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TechWorldTV #002 - GTX 1180 Specs 'Revealed'? Ryzen 2 Aftermath, Windows 10 Lean

2018-04-24
welcome back to tech world TV and I'm joined here by tech deals how you do man I'm doing awesome how you doing hello everybody yes everyone should be out there and they were loving the last week I got so much good feedback from last week's show thank you guys so much for that everyone just yeah I thought the show was really good I like the way it float there was some complaints about the donations and how they were flowing through so I've changed the noise it's only gonna be a little noise but I spoke with tech deals and we both agreed that if a good topic does come up then we will talk about that midstream because I actually really like the specter meltdown discussion we had last week and that was really good so absolutely yeah and so in the last week what's been happening you know I hear this thing called rising to launched I don't know if it was a big deal or not but apparently uh some people are excited that it came out do you what's this the risin risin - yep so it risin - came out and it's it's getting spammed everywhere like everywhere I go risin - in my face rising - run - I just did my review and I'm gonna get so much other stuff done it's ridiculous but I don't know we can talk about the other exciting topic then yeah well I mean with risin - what is the like if you think risin - what is the most appealing thing about it to you what cpu and what upgrade over the previous generation well unless you're stepping up from a lower end chip I don't think cross upgrades from risin 1 make any sense like a risin 5 1600 to arise in 5 2600 is not enough of a change it that doesn't make sense but if you for example bought into risin 1 at a budget maybe you bought a be 350 you bought a risin 5 1400 and now maybe you want some more performance are you doing some more multitasking the the chance to keep your motherboard and RAM in place and step up to a 6 or 8 core chip without having to change motherboards is a really cool opportunity and I love the fact that the good coolers now come with every chip which is a nice change yeah the 2700 X was is is nailing it in terms of value for money there is that fine line I'll probably make some more content with the 2700 X versus the 8700 K the risin 5 1600 how do you I mean start 2600 how do you feel about that with the stealth cooler like I when I tested the stealth cooler on the X it was like you could do benchmarks quickly but if you did like it I 264 stress tests and you just watch the heat slowly go up in other words the cooler there's no Headroom yeah if you overclock the 2600 on the included cooler runs out of if you want 2600 X speeds you're either buying in 2600 X or you're replacing the stealth cooler yeah and so well I found if I'd opt it to 3.8 gigahertz in the is 64 stress test it just over like you watched the graph slowly go up and then it just don't like clipped off and crashed so that was I guess that was probably the only disappointing thing about the second gen Rison series was the included the stealth cooler because the risin 5 1600 came with that bulky spire cooler and that was good for 3.8 gigahertz well my advice in my review was simply if you're spending now of course this was mostly tuned towards the 2700 X I haven't properly reviewed the 2600 yet because AMD didn't send me one but that's ok so I I rushed and I got the 27th the 2700 X versus the i7 8700 K out and in my opinion the 2700 is probably the most pointless CPU in that stack in the sense that I get why people might buy a 2600 because they see that $1.99 price and they're on a budget and they're trying to find a middle road and I get it but if you're spending 300 if you're at the $300 price point another $30 is 10% and you get such a better cooler completely so if you're buying horizon 7 just buy the X chip which is different than the advice I gave in Rison one because the 20 the 1700 came with the rate you know spire and the 1700 didn't come with one at all and if you remember it launched there were what $70 a part in price yeah 399 versus 329 or something mm-hmm so now there are $30 a part in you get a wraith prison no brainer so I had 2700 X plus I mean I don't know about the binning I haven't tried any 2700 non X's but 2700 X might be better been not too sure but I hazarded guessed is to say yes it would be the cream of the crop as well so there's that - on top of everything but do we will talk about rise into a little bit later do we want to jump into the probably the most talked about topic at the moment that is the gtx 1180 the rumors so yeah okay what we got our way so will far away with those specs we got 12 nanometer FinFET so they're dropping the node down from 16 nanometer to 12 nanometer we've got a increased die size but when you look at the die size here 400 millimeters squared it's not really a drop in size considering the amount of CUDA cores is going up to 1080 TI levels so the gtx 1110 atti sorry has a die sighs I think of 471 millimeters get squared scared you getting scared of this 1180 quietly so what a what I'm seeing here really is just a refresh of an 11-10 ATT I just shrunk down to 12 nanometer so and of course GD r6 so really on is 16 gigabytes per second versus 11 of bandwidth yeah so I mean is it going to make a big difference in gaming of course you're gonna get the power consumption efficiency that's coming out of that with 12 nanometer but are you going to see a big leap in performance when you look at the 1180 versus the 1080 Ti do you have one place I see it making a difference is 4k the memory bandwidth for larger textures at 4k gaming may show like 1080p and even standard 1440p may not show the big gap but it's it's a if you can get another 10 or 20% perform at 4k that you know if it takes you from 50 to 70 frames per second that's a leap for people who are struggling to begin with of course if you already own a 1080 Ti is it gonna be worth replacing a 1080 TI with this probably not but if you own a 1070 or a 1080 and you're struggling at 4k then it makes sense but how many people are using a 1070 at 4k anyway no I don't know anyone so if anyone can do yes overwatch will do it but you know um you do drop the textures down like if you got 1070 at medium it looks was in my opinion in 1440p high in some games low you know low vs. absolutely yes go into 4k and turning to medium is silly I'd much much rather lower the resolution and if you want proof of this I realized this is consoles but if you want proof of this they learned a long time ago that running at a lower resolution with better textures actually makes the average person think it looks better really then then to run at a higher resolution with lower textures so you know like in any case yes I agree with you I should have pulled out that study that would have been awesome so but really yeah just as an example I mean most Xbox one games for example either run at 720p or 900 P they don't run at 1080p because they didn't the horsepower yeah that's exactly right so when they I'm scaled because it's better to have the textures than it is to have the resolution that's true never think I never really looked at consoles a whole lot but I know the the latest Xbox one X is at the probe the the big one the 4k yeah the Xbox one X claims to be a 4k console but only like indie and really lightly loaded games are for most games for at like 1440p upscale yeah well it feels to me like they've got the games that are perfectly optimized and they're just showcasing them and then when you had a game like pop G run on it just brand like absolute crap like 30 frames per second yeah but the stuttering as well like those reports are just massive stuttering and this and that so yeah I mean it is what it is so I mean my brother's a console fanboy he went and bought one like day one and then he's like even watches me play PC you know the sad thing is he built like a really good PC but I helped him build this really awesome PC and he just jumps on he's like I don't like mouse and keyboard and then he goes and flips it makes some money and I'm like dude you want to hook us up a bit of like because I got all the deals for him and he's like nah yeah so I got I got screwed I've got my brother GJ but yeah that's what you do for your family and on all the news though back to the 1180 so it looks like refresh is that like in terms of the architecture itself it looks like it's actually a refresh but they're naming it touring yeah it's it's I mean this isn't new basically what competition does Nvidia really have I mean sure there's the $3,000 Titan V or Titan 5 depending upon how you read it but since AMD has no competition to push against the 1080 Ti why would NVIDIA beat themselves because they can't really raise the price point $6.99 is about the most they can charge for consumer card regardless of the mining market and so by coming out with a refresh for a year they can hold their good stuff for another year and just keep milking money I mean they're selling every card they make and plus the power efficiency makes the biggest deal for - so dropping down 16 nanometer to 12 nanometer is just Bank so do you think this might mean that we start seeing use deals on 1080 T eyes if this is comparable and performance but uses 20% less power absolutely I mean if they can get if someone can get $500 for that 1080 TI and buy one of these for $700 and they're going to do the calculations where it's going to draw less power over time because another big thing that these massive miners face is heat like putting out a lot of heat so they've got to keep that heat under wraps obviously they can't have their graphics cards outdoors getting weathered so they're gonna have min doors and they're gonna keep that whole room clean no cool you know what's going on with me English today but yeah so they're gonna keep that whole room cool so they it's in their best interest to keep power consumption as low as possible so with that twelve nanometer drop it's going to be very popular for - unfortunately I know people aren't gonna want to hear that but you come around attack yes City you're gonna get the truth you're gonna get the hey guys like let's make everybody happy well if if this does come out in the summer like the current rumors are stating what is it saying here July yes a July 2 to the article quickly so we're gonna hit July 2018 sometimes so if it comes out in July and you want one of these I would preorder it today it goes up because I'll bet you on launch day in the week after you're not gonna find one very true I I think that will be the case absolutely don't wait for the reviews if you if you're a high-end premium gamer you've been waiting for this if you wait for reviews I think you're just wasting your time I just I just order one yeah so well honestly you're looking what five five percent more performance ten percent at best than a 1080i but of course you're looking at better power efficiency possibly better overclocks it depends on the new node itself yeah more vram yeah and the end the gd-r gd-r six as well of course big factor there so does look like it's an improvement but it's more refresh than than a new whole new architecture bike but at least it seems we've fresh and not a rebrand you know like that exactly yeah it's not like the 400 to 500 series rx cards which were just a rebrand they were yeah with higher clock speeds and more power consumption so you're exactly right that's that is exactly right so great fresh is up generally better than a rebrand I think we can both agree they're risin to what would be the answer refresh so what would you say the 4790k was to the 4770k that would be interesting they called it a refresh what would you call it I to me it's a rebrand um I have both a 4770k and a 4790k both installed on Z boards both with liquid cooling actually do in the other room I have both still my 47 k.will overclocked higher than my 4770k will but that's a sample size of one each so that doesn't mean anything but my anecdotal evidence is that visit my 47 90 does go higher but we're talking about 