 Alright guys, welcome to the Linus Tech Tips livestream. Today we had some bad luck and we ended up, wow, we're 20 minutes late. You know what, I think this is actually the latest we've been. If you don't factor in, no you can't do it in there, you have to do it in the other tab. If you don't factor in the times where we've started on time but then we've been just destroyed by technical difficulties and we've had to come back. So it's that top one, you have to edit it and copy paste it and all this stuff otherwise it won't work. Sometimes it's finicky. It's like YouTube, right? That's so stupid. Yeah. Oh, speaking of YouTube, we're going to be talking about YouTube's paid subscriptions a little bit later on in the livestream and what all of this means, what we think of it as content creators who predominantly work through YouTube. But we're going to start with summer drivers. Come on! I mean it's one thing when it's like that first major like rainstorm and the roads are slick and people are like, oh I forget how to drive in the rain. And it's like, you know what I understand when it's the first major snowfall of the year and some people don't have their snow tires on yet, you get caught by surprise. But people who get in accidents in the summer, what are you doing? And like the first one we ran into today, it was a minor, like you could see some scratches, that's it. The bolts holding on the license plate in the front left an indent in the rear bumper of the car that was hit. Like that was the damage. This chick was stopped in the left lane of a two lane highway, okay. With huge shoulders. Huge shoulders on both sides. She's just stopped right there. It's like, does your car work? Do your legs work? Get off the road. Move! I mean, we're not talking people who are in major accidents and you know, you need to have like investigation of what happened and all that other stuff that goes on. We're not talking about that. We're talking about are you in a minor fender bender where like you're fine, get out of the way. Anyway, so that delayed us by what? Like 40 minutes this morning? Half an hour, 40 minutes right around there. So Engie, our interns, like waiting for us at NCIX for about 40 minutes this morning because we had no idea because we don't know how Google Maps works with traffic apparently. I didn't think to check it. And then on the way back today. I mean this one was legitimately a pretty legitimate accident but we probably lost what? A good half hour, 40 minutes on the way back? So I mean it's one of those things where for all of you commuters out there who actually commute Monday to Friday every week. I mean this is probably sort of I sound like I'm complaining pretty hard for how bad my situation is. I commute once a week but today was an ugly commute. Beautiful weather. I wish I'd been on the bike because then A, I could have. Are you trying to change that? I can't think. Just change it back to the old one and change it. I can't figure out how to change it this way. Oh, it is on the old one. Oh, it's probably not logged in. I don't think there's anything we can do about it right now. But yeah, I only commute once a week so for all my, right I wish I was on the bike today because the weather was gorgeous and I could have just kind of gone around things relatively easily as well. Not that you should do that. Although it's funny because it's a very North American thing for you know bikes on the shoulder, bikes in between lanes like all that stuff. Stop it, stop it, pause it. It's a very. It's muted. Okay. Just, just kill it. Our internet bandwidth is like stupid. I know, I know. So it's a very North American thing for that to be like, like over in Europe, bikes are all over the place. You see people like on their scooters going down the sidewalk, you see them like, you know, parked on the sidewalk. Basically there's no room to walk. I think it's just one of those things where we have the luxury of all this space here. So we like create rules that don't work unless you just have like tons of space. Like I don't know. I. But we have tons of space. We do have tons of space. We're just parking their bikes on the sidewalk. Why? They park their bicycle on the sidewalk. If you take up the entire, your bike is a lot bigger than your bicycle. Not really. Yeah. Not really. Yeah. Takes up a lot more space than a bicycle. Another thing too is I've noticed in Europe, it doesn't matter which way the traffic was supposed to be moving on the street, cars are just parked pointing like whichever which direction. Like you'll just, you'll be cruising along this way and then you'll just like go over to the other side to park. Perfectly normal over there here. You get a ticket for sure. Yeah. Car facing the wrong way. Even if you're parked the wrong way outside your house. That I didn't know about. Yep. We had a car parked the wrong direction outside of our house because he just like pulled out of the driveway and just went the wrong direction. Cause he just had to move his car out of the way cause we were, it was my brother. I think. Pretty sure it was my brother. And we were working on stuff in the front of the house. So we're all home and his car isn't going the wrong way. Ticket. Ticket. Wow. And in front of your house? In front of our house. In the boondocks? Pretty much in the boonies. You must have like called a cop. There's a cop station right there. Oh. So they were just on their way somewhere. Probably going somewhere. Bad luck. Because they don't usually hang around our area. Nothing ever happens in our area. Right. So they're usually going somewhere. Oh, that's a shame. Anyway. But yeah. They're pretty not so happy about that. I don't remember if it was my brother or who it was, but someone outside my house when we were all there got a ticket. Whoa. I'm throwing my keyboard around. Don't worry about it. It was aggressive. Wow. So we managed to type VGY in front of our news items. VGYY. So that was... It's like you're almost trying to play tribes. Yeah. Who gets that reference? No one. Oh. All right. So thanks to all 1200 of you who tuned in in spite of the fact that we're late. We are very sorry about that. I'm done making excuses for the first six minutes of the live stream. So let's move on to our first news item of the week, which is check this out. So our link is WCCF something, whatever. I don't know what this website's called. This should really work on that. And apparently... Oh, oh, apparently... If you press enter right after it, press enter right after it. Wait, what? Click the N, press enter. Bam. There we go. Copy paste. You have to install the Google Drive app for whatever frigging reason. So apparently there's a retailer in China who is selling Haswell chips. So you can see here is a big old pile of Intel's new and improved box art. Honestly, I don't know about this box art. I don't like it. It's like... When I first... Remember when I asked you if this was the legitimate release? Yeah, yeah. The reason why I asked that was because I was like, that box art looks too cheesy for Intel. Like the top looks like Intel. Yeah. Definitely. It's a futuristic looking microprocessor looking, IC looking thing here. It's these two bits, which they can't see, but you can move your mouse around. That's a little bit, but that still seems like their style at least. At least it looks kind of sciency. Sciency and roboticky and all that kind of stuff. Then there's like a picture of someone. That I was kind of confused about. And what is this? Then there's like, I don't know, this. The idea is it's like, oh, what you can create with Intel technology and it's about creation and creativity and that kind of good stuff. And back to the news thing. So Taobao has listed Haswell chips so you can see the full specs of what's available. So the only real difference, this is interesting. So the 4770 and 4770K have the same maximum turbo frequency this time around. Also, apparently all these chips are using HD 4600 graphics, which is good because last time around a lot of the lower end chips were using the lower end onboard graphics, which to me is completely backwards because low end customers are going to be using onboard graphics, not guys who are buying like 4770Ks. With that said, the integrated graphics can benefit performance customers if you're using features like Quick Sync, which will allow you to transcode your video using the onboard GPU. So anyway, you can see all the specs for the chips there. You can also see pricing converted and then there's some boards that are available as well. So there's the Taobao Star boards, an MSI board, as well as an Asus Sabertooth Z87 board that is apparently available now if you're viewing this from China, which I suspect you're not. At least you won't be watching a YouTube archive from China. I discovered that there's apparently a lot of videos of me in China. Yeah, we talked about this quite a while ago didn't we? Did we talk about it on the live stream? I don't think so. Nope, nope, nope. So China's big video sharing site, I don't remember what it's called, but YouTube's blocked over there so it's not YouTube. But there's videos, there's like a video of me unboxing like an Asus ITX board that has like 26,000 views. I'm like, what? Really? What's going on? Who are you? Who are all these people watching my videos that I didn't even know about at all, which is kind of crazy. It's pretty cool. I mean, piracy is cool I guess, but. But like. At least my content's like good enough to pirate. Yeah. And if they're not going to be able to see it anyways, who cares? It is what it is. Like if someone was doing it here and getting 26,000 views, I'd be like, okay, that's kind of annoying. Now, it's pretty normal for Intel CPUs to be leaked and available ahead of launch, but we're like three weeks plus away from launch. This is sort of early, even for like Intel chips to be, and normally you see them available in like Taiwan or something. Yeah. Where all those manufacturers are anyways, so you know, like a couple master cartons and motherboards fall off a truck somewhere. Or someone lost their job because they leaked it and like, like bad things usually happen. Yeah. Whereas this is just, it seems like, nope, it's just there. Apparently TinyTomLogan has his Z87 boards. We haven't got ours yet, but he's got some Gigabyte ones. We're hoping for some from Asus pretty shortly. We've had chips for weeks, but no motherboards for them yet. So anyway, Haswell is very much upon us by the look of things. So let's, we're going to move through a few of our news items this week pretty quickly, I think, because we've got a lot of topics to cover, but then we're going to do some Twitter Q&A a little bit afterwards. So our next news item, we're actually, I mean, okay. Logan from TechSyndicate is not the first one to have reported on the Illumeroom prototype, but we thought we'd just give him a shout out because he's a great guy. We hung out a little bit at Asus' event, and this is some cool technology. This video has been out for a little while now, but check this out. If you search for Illumeroom, there you go. That's how to spell it. Illumeroom on YouTube. It is a very cool demo of the Xbox, for the lack of knowing what it's actually going to be called, Xbox 720, next gen Xbox with a TV. Okay. So you have TVs here and then a projector setup that aims around the TV, so sort of filling the room. So it's meant to be an augmented gaming experience. So what do you think is the coolest thing it does? And then I'll say the coolest thing, and then we'll go from there. I like the explosion thing because, okay, spreading the screen past your TV, unless you have, like in the demo, you should tell them that it spreads the screen past the TV. Okay, yeah, yeah, sorry. I was focusing on what I'm doing here. I didn't actually listen to you the whole time. Sorry. I'm a little scared. I actually have stuff I have to get done. Anyways, it can spread stuff across the screen or it can allow just certain things to go out. So say explosions or flares of any kind or big streaks. Say if you're driving really quickly, you could have brake lights going past. Yep. I mean, it can highlight items and stuff that you can pick up. So if you kill some dude and there's a pickup item and it glows and you walk past, that glow could be on the other side of the screen. Like outside of the screen. Yeah. Like sitting on your bookshelf. Right. Because the projector is projecting this. So what I like the most is the explosions and the item thing. Okay. Because I most likely am going to have like shelving units or whatever on the side of my TV. So it's going to be inconsistent. And I know from seeing the demo that it's actually very good at covering that up and making it still look good. But I would still not really like having the entire environment, like the whole thing spread out past my TV. Yeah, for me, it's a very, it's a very noticeable break. Yeah, exactly. I have a TV, which is like a crisp, bright image. Like super high quality. And then still good, but not as high quality. Not nearly as good washed and like on objects and stuff. But with that said, the Illumirom uses a Kinect type of sensor to compensate for objects because it knows that they're there. So it still looks really good, but not