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isn't it just the worst when you're having a conversation with someone that turns into a heated debate because the other person is clinging fast to a misconception you know isn't true I mean how many times can you tell someone that General Tso's chicken didn't actually come from China before you're ready to just give up and walk away maybe to a nearby Panda Express so then today's tech quickie where we discuss some of these common misunderstandings about PC hardware will be right up your alley this is the debut episode of misconception mashers where we well we mash common misconceptions we actually had another name in mind but our legal team advised us that some other guys already took it bastards first up let's look at this statement non reference graphics cards have better cooling than reference designs now this one isn't completely untrue as many of these open style beefy looking cooling solutions are capable of dissipating more heat from your GPU however they aren't always the best choice for your system you see reference cards and some board partner designs often come with blower style coolers in which air is forced out the back of the card and out of your case instead of circulating it around and in smaller builds such as mini ITX systems a blower style cooler can be a superior choice as a card with an open cooler can dump so much heat back into the case that it could cause thermal issues with your other components like your motherboard and CPU another one I hear a lot is it's dangerous to set your motherboard down on the bag it came in some folks do this as they're installing core components like a CPU or RAM and are promptly warned against it by enthusiasts have heard that the outside of a motherboard bag is electrically conductive which increases the chance of static discharge frying your whole board now there is some truth to this once again older ESD bags in particular were metallized and could be conductive enough to cause an electrical short or other problems but generally speaking a motherboard you buy today will come in a bag with very high electrical impedance meaning that you could build on it if you really wanted to or if you want to be on the safe side you could just use the motherboard box as I don't see many people lining up to tell me that cardboard conducts electricity while we're on the subject of electrical power let's tackle this next one you need a high wattage power supply if you have multiple graphics cards this generalization actually used to be true but the three-way and four-way graphics configurations that did require a thousand plus watts of power have fallen out of favor due to compatibility issues and you also need to understand that what's considered high wattage today is more than double what would have been available in the very early days of SLI and crossfire and while power supplies have become more powerful the actual power consumption of graphics cards and especially CPUs has plateaued this means that it's unlikely that you'll even crack eight hundred Watts under full load with a pair of GTX 1080p is a high-end overclocked processor multiple hard drives and RGB case lighting on the subject of overclocking another common misconception is that you need lots of power phases on your motherboard to overclock you can tell how many your motherboard has by the way by counting the chokes around your CPU socket don't try it it's fun this one is another case of used to be more true than it is today not too long ago there was typically a correlation between more power faces and or stability while overclocking but CPU power efficiency and motherboard build quality have improved by leaps and bounds over the past seven years or so to the point where you're unlikely to experience any difference between a low-end board with four phases and one with 32 unless you're one of these guys so I guess the overall theme of this inaugural episode of misconception mashers has been more expensive solutions don't always make more sense instead save your money for some nice RGB peripherals steam games or a trip to the Chinese buffet down the street and don't forget to leave a comment below telling us about some of the technical sessions that drive you crazy maybe you'll see them in our next episode you know what else you might see in our next episode trettel Bayer VPN SS sponsor they are such great supporters of this channel and they're just awesome guys in general tunnel bear is an easy-to-use VPN that lets you tunnel through one of 20 different countries allowing you to browse the Internet and use online services as though you're in that country and it's available for like everything they've got iOS then you've got Android beef gut does you really have PC and Mac in his pocket no he doesn't but they've got that too and they've even got a Chrome extension just press the button watch as your connection gets encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption and all your traffic gets anonymized so your 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