200 megahertz higher that big deal um okay 200 megahertz that's it I wish they were soldered yeah well that's a funny thing I was gonna do a video on the first-generation LGA 1156 chips there they were pasted on and it's a huge thing for me they just use paste that was when they first I think tested the waters with using pastes on overclockable chips and no one really noticed it and then the 2500 K came out and they decided to solder it again which is very weird because they released x79 x79 was the x58 improvement and Zee 67 was the p55 improvement so I found it funny that they went from paste back to solder that was very weird I don't know what happened there but they didn't have two different teams working on those architectures at the time so maybe that other team that made sandy but like no we got to solder this thing and it was a big improvement but where the maybe they thought with the first generation they're like no one noticed that it was pasted on so we'll just roll it out with Ivy Bridge and the problem was with Ivy Bridge when people got the chips though like wow these don't overclock anywhere near as high as the Sandy Bridge chips and then they started to investigate and then yeah that was where the pace thing was exposed and at that time YouTube had grown a lot more video media and you know people ranting and whatnot had grown a lot more than the first gen chips like YouTube still non-existent I think when those first chip first gen chips were released everyone was doing unboxing videos just with the crappy vlog cam at that stage so no no no interesting times I hope I really hope Intel goes back to Seoul during again and I think they will believe it or not I think I actually will now if the rumored we talked about this last week if the rumored 8-core sixteenth red coffee light ship on the Z 390 comes out and they don't solder it I don't know how they're gonna get clock speeds and heat under control because you know 8700 K is fine but if you added two more cores and you try to maintain clock speeds yeah that's a lot so so you have a do you have an i7 2609 2600 just picked over 2600 another 2,600 hi I've got a 2600 K on my old a soos z68 motherboard and using a basic cheap 120 millimeter a IO it runs 4.5 default settings everything all day long cool and quiet no complaints and my 4770k on a larger cooler will not hit 4.5 and well but it's toothpaste versus soldering I mean the 2600 K is soldered and the 4770k is not so did you try to deal it no you just don't believe in it at all I don't have a problem with it but I don't have enough motivation to do it well I got a vise now at my home a house studio so I'm gonna be deleting like everything that comes through that can be deleted one thing I found though I'm gonna go back to using liquid probe versus the conductor not stuff I just like working with it better I don't know what it is call me old-school I know there's like liquid ultra out there I just like using the liquid pro stuff I guess when you get used to something you just I don't know you know it inside out just like my old Zeon's but also I was gonna ask so you think just just a quick question though you think with the new 8 core that Intel will release you think if they don't solder it we're gonna have a lot of photo on our hands if they don't solder it I think they're gonna have to lower the clock speeds to basically make it pointless from risin 7 2700 X if they want if they want the clock speed 2700 X they're gonna have to solder it yeah and we'll get a lot of photo from that solder fair enough I didn't make her fun I'm not making just making fun of the solder this is sort of thing I just love the way you say this is funny I don't know god oh okay they loop it this way Intel makes these wonderful claims that the toothpaste lasts longer it doesn't have the risk of cracking it saves them a little bit of money I read something somebody made a comment the other day beneath the video and said no this is Intel's way of trying to force people to upgrade more often it's like I've spoke to extreme overclockers about it like I'm not gonna name who and any they just told me straight away it's a money thing that's all it is it's just money his saves cost and that's all it is oh you somebody made a comment you see that yep so thanks Steve thanks dude ultimate six core showdown is coming very soon just go to review the Tai Chi ultimate for asrock that review will be dropping very soon I finished the NOC review so that'll be coming very soon - they're all the two videos I have to get done before the end of the month and then the six core show now should be coming in like the next couple of days that'll get released straight away like as soon as I finish that video it'll get released so look forward to bringing that out I know a lot of people dying for that I'm gonna bring some more budget sort of old-school showdowns versus new that's gonna come as well can't wait to deliver that because yeah this whole studio has just enabled me to really get back on track I had one guy though why do I comment it is like I'm unsubscribing until you do the sr2 build and it's like I just facepalm to me and I was like dude when I do the sr2 build it's going to take me like literally a week I'm not gonna be able to make content because that build is gonna take so much time and I want to do it but I gotta get all through all my backlog I got a new videos new products new products do pay the bills and if I do the sr2 bill there's gonna be no content for a week that the video will get released there's nothing new about it is not feel it links or anything so it's gonna be a straight up me losing money for a whole week and it's only really for the diehard enthusiast of the channel I love them I'll take care of them but I have to get my backlog done first and it's just like he's like unsubscribes like if that's how you feel about the channel and the way it goes like please when I release the SR to build just don't watch it like if that's your attitude you know what I mean like I don't know is this for me it was this I've been delivering on the broken promises every broken promise I've made I'm slowly getting through them and delivering and it just made me upset that was probably like them yeah I'll get guys trolling me every single day with like horrible comments they don't bother me but that one just got to me I don't know what is I was like dude come on you know I've been I've been sweating my ass off here just remind him and Johnny he is always welcome to a double his money back refund of how much money he's paying you to make videos if he's unhappy with his free content yeah I mean I don't mean to disrespect anybody but at the end of the day there are actually a frightening number of people who go why aren't you making the videos I want to watch mmm because you weren't paying any well my patron view if they've got big requests I always listened like they're the guys have been supporting me for a long time like so that was one of the patrons supporters but that i7 scam he contacted me and he said can you help me out and I was like sure because I've known him for a long time as well and so I look forward to the day where we meet in real life and have a beer he is just like things like that it's just I don't know man that whole sense of like guys I'm is my job I have to live off this kind of thing and if I if I just did use content I would I know people love it I love doing the use content but it makes me no money and Adsense doesn't pay like crap all so I'd be yeah the channel would be dead in the water if I just didn't use parts and it's funny because I met up on the used parts hunt I met up with a with Matt and he said oh I love nerd on a budget and I love Danny too man Danny's got an awesome channel and he said but he doesn't upload enough and I just laughed I said dude do you know why Danny doesn't upload enough scuzzy doesn't make any money off doing use parts like on the video content so it's yeah it's a tough game but that's sort of like the dilemma that we're faced with doing use price-performance there's only a handful of people large enough that they can focus a good example would be um do you know lazy game review I've heard of him I haven't watched his content he's gone and I could be wrong about this he's got like six hundred died maybe seven is it 700,000 subs now and he but he's been doing it for like five six years he's one of the old-school guys okay and he's been doing it long enough now that he can get hundreds of thousands of views per video and he does exclusively old-school stuff and I mean really nothing new occasionally like you know a Sims game review or something he enjoys but the number of people like him I use him as an example the number of people like him who are now big enough that he can make money just off the ad revenue hmm you could probably count on two hands all the guys like you mentioned on the budget are it's a hobby yeah cuz it just doesn't pay there's a there's a bunch of 50,000 sub hundred thousand sub YouTube channels which make good content but unless they have affiliate links unless they have sponsors a fifty thousand seven a hundred thousand sub YouTube channel doesn't pay enough it does you can't make a living on that yeah so that's what me like I'm just trying my hardest man I'm doing my best here so it's it really is what it is and I can't do anything I can't really change anything cuz I'm gone I'm full throttle at the moment I'm waking up in the morning I'm doing YouTube content it's funny on Twitter someone's like dude you're gonna go get yourself a girlfriend and I'm just like yeah I do I do I'm just not really keen to go get rekt again like my ex you know did a number on me so really not too keen for that girlfriends are on money and time investment now figure out a way to - what you need is a girlfriend who helps you with the channel where do you find a girl like this please tell me no I ain't on tinder I ain't trying tenderizer people I try Tendo I'm like no not going near that thing I remember I tried it once in Vegas and this is a true story try when I was in Vegas like year and a half ago whatever packs before we had to pack Seattle and I jumped on there and I was like cool there's some nice people here started chatting and then the chicks like oh by the way I charge 300 an hour and I'm just like and then this was like all the girls I matched with on it like I charged 300 and now I'm like that okay I'm not looking for that you know yeah so anyway that was my experience with tinder so far so I really haven't been keen to try it again but yeah maybe after I get through like a heap of content and the S ought to build gets done I might try dating again just the FYI if people especially Karl on Twitter he was wondering so there you go this is a I don't know tech world TV maybe we should get back to the tech here next article so we were talking about the risin 7 here the 2800 X and this is going to take on Intel's 8 core coffee lay chips so what do you think the 2800 X is going to have some people have rumored that it could have 10 cores and I mean I watched a Bauer as video and he said that the die size was the same but they shrunk down to 12 nanometer which was interesting to see so watch what's your thoughts and opinions on that I mean I've got no idea when it comes to that like I'd love to see Dobara do another sort of how he sands it down and he just sees the exact you know like you did for the thread ripper chip so there there is in my opinion ok so just on another account there is in my opinion Z I don't want to say 0 cuz your is a small number there is virtually no chance that it's going to be a 10 core chip and the reason I say that is because AMD has built their entire Zen architecture on a four-course ECX complex design yeah they'll do a 12 core rising at some point but I mean yes they could do a 10 core with they could do a 10 core with 3 cc X's with two cores disabled for bidding purposes but 10 is an odd number I they would say that present too in my opinion but what do I know I mean it's here's the thing the general consumer platform hardly needs 8 at the moment it's nice