as good as obviously a TV. You can only compensate so much. I mean, projector technology isn't magic. I mean, it's not like Steve Jobs came back, invented the projector and delivered it all to us on like a cushion that's made of... Stop. Okay. No. Anyways, my favorite one is explosions and like glowy things because it'll be cool to see it just go... The context. Yeah. Without the distraction, I guess. Exactly. And then it would still be cool if I miss an item. It's like, oh, okay. So my thing would be things like weather effects and debris. That's what I thought was the neatest thing about it. So you could be... One of the demos they showed, and the demo is real. It's not composited or anything like that. So one of the demos they showed was like a racing game where you could have like snow or you could have weather effects that are in the room that go beyond just looking through that window that you could sort of in your mind's eye, you could pretend is the cockpit. Not only that, but if you have like things like grenades or if you had something like a PC or cargoes flying, the projector could let it bounce off a bookshelf and land on the floor with the same game physics that are being used by the game itself. Now with all... Someone says stop Linus. You are... Oh, probably the Steve Jobs bit, right? So with all of that said, what are the odds you'd set this up? Assuming it was free, someone handed you an Xbox 720, a TV and a projector. Is this what you would do with them? To be honest, yeah. I would like the explosion thing and I would like the item thing. Stuff like the snow. Where would you put it? It would take up so much space. I mean... It's a projector. Short throw projector will help. Yeah, and you don't have to always have it there as well. But I mean, it's yet another thing to turn on. I mean, if you got like a universal mode app for a phone or something... In the thing, don't they have it on a table? I think this is going to be really niche. It's sort of my point. Oh, I'm sure. Like super niche. I mean, you look at how cheap projectors are now. You can get a good quality 1080p projector for less than a thousand bucks. It's still cool though because... No one buys them. Your one friend or your one friend's dad who cares enough is going to have it set up and when you go to their house, it's going to be awesome. Whether or not you set it up. I think it would be cool to set up. I would at least try. Okay. I mean, I've thought things were gimmicky that ended up being a thing before. I thought the DS was ridiculous. Really? I didn't... DS is awesome. I was like... I don't know about it. When I got one and I was like, oh, okay. Like I got it. I was like, okay, I do use the other screen for some stuff. With that said, I didn't look at it much. But I liked that it was there. I thought it would be good just because of Pokemon. The only thing I play on mobile devices anyways is Pokemon. That's the only reason why I've ever bought Game Boys is because of Pokemon. I'll end up playing like a few other games, but it's pretty much Pokemon and Tetris. So yeah. We'll see. We'll see. I don't see myself setting this up. Even if someone handed me the projector, I'd probably just like go have like a projector room and like a TV room and they would just be different. If I somehow could, like if I had either a roof mount or if I had a table that was properly lined up, I think I would set it up. Even then though, it's the... Okay. So there's the wire mess. There's the sort of pain in the butt with all the inputs and all that mess. I don't mind cable managing things. Yeah. See, you really, really, really, really hate putting holes in your wall. Oh, I do. I would very properly and nicely cable manage it along the roof. Okay. Well, why don't we move on to our next topic? So guys, if you're not already subscribed to Tech Syndicate, Raise the World with a zero instead of an O. I gave him heck about the name of his YouTube channel when I met up with him. I was like, dude, what's up with that? How are people supposed to find your YouTube channel? Okay. So Raise R-A-Z-E, not R-A-I-S-E. Raise the World, zero, not O. Go subscribe to Logan if you aren't already and tell him his YouTube channel name is dumb. All right. He does well enough. Yeah, I know. I know he does okay, but it's not because people remember the name of his channel, I don't think. I remember. Maybe that's part of it. It stands out so much. It's ridiculous. So you're like, whoa. Yeah, but it's hard to tell someone about it. True. Speaking of things that are going to be hard to communicate, this is the Clarus Companion, a tablet designed for seniors. So senior citizens, I don't know if you guys have any senior citizens in your family. I sure do. And I remember my grandpa signed up for one of those TELUS promotions where you got, if you signed up for a fixed contract of, I think it was three years, you got a free Dell computer so that you could leverage the internet that you just paid them in advance, sort of like you booked in advance with them. Okay. So this was back when a computer anyone cared about. So this was the promo before they did the free notebook, which was before they did the free Wii. So this was a long time ago, like back when Wii was a thing. Right. Nintendo, oh, in trouble. Anyway, I digress. So the free computer thing, I remember sitting there trying to show him how to use a mouse. He'd get to the edge of the table and be like, what do I do now? No, I kid you not. That's what it's like. Do you remember the guy who works at NCIX who did a lot of the IT admin? He used to teach a class back in the eighties on using the computer and the mouse was very simple. Like everyone was like that back then apparently. Like he put together the most ridiculous possible curriculum. He taught it at UBC. Wow. Yeah. And people came in and paid good money to take this course on like not having the mouse like fall off the desk as you got to the edge. Like kid you not. Anyway, so my grandpa was like that. I can't even imagine after that experience trying to put a tablet in front of him. So the Clarus companion attempts, and I'm not going to say they've achieved it because I haven't had my hands on one, but attempts to make it friendly for seniors. So it uses a bamboo wooden design that's designed, get this guys, to look kind of like an old school CRT TV set with like a wooden frame. And like the speakers at the front. Yeah. And the speakers at the front. The speakers at the bottom on the front right there, amplified speakers with huge ginormous fonts optimized for senior citizens. It only has, it doesn't even say what OS it runs. Like I actually don't know what OS it is. Probably an insanely modified version of Android. Like it's super cut down, unrecognizable. There's like five buttons on the front and there are things like pill schedule, like call daughter. Like, like that's pretty much all it does. It's expected to have a cellular data connection and they have a subscription service that depending on how much you pay for the Clarus companion upfront, the subscription is cheaper. The more you pay for it upfront, there's even a lifetime option, which is a thousand dollars. And I did the math and apparently the company is expecting the old people to live for like another year or two based on the lifetime subscription. I was like, Oh, that's kind of a sad thought. Because you'd never offer a lifetime subscription for a cellular service to someone in their twenties for a thousand bucks. I should buy one just to see how long they honor my lifetime subscription. Guys, if you want me to do a Kickstarter, spend a thousand dollars on a Clarus companion to get a lifetime subscription. We're not doing that. That would be horrible. We're like actually not doing that. I would never ever use it and you probably can't transfer your cellular service. So like here's this crap tablet that you can use for the rest of your life. Yeah. So it has easy grip sides and I think we're pretty much done talking about it. Built-in charger for connector for eliminating fussy cables, amplified speakers and huge fonts and so anyway, yeah, I thought that was sort of interesting. They actually reached out to me. That's where I got this news item from. They were like, do you want to talk about this tablet? I'm like, yeah, sure. I guess. I didn't mean crap is in like it's a bad tablet. I mean, we don't know like the OS being locked down in 40 years. It's not going to be the fastest thing. That's what I meant by crap tablet. But it'll be made of wood bamboo and it will therefore be still working probably. Wood won't exist anymore. Yeah, that's true. It could be a collector's item. I bet it is a collector's item by that time. By that point, the first bamboo tablet, we're not talking Wacom bamboo tablet. We're talking a bamboo tablet here, folks. Now let me tell you, this is the best gosh darn bamboo tablet that I ever done seen. You should go ahead and for only a thousand dollars, you get a lifetime subscription. It's like I totally picture this on QVC, right? Let me tell you old folks, this right here let you keep in touch with your done gosh darn dare grandkids. They should advertise on QVC seriously. I think they would actually sell a fair number because it's not a bad idea. No it's not, not at all. It's just I'm not the target market. No I'm not either. But it is not a bad idea. So I poke fun at it a little bit. My grandpa is not the target audience either. He tries to be tech savvy. But I know quite a few older people that would just don't want to have anything to do with it. If they can just press a few buttons, they're getting done. You know what is funny? Because my mom thinks she's tech savvy. But if I handed her that, she probably couldn't figure it out. My mom can figure that out. Yeah. My mom doesn't watch the live stream though. So your mom watches, which is I know why you're saying she'd be able to figure that out. Oh she could figure that out. Slick's mom watches the live stream. She does. Which is I think absolutely awesome. Okay why don't we do a little bit of Twitter Q&A. She's getting, oh I wish I had a picture of it. My mom's getting a super boss mechanical keyboard. So well that's okay. We'll unbox it for sure. Yeah okay. Just tuned in. Is that your new office? No. We're moving to the new place in about three weeks. We were filming a video and kind of took over the other area. Yeah we were filming the build guide for the Intel sponsored build guide that we have upcoming. So the entire garage has been torn apart. Our height adjustable table is where our normal table is. This table is in our fastest possible set and our microphone is here. So yeah. Like you just said. My chair is here. This is actually, this white wall back here is the set for fastest possible on TechQuickie. Yeah so there you go. Are you, yeah. OAP are not ready for tablets. At least they can hit what they see though. My grandparents just got broadband. She is not ready for this. Fair enough James. Hello to South Africa. I tried out a few mechanical keyboards at Micro Center. Blues are my favorite switches. Top blue switch keyboards. Honestly any blue switch keyboard is hard to go wrong. Pretty much. If they're making a blue switch keyboard they probably have pretty good build qualities at this point in time. Fair bit of chat in the forum. There was a what's your favorite switch thread. A lot of people are validating Corsair's stance that reds are for gaming. Yeah. They get hand fatigue, finger fatigue from gaming on blues or browns. Anything with tactile feedback. Weird. I've never gamed for that long. So I have. I want greens which are heavier. Okay well. My hands aren't going to get fatigued. It's just not going to happen. From pressing a key switch down? No. Maybe that's a thing. It's just not a thing with me. You can't really comment on future products guys. I muted the Big Bang Theory to watch you. That's good because Big Bang Theory has a laugh track and maybe we should add one. I tried to get off screen for that but I don't think it worked. You did good. Thanks. Well we should add a laugh track to our live stream. Just whenever things are not funny. Yeah we'll be like EA. And there'll be like that one chick in the laugh track that's like ahhhhhh. We should record our own terrible laugh track. No. We should get a whole bunch of people we know and record our own. You know it's funny because half the time we're having conversations off camera about how to make the live stream more professional and more like an actual show. And then when we actually get down to it, what we're thinking of doing. Recording our own laugh track. It's all like the worst possible ideas you could possibly have for a show. We could make a show called All the Things That Shows Shouldn't Be and then it'd pretty much be this one. Yeah. You're late. Your time changes all the time. Your set changes all the time. Topics are not usually ready. Hey we have topics like pretty darn ready today. We did good this week. We did good this week. Well it helps that I was preparing them in the car for like an hour and a half as we drove back from NCIX. Building a new Intel PC soon. Is unreleased product A better than unreleased product B? Dude come on. What am I supposed to say? We don't know yet. My friend