about that later let's get back into the history side of things when I was growing up I went on to the K 6 K 3 and then after that I had the XP the Athlon XP I think was on the k7 architecture and then they had the K a the Athlon like a 4000 x2 or something and of xp2 and it was a 2 core processor was a really good value for money processor but that was my last AMD CPU in 2005 because as you guys know in 2006 Intel released the Core 2 Duo and it surprised everyone because it was just it was really it was a huge improvement over their previous architecture I think they Pentium DS or some crap like that they had some really bad CPUs coming out but they released the Core 2 Duo and it was just impressive it was really good and so after that I kind of I I said ok well my next CPU if AMD don't have the best CPU out I'm gonna I'm gonna basically switch to Intel in basically 2005 2008 they had the q9 550 and I managed to see it on special with a if I had a q9 550 I managed to sit on special with the motherboard p5q from the Zeus and 4 gigabytes of RAM I think was like 350 bucks and I said I can't ignore this I've got to upgrade even though I hated it I didn't want to go with into army everyone knows back in 2006 2007 AMD I mean they didn't just bring the better architecture out they were crippling AMD they were doing all these deals under the radar with Dell and HP and stuff like that and now I'm at forcing the companies not like they're just offering too attractive a deal so that the companies wouldn't go with Andy and basically they're just trying to cripple AMD any way they could and I mean it worked I mean but I don't think that was just the problem with AMD I think AMD also their company was in a bit of disarray as well they had problems with their architecture and they couldn't fix it and I'm just getting frustrated a lot of people quit back then I think in 2006 that was a real turning point for AMD that as a company they sort of lost their direction I think as of late they're kind of getting it back I mean I love what they're doing with the gaming evolved thing that's the best thing that they've done in the in the last couple of years I think they focusing on making games and getting games optimized for their graphics cards is really good mantle I'm yet I mean it's only one game so I'm yet to seal their to do with that but I mean definitely I used to love AMD and it wasn't till I got the q9 550 so let's get back on topic that I realized that this architecture wow this is fucking legit I mean the q9 550 was just snappy it was everything so much better than my 4000 x2 and I was just like wow you know this is a big big difference it was more of a difference than I went from my x2 over my XP in my Athlon and I couldn't ignore her at that stage of like damn and at the time I was also a big ATI fanboy and I had a in 2010 I purchased a 58 50 because you know was it got the rave reviews everyone said it was the killer it was the but one of the best value for money graphs cards you could get and at the time I'd played a lot of world Walker after my friend he had a GTX 460 and you know the even though the game was optimized for NVIDIA the AMD still on the benchmarks called better fps and anyway I went to my friend's house and we both had q95 50s and he said look play on my rig and I played on his rig and I was always this this myth that Nvidia cards were smoother than AMD graphics cards and it's only recently come to life that this myth was true I mean that the whole frame rating issues and everything that AMD had before 2013 sort of made me lose a little bit of faith in the company but basically they've fixed that which is all good but back in 2010 I tried my friends Nvidia graphics card I was like damn like this you're right this is smoother what the hell and so it wasn't until then I said alright well the next card graphs gone getting is gonna be a new video Graham's card and I got a GTX 670 and games when games have never been smoother like ever since the GTX 670 I was like damn you know I'm going to buy the best graphics card for the money now and so when recently as you guys know I went to upgrade from a GTX 670 to a GTX 780 but at the time while seriously considering in r9 290 and it wasn't I mean if it wasn't for AMD stuffing up the r9 290 release I would have got one I mean if they just let the partners do their jobs and put their aftermarket coolers on there I would have had an online 290 because that's what I'm all about now more about getting value for money and I actually enjoyed trying different architectures I really enjoyed jumping on the AMD FX 8350 I mean until I think's the master of it deceptive tactics Intel's the master of deceptive it I mean I think nowadays in the video and AMD as well I definitely planned the Decepticon to age to get over my fanboy as a mom now 28 years old and I'm gonna keep giving you guys the best value for money recommendations I'm gonna keep tech es city always objective and that's what I love doing it now because it's if I've been liberated and so if you guys can get liberated at an earlier age then it's gonna be awesome because ultimately we can cast aside fanboy ISM and work together as a PC gaming community then we're gonna be better as a whole I mean look what's happening with the steam OS the PC gaming community is growing are all supporting steam OS we're getting behind it and it's looking pretty damn good so far I mean this is to stop microsoft's directx monopoly on the market and so the more we get behind it the more we're we're United instead of arguing about petty things like AMD versus the video the more we're gonna be able to make demands and force these companies to bring us competition instead of just marketing and so I think recently as you guys know I was talking about performance and a lot of people think that you know AMD do offer really good FPS for the dollar and for me it was like it's not just about FPS stuff you guys haven't tried I mean when the first one that I'm going to talk about the GeForce experience but when the GeForce experience first came out I was just like damn this thing's a piece of shit but actually recently I can start to see what they're doing with it it's actually looking really damn good they've got a shadowplay integrated with it they've got their shield software with it it's actually a really lightweight as well so I really like what they're doing and so that's with performance you've got to throw in other things as well people like why you always on an AMD and NVIDIA graphics card nowadays and I kind of have to defend myself by saying because the experience is so damn good for the money I mean I games I'll never crash on me things never crash on me with this graphics card on this CPU so I have to say that experience for me is a big factor now it's not just about the broad FPS and so I mean I'd love to try AMD's new graphics cards and however until that day I'm gonna be on mind telling the video ring I'm gonna be enjoying it and so if people are gonna call me a fanboy for having an Intel Nvidia Rig then I think I'm not the one with the fanboy problem so anyway ultimately I hope you guys enjoyed this and I'm not gonna stop recommending products from all three companies in the video Intel and AMD because they all offer great price performance products it's in different scenarios and especially if you get them on special they'll always look for deals I always do as well I mean I got my GTX 780 Lightning for 480 US delivered to Japan like it was an absolute bargain so you guys would keep on the lookout for deals and when you find them just snap and pull the trigger that's how you do it so anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this big vlog and ultimately I enjoy objective feedback as well but I want to lastly I mean I know it's sort of it's a bit how to say contradictive of fanboys but I also like subjectivity as well I mean as long as it's print presented in the right way right as long as you're not abusing people or insulting people but so subjective feedback is really good because it's this is same subjective feedback ultimately that caused AMD it will caused other people to look further into the AMD frame rating issue because everyone wanted to test this myth is aimed as Nvidia smoother than AMD and it was this subjective opinion that everyone had a lot of subjective opinions that made people test the AMD graphics cards and actually find out that there was a problem so I really respect that I really think that was a cool thing that the you know that that was something that subjectivity brought out so anyway ultimately I like I like both objective opinions and subjective opinions so you know keep it flowing guys as long as it's you know an intelligent discussion then it's always gonna get a thumbs-up and it's always gonna be awesome to just to talk about things with you guys anyway I've been mumbling on for too long and I will catch you guys in the next UK budget build very soon but until then the dark doctor ez is signing out and I'll catch you guys later bye
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