really most people could buy rise in 5 2600 X and be happy as a peach by a hundred our motherboard by a 230 dollar 2600 X and be good for years to come the only reason I think a lot of people if you have the money should buy 2700 X is just future proofing because you don't know where games are going you don't know future applications and just extra cores are nice but it's a hundred bucks for two more cores and yeah I mean I think it depends on how much your whole system cost is whether that's worth it well want me to think about 6 cores 12 threads back when the 5820k is released it wasn't like relevant for gamers really but now it seems like 6 cores 12 threads is where it's at for the majority of people like who want that top of the line performance so I already find 6 cores limiting though I try live streaming on one computer Ghost Recon wildlands on an i7 8700 K and unless you cap the frames it's choppy not really ok I've done that actually it's on my gaming channel um okay what should you software do you use for streaming though OBS with NVIDIA encoding ok yes was I find xsplit whenever I do my streaming benchmarks I never have one problem with streaming and I've strained on 84 hundreds even and I just don't get a problem I mean maybe I'm testing the wrong games I test dota 2 I've even tested pub G babji's very intense so I just find a pub G is not using all of your course and threads whereas Ghost Recon does ok I'll take a look ok so maybe for the streaming benchmark take a look at ghost recons in the future that's probably something that comes out of this right well I mean and I did a number of games and many games are just fine on it but it's if you set the you know I mean if you either turn vsync on or you cap your frames the problem goes away but the problem is your cores are being used your graphics cards being used and in my opinion if you're live streaming Triple A games they like the Far Cry 5s of the world the latest and greatest big-budget titles I mean dota 2 league of legends csgo rainbow succeeds though those are no big deal um I would get a rise in 720 700 X all day long for live streaming over in 8700 K personally well be a great video idea for you guys Rock ghost lens recon ladies making videos can't everybody just take my word for it people want a video there's always you got to make a video about some like I'll just okay well I can I can take that logic okay guys just picture it in your head sr to build 2 X 56 90s in a Corsair case hardline tubing done there it is there's a video ok let's move on done I see how much work I have now saved you I just saved you a week of work I expect a fruit basket out of this so sorry I didn't catch the name he asked is the gtx 1060 for $280 as well is that a good buy yeah that's a very good pie I'm looking for a 1060 at the moment just to do like a real budget 1060 to do a comparison because the last one that I bought off ebay I Freddie talked that into build that's awesome it to a tau D for a date 1060 is really good how much are you guys paying in America at the moment have they dropped a little bit his last week I thought I saw one for like 270 US which is quite expensive still for a 1060 what's the cheapest you the tents the good 1066 gig cards are 300 and the good 1063 gig cards are 250 they were about 20 bucks cheaper than that a week but those cards are gone okay just a 250 and 300 for the three and six gig is about what they're going for at the moment yeah so okay sorry back onto the topic of the 8700 K do you think the most game as though like say for instance they're playing ghost recons but they're not streaming I mean how many people actually stream nowadays and do it day in day out like the average person's like I'd say like 99% of people who a game as a gamers I'd say well sure there's a lot of people who stream casually but the number of people who stream seriously are are up 1% less than 1% it's a trivial number yeah but that's what I mean I think six cores 12 threads is relevant now but how long do you think that's going to be then you for call how long do you think that'll be that long for when do you think 8 cores 16 threads will be more relevant like it'll be the new thing to have I'd say about a year and a half's time is when a core 16 threads will be the sort of mainstream enthusiasts go-to choice I have two answers to that question the first answer is if you're the kind of person who upgrades every three to five years and plays games for a while and it's ok to wait for games to be out for six months to a year to buy them on the 10 and $20 steam sales and you don't have to keep up with the Joneses on every game you don't buy the Far Cry 5 or 6 that the day it comes out you're okay to go Wow wait till it's on sale if you're that person horizon 5 2600 X should easily last you five years in my opinion because you're not a demanding person if you if you're gonna maybe do one graphics card upgrade in the next five years and you skip maybe two generations before you upgrade you don't need to be on the latest and greatest on the other hand if you're the kind of person who goes well gee my gtx 1080 is getting long in the tooth i'm gonna buy the 1180 and then I'll buy the 1280 as soon as it comes out and then I'll buy the third because you buy every generation of card and you buy Far Cry 5 and then 5 6 the day it comes out I would buy a 2700 X all day long cuz you're the kind of person who's on the bleeding edge and you'll hit that 6 core limit before the average casual gamer will okay so one more question though with the 2,700 X have you felt the difference have you can you homed in on your Jedi senses and can you feel the snappiness compared to the 1800 X I could feel it are you playing on a Hydra frustrate monitor numbers just like every little things like little things you know you just you move a little file into Premiere Pro or something just doing these little things it just feels more snappy yeah 2,700 X to the 1,800 X that's all if I tell you no are you gonna be upset with me no boobs your opinion I don't care like um I just got done testing the the 1800 X the week before this launched in fact I did a bunch of benchmarks on four different graphics cards I published some actually I've got one coming up tomorrow that's in a Turner there but actually did spend a week with the 1800 X before it dropped I took the 1800 X directly off of my test bench put the 2700 X on and immediately started benchmarking yeah and you notice the snappiness okay would that make you feel better I gotta tell ya I mean the 2700 X is faster than the 1800 X but if I found in 1800 X for cheap uh it wouldn't dissuade me from buying it in fact I Chi did a week ago by a rise in seven 1,700 believe it or not Newegg was having that sale a week ago which you probably didn't pay attention to because you're in Australia um what do you think to 210 dollars delivered for a risin 7 1,700 with the Wraiths bar RGB cooler wow that's a really good deal and you couple that with a solid B 350 meltable and you're in heaven so I I was it was about 208 50 after the cash back in the credit card you know discount delivered for a rise in 7 1700 no one had bought one of course I'm saying you know what the second just coming out in a week but this price hmm just over 200 bucks and I got a stack of e350 boards to put one on 200 bucks for an 8 core 16 thread prop that's it that's a steal it is so it's funny now I'm telling everybody this and they can't go buy it now which is probably making them upset they missed it but you know hey that's the rhyme the rule of a deal hunter is you always get the deal for yourself before you recommend it to others that's like top 10 commandments of deal hunting don't worry so I am I mean I bought it because I'm sitting you're going would I recommend this yes this is this is such a good deal if you if if you come across a risin 5 1600 right now for what would it have to be I mean if you came across it for 139 would you snap it up in a heartbeat which one sir horizon 5 1600 139 yeah yeah snap it up for that that's that's dead sheep that's just great so there's a price at which the previous generation ships sea I would not have said that so much about the FX chips when rise and launch because risin was such a breath of fresh air over the FX chips huge improvement huge different league in tire so even though the FX chips were cheap at the time it's like you know I don't know that I'd buy them even cheap because it did so much change but I would take a rise in first gen at the right price than I did a week ago ok well I mean it depends like 179 I'd take the 2600 over that so 139 is getting pretty cheap I can ignore I can ignore the snappiness just for that price yeah like that's the main how much of a price tag do you put on snappiness that's what you got to ask yourself that is the question ladies and gentlemen and when does the snappiness factor take over so Dora I've got the thousand FPS camera that's another promise that's coming I'm gonna see I'm just gonna prove myself right or wrong if I'm wrong I'm gonna make fun of myself doesn't matter but it was all in my head placebo the kind of doubt that it's placebo I doubt it highly doubt it highly doubt it anyway I just think it's worth pointing out that as wonderful a deal Rison is yeah the average gamer is still rockin a three to five-year-old four core processor with a three year old graphics card and frankly doing just fine with it well that's yeah that was the interesting thing I mean I'm really looking forward to seeing the x50 675 it's gonna stick it to these two brand new 6 cores I know it is it's already compared to the 8700 K but of course people want to see if the X 50 675 can actually beat the rise in 5 2600 that's one of the biggest scenarios people want to see I want to I'm gonna test that very soon that's gonna be very interesting so and you can I make a prediction before you do it yep benchmarks will look great but I wouldn't trade a rise in 5 2600 X for it because there's too many things missing on it in terms of a modern platform for my personal tastes mm-hmm I do think that from a know the lack of PCI Express 3 isn't the end of the world the USB 3 you can always add a card the DDR 3 versus 4 Ram but the DMI link wait actually that's on a qpi isn't it mm-hmm that's not even my concern is that the platform is so old that even with overclocking the benchmarks look great but day to day I mean I still have on Anna Sue's p60 my i7 920 and it's overclocked what you get but man I tell you something the benchmarks look great but I can feel the difference ok so where can you okay so back to this so this sort of correlates oh sorry nice ties in with the snappiness argument you can feel the difference where can you feel the difference we're going to explore this using using using Windows launching programs task switching and I've got a simp Sonny 840 SSD in there it's not like I've running on a hard drive or anything you know it's um if you try to do more once you're in a game and you're playing a game it's fine the actual in-game experience is good yeah I wouldn't want to multitask in Windows running Chrome on it how's that okay fair enough so what isn't machine at this point but it's a fine gaming machine so what speeds did you get what speech did you get him up to and also what's his name what is he on a every Zealand has a soul what is your age doesn't have a name what dude you got an a museum X 56 75 what's his name Nicholas thanks to its sorry I will get checked EMS on Twitter sorry man I'll have to come up with a name okay my name's oh yeah I'll let you name I'll let you name him okay is it a him or her it's a him oh it to him yeah what's his name wah-wah so Josh I got Jah Jah he and we'll call him Wawa he's killing me man wah-wah kinks that's easy all I can say is that CPU CPU performance is not what holds back most games I mean if you run gaming benchmarks and you compare the risin 5 2600 to the you know to the old Xenon's if with monitor graphics cards you're gonna be fine I know but if we do get a victory if we can score a victory on the X 56 75 in a game even if it's a benchmark if we score a legit