wants to get a new graphics card to play the latest games at 1920x1080 for example Battlefield 3. What GPU budget is $460? First of all what kind of a budget is $460? That's oddly specific for how high it is. Yeah it's like it's one thing if people are like yeah I have $75 to spend. You kind of go okay. $460? Could he spare another 23 cents? Anyway at that price point buy yourself a $78.50 or... Honestly like isn't $78.50 sorry $79.50. I was kind of confused when you said that. Is $79.50 just the card to buy? It's crushing. Every game test we do $79.50 just wins. And you know what's funny because the comments on the latest one. Whoa you guys are always testing AMD gaming evolved titles. Not testing any Nvidia titles. It's like AMD is giving away like eight games with the $79.90. We get games when they're giving away with cards. A lot of the time yes. But Nvidia is giving away one game right now. We will test Metro Last Light. And we will test Last Light. Definitely. We will. But it's like we can't do anything about the fact that every hot title right now is a gaming evolved title. And it's funny because the same thing happened not that long ago when every title was a way it's meant to be played title. Oh Linus you don't test any gaming evolved titles. Try releasing one. Yeah. Anyway. We will test Metro Last Light. I'm all worked up today. You are. I'm stressed out. In that bracket they have 660Ti. And our 660Ti was like the original beast power edition one. Yes. So you would think that that card should be able to run with it but it can't be like golden sample of that category. But it's the $79.50 just and like $79.70 doesn't really perform that much better especially when you overclock them both. Which you should. That yeah that jump right there is an interesting one. So speaking of your friend wanting to play Battlefield 3. He can't. Very likely he can't. Yeah right now. Maybe if he wants to enjoy the single player campaign which is single player even working? You have to go through battle log to launch campaign. Okay so tell them what's going on because they don't know. I haven't read this entire article but from what I have heard. It's not in here. Yeah just talk about it. I'm just going to go off the top of my head then. What I think is happening because I read a little bit is that I don't know if it's just EA as a whole or it's like Battle Log Origins section or if it's just Battlefield 3 section. I don't know how this is exactly. It should be going down. But a lot of people I don't know if it's everyone I'm pretty sure it's just a lot of people can't actually connect to Battlefield 3. So connection to EA servers blah blah blah error one. So EA's response is that there's been it sounds like there's been some kind of a targeted attack on their servers that's been holding them down for what about a week now? A really long time. People are not happy. And so what my theory is that all the guys who were attacking our forum are attacking EA now. It's my theory. Yeah it's about a week. It's about a week since we've had like serious downtime. Speaking of the forum guys if you are not members of the LinusTechTips.com forum go sign up right now. Everyone go right now. Yeah everyone go right now and sign up and we're going to see how she handles it. Even if you are already signed up go and just like hang out. Let's have a bro session on the forums. Bro session on the forum. Everyone go hang out go to general post about what's going on. Yeah let's just see what happens because we're kind of curious. We have made some serious upgrades to the infrastructure that's going on. So to put this in context since January we have gone from hosting the forum on a weak sauce computer at my house. Like under my desk. Yeah. To hosting on a beast computer with six cores of CPU and 48 gigs of RAM at NCIX to outgrowing that to hosting it at a data center to outgrowing that to changing our software and everything just generally getting better and still hosting it at a data center with like a bajillion CPU cores and all the good things that are going on. So things are seriously going well for the forum. So many people are joining. It's honestly like would you say anecdotally in terms of typing a question and expecting to get an answer in a timely manner it's the best forum you've ever been on. Probably for me because I've had problems in the past where if I have a difficult enough question I don't even bother ask because I'm like by the time I get a proper answer this I probably will have figured it out. Or if you have a super simple question that you're afraid to ask. You get flamed and blown up. Hardcore flames. Everything's bad. Just destroyed and I don't see any of that on this forum. Not flaming. We've had a few random threads where I've seen the answer not be almost immediate. A few. Right. Yeah a few. Not that many but a few. Guys if you have a tech question I have a lot of people still sending me like private messages on YouTube or Facebook messages. Guys I can't. I get hundreds of messages a day. It's too much for me and I'm a very small fraction of how much he gets. I mean it's one of those things where it's like I love you guys and I want to answer every question and I read them all because it gives me ideas for making videos. But it's one of those things where either I can be Ask Jeeves like asklinus.com you type in an answer and I just sit chained to a computer desk and reply to all the questions. Or I can be Linus Tech Tips the guy who actually makes videos and you can watch videos about the things that are good to do with the tech industry. So yeah those are pretty much the two options. So let's have a look. Hasn't slowed down at all. We have 1,065 users on right now. 513 members 544 guests. You all got nothing. So anyway you tried. You tried. So guys do hang out on the forum. We're thinking of issuing a challenge. We should do a video about it. It's coming soon. Coming soon. Okay. But soon there will be so if you guys are early to this then you'll be that much awesomer. But we're going to be issuing the Make Linus Tech Tips forum your home page challenge. We have a few interesting changes that we want to do to it that will make it easier to have it as your home page. And so yeah so the places that are most active guys general discussion news is super active. Honestly I started getting most of my news from Linus Tech Tips forum. It's pretty cool. It's kind of awesome. Great community contributions and news guys. So like if you're there you're actually you're maybe not up to the minute but you're kind of up to the hour and you don't have to deal with the terrible site design on reddit.com. Wow I'm on a roll here. Taking shots at EA. Taking shots. I bet Reddit just like destroys me now. Yeah I don't think Reddit's site design is terrible. What? It's efficient. The community there is awesome. Yeah. The site design not as awesome. Okay why don't we agree that the community is awesome and the site design is at least this far away from the community's awesomeness level. It's very efficient. The reason why dig fell behind was because dig changed too many things and it was no longer efficient. Okay I agree that it's hard to change something about a hyper popular site like Reddit. What would you change about Reddit? It's so efficient. The whole thing is about the front page and it's very very very efficient. Everything is laid out very nicely and cleanly. Okay but what about finding stuff that isn't on the front page? The search function actually works really well and if you go to a sub form again very clean. Things deteriorate and you stay away. Okay as a new user on Reddit though I couldn't figure out what any of the sub reddits were. There's like a bajillion sub reddits that have seemingly zero documentation. That's not good site design. Look on the right. Yeah there's some stuff there but there's how many aren't there? Well that's not site design. That's the person who created the sub reddit putting in less information. Okay well why don't we just agree to disagree on this one. Alright I don't think the site design is actually that bad. It's not interesting. It's not that pretty but it's very efficient and it's very good at doing what it tries to do which is be efficient. Speaking of Reddit found a fantastic post on Reddit about the US banning the blueprints for a 3D printable gun. And good luck. If someone wants that to be online that will be online. Like I don't know. You dumb bro? I don't know if that's what he's trying to do. I was like I have no idea what this person is doing. Anyways yeah if someone wants that to be online that will be online. It will be somewhere. Okay the entire Reddit thread is just like people being like I didn't even hear about this. I uploaded it because I can because they told me not to. So like you know what that's how the internet works. I mean remember the anarchist cookbook? Yeah that's everywhere. It's like one of those things where it's like how hard was it to get a copy of it. You ban it and you make it more popular. The only reason why people, okay not necessarily the only reason why people hear about this especially but the only reason why people hear about certain things is because they get banned. I did not hear about the anarchist cookbook until they banned it. I was like oh that's kind of neat. I wonder if I can find the oh there it is. Right there and there and there and there and there. And on everyone's USB thumb drive at school at the time because it was like it was one of those things where it's like I didn't go to school with anyone who was going to blow anything up. No. It was just idle curiosity because they banned it. Why was this banned? I want to know what's in here that's that bad. Yeah it's like and we're not promoting anarchy and I'm not actually even saying necessarily that I think 3D printed guns are the greatest thing ever because I don't. All we're staying is banning things won't work on the internet. DIRR. It's like what was B-roll saying on the way back that Beyonce's PR was trying to get all like. The unflattering images of her off the internet. Removed from the internet. It's like okay. A Beyonce is not that attractive. Like so many stars it's all about getting the right angle with the right makeup and the right lighting. It actually doesn't have a whole lot to do. And the right four days worth of Photoshop. And the yes exactly. There's a whole lot of that going on. Don't kid yourself. And there's yeah it's like you can't remove like pictures from the internet. So it's going as far as like pictures of her while she's singing and on stage and doesn't look good and trying to get them removed. Not going to work dude. Someone needs to explain the internet to Beyonce as well. Beyonce if you're watching. That's not how the internet works. By the way you have a lot of money. We can sit here and explain how the internet works. Yeah consultancy. We'll take all that money try and buy EA and turn it into a successful company. Okay so to start with the internet is a series of tubes. You know that reference just never gets old. I love it. Guys if you haven't seen it it's some US senator or something. The subtitle for our networking forum is a series of tubes. Is it really? Yeah. That's almost as good as the troubleshooting forum. I had someone specifically send me a tweet saying how much they loved the subtitle of our troubleshooting forum. It's help. I need somebody. Help. Do we have not just anybody? Not just anybody. Not just anybody. Yeah okay. I added that so it was more easily recognizable. There we go. Okay so moving on to our first community news item because pretty much all of the news items are community news items this week. Check this shiz out. So AMD has gone full 360 here and I actually meant 360. You know how half the time people say 360 they actually mean 180? Yeah. How many times? Yeah. I've done it. Yeah. It's like I turned around 360 degrees on that issue. Oh so you have the same stance. So yeah no no not actually that. They've done a 360 here so initially their next generation products were going to be 8000 series. They were going to be released in 2013. Then they came out and said no new GPUs in 2013. Then they went and released 7790. What? Which is a 7000 series by name but not much more than that. It's a different architecture it has been tweaked somewhat. So then there was that and then there's the 7990 which isn't a new GPU technically but is a new card so they released that. Did they say no new GPUs? I believe they did say no new GPUs. Okay so 7990 doesn't technically break it. But then check this out. So there's a couple references. This was submitted by Tibodv. I don't know how he wants us to pronounce that or she. Not sure. So there's a couple of references here but basically the 8000 series for desktops might be skipped entirely and that's not the first time this kind of thing has happened. Nvidia didn't do a GTX 300 series. Yeah that was so confusing. That was weird. You know they changed naming schemes all the time. AMD went from X800 to X1800 if I recall correctly. Which was like K I guess. So they skipped like 10 generations there. So apparently they're thinking of skipping 8000 series for desktop. There's already 8000 series for notebooks but they are purely rebrands. And apparently the all new 9000 series might be released in December 2013. It'll be manufactured at 20 nanometer according to the rumors. This is all allegedly. And so there should be less power consumption and heat output, more performance per watt and it'll be paired with a new architecture. And what this could mean allegedly is that we're getting not only a die shrink but also an architecture change at the same time. Big risk. Potentially big reward. They've certainly had a long time to work on it. In fact internally they may have already finished an 8000 series design which might have been a die shrunk 7000 series and then just decided not to bother because maybe it didn't perform that much better with the die shrink. We saw what happened with Intel and their latest die shrink where they're not actually getting a whole lot more clock speed out of the chips. They're saving on power consumption but they're not necessarily getting a ton more performance. We saw this with Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge. Could have been that. They just went okay let's just not do this. Let's wait. And you look it's been almost two full graphics card release cycles. Maybe we'll just do 9000 series. So maybe that's what's happening. This is all allegedly. Supposedly according to rumor. I know nothing for sure about this. If I did I would not be talking about it. Just to interject really quickly about that Battlefield 3 being offline thing that I was talking about earlier for anyone who wants more information about that because I was not conclusive I just tweeted out the URL link that I had for it. So check that out. AMD's chief technology architect Jim Keller apparently said blah blah blah sea islands encompasses the PS4 chip as well as new mobile chips and Bonair GPU found in the 7790. I bring this up because it shows people inside AMD continue to work hard long hours to deliver great products etc etc amongst the turmoil shown in the press. So the next generation is coming this year and shaping up nicely is what he says. When you name products after places it leads to interesting thoughts about where to hold the events surrounding the namesake product. It would be really cool if they did an event on a volcanic island. It'd be a real shame if all their engineers died in a volcano. So AMD if anyone's watching maybe just do it somewhere else. So that's that would be pretty beast though. Gonna take some risk. Yeah don't worry about it. So anyway that's really cool news. I mean AMD did you see their stock? Actually I haven't looked at it since then maybe it's gone down a bit. But still boom. Is it still exploding? No I'm saying no but still it went boom. Went up a lot they seem to be firing on at least one cylinder now which is more than they were before. They were it was when we not even that long ago while we had this live stream running it was pretty scary. Looking pretty dire. A few live streams where we almost hinted to like oh god. They've got all the game devs on board now with the graphics cards. They've got releases like coming when it looked like they weren't going to release anything. Yeah very very exciting stuff. So I'm really stoked to check out 9000 series. Hopefully we get one prior to launch so we can bring you guys some launch content. Cause that didn't happen with 7990 or 7790. Still waiting for something. AMD is trying actually there are guys over there that are trying to get us the allocation so we can show you guys this cool stuff right when it comes out. Let's move on to our next one which is not a crack at EA. And boom. I'm going to need oh okay. No bad language on the as a huge lover of the Assassin's Creed series. Okay well so this was posted without probably too much helpful information by Ixieyourface on the forum. For that matter oh crap I don't think I called out our oh yeah no I did. But there you go Assassin's Creed creator and designer fired allegedly by Ubisoft. So there's a bit more to the story than that. And Patrice has said that they fired him. Ubisoft has said they parted ways due to a difference in creative direction or some corporate speak something along those lines. So he designed and created the Assassin's Creed franchise which is the favorite gaming franchise of at least one of the people in this room. It ties. Ties? For Elder Scrolls. With Elder Scrolls. Okay okay. So there's that. However so his statement has been they fired him unjustly. He's only been back for two months because he left back in 2010 to go to THQ and then he's been back for a couple months when we're not sure what he was working on. Forbes' article sort of speculated that maybe he had a disagreement with the yearly release cycle proposed for Assassin's Creed. I think we've talked about that on the livestream before. We talked I don't know if it was for Assassin's Creed. Okay anyway yearly release cycles is like oh no yeah we didn't talk about it for Assassin's Creed. I mean that's insane. It's like could you be any more public about we're just gonna milk this. I don't mind if they come quickly and they're good but fixing release cycles is never I hate that. Fixing dates like release it when it's done. Bring it on like throw more people at the problem make it fast make it awesome. But if there's a problem like don't do a fixed date please don't do a fixed date. Unbelievable. Fix the game and then release it. So there's some speculation maybe he didn't like that. There's some speculation that he was actually working on completely different things internally and has nothing to do with that. Now one way or another he came out and made a statement that went oh shoot I forget his wording and I don't have that on there but something along the lines of I'll defend myself my team in my game and there will be some kind of action but no one really knows what it is up till now. So there you go very very interesting. So that's out of Ubisoft Montreal. So my Canadian my Canadian bros are got some sort of stuff to figure out over there. Why don't we do a little bit of Twitter Q&A. Sure. Sorry guys I know Twitter Q&A is just sort of random but it is what it is so there you go. And random is what it is. Hey Ryan. Hi Ryan. They also fired the producer of Assassin's Creed. Okay. So it wasn't just one person. That's interesting. Plateauing a bit from the increases. Thank you James. I am doing a 32 crucial M4 raid one array. No that's a terrible idea. With three or four raid cards 48 SSDs maybe in the future you do not need a raid one array with SSDs. Let me tell you that much. If you're using four high performance raid cards which I'm assuming you are you will actually probably do just as well with something like even a raid six because you'll be able to do massive random performance with an array like that. I mean honestly you don't even probably need that many SSDs. Like to max out the performance you could probably even go four SSDs per card or something along those lines. I'm really interested what his use case is for this. What the heck is this even for? What are you doing? If you need raid one grade reliability why are you using consumer SSDs? That's something you should be asking yourself. Especially when he's buying 48 SSDs? Maybe in the future. Okay 32 now. I heard a rumour that there's an enterprise grade SSD coming that's going to be very reasonably priced from not crucial. Can't say who it is but should be coming soon. Maybe kind of like an enthusiast sort of diamond in the rough skew. I'm going to sleep now 2am in the Netherlands. Good night Bart! Good night Bart. What games are you guys looking forward to? Why do we buy all this hardware? What game are you looking forward to besides Blood Dragon which you haven't played yet? No but it's out so I can't really have a look. You can look forward to it. I guess I can. I played it a little bit it's freaking awesome. Except that it's set in the past. So I'm looking forward to 2007. Just back to the future all over again. Well Elder Scrolls Online but I'm hesitantly looking forward to that because of some of the problems that we've had. I'm going to try and not talk about this as much as I possibly can. Black Flag so we've gone through my two favourite series which we already talked about. Assassin's Creed Black Flag. It's going to be like pirate version of Assassin's Creed. They're all pirates. They're all pirates okay. I thought you meant pirated. No. Can you hear about the piracy game of Piracy? Or like it was the game about being a game dev? It was the game dev and if you pirated it they pirated your game in the game so you could never be a successful game developer if you pirated the game. That was brilliant. Yeah and so there was all these people complaining on the forums about this. It was an indie game and he released all the stats so he had a non-personally identifiable like tracker in the game that reported back. He phoned home and let him know if it was a pirated copy or a real copy and it was some massive percentage of the games that were being played were pirated. And then what happened is it was like game dev tycoon kind of thing. Like game dev sim. And so people would reach a point where their company would get to this size and then they'd never be profitable because everyone would pirate their game. So they were posting on the forums like I can't figure out how to get past this part. It's like this is ridiculous. Everyone just pirates my game. I can't be successful. Yeah and then the irony was like that guy's having trouble making ends meet because he can't be successful because everyone pirated his game. Because you pirated his game. Anyway so pirate version of Assassin's Creed. You think that's frustrating in the game. That's frustrating in real life. Yeah let me tell you as someone trying to run their own business these days like the amount of stress that you go through without people stealing your work is a lot. Another thing that I'm really really looking forward to is a sequel of Hotline Miami. You haven't played that either. It's amazing. Do you know anything about the Razor Ouroboros disappearing? No? No. Okay. Plan on playing games? 670 Power Edition or should I get the 7950? You know what? Either of them is a great choice. 7950 has had the edge lately in our testing particularly once overclocked. Yolo Swag for G of H. Jesus. Is the new official live? No it isn't. First time watching live. Yay! Hi Ivan! Hi tuning in tonight. My boyfriend watches you guys. Hi Elizabeth and boyfriend. That was the Ryan call out. You should EA. It's a great investment. Not just something to do with. Is EA a verb now? I don't know. I'm just going to EA that. It could mean anything. Release it ahead of schedule. There won't be any support. You won't be able to actually access it. I'm going to run it into the ground. I'm going to EA it. If I'm not done something I can just submit a corrupted file and be like oh it's just EAed. Don't worry about it. We can't suspect this and I'll be like I'm not commenting. So if anyone from EA is watching, guys we do need sponsors for the show. Come on down. Why don't we move on to our next topic. This is very interesting. So this is another forum submitted topic. So check this out guys. I said this. So remember when power supplies. So this is from Listfisker. Listfisker? Yeah. It's from Norway. So dude you're cool. We love you. We love Norway. But we don't get your name. So Listfisker from Norway says Haswell compatibility with Corsair power supplies has been released. Which leads us to an interesting topic. So most power supplies are ready to go with Haswell. Some are still to be confirmed and might need some tweaks to function. Silverstone has come out and said all of theirs are working. SeaSonic I believe has a compatibility list as well. And there's a good reason for this. Now back when I was getting into computers a 350 Smart Blue that came with the Antec Landboy was a pretty good power supply. And if you really wanted you could get yourself a True Blue and that might be a 430 or even a 480 watt. Fancy. But then all of a sudden after that it was this arms race. And before that it was like you know anywhere from 150 to sort of 250 watt. Like there was this progression. And then after that it became arms race to bigger wattages. OCZ changed the game with the PowerStream 520 watt. There was also a PowerStream 600 watt but it had two 12 volt rails which meant that with SLI configurations sometimes it didn't work. So the 520 watt was the really well regarded one. After that Ultra had the 1300 watt power supply. It was like an external thing or maybe that wasn't Ultra. I remember there was one external one. I remember that though yeah. Like you actually needed two plugs in it. And for it to even output the maximum power you had to have it hooked up to two circuits in your house if you were in North America. I remember seeing build logs with it and just be like what even is that? What are you doing? And then case manufacturers released cases that accepted two power supplies. So Silverstone's TJ07, my case, it's like I used the extra space for radiators but you could put two thousand watt Silverstone Striders in there. You could have two thousand watts of power anyway. So it got kind of ridiculous for a bit with wattage. Then the efficiency race came. 80 plus. 80 plus bronze. 