victory I'll do a dance in that video I mean dude it's that old Verizon 526 hundreds that new and I'm gonna be overclocking them both there's gonna be no excuses so 4.5 gigahertz vs. 4.2 Westmere vs. Rison it's go it's going down and then we're gonna throw it in the 8400 as well if it can be the 8400 I'll do jumping jacks off my table all right let me offer a stipulation yep adjust the performance to both chip original price original cannot use the current price it's not fair okay fair enough okay well you can do it both ways but here's why I say that that performance existed back then but how much did those e nines cost back then because they were not $1.99 no like 1,400 bucks and that's what makes them so good is like people selling for 30 bucks now you just feel right but my point is is you couldn't buy that level of performance for $200 back then what's amazing about Rison is not just its raw performance but it's what that performance costs that's so amazing but for me when I buy that zik you're right like you are right it's what it costs at the time right now but when you buy that Xeon for $30 my immediate thought comes to my head like hey someone just lost thirteen hundred and seventy dollars and I just picked up 30 bucks like it doesn't make you feel a little bit like yeah I got a even better than the deal that I got because you know someone's lost all that money in this CPU when they first bought it now I'm buying it for this price winning yes but only so many people can do that because only so many of those chips exist it's sort of like saying it's sort of like the advise against buying a new car because if you buy a car that's three years old it's such a better deal yeah but if everybody did that there'd be no three year old cars to buy exactly you go true thank you all I'm saying is those deals on Xenon's exist because Intel had such a ridiculously good CPU X number of years ago sold them for a lot of money they were sold for servers and workstations they've been used and now they're cheapest chips because all those machines have been retired but how here's an interesting question how many of those X 56 chips do you think exist in the wild oh sorry so we just got a donation as well check the easterlies case I will I'm sorry to say that question again how many of those X 56 Xenon's exist in the wild to be bought like look say for example all the big youtubers were to immediately tomorrow go out and do exactly what you're describing and do an X 56 vs rise and 5 comparison and immediately cause a rush on the chips on ebay besides the fact that the price would then be run up it's not really busy with the available stock be run dry it's the motherboards that's the problem it always has been with x58 motherboards are always gonna be so hard to snap up at good deals Japan's full of them love you even though if you know someone in Japan or you're in Japan you can pick up x58 boards for like under a hundred bucks and that's where it all began for me in Australia they come up from time to time people just sell their old computers and don't know what's in them and you get an ex 58 board out of that I would recommend instead of looking for an ex 58 motherboard look for a PC that's eight years old and someone doesn't want it anymore and then just sort of check from the pictures if you see six Ram slots bang like you're getting that deal go get it ASAP it'll probably have RAM in it a harddrive power supply most likely a good pal and they'll probably sell it for hundred bucks yeah and so that's where you get the deals from x58 so the problem is there's just there's countless eons available because they're all put in these server Dell motherboards dual slot motherboards and whatnot and all those motherboards are useless because you can't overclock on them so you've just got this influx of xeon chips that far outweigh the number of x58 motherboards but also we did get a question quickly about the six cause six threads and do we think it's too late no I think the 8400 is I really like it I'm gonna say why I really like it full load it uses like full load on a 64 just the CPU its uses 60 watts or something it's ridiculously low in its power consumption for what it is now you couple that with the GTX 1060 there's gonna be absolutely no difference between that and a GTX 1060 on and 8700 K overclocked so it's it's a real relevant CPU I think for a few more years for two more years at least now the problem is is at the moment Intel's not really making a compelling option for people to buy their platforms because their platform is just simply don't carry over there not upgradeable if you're buying if you bought a be 350 motherboard with a risin 5 Verizon 3 even 1200 you're in a really good spot you've got that 7 nanometer to look forward to the problem is like I'm gonna be doing a comparison later we would do achieve motherboards and whatnot but one of my recommendations is going to be B 350 it's so relevant it's so good but what do you think with the six core six threaded 8400 I think it's obsolete the day you bought it really okay elaborate for me I think it is but a speed bump on the way to 12 and 16 threads becoming normal for mid-range - enthusiast machines I think the six core six thread chip is equivalent to the old Athlon X 3s when they tried to try core chips and the whole market just ran flat right over them in a year and I think that yes you absolutely can buy an i-5 8400 today and use it for the next 18 to 24 months and it's fine but it will age poorly you I realized that a I fully acknowledge that from a benchmarking and Gaming point of view and i-5 8400 is generally going to be faster than horizon 5 1600 but I think that the 6 cores 12 threads of the Rison 5s will age ever so more gracefully ah both the Xbox one and the PlayStation 4 are eight core a thread chips and the rumors are that the PlayStation 5 may even be coming either this Christmas or next year with Zen cores in it and if that's the case and it has an 8 core 16 thread chip most PC high-end game development sister is on consoles these days now that they share and we're starting to see more multi-threaded use because of those consoles if we actually get a PlayStation 5 in the next 18 months that has an 8 core 16 threads n core in it I think you're gonna find six threads should be wholly inadequate Christmas of 2019 for the games now obviously that's just a fiction I could be flat wrong but if you're spending a hundred plus dollars on a motherboard one hundred and eighty dollars on a CPU if you're building a nice mid-range system which is an i5 8400 I think eighteen months from now Christmas of 2019 I think you're really going to notice a lot of threads at that point no it's not an issue today hmm but that's just my opinion can I just bump you off with a quick question so he got an on he got an 8700 9k anyway so my thing is have you always been an i5 or an i7 guy though that's the thing I've always been the i5 guy like when I've gone back to it I've been on like an i5 750 or an i5 2500 care and I 535 70 K I've always bought the i-5 option as opposed to the i7 option just out of curiosity have you always been an i7 guy or an i-5 guy I have been both and one of the biggest mistakes that I ever did is I went from an i7 920 to an i-5 2500 k thinking games at the time the back in Sandy Bridge didn't need the extra threads and it would be fine and two years after I bought the i5 2500 K I was really even feeling it back then now some of that is not gaming some of that is also productivity work but I I should have done an i7 2670 4770k and an i7 4790k both of which by the way were bought before I had a youtube channel those were bought from my previous work and I I did it - I didn't early upgrade to the 4770 because I was noticing the lack of threads and I was like I I that was one of the biggest regrets that I ever made was I went down from an i7 2 and i-5 thinking do I really it's there because I'm thinking well they're both four core chips so the hyper threading is nice but those aren't real cores does it really matter ever since then my attitude has been if you have the money buy everything you can because you'll grow into it if nothing else two years ago in the summer of 2016 I was making videos along the lines of do you buy i7 6700 K or i7 6800 kids abroad well II and I was comparing the price of the board and chip and was about a hundred and fifty dollar price premium to do it a 6800 K sixty seven hundred and twenty sixteen obviously this was like eight months before Aizen came out so my argument at the time was if you're building an i7 if you're going premium if you're gonna do something nice a hundred and fifty dollars more gets you 50% more cores and threads had you done that you could have skipped Rison one rise into coffee like I mean if you're running a 6800 K today that you built two years ago you're still good you're still golden know the clock speeds not quite as high but it'll do four point oh four point two and unless you need 144 hurt gaming it's fine so the reason I built that for my channel was because 4k video editing on a four core processor even an i7 is kind of rough and it's much smoother in Adobe Premiere Pro to scrub video now here's the funny part when I built my i7 4770k what was the enthusiast chip at the time ivy bridge-e yeah instead of doing the i7 4770k if I had done Ivy bridge-e back then which also would have only been about a hundred and fifty ish dollars more I could have skipped my Broadwell II build and I actually could've had a machine that would still be good today I mean so if you had now if you're on a budget I get it if you're on a budget you only have the money you have but if you've got the money my opinion by the max you can afford because even if you don't use it today what is the ultimate value for the money I mean people people have criticized me because when the 1080 TI first came out and I did benchmarks I said if you've got the money buy this even if you're playing at 1080p and a bunch of people are like that's ridiculous it's seven hundred our card for 1080p I said yes but you'll have it for the next three to five years in well you can skip the next three graphics card upgrades versus buying a $250 card every other year sorry for the long rant I mean this is just a subject that's near and dear to me is the idea that I buy the most you can afford it will last longer that's not mean that's where we differ I think is like for me I've always and it's sorry I I just like change hardware like a change underwear you need to see my Mini ITX I ate Brian's got a new Mini ITX riggies change from this one to this one up Brian's rigs changing again I love changing hardware and I don't know what it is and so I think the biggest regret you would have was getting rid of that x58 board personally but one thing I do want to know is because I gamed on I 5s up until whoa like 2016 I have never had a problem like I'd I don't know man what is this sort of like like and I noticed you've nailed singled out gostrey cons like do you do you like seek games that just utilize all the cause and threats icon that so that's a fun game I don't know I've never had a problem on the four core fourth it I honestly think four cores four threads especially flight mainstream titles like fortnight's and the next fortnight that'll come out and the next dota2 that'll come out I think four cores four threads will be absolutely fine for those games for years to come and the reason I've said this in the past is because a lot of the third world Asian countries those net cafes if you've ever been to one they're just packed with like dirt cheap computers and they want see the game developers desperately want those people playing their games and if they can't then they're not going to play them so there's a there's a big thing going forward why I think four cores four threads will still be relevant for mainstream titles of course they're demanding titles will be utilizing more cores for threads and more cause more threads are set for threads but yeah I've just I don't know I've always played like here's new earth dota 2 FPS games even the black ops series I never