80 plus silver. Platinum. Plutonium. I don't want a plutonium power supply. I thought it was titanium. Yeah it's titanium. Who cares? So the point is efficiency became a big thing but now what it might be all about and the way 80 plus works is that it's actually there is no rating for how efficient the power supply has to be below 20% load. And what's funny is any thousand watt power supply isn't going to touch 20% load. Might not even break 10% load with a modern system running a Haswell CPU and the next generation graphics card because they're getting so good at turning down the power at idle. So when you're browsing the web your computer probably doesn't suck a hundred watts from the wall. So all of a sudden Haswell, particularly with its sleep states, is going to be much more sensitive to how the power supply performs at extremely low loads than it's going to be to how it performs at high loads which is what 80 plus has been all about. So I don't know how this is going to work because right now manufacturers are basically just putting like a Haswell ready certification on it. It's kind of like the old P4 ready where it had that connector and it had the beefier 12 volt rail because those CPUs were drawing so much power and it was game changing. Now they're drawing so little power. You're going to need a high quality power supply but not the same way you did before where it's like massive wattage, massive efficiency at high loads. You're going to want massive efficiency and great performance with low ripple and low noise at very low power consumption. What if this means we're going to see a lot of like maybe smaller in wattage and size because of the smaller cases and smaller motor boards. More passive, more passive, more smaller in size, more smaller in wattage but very feature rich power supplies. Things like what Corsair is implementing with their AXI series where you've got voltage monitoring and temperature monitoring and more like bringing more value to the power supply as opposed to figuring out how to stuff more watts in it so to speak. I know that's not actually how power works. You don't stuff more watts in something. Is B-roll over there? Is he like working? Oh, he's probably on his own workstation. That would make way more sense. That makes way more sense. Yeah. Why did he even set up diesels? I think he had to get some stuff off the computer. Makes sense. See, this is why I pay people to think for me. I'm clearly not capable of it. Anyway, so there. That's a really interesting thing about Haswell. Even though you have an awesome power supply, it may not work with Haswell. Watch out. Check with your manufacturer. Make sure it works. Most of the good manufacturers should have most of their power supplies working. Let's take a moment and do a little bit of Twitter paying attention to this. Plutonium 1.21 gigawatts. That would be awesome. Oh my goodness. UrbanDix.EA. That's probably hilarious. Probably can't click on it. We're not clicking on this. That's probably hilarious. I actually don't drink coffee. Can you imagine what I'd be like if I drank coffee? Oh, that would be scary, actually. I consume no stimulants. No energy drinks. He'd probably crawl on the roof. I don't need it. No, he doesn't. I didn't even get that much sleep last night. First time watching from Norway. What are your thoughts on Windows Blue? We've actually talked about Windows Blue a little bit. Some of the features that are coming. There was a preview that The Verge broke the news about. I'm going to take a wait and see approach. You know what? Normally I'd be upset about this, Sean, because that's a cheap shot. That is a really cheap shot. But after the lockout, I don't care. And 10% of people know what we're talking about. Oh, hockey. Hockey. The San Jose Sharks beat the Vancouver Canucks in four hockey games consecutively, meaning the Vancouver Canucks can no longer win the Stanley Cup, which is the coveted prize. It's a jock. Jockstrap. Different kind of cup. Sorry, my bad. Anyway, normally I'd care, but I just didn't. Yeah, I just didn't. Didn't care. Oh, apparently I really need to read List Fisker's last post on that Haswell compatibility topic. So we're going to go ahead and move down to where he has posted some additional stuff. Apparently Johnny Guru came onto OC3D and told him off for messing up his name. Oh no. Oh wow. Did you really spell Johnny Guru like that? Okay. Just so you guys know, Johnny Guru is the website to go to for power supply reviews. You can come look at our unboxing and we're going to show you some, you know, what the cable sleeving quality looks like and what connectors are on it, how long they are in Linus arm lengths. If you want to know anything about a power supply, actually, johnnyguru.com. They do the best power supply reviews bar none. Everything else is basically worthless compared to what they do. You can quote me on that. We don't do it. That's part of the reason why we don't do crazy. Why bother? Like, why bother? We'll just put it in a system. It'll look cool and we'll talk about how it looks and then. And we'll talk about what we read on Johnny Guru because guys, if you want to know anything about a power supply, if Johnny Guru recommended it and it got even like seven out of 10 or better, it's probably safe. It's fine. Buy it. Be confident. If it got nine out of 10 or 10 out of 10 on Johnny Guru, one, be prepared to pony up because I tell you that is a well-built power supply. And number two, be confident because it's awesome. Okay. So anyway, sort of back to back to Twitter. I would catch a live stream several times, but either I've overslept or had problems with my laptop. I'm trying to scroll down. I'm having trouble. Twitter needs to just calm down. Have you heard about that one keyboard model disappearing? Linus, no. Yes. Well, yeah, exactly. Loving the stream. I think he thought the Ouroboros was a keyboard. Loving the stream tonight, guys. First time tuning in live. Hi, Ligai, the guy, Luke, whatever your name is. Watching live stream from Kuwait. Speaking of Kuwait, it was crap. It was Syria, right? Syria has no internet. Yeah, no internet. Let me check it out. I think it's back now. But Syria just disappeared from the internet, which was just bizarre. Yeah, it was Syria. Yeah, Middle Eastern country, internet went down, basically. They just turned it off. And everyone was kind of sitting here going, like, what? Holy crap. Can you imagine? So I'm not going to get into the political ramifications of all of that because honestly, I am not that well versed in it. And we're not those people. Yeah. However, what I would like you guys to reflect on is in the last 20 years, basically, how pervasive the internet has become in your life. Isn't it mind boggling? What if the internet was turned off in your country? Like, my job would just be impossible. I couldn't do my job. I feel like male people DVDs. Right? It's like we'd have to be, we'd have to be, oh crap. What was that Star something? What was that DVD service? The mailing, mail rental DVD thing. Oh crap. I have no idea what you're talking about. I have to look it up. It was like, it was like something like Club or DVD mail rental service. Or like you had to buy them or something. Oh, I forget what it was called. No. Okay. Hopefully someone can tell me on Twitter. Maybe it was something, something Club. I don't know. It was an old thing. It was, it was kind of on the same level as like AOL CDs. Where it was like there were always pamphlets for this stupid thing. And I was like, anyway, that's what Tech Tips will become. We'll just, we'll mail you the latest unboxings on like a monthly basis. No big deal. No, no big deal. Yeah, what would it even, what would it even, yeah. Oh, no way. I don't know. I don't know if this is true. I don't know if this is true, but apparently if you go bankrupt in game device tycoon, EA buys you. I kind of have a feeling. I have a feeling that's not true, but it would be hilarious. Bro, do you even EA? Watching live for the second time. It's 4 a.m. Thank you for bearing with us on this, on this here live stream. Pretty tough. Ram for budget gaming, buy whatever. What about the steam donation? What about a steam donation for Linus Tech Tips where you can test with more recent games? Honestly, what recent games do we not test with? We test a lot of stuff. We test with pretty much everything. The only things I can think of. I mean, we did Bioshock Infinite. We did Tomb Raider. We did, we jumped over Far Cry 3, Crisis 3. We jumped over. We're going to do Metro Last Light. Star Trek. Star Trek, yeah. I know a few people asked for that, but it's not like a huge, like, okay, it's pretty big, but it's not, it's not on the level of like Bioshock and. I have a segue. I'll take that, sure. So speaking of Star Trek, they tried to do an MMO at one point. Yeah. Which is sort of like WoW because every MMO is sort of like WoW. And WoW lost 1.3 million subscribers in Q1 2013. Wrap your brain around that. WoW lost more subscribers in Q1 than most MMOs will ever get. So okay. They still have a beast amount. Okay, yes. It's down from the peak of 12 million and I've seen some posts on the forum. Actually this was a, this was a forum post, so I want to make sure that I give credit where credit's due. Just to interject again quickly, I have to do this while it's up. We basically just crashed Johnny Guru. Oh no, it works. Oh did we really? Oops. It's still, it doesn't fully work. Some things aren't loading. Oh, there we go. Great site when it works. Takes about four or five minutes. Fantastic site. Go there some other time. Sorry, Johnny. Sorry. But you're awesome, man. And OklahomaWolf, the guy who was doing most of the reviews when I was reading a lot more on there is awesome too. Great writing style. Very funny. Anyway, so I can't find the thread. I'm sorry to whoever posted this thread on the forum. You're awesome and I heart you and all that good stuff. Hopefully someone will find it. Yeah, hopefully someone will find it and tweet it. You know, hashtag LinusUforGod or something like that. Hashtag? I don't know, man. Can we just tweet it at you? They could, but I don't know if everyone will see it. Tweet it at me and I'll retweet it. Calm down. There's a thread on the forum where people were saying that it's kind of in between new content right now. So it might not be indicative of sort of, you know, anything that crazy. But think about it this way. Over the course of a month, them having 1.3 million fewer subscribers based on if everyone was paying $15 a month would be almost $20 million of revenue. It's basically profit when you consider that they have to invest in the infrastructure, they have to invest in the content. There's a lot of dev, there's a lot of support, there's a lot of... For their 8 million existing subscribers, they already have to do all that crap anyway. So that 20 million was the profit, if you think about it that way, or it was basically profit because they had to do all that other stuff anyway. That is huge on the bottom line of Activision. I mean, they're basically saying, don't worry about it, we're still number one, you know. It's okay, it's cool. But here are a few things that I wanted to discuss. If WoW were to stumble, would something just as quickly pop up to take its place as a paid game? Would something be able to take its place? Would people even be willing to pay for an MMO anymore? I wish. Would they be? I would, personally, I don't like pay to play. I'm very, very against pay to play. Because almost every single pay to play system, no matter how you look at it, has at least a little bit of pay to win. It might not be that much. Okay, so you're talking about microtransactions versus subscription-based. Yes. Oh, sorry. You probably should have said that because WoW is sort of pay to play as well. Of course, it's definitely pay to play. So microtransactions worse than... Than subscription-based. Personally, I don't mind subscription-based. Everyone's on equal playing field, no matter what. Okay, that's true. Always, like, doesn't matter. And everything you get in the game is earned the same way that everyone else would earn it. Yes, okay. With microtransactions, no matter to what scale, unless it is only cosmetic. And even with only cosmetic... Something like League of Legends is largely cosmetic, except... Largely, but you can still unlock champions. With in certain game roads, like the new ARAM game mode that they came out with, can make things better for you because there are clearly better setups of teams in ARAM. And you don't get to pick your champion. It's all random, all mid. So you get random a champion. So if you're just the free-week champions, you're at a disadvantage compared to people that have specifically really good champions on ARAM. Right, okay. And people will come at me and be like, that's not the main game mode, all that kind of stuff, doesn't matter. A ton of people play it. It's still... And it's competitive and all that kind of stuff. Even though it's not competitive on a tournament level, it's still competitive when you're just playing with your buddies. Okay. Blah, blah, blah. So paying to enhance the enjoyment experience. Okay, so riddle me this then. After WoW basically sort of perfected it, so to speak, is