had a problem on four cores four threads we differ we differ in what we call mainstream see I would not call fortnight in dota 2 to be mainstream titles really I would consider those to be eSports or to be casuals okay they're free to plays no I am NOT saying that means they're not played by millions and millions of people yeah I'm what I'm saying is you're correct there's a category of game fortnight dota 2 league of legends csgo Rainbow six siege which are playable on mid-range to low range potato computers because they've got millions and millions people playing them yeah I would completely agree with you that games that will play on four core four thread chips will continue to be popular for years and years to come for exactly the reasons that you said and frankly arise in 320 200 G or arisin 520 400 G is perfect for those kind of games well actually not real well the V integrated graphics is kind of rough on fortnight I've done that and it's you want a better graphics card than that but putting that issue aside for the cores and threads that's fine but when I think mainstream game and perhaps it's just my thinking I'm thinking a battlefield one for example multiplayer 64 player multiplayer in battlefield one on a fork or four thread chip is an awful experience hmm I know that I can tell you that it's it's choppy and rough the difference between AI 5 and an i7 on battlefield 4 multiplayer is dramatic and noticeable but here's the funny thing if you benchmark it it doesn't show up in the benchmark unless you frame time it because the graphics card has no problem displaying the frames but the CPU can't keep up with the need the game engine so does being yeah so I guess I'm thinking Far Cry 5 Ghost Recon wildlands battlefield 1 battlefront 2 when I say i7 I'm thinking of those games yeah ok so we're we're just talking about two different categories of games that's ok yeah exactly I completely agree like for those sort of more heavier titles definitely it's just how many people are into the heavier titles it's something I'd love to get some stats on but also there was ok so do we want to move on to some of the topics as well we're getting through these topics people very like oh yeah what's going on he showed this slide before Windows 10 is going on a diet apparently so we've got Windows 10 lean which is apparently going to be released what's coming very soon and it's replacing Windows 10 s so what do you think about this I mean Windows 10s I never even heard of it before you showed me this article do you want to tell us what Windows s is about the s well Windows Windows 10 s was an attempt by Microsoft S was supposed to mean secure or Windows 10 store it was a version of Windows 10 that would be it would be pre-installed on basic computers or appliance computers or low-end machines that you could not install your own programs and applications the only programs that would run it was kind of like an iPad so to speak you could only download and install programs from the built-in Windows 10 store and the idea was well it's secure because all apps are vetted by Microsoft you would not be able to download and install your own programs well you can imagine how well that went over um sounds useless to anyone that I know it's like hey Windows 10 stores I know some games I just don't buy them because they're only on the Windows 10 store like I just specifically just don't want to get them so I just don't want to deal with the Windows 10 store they tried to do this with Skype Windows 10 make it like store only in an app but there is a workaround for that you just download the 8.3 version and then right click it go properties and then install it as Windows 7 and that's how you get around that it's a little bit of a trick job that's the only way I know to get around it at the moment so hopefully that helps a few people out there if they're having problems with that but yeah so this Windows 10s stuff really wasn't that sounds like yeah we haven't heard of it for a reason but Windows 10 lean like what do we I mean is it going to be okay I mean it just looks like the same thing just rebranded it's basically it's two gigabytes smaller in the installation and it's missing the desktop wallpaper registry editor the MMC management console and some other features it is actually live on the insider build at the moment so you can actually download if you're on the the test versions of Windows 10 it's available to download and install now exactly what the point is and who this is for I mean two gigabytes of space these days I mean that's nice but another version of Windows I kind of missed back in the old days remember we need to install older versions of Windows and you could actually choose what to install when you installed it yeah that wasn't really cool I mean I was gonna say as well it doesn't have the still got the telemetry I'm guessing because they haven't mentioned of course out it yeah it's funny no one yeah windows getting feels like windows getting worse and worse but no one bothers talking about it but yeah every time you do an update as well like the thing the big reason why they have you noticed with Windows 10 - they're releasing so many updates like hey we're anniversary update and anniversary fall update oh there's another one coming and like people like Brian you make another optimization card Brian yeah you make another it's like guys I don't want to make an optimization guide every second week and then it's become changed detect yes Windows 10 optimization city if you if you really want to hear some Windows 10 offense there's all I'll say is is that Microsoft has different people running at these days than the old days and they're trying to copy Apple what they're always updating nonsense and there you know locking everything down and I can't wait for real competition I wish Apple was doing something with their Mac's that would give us decent competition but my understanding is that Mac OS is actually not in that great shape either yeah and also on that Oh can you name one game that runs better on dx12 I I'm yet to find one no no yeah like I remember I was running ashes of the singularity for the rise and benchmarks it ran like crap I think Volk and ran like crap too and I just like well let's do the test and dx11 ran the best out of all three so is this like I don't want to be a tinfoil hat person but let's talk about DirectX 12 for a second because right around when DirectX 12 was coming out with Windows 10 what also was coming out now Vulcan is the current name for what was AMD's thing back then before they renamed into Vulcan what do they call it man tool man so there was mantle and then member steamos which seems to have disappeared gone right but here's the thing Microsoft came out with DirectX 12 and they were sort of like well gee if Steve valve wants to create their own OS then maybe steam shouldn't run properly on Windows 10 and valve was like hmm well maybe we don't need to do that steam OS and Microsoft is like well maybe we don't need to interfere with steam running on Windows 10 then yeah let me take my tinfoil hat off hey that's good that's okay so we always love actually I think every mother every week on the show we're gonna go into a conspiracy theory people love people tell me Brian love a good conspiracy theory so you think there was a handshake with steam and windows the windows like look you want to go make your OS that's fine but we'll give you a culling on Windows 10 if you do then they scratch their heads like yeah okay we'll do a steam OS we'll just quickly just let it go sort of die down as a concept okay you're fine Windows 10 okay it'll work fine don't worry guys move along you play and all that they're still gonna be irrelevant compare this thing I bet you thousand bucks that's exactly what happened I floored if anything else other than that happened because both sides had too much to lose and both sides were like let's just not have this fight that's I actually this is like I think this is a conspiracy theory that is not like it's getting some more traction it's it's really big that's it when I look at this much look at it you look at it that makes sense makes a lot of sense but I feel sorry for steams they made those steam controllers steam OS controller or something I people like I remember how quick like that's brought actually that's probably one of the biggest fads going through like remember this steam controller everywhere in my inbox and sub feed and then just like a couple of days later you never really heard about never heard of it yeah okay why and then everybody stopped talking about and then DirectX 12 which was the big threat yeah it was the big thing that was gonna knock mantle and and Vulcan down and then you notice that DirectX 12 has become kind of nothing yeah and you're right I can't think of as single game that runs better on 12th and it doesn't on 11 in fact think there's actually a bunch of new games that have come out which don't have DirectX 12 support yeah that's true well I was gonna say - like I've spoken to some people about previous Windows versions now we got a donation as well thank you ever Linux and they said wine was the real reason I guessing that's the Linux version I don't really have any experience with Linux sorry wine is a Windows emulator on Linux it's its it uses the native api's to attempt to run native Windows executables on Linux ok and he said that it's no reason ok hmm interesting so I just found it now Windows 8.1 skom pletely dead 7s like dying Service Pack 1 that's dying Windows 10 is taking over and yet the big benefit of Windows 10 was dx12 you know people like I myself I'm guilty of saying it Oh guys just jump on Windows 10 you got dx12 support yet there's just years later there's not one game that runs better on ds-12 it feels like it's a flop and so I'd love to go back to 8.1 pro I loved 8.1 pro when I had my custom Start menu just felt better it felt yeah doesn't it - lemon tree baked into it it was just for me it was the real OS I got used to it I learned to appreciate the 8.1 initially I hated it now we have hardware that is not officially supported I mean risings not officially supported coffee lakes not officially supported yep little is and it's and it's only going in that direct you know if you want to buy the next generation graphics card and test things it's I know there are people still running Windows 7 but realistically how much longer can they keep doing that and upgrade their hardware yeah I mean I don't know so yeah there's the Windows 10 thing Windows 10 they say we got next article up here and what do we got what do we got Amazon key so lost I'll actually two more articles will try and actually Bank their own quicker this shows running really long but that's good guys the did the deals I mean the deals we got that we got the hot topics I've been told I talk a lot it's a good thing I love having a chat so awesome Amazon key expended so I pulled the article what am i doing off my game Amazon key expands to deliver packages inside your car so this is very interesting when I looked at this article you were telling me that Amazon now can get remote access to your house and your car and just put the packages in there and then lock it for you and Bale don't elaborate a little bit more about yes I well this is me but you know uh thank you but no I've seen the quality of delivery drivers that Amazon has working for them um not just no but heck no there's not even in fact I showed this actually earlier today I showed this to my wife and she just looked at me with the oh yeah I don't think so look because we get we get deliveries now we live very close to an Amazon warehouse so a bunch of our Amazon deliveries are already coming from their quote local courier service rather than UPS or FedEx so we're already seeing what the Amazon delivery people look like Amazon actually hires independent contractors like uber people to drive their own personal cars and let's just say well you don't have Walmart there in Australia but do you know what Walmart is yeah I've been them in okay it's that you're getting that level of employee um also