there really any innovation left in MMO? Because you've got Eve as sort of your hardcore MMO. You've got World of Warcraft as sort of your accessible MMO. You've got all these skeletons. So many. And then you've got Conan. Look how long Star Wars The Old Republic was subscription-based. What was it, like a few months? I mean, not so much is there any innovation left, because I think there's innovation left. And I think part of the problem with MMOs is that they're not innovating. I think Star Citizen might be a way for... Pretty stoked for Star Citizen. Yeah, might be a way for Chris Roberts to really show that there's still room for a massively multiplayer experience to innovate and be different. But is it because they're all WoW clones and are studios going to be willing to invest what it would take to design a new king from the ground up to replace WoW if it faltered? Before I comment on that, I want to interject. This is completely different conversations. I don't really want to go into it, but I hate the term WoW clone, but that's a completely different topic. Okay, well. Anyways, I don't really think so. I think studios will drop a bunch of money. ESO is dropping a whole bunch of money. But I don't... at the same time, people are complaining about the potential graphics problems. So they might not have dropped the amount of money that they should have. We won't know until we get open beta. Yeah, we'll have to have a look at that. But everything else, to be able to... And if it's Elder Scrolls, you think it'll be moddable at all? Except textures? Probably not. Textures? I don't know. But I know there will be add-ons available. Okay, so anyway, carry on. Anyways, don't want to get too much into that. I don't think it will happen. Not on the scale that WoW was. Because if you look at the timeline for MMO releases, WoW was perfect. Right. Ultima and EQ were old. There was nothing else really, really big on the table. WoW dropped. Everyone that was tired of Ultima and EQ because it was really old, moved to WoW. And then they just crushed it. It was a big enough pool of people that when new things came out at the beginning, it didn't matter because all your friends played WoW and you wanted to play with your friends. So everyone went and played WoW. They exploded, they were massive and now it's taking forever for them to die because it's still, depending on your play style, a good game. There's still a lot of people that play it. I don't like it anymore. Well, there's still 8 million people that play it. There's a ton of people that play it. I liked Classic WoW way more. But I don't think it will happen because to create that again, there's so many MMOs that are coming out all the time, you can't hit that time slot. So we might end up with a more fragmented type of market. I don't think it's going to be the massive one game experience that it basically was when WoW first came out. Right. So then it might be more like a cyclical thing because you look at something like, okay, let's look at anything. Let's look at the development of the graphics processing unit. When it started, there was one. Then there was a couple. Then everyone and their dog got in. Then it reconsolidated. So at the beginning, there was really only a couple. And then there was the one dominant one for a long time. Then maybe it's time for the end of that. I mean, Well, it's the end of the one dominant one. Then it spread out like crazy. So basically, you could actually couple in the very few that were at the beginning and the one dominant one probably into the same bracket. Right into the same sort of period of time. Not many. Yeah. And then success, tons, and then too many. So it narrows back down. That's actually a really, that might actually happen. So many things are like that. I mean, it's been done time and time and time and time and time again. By the way, that was actually Kilmer that posted the wow thing. Oh, okay. Thanks, Kilmer. Kilmer was a mod on our forum and he has stepped down because he just doesn't have time, which is that's cool. That's cool. We totally get it. Yeah. Blizzard is busy with a new MMO called Titan should be a ground up game. If there's anyone who can do it again, it'll be Blizzard. Yeah. But there's also going to be so much more scrutiny on it. Oh my goodness. With that said, Blizzard has shown they're committed to fixing stuff. Yeah. Diablo 3 is apparently a much better experience than it was before. I've heard that as well. I haven't actually stepped back and played it, but I've definitely heard that from not a small group of people. And like Titan, like you just said, scrutiny, that thing will be combed with like a brick. People talk about fine- Combed with a brick? People talk about fine- What does that mean? Like everything will be looked at. Combed with a brick. Yeah. Fine-toothed comb. That's a quotable moment. This is beyond fine- Somebody mean this please. Him trying to explain combed with a brick to me. Okay. That's the stupidest thing you've ever said. There's fine-toothed comb. There's fine-toothed comb. This is way beyond that. So it's just a brick. There's brick-toothed comb? Yeah. You're fired. Nope. No, you're fired for that. Nope. Nope. Just got to say Linus, from now on you got to be careful when you tell half a million people about a website. Well, he's a little bit exaggerating. I think we're at around 3,500. By the way, thank you so much guys. We are overwhelmed that there are so many people tuning into the live stream. You guys all rock. That is huge. I mean, I was marveling the other day. You were showing me Day 9's stream where he had what? About 12k people watching or something like that. I don't remember what he- I think it was like 10.5? 10.5? And I was just like- I'm not sure. You know what? I feel huge just when a third as many people as Day 9 tune in to watch me. So I felt- I felt pretty cool about that. I know we're not asking for as much of a time commitment as him and we don't stream as much as him and all that kind of stuff. But I still felt cool. Like, cool shades. Wear the cool shades. Cool shades, cool shades. Can you reach them? Your arms are longer than mine. Yes. Okay, I'm going to wear the cool shades for the rest of the stream. That you broke. I didn't fully break them. These are my glasses. I was wearing them in some video where we're standing there jumping and he's wearing his boots and they- We never ended up releasing the segment either. No. We released it just as like a DVD, like behind the scenes. I got bumped in the face and they fell off my face and between under his boot and now they- I think I knocked them off your face. Yes. I was saving face with that. Thank you. We just had face a lot. Yeah. Your face. One of my mods just brought up a good thing. DayZ. That kind of happened with DayZ. There was one that was like, everyone make a zombie survival game. And now it's kind of coming back down again. Coming back down to just a few that survived. Survived. I can't take you seriously when your glasses are so off. The zombie game, Zombie Apocalypse. At what point do games that were dead come back from the dead and steal back the title? I actually can't take you seriously. I don't know if it looks- it doesn't look as bad in the feed. It looks ridiculous when he's like a foot away. Well when I look at them head on it's probably worse. I think it's the angle that helps a little bit. Right, yeah. It's a zombie. Anyway, why don't we just sort of get back to Twitter here. Any good gaming headsets and mice to buy that are around $60-80? Lots of good mice. Razer Deathadder 2013 Edition. 6400 DPI optical gaming mouse. Great rubber grips on the sides. That's on at NCIX for $59.99. It's either $59.99 or $69.99. Great price. I think it's $59.99. As for gaming headsets, honestly you can get a Siberia V2 for that price. It's comfy, it's lightweight, it sounds okay. Gaming headsets really aren't the way to go if you want a great audio experience with the exception of the SteelSeries 7H and some of Sennheiser's higher end stuff, but you're not going to get any of those things for $60-80. Or if you have a big head. Yeah, or if you have a big head. Because the Sennheiser 7H is not good for people with big heads. Okay, so Frostbite says he thinks Guild Wars 2 does MMO the best. You can buy the game for a price. I haven't played Guild Wars 2, but my brother loves Guild Wars 2. He plays it casually. He finds the experience is just you jump in and you can just kind of go around and do whatever you want. He finds it relaxing and nice instead of just the oh my god everything's going on all the time experience. BloodPact says don't even complain about lack of innovation if you didn't even try the secret world, which I did not, so we just got told. Also didn't. We just got told. Guild Wars 1 apparently had 4 million active users at one time. This was Johnny's fourth post since he registered back in 2010. Wow. Pwned so hard. Electronic Mass Production buys you. I think it's supposed to be EA apparently in that game. Oh. Okay, so back to news items. We have a ton this week. Paid YouTube subscriptions. They be here. So this was posted by Speedstack79. He didn't really give us any sort of an editorial on it, but there you go. So you can check out the paid channels. There's prices ranging from a dollar to sort of just under $10 and sort of anything in between. I'd like to say one thing at the beginning here, and hopefully you guys can take me seriously in spite of these glasses. Linus Tech Tips will never be a paid channel. So there you go. Written in blood as far as I'm concerned unless YouTube forces everyone to take paid subscriptions, which I really don't see happening. Because I'm sure we can be ad supported as long as we need to be ad supported. Linus Tech Tips will not be a paid channel. We will always continue to try to take money from corporate sponsors as much as we can to make the channel possible, to pay the salaries of the people involved. I mean, honestly, we prefer it that way. We'd be willing to do something like a tip jar or a Bitcoin mining pool or even things like Kickstarters if we need equipment or if we want to do something really special and we think you guys will benefit. But we are not going to do paid subscriptions. We might do things like special tags on the forum for contributors, all these things. But you will always have access to the content on Linus Tech Tips. No question. A public resource. Yes. We consider it like, I mean, we're doing a service to everyone the way we look at it. We're doing a service to the manufacturer by showcasing their product to people. We're doing a service to the viewer by showcasing the cool new products that we can get our hands on and show you guys. So the way we see it is everyone benefits if as many people watch it as possible. And that has always been the philosophy of Linus Tech Tips. So there you go. Okay, if you're posting something in the news section, try to put a little bit of your own input in on it. Please, please, please input something. It's helpful. So here we go. Mr. Crisis 2000 submitted this one about the Galaxy S4 Zoom. And you know what's hilarious is I predicted this one. Yep. Bam. I actually, I don't know if I predicted it because I didn't think anyone would make it. No. But what I said was the only problem with Samsung's Galaxy camera, which is basically just an Android powered camera, is that it doesn't have a cell phone in it. They had to add such little stuff to it to make it a cell phone. Yeah. Because it already had a persistent data connection, you could put a SIM in it, but it just didn't have the calling hardware. And I wonder if it was in there and they just didn't enable it. Like seriously. Oh, oh, people want this. Okay, on. Yeah, on. But I mean, think about this guys, if you're a shutter bug or a blogger, would you rather have a slim phone that doesn't take that great pictures? I mean, this one does okay. This is the one. And honestly, the S4 does okay. It'll always be limited by the size of the optics you can put in, the bump, the distance, the size of the sensor you can put in, all those things. Would you rather have a slim phone that takes kind of shoddy pictures or would you rather have a camera that also acts as a phone? Not everyone's on their phone all the time. And it's got a nice big screen on the back, just like the Galaxy camera. So yeah, guys, post in this thread in the form because apparently our site can take the heat. What's up, Johnny? So 16 megapixel camera with a phone built in. Word on the street is Samsung something something blah blah blah. Okay has an AMOLED screen, Android Jelly Bean, eight gigs memory, Bluetooth 4.0, speculation something something something etc etc etc. Do you guys think this is a cool idea? You know what? I'd like to take let's let's talk to the Twitch chat. One quick thing. It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but I love it that way. 23,000 an Australian camera viewer said that its battery life is not very good, scaling around three hours. Samsung, why you do these things to me? It would be nice to someone says in Twitch chat your glasses are messed up. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah. Wow, you could be able to. I do want to do this so talk quickly if you're going to say something because I want to start talking about Twitch chat. Okay, talk about Twitch chat. Oh, okay. Yeah. So okay guys. So what do you think? Linus fix your glasses. I'd prefer the phone. Take off those glasses. Give me a shout out to Moppers or something along those lines. More memes. MMO never winter Kate. I something something. I prefer the thick phone with aggressive battery. That's another one we've talked about. Maybe not even a great camera or maybe you could put a better camera in if you had a thicker phone. I should be able to unbox the Corsair 350 D. We have actually done that. It's sitting over there unboxed. I just have to upload it and CIX website looks like a child designed it. You know what? One of my friends actually used to be my boss. Now we're more friends. He doesn't work there anymore. Design that website and back when it was designed, it was not bad. Prefer a phone not and a separate camera. Okay, fair enough. The Twitch chat exploded. Okay, someone's saying put it on slow. I prefer the camera but not without battery life. Okay, so there you go. We took some feedback from Twitch chat today. Thank you very much guys. So let's go back to our next. Okay, what were you going to say? I just I wanted to talk to them before they were done. It's cool that you can at least throw us in it now and talk on the thing. But the battery life is so low that. Is problem. Is problem. Is problem. Although with portable battery packs, if you're holding that around, you probably have some sort of a bag. Right. You could charge it up with a portable battery pack. So this right here was submitted by backgrund. Thank you very much for this awesome submission. Backgrund. ASRock is apparently planning to release water resistant motherboards in their OC formula series associated with the Intel Haswell release. What do you think about this? Is waterproof motherboards the future for water cooling guys or will it be just a new gimmick? Backgrund, I gotta you know what? I gotta give you credit for giving some some feedback on the topic. But I think you got it kind of wrong here unfortunately. What this is going to be great for is sub zero cooling, not water cooling. When it comes to water cooling, the danger is not so much to the motherboard because usually by the time you're leak testing, your motherboard is vertical and is unlikely to be spilled on. The danger is usually to your graphics card or your power supply getting water dripping into it. And it can sit there and cause problems by sitting there. Big problems because distilled water is not inherently conductive. But once it sits and gets some soldering flux in it or some metal ion. That's when you run into trouble. What this is great for is guys who are doing sub zero overclocking where condensation can be a big issue and insulating boards perfectly can be a big difference between that modded board that the overclocker spent hours getting working just right like even days getting working just right working and then dying because one little bit of water got in there condensation boom dead. So that's really cool having it be water resistant for extreme overclocking. I mean also for extremely humid environments. Would this be a benefit? I don't know. It must. I know that's a problem. Maybe. I mean, I don't know. I guess if you spilled your you put so many so many cases of mesh tops, knock your drink over there. I have two friends that I know that have done that. They're pouring a can of cola on it in the in the picture here. But guys, just because it's waterproof does not mean it's cola proof. No. I'm still in the Twitch chat. There's like Linus's glasses are crooked. I know. And the other really cool thing about this board is HDMI input. Holy freaking crap. How cool is that? It is actually pretty because some consoles, notably the Xbox 360 and you know, game streamers are able to utilize this as well. Do not have DRM. So if you had an HDMI input right on your board, you know what your capture card costs? Like a hundred bucks. If you had an HDMI input on your board, you could actually capture from an external source. I don't know if this is what they're intending to use it for, but that would make this board more gaming optimized than any gaming branded board I've ever seen. Yeah, I know. That's awesome. I mean, better audio. Actually, I stand by that. Better network solutions. Those are good. But I'd probably put a sound card in anyway. So for me, with so many people game streaming these days, I'd say putting an HDMI input on your board is a cool way to make it gaming optimized. Yeah, I'm sure Twitch is pretty stoked about that. Great features for the overclockers, great features for the gamers. Very cool board. With that said, Asrock is still not really on my list of motherboard manufacturers that I pay too close attention to, but if they keep doing cool stuff like this, that might turn 360 degrees. Just kidding guys, 180. If you weren't in the live stream earlier, you won't get the joke. So just calm down. No, it's not 360. This is kind of gross. It's very gross. This is actually super gross. But Alex B on Twitter submitted this to me, the ultimate Canadian computer. And I really hope that Canada is not about taxidermy beavers with computers inside them. But it's an ITX build, very old, like crappy components with a taxidermy beaver. Yes, that is a real beaver with a fan in the back. Let me see if I can skip to the spot where it's there. There's the IO accessible through like a flat. There's the beaver sitting on a desk. Is that not the scariest thing you guys have ever seen? This beaver sitting next to the monitor here? Holy freaking schmolly anyway. I'm pretty sure this is an older thing, but I just I hadn't seen it before. So apparently the beaver pic was posted on Reddit a couple days ago. So it's probably where they saw it. But yeah, just like the most bizarre thing ever. We have almost 3600 live viewers. Wow. And they all unfortunately had to just see that. Yeah, I'm sorry, guys. You know what? We probably just shouldn't have done that. No, slick told me not to do it. But I was like, yeah. All right, so it's time to take another shot at EA. Oh, no, this is the biggest one. Oh, oh, no. Oh, this is not good. The Walt Disney Company and EA announced multi-year Star Wars games agreement submitted by PC Explosion, I believe, was the first one to submit this on the floor. Come on. Like, I will forgive so many things if you don't screw this up. Like, please don't screw this up. Come on. If anyone from EA is watching, just come on. I got to take the glasses off. No, I'm putting them back on. That's OK. But temporarily. Temporarily. It's like, come on. Don't screw this up. Not only that, but it's exclusive. So the odds of me getting like a remade TIE fighter anytime in the multi-year deal, not going to happen. Mind you, EA is sort of the masters of remaking things. That's true. They might actually have been. Maybe if I get a remade TIE fighter to this, EA employees who are watching, I will be super stoked. That isn't like, oh, yeah, to buy another ship you need to microtransaction. Yeah. Oh, you don't have Luke Skywalker content. Pay $15. Yeah, OK. OK, maybe be careful what you wish for, I guess, because I could end up with my game, but broke. Yeah, exactly. Because you're going to buy everything. I totally would. $700 additional. You don't even know. No, I know. If someone asked me to spend $500 on a TIE fighter remake with modern graphics, but just the exact game, maybe throw in multiplayer. OK, I'd pay $500 for a single player alone. I'd pay a grand for multiplayer. Like for my own personal copy. Knowing him, not even slightly surprised. I would do it. It could probably go higher than that. You know I can't afford it. You'd probably still do it if it went higher. You know I can't afford it. You'd probably sell your bike. But I'd do it. I would do it. Like, I would do it. Just for TIE fighter. Just for TIE fighter. And if they threw in the X-Wing campaign too. And like, they've got some of their better publishers behind it. I mean, imagine if they got James Earl Jones to come in and do the Darth Vader voice. That would be beast. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go change my pants. So anyway, under the deal, it's exclusive except for a few lame casual platforms like tablet games or kids games. It looks like the devs who are going to be working on it are, actually I wrote this down in my thing. Visceral, dice and bio-ware will be deving the games. So this is the lesser of all evils. As far as things look. EA is making a big deal out of how some new Star Wars game is going to use Frostbite 3. Who cares? As if the engine ever made the game. TIE Fighter is one of the greatest games ever. Looks like ass. It doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt. But still. It's not like I'm looking at it going, wow, when Darth Vader cut off Luke Skywalker's hands I could really see the blood spur. You couldn't even see any blood in the movie. That doesn't make it not a great movie. So there's my whole thing. Anyway, so I was willing to give Disney the benefit of the doubt on the whole acquisition as far as movies are going. I was actually willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on closing down LucasArts. Like, I was like, okay, if they find some great devs to do this maybe they can rejuvenate it but come on! This is not, I would like beg on hands and knees for EA not to screw this up. Yeah. Like, just do it properly. Let's just do it. Do it right now. Okay. Okay. I don't know if you are watching. Here. We can kneel on the chairs. I think it's still count. My chair is spinning. I'm going over. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, okay, we're sort of kneeling. EA. Please don't screw this up. Please don't screw this up. Do not screw this up. Please. Please. Oh my goodness. And like, are they even going to release 1313? Which is like, probably close to done. I don't know. I'm so worried for how this is. How many people are tuned in right now? Oh, well, we started hitting on EA. All the EA employees left. So apparently there were 40 of them watching. Hopefully they don't get fired. Okay. Our last topics before we do our build globs. Build globs. Build logs of the week. You know, I have a lot of potential sponsors. This was submitted by JoelTheZombie15. This was actually a while ago. I meant to talk about this last week, I think. But a lot of sponsors have sort of asked me how many likes I have on Facebook and sort of things like that. I've never done a like me on Facebook to win. I've never done anything like that. I've never really pushed Facebook. To me, Facebook is one of those things where most of the content on there is stuff that I share that people send to me on Facebook. Things like builds or like cool pictures or funny things that I think are funny. Most of my Twitter content goes on there. All my Instagram content goes to Twitter, which then goes to Facebook. What Facebook is really is it's for people who are on Facebook anyway, don't feel like following on Twitter, don't feel like subscribing on YouTube, but still want to have a way to get access to the content and whatever it is I'm talking about. So that to me, Facebook is like my quaternary priority out of everything that I do. That is a word a lot of people won't get. I'm still going to... Sorry. So it's primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary. Worth priority. But I'm going to support it just because I know some people prefer it, which is great. But this is really funny. So what's a Facebook like worth? Because I get questioned by sponsors, why don't you have a lot of likes on Facebook? You're huge on YouTube. You've got a big Twitter following. You've got all these things. Why are you so small on Facebook? And I go, well, because a Facebook like doesn't really mean anything. It's been cheapened to the point where what does it even do? So UNICEF has launched a bold advertising campaign that takes direct aim at perhaps the most ubiquitous form of online activism, the Facebook like. I like people against animals being tortured. That's great. You know what? I'm against animals being tortured too. I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to say that. But late last month, UNICEF Sweden released three commercials that urge viewers to support humanitarian aid, not through posts or shares on social media, but through monetary donations. Facebook likes do not save lives. They do not save animals. They do not save the environment. They do not do anything. Technically, it's an X amount of data. So the only thing it could possibly do is hurt the environment. That's true. A hard drive had to be installed somewhere. A hard drive had to be created. Data had to travel along paths. Energy was consumed. So something happened somewhere. Yeah. So anyway, there you go. We are disappointed that anyone ever thought that Facebook likes actually did anything positive. I mean, the kinds of things I like on Facebook are things like my local badminton crew. Yeah. It's like, because that way when they're trying to attract a sponsor for their tournament or whatever. They might have more likes or something. They have more likes, which they can show them. And so there's that. But at the end of the day, a like has become so meaningless because everyone has turned it into just giving crap away for likes, which I've done a couple times on Twitter and I've done a couple times on YouTube. So follow to have a chance to win, subscribe to have a chance to win. But I think the point of those ones is the ongoing dialogue. I don't use Twitter as just a way to sell tech tips to a sponsor. I don't need it. We have 350,000 subscribers on YouTube on one channel alone already. We have grown tech quickie in the last three months to 50,000 subscribers, which is bigger than most YouTube channels will ever be. We're really good at video. I don't need to sell subscribers. The things I like about social media are the two way dialogue. YouTube comments are a very difficult way for me to interact with you guys. Whereas Twitter is great for live. I'm able to read your tweets in real time almost. Live streaming is great for interaction. Facebook is okay for interaction. I don't like that it's not real time. I mean, what's great about Twitter is if people tweet me and I'm like laying in bed and I can't sleep, I can be like, yeah, I can reply to some tweets. It's cool. It's very effective. Whereas if Facebook likes and Twitter shares and whatever crap it all is, is just a way for me to pump myself up and beef myself up and make myself look good, then it's completely lost the point. That's what a lot of these activists that are sitting at their computers sort of flicking through their feed going like, oh yeah, baby photos, baby photos. Oh, well, I don't like starving monkeys. Come on, guys. Anyway, there you go. It's like new age chain mails. Apparently people want Linus social media tips. Believe it or not, I'm reasonably good at it. So I would be happy to give you guys some social media tips if you're really that into it. Build logs of the week. Here is, you know what? We're going to start with our legendary one. There was a thread in the forum last week complaining that we do too much legendary build log-ness. So we're starting with it. So we're starting with the legendary one. Ha ha. Anyway, I'm going to let Slick handle this. So this is... Scroll down. Scroll down in order to think you can handle this. And we're showing them it this time, which is great. I'm going to go get a drink of water. Do you want one? Sure. I've been talking a lot. I'm like, my throat is parched. You're just really energetic today. Oh, I'm tired. We're going to take it slow now that he's gone. Slow and relaxed. This is Tech Tips FM. This is Tech Tips FM. We're going to take this exactly at the speed you want it. All right. So this is another build by Snaf. Snaf is actually pretty kind of insane. I think we featured one of his builds before. His stuff is just absolutely epic. So we're just going to go through some pictures here. This I do not think is how it ended up. Pretty sure he water-cooled it, but we will see. Ah, there we go. So you've got a Saber Tooth ASUS board. Normally comes in brown. He doesn't care. So he took the armor off on the top. He's painting it here. My goodness. I can't control this little tiny keyboard like Linus does. My hands are way too big for this. Let's go up here so you can actually see it. Ah, this doesn't work. I'm sorry, everyone. This keyboard is impossible for me to use. So he's painting everything like an eggshell-y white. I'm terrible with colors. That might not be accurate. It's some form of white, and it looks really good. You can see Reservoir Clips right there. Oh, I'm so excited. This looks so good. I'm trying to go through slowly, but it looks amazing. White Fank jewelry. These nestles are awesome. Just look at that. Like aren't you just, if you haven't seen this yet, aren't you just excited? Like you know this is going to look amazing. It looks so just icy blue angel. I don't even know how else to describe it. Just such a nice color white coming out here. Coloring the fans is a dangerous and bold move, but hopefully it turned out well. Use his Reservoir. Excess PC Radiator. Sorry for that jump. I'm not really good at controlling this keyboard, which has a trackball on it. Here he's just showing off a lot of his tubings and fittings and stuff. He always picks like, aw, Snap's builds are always insanely baller. Thank you. I just got water on both of our lapels. And all over my leg. Oh, that's pee. Oh, what? Horrible. You'd think you'd be used to it by now. Where are the, here we go. Here's the completed pictures. Just absolutely beasts like we expect from Snap. Wow. Just absolutely beasts. Holy crap, that's beautiful. Yep. You missed the like nice in progress shots. You came in right as we got to the completed shot. Snap, we featured him before. His builds are top notch. Like this is crazy. That is outstanding. I love it. Painted saber tooth, painted rad, other more different painted rad. That tubing arrangement. You know what? It's funny because the more perfect it is, the more you notice the mistakes. See it's not quite a right angle on the top of the front rad. Oh. He's off by a little bit. But it's, you know what? It's one of those things where it's like, it's easier to see the flaw because the rest of it is so perfect. I love it. And also that, that, that power supply needs to have the colors swapped on the TX and the M. Wow. Look at that fluid. Just so nice. Is that the, um, crap, what is it called? I don't remember, but I know the stuff you're talking about. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Man, that looks good. And I like the, um, only slightly blue, uh, sleeping on the cables. Yeah. It would have been nice to see it go all the way to the power supply. You got to point with the arrow, not point with the, uh, finger there. Oh, right. So it means the, the black cables coming out of the power supply itself. Like it looks like it was a little bit phoned in there. I wonder if he's using extensions and just hiding the cables in the back. That way, you know what? You could do a build like this reasonably quickly if you did that. This wouldn't even take that long. Mask off your radiators, paint them. You still have to do, you can tell he planned this out like crazy because of his tubing runs and the- Yes. Planning wise. But if you were to look at his build, get a parts list and execute it, you could probably do it without that much difficulty. Cool. Very cool. Oh, that looks good. That's a really nice case too. Wow. And now with LED. Huh. Just these pictures. It just gets more and more pornographic as we go. Man. And those fans look amazing. Huh. Those are Spectres, right? Yup. Spectre Pros. Yup. Just so nice. I'm going a little bit faster now because you've seen a lot of this already. So, so, so nice. I'm starting to notice that power supply more. Yeah. I know, right? Just because the rest of it's perfect. Oh, he's got like a proper, proper setup. Oh yeah. I mean, you know what, honestly- Is he using a monitor to light it up? Half of what's- oh, I don't know. That's fantastic. Yeah, he is. I think that's a monitor. That's awesome. Half of, half of like nice builds a lot of the time is photography. Like I've seen builds on million dollar PC that quite frankly aren't really anything special. If you looked at them in person, you really wouldn't be that impressed. Right. But when you, when you take great pictures with the gorgeous depth of field and perfect lighting- are you going to go to the next build log at some point? Yeah, but I don't want to- Oh, okay. Here we go. When you, when you take great pictures of them with like gorgeous depth of field and perfect lighting, then they look amazing. So we're, wow, we're almost done with the live stream. We've just got one more build log to go and guys, we are going to be doing a Mario World after party again. Now there's, it's going to take us a little while to get it set up, but we are, we're ready this time. We have a CRT for us and we're actually going to be using a different streaming setup. Let me know when you're ready to go. We're going to be using a different- Ready whenever. You're ready whenever? Okay. I'll talk about this after. Go for it. Oh, what scene is it? Scene. Yeah, there you go. There we go. All right. We're going again with kind of the white theme. Sorry about that. Building up essence STX right off the bat. Just, ooh, ooh, love essence STX. That looks great. Really nice pictures again, but we're just getting started. You'll see something as he takes off the back plate. You'll see where this is going pretty soon. I'm going to skip through some of the more just general shots. There. Beautiful. Love painted back plates. Just so beast. Again, I know white builds, maybe next week we'll try and make sure that we don't have any more white builds, but that seems to be flavor of the month right now. And just so you guys know, it's not going to affect performance. Back plate doesn't really contribute anything to card cooling. We're talking maybe a degree or two. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. So it looks amazing. That swag. Coming down into it. Just showing more parts. Blah, blah, blah. You can use page down as well. I know, but it jumps too fast, I find. Right, okay. I guess we want people to be able to follow along. Yeah. My thumb's so freaking big. I can't believe we have more than 3,500 viewers this week. You guys rock. That's awesome. Are those Gellids? Yes. I believe so. Gellid fans, guys. Silent12s. They're awesome. Okay, keep going. So then he wrapped, as far as I can tell, he wrapped. Didn't actually put his own tubing on, but he wrapped it. Yep. So it looks really good. Huh. Like it still looks awesome. That's really smart. Yeah. Yeah, it's brilliant. Because it looks great, but then it like... Right. But it, yeah. So there's a lot of like nifty things with this build that I really appreciate it. So with those two small little things, I guess H100's not in yet, but with those two small little things, once we get down to it, like there. That looks really sharp. Fairly minor changes. He added the like not actual tubing. Point with the mouse pointer, not your finger. Okay. I'm just, I'm trying to keep it locked on the scroll bar. Anyways, so he wrapped the tubing. Sorry, I jumped. Which like looks really good. Yeah, it looks sharp. And it's not a crazy, crazy thing to do. He painted the back plate, which is again, not a crazy, crazy thing to do, but looks really sharp. Two things that most people wouldn't do, but he thought of. I like the little blue accents on the motherboard with the rest of the build being otherwise black and white. Really sharp. Yeah, yeah. Coming down to it. Cable management on the box. Back's nothing special. This is a very attainable build. Yep. So just, it just looks awesome. Is that a 650 Ti? No, the second six. Oh, 660. Yeah, sorry. I can't see through these awesome glasses. They're amazing. There you go. That should be easy to read. Gorgeous. Yeah. So awesome build. Again, kind of white and blue. So they're both pretty similar in that aspect, but they were both really good builds. They were both really good builds, so I didn't want to skip one. Nice keyboard. Yeah, goes along with the build. That's one thing that's really cool too, is when people sync out their entire build, so everything works together. It's like all your peripherals, your case, your inside lighting, everything all works together. It's really cool. All right. So guys, we will be back in probably, it's going to take us about 10 or 15 minutes because we've got a new streaming setup for our Mario after party, which will hopefully help Slick not perform it so abysmally. Oh, it'll probably still be terrible. That was awful. But last week was too much. That was awful. And I have a USB to SNES adapter in the mail, so we're going to be switching to SNES controllers hopefully next week or the week after. But we're using an AverMedia LiveGamer portable now on a notebook. Then we have another more different notebook that is going to be outputting to, wait, hold on. Okay, so the LiveGamer portable is on this one, which will be the streaming machine. Then the other notebook is outputting to the CRT because it has VGA out and it has HDMI out. So then it is outputting to the LiveGamer portable, which is running on the other computer that is actually doing the streaming. So oh yeah, the special guest moved to next week. Great question. I should have covered that before. So Steve Dotto will be joining us next week. Oh yeah, I probably should have told you that. No, I got that email. You did. Oh, I sent you an email? Yeah. I sent you an email. Never. The actual proper communication happened. Yeah, all right. It's brilliant. So anyway, it'll take us a little while to set it up. Guys, stay tuned. We will be back. And thank you for checking out the Linus Tech Tips livestream. All 3416 of you that are left that wanted to listen to me do this lead out thing. And for those of you who are still here, I will remove my sunglasses because they are absolutely redonkulous. More than one person with OCD was like, oh God, please take them off. I can't handle this. The only reason I could handle it is I wasn't looking at it. Right, right. Where's the... You put it over there. I can't reach it. My arms aren't long enough. All right. See you guys on the after party. Thanks for watching.