you're saying like okay so you guys like hey I got my delivery today but like all these other PC parts are bought down a marker center are missing what the delivery man is like hey I don't know what happened well the funny thing is that is the way it works in the house and this has been running for a number of months now but the the Amazon key service for your house the short version is you replace the lock to your front door with an electronic Wi-Fi lock that Amazon can unlock remotely and then you install a camera inside your house that turns on when the driver gets there so he gets there with his phone he punches in the code Amazon remotely unlocks the front door to your house he can open the door um he can put the package inside your house and there's a camera recording him which you can either watch on your phone or watch the recording of later and then he leaves closing the door and then the lock is relocked remotely by Amazon the idea being of course is he's recorded and so he can't come inside and touch all your stuff because they would be able to see that and obviously do something about it now the flipside of course is he's now seen inside of your house and so his buddy can come by a week later and find all your good stuff but but ignoring that detail you aren't going to have a camera in your car for exactly the point that you made the idea with the new car service is if you're at work if you're out driving or somewhere you can it only works with currently Volvo's and GM vehicles that have OnStar but you your vehicle could be parked at work you could order something for like two hour delivery and instead of coming to your house the amazon driver would drive to wherever your car is because your car has GPS and so he can track your car oh boy there's a wonderful idea yes so he can see where your car is and this $10 an hour contractor drives to your car pushes a button your car is remotely unlocked and he can either put it in your back seat or your trunk and then close it and then it relax and then he leaves and you're not even there yeah I told my wife about this and let's just say yeah I completely agree man I was like okay there'd be there'd be some loopholes guy puts on a ski mask it wasn't me delivering the package I just got beat up down the street and then there's like I could just imagine the amount of excuses these guys could pull and just even if Amazon even if Amazon says oh but we'll be responsible you know what it's my home and my car and I don't want anybody in it when I'm not there most I don't rent my car out I don't rent my house out I know mmm but people are doing it the funny thing is we were out for a walk today and my wife looked at me and said you know our kids are gonna do this when they get older and they're gonna look at us and think we're as old-fashioned as our parents you don't use email yeah it's it's pretty funny um yeah is there anybody in the audience who's okay with this I'm curious - chat is there anybody who thinks this is a good are we crazy do you like this plan that's actually the last article so we know we've got the 970 Evo but maybe we should just cut that short and go to chat we can talk about the Evo next week the Evo's of 60 second conversation anyone okay okay I'll try and oh I see chat is crawling pretty quick now okay cool all right so let's go so well quickly cover the Evo and then we get to chat here so 970 Evo has been at an antic it's AI looks like they're the first to publish a result here I mean if someone else was under NDA technically they'd still be under NDA and strict NDA but there's some numbers here for the new drive here from Anandtech they got the numbers up 970 Evo doesn't look that impressive especially compared to the 960 Evo except this like latency benchmark which is weird I don't know how the Evo is formed that far behind was a 250 gig version there so the biggest jump from looking over the article that I see from an in tech is that the write endurance is is supposed to be higher the capacities there's now a 2 terabyte version of the m-dot to drive whereas the 960 Eva only had a 1 terabyte m dot 2 version yeah and the warranty is 5 years on the Evo mm-hm sorry oh do you do you think this is impressive the 970 a vile name from what you see with this I just think it said no I think this is a product that saves them money because they're using the new 64 layer 3 demand and so it allows them to make the nan for less money I would buy a 960 Evo over this if it were cheaper good thanks for that matter I would buy an 82 SX 6000 because it's a lot cheaper yeah that's what's gonna say like these are good like sure these improvements and maybe it may be an air nerf when you look at that nan that's going in there but that's what's gonna say in these benchmarks from an intact why don't I see the budget boys here ring and true like where's the a data where's the especially the a data and the what's the Z there's easy 280 I reviewed on the channel that's that's a value for money play when it comes to an nvme PCIe solution and dot to where are these options cuz they're there for no no where's the where's the Western Digital blacks own oh there it is there it is I saw it but this and they do have it yeah if they don't have the a data drives that's a huge mess and even I mean for me personally even the Corsa np-500 Z they go on sale and they're really competitive to they go down to competitive prices and I've reviewed all of them and they're they're good they're solid they're phenomenal I think they've all got the fire Sun controller on board so it's not a huge difference the biggest thing with SSDs and that's why a lot of people say when I go to a nvme storage device I don't notice a difference the biggest thing is the 4k random reading rights and I've been harping on about this for a long time now they're not improving that much when I did see a massive improvement was nvme raid zero with the right I forgot what I said it threw the case right back and it made it unstable but the 4k readin rights they doubled and that was phenomenal but the 970 Evo just looks like another release it's yeah solid looks like it'll be a good value for money but not as good value like I think there's some other options out there there are really good value for money they don't get mentioned enough I still think the average person is fine with a SATA SSD as far as I'm concerned yeah for me it's especially if you're paying less per gigabyte it means you get a bigger Drive yeah well for me the scratch drive thing it does help like when I'm editing videos people have people saying dude you do your whole channel single-handedly and it's like yeah it's a one-man band at the moment and the reason I get things out it's because I've got the 8700 K overclocked I've got nvme storage they're just little things that help with the whole flow saving time saving time got a lot of presets in Premiere Pro as well just get bang flicking the effect and you just you know getting getting the whole workflow done but let's move over now do you want to move over to now chat what's chats cracking what's checking with a little bit what's checking with crack chit chat chat had a lot to say about fact if I scroll back up chat had to do I will make one comment somebody in chat specifically called my name out and said that he bought a 960 pro based upon my advice the one thing I will say about the pro drives versus the Evo's for anybody watching right now is that as good as the Evo drives from Samsung are they're still try level cell TLC drives with SLC cache and once you fill the cache if you are a heavy heavy professional user the speed falls off a cliff the benefit to the pro drive as expensive as it is is it can maintain full write speed for the entire length of the drive because their mlc drives and I use a pro drive in my main box for that exact reason as I never have to worry about saturating its SLC cache does didn't have one I like that's the thing I have used I think I've have to go back through memory lane though I have used some select few TLC drives that have not slowed down like after at least a hundred gig transfer which is massive I haven't done updated with it I think was the crucial MX 300 perhaps did that use TLC that's a TLC drive with an SLC cache yes off the top of my memory that didn't slow down after a massive file transfer so I have to go back and look and see how big it is the the nines I want to say the 960 500 gig drive Evo has a I think it's a 32 gig to the 32 or 64 gig SLC cache the average person is never going to run into it but if you move around 100 gigs or the files on a regular basis or you are running multiple VMs or you're doing heavy timeline at its pulling from multiple sources because that's reading not writing you gonna be a pretty heavy user yeah that's true to saturate I'm oh here's the other reason you buy the pro drive double the write endurance eight hundred terabytes written versus 400 on the 500g drive I think I'm going from memory anyway I only wanted to mention it because somebody in chat specifically called my name and said that he bought the pro drive and I just wanted to mention there is a difference with the pro drive and it's not performance it's anyway back to chat sorry yeah that's okay um we've got so we got asked a few questions except they're just scrolling so fast okay sorry guys this is probably the worst Q&A now moving over okay so the chat chat looks like they're keeping it themselves entertained anyway so that's a good thing so apps we can roll down the show a little bit if you had a donation hang on you had a donation a while ago we're so Britt the master said Amazon is like that crazy girlfriend that once your password yeah I've got some funny stories about that I'd probably save that for the patron chat I'm sorry that's a yeah yeah like yeah would be ex and stuff like that yeah anyway okay what's a good deal for a core i7 2670 k is a nice chip but when you looked at when I went to Japan for example that's when I bought 3770k I got that for a hundred bucks and that's sort of what I'm prepared to pay for it because you can get them in sort of like I call them just giveaway pcs where people just don't sell them for a dirt cheap price and it's got a 3770k in it that's what I'd value at 3770k at a hundred bucks for me that's what I'm willing to pay for one 2600 cabe like maybe eighty dollars in that's the thing and I'll express they're more expensive at the moment which is why I hands-down go for those Zeon's DX 34 40s they're 15 bucks overclocked them and you get a great experience even up to like a ten sixty you're not going to notice a difference really so the 2600 K is a nice CPU which is I think people charge too much for it so me personally I don't buy them at retail whatever I don't really look for them because no one sells them individually and if they do they asked like 130 140 bucks for on its late it's not worth it do you mind you when I go back to Japan when that happens I'm going to be gone hand man I'll pro even buy another suitcase just two suitcases use parts and she goes where we go so moving that to chat what what other good maybe you can if you want to line up some good questions what would you pay for 2,600 k2 well you know the thing with the 2600 K is do you have a motherboard for because my bigger concern is the motherboard not the chip so are you saying that you already have a motherboard are you saying you have to buy one you'd have to get a motherboard but you can get the Z 67 za volley they actually are pretty well priced I mean you can get one plate I don't even know the last time I checked see 67 was like 60 bucks maybe it's not too bad 55 for for a good one my four DS I mean for one little overclock to a sweet spot like 4.5 4.6 I think it'll do the old school boards that's one thing about the old school motherboards that the new school doesn't really get right the old school i i've got to h 55 gigabyte in that pickup i just got on the weekend you look at the vrm that's like exactly like the p55 he said it doesn't have a heatsink on it that's what the older quality just had it had even the cheaper options had solid VRMs that were good to go and it's something that I miss the new schools like you get vrm throttling and it's just sad sucks so and yeah overclocking is completely out of the picture so back in the day it was like it was really good because of that though they were over design and components were cheap and admittedly components were cheap do you know prices of minerals have gone through the roof since those days and so yeah VRMs now actually cost money to make proper vrm designs so anyway somebody just asked if an i-5 46 70 K is a good CPU for 1080p for 4670 a 46 70k sorry a 46 70 K you since that was one like I had the 46 70 K when it was first released it was a base man I liked it I've called tech deals II done like four cores sorry well I'm you know you can you can give me a hard time about that if you want its UNIDO to get along really well from what I gather well I'm sorry what you and adored TV The Scotsman Jim oh you'd get along well all I know is that with with stuff that old I don't mind playing around with the different CPU choices because I've owned all those boards since new my P 60 X 58 my z68 board I've had all those boards from day one inside know how they were treated I know they were taken care of I would be you know my mindset is also probably different coming from the corporate IT world where reliability and dependability is everything if my system is not 100% stable it's useless and so my viewpoint on these sort of things is if I get a used motherboard off of ebay and I get a used CPU off of ebay and I have a system that's stable 97% of the time I consider that to be a bad system but that's also because I spent 15 years managing and building systems for companies where all that mattered was 24/7 reliability if it crashed it was useless so that's kind of that's where my thinking comes from yeah I know my thing is just a straight up I also made a living off of getting companies to replace everything every three years so you know yeah my thinking comes from just I've been a guy who was PC gaming since Warcraft 2 and then I just got into like value for money and that's what the price News profit performance is just really kicking at the moment that's what's why so on we go sorry we have donation buddy sorry guys that's probably go a little bit greedy but it's probably the best way to get a question through oh did you get that question just flick through man this chat is cracking way too hard it's only about a 290x to 90 to 90 X with the reference cooler it gets very hot there like 90 degrees and I'm not comfortable with having a graphics card in my computer that runs at 90 degrees day in day out I'd rather go for the r9 290 which is a little bit cut down but it also uses a little bit less power and so I've just bought two of them so I got to r9 290 s I think I'm getting that deal as well just got a friend to pick it up in Brisbane so there's two and 290 so I'm gonna put in builds so I'd go for the uh nine to ninety and I'm paying about 150 Australian dollars for it which is like a hundred and fifteen hundred twenty u.s. that's the max I'd pay for it I mean that's what I mean people like critique me on my used GPU guide but that's is what I'd pay it's nothing about market rates I mean you want market rates go pay market rates that's why market rates exist you want to deal go get a deal so I just just is that just as a heads up I think he was asking he's not asking shitty buying r9 290x he's saying if he has in r9 290x what should you upgrade to my bad okay that's actually sorry not completely sorry but those good chat anyway right it's just fine if he has a 290x I would upgrade wait for the 1180 like it's seriously coming it seriously is coming it's a refresh it's got to come soon otherwise nvidia can't push out another refresh when na'vi comes out for example 1180 this rumor really makes sense it makes a lot of sense to me so i just wait for the 1180 pre-order it like tech deals said because the crypto miners will be all over it and happy days man what do you think I think that if the if the temperature and the vram does not bother you the 290x evolved into the 390x I mean the 290x has four gigs of e RAM if you're playing at 1080p and you're willing to mess around with a few detail settings I'd yeah I'd actually I think I'd agree with you the 290x the that because that's really what about our X 480 speeds give or take a 290x sorry so much which is it again soon IX is what's the 290 X is roughly our X 480 speeds our X 472 now XD I would be around 480 470 somewhere but if you're if you're at 1080p you don't need an upgrade no not at all ah I would I mean you're getting here's the funny thing if you'd bought an r9 290x at launch how many years of value have you gotten out of that card come on yeah it runs hot on the reference cooler I mean sure but you've gotten a lot of years of use out of that card do you reckon you need to take out life insurance though just in case it blows up oh I actually had don't laugh I had the r9 295x2 do you remember that one the online 290x - Wow like you could feel the heat coming off that thing yeah that's what I've heard stylist that was that liquid-cooled and crossfire on a card ridiculously expensive although I got a deal on it of course it launched at $1500 I paid 650 cuz I got it like nine months later Newegg had a deal and it was stupid cheap here's the thing when crossfire worked it was amazing but that was back in the days do you remember the frame pacing and stuttering issues with crossfire oh you betcha man that's that's like engrained into my brain because I went through those days way back when I was water warcraft like I played that game religiously there was this big argument going on in the world of warcraft community don't buy an AMD card because they stutter they suck that was the argument and I was an AMD fanboy at the time so I was like value for money you know is there was always that like the fanboy wars i think used to be worse than they are nowadays they would that were getting there there was i was a rabid AMD fanboy back in the day and there was rabid nvidia fanboys rabid AMD families so in nvidia fanboys were spawned from what a Warcraft and that's when I I saw the light when my friend let me play World of Warcraft on his Nvidia graphics card I saw the light it was I was like I couldn't deny it he we had our computers side by side jumped on his computer and I noticed it it was like wow this is stutter it was clear and obvious the efference I was and that stage on you I was a fanboy but at that time I was angry I felt betrayed by AMD no no sir yeah what was AMD at the time they just changed from ATI to AMD but I felt betrayed I was like there is something and then ever since that day I was a believer in the stuttering and the frame pacing and then it was PC perspective and other sites the tekwar tech report they came out with proof and that was a shocker that was a real shocker and the good thing that came out of that was plac'd people thought it was placebo but it was it was rumors and opinions that caused the objective testing which then in May the improvements in AMD overhauled their drivers and it was all fixed so it was good well the interesting thing is I replaced my 295x2 with the 980ti that day the 980ti came out and objectively if you have a game that supports crossfire a 295x2 is faster than the 980ti but I was never a World of Warcraft player but I played Star Wars The Old Republic yeah and the smoothness and the change in how well the game ran on the Nvidia card yeah you would like to be honest my name machines have never had an AMD card sense because Andy Carr family cards are theoretically faster it all compute in in in in mining in mathematical compute in FP 32 AMD cards are our superior but Nvidia cards are a better gaming experience so stuff I will say the RX 485 80s were pretty good in that ya know good AMD has improved a lot of things here's what I will give a me credit for what AMD does for the size of their R&D budget versus Intel and NVIDIA is R&D budget yeah is incredible that's true that make sense yeah the value they get for how little money they actually is pretty cool yeah but that moment when you change to the 980ti did you feel liberated was there like a did Novogratz did gaben come down to you and just say you have been liberated my son it was it was a million times the right decision even with the performance loss in certain applications there were some games in a few places where I noticed it was slower but the question is do you want faster and choppy or slower and smooth Oh Florence smooth any day of the week any day that's what that was the big argument back in World of Warcraft so I remember I tried that in video card and then after that booked up my GTX 670 and never looked back never looked back man Nevers I've been like using Nvidia my main rigs ever since kept blah and never looked back somebody in Chad has a question for you yep would you replace an i7 920 these days or stick with it for gaming only oh my god replace it with the Zeeland it's a cheapest upgrade I'll bang afterwards streams finished I'll put a link in the description specifically for the guy with the 920 you just have to get rid of that so should I replace the thermal place on a new 10 1050 Ti actually a great question um no like a new tempered ET I should be fine if just run a benchmark on it should be getting under 60 degrees 10 V DT I shouldn't go that hot at all if it's going into 70s definitely replace the thermal paste something's wrong if it's been mined on even if it's a few months mining if you buy a car that's been mined on replace the thermal paste regardless yeah you know with my experiments I did some of the cards were okay but some of the cards you took him off the mining bench even though they'll find on the mining bench as soon as you took him off they started running hot so most of the cymbal place must have contracted or lost its viscosity or something happened maybe someone who's technical about that can elaborate why but the thermal place was shot after they got off the mining bench so that's one thing if you buy a card has been used for mining you might get it for a really good deal but do replace the thermal paste are you finding this questions for you are you finding used graphics cards deep enough to be worth buying versus new oh yeah like I mean I'm calling like you say that didn't you watch the used parts hunt man I'm getting them deals I mean they're getting less and less because there's a lot more I know guys on the coast now there's keV he's running around he's like his hunting deals he's on his game I got respect for a man like I don't hate him or anything they just did their hustling man but yeah there's a lot more guys looking for deals now and one guy was mad in the comments on that used parts and he's like thanks to guys like you Brian I can't get my used parts at a good price it's like it's like hey man I got an 8 burn why just I'm sitting I mean it's uh all right would you buy a 1070 or 1080 used or were you talking about nine 70s and I know these I'd buy anything used men I'd buy anything used that's just me I just yeah I think a lot of people because I came from Japan like I lived in Japan for a while where their mentality with you stuff put it this way a lot of my savings money that I've saved has been from that mentality where people think use products are no longer good and they've just got rid of them back in Japan I did I mingled with car parts and there's another guy I'd love to meet there's a guy over there one of my friends was telling me there's a guy he used to do car parts as well I really want to meet him because apparently is doing video work in Tokyo now and yeah there's just this I grew up flipping things I like flipping things I like turning trash into treasure and in Japan it's a gold mine because they've got this mentality that used is just terrible anything used is just trash and so you'll get Layton's weird it's a real weird dilemma in Japan you've got these guys living in total shoeboxes the houses are terrible they look disgusting you've got a brand new skyline gt-r out the front r35 sitting out in the driveway I'm just like I'm scratching my head it's like man your house I probably got wind leaking in it and all sorts of crap in the typhoon the house would probably shake and it'd just be a nightmare living in that house but you know this brand-new car some of that mentality is just like you you have to get everything new and then they go out and like literally overpay for a brand new house use houses over there if you spend like you know a couple of months renovating you could get a used house bring it up for like a hundred grand but no you got to go out and pay 400 grand for a brand new home you know it locked that 35 year suck a loan in hey I'm done with life you know that's me says I don't know sort of yeah would you pay here's let me let me give you a specific then okay would you pay $200 you delivered for a used mid-level gtx970 versus you we are talking us here because that's I'm looking at eBay would you pay $200 delivered for a mid-level like an EVGA superclocked for example um 970 versus 250 for a brand-new 1063 gig card yeah I think you know the answer to that I'd be paying like 130 for that 970 and if I didn't get it I wouldn't buy it let it sit there on the market because the cheapest working 970 on eBay for buy it now at the moment is a hundred and ninety five dollars delivered has he got into now that's two message I'm sorry has he got international postage enabled he's probably trying to hock it to someone overseas and if it's 30 $40 postage someone in a remote area or someone in Europe will probably snap that up that's what he's sitting on I guess because what I'm thinking is if I could find a GTX 970 for under 150 I'd be interested yeah you wouldn't not on ebay I mean I I actually haven't got one yet that I've got for a good price I've got a lot of seven 80s a lot of 780ti zlata a nine to nineties for really good prices haven't yet to pick I've been offering you know Brown about 200 Australian for a 970 yes I ran about 150 price point that's the max I'll go because again that argument you state why would I pay any more when you can go out and get the brand-new 1060 that's more efficient just going just be better like why would you bother you need to you can use it you can therefore use a lower rated power supply that's another big benefit so yeah yeah I mean the you I'll use things relative to what's new and that's why I like the GPU market because we're getting improvements we're seeing these new cards that are coming out and they're hitting so hard for value for money and they're just ringing the price right down on these use graphics cards and there's another thing as well since the old CPUs are still so relevant we've just got a market that's flourishing for use price performance so absolutely flourishing like that would did you have a flourishing day I had a flourishing day I spent four and a half hours editing an unboxing video yeah someone else two hundred all the 980 I owe $400 1070 $200 980 I that's a big one that's an easy win so and perhaps we should maybe wrap up the show I don't know how long we've gone for I feel like we've gone for ages like this is huge bit I I mean the viewers like the live viewers over 500 so clearly people are loving this live stream I'm loving it tech deals is the man do you want to briefly mention that last article that I sent you about TSMC okay I will just check right now TSM sync I sent that to you you did indeed is it no you didn't you gonna hit me up on Twitter if you hit me up on skype I rent your windows gonna get poo what's it gonna be able poppy a flood off I'm getting it there you go okay cool tsmc kicks off volume production let's just give thee this is a bonus article look at this but we're ready to go and tech deals did it for you guys bonus article TSMC kicks off volume production of sentiment 7th at 7 mananitas that's it that's what I wanted to say 7 mananitas okay we've got here so what I'd haven't read this article sorry I'm a man you have to fill us in the short the short version is they've got 18 different customers who are using this technology starting now why they've been in prototype phase for a while but they they plan to have more than 50 different products by the end of 2018 on 7 nanometre production horizon will be when it shrinks dye size by 70% at the same transistor count versus the 16 nanometer we've been using wow I mean 7 anime is a big deal it's funny because they're gonna go they're gonna go lower than Intel which will be interesting and because Intel's going 10th nanometer TSM sees a shilling 7 they skipped right by you know 10 and so the current 16 nanometer stuff that tsmc has been doing a 70% area reduction at the same transistor count that's huge that's money saved to that's or we can get double the CUDA cores or double the streaming you know cores on a graphics card why don't we have the hate though that's the thing like you're compacting it so much I mean this is like smartphones will be in heaven with this for sure how would it mean we can actually get a phone that has a battery that lasts longer than a day oh yeah you begin this what I mean I wonder if Apple's light doesn't say Apple here but like apples probably like book down the whole assembly so well you know they're all you know I I don't know about you there on the there are one of those 18 you know that but the frustrating thing is I remember mobile phones that used to last a week on the battery yeah I want one of those Nakia 8210 I love my 82 10 I remember maybe 2/10 that lasted a while on its battery and I had a little snake game on it too anyone remember the snake game snakes it was the snakes and ladders or something and you played it for like 10 minutes you like this is boring and you moved over why just think it's cool that they're doing that and it'll be interesting to see what in because Intel's ice like at 10 nanometers what coming next year yes under this year bull Verizon's going to seven animated next year and that's pretty much confirmed and is this gonna be what rising is on next year yes I believe it's TSMC s7 animate I believe and that's really crazy so we got asked as well HD 6870 what's it worth oh man nothing yeah like it's one gigabyte dude I did a videos I think while ago I did a joke video one gigabyte of VRAM is just lemon your 720p bound for starters it's a really tough sell man I'd be paying like 10 bucks for that might just sort of I'm not really interested in testing one of those because this is a 69 this is a 69 50 which is a better coach it's just by comparison if you go by user benchmark at HD 6870 is roughly equivalent to either a GT 1030 or ether of the rise in AP use that's still impressive just needs multi gram that but the biggest problem is the vram because that's raw compute but a GT 1030 has two gigs of a ram yeah so two gigs is crucial for 1080p I mean maybe that cards worth what 25 30 bucks yeah like yeah I died great I broke at 20 bucks I just paid ten for one that's what I'd pay for one and even then I probably wouldn't buy it because there's no one who's looking for a piece like because I do most the stuff I buy it has the end intention to sell as a gaming PC because gaming pcs sell that's how I am NOT as I'm able to do a lot of the use content without losing money is because I make value and then sell it as a gaming PC if I wasn't doing that I'd be losing a lot of money and so my whenever I look at a part it's like okay can I put this in a gaming PC and market it as a strong gaming PC at its price point I nine 290 pcs oh yeah I'll be able to say look this is 1060 performance bang someone will come along and buy that at a discounted price so yeah and I'll do the testing and I make the builds make magic happen is the so blunt seven nanometer as well seven nanometer so the biggest thing that's going to come out of this is the next-gen Rison do you think the next-gen navi as well do you think they just get AMD is gonna go and radeon group is going to go all out on seven nanometer because it says it's GPU it says your GPU everything everything everyone's gone seven anime seven animator is the future and yet Intel is still struggling with ten that's it that's interesting what's difficult man I remember I read an article ages ago saying that we're gonna really struggle below ten nanometer like any company's gonna struggle below 10 nanometer it's ridiculously expensive and hard to get a node that flourishes below 10 nanometer if risin 3 AKA zen 2 launches in March of 2019 at 7 nanometers and the best that Intel has this ice like at 10 you know the benchmarks ultimately tell the tale and I mean that's just a transistor size and doesn't say anything about performance or clock speed or anything else but talk about a marketing advantage you have to imagine that the press and the slides and the announcements and they are going to wave the banner yeah that they are first to seven nanometers on a mainstream desktop CPU they'll be the fit they'll be they'll be holding the 30 foot banner in the air yes obviously yeah you know there's guys in costumes and like the pizza you know the pizza places they hire them dudes they'll have a heap of them waving like seven nanometer flags they'll be doing this fitting signs where on seven nanometer and Intel be like yeah we got higher clock speeds and then that'll just be this battle but again I think that's another reason that's gonna force Intel to Sol to their chips again because AMD did make a big point of having their enthusiasts chips soldered so anyway yep there's that putting it out well this has been fun it has been we're going on way too long guys like amendment I remember you telling me before the stream you're like I can only do this for an hour but we just have so much fun thank you guys for the suggestions everything we hope it's been flowing better this week as well last week we did get some suggestions I love the I love constructive feedback always listen to it I sift it from the hate as well the haters you know they're just gonna drop in through the boo boo just it's straight off the market if you're gonna complain I just yeah I did ban you too I don't need that crap around my channel constructive feedback awesome thanks guys for that yeah so we got the constructive feedback was the donation noise was annoying donations were bumping up and interrupting the stream so we're fixed so hopefully we'll fix that this week and of course we look forward next week to giving you guys another live stream in terms of the time format we don't know when we can give out it's like it'd be great to have a scheduled time this day seems great for both of us in terms of the scheduled time though it's tech deals is a family man and so you know his family's gonna come first so I don't know where if we could schedule out a time we maybe we can work together and give you guys a rough time when the livestream will launch but don't hold us to it sort of thing that's what would you agree yes somebody just said that they need to provide seven nanometer badges for the front of your PC yeah I'm gonna go today I'll just make the seven buildin yeah seven nanometer runs Final Fantasy seven emulated it's done Final Fantasy seven on rise in 787 and we put a slot machine on the side of the PC with the 777 it's gonna be it's o7 animator is the future guess I'll have to launch it on on June 7th at 7 p.m. today we'll and actually that would be epic if they did that all right maybe maybe there probably will be delays I'm guessing for this guess there's always delays with new node shrinks that are massive like that so I expect some delays but thank you guys so much for tuning in we've yeah we always love your company enjoy the viewers over half a half a thousand concurrence that's big so with that number we might be able to get some sponsors and just little sponsors you know a little subtle things like the glasses here and stuff like that you know they're not gonna sort of impede on your viewing pleasure jaja he's not sponsored he's always keeping it real and yet any closing words mr. deals um not really I wish I had something clever and funny to say but I really 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